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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 115 143
Rank change year-on-year -40 +28 +35
Contract jobs citing GitLab 65 39 64
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.03% 1.25% 1.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.40% 10.66% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 18 38
10th Percentile £417 £305 £404
25th Percentile £459 £472 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £595
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -15.88% -0.21%
75th Percentile £688 £620 £655
90th Percentile £730 £660 £716
England median daily rate £500 £520 £551
% change year-on-year -3.80% -5.67% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £82.96 £74.22
% change year-on-year -21.65% +11.78% +24.11%

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 524 366 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.33% 11.72% 10.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 238 349
10th Percentile £282 £346 £325
25th Percentile £393 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £619
90th Percentile £661 £626 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 25 45
10th Percentile £55.13 £47.50 £39.85
25th Percentile £63.44 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £81.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.18% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £75.10 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 32 £675 +7.83% 6
Thames Valley -54 18 £580 +16.00% 4
West Sussex -5 11 £459 +41.23% 1
Berkshire -46 9 £400 -20.08% 2
Buckinghamshire -35 7 £595 +108.04% 1
East Sussex - 2 £459 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £900 - 1
Surrey -24 1 - -
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 (10.77%) Confluence
2 6 (9.23%) SAS
3 5 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.08%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (3.08%) WebSphere
4 2 (3.08%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (3.08%) WebSphere Portal
5 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.77%) AWS
2 20 (30.77%) Azure
3 16 (24.62%) GCP
4 11 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (15.38%) GitHub
6 8 (12.31%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
7 6 (9.23%) Google App Engine
8 5 (7.69%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.69%) Serverless
9 4 (6.15%) OpenShift
10 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.08%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.54%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) Network Security
2 5 (7.69%) Firewall
3 4 (6.15%) MQTT
4 3 (4.62%) DNS
5 2 (3.08%) HTTP
5 2 (3.08%) SSL
5 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.08%) VPN
6 1 (1.54%) BGP
6 1 (1.54%) LAN
6 1 (1.54%) OSPF
6 1 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.54%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (6.15%) Data Lake
3 4 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.62%) Big Data
4 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.62%) Redis
4 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.08%) MySQL
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (3.08%) Pentaho
5 2 (3.08%) Power BI
5 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.54%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Git
1 19 (29.23%) Jenkins
2 13 (20.00%) JIRA
3 7 (10.77%) MLflow
3 7 (10.77%) SonarQube
4 5 (7.69%) Artifactory
5 3 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.08%) Introscope
6 2 (3.08%) JUnit
6 2 (3.08%) Selenium
6 2 (3.08%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.54%) CMake
7 1 (1.54%) GoogleTest
7 1 (1.54%) NUnit
7 1 (1.54%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.54%) TestNG
General
1 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Military
5 1 (1.54%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (15.38%) Developer
1 10 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 7 (10.77%) Data Engineer
2 7 (10.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 6 (9.23%) Senior
3 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow Developer
4 4 (6.15%) Architect
4 4 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Middleware Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) QA Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) QA Tester
6 2 (3.08%) SAS Developer
6 2 (3.08%) SAS Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Senior Middleware Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Tester
7 1 (1.54%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) Kafka
2 10 (15.38%) WPF
3 9 (13.85%) WinForms
4 8 (12.31%) REST
5 6 (9.23%) Keycloak
5 6 (9.23%) OAuth
5 6 (9.23%) RESTful
5 6 (9.23%) SOAP
6 5 (7.69%) YAML
7 4 (6.15%) gRPC
7 4 (6.15%) Protocol Buffers
8 3 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (3.08%) Flask
9 2 (3.08%) JDBC
9 2 (3.08%) LangChain
9 2 (3.08%) LangGraph
9 2 (3.08%) PySpark
9 2 (3.08%) PyTorch
9 2 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (3.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
1 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.08%) AI Agents
2 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.08%) Clustering
2 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.54%) CMDB
3 1 (1.54%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.54%) Life Science
3 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Linux
2 9 (13.85%) Unix
3 6 (9.23%) Windows
4 3 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.08%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (64.62%) CI/CD
2 29 (44.62%) Agile
3 26 (40.00%) DevOps
4 19 (29.23%) Containerisation
5 17 (26.15%) Software Engineering
6 16 (24.62%) Scrum
7 15 (23.08%) DevSecOps
7 15 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (18.46%) Data Modelling
8 12 (18.46%) Unit Testing
9 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (15.38%) ITIL
10 9 (13.85%) AI
10 9 (13.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (13.85%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (12.31%) ETL
11 8 (12.31%) Machine Learning
11 8 (12.31%) Vulnerability Management
12 7 (10.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (41.54%) Python
2 15 (23.08%) SQL
3 11 (16.92%) Bash
4 10 (15.38%) C#
5 9 (13.85%) PowerShell
6 6 (9.23%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 4 (6.15%) Rust
8 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.08%) C++
9 2 (3.08%) Jython
9 2 (3.08%) Perl
9 2 (3.08%) Scala
10 1 (1.54%) Bicep
10 1 (1.54%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (70.77%) Security Cleared
2 44 (67.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.85%) DV Cleared
4 8 (12.31%) Degree
5 6 (9.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.62%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.54%) RHCA
7 1 (1.54%) RHCE
7 1 (1.54%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) OpenSCAP
3 1 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (33.85%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (36.92%) Kubernetes
2 16 (24.62%) Terraform
3 15 (23.08%) Grafana
4 14 (21.54%) Ansible
5 13 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (7.69%) Puppet
7 4 (6.15%) Podman
8 3 (4.62%) Argo
9 2 (3.08%) CA Wily
9 2 (3.08%) Rancher
9 2 (3.08%) Tivoli
10 1 (1.54%) Packer
10 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.54%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Oracle
2 10 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 9 (13.85%) Google
4 7 (10.77%) Talend
5 6 (9.23%) Red Hat
6 5 (7.69%) Denodo
7 4 (6.15%) NVIDIA
7 4 (6.15%) Tenable
8 3 (4.62%) Informatica
8 3 (4.62%) VMware
9 2 (3.08%) AppDynamics
9 2 (3.08%) Databricks
9 2 (3.08%) IBM
9 2 (3.08%) OpenAI
9 2 (3.08%) Splunk
10 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.54%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.54%) Zscaler