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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 174 197
Rank change year-on-year -21 +23 +35
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 22 25 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.23% 0.63% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.49% 7.06% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 16 17 68
10th Percentile £46,750 £57,075 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £60,000 £35,920
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,037 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% +11.73% -11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,376 £87,500 £80,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -10.34%

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 339 354 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.47% 8.88% 9.15%
Number of salaries quoted 256 268 658
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £37,188 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,343 £58,030 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +5.51% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,313 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 17 April 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 April 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 -22 13 £65,000 -3.04% 14
Lancashire +8 7 £65,288 - 4
Cheshire -33 2 £44,500 -
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 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 11 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (27.27%) Azure AKS
6 4 (18.18%) GCP
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub
6 4 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
7 3 (13.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
8 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
8 2 (9.09%) Slack
8 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
9 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) DNS
3 1 (4.55%) Broadband
3 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
1 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Data Vault
3 2 (9.09%) Power BI
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Bitbucket
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Advertising
4 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Games
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Monitoring Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) RESTful
1 5 (22.73%) YAML
2 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 2 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) Django
3 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.55%) JPA
3 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.55%) Pyramid
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) Snowpark
3 1 (4.55%) SOAP
3 1 (4.55%) Swagger
3 1 (4.55%) Visualforce
3 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 3 (13.64%) Public Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
4 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.55%) IoT
5 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Debian
2 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 14 (63.64%) Agile
2 14 (63.64%) DevOps
3 13 (59.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (31.82%) Collaborative Culture
4 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) ITIL
6 5 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 5 (22.73%) Microservices
7 4 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.64%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (13.64%) Incident Response
8 3 (13.64%) Observability
8 3 (13.64%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Go
4 2 (9.09%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) SOQL
5 1 (4.55%) SOSL
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) CISM
3 1 (4.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Terraform
2 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (45.45%) Ansible
4 3 (13.64%) Rancher
5 2 (9.09%) Grafana
5 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.55%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle
1 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) Cribl.io
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.55%) Veracode