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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 50 89
Rank change year-on-year +4 +39 +26
Contract jobs citing GitLab 92 34 16
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.77% 3.32% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.12% 18.78% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 21 12
10th Percentile £443 £409 £368
25th Percentile £461 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% -25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £738 £588
90th Percentile £658 £750 -
England median daily rate £519 £568 £551
% change year-on-year -8.71% +3.09% -8.17%

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 416 181 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.59% 17.66% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 118 144
10th Percentile £323 £386 £357
25th Percentile £400 £414 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -18.14%
75th Percentile £538 £617 £550
90th Percentile £646 £738 £650
England median daily rate £500 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -3.01% -6.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £30.23
25th Percentile - - £35.40
Median hourly rate - - £44.64
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.72%
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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -1 70 £506 -3.57% 7
West Yorkshire -27 25 £475 +11.76% 10
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 10 (10.87%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 77 (83.70%) AWS
2 55 (59.78%) GCP
3 30 (32.61%) Serverless
4 25 (27.17%) Azure
5 12 (13.04%) GitHub
6 11 (11.96%) AWS KMS
7 9 (9.78%) CloudBees
8 8 (8.70%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.52%) OpenShift
11 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.43%) SaaS
12 4 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
12 4 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (3.26%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) DNS
1 10 (10.87%) Firewall
1 10 (10.87%) TCP/IP
2 5 (5.43%) VPN
3 4 (4.35%) SSL
4 3 (3.26%) Network Security
5 1 (1.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.26%) NoSQL
2 24 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (14.13%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.52%) MySQL
5 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.35%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 84 (91.30%) Jenkins
2 26 (28.26%) JIRA
3 21 (22.83%) Liquibase
4 16 (17.39%) Cucumber
5 15 (16.30%) Git
6 11 (11.96%) Selenium
7 9 (9.78%) Postman
7 9 (9.78%) REST Assured
8 6 (6.52%) Cypress.io
9 5 (5.43%) TestRail
10 4 (4.35%) CircleCI
10 4 (4.35%) Gatling
10 4 (4.35%) JMeter
10 4 (4.35%) LoadRunner
10 4 (4.35%) NeoLoad
11 2 (2.17%) Maven
11 2 (2.17%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (1.09%) Mocha
12 1 (1.09%) Travis CI
General
1 44 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 34 (36.96%) Banking
2 34 (36.96%) Finance
3 19 (20.65%) Financial Institution
4 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Law
6 3 (3.26%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) Senior
2 18 (19.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 18 (19.57%) Software Engineer
3 17 (18.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (17.39%) GCP Engineer
5 14 (15.22%) Developer
6 13 (14.13%) Lead
6 13 (14.13%) Test Engineer
7 12 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (11.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (9.78%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (9.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (8.70%) AWS Software Engineer
10 8 (8.70%) Data Protection Engineer
10 8 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) Data Engineer
11 7 (7.61%) Java Developer
12 6 (6.52%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (42.39%) REST
2 29 (31.52%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (28.26%) RESTful
4 13 (14.13%) LDAP
4 13 (14.13%) OpenID
4 13 (14.13%) SailPoint
5 12 (13.04%) Node.js
6 8 (8.70%) Playwright
7 7 (7.61%) Kafka
7 7 (7.61%) Spring
8 5 (5.43%) .NET
9 3 (3.26%) Jest
9 3 (3.26%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.17%) Gherkin
11 1 (1.09%) Express.js
11 1 (1.09%) Flask
11 1 (1.09%) GraphQL
11 1 (1.09%) React
11 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (33.70%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (28.26%) Cloud Native
3 25 (27.17%) Public Cloud
4 11 (11.96%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 34 (36.96%) Linux
2 6 (6.52%) Windows
3 5 (5.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (90.22%) CI/CD
2 77 (83.70%) DevOps
3 51 (55.43%) Containerisation
4 48 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (46.74%) Agile
6 36 (39.13%) Test Automation
7 34 (36.96%) Microservices
8 32 (34.78%) Root Cause Analysis
9 27 (29.35%) Continuous Integration
10 26 (28.26%) Computer Science
11 25 (27.17%) Non-Functional Testing
12 24 (26.09%) Cryptography
13 23 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
13 23 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
13 23 (25.00%) High Availability
13 23 (25.00%) Software Engineering
14 21 (22.83%) Change Management
14 21 (22.83%) Cybersecurity
14 21 (22.83%) Infrastructure Automation
15 18 (19.57%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 66 (71.74%) Python
2 39 (42.39%) Java
3 32 (34.78%) Go
4 27 (29.35%) Bash
5 18 (19.57%) SQL
6 13 (14.13%) TypeScript
7 12 (13.04%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.43%) PHP
8 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.43%) Scala
9 4 (4.35%) Cypher
10 3 (3.26%) Groovy
10 3 (3.26%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.17%) Ruby
12 1 (1.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (28.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 26 (28.26%) Degree
1 26 (28.26%) Master's Degree
2 17 (18.48%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.96%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.61%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.22%) QA
2 5 (5.43%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.43%) SLA
3 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (44.57%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 58 (63.04%) Terraform
2 53 (57.61%) Ansible
3 46 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 42 (45.65%) Grafana
5 30 (32.61%) Prometheus
6 9 (9.78%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.17%) HP Fortify
7 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.17%) Puppet
8 1 (1.09%) Argo
8 1 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.09%) Kibana
8 1 (1.09%) logstash
Vendors
1 37 (40.22%) Splunk
2 17 (18.48%) Google
3 16 (17.39%) ServiceNow
4 9 (9.78%) Commvault
4 9 (9.78%) Red Hat
4 9 (9.78%) Veritas
5 6 (6.52%) Microsoft
6 5 (5.43%) Oracle
7 4 (4.35%) CheckPoint
7 4 (4.35%) F5
7 4 (4.35%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.26%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.09%) Databricks
9 1 (1.09%) VMware
9 1 (1.09%) Zscaler