GitLab Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

GitLab
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield 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 28 44 47
Rank change year-on-year +16 +3 +11
Contract jobs citing GitLab 60 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 8.66% 1.70% 1.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.69% 6.98% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 5 3
10th Percentile £406 £415 £393
25th Percentile £450 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £530 £538 £588
90th Percentile £538 £673 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% -17.86%

All Development Application Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 243 86 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 35.06% 24.43% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 59 34
10th Percentile £319 £407 £383
25th Percentile £400 £458 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% +19.83% -25.43%
75th Percentile £530 £600 £534
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £523 £438
% change year-on-year -7.75% +19.26% -24.46%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Sheffield

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Sheffield

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 10 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 43 (71.67%) AWS
2 42 (70.00%) GCP
3 30 (50.00%) Serverless
4 9 (15.00%) CloudBees
5 8 (13.33%) AWS KMS
6 7 (11.67%) Azure
7 6 (10.00%) OpenShift
8 5 (8.33%) GitHub
9 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.67%) Apigee
11 1 (1.67%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.67%) Kong
11 1 (1.67%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) DNS
1 4 (6.67%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) NAS
2 3 (5.00%) SAN
3 1 (1.67%) HTTP
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (51.67%) NoSQL
2 20 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 58 (96.67%) Jenkins
2 25 (41.67%) Liquibase
3 10 (16.67%) JIRA
4 5 (8.33%) Git
5 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.67%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.67%) Travis CI
General
1 37 (61.67%) Social Skills
2 34 (56.67%) Banking
3 33 (55.00%) Finance
4 23 (38.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 16 (26.67%) GCP Engineer
2 16 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (18.33%) Senior
5 11 (18.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (13.33%) AWS Software Engineer
7 8 (13.33%) Data Protection Engineer
7 8 (13.33%) Developer
8 7 (11.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 7 (11.67%) Data Engineer
9 6 (10.00%) Python Engineer
10 5 (8.33%) GCP Software Engineer
11 4 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (5.00%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (53.33%) RESTful
2 31 (51.67%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (51.67%) REST
3 3 (5.00%) Middleware
3 3 (5.00%) Node.js
4 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.33%) CSS
4 2 (3.33%) CSS3
4 2 (3.33%) Express.js
4 2 (3.33%) HTML
4 2 (3.33%) HTML5
4 2 (3.33%) MEAN Stack
4 2 (3.33%) NestJS
4 2 (3.33%) NgRx
4 2 (3.33%) Sass
5 1 (1.67%) Flask
5 1 (1.67%) JSON
5 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.67%) Spring
5 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (58.33%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (45.00%) Public Cloud
3 26 (43.33%) Cloud Native
4 10 (16.67%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 35 (58.33%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (93.33%) CI/CD
1 56 (93.33%) DevOps
2 45 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 44 (73.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (53.33%) Agile
4 32 (53.33%) Computer Science
5 31 (51.67%) Microservices
6 28 (46.67%) Cryptography
6 28 (46.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 27 (45.00%) Cost Optimisation
8 26 (43.33%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (41.67%) Change Management
9 25 (41.67%) Continuous Delivery
9 25 (41.67%) Non-Functional Testing
10 23 (38.33%) High Availability
10 23 (38.33%) Software Engineering
11 22 (36.67%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (36.67%) Data Security
12 21 (35.00%) Infrastructure Automation
13 19 (31.67%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 56 (93.33%) Python
2 33 (55.00%) Go
3 16 (26.67%) Bash
4 8 (13.33%) Java
5 6 (10.00%) SQL
6 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.33%) Groovy
8 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (53.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 32 (53.33%) Degree
2 30 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 11 (18.33%) AWS Certification
4 8 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 29 (48.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (78.33%) Ansible
2 46 (76.67%) Terraform
3 41 (68.33%) Kubernetes
4 32 (53.33%) Grafana
4 32 (53.33%) Prometheus
5 9 (15.00%) NetBackup
6 3 (5.00%) vCenter Server
6 3 (5.00%) vRealize
7 1 (1.67%) Argo
7 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.67%) Kibana
7 1 (1.67%) logstash
7 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (50.00%) Splunk
2 18 (30.00%) Google
3 9 (15.00%) Commvault
3 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (15.00%) Red Hat
3 9 (15.00%) Veritas
4 4 (6.67%) VMware
5 3 (5.00%) F5