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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 128 217
Rank change year-on-year -17 +89 -23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 323 270 188
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 2.12% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.59% 14.76% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 175 147
10th Percentile £367 £370 £363
25th Percentile £431 £440 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% -7.26%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £738 £768
England median daily rate £500 £530 £573
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.42% -2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.25 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -27.37% +11.45% +65.42%

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 2,377 1,829 2,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.63% 14.39% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,583 1,237 1,647
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 24
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £30.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -23.81% -31.52%
75th Percentile £72.75 £67.50 £70.31
90th Percentile £87.70 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%

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 21 April 2026.

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 21 April 2026. 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 37 £514 -6.59% 19
South London -13 9 £521 -36.43% 1
East London -6 1 £432 +15.97% 3
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 19 (5.88%) Confluence
2 11 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.86%) nginx
5 5 (1.55%) CICS
6 2 (0.62%) Apache
6 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.62%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) FileNet
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Actimize
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 214 (66.25%) AWS
2 107 (33.13%) GitHub
3 93 (28.79%) Azure
4 72 (22.29%) Serverless
5 71 (21.98%) Amazon S3
6 65 (20.12%) AWS Lambda
7 63 (19.50%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (17.03%) Amazon EKS
9 53 (16.41%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (15.79%) GCP
11 49 (15.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 45 (13.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (11.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (8.98%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (4.95%) OpenShift
16 16 (4.95%) Snowflake
17 15 (4.64%) Datadog
18 13 (4.02%) Amazon Kinesis
19 12 (3.72%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.41%) DNS
2 8 (2.48%) Firewall
3 6 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.24%) Multicast
5 3 (0.93%) Network Security
5 3 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.93%) VPN
5 3 (0.93%) VSAN
6 2 (0.62%) BGP
6 2 (0.62%) Calico
6 2 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.62%) HTTP
6 2 (0.62%) IPv6
6 2 (0.62%) NAS
6 2 (0.62%) OSPF
6 2 (0.62%) SAN
6 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.43%) NoSQL
3 22 (6.81%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.95%) DynamoDB
6 13 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (3.72%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.41%) Big Data
8 11 (3.41%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.41%) Power BI
9 10 (3.10%) Spark SQL
10 9 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.79%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (2.79%) MySQL
11 8 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.48%) DB2
12 7 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (2.17%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 158 (48.92%) Jenkins
2 64 (19.81%) Git
3 37 (11.46%) JIRA
4 21 (6.50%) Selenium
5 17 (5.26%) JUnit
6 16 (4.95%) Postman
7 15 (4.64%) Bitbucket
8 14 (4.33%) Cucumber
9 13 (4.02%) Mockito
10 10 (3.10%) CircleCI
11 8 (2.48%) JMeter
11 8 (2.48%) SonarQube
12 7 (2.17%) Appium
12 7 (2.17%) Artifactory
12 7 (2.17%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.86%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.86%) TeamCity
14 5 (1.55%) Terragrunt
15 4 (1.24%) Snyk
15 4 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 86 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 65 (20.12%) Finance
3 52 (16.10%) Public Sector
4 50 (15.48%) Banking
5 14 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.17%) Retail
8 6 (1.86%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Law
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
10 3 (0.93%) Military
10 3 (0.93%) Police
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Games
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (22.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (17.34%) Developer
3 47 (14.55%) Senior
4 41 (12.69%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (10.84%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (10.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 28 (8.67%) Lead
8 22 (6.81%) Architect
9 21 (6.50%) Data Engineer
10 17 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (4.64%) Java Developer
12 14 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.33%) Test Engineer
13 12 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.10%) AWS Architect
14 10 (3.10%) Python Engineer
15 8 (2.48%) Automation Tester
15 8 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (2.48%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.17%) Kafka
2 43 (13.31%) Spring
3 41 (12.69%) Spring Boot
4 36 (11.15%) React
5 28 (8.67%) RESTful
6 23 (7.12%) Node.js
6 23 (7.12%) REST
7 20 (6.19%) AngularJS
8 18 (5.57%) HTML
8 18 (5.57%) OpenTelemetry
8 18 (5.57%) PySpark
9 17 (5.26%) CSS
10 15 (4.64%) Playwright
11 13 (4.02%) OAuth
11 13 (4.02%) YAML
12 12 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (3.10%) OAuth2
13 10 (3.10%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (3.10%) Spring Cloud
14 9 (2.79%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 51 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.72%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.41%) Mainframe
5 11 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.79%) DataPower
6 9 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.55%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.24%) NHS
10 4 (1.24%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.24%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.93%) PACS
11 3 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.72%) Linux
2 11 (3.41%) Windows
3 8 (2.48%) Unix
4 7 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.17%) zOS
5 6 (1.86%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.55%) Android
7 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.62%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (78.33%) CI/CD
2 190 (58.82%) DevOps
3 126 (39.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (28.79%) Containerisation
5 92 (28.48%) Agile
6 76 (23.53%) Test Automation
7 69 (21.36%) Observability
8 68 (21.05%) Microservices
9 49 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
11 36 (11.15%) AI
11 36 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (10.84%) Scrum
13 33 (10.22%) Performance Tuning
14 31 (9.60%) Analytics
15 27 (8.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 26 (8.05%) Data Engineering
16 26 (8.05%) Software Engineering
17 25 (7.74%) ETL
18 24 (7.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 161 (49.85%) Python
2 88 (27.24%) Java
3 77 (23.84%) SQL
4 58 (17.96%) Bash
5 39 (12.07%) JavaScript
6 26 (8.05%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.12%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.64%) Go
9 13 (4.02%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.41%) Bicep
10 11 (3.41%) C#
11 7 (2.17%) Ruby
12 5 (1.55%) C
12 5 (1.55%) Korn
13 4 (1.24%) JCL
13 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.93%) Scala
15 2 (0.62%) Perl
15 2 (0.62%) PHP
15 2 (0.62%) Rust
Qualifications
1 100 (30.96%) Security Cleared
2 87 (26.93%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.64%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.48%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.48%) Degree
6 6 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.62%) CISSP
10 2 (0.62%) CSSLP
11 1 (0.31%) CISM
11 1 (0.31%) GIAC
11 1 (0.31%) GWAPT
11 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.93%) QA
2 16 (4.95%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.33%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (3.72%) GDPR
6 6 (1.86%) NIST
6 6 (1.86%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.24%) SLA
9 3 (0.93%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.62%) HL7
10 2 (0.62%) WCAG
11 1 (0.31%) GRC
11 1 (0.31%) MiFID
11 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 158 (48.92%) Docker
2 6 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.62%) vSphere
6 1 (0.31%) HDFS
6 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 165 (51.08%) Terraform
2 158 (48.92%) Kubernetes
3 60 (18.58%) Ansible
4 50 (15.48%) Prometheus
5 45 (13.93%) Grafana
6 19 (5.88%) Argo
7 13 (4.02%) Istio
8 12 (3.72%) Puppet
9 8 (2.48%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.86%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.24%) Kibana
11 4 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.93%) Salt
13 2 (0.62%) Fluentd
13 2 (0.62%) Nagios
13 2 (0.62%) Packer
13 2 (0.62%) Rancher
13 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.31%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 33 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.50%) Splunk
3 15 (4.64%) Google
4 12 (3.72%) Oracle
5 10 (3.10%) Databricks
5 10 (3.10%) IBM
6 8 (2.48%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.48%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.86%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.86%) VMware
8 4 (1.24%) Arista
8 4 (1.24%) Confluent
8 4 (1.24%) Veracode
9 3 (0.93%) Adobe
9 3 (0.93%) Braze
9 3 (0.93%) Cisco
9 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.93%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.93%) Sybase