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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 161 184
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 +37
Contract jobs citing GitLab 366 236 221
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.74% 1.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.47% 11.24% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 155 155
10th Percentile £385 £402 £300
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £624 £619 £688
90th Percentile £700 £678 £725
England median daily rate £500 £520 £543
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.15% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%

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 2,529 2,099 2,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.52% 15.48% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 1,434 1,596
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £741 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 24
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.69
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 53 £541 +3.00% 17
South London -15 8 £520 -10.15% 1
East London +1 2 £432 +72.80% 1
West London -17 2 - - 4
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 26 (7.10%) Confluence
2 17 (4.64%) Apache Spark
3 14 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.64%) CICS
5 5 (1.37%) Apache
6 4 (1.09%) Camunda
6 4 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.82%) SAS
8 2 (0.55%) CMS
8 2 (0.55%) nginx
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Trello
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.27%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 258 (70.49%) AWS
2 151 (41.26%) GitHub
3 134 (36.61%) Azure
4 117 (31.97%) GitHub Actions
5 75 (20.49%) GCP
6 73 (19.95%) Amazon EKS
6 73 (19.95%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (19.13%) Serverless
8 69 (18.85%) Amazon S3
9 65 (17.76%) AWS Lambda
10 60 (16.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 54 (14.75%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (10.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 35 (9.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (6.56%) Snowflake
16 23 (6.28%) Power Platform
17 21 (5.74%) Datadog
18 18 (4.92%) dbt
19 17 (4.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.01%) DNS
1 11 (3.01%) Firewall
2 9 (2.46%) Network Security
3 7 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.09%) VPN
5 3 (0.82%) HTTP
5 3 (0.82%) Internet
5 3 (0.82%) SSL
6 2 (0.55%) DSL
6 2 (0.55%) VSAN
7 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.27%) MPLS
7 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.27%) SSH
7 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.83%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 20 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (5.46%) MongoDB
4 20 (5.46%) NoSQL
4 20 (5.46%) Power BI
5 19 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (4.10%) DynamoDB
7 14 (3.83%) Data Lake
8 13 (3.55%) Big Data
9 12 (3.28%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.01%) Relational Database
11 10 (2.73%) Amazon QuickSight
12 9 (2.46%) Redis
13 8 (2.19%) Db2
13 8 (2.19%) MySQL
14 7 (1.91%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.91%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 174 (47.54%) Jenkins
2 88 (24.04%) Git
3 41 (11.20%) JIRA
4 25 (6.83%) JUnit
5 21 (5.74%) SonarQube
6 20 (5.46%) Mockito
7 18 (4.92%) Bitbucket
8 16 (4.37%) Selenium
9 13 (3.55%) Cucumber
9 13 (3.55%) Maven
10 12 (3.28%) Artifactory
11 11 (3.01%) Snyk
12 9 (2.46%) Gradle
12 9 (2.46%) Postman
13 8 (2.19%) CircleCI
13 8 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.91%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.64%) Cypress.io
15 6 (1.64%) TeamCity
16 5 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 81 (22.13%) Finance
2 74 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 61 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 57 (15.57%) Banking
5 16 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.01%) Law
7 8 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.91%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.37%) Military
10 5 (1.37%) Police
11 4 (1.09%) Marketing
11 4 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Back Office
12 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Publishing
13 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.27%) Games
14 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 100 (27.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 82 (22.40%) Senior
3 61 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 60 (16.39%) Developer
5 38 (10.38%) AWS DevOps
6 37 (10.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 35 (9.56%) Lead
8 33 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 24 (6.56%) Data Engineer
