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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 120 209
Rank change year-on-year -15 +89 -25
Contract jobs citing GitLab 296 287 190
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 2.06% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.39% 14.83% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 197 150
10th Percentile £375 £368 £424
25th Percentile £447 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £571
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.03% -12.12%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £669
90th Percentile £700 £738 £753
England median daily rate £519 £566 £558
% change year-on-year -8.30% +1.57% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -24.44% +24.07% -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 2,210 1,935 2,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.43% 13.86% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 1,264 1,680
10th Percentile £356 £345 £400
25th Percentile £425 £424 £463
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 £725 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £42.55 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £110.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £87.88 £73.66
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -21 31 £534 -11.04% 17
South London -3 5 £530 -35.37% 2
East London -3 1 £450 -9.09% 2
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 31 (10.47%) Confluence
2 8 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.69%) nginx
5 3 (1.01%) Appian
5 3 (1.01%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.01%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.68%) Apache
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.68%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.34%) CICS
7 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) FileNet
7 1 (0.34%) Luigi
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) Actimize
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.34%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.34%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 176 (59.46%) AWS
2 99 (33.45%) Azure
3 90 (30.41%) GitHub
4 66 (22.30%) GCP
5 58 (19.59%) Amazon S3
6 55 (18.58%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (17.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 50 (16.89%) Serverless
9 46 (15.54%) Amazon EC2
9 46 (15.54%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (13.18%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (11.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 31 (10.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (7.43%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (6.08%) Datadog
16 16 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 15 (5.07%) Azure AKS
18 14 (4.73%) Snowflake
19 13 (4.39%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.08%) DNS
1 18 (6.08%) Firewall
2 15 (5.07%) VPN
3 13 (4.39%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.04%) Network Security
4 9 (3.04%) SSL
5 5 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (1.69%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.69%) WAN
6 4 (1.35%) BGP
6 4 (1.35%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (1.01%) Multicast
7 3 (1.01%) OSPF
7 3 (1.01%) VSAN
8 2 (0.68%) Calico
8 2 (0.68%) HTTP
8 2 (0.68%) IPv6
9 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.34%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (8.78%) NoSQL
3 22 (7.43%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (4.39%) Data Lake
6 10 (3.38%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.38%) Power BI
7 9 (3.04%) MySQL
7 9 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.70%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (2.36%) Big Data
9 7 (2.36%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.36%) Spark SQL
10 6 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (2.03%) Redis
11 4 (1.35%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.35%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 125 (42.23%) Jenkins
2 58 (19.59%) Git
3 52 (17.57%) JIRA
4 20 (6.76%) Selenium
5 17 (5.74%) Maven
6 15 (5.07%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.73%) SonarQube
8 13 (4.39%) JUnit
8 13 (4.39%) Postman
9 12 (4.05%) JMeter
10 11 (3.72%) Bitbucket
10 11 (3.72%) Cypress.io
11 10 (3.38%) Gradle
11 10 (3.38%) TeamCity
12 9 (3.04%) Sonatype Nexus
13 7 (2.36%) Gatling
14 6 (2.03%) Mockito
14 6 (2.03%) Robot Framework
14 6 (2.03%) Terragrunt
15 5 (1.69%) Appium
General
1 75 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.92%) Finance
3 36 (12.16%) Banking
4 28 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.72%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.03%) Retail
10 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.35%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.01%) Front Office
11 3 (1.01%) Military
11 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Games
12 2 (0.68%) Marketing
13 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Local Government
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (24.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (19.93%) Developer
3 54 (18.24%) Senior
