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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 119 145
Rank change year-on-year -33 +26 +38
Contract jobs citing GitLab 58 34 69
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.08% 1.16% 1.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.32% 9.14% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 17 39
10th Percentile £400 £413 £391
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +10.87% -3.56%
75th Percentile £575 £660 £650
90th Percentile £719 £668 £690
England median daily rate £500 £541 £568
% change year-on-year -7.62% -4.63% -5.42%
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 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -33.70% +11.45% +21.53%

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 562 372 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.49% 12.66% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 215 348
10th Percentile £286 £350 £338
25th Percentile £363 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £613
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 22 33
10th Percentile £54.75 £47.50 £46.25
25th Percentile £64.38 £51.11 £55.00
Median hourly rate £85.79 £59.13 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.10% -5.40% +11.14%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.63 £76.22
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 31 £500 -21.01% 8
Thames Valley -45 12 £550 +29.41% 17
Berkshire -33 9 £488 - 10
Surrey -10 8 £500 -23.08% 1
East Sussex - 5 £508 -
Buckinghamshire -22 3 £595 +40.00% 1
West Sussex -12 2 - -
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 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache
2 1 (1.72%) Appian
2 1 (1.72%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (1.72%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.72%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.72%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.00%) AWS
2 27 (46.55%) GitHub
3 20 (34.48%) Azure
4 18 (31.03%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (18.97%) GCP
5 11 (18.97%) OpenShift
6 7 (12.07%) Amazon ECR
6 7 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (12.07%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (12.07%) Tricentis Tosca
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.90%) Serverless
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (5.17%) Google App Engine
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.45%) OCI
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) Network Security
3 2 (3.45%) Bluetooth
3 2 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) BGP
4 1 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (1.72%) HTTP
4 1 (1.72%) LAN
4 1 (1.72%) MQTT
4 1 (1.72%) OSPF
4 1 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.72%) SSL
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.86%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (15.52%) NoSQL
2 9 (15.52%) Redis
3 5 (8.62%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (8.62%) Couchbase
3 5 (8.62%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.17%) Big Data
4 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 18 (31.03%) Git
3 15 (25.86%) JIRA
4 9 (15.52%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.17%) Maven
6 2 (3.45%) Android Studio
6 2 (3.45%) Gradle
6 2 (3.45%) WiX
7 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.72%) Gatling
7 1 (1.72%) Introscope
7 1 (1.72%) JMeter
7 1 (1.72%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.72%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.72%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.72%) Selenium
7 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.17%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.45%) Military
6 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Developer
1 13 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (17.24%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (12.07%) Lead
4 6 (10.34%) QA Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 3 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) QA Leader
5 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Android Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Project Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Project Leader
6 2 (3.45%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Analyst
7 1 (1.72%) Service Analyst
7 1 (1.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (36.21%) Kafka
2 12 (20.69%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (18.97%) REST
4 9 (15.52%) Keycloak
5 6 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (10.34%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.17%) OAuth
7 3 (5.17%) SOAP
8 2 (3.45%) ADO
8 2 (3.45%) Flask
8 2 (3.45%) JavaFX
8 2 (3.45%) Nuxt
8 2 (3.45%) PySpark
8 2 (3.45%) React
8 2 (3.45%) Spring
8 2 (3.45%) Vue
9 1 (1.72%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (1.72%) Jest
9 1 (1.72%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Synthetic Data
2 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Clustering
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Linux
2 6 (10.34%) Windows
3 2 (3.45%) Android
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.72%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 38 (65.52%) DevOps
3 24 (41.38%) Agile
4 19 (32.76%) Containerisation
4 19 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (25.86%) Test Automation
6 13 (22.41%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (18.97%) DevSecOps
7 11 (18.97%) Microservices
8 10 (17.24%) Observability
8 10 (17.24%) User Experience
9 9 (15.52%) Computer Science
9 9 (15.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (13.79%) Data Privacy
10 8 (13.79%) GitOps
10 8 (13.79%) Software Testing
10 8 (13.79%) Validation
11 7 (12.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.10%) Python
2 13 (22.41%) Bash
3 10 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 9 (15.52%) Java
5 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 8 (13.79%) SQL
6 6 (10.34%) PL/SQL
7 5 (8.62%) Go
8 3 (5.17%) C++
9 2 (3.45%) Scala
10 1 (1.72%) C#
10 1 (1.72%) Jython
10 1 (1.72%) Perl
10 1 (1.72%) Rust
10 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (63.79%) Security Cleared
2 34 (58.62%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.24%) Degree
4 8 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 6 (10.34%) OCA
5 6 (10.34%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) QA
2 6 (10.34%) GDPR
3 5 (8.62%) NCSC
4 3 (5.17%) Def Stans
5 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (27.59%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 36 (62.07%) Kubernetes
2 26 (44.83%) Grafana
2 26 (44.83%) Prometheus
3 24 (41.38%) Terraform
4 18 (31.03%) Ansible
5 8 (13.79%) Argo
6 7 (12.07%) Sysdig
7 6 (10.34%) Istio
7 6 (10.34%) linkerd
8 4 (6.90%) Puppet
9 2 (3.45%) Podman
9 2 (3.45%) Rancher
10 1 (1.72%) CA Wily
10 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.72%) Salt
10 1 (1.72%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) VMware
2 9 (15.52%) Red Hat
2 9 (15.52%) Splunk
3 7 (12.07%) Oracle
4 5 (8.62%) Atlassian
4 5 (8.62%) Google
4 5 (8.62%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.45%) Databricks
6 1 (1.72%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.72%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco
6 1 (1.72%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.72%) IBM
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.72%) Tenable
6 1 (1.72%) Veracode
6 1 (1.72%) Zscaler