GitLab Contract Job Trends in London

GitLab
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 130 224
Rank change year-on-year -8 +94 -44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 283 303 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.98% 2.01% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.53% 14.53% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 211 147
10th Percentile £375 £368 £400
25th Percentile £447 £462 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% -12.31%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £663
90th Percentile £700 £730 £775
England median daily rate £525 £565 £551
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.63% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £74.22 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.42% +23.70% -9.43%

All Development Application Skills
London

GitLab falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,259 2,086 2,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.81% 13.84% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,542 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £356 £349 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 22
10th Percentile £38.80 £28.75 £25.80
25th Percentile £42.44 £41.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £50.75 £67.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.81% +31.71% -10.87%
75th Percentile £75.31 £83.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £90.25 £73.74
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

GitLab job vacancy trend in London

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in London

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the London region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -12 30 £550 -8.33% 10
South London +3 6 £585 -28.66% 4
East London 0 1 £450 - 4
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (10.60%) Confluence
2 8 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.77%) nginx
5 3 (1.06%) Appian
5 3 (1.06%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.06%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.71%) Apache
6 2 (0.71%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.35%) CICS
7 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) FileNet
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.35%) Mule
7 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.35%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.35%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 165 (58.30%) AWS
2 106 (37.46%) Azure
3 82 (28.98%) GitHub
4 69 (24.38%) GCP
5 51 (18.02%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (17.31%) Amazon S3
7 45 (15.90%) Amazon EC2
8 42 (14.84%) Serverless
9 41 (14.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (13.78%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (10.60%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (10.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (8.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (6.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 15 (5.30%) Azure AKS
17 14 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
17 14 (4.95%) Datadog
18 12 (4.24%) Snowflake
18 12 (4.24%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.71%) Firewall
2 15 (5.30%) DNS
2 15 (5.30%) VPN
3 13 (4.59%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.18%) Network Security
5 8 (2.83%) SSL
6 5 (1.77%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (1.77%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.77%) WAN
7 4 (1.41%) BGP
7 4 (1.41%) VXLAN
8 3 (1.06%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.06%) Multicast
8 3 (1.06%) OSPF
9 2 (0.71%) IPv6
9 2 (0.71%) VSAN
10 1 (0.35%) DHCP
10 1 (0.35%) HTTP
10 1 (0.35%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (7.77%) MongoDB
2 22 (7.77%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (3.53%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.18%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (2.47%) Big Data
7 6 (2.12%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.12%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.12%) Power BI
8 5 (1.77%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.41%) MySQL
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.06%) DB2
10 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.06%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 123 (43.46%) Jenkins
2 54 (19.08%) Git
3 50 (17.67%) JIRA
4 21 (7.42%) Selenium
5 19 (6.71%) Maven
6 17 (6.01%) SonarQube
7 15 (5.30%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.59%) Cypress.io
9 12 (4.24%) Gradle
9 12 (4.24%) JUnit
9 12 (4.24%) Postman
10 11 (3.89%) JMeter
11 10 (3.53%) Bitbucket
12 9 (3.18%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (3.18%) TeamCity
13 7 (2.47%) Appium
13 7 (2.47%) Gatling
13 7 (2.47%) REST Assured
14 6 (2.12%) Terragrunt
15 5 (1.77%) CircleCI
General
1 70 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.02%) Finance
3 32 (11.31%) Banking
4 24 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.89%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.83%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.77%) Retail
10 4 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.41%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.06%) Front Office
11 3 (1.06%) Military
12 2 (0.71%) Games
12 2 (0.71%) Marketing
13 1 (0.35%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
