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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 122 150
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 +62
Contract jobs citing GitLab 56 49 51
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.30% 1.44% 1.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.02% 11.11% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 30 32
10th Percentile £405 £390 £425
25th Percentile £450 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -13.42% -0.86%
75th Percentile £574 £647 £688
90th Percentile £750 £664 £700
England median daily rate £520 £568 £558
% change year-on-year -8.45% +1.88% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £74.44 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% +24.07% -9.43%

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 466 441 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.81% 12.98% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 258 406
10th Percentile £259 £349 £379
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.76% -2.05%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £615
90th Percentile £650 £650 £672
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 29
10th Percentile £43.13 £51.23 £51.00
25th Percentile £53.75 £54.56 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.02 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.37% -5.57% -1.96%
75th Percentile £89.63 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £67.44 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +9 33 £500 +5.26% 7
Surrey +3 9 £500 -23.08% 3
Thames Valley -31 8 £613 +19.51% 34
Berkshire -19 7 £625 +36.61% 23
East Sussex +7 5 £508 +10.33% 2
Buckinghamshire -7 1 £600 - 2
West Sussex -11 1 - - 3
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 7 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) Appian
3 1 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.79%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) GitHub
2 25 (44.64%) AWS
3 17 (30.36%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (28.57%) Azure
5 10 (17.86%) OpenShift
6 9 (16.07%) Tricentis Tosca
7 7 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (12.50%) GCP
8 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.36%) Serverless
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.57%) OCI
10 1 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.79%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.79%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.79%) dbt
10 1 (1.79%) SaaS
10 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.79%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Bluetooth
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
1 2 (3.57%) VPN
2 1 (1.79%) MQTT
2 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (16.07%) Redis
3 8 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 6 (10.71%) MongoDB
5 5 (8.93%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (8.93%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.79%) Big Data
6 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.00%) JIRA
3 13 (23.21%) Git
4 8 (14.29%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.36%) Maven
6 2 (3.57%) Android Studio
6 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.57%) Gradle
6 2 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 2 (3.57%) Selenium
6 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.57%) WiX
7 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.79%) Gatling
7 1 (1.79%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.79%) MLflow
7 1 (1.79%) Mocha
7 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.36%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (23.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Developer
3 9 (16.07%) Senior
4 7 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (12.50%) Lead
4 7 (12.50%) QA Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.36%) QA Leader
6 3 (5.36%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Android Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Head of Development
7 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Project Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Project Leader
7 2 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
8 1 (1.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.36%) Kafka
2 12 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (16.07%) REST
4 8 (14.29%) Keycloak
5 7 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (8.93%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (7.14%) Spring Boot
7 4 (7.14%) Swagger
8 3 (5.36%) RESTful
9 2 (3.57%) ADO
9 2 (3.57%) Flask
9 2 (3.57%) JavaFX
9 2 (3.57%) Jinja
9 2 (3.57%) JSON
9 2 (3.57%) Node.js
9 2 (3.57%) Nuxt
9 2 (3.57%) React
9 2 (3.57%) Spring
9 2 (3.57%) Vue
9 2 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Synthetic Data
2 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (10.71%) Windows
3 2 (3.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 34 (60.71%) DevOps
3 22 (39.29%) Agile
4 19 (33.93%) Containerisation
5 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (30.36%) Test Automation
7 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (23.21%) Microservices
8 13 (23.21%) Observability
9 10 (17.86%) DevSecOps
9 10 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (16.07%) User Experience
11 8 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 8 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 8 (14.29%) Validation
12 7 (12.50%) Data Management
12 7 (12.50%) Data Privacy
12 7 (12.50%) ERP
12 7 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.00%) Python
2 12 (21.43%) Bash
2 12 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 12 (21.43%) SQL
3 11 (19.64%) Java
4 10 (17.86%) PowerShell
5 8 (14.29%) Go
6 7 (12.50%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.57%) C++
8 1 (1.79%) Rust
8 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 32 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.07%) DV Cleared
4 7 (12.50%) Degree
4 7 (12.50%) OCA
4 7 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.79%) CCNA
6 1 (1.79%) CCNP
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.64%) QA
2 7 (12.50%) GDPR
3 5 (8.93%) NCSC
4 3 (5.36%) Def Stans
5 2 (3.57%) NIST
6 1 (1.79%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (30.36%) Docker
2 5 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 26 (46.43%) Terraform
3 24 (42.86%) Grafana
4 23 (41.07%) Prometheus
5 20 (35.71%) Ansible
6 7 (12.50%) Argo
6 7 (12.50%) Sysdig
7 6 (10.71%) Istio
7 6 (10.71%) linkerd
8 4 (7.14%) Puppet
8 4 (7.14%) Rundeck
9 3 (5.36%) Proxmox
9 3 (5.36%) Salt
10 2 (3.57%) Podman
10 2 (3.57%) vRealize
11 1 (1.79%) Kubeflow
11 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.79%) Rancher
11 1 (1.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) VMware
2 9 (16.07%) Red Hat
2 9 (16.07%) Splunk
3 7 (12.50%) Oracle
4 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.36%) Google
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco
6 2 (3.57%) Veracode
7 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.79%) Tenable