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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 186 152
Rank change year-on-year +40 -34 +56
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 34 25 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.55% 0.48% 0.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.23% 5.63% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 21 9 32
10th Percentile £57,500 £56,151 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £88,500 £72,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +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 239 444 464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.84% 8.44% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 183 270 378
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £37,675
25th Percentile £30,125 £43,710 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -11.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,339 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.18% -5.63% -

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 26 December 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 26 December 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 +23 19 £67,500 +3.85% 45
Cheshire -3 11 £48,750 -34.56% 14
Lancashire - 4 £73,755 - 18
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 (11.76%) Camunda
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 19 (55.88%) AWS
2 13 (38.24%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (20.59%) OpenShift
5 6 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (17.65%) GCP
5 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
5 6 (17.65%) Snowflake
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (14.71%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (11.76%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (11.76%) Route 53
7 4 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (8.82%) PaaS
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.94%) dbt
10 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Power BI
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) Data Vault
3 4 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.82%) MySQL
4 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.94%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (20.59%) Bitbucket
2 7 (20.59%) SonarQube
3 6 (17.65%) Git
3 6 (17.65%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (14.71%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.88%) Gatling
5 2 (5.88%) JMeter
5 2 (5.88%) Selenium
6 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.94%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (32.35%) Finance
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Banking
3 5 (14.71%) Investment Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Advertising
5 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.88%) Electronics
6 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Marketing
6 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Snowflake Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Software Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Lead
5 4 (11.76%) Backend Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (14.71%) REST
3 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 3 (8.82%) Snowpark
4 2 (5.88%) Node.js
4 2 (5.88%) Playwright
5 1 (2.94%) .NET
5 1 (2.94%) Django
5 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.94%) Pyramid
5 1 (2.94%) React
5 1 (2.94%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Debian
2 4 (11.76%) Ubuntu
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) DevOps
2 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 16 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (41.18%) Agile
5 13 (38.24%) Containerisation
6 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (20.59%) Microservices
8 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
9 6 (17.65%) Code Quality
9 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
9 6 (17.65%) Data Science
9 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
9 6 (17.65%) Observability
10 5 (14.71%) Data Governance
10 5 (14.71%) Data Management
10 5 (14.71%) Statistics
10 5 (14.71%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Python
2 16 (47.06%) SQL
3 14 (41.18%) Java
4 7 (20.59%) Bash
5 6 (17.65%) ANSI SQL
6 5 (14.71%) Go
7 2 (5.88%) C#
7 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.94%) C
8 1 (2.94%) PHP
8 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 2 (5.88%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.94%) CISM
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (29.41%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Kubernetes
1 13 (38.24%) Terraform
2 8 (23.53%) Ansible
2 8 (23.53%) Grafana
3 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.88%) Rancher
5 1 (2.94%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Oracle
2 5 (14.71%) Splunk
3 3 (8.82%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.94%) Cribl.io
5 1 (2.94%) Google