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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 132 213
Rank change year-on-year -15 +81 -11
Contract jobs citing GitLab 321 267 192
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 2.09% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.53% 14.55% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 173 152
10th Percentile £368 £370 £363
25th Percentile £440 £440 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £574
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -5.88% -7.46%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £738 £761
England median daily rate £500 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -
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 2,373 1,835 2,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.53% 14.40% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,581 1,240 1,660
10th Percentile £350 £349 £363
25th Percentile £416 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 25
10th Percentile - £22.93 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.99
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -22.58% -32.61%
75th Percentile £72.63 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.88 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.97%

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 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 25 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 -16 35 £510 -7.31% 18
South London -7 9 £521 -36.43% 6
East London -7 1 £432 +15.97% 6
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 18 (5.61%) Confluence
2 11 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.12%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.87%) nginx
5 5 (1.56%) CICS
6 2 (0.62%) Apache
6 2 (0.62%) Camunda
6 2 (0.62%) CMS
6 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
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
1 1 (0.31%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 213 (66.36%) AWS
2 109 (33.96%) GitHub
3 95 (29.60%) Azure
4 70 (21.81%) Amazon S3
4 70 (21.81%) Serverless
5 65 (20.25%) GitHub Actions
6 63 (19.63%) AWS Lambda
7 54 (16.82%) GCP
8 53 (16.51%) Amazon EKS
9 52 (16.20%) Amazon EC2
10 48 (14.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 46 (14.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (11.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 35 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (9.03%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (5.61%) OpenShift
16 15 (4.67%) Datadog
16 15 (4.67%) Snowflake
17 13 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
18 12 (3.74%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.43%) DNS
2 8 (2.49%) Firewall
3 6 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.25%) Multicast
5 3 (0.93%) HTTP
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%) 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 30 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (7.48%) NoSQL
3 21 (6.54%) MongoDB
4 19 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (4.67%) DynamoDB
6 14 (4.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (3.74%) Big Data
7 12 (3.74%) Data Lake
8 11 (3.43%) Power BI
8 11 (3.43%) Relational Database
9 10 (3.12%) Spark SQL
10 9 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (2.80%) Amazon QuickSight
10 9 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.80%) MySQL
11 8 (2.49%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.18%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (2.18%) DB2
12 7 (2.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 159 (49.53%) Jenkins
2 66 (20.56%) Git
3 36 (11.21%) JIRA
4 20 (6.23%) Selenium
5 18 (5.61%) JUnit
6 15 (4.67%) Postman
7 14 (4.36%) Bitbucket
7 14 (4.36%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.36%) Mockito
8 11 (3.43%) CircleCI
9 9 (2.80%) SonarQube
10 8 (2.49%) JMeter
11 7 (2.18%) Appium
11 7 (2.18%) Artifactory
11 7 (2.18%) TeamCity
12 6 (1.87%) REST Assured
12 6 (1.87%) Robot Framework
13 5 (1.56%) Snyk
13 5 (1.56%) Terragrunt
14 4 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 84 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 64 (19.94%) Finance
3 53 (16.51%) Public Sector
4 48 (14.95%) Banking
5 14 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.18%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.18%) Retail
8 6 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.25%) 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 73 (22.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (17.45%) Developer
3 49 (15.26%) Senior
4 41 (12.77%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (10.90%) AWS DevOps
6 33 (10.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 29 (9.03%) Lead
8 22 (6.85%) Architect
9 21 (6.54%) Data Engineer
10 17 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.98%) Java Developer
12 14 (4.36%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.36%) Test Engineer
13 12 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.12%) AWS Architect
14 10 (3.12%) Python Engineer
15 9 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
16 8 (2.49%) Cloud Architect
16 8 (2.49%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.26%) Kafka
2 44 (13.71%) Spring
3 42 (13.08%) Spring Boot
4 35 (10.90%) React
5 29 (9.03%) RESTful
6 24 (7.48%) REST
7 22 (6.85%) Node.js
8 20 (6.23%) AngularJS
9 18 (5.61%) HTML
9 18 (5.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 17 (5.30%) CSS
11 15 (4.67%) PySpark
12 14 (4.36%) Playwright
13 13 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (4.05%) OAuth
14 11 (3.43%) YAML
15 10 (3.12%) OAuth2
15 10 (3.12%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (3.12%) SOAP
15 10 (3.12%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.74%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.74%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.12%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.49%) DataPower
7 8 (2.49%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.56%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.25%) NHS
10 4 (1.25%) Online Banking
10 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.93%) PACS
11 3 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 3 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (16.82%) Linux
2 11 (3.43%) Windows
3 8 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.18%) zOS
5 6 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.87%) Unix
6 5 (1.56%) Android
7 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.62%) VMS
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (79.44%) CI/CD
2 191 (59.50%) DevOps
3 125 (38.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (29.60%) Containerisation
5 90 (28.04%) Agile
6 75 (23.36%) Test Automation
7 70 (21.81%) Observability
8 69 (21.50%) Microservices
9 49 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (12.46%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (11.84%) AI
12 35 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (10.90%) Scrum
13 33 (10.28%) Performance Tuning
14 31 (9.66%) Analytics
15 28 (8.72%) Data Engineering
16 27 (8.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 27 (8.41%) Software Engineering
17 26 (8.10%) ETL
18 25 (7.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 156 (48.60%) Python
2 87 (27.10%) Java
3 73 (22.74%) SQL
4 58 (18.07%) Bash
5 38 (11.84%) JavaScript
6 25 (7.79%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.17%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.67%) Go
9 12 (3.74%) C#
9 12 (3.74%) Shell Script
10 11 (3.43%) Bicep
11 7 (2.18%) Ruby
12 5 (1.56%) C
13 4 (1.25%) JCL
13 4 (1.25%) Korn
13 4 (1.25%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.93%) Scala
15 2 (0.62%) Rust
15 2 (0.62%) Swift
15 2 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 101 (31.46%) Security Cleared
2 88 (27.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.67%) AWS Certification
4 9 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.80%) Degree
5 8 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.25%) 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%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) GIAC
11 1 (0.31%) GWAPT
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.71%) QA
2 15 (4.67%) Accessibility
2 15 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 13 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 12 (3.74%) GDPR
5 6 (1.87%) NIST
5 6 (1.87%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.25%) SLA
8 3 (0.93%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.62%) HL7
9 2 (0.62%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) GRC
10 1 (0.31%) MiFID
10 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 159 (49.53%) Docker
2 6 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.25%) 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
1 163 (50.78%) Terraform
2 159 (49.53%) Kubernetes
3 62 (19.31%) Ansible
4 51 (15.89%) Prometheus
5 45 (14.02%) Grafana
6 19 (5.92%) Argo
7 13 (4.05%) Istio
8 12 (3.74%) Puppet
9 8 (2.49%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.87%) Karpenter
11 4 (1.25%) Kibana
11 4 (1.25%) 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%) linkerd
Vendors
1 33 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.85%) Splunk
3 16 (4.98%) Google
4 11 (3.43%) Oracle
5 10 (3.12%) Databricks
6 8 (2.49%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.49%) IBM
6 8 (2.49%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.49%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.87%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.87%) VMware
8 4 (1.25%) Arista
8 4 (1.25%) Veracode
9 3 (0.93%) Braze
9 3 (0.93%) Confluent
9 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.93%) New Relic
9 3 (0.93%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.93%) SAP
9 3 (0.93%) Sybase