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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 109 152
Rank change year-on-year -32 +43 -7
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 2 7 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.061% 0.43% 0.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.50% 3.98% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £60,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £65,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% - +36.36%
75th Percentile £58,000 £82,813 £82,500
90th Percentile - £83,375 -
England median annual salary £79,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.33% +15.38% -13.33%

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 133 176 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.09% 10.82% 7.68%
Number of salaries quoted 103 137 210
10th Percentile £24,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.49% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,900 £66,000 £68,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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
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 10 March 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
Leicestershire -6 1 £55,200 -21.14% 2
Northamptonshire - 1 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Delphi
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle