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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 53 89
Rank change year-on-year -32 +36 +30
Contract jobs citing GitLab 58 30 13
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.51% 3.12% 0.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.59% 17.24% 8.02%
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 £537 £575
% change year-on-year -6.89% -6.61% -4.17%

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 372 174 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.07% 18.07% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 116 107
10th Percentile £318 £356 £358
25th Percentile £401 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £600 £650 £588
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
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 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +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 14 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 14 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 -20 39 £500 -9.09% 3
West Yorkshire -25 21 £450 -37.93% 9
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 4 (6.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (89.66%) AWS
2 32 (55.17%) GCP
3 28 (48.28%) Azure
4 18 (31.03%) GitHub
5 9 (15.52%) OpenShift
5 9 (15.52%) Serverless
6 7 (12.07%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (8.62%) Apigee
8 5 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (8.62%) SaaS
9 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
10 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.17%) AWS KMS
10 3 (5.17%) BrowserStack
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) DNS
1 6 (10.34%) Firewall
1 6 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.72%) HTTP
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) MongoDB
2 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 6 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.62%) MySQL
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.90%) DynamoDB
5 4 (6.90%) Neo4j
5 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 3 (5.17%) DTS
6 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 51 (87.93%) Jenkins
2 19 (32.76%) JIRA
3 18 (31.03%) Selenium
4 15 (25.86%) Cucumber
4 15 (25.86%) Git
4 15 (25.86%) REST Assured
5 11 (18.97%) Postman
6 8 (13.79%) Gatling
7 6 (10.34%) JMeter
8 5 (8.62%) TestRail
9 4 (6.90%) CircleCI
9 4 (6.90%) Liquibase
9 4 (6.90%) LoadRunner
9 4 (6.90%) NeoLoad
10 3 (5.17%) Cypress.io
10 3 (5.17%) Flyway
10 3 (5.17%) Maven
10 3 (5.17%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.72%) Gradle
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.14%) Finance
3 11 (18.97%) Banking
4 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Military
7 3 (5.17%) Law
7 3 (5.17%) Legal
8 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.72%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Lead
2 13 (22.41%) Test Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Senior
6 7 (12.07%) Software Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Architect
7 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Automation Test Lead
8 5 (8.62%) GCP Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Lead Test Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Node.js Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Test Architect
8 5 (8.62%) Test Automation Architect
9 4 (6.90%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) GCP DevOps
9 4 (6.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (39.66%) REST
2 15 (25.86%) LDAP
2 15 (25.86%) OpenID
2 15 (25.86%) SailPoint
3 12 (20.69%) Kafka
4 11 (18.97%) Playwright
5 10 (17.24%) Spring
6 9 (15.52%) Node.js
7 7 (12.07%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (10.34%) .NET
8 6 (10.34%) Spring Boot
9 5 (8.62%) Jest
9 5 (8.62%) RESTful
10 3 (5.17%) AWS CDK
10 3 (5.17%) JSON
10 3 (5.17%) React
10 3 (5.17%) Spring Cloud
11 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
11 2 (3.45%) Gherkin
11 2 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Public Cloud
3 5 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.17%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.45%) NHS
7 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Life Science
7 1 (1.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.72%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 5 (8.62%) Unix
4 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (82.76%) CI/CD
2 42 (72.41%) DevOps
3 28 (48.28%) Test Automation
4 26 (44.83%) Containerisation
5 23 (39.66%) Agile
6 18 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (27.59%) Microservices
8 14 (24.14%) Test Strategy
9 13 (22.41%) API Testing
10 12 (20.69%) BDD
10 12 (20.69%) Data Ingestion
10 12 (20.69%) ETL
10 12 (20.69%) Event-Driven
10 12 (20.69%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (20.69%) Observability
11 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (18.97%) Software Engineering
12 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (15.52%) Manual Testing
13 9 (15.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (60.34%) Java
2 32 (55.17%) Python
3 23 (39.66%) SQL
4 16 (27.59%) TypeScript
5 13 (22.41%) Bash
6 10 (17.24%) Go
7 9 (15.52%) JavaScript
8 5 (8.62%) PHP
8 5 (8.62%) Scala
9 4 (6.90%) Cypher
9 4 (6.90%) Groovy
9 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 4 (6.90%) Shell Script
10 3 (5.17%) Kotlin
10 3 (5.17%) Ruby
11 1 (1.72%) C
11 1 (1.72%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (10.34%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.97%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) SLA
3 4 (6.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 29 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (46.55%) Terraform
3 20 (34.48%) Grafana
4 17 (29.31%) Ansible
5 13 (22.41%) Prometheus
6 3 (5.17%) Foglight
7 2 (3.45%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.72%) Kibana
8 1 (1.72%) logstash
8 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (36.21%) ServiceNow
2 17 (29.31%) Splunk
3 9 (15.52%) Google
4 5 (8.62%) Oracle
5 3 (5.17%) AppDynamics
5 3 (5.17%) Databricks
6 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft