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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 196 178
Rank change year-on-year +61 -18 +25
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 68 36 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.41% 0.52% 0.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.56% 6.64% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 19 14 19
10th Percentile £52,350 £48,100 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,313 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -
75th Percentile £69,375 £68,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,600 £84,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -10.00%

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 266 542 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.50% 7.82% 13.47%
Number of salaries quoted 166 284 433
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,710 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -11.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £65,938 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +32 32 £65,000 +6.12% 25
Cheshire +25 27 £43,500 -41.61% 12
Lancashire - 6 - - 4
Merseyside +3 3 - -
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 7 (10.29%) Confluence
2 4 (5.88%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 56 (82.35%) AWS
2 38 (55.88%) Azure
3 10 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (13.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (13.24%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (10.29%) AWS CodeBuild
5 7 (10.29%) Route 53
5 7 (10.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (8.82%) GitHub
7 5 (7.35%) OpenShift
8 4 (5.88%) GCP
8 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 4 (5.88%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (4.41%) PaaS
10 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.88%) Power BI
6 3 (4.41%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.94%) MySQL
8 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (55.88%) Cucumber
1 38 (55.88%) Selenium
2 37 (54.41%) SonarQube
3 36 (52.94%) JIRA
3 36 (52.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 35 (51.47%) Bitbucket
5 30 (44.12%) Maven
6 24 (35.29%) Jenkins
7 8 (11.76%) CircleCI
8 4 (5.88%) Git
9 2 (2.94%) Gatling
9 2 (2.94%) JMeter
10 1 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.47%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (1.47%) JUnit
10 1 (1.47%) Mocha
10 1 (1.47%) Mockito
10 1 (1.47%) Sinon.JS
10 1 (1.47%) TeamCity
General
1 42 (61.76%) Finance
2 34 (50.00%) Banking
3 32 (47.06%) Investment Banking
4 29 (42.65%) Corporate Banking
4 29 (42.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (42.65%) Retail
5 13 (19.12%) Social Skills
6 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.41%) Advertising
8 2 (2.94%) Electronics
8 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.94%) Marketing
8 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 13 (19.12%) Developer
3 10 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Java Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Backend Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Developer
7 2 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Lead
7 2 (2.94%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Principal Java Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (1.47%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (1.47%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (54.41%) Spring Boot
2 36 (52.94%) Spring
3 35 (51.47%) Kafka
4 33 (48.53%) REST
5 31 (45.59%) React
6 30 (44.12%) CSS
6 30 (44.12%) HTML
6 30 (44.12%) Jest
6 30 (44.12%) JPA
6 30 (44.12%) Redux
6 30 (44.12%) RESTful
7 29 (42.65%) CSS3
7 29 (42.65%) HTML5
7 29 (42.65%) Sass
8 9 (13.24%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (7.35%) Node.js
10 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.94%) Playwright
10 2 (2.94%) Snowpark
11 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 32 (47.06%) Product Ownership
2 29 (42.65%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.82%) Wiki
4 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Debian
2 7 (10.29%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (86.76%) DevOps
2 58 (85.29%) CI/CD
3 48 (70.59%) Containerisation
4 47 (69.12%) Agile
5 41 (60.29%) Microservices
6 39 (57.35%) Test Automation
7 37 (54.41%) Software Engineering
8 36 (52.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 34 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
10 33 (48.53%) SDLC
10 33 (48.53%) User Experience
11 32 (47.06%) Mentoring
12 31 (45.59%) Front End Development
13 30 (44.12%) Migration
14 29 (42.65%) Performance Optimisation
14 29 (42.65%) Responsive Web Design
15 17 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (17.65%) Code Quality
17 10 (14.71%) API Development
17 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 47 (69.12%) Java
2 44 (64.71%) SQL
3 33 (48.53%) JavaScript
4 32 (47.06%) TypeScript
5 18 (26.47%) Python
6 11 (16.18%) Bash
7 4 (5.88%) ANSI SQL
8 3 (4.41%) Go
9 2 (2.94%) C#
9 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.47%) Bicep
10 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.47%) CISM
4 1 (1.47%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (47.06%) QA
2 29 (42.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 47 (69.12%) Kubernetes
2 13 (19.12%) Terraform
3 11 (16.18%) Grafana
4 9 (13.24%) Ansible
5 8 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.47%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 29 (42.65%) Solace
2 8 (11.76%) Splunk
3 6 (8.82%) Oracle
4 3 (4.41%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.47%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.47%) Google
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.47%) Veracode