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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 52 90
Rank change year-on-year +7 +38 +34
Contract jobs citing GitLab 94 36 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.99% 3.17% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.71% 18.65% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 24 12
10th Percentile £400 £381 £368
25th Percentile £450 £395 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.82% -27.78%
75th Percentile £535 £728 £588
90th Percentile £581 £746 -
England median daily rate £525 £565 £551
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.54% -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 433 193 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.98% 16.97% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 131 153
10th Percentile £345 £381 £357
25th Percentile £400 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +13.64% -20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £642 £725 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.44%
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 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
South Yorkshire +9 71 £500 - 22
West Yorkshire -28 24 £500 +17.65% 20
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 10 (10.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 76 (80.85%) AWS
2 55 (58.51%) GCP
3 34 (36.17%) Serverless
4 21 (22.34%) Azure
5 12 (12.77%) GitHub
6 11 (11.70%) AWS KMS
7 9 (9.57%) CloudBees
8 8 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (8.51%) Amazon S3
8 8 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.38%) OpenShift
11 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.32%) SaaS
12 4 (4.26%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (3.19%) Apigee
13 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.83%) DNS
1 13 (13.83%) Firewall
2 10 (10.64%) TCP/IP
3 5 (5.32%) VPN
4 4 (4.26%) SSL
5 3 (3.19%) NAS
5 3 (3.19%) Network Security
5 3 (3.19%) SAN
6 1 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (34.04%) NoSQL
2 26 (27.66%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (15.96%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.38%) MySQL
5 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (93.62%) Jenkins
2 25 (26.60%) Liquibase
3 20 (21.28%) JIRA
4 18 (19.15%) Git
5 14 (14.89%) Cucumber
6 9 (9.57%) Selenium
7 7 (7.45%) REST Assured
8 6 (6.38%) Cypress.io
9 5 (5.32%) Postman
9 5 (5.32%) TestRail
10 4 (4.26%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.13%) Maven
11 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (1.06%) Jaeger
12 1 (1.06%) Mocha
12 1 (1.06%) Travis CI
General
1 49 (52.13%) Social Skills
2 40 (42.55%) Banking
3 38 (40.43%) Finance
4 23 (24.47%) Financial Institution
5 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Law
7 3 (3.19%) Military
8 1 (1.06%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Senior
2 22 (23.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (19.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (19.15%) Software Engineer
4 16 (17.02%) GCP Engineer
5 14 (14.89%) Developer
6 12 (12.77%) Automation Engineer
6 12 (12.77%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (11.70%) Lead
7 11 (11.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (10.64%) Test Engineer
9 9 (9.57%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (9.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (8.51%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (8.51%) Data Protection Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Data Engineer
12 6 (6.38%) Node.js Developer
12 6 (6.38%) Python Engineer
13 5 (5.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (41.49%) REST
2 33 (35.11%) Elastic Stack
3 32 (34.04%) RESTful
4 12 (12.77%) Node.js
5 7 (7.45%) Kafka
5 7 (7.45%) LDAP
5 7 (7.45%) OpenID
5 7 (7.45%) SailPoint
6 5 (5.32%) .NET
6 5 (5.32%) Spring
7 4 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.26%) Playwright
8 3 (3.19%) Express.js
8 3 (3.19%) Jest
8 3 (3.19%) Middleware
8 3 (3.19%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.13%) CSS
9 2 (2.13%) HTML
9 2 (2.13%) MEAN Stack
9 2 (2.13%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 35 (37.23%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (28.72%) Cloud Native
2 27 (28.72%) Public Cloud
3 11 (11.70%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 41 (43.62%) Linux
2 9 (9.57%) Windows
3 5 (5.32%) Unix
4 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (88.30%) CI/CD
2 79 (84.04%) DevOps
3 54 (57.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (56.38%) Containerisation
5 45 (47.87%) Agile
6 40 (42.55%) Microservices
7 36 (38.30%) Root Cause Analysis
8 32 (34.04%) Computer Science
9 30 (31.91%) Test Automation
10 29 (30.85%) Continuous Integration
11 28 (29.79%) Cryptography
11 28 (29.79%) Infrastructure Automation
12 27 (28.72%) Cost Optimisation
12 27 (28.72%) High Availability
12 27 (28.72%) Non-Functional Testing
12 27 (28.72%) Software Engineering
13 25 (26.60%) Change Management
13 25 (26.60%) Continuous Delivery
13 25 (26.60%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (23.40%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 71 (75.53%) Python
2 36 (38.30%) Go
3 33 (35.11%) Java
4 27 (28.72%) Bash
5 18 (19.15%) SQL
6 12 (12.77%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.57%) TypeScript
8 8 (8.51%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.32%) PHP
9 5 (5.32%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.19%) Groovy
11 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.06%) C#
12 1 (1.06%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (34.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 32 (34.04%) Degree
2 30 (31.91%) Master's Degree
3 16 (17.02%) Security Cleared
4 11 (11.70%) AWS Certification
5 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
6 8 (8.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) QA
2 5 (5.32%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.32%) SLA
3 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (47.87%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.19%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (67.02%) Terraform
2 60 (63.83%) Ansible
3 51 (54.26%) Kubernetes
4 46 (48.94%) Grafana
5 34 (36.17%) Prometheus
6 9 (9.57%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.19%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.19%) vRealize
8 2 (2.13%) HP Fortify
8 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.13%) Puppet
9 1 (1.06%) Argo
9 1 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.06%) Kibana
9 1 (1.06%) logstash
Vendors
1 42 (44.68%) Splunk
2 18 (19.15%) Google
3 10 (10.64%) ServiceNow
4 9 (9.57%) Commvault
4 9 (9.57%) Microsoft
4 9 (9.57%) Red Hat
4 9 (9.57%) Veritas
5 7 (7.45%) F5
6 5 (5.32%) Oracle
7 4 (4.26%) CheckPoint
7 4 (4.26%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.26%) VMware
8 3 (3.19%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.06%) Databricks
9 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.06%) Zscaler