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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 122 198
Rank change year-on-year -71 +76 -27
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 54 147 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.44% 2.87% 0.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.20% 38.99% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 38 18 21
10th Percentile £50,125 £51,025 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% +6.52% -17.86%
75th Percentile £86,250 £70,000 £66,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £85,225 £68,750
England median annual salary £69,310 £76,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.10% +8.93% -

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 409 377 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.31% 7.35% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 270 183 373
10th Percentile £39,392 £36,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,333 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

GitLab job vacancy trend 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 5 September 2026.

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 5 September 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
Manchester -37 44 £70,000 +12.00% 41
Lancashire 0 10 £69,310 - 4
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (5.56%) IIS
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 35 (64.81%) AWS
2 20 (37.04%) Azure
3 14 (25.93%) GitHub
4 10 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (11.11%) Azure AKS
7 5 (9.26%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (9.26%) GCP
7 5 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (7.41%) Google Compute Engine
8 4 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.56%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.70%) LangSmith
10 2 (3.70%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.85%) Broadband
2 1 (1.85%) CTI
2 1 (1.85%) DHCP
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.41%) MySQL
4 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.70%) Chroma
6 2 (3.70%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (35.19%) Git
1 19 (35.19%) Jenkins
2 13 (24.07%) JUnit
2 13 (24.07%) Spock
3 7 (12.96%) Maven
4 4 (7.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (7.41%) IntelliJ
4 4 (7.41%) Vite
5 1 (1.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.85%) JIRA
5 1 (1.85%) Mocha
5 1 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.85%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (27.78%) Finance
2 11 (20.37%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Games
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Senior
2 16 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (29.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 10 (18.52%) Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 5 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Lead
7 4 (7.41%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior C# Software Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (57.41%) Terraform
2 15 (27.78%) Spring
3 14 (25.93%) AngularJS
4 12 (22.22%) React
5 8 (14.81%) REST
6 6 (11.11%) .NET
7 5 (9.26%) ASP.NET
7 5 (9.26%) Entity Framework
7 5 (9.26%) LangChain
7 5 (9.26%) Next.js
7 5 (9.26%) Node.js
8 4 (7.41%) .NET Framework
8 4 (7.41%) CrewAI
8 4 (7.41%) FastAPI
8 4 (7.41%) LangGraph
8 4 (7.41%) OpenAPI
8 4 (7.41%) Swagger
8 4 (7.41%) YAML
9 3 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (5.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.04%) Cloud Native
2 13 (24.07%) Private Cloud
3 11 (20.37%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) AI Agents
6 2 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 4 (7.41%) CentOS
2 4 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (7.41%) Unix
2 4 (7.41%) VMS
2 4 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (94.44%) CI/CD
2 41 (75.93%) DevOps
3 32 (59.26%) Agile
4 28 (51.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (50.00%) Microservices
6 26 (48.15%) AI
7 24 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (38.89%) Observability
9 20 (37.04%) Test Automation
10 19 (35.19%) Scrum
11 17 (31.48%) Containerisation
12 15 (27.78%) Kanban
12 15 (27.78%) Software Engineering
13 12 (22.22%) Coaching
13 12 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (22.22%) Mentoring
13 12 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
14 9 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) Java
1 23 (42.59%) JavaScript
2 21 (38.89%) Python
3 20 (37.04%) TypeScript
4 11 (20.37%) Bash
5 8 (14.81%) Groovy
5 8 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 7 (12.96%) SQL
7 5 (9.26%) C#
8 4 (7.41%) Go
9 2 (3.70%) Bicep
9 2 (3.70%) Rust
10 1 (1.85%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.85%) SOQL
10 1 (1.85%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.96%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) CCNA
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) MCSE
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (72.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (20.37%) Ansible
3 7 (12.96%) Argo
3 7 (12.96%) Grafana
3 7 (12.96%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.56%) Istio
4 3 (5.56%) linkerd
4 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.56%) Puppet
5 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (31.48%) Splunk
2 13 (24.07%) AppDynamics
3 4 (7.41%) Google
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.41%) Mistral
3 4 (7.41%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco
5 1 (1.85%) FIS
5 1 (1.85%) New Relic
5 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.85%) VMware
5 1 (1.85%) YouTube