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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 136 205
Rank change year-on-year -8 +69 +7
Contract jobs citing GitLab 323 245 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 1.96% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.66% 13.57% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 160 154
10th Percentile £369 £379 £354
25th Percentile £447 £440 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -7.83% -4.80%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £700
90th Percentile £700 £738 £784
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £92.50 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £95.00 -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +75.98%

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 2,365 1,806 2,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.23% 14.48% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 1,223 1,657
10th Percentile £354 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 25
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -3.13% -40.30%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.63
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 40 £525 -1.18% 16
South London -12 11 £530 -1.40% 2
East London -8 1 £432 +72.80%
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 14 (4.33%) Confluence
2 11 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.55%) CICS
5 2 (0.62%) Apache
5 2 (0.62%) Camunda
5 2 (0.62%) CMS
5 2 (0.62%) nginx
5 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) FileNet
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.93%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Actimize
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.31%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 210 (65.02%) AWS
2 116 (35.91%) GitHub
3 100 (30.96%) Azure
4 78 (24.15%) GitHub Actions
5 70 (21.67%) Serverless
6 69 (21.36%) Amazon S3
7 63 (19.50%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (17.34%) GCP
9 55 (17.03%) Amazon EKS
10 52 (16.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 49 (15.17%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (13.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 44 (13.62%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (10.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (8.98%) Amazon ECS
16 18 (5.57%) OpenShift
16 18 (5.57%) Snowflake
17 16 (4.95%) Power Platform
18 15 (4.64%) Datadog
19 14 (4.33%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.41%) DNS
2 7 (2.17%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.86%) Firewall
4 4 (1.24%) Multicast
5 3 (0.93%) HTTP
5 3 (0.93%) Network Security
5 3 (0.93%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.93%) VSAN
6 2 (0.62%) BGP
6 2 (0.62%) Calico
6 2 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.62%) IPv6
6 2 (0.62%) NAS
6 2 (0.62%) OSPF
6 2 (0.62%) SAN
6 2 (0.62%) VPN
6 2 (0.62%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.31%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.31%) SSH
7 1 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (5.57%) NoSQL
4 17 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 16 (4.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (4.95%) DynamoDB
6 15 (4.64%) Power BI
7 13 (4.02%) Big Data
7 13 (4.02%) Data Lake
7 13 (4.02%) Relational Database
8 10 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.10%) Spark SQL
9 9 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (2.79%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (2.79%) BigQuery
9 9 (2.79%) SQL Server
10 7 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
10 7 (2.17%) DB2
10 7 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 155 (47.99%) Jenkins
2 63 (19.50%) Git
3 29 (8.98%) JIRA
4 20 (6.19%) Selenium
5 19 (5.88%) JUnit
6 16 (4.95%) Mockito
7 14 (4.33%) Cucumber
7 14 (4.33%) Postman
8 9 (2.79%) Artifactory
8 9 (2.79%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.79%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.48%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.48%) JMeter
10 7 (2.17%) Appium
10 7 (2.17%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.86%) Robot Framework
12 5 (1.55%) Snyk
12 5 (1.55%) Terragrunt
13 4 (1.24%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.93%) MLflow
General
1 76 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.43%) Finance
3 54 (16.72%) Public Sector
4 45 (13.93%) Banking
5 17 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.48%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.17%) Retail
8 5 (1.55%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.24%) Law
9 4 (1.24%) Military
9 4 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.24%) Police
9 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Games
12 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (21.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (18.27%) Senior
3 58 (17.96%) Developer
4 41 (12.69%) AWS Engineer
5 31 (9.60%) AWS DevOps
6 29 (8.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (8.98%) Lead
7 23 (7.12%) Architect
8 22 (6.81%) Data Engineer
