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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 59 89
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +30
Contract jobs citing GitLab 83 23 15
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.79% 2.52% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.34% 14.20% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 12 11
10th Percentile £408 £506 -
25th Percentile £463 £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 £563
90th Percentile £688 £749 £588
England median daily rate £500 £541 £564
% change year-on-year -7.62% -3.99% -6.04%

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 408 162 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.61% 17.78% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 106 120
10th Percentile £349 £360 £350
25th Percentile £417 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £443
Median % change year-on-year - +12.99% -15.71%
75th Percentile £538 £582 £538
90th Percentile £630 £650 £639
England median daily rate £500 £502 £525
% change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.74%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 59 £500 -13.04% 2
West Yorkshire -15 27 £450 -37.93% 11
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 6 (7.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (87.95%) AWS
2 50 (60.24%) GCP
3 27 (32.53%) Azure
4 21 (25.30%) Serverless
5 16 (19.28%) GitHub
6 11 (13.25%) AWS KMS
7 10 (12.05%) OpenShift
8 7 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (6.02%) SaaS
10 4 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.61%) Apigee
11 3 (3.61%) BrowserStack
12 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (2.41%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) DNS
1 8 (9.64%) Firewall
1 8 (9.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.61%) VPN
3 2 (2.41%) Network Security
3 2 (2.41%) SSL
4 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (27.71%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (21.69%) NoSQL
3 17 (20.48%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.02%) MySQL
6 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.82%) Neo4j
6 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.61%) DTS
7 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 77 (92.77%) Jenkins
2 21 (25.30%) JIRA
3 17 (20.48%) Cucumber
3 17 (20.48%) Selenium
4 14 (16.87%) Git
4 14 (16.87%) REST Assured
5 13 (15.66%) Liquibase
6 10 (12.05%) Postman
7 7 (8.43%) Gatling
8 6 (7.23%) Cypress.io
9 5 (6.02%) JMeter
9 5 (6.02%) TestRail
10 4 (4.82%) CircleCI
10 4 (4.82%) LoadRunner
10 4 (4.82%) NeoLoad
11 3 (3.61%) Flyway
11 3 (3.61%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (2.41%) Maven
12 2 (2.41%) SonarQube
13 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 36 (43.37%) Social Skills
2 28 (33.73%) Finance
3 26 (31.33%) Banking
4 12 (14.46%) Financial Institution
5 11 (13.25%) Public Sector
6 8 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Military
8 3 (3.61%) Law
8 3 (3.61%) Legal
9 1 (1.20%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (21.69%) GCP Engineer
2 17 (20.48%) Cloud Engineer
2 17 (20.48%) Lead
3 15 (18.07%) Test Engineer
4 13 (15.66%) Senior
4 13 (15.66%) Software Engineer
5 12 (14.46%) Developer
5 12 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (9.64%) Test Automation Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Architect
8 6 (7.23%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Cloud Software Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Java Developer
8 6 (7.23%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (7.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Automation Test Lead
9 5 (6.02%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (6.02%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (42.17%) REST
2 21 (25.30%) Elastic Stack
3 17 (20.48%) RESTful
4 15 (18.07%) LDAP
4 15 (18.07%) OpenID
4 15 (18.07%) SailPoint
5 11 (13.25%) Kafka
5 11 (13.25%) Node.js
5 11 (13.25%) Playwright
6 10 (12.05%) Spring
7 6 (7.23%) Spring Boot
8 5 (6.02%) .NET
9 3 (3.61%) AWS CDK
9 3 (3.61%) Jest
9 3 (3.61%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (2.41%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.41%) Gherkin
10 2 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.41%) YAML
11 1 (1.20%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.71%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (26.51%) Cloud Native
3 19 (22.89%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.82%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Life Science
7 1 (1.20%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (33.73%) Linux
2 8 (9.64%) Windows
3 5 (6.02%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (85.54%) CI/CD
2 64 (77.11%) DevOps
3 44 (53.01%) Containerisation
4 39 (46.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (44.58%) Agile
6 34 (40.96%) Test Automation
7 32 (38.55%) Microservices
8 24 (28.92%) Root Cause Analysis
9 19 (22.89%) Computer Science
9 19 (22.89%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (22.89%) High Availability
10 18 (21.69%) Non-Functional Testing
11 17 (20.48%) Cryptography
12 16 (19.28%) Software Engineering
12 16 (19.28%) Test Strategy
13 15 (18.07%) Cost Optimisation
13 15 (18.07%) Infrastructure Automation
14 14 (16.87%) BDD
14 14 (16.87%) Cybersecurity
14 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (60.24%) Python
2 39 (46.99%) Java
3 25 (30.12%) Go
4 23 (27.71%) SQL
5 18 (21.69%) Bash
6 16 (19.28%) TypeScript
7 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.02%) PHP
8 5 (6.02%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.02%) Scala
9 4 (4.82%) Cypher
9 4 (4.82%) Groovy
9 4 (4.82%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.61%) Ruby
11 2 (2.41%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.20%) C
12 1 (1.20%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 19 (22.89%) Degree
1 19 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (19.28%) Master's Degree
3 12 (14.46%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.87%) QA
2 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (6.02%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (45.78%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (59.04%) Terraform
2 42 (50.60%) Kubernetes
3 37 (44.58%) Ansible
3 37 (44.58%) Grafana
4 27 (32.53%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.61%) Foglight
6 2 (2.41%) HP Fortify
6 2 (2.41%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.20%) Argo
7 1 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.20%) Kibana
7 1 (1.20%) logstash
7 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (40.96%) Splunk
2 21 (25.30%) ServiceNow
3 15 (18.07%) Google
4 5 (6.02%) Oracle
5 4 (4.82%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.61%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.61%) Databricks
6 3 (3.61%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.41%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.41%) Commvault
7 2 (2.41%) F5
7 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.41%) Veritas