Gatling Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Gatling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Gatling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 345 396
Rank change year-on-year -31 +51 +77
Contract jobs citing Gatling 18 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.099% 0.014% 0.041%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.68% 0.11% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 7
10th Percentile £307 - £375
25th Percentile £320 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +41.18% -
75th Percentile £472 - £438
90th Percentile £560 - £503
UK median daily rate £525 £584 £438
% change year-on-year -10.06% +33.43% +2.94%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Gatling 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,656 1,902 2,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.55% 13.04% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,832 1,145 1,641
10th Percentile £319 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £399 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% -6.34% -2.29%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £538
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.67% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 68 175
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.81 £53.31 £51.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £75.08 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

Gatling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Gatling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Gatling job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Gatling
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Gatling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Gatling

Gatling
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Gatling in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Gatling in the UK excluding London

Gatling
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gatling within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
South East - 9 £320 - 17
North of England -43 5 £413 -31.25% 13
West Midlands - 3 - - 5
Midlands - 3 - - 6
North East - 3 £475 -
North West - 2 £340 - 4
East of England - 1 £450 - 8
Gatling
UK

Gatling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.56%) Big Data
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) HBase
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) JMeter
2 8 (44.44%) Cucumber
3 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 7 (38.89%) LoadRunner
4 5 (27.78%) GitLab
4 5 (27.78%) Selenium
5 3 (16.67%) Git
5 3 (16.67%) Gradle
5 3 (16.67%) JUnit
6 2 (11.11%) JIRA
6 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (11.11%) TestRail
7 1 (5.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
7 1 (5.56%) Postman
7 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
7 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (5.56%) TestNG
7 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Test Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Performance Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) Testing Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 3 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Spring
2 4 (22.22%) Playwright
2 4 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 3 (16.67%) Gherkin
4 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (11.11%) REST
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Batch
4 2 (11.11%) WireMock
5 1 (5.56%) .NET
5 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (5.56%) JPA
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) Puppeteer
5 1 (5.56%) React
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 14 (77.78%) Performance Testing
3 12 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 9 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 6 (33.33%) Agile
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Incident Response
6 5 (27.78%) Performance Metrics
6 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (27.78%) Task Automation
7 4 (22.22%) API Testing
7 4 (22.22%) BDD
7 4 (22.22%) OWASP
7 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (22.22%) Security Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Test Management
8 3 (16.67%) Migration
8 3 (16.67%) Scrum
8 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 2 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 2 (11.11%) OCP
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 5 (27.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Grafana
2 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 6 (33.33%) Terraform
3 5 (27.78%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 2 (11.11%) PagerDuty
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) New Relic