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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 56 124
Rank change year-on-year +2 +68 -13
Contract jobs citing GitLab 206 123 65
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.44% 3.43% 1.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.22% 23.47% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 80 54
10th Percentile £361 £362 £475
25th Percentile £400 £398 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £494 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -14.13% -2.54%
75th Percentile £538 £614 £625
90th Percentile £632 £738 £645
England median daily rate £520 £565 £558
% change year-on-year -7.96% +1.35% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £39.53 - -
25th Percentile £49.26 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% - -
75th Percentile £61.81 £87.50 -
90th Percentile £65.45 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £74.22 -
% change year-on-year -12.42% - -

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 887 524 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.13% 14.63% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 332 428
10th Percentile £325 £325 £354
25th Percentile £391 £393 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £598
90th Percentile £634 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 39
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £43.26 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - +0.16%
75th Percentile £65.13 £52.06 £64.38
90th Percentile £72.98 £75.28 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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 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
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 December 2025.

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 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 +2 88 £500 +17.65% 27
North West -1 88 £420 -16.00% 22
North East -8 34 £500 -3.85% 8
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 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (6.31%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.49%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 149 (72.33%) AWS
2 65 (31.55%) GCP
3 45 (21.84%) Serverless
4 43 (20.87%) GitHub
5 35 (16.99%) Azure
6 23 (11.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (8.25%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (7.77%) OpenShift
11 15 (7.28%) Amazon S3
12 14 (6.80%) Amazon ECS
13 13 (6.31%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (5.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (4.37%) AWS KMS
15 9 (4.37%) CloudBees
16 7 (3.40%) Datadog
17 6 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
18 5 (2.43%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.77%) Firewall
2 11 (5.34%) DNS
3 10 (4.85%) VPN
4 6 (2.91%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.43%) SSL
6 4 (1.94%) Network Security
7 3 (1.46%) NAS
7 3 (1.46%) SAN
8 1 (0.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.02%) NoSQL
2 27 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.28%) MongoDB
4 12 (5.83%) MySQL
5 10 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (4.37%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.40%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.43%) Big Data
8 5 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.94%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.97%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.97%) Redis
11 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.49%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 121 (58.74%) Jenkins
2 38 (18.45%) Git
3 25 (12.14%) JIRA
3 25 (12.14%) Liquibase
4 21 (10.19%) Cucumber
5 10 (4.85%) Cypress.io
5 10 (4.85%) JUnit
5 10 (4.85%) Selenium
6 7 (3.40%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.91%) CircleCI
7 6 (2.91%) Gradle
7 6 (2.91%) IntelliJ
7 6 (2.91%) Postman
7 6 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (2.43%) MLflow
8 5 (2.43%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.43%) TestRail
9 4 (1.94%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.94%) Maven
9 4 (1.94%) Mocha
General
1 58 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.33%) Public Sector
3 43 (20.87%) Finance
4 41 (19.90%) Banking
5 23 (11.17%) Financial Institution
6 17 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.43%) Military
8 4 (1.94%) Games
9 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (24.27%) Developer
2 48 (23.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (14.56%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (14.56%) Software Engineer
4 28 (13.59%) Senior
5 23 (11.17%) Java Developer
6 21 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (7.77%) GCP Engineer
8 15 (7.28%) Automation Engineer
8 15 (7.28%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (7.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.80%) Data Engineer
9 14 (6.80%) Lead
9 14 (6.80%) Test Engineer
10 11 (5.34%) Java Engineer
10 11 (5.34%) Node.js Developer
10 11 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (4.85%) Java Software Engineer
11 10 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (26.70%) REST
2 49 (23.79%) RESTful
3 42 (20.39%) Elastic Stack
4 35 (16.99%) Spring Boot
5 34 (16.50%) Node.js
5 34 (16.50%) Spring
6 16 (7.77%) Kafka
7 13 (6.31%) React
8 11 (5.34%) Jest
9 10 (4.85%) HTML
10 7 (3.40%) Hibernate
10 7 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (3.40%) Playwright
11 6 (2.91%) Express.js
11 6 (2.91%) Flask
11 6 (2.91%) GraphQL
12 5 (2.43%) .NET
12 5 (2.43%) AngularJS
12 5 (2.43%) OpenID
12 5 (2.43%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (16.99%) Cloud Native
1 35 (16.99%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (13.11%) Public Cloud
3 14 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.46%) Synthetic Data
5 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (22.82%) Linux
2 4 (1.94%) Windows
3 3 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.97%) VMS
5 1 (0.49%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (76.70%) CI/CD
2 138 (66.99%) DevOps
3 96 (46.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (43.20%) Containerisation
5 81 (39.32%) Agile
6 70 (33.98%) Microservices
7 60 (29.13%) Test Automation
8 46 (22.33%) Software Engineering
9 39 (18.93%) Computer Science
9 39 (18.93%) High Availability
10 35 (16.99%) Root Cause Analysis
11 33 (16.02%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (15.53%) Infrastructure Automation
12 32 (15.53%) Non-Functional Testing
12 32 (15.53%) TDD
13 29 (14.08%) Cost Optimisation
14 28 (13.59%) Cryptography
15 27 (13.11%) Continuous Delivery
16 26 (12.62%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 109 (52.91%) Python
2 73 (35.44%) Java
3 44 (21.36%) Bash
4 42 (20.39%) Go
5 35 (16.99%) SQL
6 24 (11.65%) JavaScript
7 17 (8.25%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.34%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.88%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.91%) Groovy
10 6 (2.91%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.43%) Perl
11 5 (2.43%) PHP
12 2 (0.97%) Bicep
12 2 (0.97%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.97%) Ruby
12 2 (0.97%) Rust
12 2 (0.97%) Swift
13 1 (0.49%) C#
13 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 42 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 39 (18.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (18.93%) Degree
4 30 (14.56%) Master's Degree
5 15 (7.28%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.43%) CISM
8 5 (2.43%) CISSP
9 4 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.46%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (14.08%) QA
2 16 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.91%) WCAG
4 5 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.43%) NIST
System Software
1 87 (42.23%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.46%) VMware NSX
2 3 (1.46%) vSphere
3 2 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (55.34%) Terraform
2 101 (49.03%) Kubernetes
3 77 (37.38%) Ansible
4 75 (36.41%) Grafana
5 55 (26.70%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.37%) NetBackup
7 5 (2.43%) Fluentd
7 5 (2.43%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.94%) Packer
9 3 (1.46%) Argo
9 3 (1.46%) Puppet
9 3 (1.46%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.46%) vRealize
10 2 (0.97%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.97%) Podman
11 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.49%) Istio
11 1 (0.49%) Kibana
11 1 (0.49%) logstash
Vendors
1 48 (23.30%) Splunk
2 19 (9.22%) Google
3 18 (8.74%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.85%) Red Hat
5 9 (4.37%) Commvault
5 9 (4.37%) Veritas
6 8 (3.88%) F5
6 8 (3.88%) Oracle
7 7 (3.40%) Cribl.io
8 6 (2.91%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.43%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.43%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.43%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.94%) VMware
11 2 (0.97%) Veracode
12 1 (0.49%) Blue Prism
12 1 (0.49%) Checkmarx
12 1 (0.49%) Databricks
12 1 (0.49%) UiPath
12 1 (0.49%) Zscaler