GitLab Job Trends in the City of London

GitLab
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 135 126
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 6 28 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.28% 1.05% 1.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.82% 7.91% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 31
10th Percentile £68,125 £42,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +25.93% -20.59%
75th Percentile £94,688 £107,500 £101,875
90th Percentile £105,000 - £113,750
Central London median annual salary £86,250 £85,000 £73,750
% change year-on-year +1.47% +15.25% -13.24%

All Development Application Skills
City of London

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 City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 157 354 487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.27% 13.29% 17.32%
Number of salaries quoted 116 255 436
10th Percentile £48,750 £48,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £67,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.15% -20.59% +6.25%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £111,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -20.59% +6.25%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

GitLab job vacancy trend in the City of London

GitLab
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the City of London

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) Serverless
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Hudi
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Deequ
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Advertising
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer - Fintech
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Great Expectations
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Observability
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) BCP
5 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (33.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (16.67%) Argo
4 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) ForgeRock
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat