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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 114 122
Rank change year-on-year -42 +8 +61
Contract jobs citing GitLab 55 36 65
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.93% 1.20% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.81% 10.26% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 20 35
10th Percentile £416 £310 £383
25th Percentile £464 £491 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £598
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -12.09% +3.46%
75th Percentile £688 £657 £672
90th Percentile £723 £663 £720
England median daily rate £500 £525 £573
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.30% -2.55%
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 £88.98 £74.44
% change year-on-year -29.76% +19.53% +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 509 351 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.60% 11.71% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 217 329
10th Percentile £280 £350 £312
25th Percentile £367 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £527
% change year-on-year - -5.12% -4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 20 35
10th Percentile £56.50 £47.25 £40.55
25th Percentile £70.00 £49.50 £52.88
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -12.00% +10.68%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £63.88 £70.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +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 19 May 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 19 May 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 £550 -13.11% 17
Thames Valley -53 15 £550 +10.00% 10
Berkshire -32 9 £425 -15.08% 2
Buckinghamshire -34 6 £603 +69.48% 2
West Sussex -14 3 £492 +51.38% 4
Surrey -17 3 £550 -15.38% 1
East Sussex - 3 £459 -
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 3 (5.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (3.64%) SAS
2 2 (3.64%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.64%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.64%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.82%) AWS
1 23 (41.82%) Azure
2 12 (21.82%) GitHub
3 11 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (20.00%) GCP
4 10 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (12.73%) OpenShift
6 5 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (9.09%) Google App Engine
7 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.27%) Serverless
8 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.64%) OCI
9 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 2 (3.64%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (1.82%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) Firewall
2 3 (5.45%) DNS
3 2 (3.64%) HTTP
3 2 (3.64%) Network Security
3 2 (3.64%) SSL
3 2 (3.64%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.64%) VPN
4 1 (1.82%) BGP
4 1 (1.82%) LAN
4 1 (1.82%) MQTT
4 1 (1.82%) OSPF
4 1 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (16.36%) Redis
3 4 (7.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.45%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.45%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.64%) Big Data
5 2 (3.64%) Power BI
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.82%) MySQL
6 1 (1.82%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Git
1 17 (30.91%) Jenkins
2 10 (18.18%) JIRA
3 4 (7.27%) Artifactory
4 2 (3.64%) Introscope
4 2 (3.64%) JUnit
4 2 (3.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.82%) CMake
5 1 (1.82%) GoogleTest
5 1 (1.82%) NUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.82%) TestNG
General
1 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) QA Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Senior QA Engineer
9 1 (1.82%) Analyst
9 1 (1.82%) Applications Architect
9 1 (1.82%) Service Analyst
9 1 (1.82%) Software Architect
9 1 (1.82%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) Kafka
2 10 (18.18%) WPF
3 9 (16.36%) Keycloak
3 9 (16.36%) WinForms
4 7 (12.73%) REST
5 5 (9.09%) OAuth
5 5 (9.09%) SOAP
6 2 (3.64%) ADO
6 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.64%) Flask
6 2 (3.64%) JDBC
6 2 (3.64%) JMS
6 2 (3.64%) Middleware
6 2 (3.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (3.64%) PySpark
6 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.64%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (1.82%) gRPC
7 1 (1.82%) JWT
7 1 (1.82%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.64%) Clustering
2 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.64%) Synthetic Data
3 1 (1.82%) CMDB
3 1 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.82%) Life Science
3 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.18%) Linux
2 7 (12.73%) Windows
3 5 (9.09%) Unix
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.64%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (67.27%) CI/CD
2 32 (58.18%) DevOps
3 25 (45.45%) Agile
4 20 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (29.09%) Containerisation
5 16 (29.09%) Software Engineering
6 14 (25.45%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (23.64%) Unit Testing
8 11 (20.00%) Scrum
9 10 (18.18%) Data Modelling
9 10 (18.18%) DevSecOps
9 10 (18.18%) Observability
10 9 (16.36%) ITIL
11 8 (14.55%) GitOps
11 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (14.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (12.73%) Service Management
12 7 (12.73%) Test Automation
12 7 (12.73%) User Experience
12 7 (12.73%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.00%) Python
2 12 (21.82%) Bash
2 12 (21.82%) PowerShell
3 10 (18.18%) C#
4 9 (16.36%) SQL
5 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.09%) Java
7 4 (7.27%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.64%) C++
8 2 (3.64%) Jython
8 2 (3.64%) Perl
8 2 (3.64%) Scala
9 1 (1.82%) Bicep
9 1 (1.82%) C
9 1 (1.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (70.91%) Security Cleared
2 36 (65.45%) SC Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) Degree
5 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.64%) OCA
7 2 (3.64%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.82%) RHCA
8 1 (1.82%) RHCE
8 1 (1.82%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) NCSC
3 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.64%) GDPR
4 1 (1.82%) OpenSCAP
4 1 (1.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 18 (32.73%) Terraform
3 17 (30.91%) Ansible
3 17 (30.91%) Grafana
4 15 (27.27%) Prometheus
5 9 (16.36%) Argo
6 5 (9.09%) Istio
6 5 (9.09%) linkerd
7 4 (7.27%) Puppet
8 3 (5.45%) Rancher
9 2 (3.64%) CA Wily
9 2 (3.64%) Podman
9 2 (3.64%) Tivoli
10 1 (1.82%) Packer
10 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.82%) Salt
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Red Hat
1 9 (16.36%) Splunk
1 9 (16.36%) VMware
2 8 (14.55%) Oracle
2 8 (14.55%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.09%) Google
4 3 (5.45%) Denodo
5 2 (3.64%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.64%) Databricks
5 2 (3.64%) IBM
5 2 (3.64%) Talend
6 1 (1.82%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.82%) Informatica
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.82%) Tenable
6 1 (1.82%) Zscaler