GitLab Contract Job Trends in the South East

GitLab
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 118 130
Rank change year-on-year -39 +12 +52
Contract jobs citing GitLab 77 43 61
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.15% 1.23% 1.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.70% 10.78% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 26 42
10th Percentile £425 £360 £414
25th Percentile £459 £481 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -1.29%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £650
90th Percentile £730 £643 £688
England median daily rate £500 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -3.82% -3.28% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £67.49 - -
25th Percentile £68.80 - -
Median hourly rate £71.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -9.46% +23.75%

All Development Application Skills
South East

GitLab 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 562 399 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.39% 11.38% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 270 349
10th Percentile £280 £290 £321
25th Percentile £403 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £564 £603
90th Percentile £650 £619 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 27 39
10th Percentile £51.50 £47.50 £42.94
25th Percentile £62.50 £50.00 £54.81
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88.00 £74.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £85.65 £74.00
England median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

GitLab job vacancy trend in the South East

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Hampshire -9 36 £656 +9.38% 6
Thames Valley -55 26 £565 +13.00% 14
Berkshire -34 17 £450 -10.04% 6
West Sussex -15 10 £459 +41.23% 3
Buckinghamshire -38 7 £595 +58.88% 3
Surrey -20 2 - -
East Sussex - 2 £459 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £900 - 5
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (9.09%) Confluence
2 6 (7.79%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.79%) SAS
3 2 (2.60%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.60%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.60%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.60%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (53.25%) AWS
2 33 (42.86%) Azure
3 24 (31.17%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (28.57%) GitHub
5 18 (23.38%) GCP
5 18 (23.38%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (7.79%) Google App Engine
6 6 (7.79%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.49%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.19%) Serverless
9 3 (3.90%) Datadog
10 2 (2.60%) Amazon Bedrock
10 2 (2.60%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.60%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.60%) Cloudflare
10 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) Network Security
2 4 (5.19%) MQTT
3 3 (3.90%) DNS
3 3 (3.90%) Firewall
4 2 (2.60%) HTTP
4 2 (2.60%) SSL
4 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.30%) BGP
5 1 (1.30%) LAN
5 1 (1.30%) OSPF
5 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.30%) VPN
5 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.19%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.90%) Big Data
4 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.90%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.90%) Redis
4 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
5 2 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.60%) Pentaho
5 2 (2.60%) Power BI
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 28 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 18 (23.38%) Git
3 13 (16.88%) JIRA
4 8 (10.39%) MLflow
5 7 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.19%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.60%) Introscope
8 2 (2.60%) JUnit
8 2 (2.60%) Selenium
8 2 (2.60%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.30%) CMake
9 1 (1.30%) GoogleTest
9 1 (1.30%) NUnit
9 1 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.30%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.30%) TestNG
General
1 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.49%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 10 (12.99%) Developer
2 10 (12.99%) Software Engineer
3 9 (11.69%) Senior
4 7 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) ServiceNow Developer
6 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Lead
8 3 (3.90%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Middleware Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) QA Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) QA Tester
9 2 (2.60%) SAS Developer
9 2 (2.60%) SAS Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Senior Middleware Engineer
9 2 (2.60%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) Kafka
2 10 (12.99%) WPF
3 9 (11.69%) WinForms
4 8 (10.39%) REST
5 7 (9.09%) OAuth
6 6 (7.79%) Keycloak
6 6 (7.79%) RESTful
6 6 (7.79%) SOAP
6 6 (7.79%) YAML
7 4 (5.19%) gRPC
7 4 (5.19%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.60%) ARM Templates
9 2 (2.60%) Flask
9 2 (2.60%) LangChain
9 2 (2.60%) LangGraph
9 2 (2.60%) PySpark
9 2 (2.60%) PyTorch
9 2 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.60%) Clustering
4 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) CMDB
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Life Science
5 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.97%) Linux
2 9 (11.69%) Unix
3 7 (9.09%) Windows
4 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.60%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.60%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (70.13%) CI/CD
2 37 (48.05%) Agile
2 37 (48.05%) DevOps
3 29 (37.66%) Containerisation
4 25 (32.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (29.87%) DevSecOps
6 22 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 17 (22.08%) Vulnerability Management
8 16 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (20.78%) Scrum
9 12 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (15.58%) Data Modelling
9 12 (15.58%) Test Automation
9 12 (15.58%) Unit Testing
10 11 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 11 (14.29%) Observability
10 11 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (14.29%) Software Delivery
11 10 (12.99%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.16%) Python
2 16 (20.78%) Bash
2 16 (20.78%) PowerShell
3 15 (19.48%) SQL
4 10 (12.99%) C#
5 6 (7.79%) Java
5 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.49%) Bicep
6 5 (6.49%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.19%) Rust
7 4 (5.19%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.60%) C++
8 2 (2.60%) Jython
8 2 (2.60%) Perl
8 2 (2.60%) Scala
9 1 (1.30%) C
9 1 (1.30%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 54 (70.13%) Security Cleared
2 51 (66.23%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.69%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.39%) Degree
5 6 (7.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.90%) CEH
7 3 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.90%) CISSP
7 3 (3.90%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.90%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.30%) PMP
8 1 (1.30%) RHCA
8 1 (1.30%) RHCE
8 1 (1.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.19%) NIST
3 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.90%) NCSC
4 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.30%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) OpenSCAP
5 1 (1.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 30 (38.96%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (46.75%) Kubernetes
2 27 (35.06%) Terraform
3 24 (31.17%) Ansible
4 17 (22.08%) Grafana
5 12 (15.58%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.19%) Argo
6 4 (5.19%) Podman
6 4 (5.19%) Puppet
7 2 (2.60%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.60%) Rancher
7 2 (2.60%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.30%) Packer
8 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Oracle
2 12 (15.58%) Google
3 10 (12.99%) ServiceNow
4 7 (9.09%) Talend
5 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.79%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.49%) Denodo
6 5 (6.49%) Splunk
7 4 (5.19%) AppDynamics
7 4 (5.19%) Dynatrace
7 4 (5.19%) NVIDIA
7 4 (5.19%) Tenable
7 4 (5.19%) VMware
8 3 (3.90%) Informatica
8 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.60%) Databricks
9 2 (2.60%) IBM
9 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.30%) EMC
10 1 (1.30%) New Relic