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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 127 174
Rank change year-on-year -3 +47 +46
Contract jobs citing GitLab 46 52 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.19% 1.27% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.57% 9.96% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 33
10th Percentile £407 £390 £433
25th Percentile £475 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £580
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -19.38% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £688
90th Percentile £660 £652 £700
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -7.56%

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 435 522 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.29% 12.74% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 316 461
10th Percentile £259 £350 £381
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.10% -0.93%
75th Percentile £550 £587 £612
90th Percentile £630 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 30 35
10th Percentile £50.00 £51.23 £50.50
25th Percentile £52.00 £55.87 £54.44
Median hourly rate £60.50 £64.25 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +8.90% -9.23%
75th Percentile £79.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 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 9 November 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 9 November 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 +6 23 £500 +6.93% 16
Thames Valley -13 12 £600 +17.07% 64
Berkshire -5 9 £613 +44.12% 47
Surrey +9 6 £458 - 3
East Sussex 0 4 £565 +22.83% 2
Buckinghamshire +5 3 £600 -5.88% 5
West Sussex -12 1 - -
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 (15.22%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) Appian
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.17%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 21 (45.65%) GitHub
2 15 (32.61%) AWS
3 11 (23.91%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon ECR
4 7 (15.22%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (13.04%) Azure
5 6 (13.04%) GCP
6 5 (10.87%) Tricentis Tosca
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.35%) CloudFront
8 2 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.17%) Datadog
9 1 (2.17%) dbt
9 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.17%) Stackdriver
9 1 (2.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) HTTP
1 2 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (2.17%) BGP
2 1 (2.17%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
2 1 (2.17%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 7 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (13.04%) MongoDB
4 5 (10.87%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (10.87%) Couchbase
5 2 (4.35%) Redis
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.17%) Big Data
6 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 12 (26.09%) Git
2 12 (26.09%) JIRA
3 7 (15.22%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.52%) Maven
5 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.35%) Robot Framework
5 2 (4.35%) Selenium
5 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.17%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.17%) Gatling
6 1 (2.17%) Gradle
6 1 (2.17%) JMeter
6 1 (2.17%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.17%) MLflow
6 1 (2.17%) Mocha
6 1 (2.17%) WiX
General
1 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Aerospace
3 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.35%) Retail
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Developer
2 8 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (15.22%) Senior
4 6 (13.04%) Architect
4 6 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Java Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Java Solutions Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Lead
5 5 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (4.35%) Head of Development
7 2 (4.35%) Project Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Project Leader
7 2 (4.35%) QA Leader
7 2 (4.35%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (17.39%) Kafka
2 8 (17.39%) REST
3 5 (10.87%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 4 (8.70%) Swagger
5 3 (6.52%) Jest
5 3 (6.52%) JSON
5 3 (6.52%) NETCONF
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (6.52%) RESTful
5 3 (6.52%) XML
6 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.35%) CSS
6 2 (4.35%) HTML
6 2 (4.35%) Jinja
6 2 (4.35%) React
6 2 (4.35%) Web Services
6 2 (4.35%) YAML
6 2 (4.35%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (26.09%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Android
3 1 (2.17%) CentOS
3 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (78.26%) CI/CD
2 22 (47.83%) DevOps
3 13 (28.26%) Agile
3 13 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
4 11 (23.91%) Test Automation
5 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (21.74%) Microservices
6 7 (15.22%) Immutable Infrastructure
7 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
7 6 (13.04%) Open Source
8 5 (10.87%) Analytics
8 5 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (10.87%) Impact Analysis
8 5 (10.87%) Observability
8 5 (10.87%) Regression Testing
8 5 (10.87%) Service Delivery
8 5 (10.87%) Software Testing
8 5 (10.87%) TDD
9 4 (8.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) Python
2 13 (28.26%) Java
3 11 (23.91%) JavaScript
4 9 (19.57%) SQL
5 8 (17.39%) Go
6 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
7 5 (10.87%) Bash
8 3 (6.52%) PL/SQL
9 2 (4.35%) Korn
9 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 1 (2.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.57%) DV Cleared
4 6 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (13.04%) Degree
5 3 (6.52%) OCA
5 3 (6.52%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.17%) CCNA
6 1 (2.17%) CCNP
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.17%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Def Stans
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
3 2 (4.35%) NIST
4 1 (2.17%) EU AI Act
4 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (36.96%) Docker
2 4 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (63.04%) Kubernetes
2 19 (41.30%) Terraform
3 13 (28.26%) Grafana
4 12 (26.09%) Prometheus
5 9 (19.57%) Ansible
6 7 (15.22%) Sysdig
7 4 (8.70%) Rundeck
8 3 (6.52%) Proxmox
8 3 (6.52%) Salt
9 2 (4.35%) vRealize
10 1 (2.17%) Kubeflow
10 1 (2.17%) Puppet
10 1 (2.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) VMware
2 5 (10.87%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.52%) Cisco
3 3 (6.52%) Google
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Ab Initio
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.35%) Veracode
5 1 (2.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk