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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 140 228
Rank change year-on-year -16 +88 -49
Contract jobs citing GitLab 253 306 209
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 1.95% 1.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.17% 13.91% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 215 162
10th Percentile £400 £368 £414
25th Percentile £456 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £669
90th Percentile £700 £728 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.98%

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 2,264 2,200 2,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.09% 13.99% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 1,455 2,045
10th Percentile £355 £363 £388
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £688
90th Percentile £734 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 29
10th Percentile £39.95 £25.63 £29.15
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.71 £41.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £35.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.12% -35.85% +24.69%
75th Percentile £88.75 £55.76 £73.65
90th Percentile £110.00 £66.34 £79.31
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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -15 27 £538 -7.53% 41
South London - 4 £655 - 4
East London -2 1 £450 - 5
West London -13 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 (11.86%) Confluence
2 7 (2.77%) nginx
3 5 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.19%) Appian
4 3 (1.19%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.19%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.79%) SAS
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) CICS
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Luigi
6 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.40%) Mule
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.40%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.40%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 139 (54.94%) AWS
2 108 (42.69%) Azure
3 86 (33.99%) GitHub
4 60 (23.72%) GCP
5 42 (16.60%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (13.04%) Amazon S3
6 33 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (11.46%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (9.88%) Serverless
9 23 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (6.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.93%) Azure AKS
13 13 (5.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 12 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (4.35%) Datadog
15 11 (4.35%) Snowflake
16 9 (3.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.30%) Firewall
2 16 (6.32%) VPN
3 13 (5.14%) TCP/IP
4 12 (4.74%) DNS
5 11 (4.35%) Network Security
6 8 (3.16%) SSL
7 7 (2.77%) WAN
8 5 (1.98%) BGP
8 5 (1.98%) OpenLDAP
8 5 (1.98%) SD-WAN
9 4 (1.58%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (1.58%) VXLAN
10 3 (1.19%) Multicast
10 3 (1.19%) OSPF
11 2 (0.79%) IPsec
11 2 (0.79%) LAN
11 2 (0.79%) MPLS
11 2 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.79%) VLAN
12 1 (0.40%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 21 (8.30%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.74%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (2.77%) Big Data
8 6 (2.37%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.37%) Power BI
9 5 (1.98%) HPCC
10 3 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.19%) MySQL
10 3 (1.19%) Redis
11 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.79%) DB2
11 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.79%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.79%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 102 (40.32%) Jenkins
2 53 (20.95%) Git
3 47 (18.58%) JIRA
4 23 (9.09%) Maven
5 18 (7.11%) SonarQube
6 17 (6.72%) Selenium
7 16 (6.32%) Gradle
8 14 (5.53%) Bitbucket
9 13 (5.14%) Cypress.io
10 11 (4.35%) Cucumber
10 11 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (3.95%) Postman
11 10 (3.95%) TeamCity
12 8 (3.16%) JMeter
12 8 (3.16%) JUnit
13 7 (2.77%) Gatling
13 7 (2.77%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.98%) Artifactory
15 4 (1.58%) CircleCI
16 3 (1.19%) git-flow
General
1 58 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.62%) Finance
3 29 (11.46%) Banking
4 23 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.95%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.16%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Marketing
8 4 (1.58%) Retail Banking
9 3 (1.19%) Front Office
9 3 (1.19%) Military
10 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.79%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) iGaming
11 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (24.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (18.58%) Developer
2 47 (18.58%) Senior
3 25 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (7.91%) AWS DevOps
5 19 (7.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 17 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
6 17 (6.72%) Senior DevOps
6 17 (6.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.53%) Lead
8 13 (5.14%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.74%) Consultant
9 12 (4.74%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.35%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.35%) Test Engineer
11 10 (3.95%) Architect
12 9 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.23%) Kafka
2 24 (9.49%) Node.js
3 23 (9.09%) REST
4 19 (7.51%) React
5 18 (7.11%) Spring
6 17 (6.72%) Playwright
7 15 (5.93%) Spring Boot
8 14 (5.53%) HTML
9 11 (4.35%) JSON
10 10 (3.95%) RESTful
10 10 (3.95%) XML
11 9 (3.56%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.16%) .NET
12 8 (3.16%) CSS
12 8 (3.16%) OAuth
13 7 (2.77%) Middleware
13 7 (2.77%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.37%) AngularJS
14 6 (2.37%) LDAP
14 6 (2.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.83%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.16%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.77%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (2.37%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.58%) Derivative
7 4 (1.58%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.58%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.19%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.19%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.79%) DataPower
9 2 (0.79%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.83%) Linux
2 18 (7.11%) Unix
3 9 (3.56%) Windows
4 6 (2.37%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.98%) Solaris
6 4 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.79%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) CentOS
9 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (77.08%) CI/CD
2 158 (62.45%) DevOps
3 102 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (33.60%) Agile
5 80 (31.62%) Containerisation
6 57 (22.53%) Test Automation
7 46 (18.18%) Microservices
8 43 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
9 38 (15.02%) Infrastructure Automation
10 32 (12.65%) DevSecOps
11 30 (11.86%) Migration
11 30 (11.86%) Software Engineering
12 26 (10.28%) Observability
13 23 (9.09%) Scrum
14 20 (7.91%) SDLC
15 19 (7.51%) TDD
16 17 (6.72%) Event-Driven
16 17 (6.72%) Mentoring
16 17 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
16 17 (6.72%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 118 (46.64%) Python
2 58 (22.92%) Java
3 54 (21.34%) SQL
4 47 (18.58%) Bash
5 33 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.91%) PowerShell
7 19 (7.51%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.93%) C#
8 15 (5.93%) Go
9 7 (2.77%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.37%) Korn
11 5 (1.98%) C
12 3 (1.19%) C++
13 2 (0.79%) Perl
13 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.79%) Ruby
13 2 (0.79%) Rust
13 2 (0.79%) Swift
14 1 (0.40%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 60 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.95%) Degree
4 10 (3.95%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.58%) CISSP
9 3 (1.19%) CISM
9 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.79%) CCNP
10 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.79%) GPEN
10 2 (0.79%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.79%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.79%) OCA
10 2 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.79%) OSCP
11 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (16.21%) QA
2 9 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.37%) GDPR
4 3 (1.19%) NCSC
4 3 (1.19%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.79%) NIST
5 2 (0.79%) WCAG
6 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 111 (43.87%) Docker
2 9 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.79%) Firmware
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 122 (48.22%) Terraform
2 121 (47.83%) Kubernetes
3 59 (23.32%) Ansible
4 24 (9.49%) Grafana
5 19 (7.51%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.14%) Argo
7 9 (3.56%) Puppet
8 7 (2.77%) Istio
9 3 (1.19%) Fluentd
9 3 (1.19%) Packer
9 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.79%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.79%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.79%) linkerd
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.79%) Nessus
11 1 (0.40%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.40%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 19 (7.51%) Google
2 18 (7.11%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.72%) Splunk
4 14 (5.53%) Oracle
5 12 (4.74%) Palo Alto
6 11 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 11 (4.35%) Cisco
7 10 (3.95%) F5
8 9 (3.56%) Databricks
9 8 (3.16%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.37%) IBM
10 6 (2.37%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.98%) Aruba
11 5 (1.98%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.58%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.58%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.58%) Veracode
13 3 (1.19%) Qualys
13 3 (1.19%) SAP
13 3 (1.19%) VMware