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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 163 180
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 +80
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 25 25 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.30% 0.64% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.53% 6.44% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 18 18 68
10th Percentile £46,750 £59,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £61,297 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £81,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,626 £87,500 £83,625
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +19.23% -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 293 388 768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.56% 9.91% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 228 287 627
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,852
25th Percentile £32,188 £45,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,950 £90,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -4 15 £65,000 -3.04% 10
Lancashire -3 6 £65,000 - 8
Cheshire -26 4 £52,250 -29.87% 4
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 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) AWS
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) Amazon EKS
2 7 (28.00%) GCP
3 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 5 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (16.00%) GitHub
5 4 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (16.00%) Snowflake
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (12.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.00%) Slack
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.00%) Datadog
8 1 (4.00%) IaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) Broadband
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.00%) MySQL
1 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Data Vault
2 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.00%) Advertising
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Electronics
4 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Games
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Snowflake Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (12.00%) YAML
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
3 2 (8.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) Django
4 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.00%) Pyramid
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) Snowpark
4 1 (4.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) Swagger
4 1 (4.00%) Visualforce
4 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) IoT
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Debian
2 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) Agile
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 13 (52.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (20.00%) Microservices
8 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (16.00%) Data Science
8 4 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
8 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
8 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) ANSI SQL
4 3 (12.00%) Go
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) C#
6 1 (4.00%) PHP
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) SOQL
6 1 (4.00%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Terraform
2 10 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (32.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.00%) Grafana
5 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (12.00%) Rancher
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (4.00%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.00%) Cribl.io
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Veracode