GitLab Job Trends in the North East

GitLab
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 83 58
Rank change year-on-year +9 -25 +5
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 7 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.69% 0.32% 1.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.67% 3.66% 22.39%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 14
10th Percentile £58,700 £54,250 £39,769
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,875 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £81,877 £76,875 £65,938
90th Percentile £86,253 £81,000 £67,125
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -10.00%

All Development Application Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 60 82 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 5.95% 8.81% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 53 18 60
10th Percentile - £46,675 £35,578
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £60,750 £67,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the North East

GitLab
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the North East over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the North East

GitLab
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the North East region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Tyne and Wear +11 6 £67,500 -3.57% 8
Durham - 1 £55,200 -
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Slack
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Manager
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (14.29%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Apache CXF
2 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
2 1 (14.29%) CSS3
2 1 (14.29%) Django
2 1 (14.29%) Dropwizard
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Flask
2 1 (14.29%) FreeMarker
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) JAX-RS
2 1 (14.29%) LESS
2 1 (14.29%) MERN Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Mongoose
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Nunjucks
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Fedora
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) ChatOps
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Observability
3 2 (28.57%) People Management
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Delphi
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat