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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 94 128
Rank change year-on-year +13 +34 +5
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 62 14 23
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.74% 1.02% 0.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.64% 10.61% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 27 11 20
10th Percentile £52,750 £53,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £62,755 £55,100 £48,684
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,000 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +10.37% +53.49%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,125 £100,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £78,750 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £69,310 £71,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -2.38% +13.09% +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 179 132 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.02% 9.64% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 99 97 241
10th Percentile £29,600 £41,700 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,830 £47,500 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,076 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% +18.18% -4.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £93,778 £75,772
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +21.50% -6.96%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +1 62 £77,500 - 6
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 (4.84%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 54 (87.10%) AWS
2 44 (70.97%) AWS Lambda
2 44 (70.97%) Serverless
3 42 (67.74%) Amazon S3
4 41 (66.13%) Amazon ECS
4 41 (66.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (62.90%) AWS Step Functions
6 38 (61.29%) Amazon ECR
6 38 (61.29%) Apigee
7 23 (37.10%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (17.74%) Azure
9 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (6.45%) Azure AKS
10 4 (6.45%) GitHub
11 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.84%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (4.84%) GCP
11 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (3.23%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) HTTP
2 2 (3.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (62.90%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 52 (83.87%) Jenkins
2 42 (67.74%) Cypress.io
3 37 (59.68%) SonarQube
4 35 (56.45%) Maven
5 11 (17.74%) Git
6 6 (9.68%) Cucumber
6 6 (9.68%) Selenium
7 5 (8.06%) JIRA
8 3 (4.84%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.23%) JUnit
9 2 (3.23%) Postman
10 1 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.61%) Gatling
10 1 (1.61%) JMeter
10 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (3.23%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 39 (62.90%) Developer
2 31 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 12 (19.35%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (19.35%) Lead
4 11 (17.74%) AWS Developer
4 11 (17.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (17.74%) Senior
5 5 (8.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Lead DevOps
6 4 (6.45%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Python Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.84%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.23%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (62.90%) AngularJS
1 39 (62.90%) Spring Boot
2 38 (61.29%) Gherkin
3 35 (56.45%) Jest
4 10 (16.13%) Spring
5 8 (12.90%) Node.js
6 5 (8.06%) React
6 5 (8.06%) REST
7 3 (4.84%) Drools
7 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.84%) JSON
7 3 (4.84%) Playwright
7 3 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (4.84%) Vue
7 3 (4.84%) XML
7 3 (4.84%) YAML
8 2 (3.23%) CSS
8 2 (3.23%) HTML
9 1 (1.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Unix
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) CentOS
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (87.10%) Agile
2 51 (82.26%) CI/CD
3 50 (80.65%) DevOps
4 26 (41.94%) SDLC
4 26 (41.94%) Secure Coding
5 25 (40.32%) ITIL
6 24 (38.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 18 (29.03%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (24.19%) Clean Code
9 14 (22.58%) Prototyping
9 14 (22.58%) Test Automation
10 11 (17.74%) Coaching
10 11 (17.74%) Mentoring
11 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (16.13%) Microservices
11 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (11.29%) Scrum
12 7 (11.29%) Software Delivery
13 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 5 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (74.19%) Java
2 42 (67.74%) Groovy
3 41 (66.13%) TypeScript
4 37 (59.68%) Bash
5 8 (12.90%) Python
6 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.84%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (48.39%) AWS Certification
2 23 (37.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (37.10%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (17.74%) Security Cleared
4 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
5 6 (9.68%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Degree
7 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
7 2 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
2 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (72.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (54.84%) HP Fortify
2 17 (27.42%) Terraform
3 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
4 8 (12.90%) Ansible
5 3 (4.84%) Argo
5 3 (4.84%) Grafana
5 3 (4.84%) Packer
5 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (4.84%) AppDynamics
1 3 (4.84%) IBM