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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 133 238
Rank change year-on-year -16 +105 -58
Contract jobs citing GitLab 275 303 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.93% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.03% 14.03% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 211 152
10th Percentile £368 £368 £384
25th Percentile £431 £462 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -12.11%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £749
England median daily rate £525 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -4.35%
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% +20.75%

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 2,286 2,159 2,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.91% 13.74% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,578 1,427 1,939
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £419 £431 £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 £736 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 24
10th Percentile £39.95 £24.88 £27.03
25th Percentile £42.50 £32.19 £36.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88.75 £77.19 £72.41
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £76.75
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 6 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 6 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 -17 26 £550 -8.33% 9
South London -1 6 £585 -
East London 0 1 £450 - 4
West London -19 1 - - 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 (10.91%) Confluence
2 8 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.82%) nginx
5 3 (1.09%) Appian
5 3 (1.09%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.09%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.73%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.36%) CICS
7 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) FileNet
7 1 (0.36%) Luigi
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.36%) Mule
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.36%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 161 (58.55%) AWS
2 106 (38.55%) Azure
3 79 (28.73%) GitHub
4 61 (22.18%) GCP
5 45 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
6 44 (16.00%) Amazon S3
7 39 (14.18%) Amazon EC2
8 38 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (13.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 36 (13.09%) Serverless
11 32 (11.64%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (8.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (5.82%) Amazon ECS
16 15 (5.45%) Azure AKS
17 14 (5.09%) Datadog
18 13 (4.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 11 (4.00%) Snowflake
20 8 (2.91%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.91%) Firewall
2 16 (5.82%) VPN
3 13 (4.73%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.00%) DNS
5 10 (3.64%) Network Security
6 8 (2.91%) SSL
7 5 (1.82%) BGP
7 5 (1.82%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.82%) WAN
8 4 (1.45%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.45%) VXLAN
9 3 (1.09%) Multicast
9 3 (1.09%) OSPF
10 2 (0.73%) IPv6
10 2 (0.73%) MPLS
11 1 (0.36%) DMZ
11 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.36%) Internet
11 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 24 (8.73%) NoSQL
4 16 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (3.64%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.27%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.55%) Big Data
8 6 (2.18%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.82%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.82%) Power BI
10 4 (1.45%) MySQL
10 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.09%) DB2
11 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.73%) Apache Hive
12 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 117 (42.55%) Jenkins
2 51 (18.55%) Git
3 50 (18.18%) JIRA
4 20 (7.27%) Maven
5 19 (6.91%) Selenium
6 18 (6.55%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.73%) Cucumber
7 13 (4.73%) Cypress.io
7 13 (4.73%) Gradle
8 12 (4.36%) JUnit
9 11 (4.00%) JMeter
9 11 (4.00%) Postman
10 10 (3.64%) Bitbucket
10 10 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (3.64%) TeamCity
11 7 (2.55%) Gatling
11 7 (2.55%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.18%) Appium
13 5 (1.82%) Artifactory
13 5 (1.82%) Mockito
General
1 65 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.09%) Finance
3 32 (11.64%) Banking
4 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.91%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.09%) Front Office
10 3 (1.09%) Military
11 2 (0.73%) Games
11 2 (0.73%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Police
12 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (20.73%) Developer
3 50 (18.18%) Senior
4 28 (10.18%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 23 (8.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.91%) Lead
8 17 (6.18%) Java Developer
8 17 (6.18%) Senior DevOps
8 17 (6.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 14 (5.09%) Test Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.00%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.00%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
12 10 (3.64%) Consultant
13 9 (3.27%) Architect
13 9 (3.27%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) GCP Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (17.45%) Kafka
2 24 (8.73%) Spring
3 22 (8.00%) Node.js
3 22 (8.00%) React
3 22 (8.00%) REST
3 22 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 18 (6.55%) Playwright
5 15 (5.45%) RESTful
6 14 (5.09%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (4.36%) HTML
8 10 (3.64%) JSON
9 8 (2.91%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.91%) CSS
10 7 (2.55%) Middleware
10 7 (2.55%) OAuth
10 7 (2.55%) Vue
10 7 (2.55%) WireMock
10 7 (2.55%) XML
10 7 (2.55%) YAML
11 6 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.18%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.18%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.82%) DataPower
8 5 (1.82%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.82%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.82%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.45%) Derivative
9 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.09%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.27%) Linux
2 15 (5.45%) Unix
3 8 (2.91%) Windows
4 7 (2.55%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.18%) Android
6 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.45%) Solaris
6 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.73%) zOS
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (78.91%) CI/CD
2 174 (63.27%) DevOps
3 108 (39.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (32.73%) Agile
5 81 (29.45%) Containerisation
6 65 (23.64%) Test Automation
7 56 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (19.27%) Microservices
9 34 (12.36%) Infrastructure Automation
10 32 (11.64%) Observability
11 31 (11.27%) Software Engineering
12 29 (10.55%) Migration
12 29 (10.55%) Scrum
13 28 (10.18%) DevSecOps
14 21 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (7.64%) Event-Driven
14 21 (7.64%) High Availability
15 20 (7.27%) Mentoring
15 20 (7.27%) TDD
16 19 (6.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 132 (48.00%) Python
2 73 (26.55%) Java
3 54 (19.64%) Bash
3 54 (19.64%) SQL
4 35 (12.73%) JavaScript
5 27 (9.82%) TypeScript
6 21 (7.64%) PowerShell
7 18 (6.55%) Go
8 13 (4.73%) C#
9 10 (3.64%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.18%) Korn
11 3 (1.09%) Bicep
11 3 (1.09%) C
11 3 (1.09%) Rust
12 2 (0.73%) Perl
12 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.73%) Ruby
12 2 (0.73%) Swift
13 1 (0.36%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) XPath
Qualifications
1 71 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 63 (22.91%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.73%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.64%) Degree
5 7 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.73%) CISSP
8 2 (0.73%) GPEN
8 2 (0.73%) GWAPT
8 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.73%) OCA
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.73%) OSCP
9 1 (0.36%) CCNP
9 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.09%) QA
2 11 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.91%) GDPR
4 6 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.73%) HL7
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) NIST
6 2 (0.73%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (45.09%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.36%) HDFS
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 134 (48.73%) Terraform
2 131 (47.64%) Kubernetes
3 64 (23.27%) Ansible
4 29 (10.55%) Grafana
5 25 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.36%) Argo
7 8 (2.91%) Puppet
8 6 (2.18%) Istio
9 3 (1.09%) Fluentd
9 3 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.09%) Packer
9 3 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.09%) Rancher
10 2 (0.73%) linkerd
10 2 (0.73%) Nagios
11 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.36%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.36%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.36%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (8.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.91%) Splunk
3 18 (6.55%) Google
4 15 (5.45%) Oracle
5 11 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.64%) Cisco
6 10 (3.64%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.27%) IBM
8 8 (2.91%) CheckPoint
8 8 (2.91%) F5
9 7 (2.55%) Databricks
10 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.82%) Aruba
11 5 (1.82%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.45%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.45%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.45%) Veracode
13 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
13 3 (1.09%) Optimizely