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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 54 88
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 +30
Contract jobs citing GitLab 93 26 21
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.43% 2.94% 1.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.93% 17.22% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 14 16
10th Percentile £435 £448 -
25th Percentile £461 £563 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +34.21% -26.92%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £550
90th Percentile £708 £750 £588
England median daily rate £500 £550 £561
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.00% -5.67%

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 424 151 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.19% 17.08% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 93 143
10th Percentile £350 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £436
Median % change year-on-year - +14.68% -20.73%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £534
90th Percentile £656 £735 £638
England median daily rate £500 £504 £535
% change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
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 24 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 24 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 -7 67 £500 -13.04% 3
West Yorkshire -17 29 £500 -31.03% 9
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 (5.38%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 82 (88.17%) AWS
2 58 (62.37%) GCP
3 29 (31.18%) Serverless
4 27 (29.03%) Azure
5 14 (15.05%) GitHub
6 11 (11.83%) AWS KMS
7 9 (9.68%) OpenShift
8 8 (8.60%) Amazon S3
9 6 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.38%) SaaS
11 4 (4.30%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (4.30%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.23%) Apigee
12 3 (3.23%) BrowserStack
12 3 (3.23%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.75%) DNS
1 10 (10.75%) Firewall
1 10 (10.75%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.38%) VPN
3 4 (4.30%) SSL
4 3 (3.23%) Network Security
5 1 (1.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (26.88%) NoSQL
2 24 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (16.13%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.45%) MySQL
4 6 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.30%) Neo4j
5 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.08%) DTS
7 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 86 (92.47%) Jenkins
2 22 (23.66%) JIRA
2 22 (23.66%) Liquibase
3 18 (19.35%) Cucumber
4 17 (18.28%) Selenium
5 16 (17.20%) Git
6 14 (15.05%) REST Assured
7 10 (10.75%) Postman
8 7 (7.53%) Gatling
9 6 (6.45%) Cypress.io
10 5 (5.38%) JMeter
10 5 (5.38%) TestRail
11 4 (4.30%) CircleCI
11 4 (4.30%) LoadRunner
11 4 (4.30%) NeoLoad
12 3 (3.23%) Serenity BDD
13 2 (2.15%) Maven
13 2 (2.15%) SonarQube
14 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (1.08%) Flyway
General
1 44 (47.31%) Social Skills
2 37 (39.78%) Finance
3 35 (37.63%) Banking
4 19 (20.43%) Financial Institution
5 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (5.38%) Military
8 3 (3.23%) Law
9 1 (1.08%) Legal
9 1 (1.08%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (25.81%) Senior
2 19 (20.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 19 (20.43%) Software Engineer
3 18 (19.35%) GCP Engineer
4 17 (18.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (17.20%) Test Engineer
6 15 (16.13%) Lead
7 13 (13.98%) Developer
7 13 (13.98%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (11.83%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (11.83%) Senior DevOps
8 11 (11.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.60%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 8 (8.60%) Test Automation Engineer
10 7 (7.53%) AWS Software Engineer
11 6 (6.45%) Architect
11 6 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
11 6 (6.45%) GCP Software Engineer
11 6 (6.45%) Node.js Developer
11 6 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (46.24%) REST
2 29 (31.18%) Elastic Stack
3 24 (25.81%) RESTful
4 15 (16.13%) LDAP
4 15 (16.13%) OpenID
4 15 (16.13%) SailPoint
5 12 (12.90%) Node.js
6 11 (11.83%) Playwright
7 10 (10.75%) Spring
8 9 (9.68%) Kafka
9 6 (6.45%) Spring Boot
10 5 (5.38%) .NET
11 3 (3.23%) Jest
11 3 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
12 2 (2.15%) AngularJS
12 2 (2.15%) Gherkin
12 2 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (2.15%) YAML
13 1 (1.08%) Express.js
13 1 (1.08%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 32 (34.41%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 26 (27.96%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.38%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Life Science
8 1 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (37.63%) Linux
2 8 (8.60%) Windows
3 5 (5.38%) Unix
4 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (90.32%) CI/CD
2 74 (79.57%) DevOps
3 53 (56.99%) Containerisation
4 49 (52.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (47.31%) Agile
6 37 (39.78%) Microservices
7 35 (37.63%) Test Automation
8 33 (35.48%) Root Cause Analysis
9 26 (27.96%) Computer Science
9 26 (27.96%) Continuous Integration
9 26 (27.96%) Non-Functional Testing
10 25 (26.88%) High Availability
11 24 (25.81%) Cost Optimisation
11 24 (25.81%) Cryptography
11 24 (25.81%) Infrastructure Automation
12 23 (24.73%) Software Engineering
13 22 (23.66%) Change Management
13 22 (23.66%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (22.58%) Continuous Delivery
14 21 (22.58%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 62 (66.67%) Python
2 41 (44.09%) Java
3 34 (36.56%) Go
4 23 (24.73%) SQL
5 21 (22.58%) Bash
6 14 (15.05%) TypeScript
7 11 (11.83%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.38%) PHP
8 5 (5.38%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.38%) Scala
9 4 (4.30%) Cypher
9 4 (4.30%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.23%) Groovy
10 3 (3.23%) Ruby
11 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.08%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (27.96%) Computer Science Degree
1 26 (27.96%) Degree
2 25 (26.88%) Master's Degree
3 19 (20.43%) Security Cleared
4 12 (12.90%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.53%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.30%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (4.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.13%) QA
2 8 (8.60%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.38%) SLA
4 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (51.61%) Docker
2 4 (4.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (63.44%) Terraform
2 49 (52.69%) Ansible
2 49 (52.69%) Kubernetes
3 46 (49.46%) Grafana
4 34 (36.56%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.23%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.15%) HP Fortify
6 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.15%) Puppet
7 1 (1.08%) Argo
7 1 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.08%) Foglight
7 1 (1.08%) Kibana
7 1 (1.08%) logstash
Vendors
1 42 (45.16%) Splunk
2 20 (21.51%) Google
3 19 (20.43%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.38%) Oracle
4 5 (5.38%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.30%) CheckPoint
5 4 (4.30%) F5
5 4 (4.30%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.23%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.23%) Commvault
6 3 (3.23%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.23%) Veritas
7 2 (2.15%) Databricks
8 1 (1.08%) Zscaler