GitLab Job Trends in the North West

GitLab
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 199 167
Rank change year-on-year +85 -32 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 148 43 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.87% 0.55% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.05% 7.35% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 17 16 40
10th Percentile £49,700 £44,375 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,875 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -19.64% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,550 £68,125 £83,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 352 585 595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.83% 7.55% 13.20%
Number of salaries quoted 161 331 487
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.00% +8.23%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.84%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the North West over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Cheshire +47 72 £43,500 - 6
Manchester +45 49 £61,250 +6.52% 18
Lancashire +6 18 - - 11
Merseyside +1 9 - - 2
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 46 (31.08%) Confluence
2 4 (2.70%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 136 (91.89%) AWS
2 115 (77.70%) Azure
3 40 (27.03%) GCP
4 10 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (5.41%) AWS CodeBuild
5 8 (5.41%) Route 53
5 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (4.73%) GitHub
7 3 (2.03%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.03%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.35%) PaaS
8 2 (1.35%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.35%) Serverless
8 2 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) DNS
1 1 (0.68%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (75.68%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.05%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.38%) MySQL
6 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.35%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.35%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.35%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 118 (79.73%) Cucumber
1 118 (79.73%) Selenium
2 117 (79.05%) SonarQube
3 116 (78.38%) JIRA
3 116 (78.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 115 (77.70%) Bitbucket
5 110 (74.32%) Maven
6 24 (16.22%) Jenkins
7 8 (5.41%) CircleCI
7 8 (5.41%) Git
8 2 (1.35%) Gatling
8 2 (1.35%) JMeter
9 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.68%) CA Release Automation
9 1 (0.68%) JUnit
9 1 (0.68%) Mocha
9 1 (0.68%) Mockito
9 1 (0.68%) Sinon.JS
9 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 118 (79.73%) Finance
2 113 (76.35%) Banking
3 109 (73.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (48.65%) Investment Banking
5 70 (47.30%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (47.30%) Retail
6 13 (8.78%) Social Skills
7 8 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 115 (77.70%) Software Engineer
2 13 (8.78%) Developer
3 11 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (4.05%) Java Engineer
5 5 (3.38%) Backend Developer
5 5 (3.38%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (3.38%) Software Developer
6 4 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (2.70%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 4 (2.70%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (2.70%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (1.35%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (1.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.35%) Lead
7 2 (1.35%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (1.35%) Principal Java Engineer
7 2 (1.35%) Senior
7 2 (1.35%) Snowflake Developer
7 2 (1.35%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (79.05%) Spring Boot
2 116 (78.38%) Spring
3 115 (77.70%) Kafka
4 111 (75.00%) React
5 110 (74.32%) CSS
5 110 (74.32%) HTML
5 110 (74.32%) JPA
5 110 (74.32%) Redux
6 74 (50.00%) REST
7 71 (47.97%) Jest
7 71 (47.97%) RESTful
8 70 (47.30%) CSS3
8 70 (47.30%) HTML5
8 70 (47.30%) Sass
9 40 (27.03%) Hibernate
10 10 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (4.05%) Node.js
12 4 (2.70%) Middleware
12 4 (2.70%) Svelte
13 2 (1.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 111 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 109 (73.65%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.05%) Wiki
4 4 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.35%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.43%) Linux
2 8 (5.41%) Debian
2 8 (5.41%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (95.27%) CI/CD
2 139 (93.92%) DevOps
3 128 (86.49%) Agile
3 128 (86.49%) Containerisation
4 123 (83.11%) Microservices
5 119 (80.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 118 (79.73%) Test Automation
7 117 (79.05%) Software Engineering
8 114 (77.03%) Front End Development
9 113 (76.35%) SDLC
10 109 (73.65%) Performance Optimisation
11 76 (51.35%) User Experience
12 75 (50.68%) Strategic Thinking
13 73 (49.32%) Mentoring
14 71 (47.97%) Migration
15 70 (47.30%) Responsive Web Design
16 51 (34.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 48 (32.43%) TDD
18 39 (26.35%) Clean Code
19 17 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 127 (85.81%) Java
2 122 (82.43%) SQL
3 115 (77.70%) JavaScript
4 75 (50.68%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.81%) Python
6 12 (8.11%) Bash
7 3 (2.03%) Go
8 2 (1.35%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.35%) Rust
9 1 (0.68%) Bicep
9 1 (0.68%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (2.03%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.35%) AWS Certification
2 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
2 2 (1.35%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.68%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (75.00%) QA
2 70 (47.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 136 (91.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 127 (85.81%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.81%) Terraform
3 11 (7.43%) Ansible
3 11 (7.43%) Grafana
4 9 (6.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (73.65%) Solace
2 8 (5.41%) Splunk
3 2 (1.35%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (0.68%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.68%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.68%) Veracode