Gatling Contract Job Trends in the North West

Gatling
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Gatling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 - 138
Rank change year-on-year - - +34
Contract jobs citing Gatling 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.15% - 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.93% - 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.14%
England median daily rate £523 £566 £425
% change year-on-year -7.73% +33.24% -1.16%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 432 272 378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.39% 12.92% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 166 292
10th Percentile £330 £318 £357
25th Percentile £363 £361 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £582
90th Percentile £613 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £512 £538
% change year-on-year -2.34% -4.74% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 6 24
10th Percentile £39.43 £46.18 £45.97
25th Percentile £45.46 £46.39 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% +12.87% -5.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.94 £72.81
90th Percentile £82.20 £82.50 £80.33
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Gatling
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Gatling job vacancy trend in the North West

Gatling
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Gatling
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Manchester - 2 £340 - 2
Lancashire - 1 - - 1
Gatling
England

Gatling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (25.00%) Military
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Playwright
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Puppeteer
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Component Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk