GitLab
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitLab skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitLab over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 324 249
Rank change year-on-year -37 -75 +38
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 767 1,025 2,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.05% 1.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.06% 7.39% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 563 602 830
10th Percentile £35,920 £43,162 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £89,688 £85,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +2.13%

All Development Application Skills
UK

GitLab is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,512 13,867 38,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 14.24% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,598 8,468 16,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,210 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitLab.

Salary trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England -33 676 £65,000 -7.14% 166
UK excluding London +8 482 £62,500 +4.17% 97
Work from Home +31 390 £62,783 -3.41% 93
London +13 258 £85,000 +6.25% 69
North of England 0 150 £60,000 +4.35% 22
South East +59 116 £65,000 -7.14% 18
North West +43 96 £59,000 -15.71% 16
South West -26 56 £63,750 +6.25% 21
Midlands -47 50 £50,000 -13.04% 18
Scotland -26 44 £61,500 +2.50% 4
Yorkshire -10 40 £62,783 +47.72% 4
West Midlands -28 36 £36,128 -46.48% 11
East of England +13 35 £62,500 -3.85% 15
Wales +24 30 £62,500 +4.17%
North East -5 14 £62,783 +40.56% 2
East Midlands -19 14 £55,000 - 7
Northern Ireland +5 1 £75,000 +63.04% 4

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (5.22%) Confluence
2 19 (2.48%) CMS
3 16 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.69%) nginx
5 7 (0.91%) Apache
6 3 (0.39%) WordPress
7 2 (0.26%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.65%) Doxygen
2 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Simulink
4 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (2.22%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 424 (55.28%) AWS
2 333 (43.42%) Azure
3 138 (17.99%) GitHub
4 91 (11.86%) Serverless
5 80 (10.43%) GCP
6 66 (8.60%) AWS Lambda
7 58 (7.56%) Amazon ECS
8 53 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (5.08%) Snowflake
10 38 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
11 36 (4.69%) Datadog
11 36 (4.69%) SaaS
12 31 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (3.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 30 (3.91%) Matillion
14 28 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
15 27 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (3.00%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (3.00%) Amazon S3
17 17 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.65%) Firewall
2 21 (2.74%) DNS
3 19 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 16 (2.09%) Modbus
5 13 (1.69%) BGP
6 12 (1.56%) VPN
7 11 (1.43%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (1.43%) MPLS
8 10 (1.30%) HTTP
9 7 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
9 7 (0.91%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.91%) WAN
10 6 (0.78%) Internet
11 5 (0.65%) SSL
12 4 (0.52%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.39%) IPv4
13 3 (0.39%) MQTT
13 3 (0.39%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (9.39%) SQL Server
3 61 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (6.91%) Amazon RDS
5 48 (6.26%) DynamoDB
6 46 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
7 42 (5.48%) MySQL
8 39 (5.08%) Data Lake
9 37 (4.82%) NoSQL
10 32 (4.17%) MongoDB
11 30 (3.91%) Star Schema
12 24 (3.13%) Relational Database
13 19 (2.48%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (1.56%) Looker
15 12 (1.56%) Tableau
16 10 (1.30%) Redis
17 9 (1.17%) Metadata
18 8 (1.04%) Ataccama
19 6 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 233 (30.38%) Jenkins
2 218 (28.42%) Git
3 118 (15.38%) JIRA
4 36 (4.69%) Artifactory
5 34 (4.43%) CircleCI
6 29 (3.78%) Visual Studio
7 28 (3.65%) TeamCity
8 25 (3.26%) Bitbucket
9 18 (2.35%) NUnit
9 18 (2.35%) Selenium
10 17 (2.22%) Moq
10 17 (2.22%) SonarQube
11 15 (1.96%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.96%) JUnit
12 11 (1.43%) webpack
13 8 (1.04%) Cypress.io
13 8 (1.04%) Postman
13 8 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.91%) Katalon Studio
14 7 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 188 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 129 (16.82%) Finance
3 67 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 50 (6.52%) Marketing
5 47 (6.13%) Law
6 41 (5.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 33 (4.30%) Retail
8 27 (3.52%) Banking
9 26 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (1.96%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.56%) Legal
11 12 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.17%) Electronics
12 9 (1.17%) Front Office
12 9 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.65%) Retail Finance
16 4 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 168 (21.90%) Developer
2 142 (18.51%) Senior
3 123 (16.04%) Lead
4 114 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 105 (13.69%) Software Engineer
6 62 (8.08%) Full Stack Developer
7 56 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 53 (6.91%) Technical Leader
9 50 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
10 46 (6.00%) Data Engineer
11 44 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 39 (5.08%) Architect
13 37 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (4.43%) Python Engineer
15 29 (3.78%) Java Developer
16 26 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
16 26 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 25 (3.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 21 (2.74%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (13.95%) React
2 97 (12.65%) RESTful
3 88 (11.47%) .NET
4 71 (9.26%) CSS
5 65 (8.47%) REST
6 64 (8.34%) HTML
7 61 (7.95%) Django
8 52 (6.78%) GraphQL
9 50 (6.52%) Spring
10 46 (6.00%) Node.js
11 41 (5.35%) Spring Boot
12 39 (5.08%) Web Services
13 38 (4.95%) Kafka
13 38 (4.95%) SOAP
14 32 (4.17%) JSON
15 31 (4.04%) .NET Framework
16 26 (3.39%) XML
17 24 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
18 21 (2.74%) YAML
19 18 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 116 (15.12%) Private Cloud
2 68 (8.87%) Self-Motivation
3 49 (6.39%) Public Cloud
4 48 (6.26%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.52%) Cloud Native
6 26 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (3.00%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.87%) Algorithms
9 20 (2.61%) Product Ownership
10 19 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (2.22%) Mobile App
12 16 (2.09%) Legacy Code
13 11 (1.43%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
16 8 (1.04%) Equities
16 8 (1.04%) FPGA
16 8 (1.04%) Reference Data
17 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
17 7 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 150 (19.56%) Linux
2 88 (11.47%) Windows
3 35 (4.56%) Unix
4 26 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.56%) CentOS
7 8 (1.04%) VMS
8 6 (0.78%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) Android
10 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Rocky
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (56.98%) CI/CD
2 374 (48.76%) Agile
3 341 (44.46%) DevOps
4 279 (36.38%) Software Engineering
5 204 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (24.77%) Continuous Integration
7 184 (23.99%) Mentoring
8 180 (23.47%) Containerisation
9 173 (22.56%) Full Stack Development
10 169 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 113 (14.73%) Scrum
12 104 (13.56%) Microservices
13 96 (12.52%) Open Source
14 92 (11.99%) Computer Science
15 87 (11.34%) TDD
16 84 (10.95%) Coaching
17 80 (10.43%) Code Quality
18 79 (10.30%) Analytics
19 77 (10.04%) Test Automation
20 73 (9.52%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 316 (41.20%) Python
2 212 (27.64%) Java
3 194 (25.29%) SQL
4 139 (18.12%) JavaScript
5 125 (16.30%) TypeScript
6 90 (11.73%) C#
7 68 (8.87%) Bash
8 55 (7.17%) PowerShell
9 53 (6.91%) C++
10 35 (4.56%) C
11 33 (4.30%) PHP
12 27 (3.52%) Go
12 27 (3.52%) Ruby
13 26 (3.39%) Shell Script
14 17 (2.22%) T-SQL
15 16 (2.09%) Fortran
16 15 (1.96%) Perl
17 14 (1.83%) Apex Code
17 14 (1.83%) Kotlin
18 12 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 167 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 99 (12.91%) Degree
3 85 (11.08%) SC Cleared
4 53 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (5.08%) DBS Check
6 31 (4.04%) Master's Degree
7 25 (3.26%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.04%) PhD
11 6 (0.78%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.26%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.26%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.26%) CCNA
13 2 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.26%) MCSE
13 2 (0.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.78%) QA
3 18 (2.35%) NIST
4 11 (1.43%) GDPR
5 8 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.04%) PSD2
6 4 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.26%) SLA
9 1 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) MISRA
9 1 (0.13%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 243 (31.68%) Docker
2 26 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.78%) VirtualBox
6 5 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.52%) Firmware
7 4 (0.52%) vSphere
7 4 (0.52%) XenApp
7 4 (0.52%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.26%) Varnish
10 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 242 (31.55%) Terraform
2 241 (31.42%) Kubernetes
3 128 (16.69%) Ansible
4 58 (7.56%) Puppet
5 46 (6.00%) Grafana
6 43 (5.61%) Prometheus
7 31 (4.04%) Progress Chef
8 22 (2.87%) Kibana
9 17 (2.22%) Consul
10 11 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 8 (1.04%) logstash
12 8 (1.04%) Packer
13 6 (0.78%) Argo
14 4 (0.52%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.52%) Podman
14 4 (0.52%) Rancher
15 3 (0.39%) Nagios
15 3 (0.39%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.91%) Google
3 38 (4.95%) VMware
4 32 (4.17%) Splunk
5 23 (3.00%) Oracle
6 19 (2.48%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.35%) Dynatrace
8 17 (2.22%) Cisco
9 16 (2.09%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.43%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.17%) TOWER Software
12 8 (1.04%) Duck Creek
13 7 (0.91%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.91%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.65%) Databricks
15 5 (0.65%) SAP
15 5 (0.65%) Sun
15 5 (0.65%) Teradata
16 4 (0.52%) Juniper