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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 117 146
Rank change year-on-year -21 +29 +57
Contract jobs citing GitLab 48 40 66
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.01% 1.27% 1.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.11% 9.93% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 37
10th Percentile £405 £390 £382
25th Percentile £450 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £688
90th Percentile £738 £675 £718
England median daily rate £510 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -9.33% - -5.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £82.00 - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £79.72 £67.50
% change year-on-year -31.01% +18.10% +10.20%

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 475 403 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.98% 12.83% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 226 366
10th Percentile £285 £350 £366
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -
75th Percentile £550 £589 £618
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £504 £535
% change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 35
10th Percentile £44.38 £47.95 £46.25
25th Percentile £53.13 £55.75 £54.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.81% +6.47%
75th Percentile £73.13 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.50 £71.63 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -1 27 £500 -13.04% 12
Surrey -8 9 £500 -23.08% 3
East Sussex +8 5 £508 +9.14%
Berkshire -31 5 £686 +75.96% 7
Thames Valley -50 5 £686 +61.47% 14
West Sussex -10 2 - - 3
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 6 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 26 (54.17%) AWS
2 24 (50.00%) GitHub
3 17 (35.42%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (31.25%) Azure
5 10 (20.83%) OpenShift
6 8 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (14.58%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (14.58%) GCP
8 4 (8.33%) Serverless
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.17%) OCI
10 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.08%) CloudFront
10 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Firewall
2 3 (6.25%) VPN
3 2 (4.17%) Bluetooth
3 2 (4.17%) Network Security
4 1 (2.08%) MQTT
4 1 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.67%) Redis
3 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
4 5 (10.42%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (10.42%) Couchbase
4 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.08%) Big Data
5 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 13 (27.08%) JIRA
3 12 (25.00%) Git
4 9 (18.75%) Artifactory
5 3 (6.25%) Maven
6 2 (4.17%) Android Studio
6 2 (4.17%) Gradle
6 2 (4.17%) WiX
7 1 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.08%) Gatling
7 1 (2.08%) JMeter
7 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.08%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.08%) Selenium
7 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Military
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Senior
4 7 (14.58%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (14.58%) Lead
4 7 (14.58%) QA Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) QA Leader
6 3 (6.25%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Android Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Project Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Project Leader
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) GCP Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (2.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) Kafka
2 12 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (16.67%) Keycloak
3 8 (16.67%) REST
4 7 (14.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (10.42%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.17%) ADO
7 2 (4.17%) Flask
7 2 (4.17%) JavaFX
7 2 (4.17%) Nuxt
7 2 (4.17%) React
7 2 (4.17%) Spring
7 2 (4.17%) Vue
8 1 (2.08%) CSS
8 1 (2.08%) HTML
8 1 (2.08%) JSON
8 1 (2.08%) MERN Stack
8 1 (2.08%) NETCONF
8 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) Synthetic Data
2 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 32 (66.67%) DevOps
3 19 (39.58%) Agile
4 18 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 11 (22.92%) Microservices
8 10 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (18.75%) DevSecOps
9 9 (18.75%) Observability
9 9 (18.75%) User Experience
10 8 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (16.67%) Software Testing
10 8 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
11 7 (14.58%) Data Management
11 7 (14.58%) Data Privacy
11 7 (14.58%) Test Planning
11 7 (14.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Python
2 10 (20.83%) Bash
3 7 (14.58%) Java
3 7 (14.58%) PL/SQL
3 7 (14.58%) SQL
4 6 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 5 (10.42%) Go
5 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.17%) C++
7 1 (2.08%) Rust
7 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 28 (58.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) Degree
4 7 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (14.58%) OCA
4 7 (14.58%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.08%) CCNA
6 1 (2.08%) CCNP
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.08%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) QA
2 7 (14.58%) GDPR
3 5 (10.42%) NCSC
4 3 (6.25%) Def Stans
5 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 34 (70.83%) Kubernetes
2 24 (50.00%) Grafana
2 24 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 23 (47.92%) Terraform
4 16 (33.33%) Ansible
5 7 (14.58%) Argo
5 7 (14.58%) Sysdig
6 6 (12.50%) Istio
6 6 (12.50%) linkerd
7 4 (8.33%) Puppet
8 2 (4.17%) Podman
9 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.08%) Rancher
9 1 (2.08%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) VMware
2 8 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 8 (16.67%) Splunk
3 7 (14.58%) Oracle
4 5 (10.42%) Atlassian
5 4 (8.33%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco
6 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.08%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.08%) Tenable
6 1 (2.08%) Veracode
6 1 (2.08%) Zscaler