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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 52 90
Rank change year-on-year -9 +38 +40
Contract jobs citing GitLab 78 43 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.30% 3.25% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.71% 18.45% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 31 10
10th Percentile £400 £381 £356
25th Percentile £450 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £409 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% -13.89% -32.14%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £500
90th Percentile £730 £738 £594
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -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 417 233 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.96% 17.58% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 155 145
10th Percentile £330 £384 £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 £544 £600 £550
90th Percentile £652 £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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +9 54 £500 - 8
West Yorkshire -19 25 £525 +31.25% 3
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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 62 (79.49%) AWS
2 39 (50.00%) GCP
3 34 (43.59%) Serverless
4 10 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (11.54%) CloudBees
6 8 (10.26%) Amazon S3
6 8 (10.26%) AWS KMS
7 6 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.69%) GitHub
7 6 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (6.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.41%) Azure
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon ELB
9 4 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.56%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.97%) DNS
1 7 (8.97%) Firewall
2 4 (5.13%) SSL
2 4 (5.13%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.13%) VPN
3 3 (3.85%) NAS
3 3 (3.85%) Network Security
3 3 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (39.74%) NoSQL
2 21 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.82%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.85%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 72 (92.31%) Jenkins
2 25 (32.05%) Liquibase
3 11 (14.10%) Git
4 9 (11.54%) JIRA
5 7 (8.97%) Cucumber
6 6 (7.69%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.56%) Maven
7 2 (2.56%) Selenium
7 2 (2.56%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.28%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.28%) Mocha
General
1 40 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 34 (43.59%) Banking
3 33 (42.31%) Finance
4 23 (29.49%) Financial Institution
5 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.85%) Military
8 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (28.21%) DevOps Engineer
1 22 (28.21%) Senior
2 18 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 18 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 16 (20.51%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (15.38%) Developer
5 11 (14.10%) Senior Software Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (11.54%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (11.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) AWS Software Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Data Protection Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 7 (8.97%) Data Engineer
9 6 (7.69%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (6.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) GCP Software Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (41.03%) Elastic Stack
1 32 (41.03%) REST
1 32 (41.03%) RESTful
2 11 (14.10%) Node.js
3 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.13%) Playwright
3 4 (5.13%) Spring
4 3 (3.85%) Jest
4 3 (3.85%) Kafka
4 3 (3.85%) Middleware
4 3 (3.85%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.56%) CSS3
5 2 (2.56%) Express.js
5 2 (2.56%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.56%) HTML
5 2 (2.56%) HTML5
5 2 (2.56%) MEAN Stack
5 2 (2.56%) NestJS
5 2 (2.56%) NgRx
5 2 (2.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 35 (44.87%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (35.90%) Cloud Native
3 27 (34.62%) Public Cloud
4 10 (12.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (44.87%) Linux
2 4 (5.13%) Windows
3 3 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (84.62%) CI/CD
1 66 (84.62%) DevOps
2 48 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (57.69%) Containerisation
4 41 (52.56%) Agile
5 38 (48.72%) Microservices
6 32 (41.03%) Computer Science
7 31 (39.74%) Root Cause Analysis
8 28 (35.90%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (35.90%) Cryptography
9 27 (34.62%) Cost Optimisation
9 27 (34.62%) High Availability
9 27 (34.62%) Non-Functional Testing
9 27 (34.62%) Software Engineering
10 26 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
11 25 (32.05%) Continuous Delivery
12 24 (30.77%) Change Management
13 22 (28.21%) Cybersecurity
13 22 (28.21%) Data Security
14 21 (26.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 59 (75.64%) Python
2 33 (42.31%) Go
3 20 (25.64%) Bash
3 20 (25.64%) Java
4 9 (11.54%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.69%) SQL
6 4 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.28%) C#
8 1 (1.28%) Groovy
8 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (41.03%) Computer Science Degree
1 32 (41.03%) Degree
2 30 (38.46%) Master's Degree
3 14 (17.95%) Security Cleared
4 11 (14.10%) AWS Certification
5 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
6 8 (10.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) QA
2 5 (6.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (47.44%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.85%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (74.36%) Terraform
2 51 (65.38%) Ansible
3 41 (52.56%) Grafana
3 41 (52.56%) Kubernetes
4 34 (43.59%) Prometheus
5 9 (11.54%) NetBackup
6 3 (3.85%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.85%) vRealize
7 2 (2.56%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.28%) Argo
8 1 (1.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (47.44%) Splunk
2 18 (23.08%) Google
3 9 (11.54%) Commvault
3 9 (11.54%) Red Hat
3 9 (11.54%) Veritas
4 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.97%) F5
6 4 (5.13%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.13%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.13%) VMware
7 2 (2.56%) Databricks
7 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.28%) Zscaler