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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 150 115
Rank change year-on-year +52 -35 +24
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 45 5 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.94% 0.14% 0.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.71% 2.84% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £44,050 £58,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,875 £61,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £72,813 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £73,375 - -
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -9.50%

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 126 176 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.44% 5.01% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 71 109 130
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £64,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% 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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +25 7 £72,500 +3.57% 4
Derbyshire - 6 - - 1
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
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:

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# 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 Software Developer
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