4 29 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (9.12%) AWS DevOps
6 26 (8.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.08%) Architect
7 18 (6.08%) Lead
8 17 (5.74%) Senior DevOps
8 17 (5.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.07%) Test Engineer
10 14 (4.73%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.39%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.39%) Test Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
12 11 (3.72%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.72%) Senior Developer
13 10 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (17.91%) Kafka
2 32 (10.81%) Spring
3 31 (10.47%) Spring Boot
4 26 (8.78%) REST
5 25 (8.45%) React
6 24 (8.11%) Node.js
7 18 (6.08%) RESTful
8 17 (5.74%) Playwright
9 14 (4.73%) OpenTelemetry
10 13 (4.39%) AngularJS
10 13 (4.39%) HTML
10 13 (4.39%) RabbitMQ
11 12 (4.05%) OAuth
12 11 (3.72%) PySpark
13 10 (3.38%) CSS
13 10 (3.38%) OAuth2
13 10 (3.38%) OpenID
14 9 (3.04%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (3.04%) gRPC
15 8 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.04%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.36%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.03%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.69%) DataPower
8 5 (1.69%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.69%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.69%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.35%) Derivative
9 4 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.01%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.01%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 44 (14.86%) Linux
2 10 (3.38%) Unix
3 8 (2.70%) Windows
4 6 (2.03%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.69%) Android
6 4 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.01%) Solaris
7 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.68%) VMS
8 2 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (79.39%) CI/CD
2 190 (64.19%) DevOps
3 121 (40.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 94 (31.76%) Agile
5 76 (25.68%) Containerisation
6 70 (23.65%) Test Automation
7 59 (19.93%) Microservices
8 57 (19.26%) Observability
9 51 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (11.49%) Software Engineering
11 31 (10.47%) Infrastructure Automation
12 30 (10.14%) Migration
13 29 (9.80%) DevSecOps
14 28 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (9.12%) Analytics
16 26 (8.78%) Scrum
17 25 (8.45%) Performance Tuning
18 24 (8.11%) Event-Driven
19 23 (7.77%) Data Engineering
19 23 (7.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 144 (48.65%) Python
2 76 (25.68%) Java
3 67 (22.64%) SQL
4 59 (19.93%) Bash
5 39 (13.18%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.12%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.77%) PowerShell
8 21 (7.09%) Go
9 11 (3.72%) C#
10 8 (2.70%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.36%) Korn
12 4 (1.35%) Bicep
12 4 (1.35%) C
12 4 (1.35%) Ruby
12 4 (1.35%) Rust
13 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.68%) Perl
14 2 (0.68%) Swift
15 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 64 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.38%) AWS Certification
4 7 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (2.36%) Degree
5 5 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.68%) CISSP
8 2 (0.68%) GPEN
8 2 (0.68%) GWAPT
8 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.68%) OCA
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.68%) OSCP
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (17.91%) QA
2 14 (4.73%) GDPR
3 13 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.03%) NIST
4 6 (2.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.01%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.68%) HL7
6 2 (0.68%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) NCSC
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.34%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 137 (46.28%) Docker
2 8 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.01%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.68%) vSphere
5 1 (0.34%) HDFS
5 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 149 (50.34%) Terraform
2 146 (49.32%) Kubernetes
3 63 (21.28%) Ansible
4 36 (12.16%) Grafana
5 32 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.07%) Argo
7 13 (4.39%) Istio
8 7 (2.36%) Karpenter
9 6 (2.03%) Puppet
10 4 (1.35%) Kibana
11 3 (1.01%) Fluentd
11 3 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (1.01%) Rancher
12 2 (0.68%) linkerd
12 2 (0.68%) Nagios
12 2 (0.68%) Packer
12 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.34%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.77%) Splunk
3 21 (7.09%) Google
4 15 (5.07%) Oracle
5 11 (3.72%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.72%) Cisco
6 10 (3.38%) Palo Alto
7 9 (3.04%) Databricks
8 8 (2.70%) CheckPoint
8 8 (2.70%) F5
9 7 (2.36%) Dynatrace
9 7 (2.36%) IBM
9 7 (2.36%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.03%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.69%) Arista
11 5 (1.69%) Aruba
12 4 (1.35%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.35%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.35%) Veracode
13 3 (1.01%) VMware