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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 128 204
Rank change year-on-year -1 +76 -22
Contract jobs citing GitLab 313 287 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.12% 2.06% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.62% 14.89% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 197 155
10th Percentile £375 £370 £437
25th Percentile £442 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £688
90th Percentile £721 £738 £830
England median daily rate £513 £573 £560
% change year-on-year -10.48% +2.23% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -26.11% +24.07% -22.58%

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 2,298 1,928 2,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.55% 13.87% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,572 1,254 1,717
10th Percentile £356 £345 £381
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -5.98% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 19
10th Percentile £42.63 £22.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.63 £33.75
Median hourly rate £73.25 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.26% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £73.67
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%

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 29 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 29 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 -30 29 £525 -11.58% 21
South London -4 5 £530 -35.37% 1
East London 0 1 £450 -9.09% 5
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 25 (7.99%) Confluence
2 8 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.60%) nginx
5 3 (0.96%) Appian
5 3 (0.96%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.96%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.64%) Apache
6 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.64%) SAS
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.32%) FileNet
7 1 (0.32%) Luigi
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Actimize
2 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.32%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.32%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.32%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 192 (61.34%) AWS
2 101 (32.27%) Azure
3 88 (28.12%) GitHub
4 61 (19.49%) GCP
5 58 (18.53%) Amazon S3
6 52 (16.61%) GitHub Actions
7 51 (16.29%) Serverless
8 50 (15.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 47 (15.02%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (14.70%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (13.42%) Amazon EKS
12 34 (10.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 33 (10.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 30 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
15 27 (8.63%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (5.43%) Datadog
17 16 (5.11%) Snowflake
18 15 (4.79%) Azure AKS
19 14 (4.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 13 (4.15%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.75%) DNS
1 18 (5.75%) Firewall
2 15 (4.79%) TCP/IP
2 15 (4.79%) VPN
3 9 (2.88%) Network Security
3 9 (2.88%) SSL
4 5 (1.60%) Multicast
4 5 (1.60%) SD-WAN
4 5 (1.60%) WAN
5 3 (0.96%) BGP
5 3 (0.96%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (0.96%) VSAN
5 3 (0.96%) VXLAN
6 2 (0.64%) Calico
6 2 (0.64%) IPv6
6 2 (0.64%) NAS
6 2 (0.64%) OSPF
6 2 (0.64%) SAN
7 1 (0.32%) DMZ
7 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (7.99%) NoSQL
3 24 (7.67%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.39%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (4.79%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (3.83%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.51%) DynamoDB
8 10 (3.19%) Power BI
9 9 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.88%) SQL Server
10 8 (2.56%) Big Data
10 8 (2.56%) MySQL
11 7 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 7 (2.24%) Spark SQL
12 6 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (1.60%) Redis
14 4 (1.28%) DocumentDB
14 4 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.28%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 137 (43.77%) Jenkins
2 58 (18.53%) Git
3 50 (15.97%) JIRA
4 22 (7.03%) Selenium
5 18 (5.75%) Cucumber
6 16 (5.11%) Maven
7 15 (4.79%) JUnit
7 15 (4.79%) Postman
8 14 (4.47%) SonarQube
9 11 (3.51%) Bitbucket
9 11 (3.51%) JMeter
9 11 (3.51%) TeamCity
10 9 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (2.56%) Gatling
11 8 (2.56%) Mockito
12 7 (2.24%) Cypress.io
12 7 (2.24%) Gradle
12 7 (2.24%) REST Assured
12 7 (2.24%) Robot Framework
13 6 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 77 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 59 (18.85%) Finance
3 41 (13.10%) Banking
4 33 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.56%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.56%) Retail
6 8 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.28%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.28%) Retail Banking
8 3 (0.96%) Military
9 2 (0.64%) Front Office
9 2 (0.64%) Games
9 2 (0.64%) Marketing
10 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (25.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 64 (20.45%) Developer
3 58 (18.53%) Senior
4 36 (11.50%) AWS Engineer
5 33 (10.54%) AWS DevOps
6 32 (10.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 20 (6.39%) Lead
8 18 (5.75%) Architect
8 18 (5.75%) Senior DevOps
8 18 (5.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 16 (5.11%) Java Developer
10 15 (4.79%) Data Engineer
10 15 (4.79%) Test Engineer
11 13 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.83%) Test Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.51%) GCP Engineer
13 11 (3.51%) Senior Developer
14 9 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
14 9 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.88%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (18.21%) Kafka
2 42 (13.42%) Spring
3 40 (12.78%) Spring Boot
4 32 (10.22%) React
5 26 (8.31%) Node.js
6 22 (7.03%) REST
7 21 (6.71%) RESTful
8 20 (6.39%) Playwright
9 19 (6.07%) AngularJS
10 17 (5.43%) HTML
11 15 (4.79%) CSS
11 15 (4.79%) OpenTelemetry
12 14 (4.47%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (3.51%) PySpark
14 10 (3.19%) OAuth
15 9 (2.88%) gRPC
15 9 (2.88%) Spring Cloud
16 8 (2.56%) OAuth2
16 8 (2.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 56 (17.89%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.43%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.60%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.60%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.60%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.28%) DataPower
10 4 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.96%) Blockchain
11 3 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 49 (15.65%) Linux
2 10 (3.19%) Unix
3 9 (2.88%) Windows
4 6 (1.92%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.60%) Android
6 4 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.96%) Solaris
8 2 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.64%) VMS
8 2 (0.64%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.32%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (79.55%) CI/CD
2 195 (62.30%) DevOps
3 125 (39.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (30.99%) Agile
5 82 (26.20%) Containerisation
6 77 (24.60%) Test Automation
7 62 (19.81%) Microservices
8 61 (19.49%) Observability
9 52 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (11.18%) Software Engineering
11 31 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (9.58%) Analytics
12 30 (9.58%) Scrum
13 29 (9.27%) DevSecOps
14 28 (8.95%) Migration
14 28 (8.95%) Performance Tuning
15 27 (8.63%) Infrastructure Automation
16 25 (7.99%) Event-Driven
17 23 (7.35%) Data Engineering
17 23 (7.35%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 142 (45.37%) Python
2 88 (28.12%) Java
3 68 (21.73%) SQL
4 61 (19.49%) Bash
5 43 (13.74%) JavaScript
6 28 (8.95%) TypeScript
7 25 (7.99%) PowerShell
8 14 (4.47%) Go
9 12 (3.83%) C#
10 8 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.24%) Korn
12 4 (1.28%) Bicep
12 4 (1.28%) Ruby
12 4 (1.28%) Rust
13 3 (0.96%) C
13 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.64%) Perl
14 2 (0.64%) Swift
15 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 81 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 71 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.51%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.92%) Degree
5 5 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.64%) CISSP
8 2 (0.64%) GPEN
8 2 (0.64%) GWAPT
8 2 (0.64%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.64%) OCA
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.64%) OSCP
9 1 (0.32%) CCNP
9 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (15.65%) QA
2 16 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 14 (4.47%) GDPR
4 13 (4.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.92%) NIST
6 5 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.96%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.64%) HL7
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.32%) MiFID
9 1 (0.32%) NCSC
9 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (47.92%) Docker
2 3 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.96%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.64%) vSphere
4 1 (0.32%) HDFS
4 1 (0.32%) Squid
Systems Management
1 153 (48.88%) Kubernetes
2 152 (48.56%) Terraform
3 61 (19.49%) Ansible
4 37 (11.82%) Prometheus
5 36 (11.50%) Grafana
6 16 (5.11%) Argo
7 12 (3.83%) Istio
8 7 (2.24%) Karpenter
9 4 (1.28%) Kibana
9 4 (1.28%) Puppet
10 3 (0.96%) Fluentd
10 3 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.96%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.96%) Rancher
10 3 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.64%) Nagios
11 2 (0.64%) Packer
11 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.39%) Splunk
3 17 (5.43%) Google
4 15 (4.79%) Oracle
5 10 (3.19%) Cisco
5 10 (3.19%) F5
5 10 (3.19%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.88%) Databricks
6 9 (2.88%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.56%) CheckPoint
8 6 (1.92%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.92%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.92%) IBM
8 6 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.60%) Aruba
9 5 (1.60%) Veracode
10 4 (1.28%) Arista
10 4 (1.28%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.28%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.96%) Optimizely