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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 184 178
Rank change year-on-year +19 -6 +71
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 25 25 66
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.35% 0.52% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.29% 6.25% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 17 11 58
10th Percentile £51,700 £58,750 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,001 £87,500 £73,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -13.33%

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 243 400 658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.42% 8.37% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 188 247 552
10th Percentile - £38,750 £35,920
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,125 £78,750 £89,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +6 14 £66,250 +1.92% 19
Cheshire -16 6 £52,250 -29.87% 8
Lancashire - 5 £65,000 - 11
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 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.00%) Confluence
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) AWS
2 13 (52.00%) Azure
3 8 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (28.00%) GCP
4 7 (28.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (16.00%) Azure AKS
5 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (16.00%) Snowflake
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (12.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub
6 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (12.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (12.00%) PaaS
7 2 (8.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (8.00%) Route 53
7 2 (8.00%) Slack
7 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) DynamoDB
1 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.00%) MySQL
1 4 (16.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Data Vault
2 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (12.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (12.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (12.00%) Advertising
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Electronics
5 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.00%) Marketing
5 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Snowflake Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Monitoring Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) Django
4 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.00%) JPA
4 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
4 1 (4.00%) Pyramid
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) Snowpark
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) Swagger
4 1 (4.00%) Vue
4 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) IoT
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Debian
2 3 (12.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (52.00%) Agile
4 11 (44.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (20.00%) Microservices
7 5 (20.00%) Observability
8 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (16.00%) Data Science
8 4 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (16.00%) Incident Response
8 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
8 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) Java
3 8 (32.00%) SQL
4 5 (20.00%) Go
5 4 (16.00%) ANSI SQL
6 3 (12.00%) Bash
7 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.00%) C
8 1 (4.00%) C#
8 1 (4.00%) PHP
8 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Terraform
2 11 (44.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (28.00%) Ansible
4 6 (24.00%) Grafana
5 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 3 (12.00%) Rancher
7 1 (4.00%) Fluentd
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (12.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.00%) Cribl.io
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) Veracode