GitLab Contracts in the North of England

GitLab
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 114 143
Rank change year-on-year +36 +29 -33
Contract jobs citing GitLab 100 66 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.83% 1.37% 1.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.25% 11.91% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 47 45
10th Percentile £380 £400 £441
25th Percentile £421 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £545 £624 £650
90th Percentile £588 £660 £683
England median daily rate £520 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -5.61% -4.22% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
England median hourly rate £82.96 £74.22 £59.80
% change year-on-year +11.78% +24.11% +10.23%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 548 554 654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.52% 11.48% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 380 479
10th Percentile £348 £363 £325
25th Percentile £397 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -8.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 11
10th Percentile £52.14 £33.73 £37.80
25th Percentile £70.00 £37.55 £38.70
Median hourly rate £72.50 £46.18 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year +56.99% -11.41% -25.53%
75th Percentile £77.50 £63.75 £56.19
90th Percentile £80.05 £79.90 £56.38
England median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -5.77% +5.69% +17.70%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
North West +40 56 £475 -6.86% 61
Yorkshire +1 34 £513 -1.44% 42
North East +8 13 £465 +8.14% 9
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (4.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (3.00%) Documentum
3 3 (3.00%) FileNet
4 2 (2.00%) Confluence
5 1 (1.00%) Apache
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 59 (59.00%) AWS
2 21 (21.00%) GitHub
3 15 (15.00%) GCP
4 14 (14.00%) Azure
5 8 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (7.00%) npm
6 7 (7.00%) Serverless
7 6 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (5.00%) Apigee
8 5 (5.00%) Kong
9 4 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.00%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (3.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) Firewall
2 6 (6.00%) DNS
3 5 (5.00%) HTTP
4 4 (4.00%) Calico
4 4 (4.00%) DHCP
4 4 (4.00%) NAS
4 4 (4.00%) SAN
5 3 (3.00%) DMZ
6 2 (2.00%) Network Security
6 2 (2.00%) SSL
6 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.00%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (16.00%) MongoDB
3 14 (14.00%) NoSQL
4 10 (10.00%) MySQL
5 7 (7.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.00%) GIS
8 2 (2.00%) ObjectStore
9 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (53.00%) Jenkins
2 34 (34.00%) Git
3 17 (17.00%) JUnit
3 17 (17.00%) Maven
4 15 (15.00%) JIRA
5 13 (13.00%) Cucumber
6 11 (11.00%) SonarQube
7 10 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (9.00%) Cypress.io
8 9 (9.00%) Selenium
9 8 (8.00%) Artifactory
10 7 (7.00%) Postman
11 6 (6.00%) JMeter
11 6 (6.00%) Mockito
11 6 (6.00%) REST Assured
11 6 (6.00%) TestNG
12 5 (5.00%) Bitbucket
12 5 (5.00%) Gradle
12 5 (5.00%) gulp
12 5 (5.00%) Liquibase
General
1 21 (21.00%) Public Sector
2 18 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.00%) Finance
5 7 (7.00%) Banking
6 5 (5.00%) Electronics
6 5 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.00%) Marketing
6 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.00%) Military
8 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (40.00%) Developer
2 23 (23.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (15.00%) Senior
4 13 (13.00%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.00%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (9.00%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (9.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (9.00%) Test Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.00%) Lead
7 5 (5.00%) Angular Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) React Developer
7 5 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.00%) AWS Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.00%) React
2 22 (22.00%) RESTful
3 19 (19.00%) Spring Boot
4 18 (18.00%) Kafka
4 18 (18.00%) Node.js
4 18 (18.00%) Spring
5 13 (13.00%) AngularJS
6 12 (12.00%) Playwright
7 9 (9.00%) REST
8 7 (7.00%) CSS
8 7 (7.00%) HTML
8 7 (7.00%) OpenAPI
8 7 (7.00%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (7.00%) Swagger
9 6 (6.00%) Apache CXF
9 6 (6.00%) Dropwizard
9 6 (6.00%) Hibernate
9 6 (6.00%) JAX-RS
10 5 (5.00%) Express.js
10 5 (5.00%) Sequelize
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.00%) PKI
4 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.00%) Linux
2 8 (8.00%) Windows
2 8 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.00%) Android
4 4 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 50 (50.00%) DevOps
3 48 (48.00%) Agile
4 41 (41.00%) Microservices
5 29 (29.00%) Test Automation
6 26 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (23.00%) Containerisation
8 19 (19.00%) Scrum
8 19 (19.00%) TDD
9 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (16.00%) Migration
10 13 (13.00%) Event-Driven
10 13 (13.00%) SDLC
11 12 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (11.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (11.00%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (11.00%) Software Engineering
13 10 (10.00%) Cloud Security
13 10 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 48 (48.00%) Java
2 41 (41.00%) Python
3 34 (34.00%) JavaScript
4 30 (30.00%) SQL
5 14 (14.00%) TypeScript
6 13 (13.00%) Bash
7 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 10 (10.00%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.00%) C#
8 3 (3.00%) Kotlin
8 3 (3.00%) Rust
9 1 (1.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.00%) Degree
5 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.00%) CCNA
6 2 (2.00%) CCNP
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) QA
2 8 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.00%) WCAG
4 2 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.00%) NIST
4 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 35 (35.00%) Docker
2 8 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.00%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.00%) vSphere
4 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (37.00%) Terraform
2 36 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 20 (20.00%) Ansible
4 10 (10.00%) Grafana
5 7 (7.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.00%) Dell DRAC
6 4 (4.00%) Istio
6 4 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 4 (4.00%) vRealize
7 3 (3.00%) Packer
7 3 (3.00%) Puppet
8 2 (2.00%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.00%) Graylog
9 1 (1.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 9 (9.00%) Google
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.00%) IBM
3 5 (5.00%) Oracle
3 5 (5.00%) SAP
4 4 (4.00%) Dell
4 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.00%) VMware
5 3 (3.00%) CyberArk
5 3 (3.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (3.00%) Infoblox
5 3 (3.00%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.00%) Splunk
6 2 (2.00%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.00%) Mapbox
7 1 (1.00%) BMC
7 1 (1.00%) Databricks
7 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.00%) Remedy
7 1 (1.00%) Veracode
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