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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 122 191
Rank change year-on-year -86 +69 +28
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 34 139 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.31% 3.06% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.07% 31.81% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 31 16 74
10th Percentile £46,750 £57,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,688 £37,252
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +13.62% -15.71%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £73,500 £78,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +21.15% -7.14%

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 375 437 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.39% 9.63% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 288 242 660
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £35,992
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,869 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +9.09% -4.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +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 29 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 29 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 -50 23 £65,000 -3.04% 19
Lancashire +11 10 £65,576 - 6
Cheshire -57 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 3 (8.82%) IIS
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) AWS
2 16 (47.06%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (26.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (23.53%) Azure AKS
5 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) GitHub
6 4 (11.76%) GCP
6 4 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (8.82%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 2 (5.88%) Pulumi
9 1 (2.94%) Slack
9 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) HTTPS
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) Broadband
3 1 (2.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 5 (14.71%) MySQL
2 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 9 (26.47%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) JUnit
3 4 (11.76%) Spock
4 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.88%) Maven
4 2 (5.88%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.88%) Vite
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 6 (17.65%) Finance
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Games
4 1 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 10 (29.41%) Senior
4 9 (26.47%) Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Senior Developer
6 4 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) C# Developer
7 3 (8.82%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior C# Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior C# Software Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (8.82%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) Node.js
1 5 (14.71%) REST
1 5 (14.71%) Spring
1 5 (14.71%) YAML
2 4 (11.76%) .NET
2 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET
2 4 (11.76%) Entity Framework
2 4 (11.76%) OpenAPI
2 4 (11.76%) React
2 4 (11.76%) Swagger
3 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
3 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
3 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (8.82%) CSS3
3 3 (8.82%) HTML5
3 3 (8.82%) JWT
3 3 (8.82%) LangChain
3 3 (8.82%) LINQ
3 3 (8.82%) OAuth
3 3 (8.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (11.76%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Unix
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
3 2 (5.88%) Debian
3 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.94%) CentOS
4 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) CI/CD
2 27 (79.41%) DevOps
3 21 (61.76%) Agile
4 18 (52.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (38.24%) Microservices
6 11 (32.35%) Containerisation
7 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
8 9 (26.47%) AI
8 9 (26.47%) Mentoring
8 9 (26.47%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (26.47%) Scrum
9 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (20.59%) Software Testing
10 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (14.71%) Coaching
11 5 (14.71%) Code Quality
11 5 (14.71%) Observability
11 5 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Java
2 11 (32.35%) Python
3 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 6 (17.65%) Bash
4 6 (17.65%) TypeScript
5 5 (14.71%) SQL
6 4 (11.76%) C#
6 4 (11.76%) Go
6 4 (11.76%) Groovy
6 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.94%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.94%) SOQL
7 1 (2.94%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 16 (47.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (64.71%) Terraform
2 17 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (29.41%) Ansible
4 5 (14.71%) Argo
4 5 (14.71%) Grafana
4 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.88%) Rancher
6 1 (2.94%) Istio
6 1 (2.94%) linkerd
6 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Splunk
2 4 (11.76%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.94%) Veracode