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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 127 172
Rank change year-on-year -4 +45 +43
Contract jobs citing GitLab 39 54 39
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.06% 1.28% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.31% 10.09% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 31
10th Percentile £405 £390 £500
25th Percentile £450 £413 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £468 £580
Median % change year-on-year +8.27% -19.38% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £688
90th Percentile £636 £652 £700
England median daily rate £520 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -3.48% -2.05% -7.17%

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 419 535 708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.42% 12.70% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 323 477
10th Percentile £259 £342 £397
25th Percentile £375 £394 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -11.21% +1.90%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £613
90th Percentile £627 £650 £659
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 36
10th Percentile - £51.80 £46.30
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.87 £52.19
Median hourly rate £58.50 £66.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +14.78% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £74.75 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.38%

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 26 October 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 26 October 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
Hampshire +10 18 £506 +8.27% 12
Thames Valley -8 12 £600 +17.07% 42
Berkshire -7 9 £613 +44.12% 26
East Sussex +1 4 £565 +22.83% 2
Surrey +3 3 £410 - 1
Buckinghamshire -1 3 £600 -5.88% 5
West Sussex -7 2 £325 -29.73%
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 6 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Appian
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) GitHub
2 11 (28.21%) AWS
3 10 (25.64%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (15.38%) Azure
4 6 (15.38%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.69%) OpenShift
6 3 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) CloudFront
7 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.56%) dbt
8 1 (2.56%) Serverless
8 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.56%) Stackdriver
8 1 (2.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) HTTP
1 2 (5.13%) VPN
2 1 (2.56%) BGP
2 1 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
1 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (12.82%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (12.82%) Couchbase
2 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.56%) Big Data
4 1 (2.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (41.03%) Jenkins
2 12 (30.77%) Git
3 9 (23.08%) JIRA
4 4 (10.26%) Artifactory
5 3 (7.69%) Maven
6 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.13%) Robot Framework
6 2 (5.13%) Selenium
6 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.56%) MLflow
7 1 (2.56%) Mocha
General
1 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Aerospace
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.13%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Developer
2 8 (20.51%) Senior
3 7 (17.95%) Senior Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Architect
4 6 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) Java Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Java Solutions Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.13%) GCP DevOps
7 2 (5.13%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Head of Development
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.13%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) Kafka
1 8 (20.51%) REST
2 7 (17.95%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (12.82%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (10.26%) Swagger
5 3 (7.69%) Jest
5 3 (7.69%) JSON
5 3 (7.69%) NETCONF
5 3 (7.69%) RESTful
5 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.69%) XML
6 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.13%) CSS
6 2 (5.13%) HTML
6 2 (5.13%) Jinja
6 2 (5.13%) React
6 2 (5.13%) Sass
6 2 (5.13%) Web Services
6 2 (5.13%) YAML
6 2 (5.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 3 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) CentOS
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 16 (41.03%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Agile
3 10 (25.64%) Containerisation
3 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (23.08%) Microservices
5 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
7 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 6 (15.38%) Open Source
8 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.82%) Impact Analysis
8 5 (12.82%) Regression Testing
8 5 (12.82%) Service Delivery
8 5 (12.82%) Software Testing
8 5 (12.82%) TDD
9 4 (10.26%) Analytics
9 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (10.26%) Immutable Infrastructure
9 4 (10.26%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) Java
3 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.51%) Go
5 7 (17.95%) SQL
6 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
7 4 (10.26%) Bash
8 2 (5.13%) Korn
8 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 9 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (15.38%) Degree
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) CCNA
6 1 (2.56%) CCNP
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.56%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.56%) OCA
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) Def Stans
2 2 (5.13%) NIST
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (64.10%) Kubernetes
2 16 (41.03%) Terraform
3 10 (25.64%) Grafana
4 9 (23.08%) Ansible
4 9 (23.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.26%) Rundeck
5 4 (10.26%) Sysdig
6 3 (7.69%) Proxmox
6 3 (7.69%) Salt
7 2 (5.13%) vRealize
8 1 (2.56%) Kubeflow
8 1 (2.56%) Puppet
8 1 (2.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) VMware
2 5 (12.82%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco
3 3 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) Ab Initio
4 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.13%) Veracode
5 1 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk