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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 90 127
Rank change year-on-year -13 +37 +9
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 40 19 7
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.98% 1.24% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.26% 15.32% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 6
10th Percentile £61,210 £53,000 £49,963
25th Percentile £63,633 £65,500 £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £61,482
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +21.99% +4.65%
75th Percentile £101,250 £78,750 £70,243
90th Percentile - £82,500 £77,245
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +20.00% +11.11%

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 172 124 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.20% 8.07% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 97 90 207
10th Percentile £39,750 £46,250 £42,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £50,313 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,076 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% +10.42% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,500 £87,943 £74,400
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 22 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 22 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 -16 40 £77,500 - 14
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 (2.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 33 (82.50%) AWS
2 23 (57.50%) AWS Lambda
2 23 (57.50%) Serverless
3 22 (55.00%) Amazon S3
4 20 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (47.50%) AWS Step Functions
6 18 (45.00%) Amazon ECR
6 18 (45.00%) Apigee
7 12 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (20.00%) Azure
9 7 (17.50%) GitHub
10 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
12 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (47.50%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (5.00%) Metadata
3 2 (5.00%) Power BI
3 2 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 34 (85.00%) Jenkins
2 22 (55.00%) Cypress.io
3 17 (42.50%) SonarQube
4 15 (37.50%) Maven
5 13 (32.50%) Git
6 6 (15.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
7 4 (10.00%) JIRA
8 3 (7.50%) Artifactory
8 3 (7.50%) Selenium
9 2 (5.00%) MLflow
10 1 (2.50%) Gatling
10 1 (2.50%) JMeter
10 1 (2.50%) JUnit
10 1 (2.50%) Postman
10 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
General
1 13 (32.50%) Public Sector
2 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Finance
3 2 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 13 (32.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (27.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (20.00%) Senior
6 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (15.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) AWS Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (7.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Test Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Angular Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Architect
9 2 (5.00%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Java Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (47.50%) AngularJS
1 19 (47.50%) Spring Boot
2 18 (45.00%) Gherkin
3 15 (37.50%) Jest
4 14 (35.00%) Terraform
5 7 (17.50%) Spring
6 5 (12.50%) Node.js
6 5 (12.50%) REST
7 4 (10.00%) React
8 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (7.50%) JSON
8 3 (7.50%) Playwright
8 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (7.50%) YAML
9 1 (2.50%) CSS
9 1 (2.50%) Drools
9 1 (2.50%) HTML
9 1 (2.50%) RESTful
9 1 (2.50%) Vue
9 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Linux
2 6 (15.00%) CentOS
2 6 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.50%) Unix
3 3 (7.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 31 (77.50%) DevOps
3 28 (70.00%) Agile
4 14 (35.00%) ITIL
4 14 (35.00%) SDLC
5 13 (32.50%) Microservices
5 13 (32.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 12 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (30.00%) Secure Coding
6 12 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (22.50%) Coaching
8 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
9 7 (17.50%) Clean Code
9 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 7 (17.50%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (15.00%) Prototyping
11 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) Java
2 22 (55.00%) Groovy
3 21 (52.50%) TypeScript
4 16 (40.00%) Bash
5 5 (12.50%) Python
6 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.50%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (35.00%) AWS Certification
4 12 (30.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (15.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) Degree
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (65.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) HP Fortify
2 10 (25.00%) Ansible
2 10 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Argo
3 3 (7.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) AppDynamics
1 3 (7.50%) IBM
2 2 (5.00%) Databricks
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft