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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 118 212
Rank change year-on-year -87 +94 -4
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 41 147 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.36% 2.87% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.62% 33.33% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 35 22 46
10th Percentile £47,050 - £50,000
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 £69,688
90th Percentile £101,250 £83,000 £101,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £66,482
% change year-on-year -9.68% +16.57% -5.03%

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 386 441 848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.42% 8.60% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 284 234 600
10th Percentile £34,850 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,313 £47,231 £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 £75,500 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,751 £87,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

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 17 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 17 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 -38 32 £65,000 -3.04% 14
Lancashire 0 8 £65,576 - 5
Cheshire -51 1 £44,500 -24.58% 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
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) 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 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.32%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (7.32%) GCP
7 3 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.32%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (7.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (7.32%) Pulumi
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.88%) Vercel
8 2 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
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 15 (36.59%) Jenkins
2 12 (29.27%) 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 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.44%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 11 (26.83%) 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
3 9 (21.95%) Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Java Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
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%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior C# Software Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
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
4 5 (12.20%) YAML
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%) OpenAPI
5 4 (9.76%) Swagger
6 3 (7.32%) .NET Core
6 3 (7.32%) ADO.NET
6 3 (7.32%) CSS
6 3 (7.32%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (34.15%) Cloud Native
2 9 (21.95%) Private Cloud
3 7 (17.07%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (17.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.88%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
6 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 34 (82.93%) DevOps
3 24 (58.54%) Agile
4 21 (51.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (48.78%) Microservices
6 17 (41.46%) AI
7 14 (34.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (34.15%) Scrum
8 13 (31.71%) Containerisation
8 13 (31.71%) Observability
8 13 (31.71%) Test Automation
9 12 (29.27%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (24.39%) Kanban
11 8 (19.51%) Coaching
11 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
12 7 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
12 7 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (14.63%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (14.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) Java
1 15 (36.59%) JavaScript
2 13 (31.71%) Python
2 13 (31.71%) TypeScript
3 8 (19.51%) Bash
4 5 (12.20%) Groovy
4 5 (12.20%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.20%) SQL
5 4 (9.76%) C#
6 3 (7.32%) 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 4 (9.76%) QA
System Software
1 27 (65.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (58.54%) Terraform
2 21 (51.22%) Kubernetes
3 10 (24.39%) Ansible
4 6 (14.63%) Argo
4 6 (14.63%) Grafana
4 6 (14.63%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.88%) Istio
5 2 (4.88%) linkerd
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Splunk
2 9 (21.95%) AppDynamics
3 4 (9.76%) OpenAI
4 3 (7.32%) Google
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.44%) Veracode