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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 151 196
Rank change year-on-year -8 +45 +34
Contract jobs citing GitLab 352 251 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 1.88% 1.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.31% 12.23% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 156 167
10th Percentile £400 £406 £350
25th Percentile £450 £445 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £573
Median % change year-on-year - -8.30% -4.58%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £700
90th Percentile £705 £700 £763
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
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 £72.73 £74.22
% change year-on-year -10.63% -2.01% +24.11%

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 2,460 2,052 2,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.58% 15.36% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,605 1,380 1,756
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £430 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 25
10th Percentile - £25.52 £23.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.13 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -48.28%
75th Percentile £72.88 £59.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.63 £71.63
England median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +4 47 £538 +4.88% 10
South London -8 7 £505 -12.74%
East London -1 2 £432 +72.80% 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 24 (6.82%) Confluence
2 13 (3.69%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.99%) CICS
5 4 (1.14%) Apache
5 4 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (0.85%) Camunda
6 3 (0.85%) SAS
7 2 (0.57%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.28%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 251 (71.31%) AWS
2 136 (38.64%) GitHub
3 113 (32.10%) Azure
4 99 (28.13%) GitHub Actions
5 75 (21.31%) Amazon S3
5 75 (21.31%) Serverless
6 70 (19.89%) Amazon EKS
6 70 (19.89%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (16.76%) Amazon EC2
8 58 (16.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 58 (16.48%) GCP
9 55 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
10 40 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 37 (10.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 28 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
13 24 (6.82%) Snowflake
14 20 (5.68%) Power Platform
15 16 (4.55%) Datadog
15 16 (4.55%) OpenShift
16 15 (4.26%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.56%) Firewall
1 9 (2.56%) Network Security
2 8 (2.27%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.70%) DNS
4 3 (0.85%) HTTP
4 3 (0.85%) Internet
4 3 (0.85%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.57%) DSL
5 2 (0.57%) Multicast
5 2 (0.57%) NAS
5 2 (0.57%) SAN
5 2 (0.57%) VSAN
6 1 (0.28%) SSH
6 1 (0.28%) SSL
6 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.67%) Amazon Athena
1 27 (7.67%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 17 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (4.83%) Power BI
6 16 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.69%) DynamoDB
8 12 (3.41%) Big Data
9 10 (2.84%) Amazon QuickSight
9 10 (2.84%) Data Lake
9 10 (2.84%) SQL Server
10 9 (2.56%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.27%) Db2
12 7 (1.99%) MySQL
13 6 (1.70%) BigQuery
13 6 (1.70%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.70%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 168 (47.73%) Jenkins
2 79 (22.44%) Git
3 40 (11.36%) JIRA
4 24 (6.82%) JUnit
5 22 (6.25%) Mockito
6 19 (5.40%) Selenium
7 14 (3.98%) SonarQube
8 13 (3.69%) Artifactory
8 13 (3.69%) Cucumber
8 13 (3.69%) Postman
9 11 (3.13%) Bitbucket
10 9 (2.56%) CircleCI
10 9 (2.56%) Snyk
11 8 (2.27%) Gradle
11 8 (2.27%) Maven
12 7 (1.99%) REST Assured
12 7 (1.99%) WebDriver
13 6 (1.70%) TeamCity
14 4 (1.14%) JMeter
14 4 (1.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 73 (20.74%) Finance
2 70 (19.89%) Social Skills
3 63 (17.90%) Public Sector
4 56 (15.91%) Banking
5 12 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.13%) Law
7 8 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.99%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.42%) Military
9 5 (1.42%) Police
10 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Back Office
12 2 (0.57%) Marketing
12 2 (0.57%) Publishing
12 2 (0.57%) Retail
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (30.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (20.74%) Senior
3 64 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 50 (14.20%) Developer
5 43 (12.22%) AWS DevOps
6 42 (11.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 29 (8.24%) Lead
8 27 (7.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (7.67%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (5.11%) Senior DevOps
10 18 (5.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.55%) Architect
11 16 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 14 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.41%) Senior Developer
14 11 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
15 10 (2.84%) Senior Data Engineer
16 9 (2.56%) GCP Engineer
16 9 (2.56%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (14.77%) Kafka
2 40 (11.36%) Spring
3 39 (11.08%) RESTful
4 38 (10.80%) React
4 38 (10.80%) Spring Boot
5 37 (10.51%) REST
6 28 (7.95%) PySpark
7 16 (4.55%) YAML
8 15 (4.26%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.98%) CSS
9 14 (3.98%) HTML
9 14 (3.98%) Node.js
9 14 (3.98%) SOAP
10 13 (3.69%) .NET
11 12 (3.41%) Gherkin
11 12 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (3.13%) JSON
13 10 (2.84%) Keycloak
13 10 (2.84%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 75 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 28 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 13 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.27%) Mainframe
6 7 (1.99%) DataPower
6 7 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.70%) Online Banking
8 5 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.14%) PKI
9 4 (1.14%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.85%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.85%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (17.61%) Linux
2 18 (5.11%) Windows
3 13 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.27%) zOS
5 5 (1.42%) Unix
6 4 (1.14%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) VMS
8 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 233 (66.19%) DevOps
3 161 (45.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (34.09%) Containerisation
5 108 (30.68%) Agile
6 94 (26.70%) Test Automation
7 81 (23.01%) Microservices
8 67 (19.03%) Observability
9 66 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
10 53 (15.06%) AI
11 45 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 42 (11.93%) Event-Driven
14 41 (11.65%) Software Engineering
15 40 (11.36%) Scrum
16 36 (10.23%) Full-Stack Development
17 34 (9.66%) Data Engineering
18 33 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
19 32 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 32 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 176 (50.00%) Python
2 82 (23.30%) Java
3 72 (20.45%) SQL
4 65 (18.47%) Bash
5 38 (10.80%) JavaScript
6 28 (7.95%) TypeScript
7 23 (6.53%) C#
8 20 (5.68%) PowerShell
9 14 (3.98%) Go
10 10 (2.84%) Bicep
10 10 (2.84%) Shell Script
11 6 (1.70%) JCL
12 4 (1.14%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.14%) Ruby
13 3 (0.85%) C
13 3 (0.85%) R
14 2 (0.57%) C++
14 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.57%) Scala
14 2 (0.57%) XPath
Qualifications
1 131 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 116 (32.95%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.53%) AWS Certification
4 17 (4.83%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.98%) Degree
6 12 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.85%) CISSP
11 3 (0.85%) GIAC
11 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.57%) CSSLP
12 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.28%) GWAPT
13 1 (0.28%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.23%) QA
2 27 (7.67%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.42%) NIST
5 4 (1.14%) GDPR
5 4 (1.14%) SLA
6 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.85%) WCAG
7 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) GRC
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 158 (44.89%) Docker
2 12 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.42%) Squid
5 3 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.28%) HDFS
7 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.28%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 202 (57.39%) Terraform
2 175 (49.72%) Kubernetes
3 72 (20.45%) Ansible
4 58 (16.48%) Grafana
5 56 (15.91%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.83%) Puppet
7 15 (4.26%) Argo
8 8 (2.27%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.99%) Istio
10 5 (1.42%) Salt
11 4 (1.14%) Packer
11 4 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.14%) Suricata
12 3 (0.85%) HP Fortify
13 2 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.28%) CA Endevor
14 1 (0.28%) Karpenter
14 1 (0.28%) Kibana
14 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 29 (8.24%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.98%) Google
2 14 (3.98%) Splunk
3 13 (3.69%) Informatica
4 12 (3.41%) Databricks
4 12 (3.41%) Oracle
5 8 (2.27%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.99%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.70%) Veracode
7 6 (1.70%) VMware
8 5 (1.42%) IBM
8 5 (1.42%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.14%) Foundry
9 4 (1.14%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.14%) Palantir
10 3 (0.85%) Adobe
10 3 (0.85%) Checkmarx
10 3 (0.85%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.85%) New Relic
10 3 (0.85%) SAP