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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 199 115 194
Rank change year-on-year -84 +79 -19
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 52 147 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.41% 2.85% 0.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.10% 40.50% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 36 17 18
10th Percentile £49,375 £49,700 £45,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £66,125
90th Percentile £101,250 £85,550 £68,750
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 397 363 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.17% 7.04% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 253 168 336
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,125 £37,537
25th Percentile £50,000 £44,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £50,027
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +9.94% -16.62%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -39 43 £80,000 +30.61% 30
Lancashire -1 9 £69,310 - 6
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 (5.77%) IIS
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.92%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 33 (63.46%) AWS
2 20 (38.46%) Azure
3 14 (26.92%) GitHub
4 10 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (11.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (11.54%) Azure AKS
6 5 (9.62%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (9.62%) GCP
6 5 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
7 4 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.77%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (5.77%) Cloud Functions
8 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (3.85%) LangSmith
9 2 (3.85%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.85%) CTI
2 2 (3.85%) DHCP
2 2 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) Firewall
2 2 (3.85%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.62%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.69%) MySQL
4 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.85%) Chroma
6 2 (3.85%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (36.54%) Git
2 18 (34.62%) Jenkins
3 13 (25.00%) JUnit
3 13 (25.00%) Spock
4 7 (13.46%) Maven
5 4 (7.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (7.69%) IntelliJ
5 4 (7.69%) Vite
6 2 (3.85%) JIRA
7 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.92%) Mocha
7 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (28.85%) Finance
2 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Senior
2 16 (30.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 14 (26.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (19.23%) Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
7 5 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Lead
8 4 (7.69%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) Software Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (5.77%) C# Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Senior C# Software Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (5.77%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (57.69%) Terraform
2 15 (28.85%) Spring
3 14 (26.92%) AngularJS
4 12 (23.08%) React
5 7 (13.46%) REST
6 6 (11.54%) .NET
7 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET
7 5 (9.62%) Entity Framework
7 5 (9.62%) LangChain
7 5 (9.62%) Next.js
7 5 (9.62%) Node.js
8 4 (7.69%) .NET Framework
8 4 (7.69%) CrewAI
8 4 (7.69%) FastAPI
8 4 (7.69%) LangGraph
8 4 (7.69%) OpenAPI
8 4 (7.69%) Swagger
9 3 (5.77%) CSS
9 3 (5.77%) JSON
9 3 (5.77%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (38.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 11 (21.15%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (11.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.85%) PKI
6 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Windows
3 4 (7.69%) CentOS
3 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.69%) Unix
3 4 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (94.23%) CI/CD
2 39 (75.00%) DevOps
3 29 (55.77%) Agile
4 27 (51.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (51.92%) Microservices
5 26 (50.00%) AI
6 24 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (40.38%) Observability
8 20 (38.46%) Test Automation
9 18 (34.62%) Scrum
10 17 (32.69%) Containerisation
11 15 (28.85%) Kanban
11 15 (28.85%) Software Engineering
12 12 (23.08%) Coaching
12 12 (23.08%) Mentoring
12 12 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (17.31%) Architectural Patterns
14 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (17.31%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (44.23%) Java
1 23 (44.23%) JavaScript
2 22 (42.31%) Python
3 20 (38.46%) TypeScript
4 11 (21.15%) Bash
5 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
6 8 (15.38%) Groovy
7 7 (13.46%) SQL
8 5 (9.62%) C#
9 4 (7.69%) Go
10 2 (3.85%) Bicep
10 2 (3.85%) Rust
11 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.62%) Degree
5 2 (3.85%) CCNA
5 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.85%) MCSE
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) SLA
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 39 (75.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (48.08%) Kubernetes
2 9 (17.31%) Ansible
3 7 (13.46%) Argo
3 7 (13.46%) Grafana
3 7 (13.46%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.77%) Istio
4 3 (5.77%) linkerd
4 3 (5.77%) Progress Chef
4 3 (5.77%) Puppet
5 2 (3.85%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Splunk
2 13 (25.00%) AppDynamics
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.69%) Google
4 4 (7.69%) Mistral
4 4 (7.69%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.85%) Cisco
5 2 (3.85%) FIS
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle
5 2 (3.85%) VMware
6 1 (1.92%) New Relic
6 1 (1.92%) YouTube