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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 64 81
Rank change year-on-year -18 +17 +29
Contract jobs citing GitLab 64 25 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.57% 2.42% 1.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.57% 14.04% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 10 20
10th Percentile £400 £503 £456
25th Percentile £450 £514 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £574
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -1.96% -0.22%
75th Percentile £568 £588 £623
90th Percentile £688 £603 £645
England median daily rate £500 £525 £574
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.50% -2.75%

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 411 178 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.53% 17.20% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 116 132
10th Percentile £325 £359 £378
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £550
90th Percentile £598 £638 £605
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
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 - - -6.72%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.75 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.45% -7.31% +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -26 38 £494 -12.27%
West Yorkshire -3 28 £450 -21.74% 18
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 (7.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (82.81%) AWS
2 34 (53.13%) GCP
3 30 (46.88%) Azure
4 23 (35.94%) GitHub
5 10 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (14.06%) Apigee
6 9 (14.06%) OpenShift
7 6 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (9.38%) SaaS
7 6 (9.38%) Serverless
8 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (7.81%) Kong
9 4 (6.25%) BrowserStack
9 4 (6.25%) Cloud Run
9 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.69%) AWS KMS
10 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.94%) Firewall
2 6 (9.38%) DNS
2 6 (9.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.56%) BGP
3 1 (1.56%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.56%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.56%) HTTP
3 1 (1.56%) OSPF
3 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.56%) VPN
3 1 (1.56%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.56%) WAN
3 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) MongoDB
2 9 (14.06%) Relational Database
3 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.81%) MySQL
4 5 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.25%) Hazelcast
5 4 (6.25%) Neo4j
5 4 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 4 (6.25%) Redis
6 3 (4.69%) DTS
6 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 55 (85.94%) Jenkins
2 21 (32.81%) JIRA
3 20 (31.25%) Selenium
4 19 (29.69%) Git
5 17 (26.56%) REST Assured
6 15 (23.44%) Cucumber
7 11 (17.19%) Postman
8 10 (15.63%) Gatling
9 7 (10.94%) Maven
10 6 (9.38%) JMeter
11 5 (7.81%) Gradle
11 5 (7.81%) Serenity BDD
11 5 (7.81%) TestRail
12 4 (6.25%) CircleCI
12 4 (6.25%) LoadRunner
12 4 (6.25%) NeoLoad
12 4 (6.25%) Snyk
13 3 (4.69%) Cypress.io
13 3 (4.69%) Flyway
13 3 (4.69%) Liquibase
General
1 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Finance
3 9 (14.06%) Banking
4 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Military
7 3 (4.69%) Law
7 3 (4.69%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (26.56%) Lead
2 15 (23.44%) Test Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) Developer
4 11 (17.19%) Senior
5 10 (15.63%) Test Automation Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) Java Developer
7 8 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (10.94%) Lead Test Engineer
9 6 (9.38%) Architect
9 6 (9.38%) Automation Test Lead
9 6 (9.38%) Software Engineer
10 5 (7.81%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
10 5 (7.81%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (7.81%) Test Architect
10 5 (7.81%) Test Automation Architect
11 4 (6.25%) Backend Developer
11 4 (6.25%) GCP DevOps
11 4 (6.25%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 4 (6.25%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (32.81%) REST
2 19 (29.69%) Kafka
3 15 (23.44%) LDAP
3 15 (23.44%) OpenID
3 15 (23.44%) SailPoint
3 15 (23.44%) Spring
4 13 (20.31%) Playwright
5 11 (17.19%) Spring Boot
6 8 (12.50%) Node.js
7 6 (9.38%) .NET
7 6 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (7.81%) Spring Cloud
9 4 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (6.25%) Jest
9 4 (6.25%) JPA
9 4 (6.25%) JWT
9 4 (6.25%) OAuth
9 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (6.25%) Spring WebFlux
9 4 (6.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.56%) Life Science
5 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.56%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) Linux
2 7 (10.94%) Windows
3 5 (7.81%) Unix
4 1 (1.56%) Android
4 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (84.38%) CI/CD
2 47 (73.44%) DevOps
3 30 (46.88%) Test Automation
4 24 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 22 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (32.81%) Agile
7 19 (29.69%) Microservices
8 18 (28.13%) Observability
9 17 (26.56%) Test Strategy
10 15 (23.44%) API Testing
11 14 (21.88%) Software Engineering
12 13 (20.31%) BDD
12 13 (20.31%) Event-Driven
13 12 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
13 12 (18.75%) ETL
13 12 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
13 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (17.19%) Validation
15 10 (15.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 9 (14.06%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 41 (64.06%) Java
2 32 (50.00%) Python
3 26 (40.63%) SQL
4 17 (26.56%) TypeScript
5 14 (21.88%) Bash
6 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
7 8 (12.50%) Go
8 6 (9.38%) Scala
9 5 (7.81%) PHP
10 4 (6.25%) Cypher
10 4 (6.25%) Groovy
10 4 (6.25%) PowerShell
10 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
11 3 (4.69%) Kotlin
11 3 (4.69%) Ruby
12 1 (1.56%) C
12 1 (1.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) QA
2 6 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.81%) SLA
4 1 (1.56%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 35 (54.69%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 32 (50.00%) Terraform
2 23 (35.94%) Grafana
3 17 (26.56%) Ansible
3 17 (26.56%) Prometheus
4 4 (6.25%) Argo
5 3 (4.69%) Foglight
6 2 (3.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.56%) Kibana
7 1 (1.56%) logstash
7 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) ServiceNow
2 18 (28.13%) Splunk
3 8 (12.50%) Google
4 5 (7.81%) Oracle
5 3 (4.69%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.69%) Databricks
6 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.56%) Arista
7 1 (1.56%) Aruba
7 1 (1.56%) F5
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.56%) New Relic
7 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto