Gatling Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Gatling
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Gatling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 156 178
Rank change year-on-year -49 +22 +60
Contract jobs citing Gatling 7 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.060% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.79% 0.40% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £350 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £388
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +54.84% -36.08%
75th Percentile £525 - £400
90th Percentile £546 - -
England median daily rate £525 £584 £425
% change year-on-year -10.06% +37.35% -

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 890 496 571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.48% 14.84% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 308 437
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £381 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -9.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £588
90th Percentile £637 £650 £658
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 10 36
10th Percentile £39.16 - £45.88
25th Percentile £46.91 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - -5.76%
75th Percentile £62.86 £54.19 £74.37
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.50 £78.96
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

Gatling
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Gatling job vacancy trend in the North of England

Gatling
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Gatling

Gatling
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gatling in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Gatling in the North of England

Gatling
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 East - 3 £475 -
Yorkshire -46 2 £540 -10.00% 6
North West - 2 £340 -
Gatling
England

Gatling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JMeter
2 4 (57.14%) Cucumber
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) GitLab
3 3 (42.86%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
4 2 (28.57%) NeoLoad
4 2 (28.57%) Postman
4 2 (28.57%) TestRail
5 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) QA Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Test Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Playwright
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
2 2 (28.57%) LDAP
2 2 (28.57%) OpenID
2 2 (28.57%) SailPoint
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) Puppeteer
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Performance Testing
4 4 (57.14%) API Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 3 (42.86%) QA Automation
5 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
5 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
5 3 (42.86%) Validation
6 2 (28.57%) BDD
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
6 2 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) Cypher
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 2 (28.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Checkmarx
2 1 (14.29%) Google