GitLab Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

GitLab
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 24 28
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 -
Contract jobs citing GitLab 3 1 12
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.02% 0.69% 4.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.52% 5.56% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £466 - £354
25th Percentile £476 £313 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £325 £575
Median % change year-on-year +51.38% -43.48% -
75th Percentile £509 £338 £588
90th Percentile £518 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £598
% change year-on-year +4.71% -12.09% +3.46%

All Development Application Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 46 18 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 15.59% 12.50% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 15 27
10th Percentile £278 £289 £290
25th Percentile £280 £331 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 £386 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -9.18% -24.78%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £588
90th Percentile £575 £565 £593
South East median daily rate £497 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -0.55% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.54
25th Percentile - - £19.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £25.94
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.04%
75th Percentile - - £33.58
90th Percentile - - £37.58
South East median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +50.91% -12.00% +10.91%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

GitLab job vacancy trend in West Sussex

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Worthing - 2 £492 - 3
Crawley - 1 - -
GitLab
South East

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Military
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Salt
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Denodo
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Talend
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft