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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 101 132
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 +3
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 53 15 13
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.45% 0.98% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.93% 11.72% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 23 12 12
10th Percentile £49,250 £53,000 -
25th Percentile £62,131 £56,150 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +22.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £74,618
90th Percentile £101,250 - £98,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £69,310 £72,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -3.74% +14.68% +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 166 128 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.53% 8.36% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 94 90 229
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £68,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +24.55% -4.86%
75th Percentile £79,375 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £75,154
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £68,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.01% +30.48% -5.41%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +2 53 £72,500 -6.45% 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 (5.66%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 47 (88.68%) AWS
2 37 (69.81%) AWS Lambda
2 37 (69.81%) Serverless
3 35 (66.04%) Amazon S3
4 34 (64.15%) Amazon ECS
4 34 (64.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (60.38%) AWS Step Functions
6 31 (58.49%) Amazon ECR
6 31 (58.49%) Apigee
7 22 (41.51%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (13.21%) GitHub
9 6 (11.32%) Azure
10 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (7.55%) Azure AKS
12 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (5.66%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (3.77%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (3.77%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (60.38%) DynamoDB
2 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 48 (90.57%) Jenkins
2 35 (66.04%) Cypress.io
3 30 (56.60%) SonarQube
4 28 (52.83%) Maven
5 12 (22.64%) Git
6 6 (11.32%) Cucumber
6 6 (11.32%) Selenium
7 5 (9.43%) JIRA
8 4 (7.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (5.66%) Artifactory
10 2 (3.77%) JUnit
10 2 (3.77%) Postman
11 1 (1.89%) Gatling
11 1 (1.89%) JMeter
11 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
General
1 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
2 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Finance
4 2 (3.77%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 36 (67.92%) Developer
2 28 (52.83%) Java Developer
3 15 (28.30%) Full-Stack Developer
4 11 (20.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (20.75%) Senior
5 8 (15.09%) AWS Developer
5 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (9.43%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) QA Engineer
9 2 (3.77%) Senior Python Developer
9 2 (3.77%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (60.38%) AngularJS
1 32 (60.38%) Spring Boot
2 31 (58.49%) Gherkin
3 28 (52.83%) Jest
4 8 (15.09%) Node.js
5 7 (13.21%) Spring
6 6 (11.32%) React
7 5 (9.43%) REST
8 3 (5.66%) Drools
8 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.66%) JSON
8 3 (5.66%) Playwright
8 3 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (5.66%) Vue
8 3 (5.66%) XML
8 3 (5.66%) YAML
9 2 (3.77%) CSS
9 2 (3.77%) HTML
10 1 (1.89%) Hibernate
10 1 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) NHS
5 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
2 4 (7.55%) CentOS
2 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.66%) Unix
3 3 (5.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (86.79%) CI/CD
2 44 (83.02%) Agile
3 43 (81.13%) DevOps
4 25 (47.17%) SDLC
5 24 (45.28%) ITIL
6 23 (43.40%) Secure Coding
6 23 (43.40%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 16 (30.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (26.42%) Clean Code
8 14 (26.42%) Test Automation
9 13 (24.53%) Prototyping
10 11 (20.75%) Microservices
11 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (16.98%) Coaching
12 9 (16.98%) Mentoring
13 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
14 5 (9.43%) Containerisation
14 5 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
14 5 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 5 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 39 (73.58%) Java
2 35 (66.04%) Groovy
3 34 (64.15%) TypeScript
4 30 (56.60%) Bash
5 8 (15.09%) Python
6 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.66%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (50.94%) AWS Certification
2 22 (41.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (41.51%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
4 14 (26.42%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.55%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (7.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Degree
7 2 (3.77%) ISTQB
7 2 (3.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (71.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (50.94%) HP Fortify
2 15 (28.30%) Terraform
3 9 (16.98%) Kubernetes
4 8 (15.09%) Ansible
5 3 (5.66%) Argo
5 3 (5.66%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (5.66%) AppDynamics
1 3 (5.66%) IBM