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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 116 196
Rank change year-on-year -96 +80 -13
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 46 151 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.38% 2.90% 0.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.06% 36.47% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 36 21 29
10th Percentile £49,375 £55,000 £49,100
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,443 £67,037 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +16.59% -17.86%
75th Percentile £82,500 £72,777 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £84,250 £111,250
England median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +7.14% -

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 416 414 689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.45% 7.96% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 278 208 447
10th Percentile £39,881 £39,700 £37,050
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,637 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +14.87% -16.58%
75th Percentile £77,188 £72,777 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -35 38 £70,000 +4.42% 32
Lancashire 0 8 £65,576 - 3
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 (6.52%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 31 (67.39%) AWS
2 18 (39.13%) Azure
3 12 (26.09%) GitHub
4 8 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (10.87%) GCP
6 4 (8.70%) Azure AKS
6 4 (8.70%) Google Compute Engine
6 4 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.52%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.35%) LangSmith
8 2 (4.35%) Vercel
9 1 (2.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (13.04%) MongoDB
3 5 (10.87%) Relational Database
4 4 (8.70%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.52%) MySQL
5 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.35%) Pinecone
7 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 16 (34.78%) Git
3 11 (23.91%) JUnit
3 11 (23.91%) Spock
4 4 (8.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (8.70%) Maven
4 4 (8.70%) Vite
5 2 (4.35%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.17%) Mocha
6 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (26.09%) Finance
2 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (34.78%) Senior
2 14 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (28.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Developer
5 7 (15.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Java Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) C# Software Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior C# Software Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (58.70%) Terraform
2 12 (26.09%) Spring
3 11 (23.91%) AngularJS
4 10 (21.74%) React
5 7 (15.22%) REST
6 6 (13.04%) .NET
7 5 (10.87%) ASP.NET
7 5 (10.87%) Entity Framework
7 5 (10.87%) LangChain
7 5 (10.87%) Next.js
7 5 (10.87%) Node.js
8 4 (8.70%) .NET Framework
8 4 (8.70%) CrewAI
8 4 (8.70%) FastAPI
8 4 (8.70%) LangGraph
8 4 (8.70%) OpenAPI
8 4 (8.70%) Swagger
8 4 (8.70%) YAML
9 3 (6.52%) Middleware
9 3 (6.52%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) Cloud Native
2 11 (23.91%) Private Cloud
3 9 (19.57%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (17.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (8.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (4.35%) AI Agents
7 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) CentOS
2 4 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.52%) Unix
3 3 (6.52%) Windows
4 2 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (95.65%) CI/CD
2 35 (76.09%) DevOps
3 28 (60.87%) Agile
4 24 (52.17%) Microservices
5 23 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (45.65%) AI
7 20 (43.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (36.96%) Observability
9 16 (34.78%) Scrum
9 16 (34.78%) Test Automation
10 13 (28.26%) Containerisation
11 12 (26.09%) Kanban
11 12 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (26.09%) Software Engineering
12 9 (19.57%) Coaching
12 9 (19.57%) Mentoring
12 9 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 7 (15.22%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) JavaScript
2 18 (39.13%) Java
3 17 (36.96%) TypeScript
4 16 (34.78%) Python
5 9 (19.57%) Bash
6 6 (13.04%) Groovy
7 5 (10.87%) C#
7 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
7 5 (10.87%) SQL
8 4 (8.70%) Go
9 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.17%) Rust
9 1 (2.17%) SOQL
9 1 (2.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.96%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
System Software
1 33 (71.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (21.74%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Argo
3 7 (15.22%) Grafana
3 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.52%) Istio
4 3 (6.52%) linkerd
4 3 (6.52%) Progress Chef
4 3 (6.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Splunk
2 11 (23.91%) AppDynamics
3 4 (8.70%) Google
3 4 (8.70%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) New Relic
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce