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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 487 519
Rank change year-on-year -37 +32 +78
Contract jobs citing Gatling 95 17 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.21% 0.062% 0.053%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.78% 0.43% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 14 12
10th Percentile £331 £313 £305
25th Percentile £413 £381 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £461 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -19.78% +15.00%
75th Percentile £553 £524 £600
90th Percentile £586 £546 £617
UK median daily rate £475 £493 £575
% change year-on-year -3.55% -14.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £37.50
% change year-on-year - - -58.33%

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 5,329 3,969 4,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.38% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,751 2,841
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 94 207
10th Percentile £30.75 £40.68 £32.48
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.53 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% - +4.00%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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
London -48 37 £445 -11.00% 8
North of England -46 25 £500 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire - 19 £488 - 3
South West -25 15 £525 +61.54%
Midlands - 14 £475 - 4
West Midlands - 12 £475 - 4
North West -47 6 £620 +55.00%
South East - 3 £313 - 3
East Midlands - 2 - -
North East - 1 - - 1
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 5 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 49 (51.58%) AWS
2 38 (40.00%) GitHub
3 26 (27.37%) Azure
4 15 (15.79%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (9.47%) GCP
6 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.32%) Serverless
8 5 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (5.26%) BrowserStack
9 4 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.21%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (3.16%) BlazeMeter
11 2 (2.11%) Datadog
11 2 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (1.05%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (1.05%) Apigee
12 1 (1.05%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) HTTP
2 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.11%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (13.68%) MongoDB
3 9 (9.47%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.26%) DynamoDB
6 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (3.16%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.11%) CockroachDB
8 2 (2.11%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 54 (56.84%) JMeter
2 32 (33.68%) Jenkins
3 29 (30.53%) LoadRunner
4 27 (28.42%) GitLab
5 25 (26.32%) Selenium
6 22 (23.16%) Cucumber
7 21 (22.11%) REST Assured
8 15 (15.79%) Git
8 15 (15.79%) JUnit
9 10 (10.53%) Cypress.io
9 10 (10.53%) NeoLoad
10 9 (9.47%) JIRA
10 9 (9.47%) Maven
11 8 (8.42%) Postman
12 7 (7.37%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (6.32%) Artifactory
13 6 (6.32%) SonarQube
13 6 (6.32%) TestNG
14 5 (5.26%) Gradle
15 3 (3.16%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 13 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.26%) Military
5 4 (4.21%) Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Finance
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 24 (25.26%) Test Engineer
2 21 (22.11%) Performance Engineer
3 19 (20.00%) Tester
4 16 (16.84%) Senior
5 14 (14.74%) Performance Tester
6 11 (11.58%) Lead
7 9 (9.47%) Test Automation Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) Performance Test Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) Quality Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) Senior Test Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (7.37%) Senior Performance Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) Developer
10 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) QA Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Lead Test Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) Automation Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.21%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (52.63%) Playwright
2 16 (16.84%) Spring
3 13 (13.68%) Kafka
3 13 (13.68%) REST
4 12 (12.63%) Spring Boot
5 11 (11.58%) .NET
6 7 (7.37%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (7.37%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (7.37%) React
6 7 (7.37%) Spring Cloud
7 6 (6.32%) Gherkin
7 6 (6.32%) JSON
7 6 (6.32%) Node.js
8 5 (5.26%) WireMock
9 4 (4.21%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.21%) RESTful
10 3 (3.16%) OpenAPI
10 3 (3.16%) Swagger
10 3 (3.16%) XML
11 2 (2.11%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.37%) AI Agents
3 6 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.21%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.11%) PKI
6 2 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.05%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.11%) Linux
1 2 (2.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 48 (50.53%) Test Automation
3 46 (48.42%) Performance Testing
4 44 (46.32%) DevOps
5 38 (40.00%) Agile
6 35 (36.84%) Test Strategy
7 26 (27.37%) Microservices
8 24 (25.26%) API Testing
9 20 (21.05%) Observability
10 18 (18.95%) BDD
11 17 (17.89%) Non-Functional Testing
11 17 (17.89%) Performance Engineering
12 16 (16.84%) Scrum
13 15 (15.79%) Containerisation
13 15 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (15.79%) Software Testing
14 14 (14.74%) End-to-End Testing
15 13 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (12.63%) TDD
16 12 (12.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 50 (52.63%) Java
2 24 (25.26%) Python
3 18 (18.95%) SQL
4 15 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 15 (15.79%) Scala
5 11 (11.58%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.47%) C#
7 5 (5.26%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.16%) Bash
8 3 (3.16%) Cypher
9 2 (2.11%) R
9 2 (2.11%) Rust
9 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.05%) Korn
Qualifications
1 29 (30.53%) Security Cleared
2 23 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.11%) Degree
4 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (27.37%) QA
2 23 (24.21%) Accessibility
3 9 (9.47%) WCAG
4 2 (2.11%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.05%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (45.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 25 (26.32%) Grafana
3 17 (17.89%) Prometheus
4 11 (11.58%) Terraform
5 9 (9.47%) HAProxy
5 9 (9.47%) Kibana
6 2 (2.11%) Ansible
6 2 (2.11%) Istio
6 2 (2.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (28.42%) Splunk
2 20 (21.05%) Dynatrace
3 19 (20.00%) AppDynamics
4 14 (14.74%) New Relic
5 9 (9.47%) Microsoft
6 8 (8.42%) Google
7 4 (4.21%) Oracle
8 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.05%) Adobe
9 1 (1.05%) Confluent
9 1 (1.05%) IBM
9 1 (1.05%) Informatica
9 1 (1.05%) Qualtrics
9 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow