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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 120 132
Rank change year-on-year -29 +12 +57
Contract jobs citing GitLab 60 41 70
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.05% 1.37% 1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.34% 11.48% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 22 37
10th Percentile £412 £413 £382
25th Percentile £463 £472 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £598
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -12.09% +1.06%
75th Percentile £674 £659 £656
90th Percentile £730 £663 £718
England median daily rate £500 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -2.95%
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 £59.50 £82.96 £74.44
% change year-on-year -28.28% +11.45% +65.42%

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 529 357 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.28% 11.94% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 217 342
10th Percentile £285 £350 £325
25th Percentile £363 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.32% -2.95%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.24% -3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 20 32
10th Percentile £54.00 £47.25 £37.70
25th Percentile £66.25 £49.50 £52.81
Median hourly rate £83.00 £56.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.56% -10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £65.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.40% - +4.17%

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 April 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 April 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 -1 35 £538 -15.09% 14
Thames Valley -56 14 £550 +14.23% 8
Berkshire -41 10 £425 -15.08% 4
Surrey -10 7 £500 -23.08% 2
Buckinghamshire -20 4 £603 +41.76%
West Sussex -9 2 - -
East Sussex - 2 £455 -
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 2 (3.33%) Confluence
1 2 (3.33%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (3.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (3.33%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (45.00%) AWS
2 22 (36.67%) Azure
3 19 (31.67%) GitHub
4 13 (21.67%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (18.33%) GCP
6 8 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (13.33%) OpenShift
7 6 (10.00%) Tricentis Tosca
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (6.67%) Serverless
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.00%) Google App Engine
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.33%) OCI
11 1 (1.67%) AWS Control Tower
11 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (3.33%) Bluetooth
3 2 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (3.33%) HTTP
3 2 (3.33%) SSL
3 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.67%) BGP
4 1 (1.67%) LAN
4 1 (1.67%) MQTT
4 1 (1.67%) OSPF
4 1 (1.67%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.67%) Redis
3 5 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.33%) Big Data
5 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.67%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.67%) MySQL
6 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (31.67%) Jenkins
2 15 (25.00%) Git
3 13 (21.67%) JIRA
4 6 (10.00%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.33%) Android Studio
5 2 (3.33%) Gradle
5 2 (3.33%) Introscope
5 2 (3.33%) JUnit
5 2 (3.33%) Selenium
5 2 (3.33%) WiX
6 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.67%) CMake
6 1 (1.67%) Gatling
6 1 (1.67%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.67%) JMeter
6 1 (1.67%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.67%) NUnit
6 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.67%) TestNG
General
1 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Senior
3 8 (13.33%) Developer
4 7 (11.67%) QA Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
6 4 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.00%) Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) QA Leader
7 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Android Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior QA Engineer
9 1 (1.67%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.67%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.67%) Kafka
2 10 (16.67%) Keycloak
3 7 (11.67%) WPF
4 6 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (10.00%) REST
4 6 (10.00%) WinForms
5 4 (6.67%) Flask
5 4 (6.67%) OAuth
6 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.00%) SOAP
7 2 (3.33%) ADO
7 2 (3.33%) JavaFX
7 2 (3.33%) JDBC
7 2 (3.33%) JMS
7 2 (3.33%) Middleware
7 2 (3.33%) Nuxt
7 2 (3.33%) Spring
7 2 (3.33%) Vue
7 2 (3.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Synthetic Data
2 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.33%) Clustering
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.67%) CMDB
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Life Science
4 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Linux
2 9 (15.00%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.00%) Unix
4 2 (3.33%) Android
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (3.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (76.67%) CI/CD
2 38 (63.33%) DevOps
3 25 (41.67%) Agile
4 21 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (28.33%) Containerisation
6 15 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (21.67%) Test Automation
9 12 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 11 (18.33%) DevSecOps
10 11 (18.33%) Observability
11 10 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (16.67%) Unit Testing
11 10 (16.67%) User Experience
11 10 (16.67%) Validation
12 9 (15.00%) GitOps
12 9 (15.00%) Scrum
13 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (13.33%) Data Privacy
14 7 (11.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (41.67%) Python
2 14 (23.33%) Bash
3 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 10 (16.67%) SQL
5 7 (11.67%) C#
5 7 (11.67%) Java
6 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.67%) C++
8 2 (3.33%) Jython
8 2 (3.33%) Perl
8 2 (3.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.67%) C
9 1 (1.67%) Go
9 1 (1.67%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 37 (61.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) Degree
4 6 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) OCA
4 6 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.67%) RHCA
6 1 (1.67%) RHCE
6 1 (1.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.67%) QA
2 6 (10.00%) GDPR
3 5 (8.33%) NCSC
4 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.67%) OpenSCAP
5 1 (1.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (23.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (36.67%) Terraform
3 21 (35.00%) Grafana
3 21 (35.00%) Prometheus
4 20 (33.33%) Ansible
5 9 (15.00%) Argo
6 6 (10.00%) Istio
6 6 (10.00%) linkerd
7 4 (6.67%) Puppet
7 4 (6.67%) Sysdig
8 3 (5.00%) Rancher
9 2 (3.33%) CA Wily
9 2 (3.33%) Podman
9 2 (3.33%) Tivoli
10 1 (1.67%) Packer
10 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (1.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Red Hat
1 10 (16.67%) Splunk
1 10 (16.67%) VMware
2 9 (15.00%) Oracle
3 6 (10.00%) Google
3 6 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.33%) Databricks
4 2 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.67%) Tenable
5 1 (1.67%) Zscaler