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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 180 162
Rank change year-on-year +20 -18 +79
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 31 26 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.46% 0.52% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.92% 6.42% 9.66%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 49
10th Percentile £53,925 £59,644 -
25th Percentile £59,375 £62,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £88,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%

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 240 405 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.57% 8.10% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 182 245 484
10th Percentile - £37,574 £35,920
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £67,687 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,850 £78,750 £85,875
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +10 17 £67,500 +3.85% 19
Cheshire -9 9 £44,500 -40.27% 8
Lancashire - 5 £65,000 - 11
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 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.23%) Camunda
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) AWS
2 13 (41.94%) Azure
3 9 (29.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (25.81%) OpenShift
5 7 (22.58%) GCP
6 6 (19.35%) Power Platform
6 6 (19.35%) Snowflake
7 5 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (16.13%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (9.68%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (9.68%) Azure AKS
9 3 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (9.68%) PaaS
9 3 (9.68%) Route 53
9 3 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (6.45%) GitHub
10 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (6.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Power BI
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) Data Vault
2 5 (16.13%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
3 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
3 4 (12.90%) MySQL
3 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) Git
3 5 (16.13%) Bitbucket
3 5 (16.13%) SonarQube
4 4 (12.90%) CircleCI
5 3 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.23%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (3.23%) JIRA
6 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Banking
4 5 (16.13%) Investment Banking
5 4 (12.90%) Advertising
5 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
6 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (6.45%) Electronics
7 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.45%) Marketing
7 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
8 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Snowflake Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Backend Developer
7 1 (3.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (16.13%) RESTful
2 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
2 3 (9.68%) Snowpark
3 2 (6.45%) Node.js
3 2 (6.45%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) .NET
4 1 (3.23%) Django
4 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.23%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.23%) JPA
4 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.23%) Pyramid
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) Spring
4 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.23%) Swagger
4 1 (3.23%) Vue
4 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (32.26%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Windows
3 3 (9.68%) Debian
3 3 (9.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 18 (58.06%) DevOps
3 15 (48.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (45.16%) Agile
5 13 (41.94%) Containerisation
6 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (22.58%) Observability
9 6 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
9 6 (19.35%) Data Science
9 6 (19.35%) Machine Learning
9 6 (19.35%) Microservices
9 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
10 5 (16.13%) Data Governance
10 5 (16.13%) Data Management
10 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (16.13%) Statistics
11 4 (12.90%) DevSecOps
11 4 (12.90%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Python
2 14 (45.16%) SQL
3 13 (41.94%) Java
4 6 (19.35%) ANSI SQL
4 6 (19.35%) Bash
4 6 (19.35%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) C#
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) C
6 1 (3.23%) PHP
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) CISM
3 1 (3.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (29.03%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Terraform
2 13 (41.94%) Kubernetes
3 8 (25.81%) Ansible
3 8 (25.81%) Grafana
4 6 (19.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.68%) Rancher
6 1 (3.23%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Splunk
3 3 (9.68%) AppDynamics
4 2 (6.45%) SAP
5 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.23%) Cribl.io
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) Veracode