GitLab Contract Job Trends in the North of England

GitLab
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 59 124
Rank change year-on-year -1 +65 -14
Contract jobs citing GitLab 191 127 63
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.14% 3.35% 1.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.90% 22.80% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 83 52
10th Percentile £358 £363 £475
25th Percentile £400 £400 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £454 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% -21.04% -2.54%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £635 £735 £645
England median daily rate £525 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £74.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% -7.50% +20.75%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 872 557 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.91% 14.70% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 349 428
10th Percentile £325 £328 £350
25th Percentile £385 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £589
90th Percentile £632 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 39
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £40.38 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.39% - +0.16%
75th Percentile £63.40 £52.06 £64.38
90th Percentile £79.33 £75.28 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the North of England

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Yorkshire -5 84 £500 +20.63% 28
North West +4 76 £402 -19.60% 26
North East -3 33 £515 - 7
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 16 (8.38%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (7.33%) Confluence
3 2 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
4 1 (0.52%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 142 (74.35%) AWS
2 59 (30.89%) GCP
3 45 (23.56%) Serverless
4 42 (21.99%) GitHub
5 28 (14.66%) Azure
6 23 (12.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (11.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (9.95%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (8.90%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (8.38%) Amazon S3
10 16 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (8.38%) OpenShift
11 15 (7.85%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (6.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (4.71%) AWS KMS
14 9 (4.71%) CloudBees
15 6 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
15 6 (3.14%) Datadog
16 5 (2.62%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.38%) Firewall
2 11 (5.76%) DNS
3 10 (5.24%) VPN
4 6 (3.14%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.62%) SSL
6 4 (2.09%) Network Security
7 3 (1.57%) NAS
7 3 (1.57%) SAN
8 1 (0.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (16.75%) NoSQL
2 27 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.33%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (4.71%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.66%) MySQL
7 5 (2.62%) Big Data
7 5 (2.62%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.09%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.57%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.05%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.05%) Redis
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 117 (61.26%) Jenkins
2 35 (18.32%) Git
3 25 (13.09%) Liquibase
4 21 (10.99%) JIRA
5 17 (8.90%) Cucumber
6 12 (6.28%) JUnit
7 8 (4.19%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.66%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (3.14%) Selenium
9 6 (3.14%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.62%) Maven
10 5 (2.62%) MLflow
11 4 (2.09%) CircleCI
12 3 (1.57%) Mocha
12 3 (1.57%) Mockito
13 2 (1.05%) Android Studio
13 2 (1.05%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.52%) Jaeger
14 1 (0.52%) Postman
General
1 58 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.51%) Finance
3 41 (21.47%) Banking
3 41 (21.47%) Public Sector
4 23 (12.04%) Financial Institution
5 16 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Military
7 4 (2.09%) Games
8 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (25.13%) Developer
2 46 (24.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (15.71%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (14.14%) Senior
5 24 (12.57%) Software Engineer
6 23 (12.04%) Java Developer
7 21 (10.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (8.38%) GCP Engineer
9 15 (7.85%) Automation Engineer
9 15 (7.85%) AWS DevOps
9 15 (7.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (7.33%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.76%) Lead
11 11 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 10 (5.24%) Node.js Developer
12 10 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (5.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (5.24%) Test Engineer
13 9 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.19%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (26.70%) RESTful
2 44 (23.04%) REST
3 42 (21.99%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (16.23%) Node.js
5 28 (14.66%) Spring Boot
6 25 (13.09%) Spring
7 15 (7.85%) Kafka
8 11 (5.76%) HTML
8 11 (5.76%) React
9 10 (5.24%) Jest
10 8 (4.19%) Hibernate
11 6 (3.14%) CSS
11 6 (3.14%) Flask
12 5 (2.62%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.62%) Express.js
12 5 (2.62%) Middleware
12 5 (2.62%) Playwright
12 5 (2.62%) PySpark
13 4 (2.09%) Gherkin
13 4 (2.09%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.85%) Cloud Native
2 35 (18.32%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (14.14%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.81%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.57%) Synthetic Data
6 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (24.61%) Linux
2 4 (2.09%) Windows
3 3 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.05%) Android
4 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (77.49%) CI/CD
2 130 (68.06%) DevOps
3 96 (50.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (43.98%) Containerisation
5 79 (41.36%) Agile
6 68 (35.60%) Microservices
7 53 (27.75%) Test Automation
8 39 (20.42%) Computer Science
8 39 (20.42%) High Availability
8 39 (20.42%) Software Engineering
9 34 (17.80%) Root Cause Analysis
10 33 (17.28%) Continuous Integration
10 33 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (16.75%) Infrastructure Automation
11 32 (16.75%) Non-Functional Testing
12 29 (15.18%) Cost Optimisation
13 28 (14.66%) Cryptography
14 27 (14.14%) Continuous Delivery
15 26 (13.61%) Change Management
15 26 (13.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 106 (55.50%) Python
2 62 (32.46%) Java
3 45 (23.56%) Bash
4 42 (21.99%) Go
5 30 (15.71%) SQL
6 17 (8.90%) JavaScript
7 15 (7.85%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.76%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.14%) Groovy
10 5 (2.62%) Perl
10 5 (2.62%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.09%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.05%) Ruby
12 2 (1.05%) Rust
13 1 (0.52%) Bicep
13 1 (0.52%) C#
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.99%) SC Cleared
3 39 (20.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (20.42%) Degree
4 30 (15.71%) Master's Degree
5 15 (7.85%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.62%) CISM
8 5 (2.62%) CISSP
9 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.52%) QA
2 9 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.62%) NIST
4 4 (2.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 85 (44.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.57%) VMware NSX
2 3 (1.57%) vSphere
3 2 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (59.69%) Terraform
2 94 (49.21%) Kubernetes
3 78 (40.84%) Ansible
4 67 (35.08%) Grafana
5 53 (27.75%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.71%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.62%) Fluentd
7 5 (2.62%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.09%) Packer
9 3 (1.57%) Argo
9 3 (1.57%) Puppet
9 3 (1.57%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.57%) vRealize
10 2 (1.05%) HP Fortify
10 2 (1.05%) Podman
11 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.52%) Istio
11 1 (0.52%) Kibana
11 1 (0.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 49 (25.65%) Splunk
2 19 (9.95%) Google
3 18 (9.42%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.24%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.71%) Commvault
5 9 (4.71%) Veritas
6 8 (4.19%) F5
7 7 (3.66%) Cribl.io
7 7 (3.66%) Oracle
8 6 (3.14%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.62%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.62%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.09%) VMware
11 3 (1.57%) Veracode
12 2 (1.05%) Databricks
13 1 (0.52%) Blue Prism
13 1 (0.52%) Checkmarx
13 1 (0.52%) UiPath
13 1 (0.52%) Zscaler