13 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (22.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (20.14%) Developer
3 50 (17.67%) Senior
4 25 (8.83%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (8.48%) AWS DevOps
6 22 (7.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 21 (7.42%) Lead
8 16 (5.65%) Java Developer
8 16 (5.65%) Senior DevOps
8 16 (5.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 14 (4.95%) Architect
9 14 (4.95%) Test Engineer
10 12 (4.24%) GCP Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Python Engineer
11 11 (3.89%) Senior Developer
11 11 (3.89%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.18%) Automation Tester
13 9 (3.18%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.61%) Kafka
2 27 (9.54%) Spring
3 26 (9.19%) Spring Boot
4 25 (8.83%) Node.js
4 25 (8.83%) React
5 22 (7.77%) REST
6 18 (6.36%) Playwright
7 15 (5.30%) RESTful
8 14 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (4.24%) AngularJS
9 12 (4.24%) HTML
10 10 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (3.18%) CSS
11 9 (3.18%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (2.83%) JSON
12 8 (2.83%) OAuth
13 7 (2.47%) Middleware
13 7 (2.47%) PySpark
13 7 (2.47%) Vue
13 7 (2.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.96%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.89%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.12%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.77%) DataPower
8 5 (1.77%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.77%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.41%) Derivative
9 4 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.06%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.84%) Linux
2 13 (4.59%) Unix
3 7 (2.47%) Windows
4 6 (2.12%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.77%) Android
6 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
7 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.06%) Solaris
8 2 (0.71%) VMS
8 2 (0.71%) zOS
9 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (79.51%) CI/CD
2 177 (62.54%) DevOps
3 112 (39.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (32.16%) Agile
5 84 (29.68%) Containerisation
6 68 (24.03%) Test Automation
7 56 (19.79%) Microservices
7 56 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (15.19%) Observability
9 35 (12.37%) Software Engineering
10 34 (12.01%) Infrastructure Automation
11 30 (10.60%) DevSecOps
12 29 (10.25%) Scrum
13 28 (9.89%) Migration
14 23 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (7.77%) SDLC
16 21 (7.42%) High Availability
17 20 (7.07%) Event-Driven
17 20 (7.07%) Test Strategy
18 19 (6.71%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 135 (47.70%) Python
2 74 (26.15%) Java
3 56 (19.79%) SQL
4 55 (19.43%) Bash
5 37 (13.07%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.54%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.07%) PowerShell
8 18 (6.36%) Go
9 13 (4.59%) C#
10 11 (3.89%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.47%) Korn
12 4 (1.41%) Bicep
12 4 (1.41%) C
12 4 (1.41%) Rust
13 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.71%) Perl
14 2 (0.71%) Ruby
14 2 (0.71%) Swift
15 1 (0.35%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 67 (23.67%) Security Cleared
2 59 (20.85%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.89%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.53%) Degree
5 7 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.71%) CISSP
9 2 (0.71%) GPEN
9 2 (0.71%) GWAPT
9 2 (0.71%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.71%) OCA
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.71%) OSCP
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CISM
10 1 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (16.96%) QA
2 12 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.18%) GDPR
4 8 (2.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.71%) HL7
5 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.71%) NIST
5 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.71%) WCAG
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 130 (45.94%) Docker
2 7 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.35%) HDFS
5 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 140 (49.47%) Kubernetes
2 138 (48.76%) Terraform
3 67 (23.67%) Ansible
4 31 (10.95%) Grafana
5 27 (9.54%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.01%) Argo
7 11 (3.89%) Istio
8 7 (2.47%) Puppet
9 6 (2.12%) Karpenter
10 4 (1.41%) Kibana
11 3 (1.06%) Fluentd
11 3 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.06%) Packer
11 3 (1.06%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.06%) Rancher
12 2 (0.71%) linkerd
12 2 (0.71%) Nagios
13 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 26 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.13%) Google
3 20 (7.07%) Splunk
4 15 (5.30%) Oracle
5 11 (3.89%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.53%) Cisco
6 10 (3.53%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.83%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.83%) Databricks
7 8 (2.83%) F5
7 8 (2.83%) IBM
8 6 (2.12%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.77%) Aruba
10 4 (1.41%) Arista
10 4 (1.41%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.41%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.41%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.41%) Veracode