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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 60 97
Rank change year-on-year +14 +37 +19
Contract jobs citing GitLab 85 45 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.05% 3.07% 0.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.58% 17.18% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 37 14
10th Percentile £400 £381 £377
25th Percentile £450 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.82% -25.00%
75th Percentile £530 £622 £500
90th Percentile £538 £645 £668
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -6.78%

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 413 262 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.54% 17.85% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 193 161
10th Percentile £350 £400 £358
25th Percentile £406 £420 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -8.65%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £600
90th Percentile £652 £644 £688
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 - - -47.75%
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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +14 51 £500 -20.00% 4
West Yorkshire -13 33 £488 +21.88% 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 9 (10.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 63 (74.12%) AWS
2 38 (44.71%) GCP
3 31 (36.47%) Serverless
4 11 (12.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (11.76%) AWS KMS
5 10 (11.76%) Azure
6 9 (10.59%) CloudBees
7 7 (8.24%) GitHub
7 7 (8.24%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (7.06%) Amazon S3
8 6 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon ELB
10 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.53%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.35%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) DNS
1 9 (10.59%) Firewall
2 6 (7.06%) SSL
2 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.06%) VPN
3 5 (5.88%) Network Security
4 3 (3.53%) NAS
4 3 (3.53%) SAN
5 1 (1.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (37.65%) NoSQL
2 24 (28.24%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (15.29%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.88%) MySQL
5 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 79 (92.94%) Jenkins
2 24 (28.24%) Liquibase
3 17 (20.00%) Git
4 10 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 10 (11.76%) JIRA
5 9 (10.59%) Cypress.io
6 6 (7.06%) JMeter
6 6 (7.06%) Maven
6 6 (7.06%) Postman
6 6 (7.06%) REST Assured
6 6 (7.06%) Selenium
6 6 (7.06%) TestNG
7 4 (4.71%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.53%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.53%) JUnit
8 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.18%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.18%) webpack
General
1 39 (45.88%) Social Skills
2 32 (37.65%) Banking
3 31 (36.47%) Finance
4 22 (25.88%) Financial Institution
5 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Military
8 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (28.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (27.06%) Senior
3 17 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 15 (17.65%) GCP Engineer
5 13 (15.29%) AWS Engineer
5 13 (15.29%) Developer
6 10 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (11.76%) Test Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (10.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (9.41%) Data Protection Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) AWS Software Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Data Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (7.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Python Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (40.00%) RESTful
2 31 (36.47%) Elastic Stack
2 31 (36.47%) REST
3 10 (11.76%) Node.js
4 9 (10.59%) Playwright
5 3 (3.53%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.53%) CSS
5 3 (3.53%) HTML
5 3 (3.53%) Kafka
5 3 (3.53%) Middleware
6 2 (2.35%) CSS3
6 2 (2.35%) Express.js
6 2 (2.35%) HTML5
6 2 (2.35%) MEAN Stack
6 2 (2.35%) NestJS
6 2 (2.35%) NgRx
6 2 (2.35%) Sass
6 2 (2.35%) Web Services
7 1 (1.18%) Apache CXF
7 1 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 33 (38.82%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (30.59%) Cloud Native
3 25 (29.41%) Public Cloud
4 11 (12.94%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.71%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (89.41%) CI/CD
2 68 (80.00%) DevOps
3 48 (56.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (54.12%) Containerisation
5 42 (49.41%) Agile
6 39 (45.88%) Microservices
7 30 (35.29%) Computer Science
7 30 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (35.29%) Test Automation
8 29 (34.12%) Root Cause Analysis
9 28 (32.94%) Non-Functional Testing
10 27 (31.76%) Cost Optimisation
10 27 (31.76%) Infrastructure Automation
11 26 (30.59%) Cryptography
11 26 (30.59%) High Availability
12 25 (29.41%) Software Engineering
13 23 (27.06%) Change Management
13 23 (27.06%) Continuous Delivery
14 20 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (23.53%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 59 (69.41%) Python
2 31 (36.47%) Go
3 25 (29.41%) Java
4 20 (23.53%) Bash
5 14 (16.47%) JavaScript
6 8 (9.41%) SQL
7 5 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.18%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 30 (35.29%) Degree
2 28 (32.94%) Master's Degree
3 24 (28.24%) Security Cleared
4 20 (23.53%) SC Cleared
5 12 (14.12%) AWS Certification
6 10 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) Accessibility
1 10 (11.76%) QA
2 7 (8.24%) WCAG
3 2 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.35%) GDPR
3 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.35%) NIST
3 2 (2.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (50.59%) Docker
2 3 (3.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.53%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (67.06%) Terraform
2 52 (61.18%) Ansible
3 41 (48.24%) Kubernetes
4 39 (45.88%) Grafana
5 34 (40.00%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.59%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.53%) Puppet
7 3 (3.53%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.53%) vRealize
8 2 (2.35%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.18%) Argo
9 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (42.35%) Splunk
2 17 (20.00%) Google
3 9 (10.59%) Commvault
3 9 (10.59%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.59%) Veritas
4 8 (9.41%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.24%) F5
6 4 (4.71%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.71%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.71%) VMware
7 2 (2.35%) Databricks
7 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.18%) Zscaler