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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 122 203
Rank change year-on-year -77 +81 -33
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 56 148 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.44% 2.87% 0.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.69% 41.93% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 39 17 16
10th Percentile £50,500 £49,700 £44,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £49,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £60,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% +6.67% -19.64%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £65,375
90th Percentile £101,250 £85,550 £68,125
England median annual salary £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +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 409 353 591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.20% 6.84% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 257 162 331
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,375 £37,574
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +9.88% -15.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £88,889 £76,225 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 19 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 19 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 -55 46 £80,000 +30.61% 44
Lancashire +2 10 £67,443 - 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 (5.36%) IIS
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.79%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 36 (64.29%) AWS
2 21 (37.50%) Azure
3 16 (28.57%) GitHub
4 10 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.71%) Azure AKS
6 6 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (8.93%) GCP
8 4 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (7.14%) Google Compute Engine
8 4 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.36%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.57%) LangSmith
10 2 (3.57%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.57%) CTI
2 2 (3.57%) DHCP
2 2 (3.57%) DNS
2 2 (3.57%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.14%) MySQL
4 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Chroma
6 2 (3.57%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (35.71%) Git
1 20 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 13 (23.21%) JUnit
2 13 (23.21%) Spock
3 7 (12.50%) Maven
4 5 (8.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (7.14%) IntelliJ
5 4 (7.14%) Vite
6 2 (3.57%) JIRA
7 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.79%) Mocha
7 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (26.79%) Finance
2 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Senior
2 17 (30.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 11 (19.64%) Developer
5 7 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Java Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Software Developer
8 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Lead
8 4 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (60.71%) Terraform
2 15 (26.79%) AngularJS
2 15 (26.79%) Spring
3 13 (23.21%) React
4 7 (12.50%) REST
5 6 (10.71%) .NET
6 5 (8.93%) ASP.NET
6 5 (8.93%) Entity Framework
6 5 (8.93%) LangChain
6 5 (8.93%) Next.js
6 5 (8.93%) Node.js
7 4 (7.14%) .NET Framework
7 4 (7.14%) CrewAI
7 4 (7.14%) FastAPI
7 4 (7.14%) LangGraph
7 4 (7.14%) OpenAPI
7 4 (7.14%) Pulumi
7 4 (7.14%) Swagger
8 3 (5.36%) JSON
8 3 (5.36%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (41.07%) Cloud Native
2 13 (23.21%) Private Cloud
3 11 (19.64%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) PKI
6 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.07%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) CentOS
2 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Windows
3 4 (7.14%) Unix
3 4 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (94.64%) CI/CD
2 43 (76.79%) DevOps
3 32 (57.14%) Agile
4 31 (55.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (50.00%) Microservices
6 27 (48.21%) AI
7 24 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (41.07%) Observability
9 21 (37.50%) Test Automation
10 19 (33.93%) Scrum
11 18 (32.14%) Containerisation
12 16 (28.57%) Kanban
13 15 (26.79%) Software Engineering
14 13 (23.21%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (21.43%) Coaching
15 12 (21.43%) Mentoring
15 12 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
16 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 9 (16.07%) SDLC
17 9 (16.07%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.86%) Java
1 24 (42.86%) Python
2 23 (41.07%) JavaScript
3 20 (35.71%) TypeScript
4 12 (21.43%) Bash
5 10 (17.86%) PowerShell
6 8 (14.29%) Groovy
7 7 (12.50%) SQL
8 5 (8.93%) C#
9 4 (7.14%) Go
10 3 (5.36%) Rust
11 2 (3.57%) Bicep
12 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 20 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 11 (19.64%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.93%) Degree
5 2 (3.57%) CCNA
5 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.57%) MCSE
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 42 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (19.64%) Ansible
3 8 (14.29%) Argo
3 8 (14.29%) Grafana
3 8 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.36%) Istio
4 3 (5.36%) linkerd
4 3 (5.36%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.36%) Puppet
5 2 (3.57%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Splunk
2 13 (23.21%) AppDynamics
3 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.14%) Google
4 4 (7.14%) Mistral
4 4 (7.14%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.57%) Cisco
5 2 (3.57%) FIS
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle
5 2 (3.57%) VMware
6 1 (1.79%) Databricks
6 1 (1.79%) New Relic
6 1 (1.79%) YouTube