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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 60 91
Rank change year-on-year -28 +31 +22
Contract jobs citing GitLab 59 30 13
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.49% 3.01% 0.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.32% 16.67% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 10
10th Percentile £400 £513 -
25th Percentile £450 £534 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £498
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.58% -18.78%
75th Percentile £573 £738 £575
90th Percentile £688 £745 £588
England median daily rate £500 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -3.16%

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 385 180 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.22% 18.05% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 122 113
10th Percentile £324 £358 £365
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £530
90th Percentile £600 £650 £588
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -4.48%
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 £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +4.17%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -21 39 £500 -9.09% 2
West Yorkshire -21 22 £450 -37.93% 8
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 5 (8.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (86.44%) AWS
2 32 (54.24%) GCP
3 29 (49.15%) Azure
4 19 (32.20%) GitHub
5 9 (15.25%) OpenShift
6 8 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (13.56%) Serverless
7 6 (10.17%) Apigee
7 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (8.47%) SaaS
9 4 (6.78%) Entra ID
10 3 (5.08%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (5.08%) AWS KMS
10 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.08%) BrowserStack
11 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) DNS
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
1 6 (10.17%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) MongoDB
2 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.47%) MySQL
3 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.78%) DynamoDB
4 4 (6.78%) Neo4j
5 3 (5.08%) DTS
5 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.69%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (88.14%) Jenkins
2 20 (33.90%) JIRA
3 18 (30.51%) Selenium
4 17 (28.81%) Git
5 15 (25.42%) Cucumber
5 15 (25.42%) REST Assured
6 11 (18.64%) Postman
7 8 (13.56%) Gatling
8 6 (10.17%) JMeter
9 5 (8.47%) TestRail
10 4 (6.78%) CircleCI
10 4 (6.78%) Liquibase
10 4 (6.78%) LoadRunner
10 4 (6.78%) Maven
10 4 (6.78%) NeoLoad
11 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
11 3 (5.08%) Flyway
11 3 (5.08%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (3.39%) Gradle
12 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Finance
3 10 (16.95%) Banking
4 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.78%) Military
7 3 (5.08%) Law
7 3 (5.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Lead
2 13 (22.03%) Test Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) Developer
4 9 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Senior
6 7 (11.86%) Java Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
7 6 (10.17%) Architect
8 5 (8.47%) Automation Test Lead
8 5 (8.47%) Lead Test Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Test Architect
8 5 (8.47%) Test Automation Architect
9 4 (6.78%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (6.78%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (37.29%) REST
2 15 (25.42%) LDAP
2 15 (25.42%) OpenID
2 15 (25.42%) SailPoint
3 13 (22.03%) Kafka
4 11 (18.64%) Playwright
4 11 (18.64%) Spring
5 9 (15.25%) Node.js
6 7 (11.86%) Spring Boot
7 6 (10.17%) .NET
7 6 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (8.47%) Jest
9 4 (6.78%) RESTful
10 3 (5.08%) AWS CDK
10 3 (5.08%) JSON
10 3 (5.08%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (5.08%) React
10 3 (5.08%) Spring Cloud
11 2 (3.39%) OpenAPI
11 2 (3.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.73%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
4 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.39%) NHS
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Life Science
6 1 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.69%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Linux
2 7 (11.86%) Windows
3 5 (8.47%) Unix
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (83.05%) CI/CD
2 43 (72.88%) DevOps
3 28 (47.46%) Test Automation
4 26 (44.07%) Containerisation
5 22 (37.29%) Agile
6 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (27.12%) Microservices
8 14 (23.73%) Test Strategy
9 13 (22.03%) API Testing
9 13 (22.03%) Observability
10 12 (20.34%) BDD
10 12 (20.34%) Data Ingestion
10 12 (20.34%) ETL
10 12 (20.34%) Event-Driven
10 12 (20.34%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
11 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (16.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (15.25%) TDD
13 9 (15.25%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 36 (61.02%) Java
2 32 (54.24%) Python
3 24 (40.68%) SQL
4 16 (27.12%) TypeScript
5 14 (23.73%) Bash
6 9 (15.25%) Go
6 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.47%) PHP
7 5 (8.47%) Scala
8 4 (6.78%) Cypher
8 4 (6.78%) Groovy
8 4 (6.78%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.78%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.08%) Kotlin
9 3 (5.08%) Ruby
10 1 (1.69%) C
10 1 (1.69%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.47%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) QA
2 5 (8.47%) SLA
3 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 31 (52.54%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (50.85%) Kubernetes
2 28 (47.46%) Terraform
3 20 (33.90%) Grafana
4 17 (28.81%) Ansible
5 13 (22.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.08%) Foglight
7 2 (3.39%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.69%) Argo
8 1 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.69%) Kibana
8 1 (1.69%) logstash
8 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) ServiceNow
2 16 (27.12%) Splunk
3 8 (13.56%) Google
4 5 (8.47%) Oracle
5 3 (5.08%) AppDynamics
5 3 (5.08%) Databricks
6 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft