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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 55 83
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 +36
Contract jobs citing GitLab 87 25 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.07% 2.83% 1.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.91% 15.72% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 13 14
10th Percentile £447 £440 £456
25th Percentile £466 £563 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £554 £738 £575
90th Percentile £733 £748 £588
England median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -6.25%

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 416 159 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.46% 18.01% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 99 138
10th Percentile £350 £363 £370
25th Percentile £423 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £437
Median % change year-on-year - +14.48% -20.59%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £529
90th Percentile £638 £665 £638
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.23
25th Percentile - - £35.40
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £44.64
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.33%
75th Percentile - - £54.51
90th Percentile - - £60.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -8 63 £506 -11.96% 7
West Yorkshire -20 27 £500 -31.03% 11
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 (5.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 76 (87.36%) AWS
2 53 (60.92%) GCP
3 26 (29.89%) Azure
3 26 (29.89%) Serverless
4 14 (16.09%) GitHub
5 11 (12.64%) AWS KMS
6 9 (10.34%) OpenShift
7 8 (9.20%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.75%) SaaS
10 4 (4.60%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.45%) Apigee
11 3 (3.45%) BrowserStack
11 3 (3.45%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.49%) DNS
1 10 (11.49%) Firewall
1 10 (11.49%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.75%) VPN
3 4 (4.60%) SSL
4 3 (3.45%) Network Security
5 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (25.29%) NoSQL
3 15 (17.24%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.90%) MySQL
4 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.60%) Neo4j
5 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.15%) DTS
7 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 81 (93.10%) Jenkins
2 22 (25.29%) JIRA
3 18 (20.69%) Cucumber
3 18 (20.69%) Liquibase
4 17 (19.54%) Selenium
5 15 (17.24%) Git
6 14 (16.09%) REST Assured
7 10 (11.49%) Postman
8 7 (8.05%) Gatling
9 6 (6.90%) Cypress.io
10 5 (5.75%) JMeter
10 5 (5.75%) TestRail
11 4 (4.60%) CircleCI
11 4 (4.60%) LoadRunner
11 4 (4.60%) NeoLoad
12 3 (3.45%) Serenity BDD
13 2 (2.30%) Maven
13 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
14 1 (1.15%) Flyway
14 1 (1.15%) Travis CI
General
1 39 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 33 (37.93%) Finance
3 31 (35.63%) Banking
4 16 (18.39%) Financial Institution
5 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.75%) Military
8 3 (3.45%) Law
9 1 (1.15%) Legal
9 1 (1.15%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Senior
2 19 (21.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (20.69%) GCP Engineer
4 16 (18.39%) Software Engineer
4 16 (18.39%) Test Engineer
5 15 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (17.24%) Lead
6 12 (13.79%) Developer
7 11 (12.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (11.49%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (11.49%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (11.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (9.20%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 8 (9.20%) Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Architect
10 6 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) AWS Software Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) GCP Software Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Java Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (45.98%) REST
2 26 (29.89%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (24.14%) RESTful
4 15 (17.24%) LDAP
4 15 (17.24%) OpenID
4 15 (17.24%) SailPoint
5 11 (12.64%) Node.js
5 11 (12.64%) Playwright
6 10 (11.49%) Spring
7 9 (10.34%) Kafka
8 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
9 5 (5.75%) .NET
10 3 (3.45%) Jest
10 3 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
11 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.30%) Gherkin
11 2 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (2.30%) YAML
12 1 (1.15%) JSON
12 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (32.18%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (31.03%) Cloud Native
3 23 (26.44%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.15%) Life Science
8 1 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (36.78%) Linux
2 8 (9.20%) Windows
3 5 (5.75%) Unix
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (90.80%) CI/CD
2 69 (79.31%) DevOps
3 48 (55.17%) Containerisation
4 45 (51.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (47.13%) Agile
6 35 (40.23%) Test Automation
7 34 (39.08%) Microservices
8 30 (34.48%) Root Cause Analysis
9 23 (26.44%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (26.44%) Non-Functional Testing
10 22 (25.29%) Computer Science
10 22 (25.29%) High Availability
11 21 (24.14%) Cryptography
11 21 (24.14%) Infrastructure Automation
12 20 (22.99%) Cost Optimisation
13 19 (21.84%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (21.84%) Software Engineering
14 18 (20.69%) Change Management
14 18 (20.69%) Continuous Delivery
14 18 (20.69%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 57 (65.52%) Python
2 40 (45.98%) Java
3 30 (34.48%) Go
4 23 (26.44%) SQL
5 20 (22.99%) Bash
6 14 (16.09%) TypeScript
7 10 (11.49%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.75%) PHP
8 5 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.75%) Scala
9 4 (4.60%) Cypher
9 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.45%) Groovy
10 3 (3.45%) Ruby
11 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.15%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (25.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 22 (25.29%) Degree
2 21 (24.14%) Master's Degree
3 19 (21.84%) Security Cleared
4 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) QA
2 8 (9.20%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.75%) SLA
4 1 (1.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (50.57%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (60.92%) Terraform
2 45 (51.72%) Kubernetes
3 44 (50.57%) Ansible
4 41 (47.13%) Grafana
5 30 (34.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.45%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.30%) HP Fortify
7 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.30%) Puppet
8 1 (1.15%) Argo
8 1 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.15%) Foglight
8 1 (1.15%) Kibana
8 1 (1.15%) logstash
Vendors
1 39 (44.83%) Splunk
2 19 (21.84%) ServiceNow
3 18 (20.69%) Google
4 5 (5.75%) Oracle
4 5 (5.75%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.60%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.60%) F5
5 4 (4.60%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.45%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.45%) Commvault
6 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.45%) Veritas
7 1 (1.15%) Databricks
7 1 (1.15%) Zscaler