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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 56 96
Rank change year-on-year +4 +40 +24
Contract jobs citing GitLab 94 27 18
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.68% 2.86% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.71% 16.17% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 16 14
10th Percentile £444 £413 £386
25th Percentile £464 £481 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £566
90th Percentile £688 £750 £588
England median daily rate £510 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -9.73% +0.44% -4.66%

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 414 167 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.60% 17.69% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 106 143
10th Percentile £350 £381 £356
25th Percentile £422 £421 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +15.61% -21.36%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £530
90th Percentile £673 £731 £650
England median daily rate £500 £507 £538
% change year-on-year -1.47% -5.58% -6.52%
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 - - -14.15%
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 6 February 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 February 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 -4 70 £513 -10.87% 2
West Yorkshire -15 27 £500 -31.03% 6
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 8 (8.51%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 78 (82.98%) AWS
2 56 (59.57%) GCP
3 29 (30.85%) Serverless
4 27 (28.72%) Azure
5 14 (14.89%) GitHub
6 11 (11.70%) AWS KMS
7 9 (9.57%) OpenShift
8 8 (8.51%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.45%) CloudBees
9 7 (7.45%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.32%) SaaS
12 4 (4.26%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (4.26%) Entra ID
12 4 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (3.19%) Apigee
14 2 (2.13%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) DNS
1 10 (10.64%) Firewall
1 10 (10.64%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.32%) VPN
3 4 (4.26%) SSL
4 3 (3.19%) Network Security
5 1 (1.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (26.60%) NoSQL
2 24 (25.53%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (14.89%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.38%) MySQL
5 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.26%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 87 (92.55%) Jenkins
2 26 (27.66%) JIRA
3 20 (21.28%) Liquibase
4 18 (19.15%) Cucumber
5 16 (17.02%) Selenium
6 15 (15.96%) Git
7 13 (13.83%) REST Assured
8 10 (10.64%) Postman
9 6 (6.38%) Cypress.io
9 6 (6.38%) Gatling
10 5 (5.32%) JMeter
10 5 (5.32%) TestRail
11 4 (4.26%) CircleCI
11 4 (4.26%) LoadRunner
11 4 (4.26%) NeoLoad
12 2 (2.13%) Maven
12 2 (2.13%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
13 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (1.06%) Jaeger
General
1 44 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 35 (37.23%) Finance
3 33 (35.11%) Banking
4 19 (20.21%) Financial Institution
5 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Military
8 3 (3.19%) Law
9 1 (1.06%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (23.40%) Senior
2 17 (18.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 17 (18.09%) Software Engineer
3 16 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (17.02%) GCP Engineer
4 15 (15.96%) Test Engineer
5 14 (14.89%) Developer
5 14 (14.89%) Lead
6 11 (11.70%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (11.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (9.57%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (9.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.51%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (7.45%) AWS Software Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) Architect
11 6 (6.38%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) Data Protection Engineer
11 6 (6.38%) Java Developer
11 6 (6.38%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (43.62%) REST
2 27 (28.72%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (25.53%) RESTful
4 15 (15.96%) LDAP
4 15 (15.96%) OpenID
4 15 (15.96%) SailPoint
5 12 (12.77%) Node.js
6 10 (10.64%) Playwright
7 9 (9.57%) Spring
8 8 (8.51%) Kafka
9 5 (5.32%) .NET
9 5 (5.32%) Spring Boot
10 3 (3.19%) Jest
10 3 (3.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
11 2 (2.13%) Gherkin
11 2 (2.13%) Spring Cloud
11 2 (2.13%) YAML
12 1 (1.06%) Express.js
12 1 (1.06%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 32 (34.04%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (30.85%) Cloud Native
3 24 (25.53%) Public Cloud
4 9 (9.57%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.19%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.06%) Life Science
8 1 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (36.17%) Linux
2 8 (8.51%) Windows
3 5 (5.32%) Unix
4 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (91.49%) CI/CD
2 76 (80.85%) DevOps
3 52 (55.32%) Containerisation
4 47 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (45.74%) Agile
6 38 (40.43%) Test Automation
7 36 (38.30%) Microservices
8 33 (35.11%) Root Cause Analysis
9 26 (27.66%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (26.60%) Computer Science
10 25 (26.60%) Non-Functional Testing
11 24 (25.53%) Cryptography
11 24 (25.53%) High Availability
12 22 (23.40%) Cost Optimisation
12 22 (23.40%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (23.40%) Infrastructure Automation
13 21 (22.34%) Continuous Delivery
13 21 (22.34%) Software Engineering
14 20 (21.28%) Change Management
15 19 (20.21%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 65 (69.15%) Python
2 40 (42.55%) Java
3 33 (35.11%) Go
4 26 (27.66%) Bash
5 20 (21.28%) SQL
6 13 (13.83%) TypeScript
7 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.32%) PHP
8 5 (5.32%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.32%) Scala
9 4 (4.26%) Cypher
9 4 (4.26%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.19%) Groovy
10 3 (3.19%) Ruby
11 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.06%) C#
Qualifications
1 25 (26.60%) Computer Science Degree
1 25 (26.60%) Degree
1 25 (26.60%) Master's Degree
2 18 (19.15%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.45%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.26%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (4.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.96%) QA
2 7 (7.45%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.32%) SLA
4 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (48.94%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (60.64%) Terraform
2 51 (54.26%) Ansible
3 47 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 44 (46.81%) Grafana
5 32 (34.04%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.45%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.13%) HP Fortify
7 2 (2.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.13%) Puppet
8 1 (1.06%) Argo
8 1 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.06%) Kibana
8 1 (1.06%) logstash
Vendors
1 39 (41.49%) Splunk
2 18 (19.15%) Google
2 18 (19.15%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.57%) Red Hat
4 7 (7.45%) Commvault
4 7 (7.45%) Veritas
5 5 (5.32%) Oracle
6 4 (4.26%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.26%) F5
6 4 (4.26%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.26%) Palo Alto
7 3 (3.19%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.06%) Databricks
8 1 (1.06%) VMware
8 1 (1.06%) Zscaler