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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 165 204
Rank change year-on-year +6 +39 -28
Contract jobs citing GitLab 228 255 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.70% 1.57% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.71% 10.66% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 183 187
10th Percentile £400 £300 £411
25th Percentile £475 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +5.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £632 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £754
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

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 2,128 2,391 3,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.83% 14.68% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,611 2,356
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £769 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab 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 September 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 September 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 -17 25 £544 -9.38% 20
South London -2 5 £579 +41.16%
West London -6 1 - - 1
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (8.33%) Confluence
2 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.88%) Appian
3 2 (0.88%) CICS
3 2 (0.88%) nginx
3 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.44%) Mule
4 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 106 (46.49%) AWS
2 104 (45.61%) Azure
3 61 (26.75%) GitHub
4 47 (20.61%) GCP
5 35 (15.35%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (10.96%) Amazon S3
8 24 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
10 15 (6.58%) Azure AKS
11 14 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (6.14%) Serverless
12 12 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (3.95%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.07%) Stackdriver
17 6 (2.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.70%) Firewall
2 10 (4.39%) VPN
3 9 (3.95%) DNS
4 8 (3.51%) Network Security
4 8 (3.51%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.63%) SSL
6 5 (2.19%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.75%) BGP
7 4 (1.75%) HTTP
7 4 (1.75%) VXLAN
7 4 (1.75%) WAN
8 3 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.32%) LAN
8 3 (1.32%) Multicast
8 3 (1.32%) OSPF
9 2 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (0.88%) IPsec
9 2 (0.88%) MPLS
9 2 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.14%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.51%) Big Data
6 7 (3.07%) Power BI
6 7 (3.07%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.19%) HPCC
8 4 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.75%) MySQL
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.88%) DB2
9 2 (0.88%) Redis
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 87 (38.16%) Jenkins
2 41 (17.98%) Git
3 35 (15.35%) JIRA
4 22 (9.65%) Maven
5 21 (9.21%) Gradle
6 16 (7.02%) SonarQube
7 15 (6.58%) Selenium
8 13 (5.70%) Cypress.io
9 12 (5.26%) TeamCity
10 11 (4.82%) JUnit
10 11 (4.82%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (4.39%) Bitbucket
12 9 (3.95%) Liquibase
13 8 (3.51%) Postman
14 7 (3.07%) Cucumber
15 6 (2.63%) Mockito
15 6 (2.63%) REST Assured
16 4 (1.75%) Visual Studio
17 3 (1.32%) JMeter
17 3 (1.32%) SoapUI
General
1 39 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.23%) Finance
3 27 (11.84%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.46%) Banking
5 16 (7.02%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (3.95%) Marketing
8 5 (2.19%) Electronics
8 5 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.75%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.32%) Retail
11 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.88%) Front Office
11 2 (0.88%) Military
12 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.44%) iGaming
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (26.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (18.42%) Developer
3 40 (17.54%) Senior
4 23 (10.09%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (7.46%) AWS DevOps
7 16 (7.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 13 (5.70%) Architect
8 13 (5.70%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (5.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.26%) Consultant
9 12 (5.26%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.82%) Lead
11 10 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (4.39%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.39%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 7 (3.07%) DevSecOps Consultant
14 7 (3.07%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.09%) Kafka
2 20 (8.77%) Spring
3 17 (7.46%) Spring Boot
4 16 (7.02%) Node.js
5 15 (6.58%) REST
6 13 (5.70%) HTML
6 13 (5.70%) RESTful
7 12 (5.26%) React
8 11 (4.82%) JSON
9 9 (3.95%) Swagger
9 9 (3.95%) XML
10 8 (3.51%) OAuth
10 8 (3.51%) OpenAPI
10 8 (3.51%) Web Services
11 7 (3.07%) CSS
11 7 (3.07%) pytest
12 6 (2.63%) .NET
12 6 (2.63%) LDAP
12 6 (2.63%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.95%) Data Centre
2 9 (3.95%) Public Cloud
3 7 (3.07%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.07%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.07%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.19%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.32%) DataPower
7 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.32%) IVR
8 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.88%) PKI
8 2 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.53%) Linux
2 15 (6.58%) Unix
3 10 (4.39%) Windows
4 6 (2.63%) Solaris
5 5 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.75%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.88%) Android
7 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.88%) SUSE
7 2 (0.88%) zOS
8 1 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (75.44%) CI/CD
2 147 (64.47%) DevOps
3 89 (39.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (31.58%) Agile
4 72 (31.58%) Containerisation
5 42 (18.42%) Microservices
6 38 (16.67%) Migration
6 38 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 36 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (15.35%) Infrastructure Automation
9 28 (12.28%) DevSecOps
9 28 (12.28%) Software Engineering
10 22 (9.65%) SDLC
11 20 (8.77%) TDD
12 19 (8.33%) Mentoring
13 17 (7.46%) High Availability
13 17 (7.46%) Scrum
14 15 (6.58%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (6.14%) Event-Driven
15 14 (6.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 88 (38.60%) Python
2 49 (21.49%) Java
3 42 (18.42%) Bash
4 40 (17.54%) SQL
5 32 (14.04%) JavaScript
6 25 (10.96%) PowerShell
7 16 (7.02%) C#
8 13 (5.70%) Go
9 11 (4.82%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.07%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.19%) C
12 3 (1.32%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) Groovy
13 2 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.88%) XPath
14 1 (0.44%) Korn
14 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.44%) Swift
14 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 56 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.82%) Degree
4 9 (3.95%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.88%) CISM
7 2 (0.88%) CISSP
7 2 (0.88%) GPEN
7 2 (0.88%) GWAPT
7 2 (0.88%) JNCIA
7 2 (0.88%) OCA
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.88%) OSCP
8 1 (0.44%) CCIE
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.28%) QA
2 7 (3.07%) GDPR
3 6 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.32%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.88%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.88%) NCSC
6 2 (0.88%) WCAG
7 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
7 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 89 (39.04%) Docker
2 7 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) Firmware
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (45.18%) Terraform
2 95 (41.67%) Kubernetes
3 50 (21.93%) Ansible
4 13 (5.70%) Prometheus
5 12 (5.26%) Puppet
6 11 (4.82%) Argo
6 11 (4.82%) Grafana
7 7 (3.07%) Istio
8 5 (2.19%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.32%) HP Fortify
9 3 (1.32%) Nessus
9 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.88%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.88%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.88%) linkerd
10 2 (0.88%) logstash
10 2 (0.88%) Packer
10 2 (0.88%) QRadar
10 2 (0.88%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 17 (7.46%) Google
2 15 (6.58%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.70%) Splunk
4 12 (5.26%) SAP
5 11 (4.82%) Databricks
6 10 (4.39%) Cisco
6 10 (4.39%) F5
6 10 (4.39%) Palo Alto
7 8 (3.51%) CheckPoint
7 8 (3.51%) Oracle
8 7 (3.07%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.63%) MuleSoft
10 5 (2.19%) Atlassian
10 5 (2.19%) IBM
11 4 (1.75%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.75%) Talend
12 3 (1.32%) Juniper
12 3 (1.32%) Qualys
13 2 (0.88%) VMware