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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 159 150
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +65
Contract jobs citing GitLab 407 234 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.01% 1.76% 1.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.76% 10.94% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 159 196
10th Percentile £401 £400 £350
25th Percentile £450 £475 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £594
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -10.74% +5.56%
75th Percentile £606 £617 £688
90th Percentile £707 £700 £728
England median daily rate £510 £520 £546
% change year-on-year -1.92% -4.81% -0.68%
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 £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -0.59% -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 2,583 2,138 2,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.76% 16.06% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,694 1,452 1,555
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 13
10th Percentile £19.20 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £41.69 £25.99
Median hourly rate £58.25 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.44% +20.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £77.27 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.63 £107.88 £71.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +2 48 £575 +6.98% 24
South London -10 4 £535 -0.47% 1
West London -18 4 £638 - 3
East London - 1 - - 2
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 35 (8.60%) Confluence
2 28 (6.88%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.21%) Apache
5 7 (1.72%) Camunda
6 5 (1.23%) nginx
7 4 (0.98%) SAS
8 3 (0.74%) CICS
8 3 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.25%) CMS
10 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.25%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Trello
2 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.25%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 278 (68.30%) AWS
2 156 (38.33%) GitHub
3 155 (38.08%) Azure
4 120 (29.48%) GitHub Actions
5 89 (21.87%) Azure DevOps
6 87 (21.38%) Amazon EKS
7 86 (21.13%) GCP
8 69 (16.95%) Amazon S3
9 68 (16.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 66 (16.22%) Serverless
11 64 (15.72%) AWS Lambda
12 62 (15.23%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (8.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (5.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 23 (5.65%) Datadog
17 23 (5.65%) Snowflake
18 22 (5.41%) OpenShift
18 22 (5.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.69%) DNS
2 13 (3.19%) Network Security
3 12 (2.95%) Firewall
4 8 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.97%) VPN
5 5 (1.23%) BGP
5 5 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (1.23%) NX-OS
5 5 (1.23%) SSL
5 5 (1.23%) VXLAN
6 4 (0.98%) HTTP
6 4 (0.98%) TACACS
7 3 (0.74%) Internet
7 3 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (0.74%) SSH
8 2 (0.49%) 4G
8 2 (0.49%) 5G
8 2 (0.49%) DSL
9 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.25%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.88%) NoSQL
3 27 (6.63%) Amazon Athena
4 26 (6.39%) MongoDB
5 25 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (5.65%) Data Lake
8 20 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (4.91%) Power BI
9 17 (4.18%) Big Data
9 17 (4.18%) MySQL
9 17 (4.18%) SQL Server
10 13 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (3.19%) Redis
11 12 (2.95%) Apache Hive
11 12 (2.95%) Relational Database
12 11 (2.70%) DynamoDB
13 10 (2.46%) Amazon QuickSight
14 9 (2.21%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.97%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 193 (47.42%) Jenkins
2 110 (27.03%) Git
3 50 (12.29%) JIRA
4 27 (6.63%) JUnit
5 24 (5.90%) Selenium
6 23 (5.65%) SonarQube
7 20 (4.91%) Mockito
8 19 (4.67%) Bitbucket
8 19 (4.67%) Maven
9 18 (4.42%) Cucumber
10 14 (3.44%) Gradle
10 14 (3.44%) REST Assured
11 13 (3.19%) Cypress.io
11 13 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
12 11 (2.70%) Artifactory
13 9 (2.21%) Postman
14 8 (1.97%) JMeter
14 8 (1.97%) Snyk
15 6 (1.47%) WebDriver
16 5 (1.23%) TeamCity
General
1 81 (19.90%) Social Skills
2 80 (19.66%) Finance
3 65 (15.97%) Public Sector
4 52 (12.78%) Banking
5 38 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.70%) Law
7 10 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.47%) Back Office
8 6 (1.47%) Police
8 6 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.98%) Front Office
10 4 (0.98%) Military
11 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.74%) Local Government
11 3 (0.74%) Marketing
12 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 114 (28.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 84 (20.64%) Developer
3 76 (18.67%) Senior
4 61 (14.99%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (8.85%) AWS DevOps
6 35 (8.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 34 (8.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 33 (8.11%) Lead
9 31 (7.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 28 (6.88%) Data Engineer
11 25 (6.14%) Java Developer
12 24 (5.90%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (5.16%) Architect
13 21 (5.16%) Software Engineer
14 16 (3.93%) Senior Developer
15 15 (3.69%) GCP Engineer
15 15 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (3.19%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (57.00%) Terraform
2 89 (21.87%) Kafka
3 67 (16.46%) REST
4 52 (12.78%) Spring
5 49 (12.04%) Spring Boot
6 42 (10.32%) React
6 42 (10.32%) RESTful
7 27 (6.63%) PySpark
8 24 (5.90%) CSS
8 24 (5.90%) HTML
8 24 (5.90%) RabbitMQ
9 21 (5.16%) Node.js
10 19 (4.67%) .NET
11 17 (4.18%) Keycloak
11 17 (4.18%) pytest
11 17 (4.18%) YAML
12 16 (3.93%) Redux
13 15 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
13 15 (3.69%) FastAPI
13 15 (3.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 108 (26.54%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.57%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 16 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.95%) Data Structures
6 12 (2.95%) PKI
7 11 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.21%) AI Agents
8 9 (2.21%) Distributed Architecture
9 8 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.97%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.47%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.23%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 88 (21.62%) Linux
2 32 (7.86%) Windows
3 20 (4.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.21%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.72%) Unix
6 6 (1.47%) VMS
6 6 (1.47%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.98%) zOS
8 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.25%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (93.12%) CI/CD
2 279 (68.55%) DevOps
3 211 (51.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 148 (36.36%) Agile
5 140 (34.40%) Containerisation
6 115 (28.26%) Test Automation
7 112 (27.52%) Microservices
8 98 (24.08%) Observability
9 73 (17.94%) AI
9 73 (17.94%) Platform Engineering
10 69 (16.95%) Event-Driven
11 64 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
12 63 (15.48%) Deployment Automation
12 63 (15.48%) Software Engineering
13 58 (14.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 56 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (13.02%) Full-Stack Development
15 53 (13.02%) Mentoring
15 53 (13.02%) Scrum
16 50 (12.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 205 (50.37%) Python
2 114 (28.01%) Java
3 93 (22.85%) SQL
4 86 (21.13%) Bash
5 55 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 36 (8.85%) C#
6 36 (8.85%) PowerShell
7 35 (8.60%) TypeScript
8 24 (5.90%) Go
9 12 (2.95%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.21%) Bicep
10 9 (2.21%) Groovy
11 8 (1.97%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.72%) Scala
13 6 (1.47%) C++
14 4 (0.98%) Korn
14 4 (0.98%) R
15 3 (0.74%) C
15 3 (0.74%) JCL
15 3 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 149 (36.61%) Security Cleared
2 127 (31.20%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.86%) DV Cleared
4 31 (7.62%) AWS Certification
5 28 (6.88%) Degree
6 24 (5.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.97%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.47%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.74%) CISSP
13 2 (0.49%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.49%) GIAC
13 2 (0.49%) ISEB
13 2 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.02%) QA
2 26 (6.39%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.46%) NIST
5 8 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.47%) GDPR
7 5 (1.23%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.98%) NCSC
9 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.74%) WCAG
10 2 (0.49%) SLA
11 1 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 176 (43.24%) Docker
2 12 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.23%) Squid
6 4 (0.98%) HDFS
6 4 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 216 (53.07%) Kubernetes
2 91 (22.36%) Ansible
3 72 (17.69%) Grafana
4 68 (16.71%) Prometheus
5 23 (5.65%) Puppet
6 21 (5.16%) Argo
7 10 (2.46%) Kibana
7 10 (2.46%) Progress Chef
8 7 (1.72%) Istio
9 5 (1.23%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.98%) Packer
10 4 (0.98%) Salt
10 4 (0.98%) Suricata
11 3 (0.74%) Cilium
11 3 (0.74%) Control-M
12 2 (0.49%) logstash
12 2 (0.49%) Nagios
12 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.25%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 40 (9.83%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.85%) Google
3 23 (5.65%) Databricks
4 21 (5.16%) Splunk
5 18 (4.42%) Oracle
6 16 (3.93%) Informatica
6 16 (3.93%) VMware
7 14 (3.44%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.95%) Cloudera
9 9 (2.21%) Veracode
10 7 (1.72%) IBM
10 7 (1.72%) OpenAI
10 7 (1.72%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.72%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.47%) Talend
12 5 (1.23%) Cisco
13 4 (0.98%) Checkmarx
13 4 (0.98%) FIS
13 4 (0.98%) New Relic
13 4 (0.98%) Okta