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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 115 134
Rank change year-on-year -28 +19 +43
Contract jobs citing GitLab 66 35 67
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.11% 1.19% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.89% 10.26% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 16 37
10th Percentile £407 £299 £397
25th Percentile £459 £449 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £593
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -15.53% +0.42%
75th Percentile £688 £626 £656
90th Percentile £730 £660 £718
England median daily rate £500 £520 £563
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.56% -5.06%
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 £62.50 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -24.66% +11.45% +87.98%

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 512 341 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.62% 11.59% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 218 330
10th Percentile £280 £350 £312
25th Percentile £363 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -6.98% -1.74%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £619
90th Percentile £650 £629 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £526
% change year-on-year - -4.85% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 21 38
10th Percentile £60.00 £47.50 £43.40
25th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £55.87
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -15.38% +15.59%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £63.75 £74.13
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 2 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 2 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 -4 32 £550 -12.14% 14
Thames Valley -56 19 £580 +16.00% 13
West Sussex -8 10 £459 +41.23% 1
Berkshire -35 10 £400 -20.08% 5
Buckinghamshire -38 7 £595 +108.04% 2
East Sussex - 3 £459 -
Surrey -23 2 £550 +3.29% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £900 - 6
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 (9.09%) SAS
2 5 (7.58%) Confluence
3 2 (3.03%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (3.03%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.03%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (3.03%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (46.97%) AWS
2 24 (36.36%) Azure
3 15 (22.73%) GitHub
4 14 (21.21%) GCP
5 13 (19.70%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (13.64%) OpenShift
8 6 (9.09%) Google App Engine
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.55%) Serverless
11 2 (3.03%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.52%) AWS Control Tower
12 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (1.52%) Azure AKS
12 1 (1.52%) OCI
12 1 (1.52%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) Firewall
2 4 (6.06%) Network Security
3 3 (4.55%) DNS
4 2 (3.03%) HTTP
4 2 (3.03%) MQTT
4 2 (3.03%) SSL
4 2 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.03%) VPN
5 1 (1.52%) BGP
5 1 (1.52%) LAN
5 1 (1.52%) OSPF
5 1 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.61%) Redis
3 6 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
5 4 (6.06%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.55%) Big Data
6 3 (4.55%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (3.03%) Power BI
7 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.52%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 18 (27.27%) Git
3 13 (19.70%) JIRA
4 6 (9.09%) Artifactory
5 5 (7.58%) SonarQube
6 4 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.03%) Introscope
7 2 (3.03%) JUnit
7 2 (3.03%) MLflow
7 2 (3.03%) Selenium
7 2 (3.03%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.52%) CMake
8 1 (1.52%) GoogleTest
8 1 (1.52%) NUnit
8 1 (1.52%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (1.52%) TestNG
General
1 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.58%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Military
5 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (16.67%) Developer
2 10 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) Software Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Senior
4 6 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 6 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
5 5 (7.58%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) QA Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.03%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) QA Tester
8 2 (3.03%) SAS Developer
8 2 (3.03%) SAS Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior QA Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.21%) Kafka
2 10 (15.15%) WPF
3 9 (13.64%) REST
3 9 (13.64%) WinForms
4 8 (12.12%) Keycloak
5 6 (9.09%) OAuth
5 6 (9.09%) SOAP
6 4 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (6.06%) RESTful
7 2 (3.03%) Flask
7 2 (3.03%) gRPC
7 2 (3.03%) JDBC
7 2 (3.03%) JMS
7 2 (3.03%) LangChain
7 2 (3.03%) LangGraph
7 2 (3.03%) Protocol Buffers
7 2 (3.03%) PySpark
7 2 (3.03%) PyTorch
7 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
2 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.03%) Clustering
2 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.52%) CMDB
3 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.52%) Life Science
3 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.52%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Linux
1 9 (13.64%) Unix
2 7 (10.61%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (3.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (65.15%) CI/CD
2 32 (48.48%) DevOps
3 29 (43.94%) Agile
4 19 (28.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 18 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 15 (22.73%) Scrum
7 13 (19.70%) Unit Testing
8 12 (18.18%) Data Modelling
8 12 (18.18%) DevSecOps
9 11 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (15.15%) ITIL
10 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (12.12%) Workflow
12 7 (10.61%) ETL
12 7 (10.61%) Observability
12 7 (10.61%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) Python
2 15 (22.73%) SQL
3 10 (15.15%) Bash
3 10 (15.15%) C#
3 10 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 7 (10.61%) Java
4 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
5 6 (9.09%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.03%) C++
6 2 (3.03%) Jython
6 2 (3.03%) Perl
6 2 (3.03%) Rust
6 2 (3.03%) Scala
6 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.52%) Bicep
7 1 (1.52%) C
Qualifications
1 46 (69.70%) Security Cleared
2 43 (65.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.12%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.61%) Degree
5 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.55%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.52%) OCA
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.52%) RHCA
7 1 (1.52%) RHCE
7 1 (1.52%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) NCSC
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) OpenSCAP
3 1 (1.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (24.24%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 19 (28.79%) Grafana
2 19 (28.79%) Terraform
3 17 (25.76%) Ansible
3 17 (25.76%) Prometheus
4 7 (10.61%) Argo
5 4 (6.06%) Istio
5 4 (6.06%) linkerd
6 3 (4.55%) Puppet
7 2 (3.03%) CA Wily
7 2 (3.03%) Podman
7 2 (3.03%) Rancher
7 2 (3.03%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.52%) Packer
8 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Oracle
2 11 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 9 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 7 (10.61%) VMware
5 6 (9.09%) Splunk
5 6 (9.09%) Talend
6 5 (7.58%) Denodo
6 5 (7.58%) Google
7 3 (4.55%) Informatica
8 2 (3.03%) AppDynamics
8 2 (3.03%) Databricks
8 2 (3.03%) IBM
8 2 (3.03%) NVIDIA
8 2 (3.03%) OpenAI
8 2 (3.03%) Tenable
9 1 (1.52%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.52%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.52%) Zscaler