9 24 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 18 (4.92%) Software Engineer
12 17 (4.64%) Java Developer
12 17 (4.64%) Senior DevOps
12 17 (4.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.37%) Senior Developer
14 15 (4.10%) Architect
15 12 (3.28%) Java Engineer
16 11 (3.01%) Python Engineer
16 11 (3.01%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (15.03%) Kafka
2 46 (12.57%) REST
3 41 (11.20%) Spring
4 39 (10.66%) Spring Boot
5 38 (10.38%) React
6 33 (9.02%) RESTful
7 29 (7.92%) PySpark
8 22 (6.01%) Node.js
9 17 (4.64%) CSS
9 17 (4.64%) HTML
10 15 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (3.83%) .NET
11 14 (3.83%) YAML
12 12 (3.28%) Gherkin
12 12 (3.28%) SOAP
13 11 (3.01%) ARM Templates
13 11 (3.01%) Keycloak
13 11 (3.01%) OpenTelemetry
14 10 (2.73%) AngularJS
14 10 (2.73%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 89 (24.32%) Cloud Native
2 32 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (5.46%) Onboarding
4 14 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.91%) AI Agents
6 7 (1.91%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (1.91%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.64%) DataPower
7 6 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.64%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.37%) PKI
9 4 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.09%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.82%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.55%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.85%) Linux
2 17 (4.64%) Windows
3 15 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (1.91%) Ubuntu
4 7 (1.91%) zOS
5 4 (1.09%) Unix
6 3 (0.82%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (89.34%) CI/CD
2 244 (66.67%) DevOps
3 170 (46.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (33.88%) Agile
5 121 (33.06%) Containerisation
6 103 (28.14%) Test Automation
7 87 (23.77%) Microservices
8 74 (20.22%) Observability
9 72 (19.67%) Platform Engineering
10 64 (17.49%) AI
11 55 (15.03%) Software Engineering
12 50 (13.66%) Event-Driven
13 49 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
14 46 (12.57%) Full-Stack Development
15 45 (12.30%) Scrum
16 43 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
18 40 (10.93%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 38 (10.38%) Data Engineering
19 38 (10.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 186 (50.82%) Python
2 94 (25.68%) Java
3 77 (21.04%) SQL
4 72 (19.67%) Bash
5 45 (12.30%) JavaScript
6 36 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 27 (7.38%) PowerShell
8 26 (7.10%) C#
9 14 (3.83%) Go
10 10 (2.73%) Bicep
10 10 (2.73%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.19%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.64%) JCL
13 4 (1.09%) R
13 4 (1.09%) Ruby
14 3 (0.82%) C
14 3 (0.82%) C++
14 3 (0.82%) Groovy
15 2 (0.55%) Korn
15 2 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 129 (35.25%) Security Cleared
2 113 (30.87%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.56%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.19%) DV Cleared
5 16 (4.37%) Degree
6 14 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.28%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.82%) CISSP
12 3 (0.82%) GIAC
13 2 (0.55%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.27%) GWAPT
14 1 (0.27%) OSCP
14 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.48%) QA
2 28 (7.65%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.37%) GDPR
4 5 (1.37%) NIST
5 4 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.09%) SLA
5 4 (1.09%) WCAG
6 3 (0.82%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 159 (43.44%) Docker
2 12 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.37%) Squid
4 5 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.55%) HDFS
6 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 204 (55.74%) Terraform
2 187 (51.09%) Kubernetes
3 73 (19.95%) Ansible
4 62 (16.94%) Grafana
5 58 (15.85%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.19%) Puppet
7 14 (3.83%) Argo
8 9 (2.46%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.19%) Istio
10 5 (1.37%) HP Fortify
10 5 (1.37%) Salt
11 4 (1.09%) Packer
11 4 (1.09%) Suricata
12 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.27%) Kubeflow
14 1 (0.27%) linkerd
14 1 (0.27%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.28%) Google
3 18 (4.92%) Databricks
4 14 (3.83%) Splunk
5 13 (3.55%) Informatica
6 11 (3.01%) Dynatrace
6 11 (3.01%) Oracle
7 10 (2.73%) VMware
8 6 (1.64%) Veracode
9 5 (1.37%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.37%) IBM
10 4 (1.09%) Checkmarx
10 4 (1.09%) FIS
10 4 (1.09%) Foundry
10 4 (1.09%) New Relic
10 4 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.09%) Palantir
10 4 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.82%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.82%) SAP