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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 115 196
Rank change year-on-year -79 +81 +20
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 38 144 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.35% 3.04% 0.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.00% 32.51% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 34 19 72
10th Percentile £46,975 £57,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +16.59% -17.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,889 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,850 £74,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -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 380 443 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.49% 9.36% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 283 242 669
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,869 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,780 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% +5.05% -4.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 28 £65,000 -3.04% 14
Lancashire +12 9 £65,288 - 4
Cheshire -51 1 £44,500 -24.58% 2
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 (7.89%) IIS
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (68.42%) AWS
2 17 (44.74%) Azure
3 10 (26.32%) GitHub
4 9 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (18.42%) Azure AKS
6 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.53%) GCP
7 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (7.89%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (7.89%) Pulumi
9 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 2 (5.26%) LangSmith
9 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (5.26%) Vercel
9 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) HTTPS
2 2 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (2.63%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.53%) MySQL
3 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.89%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.26%) Pinecone
6 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) Jenkins
2 10 (26.32%) Git
3 6 (15.79%) JUnit
3 6 (15.79%) Spock
4 4 (10.53%) Vite
5 2 (5.26%) Maven
5 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Banking
4 1 (2.63%) Games
4 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.63%) Marketing
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (31.58%) Senior
3 10 (26.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) Developer
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Java Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Senior Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.89%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
7 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) Spring
2 6 (15.79%) React
3 5 (13.16%) AngularJS
3 5 (13.16%) LangChain
3 5 (13.16%) Node.js
3 5 (13.16%) REST
3 5 (13.16%) YAML
4 4 (10.53%) .NET
4 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET
4 4 (10.53%) CrewAI
4 4 (10.53%) Entity Framework
4 4 (10.53%) FastAPI
4 4 (10.53%) LangGraph
4 4 (10.53%) Next.js
4 4 (10.53%) OpenAPI
4 4 (10.53%) Swagger
5 3 (7.89%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.89%) ADO.NET
5 3 (7.89%) CSS
5 3 (7.89%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 7 (18.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (15.79%) Private Cloud
4 4 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) AI Agents
5 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
5 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
3 2 (5.26%) Debian
3 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.63%) CentOS
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (97.37%) CI/CD
2 31 (81.58%) DevOps
3 22 (57.89%) Agile
4 21 (55.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (42.11%) Microservices
6 14 (36.84%) AI
6 14 (36.84%) Containerisation
7 11 (28.95%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (28.95%) Observability
7 11 (28.95%) Scrum
7 11 (28.95%) Test Automation
8 10 (26.32%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
10 7 (18.42%) Kanban
11 6 (15.79%) Coaching
11 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (15.79%) Software Testing
12 5 (13.16%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 13 (34.21%) Java
3 12 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 10 (26.32%) TypeScript
5 8 (21.05%) Bash
6 6 (15.79%) SQL
7 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
8 4 (10.53%) C#
8 4 (10.53%) Go
8 4 (10.53%) Groovy
9 1 (2.63%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.63%) SOQL
9 1 (2.63%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
System Software
1 22 (57.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (63.16%) Terraform
2 20 (52.63%) Kubernetes
3 9 (23.68%) Ansible
4 7 (18.42%) Grafana
4 7 (18.42%) Prometheus
5 6 (15.79%) Argo
6 2 (5.26%) Istio
6 2 (5.26%) linkerd
6 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 2 (5.26%) Puppet
7 1 (2.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Splunk
2 6 (15.79%) AppDynamics
3 4 (10.53%) OpenAI
4 3 (7.89%) Google
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.63%) Veracode