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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 59 74
Rank change year-on-year -49 +15 +69
Contract jobs citing GitLab 187 176 100
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.41% 4.21% 2.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.28% 21.00% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 135 61
10th Percentile £363 £360 £360
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% +12.00% -19.05%
75th Percentile £592 £538 £580
90th Percentile £650 £627 £638
England median daily rate £500 £520 £543
% change year-on-year -3.80% -4.15% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £85.00
75th Percentile £61.33 - £87.50
90th Percentile £68.13 - -
England median hourly rate £66.61 £67.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year -0.59% -9.46% -7.50%

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 970 838 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.50% 20.03% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 623 363
10th Percentile £356 £329 £350
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 8 16
10th Percentile £31.43 £38.10 £37.55
25th Percentile £50.00 £39.00 £44.02
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.70 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +25.67% +20.61% -
75th Percentile - £65.05 £49.31
90th Percentile £77.00 £70.05 £65.09
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 October 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in the North of England

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 15 October 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
North West -32 81 £569 +41.54% 74
North East -3 78 £413 -28.26% 29
Yorkshire -76 39 £550 +10.00% 25
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 31 (16.58%) Apache Airflow
1 31 (16.58%) Apache Spark
2 30 (16.04%) Apache
3 27 (14.44%) Jupyter
4 14 (7.49%) Confluence
5 5 (2.67%) Camunda
6 2 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.53%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.53%) nginx
7 1 (0.53%) SAS
7 1 (0.53%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 143 (76.47%) AWS
2 61 (32.62%) Azure
3 42 (22.46%) GitHub
4 33 (17.65%) OCI
5 28 (14.97%) Amazon S3
6 25 (13.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (11.23%) Serverless
9 19 (10.16%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (9.63%) GCP
11 17 (9.09%) SaaS
12 14 (7.49%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (7.49%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (6.42%) Amazon ECR
13 12 (6.42%) Amazon EMR
13 12 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (5.88%) Kong
15 10 (5.35%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.44%) Firewall
2 20 (10.70%) BGP
2 20 (10.70%) Ethernet VPN
2 20 (10.70%) OSPF
2 20 (10.70%) SD-WAN
2 20 (10.70%) VXLAN
2 20 (10.70%) WAN
3 19 (10.16%) BIG-IP
3 19 (10.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 11 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (5.88%) WLAN
5 8 (4.28%) DNS
5 8 (4.28%) Network Security
6 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.60%) HTTP
7 3 (1.60%) VPN
8 2 (1.07%) SSL
9 1 (0.53%) DMZ
9 1 (0.53%) Internet
9 1 (0.53%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.25%) MongoDB
2 29 (15.51%) Relational Database
3 22 (11.76%) RDBMS
4 15 (8.02%) Oracle Database
5 13 (6.95%) SQL Server
6 11 (5.88%) Oracle Exadata
7 10 (5.35%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (5.35%) DynamoDB
7 10 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (5.35%) Redis
8 8 (4.28%) DocumentDB
9 7 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.74%) Big Data
10 6 (3.21%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.67%) Hazelcast
11 5 (2.67%) MySQL
12 4 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (2.14%) Parquet
13 3 (1.60%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.60%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 61 (32.62%) Jenkins
2 42 (22.46%) Git
3 15 (8.02%) Selenium
4 13 (6.95%) JIRA
4 13 (6.95%) Maven
4 13 (6.95%) REST Assured
5 10 (5.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (4.81%) Cucumber
6 9 (4.81%) Gatling
6 9 (4.81%) Gradle
7 8 (4.28%) Claude Code
8 7 (3.74%) Serenity BDD
8 7 (3.74%) SonarQube
9 6 (3.21%) JUnit
10 5 (2.67%) Postman
10 5 (2.67%) WebDriver
11 4 (2.14%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.14%) JMeter
11 4 (2.14%) Mockito
11 4 (2.14%) Snyk
General
1 69 (36.90%) Public Sector
2 33 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 20 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.56%) Finance
5 11 (5.88%) Military
6 10 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.28%) Banking
8 4 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Publishing
10 2 (1.07%) Legal
10 2 (1.07%) Retail
11 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
Job Titles
1 55 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (27.27%) Senior
3 37 (19.79%) Developer
4 27 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (13.37%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (13.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (10.16%) Test Engineer
7 17 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (8.02%) Lead
9 11 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.28%) Python Developer
12 7 (3.74%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.74%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.74%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Data Engineer
13 6 (3.21%) Lead Test Engineer
14 5 (2.67%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (68.45%) Terraform
2 41 (21.93%) Kafka
3 28 (14.97%) Spring Boot
4 24 (12.83%) Spring
5 22 (11.76%) REST
6 18 (9.63%) JSON
7 15 (8.02%) Node.js
8 14 (7.49%) Playwright
9 11 (5.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 11 (5.88%) PySpark
10 10 (5.35%) JPA
10 10 (5.35%) React
11 7 (3.74%) Express.js
11 7 (3.74%) Jest
11 7 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (3.74%) RESTful
12 6 (3.21%) HTML
12 6 (3.21%) WireMock
13 5 (2.67%) Nunjucks
13 5 (2.67%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.86%) Cloud Native
2 21 (11.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (9.63%) Data Centre
4 17 (9.09%) Data Structures
5 14 (7.49%) Product Ownership
5 14 (7.49%) Public Cloud
6 9 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (4.28%) Algorithms
8 7 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.14%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.14%) Autonomous Agent
10 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.60%) NHS
10 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.07%) PKI
12 1 (0.53%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.97%) Linux
2 11 (5.88%) AIX
3 7 (3.74%) Unix
4 3 (1.60%) CentOS
4 3 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.60%) Windows
5 1 (0.53%) Android
5 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (83.96%) CI/CD
2 133 (71.12%) DevOps
3 118 (63.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (33.69%) Containerisation
5 58 (31.02%) Agile
6 49 (26.20%) Test Automation
7 32 (17.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 30 (16.04%) Microservices
8 30 (16.04%) Observability
9 28 (14.97%) Validation
10 27 (14.44%) AI
11 24 (12.83%) Load Balancing
12 23 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 23 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (11.23%) Data Engineering
13 21 (11.23%) Migration
14 20 (10.70%) Infrastructure Automation
14 20 (10.70%) Software Engineering
14 20 (10.70%) Zero Trust
15 18 (9.63%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 91 (48.66%) Python
2 43 (22.99%) Java
3 41 (21.93%) SQL
4 25 (13.37%) Bash
5 18 (9.63%) PowerShell
6 16 (8.56%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.49%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.21%) C#
8 6 (3.21%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.67%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (2.14%) Go
11 3 (1.60%) Cypher
12 2 (1.07%) Bicep
12 2 (1.07%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (1.07%) Groovy
13 1 (0.53%) Perl
13 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 88 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 73 (39.04%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.81%) Degree
5 6 (3.21%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.21%) CISSP
6 5 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.67%) GCFA
6 5 (2.67%) GCIH
7 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.53%) CCIE
9 1 (0.53%) CCNP
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.53%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.53%) GIAC
9 1 (0.53%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.63%) QA
2 10 (5.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.67%) GDPR
3 5 (2.67%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.53%) NCSC
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (43.32%) Docker
2 12 (6.42%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (33.16%) Ansible
1 62 (33.16%) Kubernetes
2 28 (14.97%) Grafana
3 26 (13.90%) Prometheus
4 12 (6.42%) Data Guard
4 12 (6.42%) Oracle RMAN
5 9 (4.81%) Progress Chef
6 8 (4.28%) Argo
7 5 (2.67%) CASB
7 5 (2.67%) Packer
7 5 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.14%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.60%) Consul
9 3 (1.60%) Kibana
9 3 (1.60%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.07%) Istio
10 2 (1.07%) Puppet
11 1 (0.53%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.53%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (11.23%) Palo Alto
2 20 (10.70%) F5
3 18 (9.63%) Arista
3 18 (9.63%) Aruba
3 18 (9.63%) Oracle
4 16 (8.56%) Splunk
5 14 (7.49%) Trend Micro
6 9 (4.81%) Microsoft
7 7 (3.74%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.21%) Databricks
9 5 (2.67%) Confluent
9 5 (2.67%) Cribl.io
9 5 (2.67%) Google
9 5 (2.67%) Veracode
10 4 (2.14%) IBM
10 4 (2.14%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.60%) Cisco
12 2 (1.07%) Foundry
12 2 (1.07%) Palantir
12 2 (1.07%) Tenable