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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 63 72
Rank change year-on-year -46 +9 +36
Contract jobs citing GitLab 50 41 35
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.76% 3.05% 2.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.42% 16.67% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 32
10th Percentile - £384 £383
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +2.70% -8.42%
75th Percentile £659 £528 £601
90th Percentile £719 £572 £644
England median daily rate £500 £501 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -4.35%

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 480 246 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.91% 18.30% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 170 173
10th Percentile £350 £374 £381
25th Percentile £406 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +2.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £628 £601 £616
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.65 - -
25th Percentile £21.38 - -
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
75th Percentile £37.13 - -
90th Percentile £41.85 - -
England median hourly rate £68.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.94% -3.08% +4.00%

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 July 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 July 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 -18 31 £400 -15.79% 11
South Yorkshire -40 18 £675 +35.00% 5
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 3
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (2.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 38 (76.00%) AWS
2 22 (44.00%) GitHub
3 16 (32.00%) GCP
4 14 (28.00%) Azure
5 12 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (12.00%) Apigee
6 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.00%) BrowserStack
7 4 (8.00%) Cloud Run
7 4 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (8.00%) Kong
7 4 (8.00%) OpenShift
7 4 (8.00%) Serverless
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.00%) OCI
8 3 (6.00%) SaaS
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.00%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) BGP
1 3 (6.00%) BIG-IP
1 3 (6.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (6.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (6.00%) Firewall
1 3 (6.00%) OSPF
1 3 (6.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (6.00%) VXLAN
1 3 (6.00%) WAN
1 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (6.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (16.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (10.00%) Redis
4 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.00%) Hazelcast
5 4 (8.00%) RDBMS
6 3 (6.00%) DTS
6 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.00%) Neo4j
7 2 (4.00%) Parquet
8 1 (2.00%) DocumentDB
8 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (78.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (26.00%) Git
3 11 (22.00%) Selenium
4 10 (20.00%) REST Assured
5 8 (16.00%) Gatling
5 8 (16.00%) JIRA
6 7 (14.00%) Serenity BDD
7 5 (10.00%) Gradle
7 5 (10.00%) Maven
8 4 (8.00%) Flyway
8 4 (8.00%) JMeter
8 4 (8.00%) Postman
8 4 (8.00%) Snyk
9 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
9 3 (6.00%) Liquibase
9 3 (6.00%) Zephyr
10 2 (4.00%) NeoLoad
11 1 (2.00%) Bitbucket
11 1 (2.00%) SoapUI
11 1 (2.00%) TestNG
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Legal
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Military
5 3 (6.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Senior
2 10 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Lead
4 8 (16.00%) Developer
4 8 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Lead Test Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Backend Developer
8 4 (8.00%) DBA
8 4 (8.00%) GCP DevOps
8 4 (8.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Senior Backend Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (8.00%) SQL DBA
8 4 (8.00%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (6.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.00%) Kafka
2 12 (24.00%) Playwright
2 12 (24.00%) REST
3 11 (22.00%) Spring
3 11 (22.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (10.00%) AWS CDK
5 5 (10.00%) JSON
5 5 (10.00%) LDAP
5 5 (10.00%) OpenID
5 5 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (8.00%) Apache Avro
6 4 (8.00%) JPA
6 4 (8.00%) OAuth
6 4 (8.00%) OAuth2
6 4 (8.00%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (8.00%) RESTful
6 4 (8.00%) Spring WebFlux
6 4 (8.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.00%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.00%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
3 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Android
4 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.00%) CentOS
4 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 41 (82.00%) DevOps
3 22 (44.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (38.00%) Microservices
5 18 (36.00%) Test Automation
6 15 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 14 (28.00%) Observability
8 13 (26.00%) Agile
9 12 (24.00%) Containerisation
10 11 (22.00%) Event-Driven
11 10 (20.00%) Test Strategy
12 9 (18.00%) High Availability
12 9 (18.00%) Validation
13 7 (14.00%) BDD
13 7 (14.00%) Non-Functional Testing
14 6 (12.00%) API Testing
14 6 (12.00%) Data Protection
14 6 (12.00%) Kanban
14 6 (12.00%) Migration
14 6 (12.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.00%) Python
2 22 (44.00%) Java
3 15 (30.00%) SQL
4 11 (22.00%) TypeScript
5 6 (12.00%) Bash
6 5 (10.00%) Go
7 2 (4.00%) Cypher
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) C#
8 1 (2.00%) Groovy
8 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.00%) Ruby
8 1 (2.00%) Scala
8 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) CISSP
4 1 (2.00%) CSSLP
4 1 (2.00%) GIAC
4 1 (2.00%) GSEC
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 26 (52.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (58.00%) Terraform
2 20 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 18 (36.00%) Grafana
4 16 (32.00%) Prometheus
5 10 (20.00%) Ansible
6 4 (8.00%) Argo
7 3 (6.00%) Foglight
8 1 (2.00%) Kustomize
8 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Splunk
2 7 (14.00%) Google
3 6 (12.00%) Databricks
3 6 (12.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.00%) Arista
4 3 (6.00%) Aruba
4 3 (6.00%) F5
4 3 (6.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.00%) Foundry
5 2 (4.00%) Palantir
5 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.00%) New Relic
6 1 (2.00%) Trend Micro