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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 198 160
Rank change year-on-year +56 -38 +38
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 37 30 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.75% 0.45% 0.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.95% 5.75% 4.80%
Number of salaries quoted 23 10 20
10th Percentile £55,500 £53,625 £43,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,954 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £86,688 £80,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 232 522 479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.69% 7.88% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 172 294 396
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,710 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,498 £76,563
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 +31 20 £67,500 +3.85% 10
Cheshire +11 14 £43,500 -41.61% 4
Lancashire - 3 £65,000 - 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 4 (10.81%) Camunda
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) Azure
3 10 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (16.22%) AWS CodeBuild
6 6 (16.22%) OpenShift
6 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
6 6 (16.22%) Route 53
6 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
6 6 (16.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (13.51%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (13.51%) GCP
8 3 (8.11%) PaaS
9 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.70%) Datadog
10 1 (2.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
1 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (16.22%) Power BI
3 5 (13.51%) Data Vault
4 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.41%) MySQL
5 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.70%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (64.86%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.62%) SonarQube
3 7 (18.92%) Bitbucket
3 7 (18.92%) CircleCI
3 7 (18.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (13.51%) Git
5 3 (8.11%) Cucumber
5 3 (8.11%) Selenium
6 2 (5.41%) Gatling
6 2 (5.41%) JMeter
7 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.70%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (2.70%) JIRA
7 1 (2.70%) JUnit
7 1 (2.70%) Maven
7 1 (2.70%) Mockito
7 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (29.73%) Finance
2 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Banking
4 5 (13.51%) Investment Banking
5 4 (10.81%) Advertising
6 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
7 2 (5.41%) Electronics
7 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.41%) Marketing
7 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Snowflake Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Software Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Backend Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (13.51%) REST
3 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.11%) Node.js
3 3 (8.11%) Snowpark
4 2 (5.41%) Playwright
4 2 (5.41%) React
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
4 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.70%) .NET
5 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) Django
5 1 (2.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
5 1 (2.70%) Jest
5 1 (2.70%) JPA
5 1 (2.70%) Pyramid
5 1 (2.70%) Redux
5 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) IoT
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) Debian
2 6 (16.22%) Ubuntu
3 4 (10.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) DevOps
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
3 18 (48.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (37.84%) Containerisation
5 13 (35.14%) Agile
6 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (24.32%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (18.92%) Microservices
9 7 (18.92%) Secure Coding
9 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
9 7 (18.92%) Unit Testing
10 6 (16.22%) Auto-Scaling
10 6 (16.22%) Code Quality
10 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
10 6 (16.22%) Data Science
10 6 (16.22%) Decision-Making
10 6 (16.22%) Machine Learning
10 6 (16.22%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) Python
2 16 (43.24%) SQL
3 14 (37.84%) Java
4 10 (27.03%) Bash
5 6 (16.22%) ANSI SQL
6 4 (10.81%) Go
7 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.41%) C#
8 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.70%) Bicep
9 1 (2.70%) C
9 1 (2.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) CISM
4 1 (2.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) Terraform
2 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
3 11 (29.73%) Grafana
4 9 (24.32%) Ansible
5 8 (21.62%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Oracle
2 7 (18.92%) Splunk
3 3 (8.11%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.70%) Cribl.io
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) Veracode