9 20 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (4.64%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.33%) Test Engineer
12 13 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.10%) AWS Architect
14 10 (3.10%) GCP Engineer
15 9 (2.79%) Senior Developer
16 8 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.79%) Kafka
2 46 (14.24%) Spring
3 44 (13.62%) Spring Boot
4 38 (11.76%) React
5 34 (10.53%) RESTful
6 28 (8.67%) REST
7 19 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 19 (5.88%) Node.js
7 19 (5.88%) PySpark
8 17 (5.26%) HTML
8 17 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
9 16 (4.95%) CSS
10 13 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (4.02%) OAuth
10 13 (4.02%) Playwright
11 12 (3.72%) YAML
12 11 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (3.41%) Spring Cloud
13 10 (3.10%) OAuth2
13 10 (3.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.96%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.72%) Onboarding
4 12 (3.72%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.10%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.48%) DataPower
6 8 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.24%) NHS
9 4 (1.24%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.24%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.93%) PACS
10 3 (0.93%) PKI
10 3 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.10%) Linux
2 12 (3.72%) Windows
3 11 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.17%) zOS
5 6 (1.86%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.55%) Android
7 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.93%) Unix
7 3 (0.93%) VMS
8 1 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (80.50%) CI/CD
2 195 (60.37%) DevOps
3 129 (39.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (30.34%) Containerisation
5 93 (28.79%) Agile
6 81 (25.08%) Test Automation
7 74 (22.91%) Microservices
8 71 (21.98%) Observability
9 49 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (13.31%) Platform Engineering
11 39 (12.07%) AI
12 38 (11.76%) Scrum
13 36 (11.15%) Continuous Improvement
14 34 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
15 32 (9.91%) Analytics
16 31 (9.60%) Data Engineering
16 31 (9.60%) Migration
17 29 (8.98%) DevSecOps
17 29 (8.98%) Event-Driven
17 29 (8.98%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 149 (46.13%) Python
2 88 (27.24%) Java
3 71 (21.98%) SQL
4 56 (17.34%) Bash
5 42 (13.00%) JavaScript
6 29 (8.98%) TypeScript
7 23 (7.12%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.64%) C#
9 13 (4.02%) Go
10 12 (3.72%) Shell Script
11 11 (3.41%) Bicep
12 5 (1.55%) C
12 5 (1.55%) Ruby
13 4 (1.24%) JCL
13 4 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.93%) Korn
14 3 (0.93%) Scala
15 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.62%) PHP
15 2 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 103 (31.89%) Security Cleared
2 90 (27.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.72%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.41%) Degree
5 10 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.24%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.24%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.62%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) CISSP
11 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.31%) GIAC
11 1 (0.31%) GWAPT
11 1 (0.31%) OSCP
11 1 (0.31%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.31%) QA
2 15 (4.64%) Accessibility
2 15 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.72%) GDPR
4 11 (3.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.86%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.55%) NIST
7 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.24%) SLA
8 3 (0.93%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.62%) HL7
9 2 (0.62%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) GRC
10 1 (0.31%) MiFID
10 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 152 (47.06%) Docker
2 5 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.62%) Squid
4 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.62%) vSphere
5 1 (0.31%) HDFS
5 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 162 (50.15%) Terraform
2 153 (47.37%) Kubernetes
3 63 (19.50%) Ansible
4 51 (15.79%) Prometheus
5 50 (15.48%) Grafana
6 17 (5.26%) Argo
7 12 (3.72%) Istio
7 12 (3.72%) Puppet
8 8 (2.48%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.86%) Karpenter
10 5 (1.55%) Kibana
11 4 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.93%) Salt
13 2 (0.62%) Nagios
13 2 (0.62%) Rancher
13 2 (0.62%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.31%) linkerd
14 1 (0.31%) Suricata
14 1 (0.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.88%) Splunk
3 17 (5.26%) Google
4 11 (3.41%) Oracle
5 10 (3.10%) Databricks
6 9 (2.79%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.48%) IBM
7 8 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.17%) VMware
9 4 (1.24%) Arista
9 4 (1.24%) Veracode
10 3 (0.93%) Adobe
10 3 (0.93%) Braze
10 3 (0.93%) Cisco
10 3 (0.93%) Confluent
10 3 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.93%) New Relic
10 3 (0.93%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.93%) SAP