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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 90 64
Rank change year-on-year +15 -26 +11
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 4 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.43% 0.35% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.67% 8.93% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 £55,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,991 £62,500
90th Percentile - £79,796 £65,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.81% -3.57% -

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 24 56 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.58% 3.90% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 19 23 62
10th Percentile £25,650 £39,948 £39,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £47,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -13.73% +37.84%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,741 £74,688
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +4.00%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab 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
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 September 2025. 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 +23 4 £67,500 +12.50% 13
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 4 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) Redux
2 3 (75.00%) Sass
3 2 (50.00%) Jest
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (25.00%) Dropwizard
4 1 (25.00%) JAX-RS
4 1 (25.00%) LESS
4 1 (25.00%) MERN Stack
4 1 (25.00%) Mongoose
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Solace
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft