GitLab Job Trends in Manchester

GitLab
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 106 153
Rank change year-on-year -48 +47 -27
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 45 49 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.61% 2.08% 0.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.63% 27.84% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 28 14 13
10th Percentile £47,500 - £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +6.52% -17.86%
75th Percentile £87,500 £69,688 £66,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £82,250 £68,500
North West median annual salary £69,310 £60,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year +15.52% +6.67% -19.64%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 288 176 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.90% 7.46% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 164 102 175
10th Percentile £41,625 £42,500 £36,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £57,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% +10.00% -12.86%
75th Percentile £80,625 £68,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £100,875 £82,725 £72,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -16.67%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

GitLab job vacancy trend in Manchester

GitLab
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in Manchester

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.22%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 27 (60.00%) AWS
2 13 (28.89%) GitHub
3 12 (26.67%) Azure
4 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (11.11%) GCP
6 4 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (8.89%) Google Compute Engine
6 4 (8.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.44%) LangSmith
8 2 (4.44%) Vercel
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) CTI
1 2 (4.44%) DHCP
1 2 (4.44%) DNS
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
1 2 (4.44%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.44%) Chroma
3 2 (4.44%) Pinecone
3 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.22%) MySQL
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.22%) Redis
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (42.22%) Jenkins
2 16 (35.56%) Git
3 13 (28.89%) JUnit
3 13 (28.89%) Spock
4 7 (15.56%) Maven
5 4 (8.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (8.89%) IntelliJ
5 4 (8.89%) Vite
6 2 (4.44%) JIRA
7 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.22%) Mocha
7 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Senior
3 10 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Developer
5 7 (15.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Java Developer
8 4 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (57.78%) Terraform
2 15 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 15 (33.33%) Spring
3 13 (28.89%) React
4 5 (11.11%) LangChain
4 5 (11.11%) Next.js
5 4 (8.89%) CrewAI
5 4 (8.89%) FastAPI
5 4 (8.89%) LangGraph
5 4 (8.89%) Pulumi
5 4 (8.89%) REST
6 3 (6.67%) .NET
6 3 (6.67%) Vue
7 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.44%) Express.js
7 2 (4.44%) Langfuse
7 2 (4.44%) Ollama
7 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (48.89%) Cloud Native
2 13 (28.89%) Private Cloud
3 11 (24.44%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.44%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.44%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (8.89%) CentOS
2 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (8.89%) VMS
3 2 (4.44%) Windows
4 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 33 (73.33%) DevOps
3 27 (60.00%) Agile
3 27 (60.00%) AI
4 26 (57.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (53.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (53.33%) Microservices
6 20 (44.44%) Observability
7 16 (35.56%) Containerisation
7 16 (35.56%) Kanban
7 16 (35.56%) Scrum
8 15 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 15 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
10 9 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (20.00%) SDLC
10 9 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) Python
2 21 (46.67%) Java
3 20 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 20 (44.44%) TypeScript
4 10 (22.22%) Bash
5 8 (17.78%) Groovy
5 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.89%) Go
6 4 (8.89%) SQL
7 3 (6.67%) Rust
8 2 (4.44%) C#
9 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 5 (11.11%) Degree
5 2 (4.44%) CCNA
5 2 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.44%) MCSE
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 36 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (53.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.00%) Ansible
3 8 (17.78%) Grafana
3 8 (17.78%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.11%) Argo
5 3 (6.67%) Istio
5 3 (6.67%) linkerd
5 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.67%) Puppet
6 2 (4.44%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) AppDynamics
1 13 (28.89%) Splunk
2 4 (8.89%) Google
2 4 (8.89%) Mistral
2 4 (8.89%) OpenAI
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.44%) Cisco
4 2 (4.44%) FIS
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) VMware
5 1 (2.22%) New Relic
5 1 (2.22%) YouTube