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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 116 206
Rank change year-on-year -91 +90 +2
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 41 148 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.36% 2.89% 0.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.46% 33.94% 8.17%
Number of salaries quoted 35 20 40
10th Percentile £47,500 £57,250 £49,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -14.29%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,777 £68,163
90th Percentile £101,250 £83,800 £111,250
England median annual salary £69,310 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.57% +14.81% -3.57%

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 392 436 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.45% 8.52% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 284 228 534
10th Percentile £33,900 £40,000 £36,575
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,173 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,751 £87,500
England median annual salary £61,700 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.08% +8.33% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -33 33 £65,000 -3.04% 18
Lancashire +5 8 £65,576 - 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 3 (7.32%) IIS
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 27 (65.85%) AWS
2 16 (39.02%) Azure
3 11 (26.83%) GitHub
4 8 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (14.63%) Azure AKS
7 4 (9.76%) GCP
7 4 (9.76%) Google Compute Engine
7 4 (9.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (7.32%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (7.32%) Pulumi
8 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.88%) LangSmith
9 2 (4.88%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) HTTPS
2 2 (4.88%) Firewall
3 1 (2.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) MongoDB
2 5 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.32%) MySQL
4 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.32%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.88%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 16 (39.02%) Jenkins
2 13 (31.71%) Git
3 9 (21.95%) JUnit
3 9 (21.95%) Spock
4 4 (9.76%) Vite
5 3 (7.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (7.32%) Maven
6 1 (2.44%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (24.39%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Games
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (34.15%) Senior
3 9 (21.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior C# Software Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) Spring
2 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
3 6 (14.63%) React
4 5 (12.20%) LangChain
4 5 (12.20%) Node.js
4 5 (12.20%) REST
5 4 (9.76%) .NET
5 4 (9.76%) ASP.NET
5 4 (9.76%) CrewAI
5 4 (9.76%) Entity Framework
5 4 (9.76%) FastAPI
5 4 (9.76%) LangGraph
5 4 (9.76%) Next.js
5 4 (9.76%) YAML
6 3 (7.32%) ADO.NET
6 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (7.32%) CSS
6 3 (7.32%) HTML5
6 3 (7.32%) Middleware
6 3 (7.32%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Cloud Native
2 9 (21.95%) Private Cloud
3 8 (19.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (17.07%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
6 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
6 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) CentOS
2 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Unix
2 3 (7.32%) Windows
3 2 (4.88%) Debian
3 2 (4.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (97.56%) CI/CD
2 33 (80.49%) DevOps
3 23 (56.10%) Agile
4 22 (53.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (48.78%) Microservices
6 18 (43.90%) AI
7 14 (34.15%) Containerisation
7 14 (34.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (34.15%) Observability
7 14 (34.15%) Scrum
8 13 (31.71%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (31.71%) Test Automation
9 10 (24.39%) Kanban
10 8 (19.51%) Coaching
10 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
10 8 (19.51%) Technical Leadership
11 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
11 7 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (14.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
2 14 (34.15%) Java
2 14 (34.15%) Python
3 13 (31.71%) TypeScript
4 9 (21.95%) Bash
5 5 (12.20%) Groovy
5 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
5 5 (12.20%) SQL
6 4 (9.76%) C#
6 4 (9.76%) Go
7 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.44%) SOQL
7 1 (2.44%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
System Software
1 28 (68.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (60.98%) Terraform
2 22 (53.66%) Kubernetes
3 10 (24.39%) Ansible
4 7 (17.07%) Grafana
4 7 (17.07%) Prometheus
5 6 (14.63%) Argo
6 3 (7.32%) Istio
6 3 (7.32%) linkerd
6 3 (7.32%) Progress Chef
6 3 (7.32%) Puppet
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Splunk
2 9 (21.95%) AppDynamics
3 4 (9.76%) Google
3 4 (9.76%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce