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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 463 509
Rank change year-on-year -47 +46 +106
Contract jobs citing Gatling 69 13 22
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.053% 0.060%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.39% 0.39% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 9 14
10th Percentile £317 £313 £302
25th Percentile £423 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +2.94% -26.09%
75th Percentile £560 £444 £584
90th Percentile £595 £493 £626
UK median daily rate £481 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +10.00% +2.94% -22.02%

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 4,951 3,348 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 13.76% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 2,254 2,916
10th Percentile £344 £344 £353
25th Percentile £409 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £527
Median % change year-on-year - -5.12% -4.18%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £737 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 63 192
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.59 £31.84
25th Percentile £58.75 £49.00 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.38 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £78.68
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 19 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 19 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 -40 28 £488 +21.88% 2
Yorkshire - 21 £488 - 2
London -53 18 £445 +1.71% 4
South West -12 14 £450 +38.46% 1
North West -33 7 £630 +57.50%
Midlands - 7 £502 - 3
West Midlands - 5 £502 - 3
South East - 3 £313 - 1
North East - 3 £475 -
East Midlands - 2 - -
East of England - 1 £450 -
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 (5.80%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (59.42%) AWS
2 36 (52.17%) GitHub
3 24 (34.78%) Azure
4 18 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (11.59%) BrowserStack
5 8 (11.59%) GCP
6 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.25%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.90%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (2.90%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.14%) HTTP
2 2 (2.90%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.45%) Firewall
3 1 (1.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) MongoDB
1 13 (18.84%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (14.49%) Relational Database
3 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.25%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.80%) Neo4j
6 3 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.90%) CockroachDB
7 2 (2.90%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.90%) Redis
8 1 (1.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (60.87%) JMeter
2 34 (49.28%) Jenkins
3 25 (36.23%) LoadRunner
4 22 (31.88%) GitLab
5 19 (27.54%) Selenium
6 18 (26.09%) REST Assured
7 11 (15.94%) Serenity BDD
8 10 (14.49%) JIRA
9 9 (13.04%) Maven
10 8 (11.59%) Cucumber
10 8 (11.59%) Postman
11 7 (10.14%) JUnit
12 6 (8.70%) Artifactory
12 6 (8.70%) Git
12 6 (8.70%) TestNG
13 4 (5.80%) Gradle
13 4 (5.80%) NeoLoad
14 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
14 2 (2.90%) Mockito
14 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (5.80%) Military
5 3 (4.35%) Banking
5 3 (4.35%) Finance
6 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Test Engineer
2 16 (23.19%) Performance Engineer
3 14 (20.29%) Lead
4 13 (18.84%) Tester
5 10 (14.49%) Performance Tester
6 9 (13.04%) Lead Test Engineer
6 9 (13.04%) Senior
7 6 (8.70%) Developer
7 6 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.25%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Performance Test Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Performance Tester
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Tester
9 3 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (46.38%) Playwright
2 18 (26.09%) Kafka
3 17 (24.64%) Spring
4 16 (23.19%) Spring Boot
5 12 (17.39%) REST
6 11 (15.94%) Spring Cloud
7 7 (10.14%) OpenID
8 5 (7.25%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (5.80%) JSON
9 4 (5.80%) LDAP
9 4 (5.80%) SailPoint
10 3 (4.35%) .NET
10 3 (4.35%) Gherkin
10 3 (4.35%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (4.35%) Quarkus
11 2 (2.90%) Micronaut
11 2 (2.90%) OAuth
11 2 (2.90%) OpenAPI
11 2 (2.90%) Spring Security
11 2 (2.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.45%) PKI
5 1 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.45%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (85.51%) CI/CD
2 41 (59.42%) DevOps
3 37 (53.62%) Performance Testing
4 31 (44.93%) Test Automation
5 26 (37.68%) Test Strategy
6 22 (31.88%) Agile
6 22 (31.88%) Microservices
7 19 (27.54%) Observability
8 18 (26.09%) Performance Engineering
9 16 (23.19%) Containerisation
10 14 (20.29%) Non-Functional Testing
11 13 (18.84%) API Testing
12 11 (15.94%) BDD
12 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (15.94%) Test Scripting
12 11 (15.94%) Validation
13 10 (14.49%) Event-Driven
13 10 (14.49%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (13.04%) Identity Access Management
14 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 39 (56.52%) Java
2 19 (27.54%) Python
3 14 (20.29%) Scala
3 14 (20.29%) SQL
4 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.80%) C#
5 4 (5.80%) Cypher
6 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.90%) Rust
6 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.45%) Bash
7 1 (1.45%) Bicep
7 1 (1.45%) VB
7 1 (1.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 25 (36.23%) Security Cleared
2 20 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.90%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.45%) Degree
5 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.09%) Accessibility
2 17 (24.64%) QA
3 3 (4.35%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.90%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.90%) PSD2
4 2 (2.90%) SEPA
4 2 (2.90%) WCAG
5 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.45%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (55.07%) Docker
2 4 (5.80%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 31 (44.93%) Kubernetes
2 24 (34.78%) Grafana
3 19 (27.54%) Prometheus
4 13 (18.84%) Terraform
5 9 (13.04%) HAProxy
6 5 (7.25%) Kibana
7 3 (4.35%) Ansible
8 2 (2.90%) Argo
8 2 (2.90%) Podman
9 1 (1.45%) Istio
9 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) Splunk
2 15 (21.74%) Dynatrace
3 14 (20.29%) AppDynamics
3 14 (20.29%) New Relic
4 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.80%) Confluent
5 4 (5.80%) Google
5 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.45%) Actian
7 1 (1.45%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.45%) IBM