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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 85 126
Rank change year-on-year +5 +41 +4
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 63 13 24
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.01% 1.13% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.80% 9.22% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 29 9 20
10th Percentile £54,500 £51,975 £35,000
25th Percentile £63,011 £53,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +4.73% +61.76%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 -
Yorkshire median annual salary £73,405 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year +4.86% +11.50% +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 176 141 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.61% 12.30% 10.01%
Number of salaries quoted 100 107 230
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,770 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £47,231 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £64,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +7.52% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,375 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £82,548
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,085 £59,800 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.26% +8.73% -4.35%

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 24 April 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 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds -1 62 £78,750 +3.28% 5
Bradford - 1 £65,000 -
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 (4.76%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 56 (88.89%) AWS
2 45 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
2 45 (71.43%) Serverless
3 43 (68.25%) Amazon S3
4 42 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
5 41 (65.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 40 (63.49%) Amazon ECR
6 40 (63.49%) Apigee
6 40 (63.49%) AWS Step Functions
7 22 (34.92%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (17.46%) Azure
9 6 (9.52%) GCP
10 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (6.35%) Azure AKS
11 3 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (4.76%) GitHub
11 3 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (3.17%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) DNS
1 2 (3.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (63.49%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 50 (79.37%) Jenkins
2 43 (68.25%) SonarQube
3 41 (65.08%) Cypress.io
4 40 (63.49%) Maven
5 8 (12.70%) Selenium
6 7 (11.11%) Cucumber
6 7 (11.11%) Git
7 5 (7.94%) JIRA
8 3 (4.76%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.17%) JUnit
9 2 (3.17%) Postman
10 1 (1.59%) Gatling
10 1 (1.59%) JMeter
10 1 (1.59%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 6 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.76%) Finance
4 2 (3.17%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.59%) Advertising
5 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (55.56%) Developer
2 30 (47.62%) Java Developer
3 21 (33.33%) Lead
4 12 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) AWS Developer
5 10 (15.87%) Senior
6 8 (12.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (11.11%) Technical Leader
8 6 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
8 6 (9.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (6.35%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 3 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.76%) Lead Developer
11 3 (4.76%) Python Developer
11 3 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 2 (3.17%) Senior Java Developer
12 2 (3.17%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (65.08%) AngularJS
2 40 (63.49%) Gherkin
2 40 (63.49%) Jest
2 40 (63.49%) Spring Boot
3 9 (14.29%) Spring
4 8 (12.70%) Node.js
5 4 (6.35%) React
6 3 (4.76%) CSS
6 3 (4.76%) Drools
6 3 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.76%) HTML
6 3 (4.76%) JSON
6 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.76%) REST
6 3 (4.76%) Vue
6 3 (4.76%) XML
6 3 (4.76%) YAML
7 1 (1.59%) .NET
7 1 (1.59%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.59%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) NHS
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Unix
2 3 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (93.65%) Agile
2 54 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 54 (85.71%) DevOps
3 28 (44.44%) Secure Coding
4 24 (38.10%) ITIL
4 24 (38.10%) SDLC
5 23 (36.51%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 16 (25.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (22.22%) Clean Code
7 14 (22.22%) Prototyping
8 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
10 10 (15.87%) Coaching
10 10 (15.87%) Microservices
10 10 (15.87%) Test Automation
11 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (12.70%) Scrum
13 7 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
13 7 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (74.60%) Java
2 42 (66.67%) Groovy
3 40 (63.49%) Bash
3 40 (63.49%) TypeScript
4 7 (11.11%) Python
5 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (50.79%) AWS Certification
2 23 (36.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (36.51%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
3 9 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.17%) Degree
6 2 (3.17%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
2 2 (3.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (76.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (63.49%) HP Fortify
2 19 (30.16%) Terraform
3 11 (17.46%) Kubernetes
4 10 (15.87%) Ansible
5 6 (9.52%) Grafana
5 6 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.76%) Argo
6 3 (4.76%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (4.76%) AppDynamics
1 3 (4.76%) IBM
2 1 (1.59%) Adobe
2 1 (1.59%) Google
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.59%) New Relic