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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 116 197
Rank change year-on-year -75 +81 -26
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 67 149 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.52% 2.86% 0.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.22% 43.57% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 44 19 17
10th Percentile £48,625 £54,350 £48,700
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.90% +8.70% -17.86%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £82,850 £68,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +3.70%

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 389 342 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.02% 6.57% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 232 157 311
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,500 £37,574
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £75,250 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £88,083 £75,400 £72,500
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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -43 53 £78,750 +16.67% 58
Lancashire +7 14 £62,500 - 10
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 6 (8.96%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.48%) Apache
2 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.48%) IIS
2 3 (4.48%) Jupyter
3 2 (2.99%) Confluence
4 1 (1.49%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 43 (64.18%) AWS
2 28 (41.79%) Azure
3 23 (34.33%) GitHub
4 11 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (11.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (8.96%) Azure AKS
6 6 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (7.46%) GCP
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.97%) Google Compute Engine
8 4 (5.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.48%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.48%) Cloud Functions
9 3 (4.48%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) DNS
2 3 (4.48%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.99%) CTI
3 2 (2.99%) DHCP
3 2 (2.99%) Firewall
3 2 (2.99%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.49%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.94%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.97%) Chroma
4 4 (5.97%) MySQL
4 4 (5.97%) Pinecone
4 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (4.48%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.48%) Power BI
5 3 (4.48%) Power Query
6 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (37.31%) Git
2 23 (34.33%) Jenkins
3 13 (19.40%) JUnit
3 13 (19.40%) Spock
4 7 (10.45%) Maven
5 5 (7.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (5.97%) IntelliJ
6 4 (5.97%) JIRA
6 4 (5.97%) Vite
7 3 (4.48%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.49%) Mocha
8 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (26.87%) Public Sector
2 17 (25.37%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Social Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.99%) Law
7 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) Senior
2 21 (31.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (26.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 13 (19.40%) Developer
5 10 (14.93%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (13.43%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.46%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (7.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.46%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Senior DevOps
8 5 (7.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Lead
9 4 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.48%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (62.69%) Terraform
2 15 (22.39%) AngularJS
2 15 (22.39%) React
2 15 (22.39%) Spring
3 7 (10.45%) Kafka
3 7 (10.45%) LangChain
3 7 (10.45%) REST
4 6 (8.96%) .NET
4 6 (8.96%) CrewAI
4 6 (8.96%) FastAPI
4 6 (8.96%) LangGraph
5 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET
5 5 (7.46%) Entity Framework
5 5 (7.46%) Next.js
5 5 (7.46%) Node.js
6 4 (5.97%) .NET Framework
6 4 (5.97%) OpenAPI
6 4 (5.97%) pgvector
6 4 (5.97%) Pulumi
6 4 (5.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (34.33%) Cloud Native
2 13 (19.40%) Private Cloud
3 11 (16.42%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.97%) AI Agents
5 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.99%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.99%) PKI
7 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.42%) Linux
2 5 (7.46%) CentOS
2 5 (7.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (7.46%) Unix
2 5 (7.46%) Windows
3 4 (5.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (92.54%) CI/CD
2 50 (74.63%) DevOps
3 40 (59.70%) Agile
3 40 (59.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (50.75%) AI
5 30 (44.78%) Microservices
5 30 (44.78%) Observability
6 29 (43.28%) Test Automation
7 26 (38.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (32.84%) Scrum
9 20 (29.85%) Containerisation
10 17 (25.37%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (25.37%) Software Engineering
11 16 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (23.88%) Kanban
11 16 (23.88%) Mentoring
11 16 (23.88%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (22.39%) Coaching
13 12 (17.91%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (52.24%) Python
2 26 (38.81%) Java
3 23 (34.33%) JavaScript
4 22 (32.84%) TypeScript
5 16 (23.88%) Bash
6 12 (17.91%) PowerShell
6 12 (17.91%) SQL
7 8 (11.94%) Groovy
8 6 (8.96%) Go
9 5 (7.46%) C#
10 3 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (4.48%) Rust
11 2 (2.99%) Bicep
12 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (40.30%) Security Cleared
2 23 (34.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.42%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.45%) Degree
5 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.99%) CCNA
7 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.99%) MCSE
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (71.64%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.99%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (49.25%) Kubernetes
2 10 (14.93%) Ansible
3 9 (13.43%) Grafana
3 9 (13.43%) Prometheus
4 8 (11.94%) Argo
5 3 (4.48%) Istio
5 3 (4.48%) linkerd
5 3 (4.48%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.48%) Puppet
6 2 (2.99%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.49%) Opsview
7 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (23.88%) Splunk
2 13 (19.40%) AppDynamics
3 6 (8.96%) Databricks
3 6 (8.96%) Mistral
3 6 (8.96%) OpenAI
4 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.97%) Google
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle
5 4 (5.97%) YouTube
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco
6 2 (2.99%) FIS
6 2 (2.99%) VMware
7 1 (1.49%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.49%) F5
7 1 (1.49%) New Relic