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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 99 161
Rank change year-on-year -62 +62 -48
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 13 45 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.19% 1.92% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.85% 32.85% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £38,438 £44,050 -
25th Percentile £42,578 £47,875 £43,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,813 £72,500
90th Percentile - £73,375 -
England median annual salary £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +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 132 137 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.96% 5.85% 5.16%
Number of salaries quoted 91 71 121
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,900 £60,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

GitLab job vacancy trend 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 6 October 2026.

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 6 October 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
Nottinghamshire - 7 £60,000 - 5
Leicestershire -41 6 - - 6
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (30.77%) SaaS
2 4 (30.77%) Supabase
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) AWS IoT
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) MQTT
1 6 (46.15%) Wi-Fi
1 6 (46.15%) Wireless
1 6 (46.15%) ZigBee
2 4 (30.77%) Bluetooth
3 3 (23.08%) DHCP
3 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 3 (23.08%) NX-OS
4 2 (15.38%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Git
2 6 (46.15%) GDB
2 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (30.77%) Robot Framework
3 4 (30.77%) Storybook
4 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Law
2 2 (15.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Embedded Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Software Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) IoT Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Yocto
2 4 (30.77%) CSS
2 4 (30.77%) Next.js
2 4 (30.77%) pytest
2 4 (30.77%) React
2 4 (30.77%) REST
2 4 (30.77%) Tailwind CSS
2 4 (30.77%) Unity DI Container
2 4 (30.77%) Vitest
3 3 (23.08%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) ARM Cortex
1 6 (46.15%) Device Driver
1 6 (46.15%) Embedded Systems
1 6 (46.15%) IoT
2 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
3 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (76.92%) Test Automation
3 9 (69.23%) DevOps
4 6 (46.15%) BDD
4 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
4 6 (46.15%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 6 (46.15%) Software Delivery
4 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Validation
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Fintech
5 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (30.77%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Workflow
6 3 (23.08%) Digital Forensics
6 3 (23.08%) Information Security
6 3 (23.08%) ITIL
6 3 (23.08%) Open Source
6 3 (23.08%) Product Management
6 3 (23.08%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 6 (46.15%) C
2 6 (46.15%) C++
3 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
4 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Degree
2 6 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (46.15%) Master's Degree
3 3 (23.08%) CCNA
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (23.08%) MCSE
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) JTAG
2 4 (30.77%) Accessibility
2 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (30.77%) SOC 2
3 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) vSphere
3 2 (15.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) FIS
2 2 (15.38%) Google