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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 318 303
Rank change year-on-year -49 -15 -35
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 256 502 455
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 0.84% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.11% 8.91% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 174 237 340
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -9.50%

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 3,155 5,635 5,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.73% 9.41% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,124 3,201 4,753
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 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
London -48 104 £85,000 - 62
North of England +45 67 £67,500 +8.00% 26
North West +57 38 £65,000 - 15
South West -21 25 £70,000 +16.67% 39
Yorkshire +25 24 £77,500 +33.70% 7
South East -29 20 £77,500 +10.71% 72
Midlands +30 16 £60,000 -5.88% 19
East of England +36 15 £61,250 +6.52% 9
West Midlands +25 9 £65,000 +8.33% 18
East Midlands +23 7 £55,200 -21.14% 1
North East +13 5 £65,000 +12.14% 4
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 12 (4.69%) Confluence
2 10 (3.91%) Apache
3 6 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.95%) IIS
4 5 (1.95%) nginx
4 5 (1.95%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.56%) Camunda
5 4 (1.56%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.17%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Simulink
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.39%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 157 (61.33%) AWS
2 103 (40.23%) Azure
3 46 (17.97%) GitHub
4 43 (16.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 41 (16.02%) GCP
6 32 (12.50%) Serverless
7 30 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (11.72%) OpenShift
8 27 (10.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (9.77%) Amazon ECS
10 25 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (7.81%) Amazon S3
12 19 (7.42%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.69%) Datadog
14 11 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.52%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (3.52%) Power Platform
17 8 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.08%) DNS
2 10 (3.91%) Firewall
3 6 (2.34%) VPN
4 5 (1.95%) Network Security
4 5 (1.95%) WAN
5 4 (1.56%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.56%) VLAN
5 4 (1.56%) VSAN
6 3 (1.17%) OSPF
6 3 (1.17%) Skype
7 2 (0.78%) BGP
7 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.78%) HTTP
7 2 (0.78%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.78%) LAN
7 2 (0.78%) MQTT
7 2 (0.78%) SAN
7 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 30 (11.72%) MongoDB
3 26 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (8.20%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.64%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (5.08%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.52%) MySQL
7 9 (3.52%) Power BI
8 8 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.95%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.17%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.78%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.78%) Metadata
12 2 (0.78%) Redis
12 2 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 134 (52.34%) Jenkins
2 53 (20.70%) Git
3 26 (10.16%) JIRA
4 25 (9.77%) Cucumber
5 23 (8.98%) Selenium
5 23 (8.98%) SonarQube
6 21 (8.20%) Bitbucket
7 18 (7.03%) JUnit
7 18 (7.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (5.08%) Cypress.io
9 12 (4.69%) CircleCI
10 11 (4.30%) Maven
11 10 (3.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (3.52%) JMeter
13 8 (3.13%) Postman
14 7 (2.73%) Artifactory
14 7 (2.73%) Gatling
14 7 (2.73%) TeamCity
15 4 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
16 3 (1.17%) SoapUI
General
1 70 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.22%) Finance
3 36 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.20%) Banking
5 13 (5.08%) Aerospace
6 12 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.69%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.30%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.91%) Advertising
9 8 (3.13%) Electronics
9 8 (3.13%) Retail
10 6 (2.34%) Automotive
10 6 (2.34%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.34%) Games
10 6 (2.34%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.34%) Marketing
11 4 (1.56%) Law
11 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.17%) Aviation
13 2 (0.78%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 45 (17.58%) DevOps Engineer
1 45 (17.58%) Lead
2 36 (14.06%) Developer
3 33 (12.89%) Senior
4 29 (11.33%) Platform Engineer
5 21 (8.20%) Software Engineer
6 19 (7.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (5.47%) Software Developer
8 13 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
9 11 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.30%) Backend Developer
10 10 (3.91%) Java Engineer
10 10 (3.91%) Lead DevOps
10 10 (3.91%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (2.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.28%) Spring Boot
2 33 (12.89%) Spring
3 28 (10.94%) Elastic Stack
4 24 (9.38%) React
5 21 (8.20%) REST
6 20 (7.81%) Node.js
7 19 (7.42%) AngularJS
8 17 (6.64%) Kafka
9 14 (5.47%) .NET
10 11 (4.30%) FastAPI
11 10 (3.91%) Playwright
12 9 (3.52%) CSS
12 9 (3.52%) Django
12 9 (3.52%) Hibernate
12 9 (3.52%) HTML
12 9 (3.52%) pytest
13 8 (3.13%) Jest
14 7 (2.73%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.73%) Apache NiFi
14 7 (2.73%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.97%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.69%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.69%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.91%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.52%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.95%) PKI
8 4 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.56%) FPGA
8 4 (1.56%) IoT
8 4 (1.56%) Verilog
8 4 (1.56%) VHDL
9 3 (1.17%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.17%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.17%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 83 (32.42%) Linux
2 27 (10.55%) Windows
3 16 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.30%) Ubuntu
4 11 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.13%) Debian
6 7 (2.73%) Unix
7 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.17%) CentOS
9 2 (0.78%) Android
10 1 (0.39%) Fedora
10 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 158 (61.72%) DevOps
3 110 (42.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 105 (41.02%) Agile
5 80 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 63 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 47 (18.36%) Microservices
9 46 (17.97%) Software Engineering
10 45 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (17.19%) Test Automation
12 41 (16.02%) Observability
13 38 (14.84%) Mentoring
13 38 (14.84%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (13.67%) Scrum
15 31 (12.11%) Configuration Management
16 30 (11.72%) Incident Response
17 29 (11.33%) Continuous Integration
18 28 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 25 (9.77%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 139 (54.30%) Python
2 78 (30.47%) Java
3 64 (25.00%) Bash
4 52 (20.31%) SQL
5 43 (16.80%) PowerShell
5 43 (16.80%) TypeScript
6 37 (14.45%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.86%) C#
7 15 (5.86%) Go
8 13 (5.08%) C++
9 12 (4.69%) C
10 9 (3.52%) Groovy
11 7 (2.73%) Bicep
11 7 (2.73%) Delphi
11 7 (2.73%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.34%) ANSI SQL
13 3 (1.17%) Embedded C
13 3 (1.17%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.17%) Ruby
14 2 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.55%) DV Cleared
3 22 (8.59%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.20%) Degree
5 17 (6.64%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.73%) ISTQB
9 6 (2.34%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.34%) CCNA
9 6 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.78%) CCNP
12 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.39%) CISSP
13 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.67%) QA
2 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.56%) GDPR
3 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.78%) ECSS
4 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.78%) SLA
5 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.39%) NIST
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (39.84%) Docker
2 19 (7.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.95%) vSphere
5 4 (1.56%) Firmware
6 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.17%) vCloud
6 3 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.78%) NFS
7 2 (0.78%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.39%) Squid
8 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 119 (46.48%) Kubernetes
2 99 (38.67%) Terraform
3 79 (30.86%) Ansible
4 66 (25.78%) Grafana
5 56 (21.88%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.69%) Kibana
7 7 (2.73%) HP Fortify
7 7 (2.73%) Puppet
8 6 (2.34%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.95%) Argo
9 5 (1.95%) Rancher
10 4 (1.56%) vRealize
10 4 (1.56%) WSUS
11 3 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.17%) logstash
11 3 (1.17%) Nessus
11 3 (1.17%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.17%) SCOM
12 2 (0.78%) Istio
12 2 (0.78%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 38 (14.84%) Oracle
2 25 (9.77%) VMware
3 21 (8.20%) Splunk
4 20 (7.81%) Microsoft
5 19 (7.42%) Atlassian
6 14 (5.47%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.34%) AppDynamics
7 6 (2.34%) SAP
8 5 (1.95%) Sonatype
9 4 (1.56%) Cisco
9 4 (1.56%) Cribl.io
9 4 (1.56%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.56%) Google
10 3 (1.17%) Databricks
10 3 (1.17%) HP
11 2 (0.78%) Citrix
11 2 (0.78%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.78%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.78%) Starlink
11 2 (0.78%) Ubiquiti