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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 91 119
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 +13
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 46 18 11
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.09% 1.20% 0.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.27% 17.14% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 22 17 5
10th Percentile £61,949 £53,000 £48,918
25th Percentile £64,912 £65,000 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £75,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +29.39% -7.26%
75th Percentile £101,250 £78,750 £65,000
90th Percentile - £82,500 £69,194
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year - +29.39% -7.26%

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 182 105 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.30% 6.99% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 95 80 187
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,955 £47,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,875 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,750 £84,000 £77,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.61% +6.67% -6.78%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -13 46 £81,250 +4.84% 18
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 1 (2.17%) JBoss
1 1 (2.17%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 40 (86.96%) AWS
2 29 (63.04%) Amazon S3
3 27 (58.70%) AWS Lambda
3 27 (58.70%) Serverless
4 21 (45.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 20 (43.48%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (41.30%) Amazon ECR
6 19 (41.30%) AWS Step Functions
7 18 (39.13%) Apigee
8 12 (26.09%) GitHub
9 11 (23.91%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (19.57%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (19.57%) Azure
11 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (8.70%) Azure AKS
13 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) HTTP
2 1 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.35%) Metadata
3 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 37 (80.43%) Jenkins
2 26 (56.52%) Cypress.io
3 17 (36.96%) SonarQube
4 15 (32.61%) Maven
5 13 (28.26%) Git
6 8 (17.39%) JIRA
7 7 (15.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (10.87%) JMeter
8 5 (10.87%) Postman
9 4 (8.70%) Cucumber
10 3 (6.52%) Artifactory
11 2 (4.35%) MLflow
12 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 14 (30.43%) Public Sector
2 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (41.30%) Developer
2 16 (34.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (30.43%) Java Developer
4 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (17.39%) Senior
6 7 (15.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 7 (15.22%) Principal Engineer
6 7 (15.22%) Test Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) AWS Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior Test Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Angular Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
10 2 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 19 (41.30%) AngularJS
2 19 (41.30%) Spring Boot
3 18 (39.13%) Terraform
4 15 (32.61%) Jest
5 7 (15.22%) Playwright
5 7 (15.22%) Spring
6 6 (13.04%) REST
7 5 (10.87%) Node.js
7 5 (10.87%) RESTful
8 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (6.52%) JSON
8 3 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.52%) React
8 3 (6.52%) YAML
9 1 (2.17%) Drools
9 1 (2.17%) Hibernate
9 1 (2.17%) Kafka
9 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.22%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Linux
2 7 (15.22%) CentOS
2 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Unix
3 3 (6.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (86.96%) CI/CD
2 33 (71.74%) Agile
2 33 (71.74%) DevOps
3 19 (41.30%) SDLC
4 17 (36.96%) Test Automation
5 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (32.61%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 14 (30.43%) ITIL
6 14 (30.43%) Microservices
7 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (26.09%) Secure Coding
8 10 (21.74%) Scrum
9 9 (19.57%) Coaching
9 9 (19.57%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (17.39%) Clean Code
10 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
10 8 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (15.22%) Prototyping
11 7 (15.22%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) TypeScript
2 25 (54.35%) Java
3 22 (47.83%) Groovy
4 17 (36.96%) Bash
5 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
6 6 (13.04%) Python
7 5 (10.87%) SQL
8 1 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 20 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 14 (30.43%) AWS Certification
4 12 (26.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (26.09%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (58.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (30.43%) HP Fortify
2 12 (26.09%) Ansible
3 11 (23.91%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.52%) Argo
4 3 (6.52%) Packer
5 1 (2.17%) Grafana
5 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) AppDynamics
1 3 (6.52%) Databricks
1 3 (6.52%) IBM
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft