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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 123 124
Rank change year-on-year -28 +1 +53
Contract jobs citing GitLab 75 44 53
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.15% 1.25% 1.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.65% 10.50% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 34 29
10th Percentile £450 £365 £390
25th Percentile £459 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £501 £470
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +6.49% -18.97%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £606
90th Percentile £732 £634 £640
England median daily rate £510 £520 £546
% change year-on-year -1.92% -4.81% -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £69.68 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -0.59% -9.46% +23.75%

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 512 419 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.84% 11.87% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 293 323
10th Percentile £275 £268 £340
25th Percentile £400 £375 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -7.19%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £595
90th Percentile £664 £618 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 23 34
10th Percentile £47.50 - £50.83
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £55.87
Median hourly rate £63.74 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.88% -15.38% +11.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £88.30 £72.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 6 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 October 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 -14 35 £625 +17.65% 24
Thames Valley -43 19 £580 +15.88% 25
Berkshire -23 13 £450 -10.09% 5
West Sussex -11 11 £459 +41.23% 7
Surrey -16 8 £460 +12.20% 8
Buckinghamshire -24 4 £595 +108.04% 4
Oxfordshire - 2 £900 - 17
East Sussex 0 1 £459 -18.76% 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 11 (14.67%) Confluence
2 6 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (6.67%) SAS
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 46 (61.33%) AWS
2 32 (42.67%) Azure
3 25 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (28.00%) GitHub
5 18 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (18.67%) GCP
7 12 (16.00%) OpenShift
8 8 (10.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (10.67%) Serverless
9 6 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
11 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (4.00%) Amazon S3
12 3 (4.00%) Datadog
12 3 (4.00%) Google App Engine
13 2 (2.67%) Amazon Bedrock
13 2 (2.67%) Amazon SageMaker
13 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
13 2 (2.67%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) MQTT
1 4 (5.33%) Network Security
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.67%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.67%) Pentaho
6 2 (2.67%) Redis
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.33%) Big Data
7 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.33%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.33%) MySQL
7 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (42.67%) Jenkins
2 22 (29.33%) Git
3 12 (16.00%) JIRA
4 8 (10.67%) MLflow
5 7 (9.33%) SonarQube
6 5 (6.67%) Artifactory
7 3 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.67%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (1.33%) Subversion
General
1 11 (14.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.00%) Aerospace
3 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.33%) Finance
4 1 (1.33%) German Language
Job Titles
1 13 (17.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 9 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (10.67%) Senior
4 7 (9.33%) Architect
5 6 (8.00%) Developer
6 5 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) AWS Database Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Database Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) DevOps Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Lead
8 3 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
9 2 (2.67%) Linux Specialist
9 2 (2.67%) QA Tester
9 2 (2.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (54.67%) Terraform
2 7 (9.33%) Kafka
3 6 (8.00%) REST
3 6 (8.00%) YAML
4 5 (6.67%) Keycloak
4 5 (6.67%) RESTful
5 4 (5.33%) gRPC
5 4 (5.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 4 (5.33%) WinForms
5 4 (5.33%) WPF
6 3 (4.00%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.00%) OAuth
6 3 (4.00%) SOAP
7 2 (2.67%) LangChain
7 2 (2.67%) LangGraph
7 2 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (2.67%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.67%) Spring
7 2 (2.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.33%) CMDB
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 22 (29.33%) Linux
2 6 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (8.00%) Unix
3 4 (5.33%) CentOS
3 4 (5.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 45 (60.00%) DevOps
3 41 (54.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (50.67%) Containerisation
5 28 (37.33%) Agile
6 23 (30.67%) DevSecOps
7 21 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (26.67%) Software Engineering
9 18 (24.00%) Vulnerability Management
10 16 (21.33%) Software Delivery
11 14 (18.67%) Observability
12 12 (16.00%) Test Automation
13 11 (14.67%) Configuration Management
13 11 (14.67%) Cybersecurity
13 11 (14.67%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (14.67%) Release Management
13 11 (14.67%) Scrum
14 10 (13.33%) Machine Learning
14 10 (13.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.00%) Python
2 18 (24.00%) Bash
3 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
4 11 (14.67%) SQL
5 6 (8.00%) Bicep
6 5 (6.67%) Java
6 5 (6.67%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.33%) C#
7 4 (5.33%) Rust
7 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.67%) Groovy
10 1 (1.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 53 (70.67%) Security Cleared
2 42 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.67%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (8.00%) Degree
5 4 (5.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) CEH
5 4 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.33%) CISSP
5 4 (5.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.67%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.33%) PMP
8 1 (1.33%) RHCA
8 1 (1.33%) RHCE
8 1 (1.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) QA
2 5 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.67%) NIST
3 4 (5.33%) NCSC
4 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.33%) GDPR
5 1 (1.33%) OpenSCAP
System Software
1 36 (48.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (57.33%) Kubernetes
2 31 (41.33%) Ansible
3 17 (22.67%) Grafana
4 12 (16.00%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.33%) Argo
6 5 (6.67%) Podman
7 4 (5.33%) Packer
7 4 (5.33%) Puppet
8 3 (4.00%) Rancher
9 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (13.33%) Google
1 10 (13.33%) Oracle
2 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.33%) Talend
2 7 (9.33%) VMware
3 5 (6.67%) Denodo
3 5 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.33%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.33%) NVIDIA
4 4 (5.33%) Splunk
4 4 (5.33%) Tenable
5 3 (4.00%) Informatica
5 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.67%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.33%) EMC
7 1 (1.33%) IBM
7 1 (1.33%) New Relic