GitLab Contracts in the South East

GitLab
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 141 179
Rank change year-on-year +18 +38 +40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 40 63 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.22% 1.11% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.15% 10.73% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 38 16
10th Percentile £307 £404 £481
25th Percentile £482 £510 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £595 £596
Median % change year-on-year -15.88% -0.21% -2.85%
75th Percentile £613 £655 £639
90th Percentile £660 £716 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £72.73 £74.22 £59.80
% change year-on-year -2.01% +24.11% +10.23%

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 394 587 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.98% 10.33% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 355 493
10th Percentile £334 £325 £363
25th Percentile £409 £399 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £623
90th Percentile £614 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 42 42
10th Percentile £47.50 £44.67 £44.98
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.87 £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -6.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £69.69
90th Percentile £74.50 £75.00 £74.88
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 2025. 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
Thames Valley +23 26 £500 -23.08% 68
Berkshire +23 21 £501 -24.45% 39
Hampshire +22 10 £613 +10.20% 32
Buckinghamshire - 5 £286 - 16
Surrey +19 3 £533 +18.33% 16
West Sussex -6 1 £325 -43.48% 10
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) AWS
2 19 (47.50%) Azure
3 10 (25.00%) GCP
4 8 (20.00%) GitHub
5 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.00%) Miro
6 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) CloudFront
7 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) BGP
1 3 (7.50%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 2 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (5.00%) HTTP
2 2 (5.00%) IPv6
2 2 (5.00%) OSPF
2 2 (5.00%) SAN
2 2 (5.00%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (5.00%) TACACS
2 2 (5.00%) VSAN
3 1 (2.50%) MPLS
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.50%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 25 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 25 (62.50%) JIRA
2 13 (32.50%) Cucumber
2 13 (32.50%) REST Assured
2 13 (32.50%) Selenium
3 9 (22.50%) SonarQube
4 7 (17.50%) Git
5 6 (15.00%) Bitbucket
5 6 (15.00%) Eclipse
5 6 (15.00%) GoogleTest
5 6 (15.00%) Robot Framework
6 2 (5.00%) DBeaver
7 1 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Law
4 4 (10.00%) Police
5 2 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Developer
3 10 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Python Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Senior
7 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Architect
8 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Java Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Java Solutions Architect
8 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (5.00%) DBA
9 2 (5.00%) GCP DevOps
9 2 (5.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (40.00%) REST
2 14 (35.00%) Java EE
3 9 (22.50%) ARM Templates
4 3 (7.50%) Django
4 3 (7.50%) FastAPI
4 3 (7.50%) Flask
4 3 (7.50%) RESTful
4 3 (7.50%) YAML
5 2 (5.00%) JSON
5 2 (5.00%) React
5 2 (5.00%) Web Services
6 1 (2.50%) CSS
6 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.50%) HTML
6 1 (2.50%) Jest
6 1 (2.50%) NETCONF
6 1 (2.50%) RESTCONF
6 1 (2.50%) SOAP
6 1 (2.50%) XML
6 1 (2.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) CentOS
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) DevOps
2 19 (47.50%) Software Engineering
3 16 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (35.00%) CI/CD
5 14 (35.00%) Containerisation
5 14 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 13 (32.50%) Software Architecture
7 10 (25.00%) Agile
7 10 (25.00%) Migration
7 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
9 8 (20.00%) Scrum
10 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (12.50%) Microservices
11 3 (7.50%) Asynchronous Programming
11 3 (7.50%) Impact Analysis
11 3 (7.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Java
2 8 (20.00%) Python
3 6 (15.00%) C++
4 5 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (5.00%) Go
5 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Korn
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (52.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 15 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Ceph
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
2 16 (40.00%) Terraform
3 13 (32.50%) Ansible
4 9 (22.50%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (22.50%) Podman
5 2 (5.00%) Argo
5 2 (5.00%) Grafana
5 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Google
2 7 (17.50%) Atlassian
3 6 (15.00%) Intel
4 3 (7.50%) Cisco
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle
5 2 (5.00%) Ab Initio
5 2 (5.00%) Dell
5 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.50%) VMware