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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 127 180
Rank change year-on-year +10 +53 +40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 44 57 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.26% 1.24% 0.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.22% 10.40% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 22
10th Percentile £363 £390 £501
25th Percentile £475 £450 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £608
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -13.58% +1.25%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £688
90th Percentile £628 £688 £734
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%

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 392 548 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.26% 11.94% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 350 460
10th Percentile £274 £325 £363
25th Percentile £375 £398 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £615
90th Percentile £615 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 32 41
10th Percentile - £45.12 £48.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.56 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.03% +11.02% -6.72%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.97 £73.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 +12 29 £500 -4.71% 13
Berkshire +20 23 £501 -4.67% 8
Hampshire +2 12 £575 +10.58% 10
Buckinghamshire +11 6 £375 -40.08%
Surrey +6 2 £395 -12.22% 3
West Sussex -5 1 £325 -43.48%
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 2 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Appian
2 1 (2.27%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) AWS
2 22 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (22.73%) GitHub
4 9 (20.45%) GCP
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (4.55%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.27%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.27%) Datadog
6 1 (2.27%) dbt
6 1 (2.27%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.27%) Stackdriver
6 1 (2.27%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) BGP
1 3 (6.82%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (4.55%) DNS
2 2 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.55%) HTTP
2 2 (4.55%) IPv6
2 2 (4.55%) OSPF
2 2 (4.55%) SAN
2 2 (4.55%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (4.55%) TACACS
2 2 (4.55%) VPN
2 2 (4.55%) VSAN
3 1 (2.27%) Firewall
3 1 (2.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) MongoDB
1 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.09%) MySQL
3 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 18 (40.91%) JIRA
3 14 (31.82%) Cucumber
3 14 (31.82%) Selenium
4 13 (29.55%) REST Assured
5 10 (22.73%) Git
5 10 (22.73%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.27%) MLflow
6 1 (2.27%) Mocha
6 1 (2.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Law
4 5 (11.36%) Telecoms
5 4 (9.09%) Police
6 2 (4.55%) Finance
6 2 (4.55%) Retail
7 1 (2.27%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Developer
2 9 (20.45%) Java Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Java Software Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Software Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Architect
3 6 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Java Architect
4 5 (11.36%) Java Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.36%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 4 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Senior
6 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) REST
2 13 (29.55%) Java EE
3 9 (20.45%) ARM Templates
4 6 (13.64%) RESTful
5 4 (9.09%) Swagger
5 4 (9.09%) YAML
6 3 (6.82%) Django
6 3 (6.82%) FastAPI
6 3 (6.82%) Flask
7 2 (4.55%) Jest
7 2 (4.55%) JSON
7 2 (4.55%) NETCONF
7 2 (4.55%) Web Services
7 2 (4.55%) XML
7 2 (4.55%) YANG
8 1 (2.27%) Fastify
8 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
8 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
8 1 (2.27%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
2 3 (6.82%) Windows
3 1 (2.27%) CentOS
3 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) CI/CD
1 27 (61.36%) DevOps
2 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (36.36%) Configuration Management
3 16 (36.36%) Containerisation
3 16 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 14 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
4 14 (31.82%) Technical Leadership
5 13 (29.55%) Software Architecture
5 13 (29.55%) Software Engineering
6 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (22.73%) Decision-Making
8 7 (15.91%) Agile
9 6 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (13.64%) Microservices
10 5 (11.36%) Impact Analysis
10 5 (11.36%) Service Delivery
11 4 (9.09%) Asynchronous Programming
11 4 (9.09%) Observability
12 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) Java
2 16 (36.36%) Python
3 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 7 (15.91%) SQL
5 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
6 4 (9.09%) Bash
6 4 (9.09%) Go
7 2 (4.55%) Korn
8 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (59.09%) Security Cleared
2 21 (47.73%) SC Cleared
3 9 (20.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.27%) CCNA
5 1 (2.27%) CCNP
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.27%) Degree
5 1 (2.27%) JNCIP
5 1 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.27%) OCA
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) NIST
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) EU AI Act
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Docker
2 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 22 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 22 (50.00%) Terraform
2 18 (40.91%) Ansible
3 9 (20.45%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (20.45%) Podman
4 4 (9.09%) Rundeck
5 3 (6.82%) Grafana
5 3 (6.82%) Proxmox
5 3 (6.82%) Salt
6 2 (4.55%) Argo
6 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.55%) vRealize
7 1 (2.27%) Kubeflow
7 1 (2.27%) Puppet
7 1 (2.27%) Rancher
7 1 (2.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) VMware
2 4 (9.09%) Cisco
3 3 (6.82%) Google
3 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.55%) Ab Initio
4 2 (4.55%) Dell
5 1 (2.27%) IBM
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.27%) Splunk
5 1 (2.27%) Veracode