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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 124 194
Rank change year-on-year -81 +70 +33
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 32 135 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.31% 2.92% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.04% 30.00% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28 18 70
10th Percentile £46,750 £57,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £60,324 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,625 £81,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £80,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -10.34%

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 354 450 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.40% 9.73% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 270 264 662
10th Percentile £29,675 £40,000 £35,928
25th Percentile £41,563 £48,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,163 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% +4.65% -4.86%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.97% +5.00% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -36 20 £65,000 -3.04% 23
Lancashire +13 11 £67,443 - 7
Cheshire -56 1 £44,500 -40.27% 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 2 (6.25%) IIS
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) AWS
2 16 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (28.13%) Azure AKS
5 8 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (18.75%) GitHub
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (9.38%) GCP
7 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (9.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
8 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (3.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) MongoDB
2 6 (18.75%) MySQL
2 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
4 3 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.13%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) JUnit
3 4 (12.50%) Spock
4 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.25%) Maven
5 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.25%) Vite
6 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
1 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.13%) Games
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Senior
4 8 (25.00%) Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Java Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Lead
7 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Node.js
1 5 (15.63%) REST
1 5 (15.63%) Spring
1 5 (15.63%) YAML
2 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 4 (12.50%) React
2 4 (12.50%) RESTful
3 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 3 (9.38%) ASP.NET
3 3 (9.38%) Entity Framework
3 3 (9.38%) LangChain
3 3 (9.38%) OpenAPI
3 3 (9.38%) Swagger
4 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.25%) ADO.NET
4 2 (6.25%) CSS
4 2 (6.25%) CSS3
4 2 (6.25%) HTML
4 2 (6.25%) LINQ
4 2 (6.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
2 4 (12.50%) Private Cloud
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) AI Agents
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows
3 3 (9.38%) Unix
4 2 (6.25%) Debian
4 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) CI/CD
2 24 (75.00%) DevOps
3 22 (68.75%) Agile
4 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (43.75%) Microservices
5 11 (34.38%) Test Automation
6 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
6 9 (28.13%) Mentoring
6 9 (28.13%) Scrum
7 8 (25.00%) Software Testing
8 7 (21.88%) AI
8 7 (21.88%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (18.75%) Coaching
9 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (15.63%) ITIL
10 5 (15.63%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Java
2 10 (31.25%) Python
3 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
3 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
4 5 (15.63%) SQL
5 4 (12.50%) Groovy
6 3 (9.38%) C#
6 3 (9.38%) Go
7 2 (6.25%) Bash
7 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.13%) C
8 1 (3.13%) SOQL
8 1 (3.13%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Terraform
2 13 (40.63%) Kubernetes
3 10 (31.25%) Ansible
4 3 (9.38%) Argo
4 3 (9.38%) Rancher
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.13%) Grafana
6 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Splunk
2 4 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) Veracode