GitLab Contracts in the South East

GitLab
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 146 178
Rank change year-on-year +27 +32 +35
Contract jobs citing GitLab 42 57 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.25% 1.02% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.47% 9.88% 4.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 37 17
10th Percentile £313 £420 £481
25th Percentile £463 £510 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% -1.25% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £660 £703 £715
England median daily rate £501 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.00% -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.22 £59.80
% change year-on-year -9.73% +24.11% +10.23%

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 401 577 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.94% 10.31% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 347 486
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £404 £400 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £553 £619 £623
90th Percentile £619 £671 £698
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 42 42
10th Percentile £47.50 £44.67 £44.98
25th Percentile £50.00 £55.87 £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £69.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £74.88
England median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% +4.00% +13.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 15 July 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 +20 27 £500 -23.08% 22
Berkshire +30 22 £500 -23.04% 10
Hampshire +20 11 £600 +7.87% 13
Buckinghamshire - 5 £286 - 7
Surrey +23 3 £533 +18.33% 6
West Sussex -6 1 £325 -43.48% 2
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 10 (23.81%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 22 (52.38%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) GCP
4 9 (21.43%) GitHub
5 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.76%) Miro
6 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.38%) CloudFront
7 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) BGP
1 3 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (4.76%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.76%) HTTP
2 2 (4.76%) IPv6
2 2 (4.76%) OSPF
2 2 (4.76%) SAN
2 2 (4.76%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (4.76%) TACACS
2 2 (4.76%) VSAN
3 1 (2.38%) MPLS
3 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.52%) MySQL
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.38%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 26 (61.90%) Jenkins
2 25 (59.52%) JIRA
3 13 (30.95%) Cucumber
3 13 (30.95%) REST Assured
3 13 (30.95%) Selenium
4 9 (21.43%) SonarQube
5 8 (19.05%) Git
6 6 (14.29%) Bitbucket
6 6 (14.29%) Eclipse
6 6 (14.29%) GoogleTest
6 6 (14.29%) Robot Framework
7 2 (4.76%) DBeaver
8 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Law
4 4 (9.52%) Police
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 15 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Developer
3 10 (23.81%) Java Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
5 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Architect
7 4 (9.52%) Java Architect
7 4 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Java Solutions Architect
7 4 (9.52%) Python Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Senior
7 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) DBA
9 2 (4.76%) GCP DevOps
9 2 (4.76%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (38.10%) REST
2 14 (33.33%) Java EE
3 9 (21.43%) ARM Templates
4 3 (7.14%) Django
4 3 (7.14%) FastAPI
4 3 (7.14%) Flask
4 3 (7.14%) RESTful
4 3 (7.14%) YAML
5 2 (4.76%) JSON
5 2 (4.76%) React
5 2 (4.76%) Web Services
6 1 (2.38%) CSS
6 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.38%) HTML
6 1 (2.38%) Jest
6 1 (2.38%) NETCONF
6 1 (2.38%) RESTCONF
6 1 (2.38%) SOAP
6 1 (2.38%) XML
6 1 (2.38%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) CentOS
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) DevOps
2 19 (45.24%) Software Engineering
3 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (38.10%) Configuration Management
5 15 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 15 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 15 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 13 (30.95%) Software Architecture
8 11 (26.19%) Migration
8 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (23.81%) Agile
10 9 (21.43%) Decision-Making
11 8 (19.05%) Scrum
12 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
12 5 (11.90%) Microservices
13 4 (9.52%) Impact Analysis
13 4 (9.52%) Service Delivery
14 3 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (45.24%) Java
2 8 (19.05%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) C++
4 5 (11.90%) SQL
5 2 (4.76%) Go
5 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) Korn
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (59.52%) Security Cleared
2 21 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.76%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Ceph
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 17 (40.48%) Terraform
3 13 (30.95%) Ansible
4 9 (21.43%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (21.43%) Podman
5 2 (4.76%) Argo
5 2 (4.76%) Grafana
5 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Google
2 7 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 6 (14.29%) Intel
4 3 (7.14%) Cisco
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle
5 2 (4.76%) Ab Initio
5 2 (4.76%) Dell
5 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.38%) IBM
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) VMware