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

 6 months to
14 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 58 94
Rank change year-on-year +3 +36 +41
Contract jobs citing GitLab 87 41 13
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.81% 2.99% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.00% 16.80% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 32 10
10th Percentile £400 £381 £356
25th Percentile £450 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% -12.74% -29.63%
75th Percentile £534 £563 £500
90th Percentile £695 £738 £594
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.98%

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 435 244 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 24.06% 17.80% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 174 146
10th Percentile £341 £400 £356
25th Percentile £400 £419 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £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 14 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 14 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 +14 53 £506 +1.25% 6
West Yorkshire -14 33 £500 +25.00% 4
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 (10.34%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 65 (74.71%) AWS
2 39 (44.83%) GCP
3 34 (39.08%) Serverless
4 12 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (11.49%) AWS KMS
6 9 (10.34%) Azure
6 9 (10.34%) CloudBees
7 8 (9.20%) GitHub
7 8 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (6.90%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.60%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (3.45%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.30%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) DNS
1 9 (10.34%) Firewall
2 6 (6.90%) SSL
2 6 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 6 (6.90%) VPN
3 5 (5.75%) Network Security
4 3 (3.45%) NAS
4 3 (3.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (39.08%) NoSQL
2 25 (28.74%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (14.94%) MongoDB
4 5 (5.75%) MySQL
5 4 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.45%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 82 (94.25%) Jenkins
2 25 (28.74%) Liquibase
3 17 (19.54%) Git
4 10 (11.49%) Cucumber
5 9 (10.34%) Cypress.io
5 9 (10.34%) JIRA
6 6 (6.90%) JMeter
6 6 (6.90%) Maven
6 6 (6.90%) Postman
6 6 (6.90%) REST Assured
6 6 (6.90%) Selenium
6 6 (6.90%) TestNG
7 4 (4.60%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.45%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.45%) JUnit
8 3 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.15%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.15%) Mocha
General
1 41 (47.13%) Social Skills
2 34 (39.08%) Banking
3 33 (37.93%) Finance
4 23 (26.44%) Financial Institution
5 9 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Military
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (27.59%) Senior
3 19 (21.84%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (20.69%) Software Engineer
5 16 (18.39%) GCP Engineer
6 14 (16.09%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (14.94%) Developer
8 11 (12.64%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (11.49%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (11.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 10 (11.49%) Test Engineer
10 9 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (9.20%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (9.20%) Data Protection Engineer
12 7 (8.05%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (8.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (8.05%) Cloud Software Engineer
12 7 (8.05%) Data Engineer
13 6 (6.90%) Python Engineer
13 6 (6.90%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (40.23%) RESTful
2 34 (39.08%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (37.93%) REST
4 11 (12.64%) Node.js
5 9 (10.34%) Playwright
6 3 (3.45%) Kafka
6 3 (3.45%) Middleware
7 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.30%) CSS
7 2 (2.30%) CSS3
7 2 (2.30%) Express.js
7 2 (2.30%) HTML
7 2 (2.30%) HTML5
7 2 (2.30%) MEAN Stack
7 2 (2.30%) NestJS
7 2 (2.30%) NgRx
7 2 (2.30%) Sass
7 2 (2.30%) Spring
7 2 (2.30%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 35 (40.23%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (32.18%) Cloud Native
3 27 (31.03%) Public Cloud
4 11 (12.64%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (40.23%) Linux
2 4 (4.60%) Windows
3 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (89.66%) CI/CD
2 71 (81.61%) DevOps
3 50 (57.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (55.17%) Containerisation
5 45 (51.72%) Agile
6 41 (47.13%) Microservices
7 32 (36.78%) Computer Science
7 32 (36.78%) Continuous Integration
8 31 (35.63%) Root Cause Analysis
9 30 (34.48%) Non-Functional Testing
9 30 (34.48%) Test Automation
10 29 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
11 28 (32.18%) Cryptography
11 28 (32.18%) Infrastructure Automation
12 27 (31.03%) High Availability
13 26 (29.89%) Software Engineering
14 25 (28.74%) Continuous Delivery
15 24 (27.59%) Change Management
16 22 (25.29%) Cybersecurity
16 22 (25.29%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 60 (68.97%) Python
2 33 (37.93%) Go
3 26 (29.89%) Java
4 19 (21.84%) Bash
5 13 (14.94%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.34%) SQL
7 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.60%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.15%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (36.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 32 (36.78%) Degree
2 30 (34.48%) Master's Degree
3 25 (28.74%) Security Cleared
4 21 (24.14%) SC Cleared
5 13 (14.94%) AWS Certification
6 10 (11.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) Accessibility
1 10 (11.49%) QA
2 7 (8.05%) WCAG
3 2 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.30%) NIST
3 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (50.57%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.45%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 59 (67.82%) Terraform
2 54 (62.07%) Ansible
3 43 (49.43%) Kubernetes
4 42 (48.28%) Grafana
5 36 (41.38%) Prometheus
6 9 (10.34%) NetBackup
7 3 (3.45%) Puppet
7 3 (3.45%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.45%) vRealize
8 2 (2.30%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.15%) Argo
9 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (43.68%) Splunk
2 18 (20.69%) Google
3 9 (10.34%) Commvault
3 9 (10.34%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.34%) Veritas
4 8 (9.20%) Microsoft
5 7 (8.05%) F5
6 4 (4.60%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.60%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.60%) VMware
7 2 (2.30%) Databricks
7 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.15%) Zscaler
10 GitLab jobs in Yorkshire