GitLab Contracts in the South East

GitLab
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 134 185
Rank change year-on-year +15 +51 +33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 40 71 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 1.28% 0.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.20% 13.10% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 37 19
10th Percentile £413 £382 £459
25th Percentile £472 £510 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £590
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +0.42% -4.07%
75th Percentile £659 £656 £643
90th Percentile £663 £718 £700
England median daily rate £530 £574 £590
% change year-on-year -7.63% -2.75% +0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.45% +65.42% -13.25%

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 357 542 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.86% 9.75% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 334 481
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £619 £628
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £47.25 £38.65 £35.74
25th Percentile £49.50 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +35 25 £482 -25.92% 13
Berkshire +22 20 £501 -24.45% 4
Hampshire +17 10 £633 +6.39% 2
Surrey +21 5 £650 +44.44% 6
Buckinghamshire - 5 £425 - 3
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (25.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (5.00%) Apache Solr
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (5.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.50%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) AWS
2 18 (45.00%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) GCP
4 6 (15.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.00%) Miro
5 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) BGP
1 3 (7.50%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (5.00%) DNS
2 2 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (5.00%) IPv6
2 2 (5.00%) OSPF
2 2 (5.00%) SAN
2 2 (5.00%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (5.00%) TACACS
2 2 (5.00%) VSAN
3 1 (2.50%) MPLS
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.50%) Big Data
4 1 (2.50%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 24 (60.00%) JIRA
2 22 (55.00%) Jenkins
3 15 (37.50%) Selenium
4 13 (32.50%) Cucumber
4 13 (32.50%) REST Assured
5 10 (25.00%) SonarQube
6 6 (15.00%) Bitbucket
6 6 (15.00%) Eclipse
6 6 (15.00%) GoogleTest
6 6 (15.00%) Robot Framework
7 4 (10.00%) Git
7 4 (10.00%) Maven
8 2 (5.00%) DBeaver
8 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Law
4 4 (10.00%) Police
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) Java Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 6 (15.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
7 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Lead
7 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) DBA
8 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior
9 1 (2.50%) Lead Developer
9 1 (2.50%) Oracle DBA
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.50%) SQL DBA
9 1 (2.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (47.50%) REST
2 15 (37.50%) Java EE
3 9 (22.50%) ARM Templates
4 5 (12.50%) JSON
5 4 (10.00%) React
6 3 (7.50%) Django
6 3 (7.50%) FastAPI
6 3 (7.50%) Flask
6 3 (7.50%) RESTful
6 3 (7.50%) SOAP
6 3 (7.50%) XML
6 3 (7.50%) YAML
7 2 (5.00%) Ajax
7 2 (5.00%) JAXB
7 2 (5.00%) JAX-RS
7 2 (5.00%) JAX-WS
7 2 (5.00%) Web Services
7 2 (5.00%) XSD
7 2 (5.00%) XSL
7 2 (5.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) CentOS
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) DevOps
1 21 (52.50%) Software Engineering
2 18 (45.00%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (42.50%) Configuration Management
4 15 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 15 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (32.50%) Agile
6 13 (32.50%) Software Architecture
6 13 (32.50%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (30.00%) Migration
8 11 (27.50%) CI/CD
8 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (27.50%) Scrum
9 9 (22.50%) Decision-Making
10 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (10.00%) DevSecOps
11 4 (10.00%) Microservices
11 4 (10.00%) SOA
11 4 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Java
2 9 (22.50%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) C++
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Go
5 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.00%) XPath
6 1 (2.50%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 25 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.50%) CEH
2 1 (2.50%) CISM
2 1 (2.50%) CISSP
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) Ceph
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
2 13 (32.50%) Ansible
3 12 (30.00%) Terraform
4 9 (22.50%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (22.50%) Podman
5 2 (5.00%) Argo
6 1 (2.50%) Grafana
6 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Google
2 7 (17.50%) Atlassian
3 6 (15.00%) Intel
3 6 (15.00%) Oracle
4 3 (7.50%) Cisco
4 3 (7.50%) VMware
5 2 (5.00%) Dell
5 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow