GitLab Job Trends in England

GitLab
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 338 308
Rank change year-on-year -18 -30 -33
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 293 356 579
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.80% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.90% 7.50% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 195 161 482
10th Percentile £48,000 £48,750 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,293 4,747 7,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.65% 10.61% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,246 2,729 5,808
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in England

GitLab
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in England over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in England

GitLab
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the England region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
London -12 109 £87,000 -3.33% 75
North of England +21 78 £67,500 - 42
Yorkshire +4 46 £77,500 +50.54% 11
South East -21 37 £70,000 -3.45% 58
South West -24 31 £74,500 +16.86% 20
North West +20 25 £65,000 -5.45% 29
Midlands +4 18 £55,200 -21.14% 10
West Midlands +6 13 £56,350 -16.52% 7
East of England +13 9 £73,750 +1.72% 10
North East -3 7 £66,250 -5.36% 2
East Midlands -15 5 £55,200 -26.40% 3
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (5.46%) Confluence
2 15 (5.12%) Apache
3 9 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.05%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.71%) IIS
5 5 (1.71%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.02%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.68%) nginx
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 188 (64.16%) AWS
2 119 (40.61%) Azure
3 88 (30.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 68 (23.21%) Serverless
5 61 (20.82%) GitHub
6 58 (19.80%) AWS Lambda
7 55 (18.77%) GCP
8 42 (14.33%) Amazon S3
9 36 (12.29%) Amazon ECS
9 36 (12.29%) GitHub Actions
10 33 (11.26%) AWS Step Functions
11 31 (10.58%) OpenShift
12 29 (9.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (9.56%) Amazon ECR
14 26 (8.87%) Apigee
15 20 (6.83%) Datadog
16 19 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
18 13 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 28 (9.56%) DNS
2 14 (4.78%) Firewall
3 9 (3.07%) VPN
4 8 (2.73%) DSL
5 6 (2.05%) BGP
5 6 (2.05%) DHCP
5 6 (2.05%) WAN
6 5 (1.71%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.37%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.37%) LAN
7 4 (1.37%) MPLS
7 4 (1.37%) MQTT
7 4 (1.37%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.37%) VoIP
7 4 (1.37%) VPLS
8 3 (1.02%) VLAN
9 2 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (12.97%) DynamoDB
1 38 (12.97%) NoSQL
2 30 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (9.56%) MongoDB
4 26 (8.87%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.07%) MySQL
8 7 (2.39%) Power BI
9 5 (1.71%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.71%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.37%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.37%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.02%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.02%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.02%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 159 (54.27%) Jenkins
2 70 (23.89%) Git
3 37 (12.63%) SonarQube
4 33 (11.26%) JIRA
5 30 (10.24%) Cypress.io
5 30 (10.24%) Maven
6 26 (8.87%) Cucumber
7 21 (7.17%) Selenium
8 18 (6.14%) JUnit
9 17 (5.80%) CircleCI
10 15 (5.12%) Bitbucket
11 9 (3.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (2.73%) Postman
13 6 (2.05%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.71%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.71%) TestNG
14 5 (1.71%) Vite
15 4 (1.37%) Artifactory
15 4 (1.37%) Gradle
15 4 (1.37%) JMeter
General
1 77 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.80%) Finance
3 27 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.48%) Banking
5 16 (5.46%) Advertising
6 15 (5.12%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.07%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.73%) Marketing
9 5 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.71%) Games
9 5 (1.71%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.37%) Electronics
10 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.68%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.68%) Automotive
12 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (20.48%) Lead
2 52 (17.75%) Developer
3 39 (13.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (13.31%) Senior
4 34 (11.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (7.51%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (6.83%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.48%) Java Developer
9 16 (5.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.44%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.10%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.10%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.75%) Java Engineer
12 11 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (3.75%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.41%) Architect
13 10 (3.41%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (3.07%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (17.75%) Spring Boot
2 41 (13.99%) Spring
3 33 (11.26%) Elastic Stack
4 32 (10.92%) AngularJS
4 32 (10.92%) Kafka
5 27 (9.22%) Jest
6 25 (8.53%) Gherkin
7 23 (7.85%) React
8 21 (7.17%) RESTful
9 16 (5.46%) Node.js
10 14 (4.78%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (4.78%) REST
11 13 (4.44%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.44%) pytest
12 11 (3.75%) Apache NiFi
12 11 (3.75%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.07%) HTML
14 8 (2.73%) gRPC
14 8 (2.73%) Vue
14 8 (2.73%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.77%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.14%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.75%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.41%) Security Posture
6 9 (3.07%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.73%) Blockchain
7 8 (2.73%) Cloud Security Posture
7 8 (2.73%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.73%) Web3
8 7 (2.39%) e-Learning
8 7 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.71%) PKI
10 3 (1.02%) IoT
10 3 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.02%) Robotics
10 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (27.30%) Linux
2 29 (9.90%) Windows
3 11 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.73%) Unix
5 7 (2.39%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.37%) CentOS
8 4 (1.37%) Debian
9 1 (0.34%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (79.18%) CI/CD
2 182 (62.12%) DevOps
3 131 (44.71%) Agile
4 125 (42.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 83 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (27.99%) Containerisation
7 61 (20.82%) Microservices
8 59 (20.14%) Software Engineering
9 58 (19.80%) Test Automation
10 53 (18.09%) Mentoring
10 53 (18.09%) Observability
11 46 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (15.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 44 (15.02%) Continuous Integration
13 40 (13.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 38 (12.97%) Incident Response
15 37 (12.63%) Technical Leadership
16 35 (11.95%) DevSecOps
16 35 (11.95%) Scrum
17 31 (10.58%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 154 (52.56%) Python
2 96 (32.76%) Java
3 85 (29.01%) Bash
4 61 (20.82%) TypeScript
5 58 (19.80%) SQL
6 37 (12.63%) JavaScript
7 35 (11.95%) Go
7 35 (11.95%) PowerShell
8 24 (8.19%) Groovy
9 13 (4.44%) Rust
10 12 (4.10%) C#
11 7 (2.39%) ANSI SQL
11 7 (2.39%) Delphi
12 6 (2.05%) Bicep
12 6 (2.05%) C++
13 4 (1.37%) C
13 4 (1.37%) Perl
14 2 (0.68%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (23.21%) Security Cleared
2 33 (11.26%) DV Cleared
3 31 (10.58%) AWS Certification
3 31 (10.58%) Degree
4 26 (8.87%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.41%) OSCP
8 9 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.73%) ISTQB
10 6 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.71%) CCNA
12 4 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.02%) CISSP
13 3 (1.02%) LPIC
14 2 (0.68%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.29%) QA
2 11 (3.75%) NIST
3 8 (2.73%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.39%) GDPR
5 6 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.05%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.05%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) ECSS
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (44.03%) Docker
2 22 (7.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.44%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.71%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.71%) vSphere
6 3 (1.02%) Firmware
7 2 (0.68%) NFS
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.34%) Squid
Systems Management
1 136 (46.42%) Terraform
2 131 (44.71%) Kubernetes
3 85 (29.01%) Ansible
4 62 (21.16%) Grafana
5 60 (20.48%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.53%) HP Fortify
7 10 (3.41%) Kibana
7 10 (3.41%) Puppet
8 6 (2.05%) Argo
8 6 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.05%) Rancher
9 5 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.71%) Nagios
10 4 (1.37%) logstash
10 4 (1.37%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.37%) WSUS
11 3 (1.02%) Istio
11 3 (1.02%) vRealize
11 3 (1.02%) VxRail
12 2 (0.68%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 37 (12.63%) Oracle
2 29 (9.90%) Splunk
3 24 (8.19%) VMware
4 23 (7.85%) Microsoft
5 15 (5.12%) Atlassian
6 12 (4.10%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.73%) Google
8 6 (2.05%) Cisco
8 6 (2.05%) SAP
9 5 (1.71%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.37%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.37%) Dell
11 3 (1.02%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.02%) IBM
11 3 (1.02%) Juniper
12 2 (0.68%) Adobe
12 2 (0.68%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.68%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.68%) Starlink
12 2 (0.68%) Tenable