GitLab Job Trends in the East Midlands

GitLab
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 167 116
Rank change year-on-year +70 -51 +29
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 45 8 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.94% 0.20% 0.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.14% 3.85% 6.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £44,050 £43,421 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,875 £45,691 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% +2.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £72,813 £69,063 £70,625
90th Percentile £73,375 £72,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -

All Development Application Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 140 208 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.03% 5.22% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 74 136 127
10th Percentile £34,325 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,313 £38,438 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £61,000
90th Percentile £75,255 £62,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.84%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the East Midlands

GitLab
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the East Midlands

GitLab
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Northamptonshire - 30 £52,000 -
Leicestershire +42 7 £72,500 +3.57%
Derbyshire - 6 - -
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 34 (75.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (93.33%) AWS
2 40 (88.89%) Azure
3 34 (75.56%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
4 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.44%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (91.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) MariaDB
2 2 (4.44%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 41 (91.11%) JIRA
1 41 (91.11%) SonarQube
2 40 (88.89%) Selenium
3 39 (86.67%) Bitbucket
3 39 (86.67%) Cucumber
3 39 (86.67%) Maven
3 39 (86.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (88.89%) Finance
2 39 (86.67%) Banking
2 39 (86.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 5 (11.11%) Retail
4 2 (4.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (86.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (4.44%) Developer
3 2 (4.44%) Senior
3 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
3 2 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Developer
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (2.22%) C# Software Developer
4 1 (2.22%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (2.22%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (2.22%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (2.22%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (2.22%) Senior Developer
4 1 (2.22%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (91.11%) CSS
1 41 (91.11%) HTML
2 39 (86.67%) JPA
2 39 (86.67%) Kafka
2 39 (86.67%) React
2 39 (86.67%) Redux
2 39 (86.67%) Spring
2 39 (86.67%) Spring Boot
3 34 (75.56%) Hibernate
4 7 (15.56%) CSS3
4 7 (15.56%) HTML5
4 7 (15.56%) REST
5 5 (11.11%) Jest
5 5 (11.11%) RESTful
5 5 (11.11%) Sass
6 2 (4.44%) .NET
6 2 (4.44%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (86.67%) Enterprise Software
1 39 (86.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 42 (93.33%) Agile
2 42 (93.33%) DevOps
2 42 (93.33%) SDLC
2 42 (93.33%) Test Automation
3 40 (88.89%) Containerisation
4 39 (86.67%) Front End Development
4 39 (86.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 39 (86.67%) Microservices
4 39 (86.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 39 (86.67%) Software Engineering
5 36 (80.00%) Clean Code
5 36 (80.00%) TDD
6 34 (75.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.11%) Migration
7 5 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
7 5 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (11.11%) User Experience
8 2 (4.44%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (93.33%) Java
2 41 (91.11%) JavaScript
2 41 (91.11%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.44%) C#
4 2 (4.44%) Go
4 2 (4.44%) Python
5 1 (2.22%) Bash
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (88.89%) QA
2 5 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (93.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (93.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 39 (86.67%) Solace
2 2 (4.44%) AppDynamics
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle