GitLab Job Trends in West Yorkshire

GitLab
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 94 130
Rank change year-on-year 0 +36 +3
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 49 16 8
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.29% 1.04% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.82% 12.50% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 22 15 7
10th Percentile £48,375 £53,000 £47,895
25th Percentile £62,074 £61,100 £52,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £70,995
90th Percentile £101,250 £82,500 £76,194
Yorkshire median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -7.59% +19.46% +47.72%

All Development Application Skills
West Yorkshire

GitLab falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 170 128 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.49% 8.34% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 99 93 220
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,897 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -7.60%
75th Percentile £76,875 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £73,764
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +23.81% -8.10%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

GitLab job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

GitLab
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in West Yorkshire

GitLab
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -8 49 £72,500 -6.45% 7
GitLab
Yorkshire

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 3 (6.12%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 42 (85.71%) AWS
2 33 (67.35%) AWS Lambda
2 33 (67.35%) Serverless
3 31 (63.27%) Amazon S3
4 30 (61.22%) Amazon ECS
5 29 (59.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (57.14%) AWS Step Functions
7 27 (55.10%) Amazon ECR
7 27 (55.10%) Apigee
8 18 (36.73%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (14.29%) Azure
10 6 (12.24%) GitHub
11 5 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (8.16%) Azure AKS
13 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (4.08%) AWS Fargate
14 2 (4.08%) BrowserStack
14 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (57.14%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Metadata
3 1 (2.04%) Power BI
3 1 (2.04%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 43 (87.76%) Jenkins
2 31 (63.27%) Cypress.io
3 26 (53.06%) SonarQube
4 24 (48.98%) Maven
5 12 (24.49%) Git
6 6 (12.24%) Cucumber
6 6 (12.24%) Selenium
7 5 (10.20%) JIRA
8 4 (8.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (6.12%) Artifactory
10 2 (4.08%) JUnit
10 2 (4.08%) Postman
11 1 (2.04%) Gatling
11 1 (2.04%) JMeter
11 1 (2.04%) MLflow
11 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
General
1 12 (24.49%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
5 2 (4.08%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (65.31%) Developer
2 24 (48.98%) Java Developer
3 15 (30.61%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (20.41%) Senior
6 8 (16.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (12.24%) AWS Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Angular Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Java Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Senior Python Developer
10 2 (4.08%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (57.14%) AngularJS
1 28 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 27 (55.10%) Gherkin
3 24 (48.98%) Jest
4 8 (16.33%) Node.js
5 7 (14.29%) Spring
6 6 (12.24%) React
7 5 (10.20%) REST
8 3 (6.12%) Drools
8 3 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (6.12%) JSON
8 3 (6.12%) Playwright
8 3 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.12%) Vue
8 3 (6.12%) XML
8 3 (6.12%) YAML
9 2 (4.08%) CSS
9 2 (4.08%) HTML
10 1 (2.04%) Hibernate
10 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.08%) NHS
5 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) CentOS
2 4 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.12%) Unix
3 3 (6.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 40 (81.63%) Agile
3 38 (77.55%) DevOps
4 20 (40.82%) ITIL
4 20 (40.82%) SDLC
5 19 (38.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 18 (36.73%) Secure Coding
7 16 (32.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (26.53%) Test Automation
9 11 (22.45%) Microservices
10 10 (20.41%) Clean Code
10 10 (20.41%) Coaching
10 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
11 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (18.37%) Prototyping
12 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
13 5 (10.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (10.20%) Software Delivery
13 5 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (71.43%) Java
2 31 (63.27%) Groovy
3 30 (61.22%) TypeScript
4 25 (51.02%) Bash
5 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (14.29%) Python
6 3 (6.12%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) AWS Certification
2 18 (36.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 18 (36.73%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
4 14 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.16%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Degree
7 2 (4.08%) ISTQB
7 2 (4.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (67.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (46.94%) HP Fortify
2 14 (28.57%) Terraform
3 8 (16.33%) Ansible
3 8 (16.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.12%) Argo
4 3 (6.12%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) AppDynamics
1 3 (6.12%) IBM
2 1 (2.04%) Databricks
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft