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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 118 189
Rank change year-on-year -86 +71 -18
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 59 148 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.46% 2.85% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.29% 42.53% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 41 17 16
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,700 £44,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £49,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £62,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.90% +11.11% -19.64%
75th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 £66,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £85,550 £68,125
England median annual salary £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +10.71% -

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 413 348 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.19% 6.70% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 257 158 324
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,875 £37,574
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,300 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 26 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 26 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 -60 47 £80,000 +28.00% 65
Lancashire +3 12 £64,038 - 7
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 (5.08%) IIS
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.69%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 38 (64.41%) AWS
2 23 (38.98%) Azure
3 19 (32.20%) GitHub
4 11 (18.64%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (13.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (10.17%) Azure AKS
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.47%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (8.47%) GCP
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.78%) Google Compute Engine
8 4 (6.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.39%) CTI
2 2 (3.39%) DHCP
2 2 (3.39%) DNS
2 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.17%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.78%) MySQL
4 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.39%) Chroma
6 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.39%) Pinecone
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.69%) Power BI
7 1 (1.69%) Power Query
7 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (35.59%) Git
1 21 (35.59%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.03%) JUnit
2 13 (22.03%) Spock
3 7 (11.86%) Maven
4 5 (8.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (6.78%) IntelliJ
5 4 (6.78%) Vite
6 3 (5.08%) JIRA
7 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.69%) Mocha
8 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (27.12%) Public Sector
2 15 (25.42%) Finance
3 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Law
6 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) DevOps Engineer
1 19 (32.20%) Senior
2 16 (27.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) Developer
4 8 (13.56%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (10.17%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (8.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Java Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Lead
8 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) C# Software Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (62.71%) Terraform
2 15 (25.42%) AngularJS
2 15 (25.42%) Spring
3 13 (22.03%) React
4 7 (11.86%) REST
5 6 (10.17%) .NET
6 5 (8.47%) ASP.NET
6 5 (8.47%) Entity Framework
6 5 (8.47%) LangChain
6 5 (8.47%) Next.js
6 5 (8.47%) Node.js
7 4 (6.78%) .NET Framework
7 4 (6.78%) CrewAI
7 4 (6.78%) FastAPI
7 4 (6.78%) Kafka
7 4 (6.78%) LangGraph
7 4 (6.78%) OpenAPI
7 4 (6.78%) Pulumi
7 4 (6.78%) Swagger
8 3 (5.08%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.98%) Cloud Native
2 13 (22.03%) Private Cloud
3 11 (18.64%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.39%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.39%) PKI
5 2 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) CentOS
2 5 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Unix
2 5 (8.47%) Windows
3 4 (6.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (94.92%) CI/CD
2 46 (77.97%) DevOps
3 35 (59.32%) Agile
4 34 (57.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (47.46%) AI
5 28 (47.46%) Microservices
6 25 (42.37%) Observability
7 24 (40.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 24 (40.68%) Test Automation
8 20 (33.90%) Containerisation
8 20 (33.90%) Scrum
9 16 (27.12%) Kanban
10 15 (25.42%) Software Engineering
11 14 (23.73%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (22.03%) Coaching
12 13 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (22.03%) Mentoring
12 13 (22.03%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (15.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) Python
2 24 (40.68%) Java
3 23 (38.98%) JavaScript
4 20 (33.90%) TypeScript
5 14 (23.73%) Bash
6 12 (20.34%) PowerShell
7 8 (13.56%) Groovy
7 8 (13.56%) SQL
8 5 (8.47%) C#
9 4 (6.78%) Go
10 3 (5.08%) Rust
11 2 (3.39%) Bicep
12 1 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (42.37%) Security Cleared
2 21 (35.59%) SC Cleared
3 11 (18.64%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Degree
5 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.39%) CCNA
5 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.39%) MCSE
5 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (74.58%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (50.85%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.95%) Ansible
3 9 (15.25%) Grafana
3 9 (15.25%) Prometheus
4 8 (13.56%) Argo
5 3 (5.08%) Istio
5 3 (5.08%) linkerd
5 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.08%) Puppet
6 2 (3.39%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Splunk
2 13 (22.03%) AppDynamics
3 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.78%) Google
4 4 (6.78%) Mistral
4 4 (6.78%) OpenAI
5 3 (5.08%) Databricks
6 2 (3.39%) Cisco
6 2 (3.39%) FIS
6 2 (3.39%) Oracle
6 2 (3.39%) VMware
6 2 (3.39%) YouTube
7 1 (1.69%) New Relic