GitLab Job Trends in the North of England

GitLab
England > North of England

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 213 206
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 +23
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 87 42 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.61% 0.61% 1.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.93% 6.36% 11.19%
Number of salaries quoted 52 27 131
10th Percentile £45,175 £57,825 £35,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £61,297 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% +26.32%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,550 £92,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +19.23% -13.33%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 673 660 1,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.70% 9.53% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 504 446 1,108
10th Percentile - £36,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £73,375
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the North of England

GitLab
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the North of England

GitLab
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Yorkshire -1 55 £77,500 +3.33% 13
North West -5 25 £65,000 -3.04% 15
North East -9 7 £66,538 -4.95% 19
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (2.30%) JBoss
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 60 (68.97%) AWS
2 39 (44.83%) AWS CloudFormation
3 36 (41.38%) AWS Lambda
3 36 (41.38%) Serverless
4 35 (40.23%) Amazon ECS
5 34 (39.08%) Amazon S3
6 33 (37.93%) Amazon ECR
6 33 (37.93%) Apigee
6 33 (37.93%) AWS Step Functions
7 28 (32.18%) Azure
8 17 (19.54%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (14.94%) GCP
10 10 (11.49%) GitHub
11 9 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (6.90%) OpenShift
14 5 (5.75%) Azure AKS
15 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
15 4 (4.60%) Slack
15 4 (4.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) DNS
2 5 (5.75%) VPN
3 4 (4.60%) Asterisk PBX
3 4 (4.60%) BGP
3 4 (4.60%) DHCP
3 4 (4.60%) LAN
3 4 (4.60%) MPLS
3 4 (4.60%) SD-WAN
3 4 (4.60%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (4.60%) VoIP
3 4 (4.60%) VPLS
3 4 (4.60%) WAN
4 3 (3.45%) Firewall
5 1 (1.15%) Broadband
5 1 (1.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (42.53%) DynamoDB
2 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.60%) MySQL
4 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.60%) Power BI
5 3 (3.45%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.15%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 51 (58.62%) Jenkins
2 35 (40.23%) Cypress.io
2 35 (40.23%) SonarQube
3 33 (37.93%) Maven
4 14 (16.09%) Git
5 8 (9.20%) Selenium
6 4 (4.60%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.45%) JIRA
8 2 (2.30%) Gatling
8 2 (2.30%) JMeter
8 2 (2.30%) JUnit
8 2 (2.30%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.15%) Postman
General
1 11 (12.64%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.34%) Finance
3 6 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.60%) Advertising
4 4 (4.60%) Marketing
5 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Banking
5 3 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Electronics
6 2 (2.30%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.15%) Games
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (39.08%) Developer
2 27 (31.03%) Lead
3 24 (27.59%) Java Developer
4 15 (17.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) AWS Developer
5 8 (9.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Senior
6 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (6.90%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) Technical Leader
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.60%) IT Support
8 4 (4.60%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (42.53%) AngularJS
2 35 (40.23%) Spring Boot
3 33 (37.93%) Gherkin
3 33 (37.93%) Jest
4 11 (12.64%) Spring
5 6 (6.90%) Node.js
5 6 (6.90%) RESTful
6 4 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (4.60%) React
6 4 (4.60%) Vue
7 3 (3.45%) .NET
7 3 (3.45%) YAML
8 2 (2.30%) CSS
8 2 (2.30%) Django
8 2 (2.30%) Drools
8 2 (2.30%) HTML
8 2 (2.30%) Playwright
8 2 (2.30%) REST
8 2 (2.30%) SOAP
8 2 (2.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.05%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.60%) PKI
4 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.30%) NHS
5 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) IoT
6 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.79%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Debian
3 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.15%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (73.56%) Agile
2 63 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 59 (67.82%) DevOps
4 24 (27.59%) Secure Coding
5 22 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (21.84%) ITIL
6 19 (21.84%) SDLC
7 18 (20.69%) Mentoring
8 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (19.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 16 (18.39%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (18.39%) Observability
10 14 (16.09%) Containerisation
11 12 (13.79%) Coaching
11 12 (13.79%) Incident Response
11 12 (13.79%) Roadmaps
12 11 (12.64%) Microservices
12 11 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 45 (51.72%) Java
2 35 (40.23%) Bash
2 35 (40.23%) TypeScript
3 32 (36.78%) Groovy
4 17 (19.54%) Python
5 8 (9.20%) SQL
6 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.60%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (3.45%) C#
9 3 (3.45%) Go
10 2 (2.30%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.15%) C
11 1 (1.15%) Delphi
11 1 (1.15%) PHP
11 1 (1.15%) SOQL
11 1 (1.15%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (28.74%) AWS Certification
2 17 (19.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (19.54%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
4 8 (9.20%) AWS Certified Developer
5 6 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.60%) CCNA
6 4 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.15%) CISM
8 1 (1.15%) CISSP
8 1 (1.15%) Degree
8 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
3 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 44 (50.57%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.60%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.60%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.60%) vSphere
3 1 (1.15%) Squid
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (37.93%) HP Fortify
2 29 (33.33%) Terraform
3 18 (20.69%) Ansible
3 18 (20.69%) Kubernetes
4 13 (14.94%) Grafana
5 11 (12.64%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (4.60%) WSUS
7 3 (3.45%) Rancher
8 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.15%) Fluentd
9 1 (1.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (8.05%) Oracle
2 6 (6.90%) Splunk
3 4 (4.60%) VMware
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.30%) Google
5 2 (2.30%) New Relic
5 2 (2.30%) SAP
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe
6 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.15%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.15%) Veracode