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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 140 228
Rank change year-on-year -10 +88 -50
Contract jobs citing GitLab 275 301 195
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.91% 1.91% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.02% 13.83% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 209 152
10th Percentile £368 £367 £384
25th Percentile £431 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -12.11%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £749
England median daily rate £525 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £95.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% -7.50% +20.75%

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 2,287 2,176 2,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.92% 13.78% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,579 1,435 1,933
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £418 £438 £475
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 £738 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 24
10th Percentile £39.95 £25.23 £27.03
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.07 £36.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.67% -31.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.25 £72.41
90th Percentile £110.00 £85.50 £76.75
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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -17 27 £550 -8.33% 9
South London 0 6 £585 - 8
East London -2 1 £450 - 4
West London -20 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 (10.91%) Confluence
2 8 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.82%) nginx
5 3 (1.09%) Appian
5 3 (1.09%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.09%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.73%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.36%) CICS
7 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) FileNet
7 1 (0.36%) Luigi
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.36%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.36%) Mule
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.36%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.36%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 161 (58.55%) AWS
2 106 (38.55%) Azure
3 78 (28.36%) GitHub
4 62 (22.55%) GCP
5 44 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
6 42 (15.27%) Amazon S3
7 38 (13.82%) Amazon EC2
7 38 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (12.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 35 (12.73%) Serverless
9 31 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (8.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 22 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
12 21 (7.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (5.45%) Azure AKS
14 14 (5.09%) Datadog
15 13 (4.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 11 (4.00%) Snowflake
17 8 (2.91%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.91%) Firewall
2 15 (5.45%) VPN
3 13 (4.73%) TCP/IP
4 11 (4.00%) DNS
5 10 (3.64%) Network Security
6 8 (2.91%) SSL
7 5 (1.82%) BGP
7 5 (1.82%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.82%) WAN
8 4 (1.45%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (1.45%) VXLAN
9 3 (1.09%) Multicast
9 3 (1.09%) OSPF
10 2 (0.73%) IPv6
10 2 (0.73%) MPLS
11 1 (0.36%) DHCP
11 1 (0.36%) DMZ
11 1 (0.36%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.82%) MongoDB
1 27 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (3.27%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.55%) Big Data
7 6 (2.18%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (1.82%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.82%) Power BI
9 4 (1.45%) MySQL
9 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.09%) Redis
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 117 (42.55%) Jenkins
2 52 (18.91%) Git
3 50 (18.18%) JIRA
4 20 (7.27%) Maven
5 19 (6.91%) Selenium
6 18 (6.55%) SonarQube
7 13 (4.73%) Cucumber
7 13 (4.73%) Cypress.io
7 13 (4.73%) Gradle
8 12 (4.36%) JUnit
9 11 (4.00%) JMeter
9 11 (4.00%) Postman
10 10 (3.64%) Bitbucket
10 10 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (3.64%) TeamCity
11 7 (2.55%) Gatling
11 7 (2.55%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.18%) Appium
13 5 (1.82%) Artifactory
13 5 (1.82%) CircleCI
General
1 65 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.73%) Finance
3 32 (11.64%) Banking
4 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.91%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.09%) Front Office
10 3 (1.09%) Military
11 2 (0.73%) Games
11 2 (0.73%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Police
12 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (21.45%) Developer
3 50 (18.18%) Senior
4 28 (10.18%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
6 23 (8.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 19 (6.91%) Lead
8 18 (6.55%) Java Developer
9 17 (6.18%) Senior DevOps
9 17 (6.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.09%) Test Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Senior Developer
12 11 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.00%) Consultant
12 11 (4.00%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.27%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) Architect
14 8 (2.91%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.09%) Kafka
2 24 (8.73%) Node.js
2 24 (8.73%) Spring
3 23 (8.36%) REST
4 22 (8.00%) React
4 22 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 18 (6.55%) Playwright
6 15 (5.45%) RESTful
7 14 (5.09%) RabbitMQ
8 12 (4.36%) HTML
9 10 (3.64%) JSON
10 8 (2.91%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.91%) CSS
11 7 (2.55%) Middleware
11 7 (2.55%) OAuth
11 7 (2.55%) Vue
11 7 (2.55%) WireMock
11 7 (2.55%) XML
11 7 (2.55%) YAML
12 6 (2.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.18%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.18%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.82%) DataPower
8 5 (1.82%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.82%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.45%) Derivative
9 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.45%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.09%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.91%) Linux
2 15 (5.45%) Unix
3 7 (2.55%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.18%) Android
4 6 (2.18%) Windows
5 4 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.45%) Solaris
5 4 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) CentOS
6 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (79.27%) CI/CD
2 174 (63.27%) DevOps
3 108 (39.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (32.73%) Agile
5 83 (30.18%) Containerisation
6 65 (23.64%) Test Automation
7 56 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (19.64%) Microservices
9 35 (12.73%) Infrastructure Automation
10 31 (11.27%) Observability
10 31 (11.27%) Software Engineering
11 29 (10.55%) Scrum
12 28 (10.18%) DevSecOps
12 28 (10.18%) Migration
13 22 (8.00%) Event-Driven
14 21 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (7.64%) High Availability
14 21 (7.64%) TDD
15 20 (7.27%) Mentoring
16 19 (6.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 132 (48.00%) Python
2 74 (26.91%) Java
3 54 (19.64%) Bash
3 54 (19.64%) SQL
4 36 (13.09%) JavaScript
5 27 (9.82%) TypeScript
6 19 (6.91%) PowerShell
7 18 (6.55%) Go
8 13 (4.73%) C#
9 10 (3.64%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.18%) Korn
11 3 (1.09%) Bicep
11 3 (1.09%) C
11 3 (1.09%) Rust
12 2 (0.73%) Perl
12 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.73%) Ruby
12 2 (0.73%) Swift
13 1 (0.36%) PHP
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.27%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.73%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.64%) Degree
5 8 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.73%) CCNP
9 2 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.73%) CISSP
9 2 (0.73%) GPEN
9 2 (0.73%) GWAPT
9 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.73%) OCA
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.73%) OSCP
10 1 (0.36%) CISM
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.09%) QA
2 11 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.91%) GDPR
4 6 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.73%) HL7
6 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.73%) NIST
6 2 (0.73%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) NCSC
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 126 (45.82%) Docker
2 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.36%) HDFS
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 133 (48.36%) Terraform
2 132 (48.00%) Kubernetes
3 65 (23.64%) Ansible
4 28 (10.18%) Grafana
5 25 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.73%) Argo
7 8 (2.91%) Puppet
8 6 (2.18%) Istio
9 3 (1.09%) Fluentd
9 3 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.09%) Packer
9 3 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.09%) Rancher
10 2 (0.73%) linkerd
10 2 (0.73%) Nagios
11 1 (0.36%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.36%) Nessus
11 1 (0.36%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (8.36%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.91%) Splunk
3 18 (6.55%) Google
4 15 (5.45%) Oracle
5 11 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.64%) Cisco
6 10 (3.64%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.91%) CheckPoint
7 8 (2.91%) F5
7 8 (2.91%) IBM
8 7 (2.55%) Databricks
9 6 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.82%) Aruba
10 5 (1.82%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.45%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.45%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.45%) MuleSoft
11 4 (1.45%) Veracode
12 3 (1.09%) Arista
12 3 (1.09%) Optimizely