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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 49 95
Rank change year-on-year -5 +46 +35
Contract jobs citing GitLab 84 44 15
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.63% 3.45% 0.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.86% 19.13% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 32 11
10th Percentile £400 £381 £356
25th Percentile £450 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% -12.74% -32.14%
75th Percentile £537 £563 £544
90th Percentile £725 £738 £588
England median daily rate £525 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -4.35%

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 423 230 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.29% 18.04% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 155 150
10th Percentile £345 £381 £356
25th Percentile £400 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £550
90th Percentile £649 £660 £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 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

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 8 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 8 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 +13 60 £500 - 20
West Yorkshire -28 25 £525 +31.25% 17
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 (11.90%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 66 (78.57%) AWS
2 43 (51.19%) GCP
3 34 (40.48%) Serverless
4 10 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (10.71%) Azure
5 9 (10.71%) CloudBees
5 9 (10.71%) GitHub
6 8 (9.52%) Amazon S3
6 8 (9.52%) AWS KMS
7 6 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
8 5 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.57%) Apigee
10 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.52%) DNS
1 8 (9.52%) Firewall
2 5 (5.95%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.95%) VPN
3 4 (4.76%) SSL
4 3 (3.57%) NAS
4 3 (3.57%) Network Security
4 3 (3.57%) SAN
5 1 (1.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.90%) NoSQL
2 21 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.90%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 78 (92.86%) Jenkins
2 25 (29.76%) Liquibase
3 12 (14.29%) Git
4 10 (11.90%) JIRA
5 7 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 6 (7.14%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.38%) Maven
7 2 (2.38%) Selenium
7 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.19%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.19%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.19%) Mocha
8 1 (1.19%) Travis CI
General
1 44 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 34 (40.48%) Banking
3 33 (39.29%) Finance
4 23 (27.38%) Financial Institution
5 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Military
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (26.19%) Senior
3 18 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 16 (19.05%) GCP Engineer
5 13 (15.48%) Developer
6 12 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
6 12 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (13.10%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) AWS Software Engineer
9 8 (9.52%) Data Protection Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 7 (8.33%) Data Engineer
11 6 (7.14%) Python Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
12 5 (5.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 5 (5.95%) Node.js Developer
12 5 (5.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (39.29%) Elastic Stack
2 32 (38.10%) REST
2 32 (38.10%) RESTful
3 11 (13.10%) Node.js
4 4 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.76%) Playwright
4 4 (4.76%) Spring
5 3 (3.57%) Jest
5 3 (3.57%) Kafka
5 3 (3.57%) Middleware
5 3 (3.57%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.38%) CSS
6 2 (2.38%) CSS3
6 2 (2.38%) Express.js
6 2 (2.38%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.38%) HTML
6 2 (2.38%) HTML5
6 2 (2.38%) MEAN Stack
6 2 (2.38%) NgRx
6 2 (2.38%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 35 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (34.52%) Cloud Native
3 27 (32.14%) Public Cloud
4 11 (13.10%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 36 (42.86%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 72 (85.71%) DevOps
2 53 (63.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (59.52%) Containerisation
4 42 (50.00%) Agile
5 39 (46.43%) Microservices
6 32 (38.10%) Computer Science
7 31 (36.90%) Root Cause Analysis
8 29 (34.52%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (33.33%) Cryptography
10 27 (32.14%) Cost Optimisation
10 27 (32.14%) High Availability
10 27 (32.14%) Non-Functional Testing
10 27 (32.14%) Software Engineering
11 26 (30.95%) Infrastructure Automation
12 25 (29.76%) Change Management
12 25 (29.76%) Continuous Delivery
13 23 (27.38%) Test Automation
14 22 (26.19%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (26.19%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 64 (76.19%) Python
2 33 (39.29%) Go
3 25 (29.76%) Bash
4 20 (23.81%) Java
5 9 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.14%) SQL
7 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.57%) Groovy
9 2 (2.38%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.19%) C#
10 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (38.10%) Computer Science Degree
1 32 (38.10%) Degree
2 30 (35.71%) Master's Degree
3 14 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 11 (13.10%) AWS Certification
5 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
6 8 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) QA
2 5 (5.95%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (47.62%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.57%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (75.00%) Terraform
2 56 (66.67%) Ansible
3 47 (55.95%) Kubernetes
4 42 (50.00%) Grafana
5 35 (41.67%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.71%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.57%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.57%) vRealize
8 2 (2.38%) HP Fortify
8 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.38%) Puppet
9 1 (1.19%) Argo
9 1 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.19%) Kibana
9 1 (1.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 38 (45.24%) Splunk
2 18 (21.43%) Google
3 9 (10.71%) Commvault
3 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.71%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.71%) Veritas
4 7 (8.33%) F5
5 4 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.76%) VMware
6 2 (2.38%) Databricks
6 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.19%) Zscaler