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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 116 203
Rank change year-on-year -88 +87 -33
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 49 151 55
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.40% 2.90% 0.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.75% 37.19% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 37 21 26
10th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +16.59% -17.86%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,777 £67,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £84,250 £111,250
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +7.14% -

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 417 406 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.43% 7.79% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 276 206 412
10th Percentile £39,801 £38,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,438 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,777 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.10% +7.50% -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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -41 40 £70,000 +4.42% 28
Lancashire +8 9 £67,443 - 5
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 (6.12%) IIS
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 32 (65.31%) AWS
2 19 (38.78%) Azure
3 13 (26.53%) GitHub
4 9 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (10.20%) Azure AKS
6 5 (10.20%) GCP
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.16%) Google Compute Engine
7 4 (8.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.08%) LangSmith
9 2 (4.08%) Vercel
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (12.24%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.20%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.12%) MySQL
5 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.08%) Pinecone
7 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (36.73%) Jenkins
2 17 (34.69%) Git
3 12 (24.49%) JUnit
3 12 (24.49%) Spock
4 5 (10.20%) Maven
5 4 (8.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (8.16%) Vite
6 3 (6.12%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.04%) Mocha
7 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (28.57%) Finance
2 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.04%) Games
5 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Senior
2 15 (30.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (30.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.12%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (57.14%) Terraform
2 13 (26.53%) Spring
3 12 (24.49%) AngularJS
4 10 (20.41%) React
5 7 (14.29%) REST
6 6 (12.24%) .NET
7 5 (10.20%) ASP.NET
7 5 (10.20%) Entity Framework
7 5 (10.20%) LangChain
7 5 (10.20%) Next.js
7 5 (10.20%) Node.js
8 4 (8.16%) .NET Framework
8 4 (8.16%) CrewAI
8 4 (8.16%) FastAPI
8 4 (8.16%) LangGraph
8 4 (8.16%) OpenAPI
8 4 (8.16%) Swagger
8 4 (8.16%) YAML
9 3 (6.12%) CSS
9 3 (6.12%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.73%) Cloud Native
2 12 (24.49%) Private Cloud
3 10 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (16.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (4.08%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) CentOS
2 4 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.12%) Unix
3 3 (6.12%) VMS
3 3 (6.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (93.88%) CI/CD
2 37 (75.51%) DevOps
3 29 (59.18%) Agile
4 25 (51.02%) Microservices
5 24 (48.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (46.94%) AI
7 22 (44.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (38.78%) Observability
9 18 (36.73%) Test Automation
10 17 (34.69%) Scrum
11 14 (28.57%) Containerisation
12 13 (26.53%) Kanban
12 13 (26.53%) Software Engineering
13 12 (24.49%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (20.41%) Coaching
14 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
14 10 (20.41%) Technical Leadership
15 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 8 (16.33%) Disaster Recovery
16 8 (16.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 20 (40.82%) Java
3 18 (36.73%) Python
3 18 (36.73%) TypeScript
4 10 (20.41%) Bash
5 7 (14.29%) Groovy
6 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
6 6 (12.24%) SQL
7 5 (10.20%) C#
8 4 (8.16%) Go
9 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.04%) Bicep
9 1 (2.04%) Rust
9 1 (2.04%) SOQL
9 1 (2.04%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 19 (38.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.12%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 35 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (48.98%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.41%) Ansible
3 7 (14.29%) Argo
3 7 (14.29%) Grafana
3 7 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.12%) Istio
4 3 (6.12%) linkerd
4 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Splunk
2 12 (24.49%) AppDynamics
3 4 (8.16%) Google
3 4 (8.16%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.04%) New Relic
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Salesforce