GitLab Contract Job Trends in West London

GitLab
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 40 36
Rank change year-on-year -20 -4 +17
Contract jobs citing GitLab 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.83% 0.37% 1.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.84% 2.50% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £550 - -
25th Percentile £578 - £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £568
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.76%
75th Percentile £703 - £577
90th Percentile £735 - -
London median daily rate £520 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -1.89% -7.83% +3.37%

All Development Application Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 51 40 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 10.54% 14.71% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 24
10th Percentile - £281 £333
25th Percentile £400 £350 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £398 £478
Median % change year-on-year +36.79% -16.75% -17.67%
75th Percentile £578 £407 £557
90th Percentile £742 £432 £650
London median daily rate £532 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £42.30 -
25th Percentile - £42.38 £36.25
Median hourly rate - £44.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.67% -58.33%
75th Percentile - £47.13 £38.75
90th Percentile - £47.35 -
London median hourly rate £59.50 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +32.22% -18.18% -17.91%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

GitLab job vacancy trend in West London

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in West London over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in West London

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Hounslow - 3 £538 - 1
Hillingdon - 1 £738 - 1
GitLab
London

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Datadog
2 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) GoCD
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Go
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) New Relic
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Confluent
2 1 (25.00%) Google