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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 139 227
Rank change year-on-year -11 +88 -52
Contract jobs citing GitLab 269 297 211
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.89% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.86% 13.73% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 204 164
10th Percentile £375 £364 £404
25th Percentile £439 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -12.11%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £656
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% -7.50% +45.45%

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 2,268 2,163 2,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.09% 13.77% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 1,413 2,015
10th Percentile £350 £357 £400
25th Percentile £423 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 27
10th Percentile £39.95 £26.54 £28.30
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.87 £39.06
Median hourly rate £56.50 £49.47 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -10.06% +4.76%
75th Percentile £88.75 £68.80 £71.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £83.13 £76.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

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 25 November 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 25 November 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 -10 28 £538 -10.42% 2
South London -1 4 £655 - 4
East London +2 1 £450 - 5
West London -14 1 - -
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 (11.15%) Confluence
2 7 (2.60%) nginx
3 6 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.12%) Appian
5 3 (1.12%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.12%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.74%) SAS
6 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
7 1 (0.37%) CICS
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) Luigi
7 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.37%) Mule
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.37%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.37%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 154 (57.25%) AWS
2 109 (40.52%) Azure
3 89 (33.09%) GitHub
4 64 (23.79%) GCP
5 45 (16.73%) GitHub Actions
6 38 (14.13%) Amazon S3
7 35 (13.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 35 (13.01%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (12.27%) Amazon EC2
9 31 (11.52%) Serverless
10 29 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
12 15 (5.58%) Azure AKS
13 14 (5.20%) Datadog
13 14 (5.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 10 (3.72%) Snowflake
15 9 (3.35%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.81%) Firewall
2 17 (6.32%) VPN
3 13 (4.83%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.09%) DNS
4 11 (4.09%) Network Security
5 8 (2.97%) SSL
6 7 (2.60%) WAN
7 5 (1.86%) BGP
7 5 (1.86%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (1.86%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.49%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.49%) VXLAN
9 3 (1.12%) Multicast
9 3 (1.12%) OSPF
10 2 (0.74%) IPsec
10 2 (0.74%) LAN
10 2 (0.74%) MPLS
10 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.74%) VLAN
11 1 (0.37%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.29%) MongoDB
1 25 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (8.55%) NoSQL
3 17 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.46%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.35%) Big Data
6 7 (2.60%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.23%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.86%) HPCC
8 5 (1.86%) Power BI
9 4 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.12%) MySQL
10 3 (1.12%) Redis
11 2 (0.74%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.74%) DB2
11 2 (0.74%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.74%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 112 (41.64%) Jenkins
2 55 (20.45%) Git
3 48 (17.84%) JIRA
4 23 (8.55%) Maven
5 19 (7.06%) SonarQube
6 18 (6.69%) Selenium
7 16 (5.95%) Gradle
8 14 (5.20%) Bitbucket
9 13 (4.83%) Cucumber
10 12 (4.46%) Cypress.io
11 11 (4.09%) Postman
11 11 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (3.72%) JUnit
12 10 (3.72%) TeamCity
13 9 (3.35%) JMeter
14 7 (2.60%) Gatling
15 6 (2.23%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.86%) Artifactory
17 4 (1.49%) Appium
17 4 (1.49%) CircleCI
General
1 63 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.87%) Finance
3 30 (11.15%) Banking
4 22 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.09%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.97%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.49%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.12%) Front Office
10 3 (1.12%) Military
11 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.74%) Games
11 2 (0.74%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (24.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (20.45%) Developer
3 46 (17.10%) Senior
4 25 (9.29%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (8.55%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (7.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.69%) Lead
8 17 (6.32%) Senior DevOps
8 17 (6.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (5.95%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.83%) Test Engineer
11 12 (4.46%) Consultant
11 12 (4.46%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.09%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.72%) Architect
13 10 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.72%) Python Engineer
13 10 (3.72%) Test Automation Engineer
14 8 (2.97%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.61%) Kafka
2 24 (8.92%) Node.js
2 24 (8.92%) REST
3 22 (8.18%) Spring
4 21 (7.81%) React
5 19 (7.06%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.32%) Playwright
7 15 (5.58%) HTML
8 14 (5.20%) RESTful
9 13 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
10 12 (4.46%) JSON
11 10 (3.72%) XML
12 9 (3.35%) CSS
13 8 (2.97%) .NET
13 8 (2.97%) OAuth
14 7 (2.60%) AngularJS
14 7 (2.60%) Middleware
14 7 (2.60%) OAuth2
14 7 (2.60%) YAML
15 6 (2.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (4.46%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.09%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.23%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.86%) DataPower
9 4 (1.49%) Derivative
9 4 (1.49%) Hedge funds
9 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.49%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.49%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.12%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.12%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.87%) Linux
2 18 (6.69%) Unix
3 9 (3.35%) Windows
4 6 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.86%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.86%) Solaris
6 4 (1.49%) Android
6 4 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) CentOS
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (78.07%) CI/CD
2 170 (63.20%) DevOps
3 107 (39.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (33.83%) Agile
5 85 (31.60%) Containerisation
6 62 (23.05%) Test Automation
7 53 (19.70%) Microservices
7 53 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (13.75%) Infrastructure Automation
9 33 (12.27%) DevSecOps
10 32 (11.90%) Software Engineering
11 29 (10.78%) Migration
11 29 (10.78%) Observability
12 27 (10.04%) Scrum
13 23 (8.55%) TDD
14 21 (7.81%) High Availability
14 21 (7.81%) SDLC
15 20 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (7.43%) Event-Driven
15 20 (7.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 127 (47.21%) Python
2 69 (25.65%) Java
3 54 (20.07%) SQL
4 50 (18.59%) Bash
5 35 (13.01%) JavaScript
6 23 (8.55%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.43%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.95%) C#
8 16 (5.95%) Go
9 10 (3.72%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.23%) Korn
11 5 (1.86%) C
12 3 (1.12%) C++
13 2 (0.74%) Bicep
13 2 (0.74%) Perl
13 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.74%) Ruby
13 2 (0.74%) Rust
13 2 (0.74%) Swift
14 1 (0.37%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 74 (27.51%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.79%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.20%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.09%) Degree
4 11 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (1.49%) CISSP
8 3 (1.12%) CISM
8 3 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.74%) CCNP
9 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.74%) GPEN
9 2 (0.74%) GWAPT
9 2 (0.74%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.74%) OCA
9 2 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.36%) QA
2 9 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.23%) GDPR
4 3 (1.12%) NCSC
4 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.74%) HL7
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) NIST
5 2 (0.74%) WCAG
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.37%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 120 (44.61%) Docker
2 9 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.12%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.74%) Firmware
4 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.37%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (48.33%) Terraform
2 127 (47.21%) Kubernetes
3 59 (21.93%) Ansible
4 25 (9.29%) Grafana
5 21 (7.81%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.83%) Argo
7 9 (3.35%) Puppet
8 8 (2.97%) Istio
9 3 (1.12%) Fluentd
9 3 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.12%) Packer
9 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.74%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.74%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.74%) linkerd
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.74%) Nessus
10 2 (0.74%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (7.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.06%) Google
3 17 (6.32%) Splunk
4 14 (5.20%) Oracle
5 12 (4.46%) Palo Alto
6 11 (4.09%) Atlassian
6 11 (4.09%) Cisco
7 10 (3.72%) F5
8 9 (3.35%) IBM
9 8 (2.97%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.23%) Databricks
10 6 (2.23%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.86%) Aruba
11 5 (1.86%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.49%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.49%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.49%) Veracode
13 3 (1.12%) Qualys
13 3 (1.12%) VMware