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

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	149	138	128
Rank change year-on-year	-11	-10	+45
Contract jobs citing GitLab	80	37	53
As % of all contract jobs in the South East	1.21%	1.02%	1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category	14.90%	8.92%	9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted	62	31	28
10^th Percentile	£451	£405	£390
25^th Percentile	£459	£450	£413
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£563	£513	£468
Median % change year-on-year	+9.76%	+9.60%	-19.38%
75^th Percentile	£688	£600	£556
90^th Percentile	£735	£638	£652
England median daily rate	£511	£520	£546
% change year-on-year	-1.68%	-4.81%	-0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	0	0
10^th Percentile	£69.68	-	-
25^th Percentile	£71.00	-	-
Median hourly rate	£83.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	£95.00	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£67.00	£74.00
% change year-on-year	-2.99%	-9.46%	-7.50%

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.

	6 months to 21 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	537	415	536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East	8.14%	11.40%	12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted	346	295	322
10^th Percentile	£275	£259	£347
25^th Percentile	£393	£375	£398
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£490	£475	£475
Median % change year-on-year	+3.16%	-	-11.63%
75^th Percentile	£588	£550	£588
90^th Percentile	£672	£623	£650
England median daily rate	£500	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	-	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	63	19	34
10^th Percentile	£47.50	-	£51.08
25^th Percentile	£51.25	£50.00	£55.87
Median hourly rate	£67.47	£58.50	£65.50
Median % change year-on-year	+15.33%	-10.69%	+13.91%
75^th Percentile	£70.00	£78.75	£70.00
90^th Percentile	£71.00	£89.63	£74.63
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£65.00	£65.00

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 Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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 21 October 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.

GitLab Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 21 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 21 October 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	-11	37	£600	+17.07%	18
Thames Valley	-34	22	£618	+2.92%	12
Berkshire	-9	17	£625	+2.04%	3
West Sussex	-12	11	£459	+41.23%	6
Surrey	-15	8	£460	+12.20%	5
Buckinghamshire	-29	3	£580	-3.33%	2
Oxfordshire	-	2	£900	-	8
East Sussex	-5	1	£459	-18.76%	2
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GitLab Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitLab also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region with a requirement for GitLab.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	82.5%	66
2	Security Cleared	73.8%	59
3	DevOps	63.8%	51
4	Kubernetes	62.5%	50
5	Terraform	60.0%	48
6	Infrastructure as Code	58.8%	47
7	Python	57.5%	46
8	AWS	56.3%	45
8	Containerisation	56.3%	45
10	Docker	53.8%	43
11	Jenkins	50.0%	40
11	SC Cleared	50.0%	40
13	Ansible	46.3%	37
14	Azure	41.3%	33
15	Git	37.5%	30
16	Linux	35.0%	28
17	Agile	33.8%	27
18	Azure DevOps	32.5%	26
18	Bash	32.5%	26
18	Continuous Improvement	32.5%	26
18	GitHub	32.5%	26
22	DV Cleared	31.3%	25
23	DevSecOps	28.8%	23
23	GitHub Actions	28.8%	23
25	OpenShift	25.0%	20
26	Software Engineering	23.8%	19
27	Vulnerability Management	22.5%	18
28	Configuration Management	21.3%	17
28	Infrastructure Automation	21.3%	17
30	Grafana	20.0%	16

GitLab Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Jenkins	50.0%	40
2	Git	37.5%	30
3	JIRA	15.0%	12
4	MLflow	10.0%	8
5	SonarQube	8.8%	7
6	Artifactory	6.3%	5
7	Sonatype Nexus	3.8%	3
8	Bitbucket	2.5%	2
8	Zephyr	2.5%	2
10	Octopus Deploy	1.3%	1
10	Subversion	1.3%	1