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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 99 129
Rank change year-on-year +2 +30 +5
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 47 19 7
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.18% 1.22% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.01% 14.39% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 22 18 6
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,000 £49,963
25th Percentile £63,166 £65,500 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £61,482
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +21.99% +11.79%
75th Percentile £87,049 £78,750 £70,243
90th Percentile £101,250 £82,500 £77,245
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,905 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.46% +20.00% +28.21%

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 174 132 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.36% 8.46% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 99 97 212
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,955 £47,500 £46,985
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £87,500 £73,872
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -8.70%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -9 47 £73,750 -4.84% 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 (6.38%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 39 (82.98%) AWS
2 30 (63.83%) AWS Lambda
2 30 (63.83%) Serverless
3 28 (59.57%) Amazon S3
4 27 (57.45%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (55.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (53.19%) AWS Step Functions
7 24 (51.06%) Amazon ECR
7 24 (51.06%) Apigee
8 15 (31.91%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (17.02%) Azure
10 7 (14.89%) GitHub
11 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (8.51%) Azure AKS
13 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (4.26%) BrowserStack
14 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (53.19%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.26%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.26%) Metadata
3 2 (4.26%) Power BI
3 2 (4.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 41 (87.23%) Jenkins
2 28 (59.57%) Cypress.io
3 23 (48.94%) SonarQube
4 21 (44.68%) Maven
5 13 (27.66%) Git
6 6 (12.77%) Cucumber
6 6 (12.77%) Selenium
7 5 (10.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (10.64%) JIRA
8 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
9 2 (4.26%) JUnit
9 2 (4.26%) MLflow
9 2 (4.26%) Postman
10 1 (2.13%) Gatling
10 1 (2.13%) JMeter
10 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
General
1 13 (27.66%) Public Sector
2 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Finance
5 2 (4.26%) Health Technology
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (59.57%) Developer
2 21 (44.68%) Java Developer
3 12 (25.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (25.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (21.28%) Senior
5 6 (12.77%) AWS Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Angular Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Test Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Architect
9 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Python Developer
9 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (53.19%) AngularJS
1 25 (53.19%) Spring Boot
2 24 (51.06%) Gherkin
3 21 (44.68%) Jest
4 7 (14.89%) Node.js
4 7 (14.89%) Spring
5 5 (10.64%) React
5 5 (10.64%) REST
6 3 (6.38%) Drools
6 3 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (6.38%) JSON
6 3 (6.38%) Playwright
6 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (6.38%) XML
6 3 (6.38%) YAML
7 2 (4.26%) CSS
7 2 (4.26%) HTML
7 2 (4.26%) Vue
8 1 (2.13%) Hibernate
8 1 (2.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.26%) NHS
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) CentOS
2 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.38%) Unix
3 3 (6.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (85.11%) CI/CD
2 36 (76.60%) Agile
2 36 (76.60%) DevOps
3 17 (36.17%) ITIL
3 17 (36.17%) SDLC
4 16 (34.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 15 (31.91%) Secure Coding
6 13 (27.66%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (27.66%) Test Automation
7 12 (25.53%) Microservices
8 11 (23.40%) Coaching
8 11 (23.40%) Mentoring
9 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (17.02%) Clean Code
11 7 (14.89%) Prototyping
12 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
13 5 (10.64%) Containerisation
13 5 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (68.09%) Java
2 28 (59.57%) Groovy
3 27 (57.45%) TypeScript
4 22 (46.81%) Bash
5 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
6 6 (12.77%) Python
7 3 (6.38%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) AWS Certification
2 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
3 15 (31.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 15 (31.91%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (31.91%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.64%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.51%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Degree
7 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
7 2 (4.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (65.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (42.55%) HP Fortify
2 15 (31.91%) Terraform
3 9 (19.15%) Ansible
3 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.38%) Argo
4 3 (6.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (6.38%) AppDynamics
1 3 (6.38%) IBM
2 2 (4.26%) Databricks
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft