GitLab Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

GitLab
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 60 92
Rank change year-on-year -15 +32 +21
Contract jobs citing GitLab 70 29 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.05% 3.06% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.77% 16.86% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 14 11
10th Percentile £401 £513 -
25th Percentile £458 £553 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -22.45%
75th Percentile £543 £738 £563
90th Percentile £683 £746 £588
England median daily rate £500 £539 £575
% change year-on-year -7.15% -6.35% -4.17%

All Development Application Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 394 172 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.16% 18.14% 10.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 112 116
10th Percentile £318 £355 £356
25th Percentile £408 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +13.64% -16.19%
75th Percentile £538 £585 £490
90th Percentile £594 £704 £588
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.74%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.81% +1.22%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 6 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Yorkshire

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 April 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
South Yorkshire -12 51 £500 -11.11% 1
West Yorkshire -23 21 £450 -37.93% 13
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (1.43%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 60 (85.71%) AWS
2 43 (61.43%) GCP
3 28 (40.00%) Azure
4 19 (27.14%) GitHub
5 18 (25.71%) Serverless
6 9 (12.86%) OpenShift
7 8 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (10.00%) AWS KMS
9 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (7.14%) Apigee
10 5 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (7.14%) SaaS
11 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
12 3 (4.29%) Amazon S3
12 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (4.29%) BrowserStack
13 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (2.86%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) DNS
1 6 (8.57%) Firewall
1 6 (8.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.43%) HTTP
2 1 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.29%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (18.57%) NoSQL
3 12 (17.14%) MongoDB
4 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (7.14%) MySQL
6 4 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.71%) DynamoDB
6 4 (5.71%) Neo4j
6 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.29%) DTS
7 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 63 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 20 (28.57%) JIRA
3 18 (25.71%) Selenium
4 15 (21.43%) Cucumber
4 15 (21.43%) Git
4 15 (21.43%) REST Assured
5 11 (15.71%) Postman
6 8 (11.43%) Gatling
6 8 (11.43%) Liquibase
7 6 (8.57%) JMeter
8 5 (7.14%) TestRail
9 4 (5.71%) CircleCI
9 4 (5.71%) LoadRunner
9 4 (5.71%) NeoLoad
10 3 (4.29%) Cypress.io
10 3 (4.29%) Flyway
10 3 (4.29%) Maven
10 3 (4.29%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.43%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (32.86%) Finance
3 19 (27.14%) Banking
4 8 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 7 (10.00%) Financial Institution
6 5 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.29%) Law
7 3 (4.29%) Legal
7 3 (4.29%) Military
8 1 (1.43%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) GCP Engineer
1 15 (21.43%) Lead
2 14 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (18.57%) Test Engineer
4 11 (15.71%) Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Software Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Test Automation Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Architect
8 6 (8.57%) Java Developer
8 6 (8.57%) Senior
9 5 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (7.14%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Lead Test Engineer
9 5 (7.14%) Node.js Developer
9 5 (7.14%) Test Architect
9 5 (7.14%) Test Automation Architect
10 4 (5.71%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (45.71%) REST
2 16 (22.86%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (21.43%) LDAP
3 15 (21.43%) OpenID
3 15 (21.43%) SailPoint
4 14 (20.00%) RESTful
5 12 (17.14%) Kafka
6 11 (15.71%) Playwright
7 10 (14.29%) Spring
8 9 (12.86%) Node.js
9 6 (8.57%) .NET
9 6 (8.57%) Spring Boot
10 5 (7.14%) Jest
11 3 (4.29%) AWS CDK
11 3 (4.29%) JSON
11 3 (4.29%) React
11 3 (4.29%) Spring Cloud
12 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
12 2 (2.86%) Gherkin
12 2 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) Cloud Native
2 16 (22.86%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (21.43%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.86%) NHS
7 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Life Science
7 1 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.43%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.86%) Linux
2 8 (11.43%) Windows
3 5 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 54 (77.14%) DevOps
3 38 (54.29%) Containerisation
4 31 (44.29%) Agile
4 31 (44.29%) Test Automation
5 30 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (32.86%) Microservices
7 17 (24.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 14 (20.00%) Test Strategy
9 13 (18.57%) API Testing
9 13 (18.57%) High Availability
9 13 (18.57%) Software Engineering
10 12 (17.14%) BDD
10 12 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (17.14%) Cryptography
10 12 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (17.14%) ETL
10 12 (17.14%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (17.14%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (61.43%) Python
2 36 (51.43%) Java
3 23 (32.86%) SQL
4 19 (27.14%) Go
5 16 (22.86%) TypeScript
6 14 (20.00%) Bash
7 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.14%) PHP
8 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 5 (7.14%) Scala
9 4 (5.71%) Cypher
9 4 (5.71%) Groovy
9 4 (5.71%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.29%) Kotlin
10 3 (4.29%) Ruby
11 2 (2.86%) C#
12 1 (1.43%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (20.00%) Degree
3 11 (15.71%) Master's Degree
4 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.71%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) SLA
3 4 (5.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.43%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 34 (48.57%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (55.71%) Terraform
2 38 (54.29%) Kubernetes
3 29 (41.43%) Grafana
4 28 (40.00%) Ansible
5 22 (31.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.29%) Foglight
7 2 (2.86%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.43%) Kibana
8 1 (1.43%) logstash
8 1 (1.43%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (37.14%) Splunk
2 21 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 14 (20.00%) Google
4 5 (7.14%) Oracle
5 3 (4.29%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.29%) Databricks
5 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.43%) Commvault
7 1 (1.43%) Veritas