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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 118 126
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 +54
Contract jobs citing GitLab 82 44 55
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.24% 1.27% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.53% 11.31% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 28 36
10th Percentile £413 £379 £390
25th Percentile £459 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -3.52% -11.21%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £650
90th Percentile £730 £629 £688
England median daily rate £500 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -3.57% -5.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £69.68 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -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 528 389 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.00% 11.22% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 269 346
10th Percentile £275 £285 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -4.00% -4.87%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £606
90th Percentile £654 £616 £651
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 22 33
10th Percentile £47.50 - £45.74
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £54.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile - £76.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £88.97 £73.00
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 8 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the South East

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 8 September 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 -7 39 £650 +13.04% 12
Thames Valley -53 23 £565 +12.94% 15
Berkshire -31 17 £438 -12.59% 3
West Sussex -13 11 £459 +41.23% 3
Surrey -13 6 £460 +10.84% 2
Buckinghamshire -37 4 £595 +58.88% 1
East Sussex - 2 £459 - 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £900 - 11
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 11 (13.41%) Confluence
2 6 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.32%) SAS
3 2 (2.44%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (2.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (53.66%) AWS
2 32 (39.02%) Azure
3 23 (28.05%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (26.83%) GitHub
5 18 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (18.29%) GCP
7 8 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (9.76%) Serverless
8 7 (8.54%) OpenShift
9 5 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.10%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.66%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.66%) Datadog
11 3 (3.66%) Google App Engine
12 2 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (2.44%) Azure AKS
12 2 (2.44%) Cloudflare
12 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) Network Security
2 4 (4.88%) MQTT
3 3 (3.66%) DNS
3 3 (3.66%) Firewall
4 2 (2.44%) HTTP
4 2 (2.44%) SSL
4 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.22%) BGP
5 1 (1.22%) LAN
5 1 (1.22%) OSPF
5 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.22%) VPN
5 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.32%) DynamoDB
3 5 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.66%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.44%) Big Data
6 2 (2.44%) MySQL
6 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.44%) Pentaho
6 2 (2.44%) Power BI
6 2 (2.44%) Redis
6 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (40.24%) Jenkins
2 21 (25.61%) Git
3 16 (19.51%) JIRA
4 8 (9.76%) MLflow
5 7 (8.54%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.88%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.44%) Introscope
8 2 (2.44%) JUnit
8 2 (2.44%) Selenium
8 2 (2.44%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.22%) CMake
9 1 (1.22%) GoogleTest
9 1 (1.22%) NUnit
9 1 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.22%) Subversion
9 1 (1.22%) TestNG
General
1 13 (15.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.32%) Aerospace
3 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 9 (10.98%) Senior
2 9 (10.98%) Software Engineer
3 7 (8.54%) Architect
3 7 (8.54%) Developer
4 6 (7.32%) Data Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) AWS Database Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Database Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) DevOps Architect
6 4 (4.88%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Lead
7 3 (3.66%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (3.66%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (2.44%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (39.02%) Terraform
2 10 (12.20%) Kafka
3 9 (10.98%) WinForms
3 9 (10.98%) WPF
4 6 (7.32%) RESTful
4 6 (7.32%) YAML
5 5 (6.10%) Keycloak
5 5 (6.10%) REST
6 4 (4.88%) gRPC
6 4 (4.88%) OAuth
6 4 (4.88%) Protocol Buffers
7 3 (3.66%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.66%) SOAP
8 2 (2.44%) Flask
8 2 (2.44%) LangChain
8 2 (2.44%) LangGraph
8 2 (2.44%) PyTorch
8 2 (2.44%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (6.10%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.44%) Clustering
4 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.22%) CMDB
5 1 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.22%) Life Science
5 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.61%) Linux
2 9 (10.98%) Unix
3 6 (7.32%) Windows
4 4 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.22%) CentOS
6 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (74.39%) CI/CD
2 42 (51.22%) DevOps
3 34 (41.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (40.24%) Agile
5 31 (37.80%) Containerisation
6 26 (31.71%) Software Engineering
7 23 (28.05%) DevSecOps
8 20 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (21.95%) Vulnerability Management
10 15 (18.29%) Software Delivery
11 13 (15.85%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (15.85%) Scrum
11 13 (15.85%) Test Automation
12 12 (14.63%) Configuration Management
12 12 (14.63%) Observability
13 11 (13.41%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (13.41%) Machine Learning
13 11 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (13.41%) Release Management
13 11 (13.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.34%) Python
2 17 (20.73%) Bash
3 15 (18.29%) PowerShell
4 14 (17.07%) SQL
5 9 (10.98%) C#
6 6 (7.32%) Bicep
6 6 (7.32%) Java
7 5 (6.10%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.88%) Rust
8 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.44%) Jython
10 2 (2.44%) Perl
11 1 (1.22%) C
11 1 (1.22%) C++
11 1 (1.22%) Go
11 1 (1.22%) Groovy
11 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 56 (68.29%) Security Cleared
2 49 (59.76%) SC Cleared
3 12 (14.63%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.76%) Degree
5 6 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) CEH
6 4 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.88%) CISSP
6 4 (4.88%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.66%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.22%) PMP
8 1 (1.22%) RHCE
8 1 (1.22%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.76%) QA
2 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.10%) NIST
3 4 (4.88%) NCSC
4 3 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.22%) GDPR
6 1 (1.22%) OpenSCAP
6 1 (1.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (37.80%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (45.12%) Kubernetes
2 29 (35.37%) Ansible
3 16 (19.51%) Grafana
4 11 (13.41%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.88%) Podman
5 4 (4.88%) Puppet
6 3 (3.66%) Argo
7 2 (2.44%) CA Wily
7 2 (2.44%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.22%) Packer
8 1 (1.22%) Rancher
8 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Oracle
2 12 (14.63%) Google
3 7 (8.54%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.54%) ServiceNow
3 7 (8.54%) Talend
3 7 (8.54%) VMware
4 6 (7.32%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.10%) Denodo
6 4 (4.88%) AppDynamics
6 4 (4.88%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.88%) NVIDIA
6 4 (4.88%) Splunk
6 4 (4.88%) Tenable
7 3 (3.66%) Informatica
7 3 (3.66%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.44%) IBM
8 2 (2.44%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.22%) Databricks
9 1 (1.22%) EMC
9 1 (1.22%) New Relic