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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 57 59
Rank change year-on-year -60 +2 +44
Contract jobs citing GitLab 40 62 45
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.40% 4.04% 2.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.17% 18.56% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 37
10th Percentile £355 £400 £381
25th Percentile £400 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £622
90th Percentile £670 £554 £645
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

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 436 334 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.26% 21.76% 17.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 236 202
10th Percentile £350 £325 £382
25th Percentile £406 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £552 £583
90th Percentile £637 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% - -

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 13 September 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 13 September 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
West Yorkshire -22 25 £400 -15.79% 23
South Yorkshire -50 14 £575 +12.20% 4
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 -
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 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.00%) Confluence
1 2 (5.00%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (2.50%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (67.50%) AWS
2 23 (57.50%) GitHub
3 17 (42.50%) Azure
4 15 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (35.00%) GCP
6 7 (17.50%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (17.50%) Apigee
6 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (15.00%) Kong
8 5 (12.50%) Cloud Run
8 5 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 4 (10.00%) LangSmith
9 4 (10.00%) SaaS
9 4 (10.00%) Serverless
10 3 (7.50%) AWS KMS
10 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (7.50%) OCI
11 2 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (10.00%) WAN
2 3 (7.50%) BGP
2 3 (7.50%) BIG-IP
2 3 (7.50%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (7.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) OSPF
2 3 (7.50%) VXLAN
2 3 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (7.50%) WLAN
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (2.50%) DMZ
3 1 (2.50%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.50%) Modbus
3 1 (2.50%) VLAN
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 9 (22.50%) Redis
3 6 (15.00%) Relational Database
4 5 (12.50%) Hazelcast
4 5 (12.50%) RDBMS
5 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
6 3 (7.50%) Neo4j
7 2 (5.00%) Delta Lake
7 2 (5.00%) Parquet
7 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.50%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.50%) Big Data
8 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.50%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (65.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (27.50%) Git
3 6 (15.00%) Gatling
3 6 (15.00%) Gradle
3 6 (15.00%) JIRA
3 6 (15.00%) Maven
4 5 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 5 (12.50%) Selenium
5 4 (10.00%) JMeter
5 4 (10.00%) Serenity BDD
5 4 (10.00%) Snyk
6 3 (7.50%) NeoLoad
6 3 (7.50%) Postman
6 3 (7.50%) Zephyr
7 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.50%) Appium
8 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.50%) Flyway
8 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Legal
3 2 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Senior
2 8 (20.00%) Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Test Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Lead
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Backend Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead Test Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Backend Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Palantir Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (65.00%) Terraform
2 17 (42.50%) Kafka
3 12 (30.00%) Spring
3 12 (30.00%) Spring Boot
4 10 (25.00%) REST
5 9 (22.50%) Playwright
6 8 (20.00%) JSON
7 7 (17.50%) React
8 5 (12.50%) Apache Avro
8 5 (12.50%) JPA
8 5 (12.50%) JWT
8 5 (12.50%) OAuth
8 5 (12.50%) OAuth2
8 5 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (12.50%) Protocol Buffers
8 5 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (12.50%) Spring WebFlux
8 5 (12.50%) WireMock
9 4 (10.00%) RESTful
10 3 (7.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 4 (10.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.50%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Replication
5 1 (2.50%) SCADA
5 1 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.50%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.50%) CentOS
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (97.50%) CI/CD
2 35 (87.50%) DevOps
3 24 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (37.50%) Observability
5 14 (35.00%) Software Engineering
6 13 (32.50%) Validation
7 12 (30.00%) Event-Driven
8 11 (27.50%) Microservices
8 11 (27.50%) Test Automation
9 9 (22.50%) Agile
10 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
10 7 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (17.50%) RBAC
11 6 (15.00%) AI
11 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.00%) DevSecOps
11 6 (15.00%) OWASP
11 6 (15.00%) Test Strategy
12 5 (12.50%) High Availability
12 5 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (50.00%) Java
2 19 (47.50%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) SQL
4 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.00%) Bash
6 3 (7.50%) Cypher
7 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) C#
8 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) CISSP
3 1 (2.50%) CSSLP
3 1 (2.50%) GIAC
3 1 (2.50%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
2 12 (30.00%) Grafana
3 10 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (15.00%) Ansible
5 5 (12.50%) Argo
6 4 (10.00%) Kustomize
7 1 (2.50%) Puppet
7 1 (2.50%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Splunk
2 4 (10.00%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) Arista
3 3 (7.50%) Aruba
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
3 3 (7.50%) F5
3 3 (7.50%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.00%) Foundry
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Palantir
4 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) New Relic
5 1 (2.50%) Rockwell
5 1 (2.50%) Siemens
5 1 (2.50%) Tenable
5 1 (2.50%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.50%) Wonderware