Gatling Contract Job Trends in England

Gatling
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Gatling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 458 521
Rank change year-on-year -68 +63 +105
Contract jobs citing Gatling 73 16 20
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.067% 0.054%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.45% 0.48% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 12 13
10th Percentile £322 £313 £301
25th Percentile £394 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +9.38% -20.00%
75th Percentile £560 £454 £575
90th Percentile £584 £499 £598
UK median daily rate £474 £434 £400
% change year-on-year +9.22% +8.44% -16.67%

All Development Application Skills
England

Gatling 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,038 3,368 4,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.05% 14.08% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,304 2,287 2,925
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £684 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 61 203
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.31 £48.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £77.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% -9.42% +5.69%

Gatling
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Gatling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Gatling job vacancy trend in England

Gatling
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gatling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gatling

Gatling
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gatling in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Gatling in England

Gatling
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gatling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Gatling

Gatling
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gatling within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
North of England -47 27 £494 +23.44% 4
London -63 24 £435 -0.57% 2
Yorkshire - 21 £488 - 3
South West -17 14 £450 +38.46%
North West -27 7 £630 +57.50% 1
Midlands - 7 £502 - 1
West Midlands - 5 £502 - 1
South East - 3 £313 - 1
North East - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Gatling
UK

Gatling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (5.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 44 (60.27%) AWS
2 37 (50.68%) GitHub
3 25 (34.25%) Azure
4 18 (24.66%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (10.96%) BrowserStack
5 8 (10.96%) GCP
6 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.85%) Serverless
8 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.74%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.37%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.59%) HTTP
2 2 (2.74%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.37%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.81%) MongoDB
1 13 (17.81%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.70%) Relational Database
3 9 (12.33%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.85%) DynamoDB
4 5 (6.85%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.48%) Neo4j
6 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.74%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.74%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (56.16%) JMeter
2 36 (49.32%) Jenkins
3 24 (32.88%) LoadRunner
4 22 (30.14%) REST Assured
5 21 (28.77%) GitLab
6 19 (26.03%) Selenium
7 12 (16.44%) Cucumber
8 11 (15.07%) Serenity BDD
9 10 (13.70%) JIRA
10 9 (12.33%) Maven
11 8 (10.96%) Postman
12 7 (9.59%) JUnit
13 6 (8.22%) Artifactory
13 6 (8.22%) TestNG
14 5 (6.85%) Git
15 4 (5.48%) Gradle
15 4 (5.48%) NeoLoad
16 3 (4.11%) Cypress.io
17 2 (2.74%) Mockito
17 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.48%) Military
5 3 (4.11%) Banking
5 3 (4.11%) Finance
6 1 (1.37%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Test Engineer
2 16 (21.92%) Performance Engineer
3 14 (19.18%) Lead
3 14 (19.18%) Tester
4 12 (16.44%) Senior
5 10 (13.70%) Performance Tester
6 9 (12.33%) Lead Test Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Java Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) QA Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) QA Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Performance Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Tester
10 3 (4.11%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Automation Test Lead
10 3 (4.11%) Principal Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (52.05%) Playwright
2 18 (24.66%) Kafka
3 17 (23.29%) Spring
4 16 (21.92%) Spring Boot
5 11 (15.07%) REST
5 11 (15.07%) Spring Cloud
6 6 (8.22%) OpenID
6 6 (8.22%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (6.85%) Node.js
8 4 (5.48%) .NET
8 4 (5.48%) JSON
8 4 (5.48%) LDAP
8 4 (5.48%) Model Context Protocol
8 4 (5.48%) RESTful
8 4 (5.48%) SailPoint
9 3 (4.11%) Gherkin
9 3 (4.11%) Quarkus
10 2 (2.74%) Apache Avro
10 2 (2.74%) OAuth2
10 2 (2.74%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.48%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.37%) PKI
6 1 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.37%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (80.82%) CI/CD
2 40 (54.79%) DevOps
3 36 (49.32%) Performance Testing
4 34 (46.58%) Test Automation
5 29 (39.73%) Test Strategy
6 24 (32.88%) Agile
7 23 (31.51%) Microservices
8 20 (27.40%) Observability
9 18 (24.66%) Performance Engineering
10 16 (21.92%) API Testing
11 15 (20.55%) Containerisation
12 13 (17.81%) Non-Functional Testing
13 12 (16.44%) BDD
14 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (13.70%) Event-Driven
14 10 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
15 9 (12.33%) Identity Access Management
15 9 (12.33%) Security Testing
15 9 (12.33%) Test Scripting
15 9 (12.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 42 (57.53%) Java
2 19 (26.03%) Python
3 18 (24.66%) Scala
4 14 (19.18%) SQL
5 7 (9.59%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.85%) C#
8 4 (5.48%) Cypher
9 2 (2.74%) Rust
9 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.37%) Bash
10 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.37%) VB
10 1 (1.37%) VB6
Qualifications
1 24 (32.88%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (27.40%) QA
2 18 (24.66%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.11%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.74%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.74%) PSD2
4 2 (2.74%) SEPA
4 2 (2.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (52.05%) Docker
2 4 (5.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 31 (42.47%) Kubernetes
2 24 (32.88%) Grafana
3 19 (26.03%) Prometheus
4 12 (16.44%) Terraform
5 9 (12.33%) HAProxy
6 6 (8.22%) Kibana
7 3 (4.11%) Ansible
8 2 (2.74%) Argo
8 2 (2.74%) Podman
9 1 (1.37%) Istio
Vendors
1 26 (35.62%) Splunk
2 15 (20.55%) Dynatrace
3 14 (19.18%) AppDynamics
4 13 (17.81%) New Relic
5 9 (12.33%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.48%) Confluent
6 4 (5.48%) Google
6 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.74%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.37%) Actian
8 1 (1.37%) IBM