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

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 291 313
Rank change year-on-year -93 +22 -47
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 254 520 470
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.86% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.09% 9.62% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 169 232 351
10th Percentile £51,693 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £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 £92,500 £91,563 £86,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -6.90%

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 3,139 5,404 6,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.94% 8.98% 12.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,094 2,969 4,970
10th Percentile £30,650 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £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% +3.17%

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 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 11 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 -58 111 £87,000 +2.35% 134
North of England +39 59 £67,500 +14.41% 53
North West +29 40 £62,500 +2.04% 34
South West -7 25 £73,750 +22.92% 39
Midlands +22 18 £57,600 -9.65% 28
South East -36 18 £77,500 +10.71% 61
East of England +17 15 £61,250 -2.00% 10
Yorkshire +8 15 £76,250 +31.55% 10
West Midlands +14 11 £60,000 - 20
East Midlands +28 7 £55,200 -21.14% 8
North East +10 4 £65,000 +12.14% 9
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 18 (7.09%) Confluence
2 10 (3.94%) Apache
3 6 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.97%) nginx
5 4 (1.57%) Camunda
6 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.18%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.18%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.79%) IIS
7 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Simulink
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.39%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 164 (64.57%) AWS
2 97 (38.19%) Azure
3 47 (18.50%) GitHub
4 41 (16.14%) GCP
5 36 (14.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 28 (11.02%) Serverless
7 27 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (10.24%) OpenShift
9 24 (9.45%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (8.66%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (6.30%) Amazon S3
14 15 (5.91%) Datadog
15 11 (4.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (3.54%) Route 53
18 8 (3.15%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.72%) Firewall
2 10 (3.94%) DNS
3 7 (2.76%) WAN
4 6 (2.36%) VPN
5 5 (1.97%) Network Security
6 4 (1.57%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.57%) VLAN
6 4 (1.57%) VSAN
7 3 (1.18%) OSPF
7 3 (1.18%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.18%) Skype
8 2 (0.79%) BGP
8 2 (0.79%) HTTP
8 2 (0.79%) LAN
8 2 (0.79%) MQTT
8 2 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.79%) SAN
8 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.39%) MongoDB
2 31 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (11.02%) SQL Server
4 25 (9.84%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.69%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.15%) MySQL
7 8 (3.15%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.76%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.76%) Power BI
9 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.57%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.18%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.79%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.79%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.79%) Metadata
11 2 (0.79%) Redis
11 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 122 (48.03%) Jenkins
2 50 (19.69%) Git
3 32 (12.60%) Cucumber
4 29 (11.42%) JIRA
5 27 (10.63%) Selenium
6 23 (9.06%) JUnit
7 19 (7.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 17 (6.69%) Bitbucket
8 17 (6.69%) SonarQube
9 15 (5.91%) CircleCI
10 10 (3.94%) TeamCity
11 8 (3.15%) JMeter
12 7 (2.76%) Artifactory
12 7 (2.76%) Gatling
12 7 (2.76%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (2.76%) Postman
13 6 (2.36%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.97%) Maven
15 3 (1.18%) Mockito
General
1 78 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 71 (27.95%) Finance
3 37 (14.57%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.27%) Banking
5 17 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.72%) Aerospace
7 11 (4.33%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.33%) Retail
8 9 (3.54%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.15%) Advertising
9 8 (3.15%) Electronics
10 7 (2.76%) Automotive
11 6 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.36%) Games
11 6 (2.36%) Marketing
12 5 (1.97%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.97%) Law
13 4 (1.57%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.18%) Aviation
15 2 (0.79%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 47 (18.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (15.35%) Developer
3 33 (12.99%) Senior
4 32 (12.60%) Lead
5 26 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (8.66%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (5.51%) Java Engineer
9 14 (5.51%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (5.51%) Software Developer
10 13 (5.12%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.33%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.54%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (3.54%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.15%) Senior Developer
16 7 (2.76%) Administrator
16 7 (2.76%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.39%) Spring
2 32 (12.60%) Spring Boot
3 28 (11.02%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (10.63%) React
5 24 (9.45%) Kafka
6 21 (8.27%) REST
7 20 (7.87%) Node.js
8 17 (6.69%) .NET
9 11 (4.33%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.33%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.94%) .NET Core
10 10 (3.94%) Hibernate
10 10 (3.94%) Playwright
11 9 (3.54%) pytest
11 9 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (3.54%) RESTful
12 8 (3.15%) Django
13 7 (2.76%) Flask
13 7 (2.76%) HTML
13 7 (2.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.72%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.33%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.94%) Private Cloud
4 10 (3.94%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.36%) Wiki
8 5 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.97%) PKI
9 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.57%) Equities
9 4 (1.57%) FPGA
9 4 (1.57%) IoT
9 4 (1.57%) Verilog
9 4 (1.57%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 80 (31.50%) Linux
2 24 (9.45%) Windows
3 14 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.72%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.94%) Debian
5 10 (3.94%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.97%) Unix
7 4 (1.57%) Android
7 4 (1.57%) CentOS
8 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.39%) Fedora
10 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (74.80%) CI/CD
2 153 (60.24%) DevOps
3 109 (42.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (39.37%) Agile
5 87 (34.25%) Containerisation
6 56 (22.05%) Software Engineering
7 54 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (20.87%) Microservices
9 50 (19.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 48 (18.90%) Test Automation
11 43 (16.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (16.54%) Observability
13 38 (14.96%) Platform Engineering
14 33 (12.99%) Mentoring
15 30 (11.81%) Scrum
16 29 (11.42%) Continuous Integration
17 28 (11.02%) Configuration Management
18 26 (10.24%) Incident Response
19 24 (9.45%) TDD
20 23 (9.06%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 137 (53.94%) Python
2 77 (30.31%) Java
3 56 (22.05%) Bash
4 49 (19.29%) SQL
5 42 (16.54%) PowerShell
6 37 (14.57%) JavaScript
7 35 (13.78%) TypeScript
8 18 (7.09%) C#
9 17 (6.69%) Go
10 15 (5.91%) C++
11 12 (4.72%) C
12 7 (2.76%) Bicep
12 7 (2.76%) Delphi
12 7 (2.76%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.97%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (1.57%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.18%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.18%) Groovy
15 3 (1.18%) Ruby
15 3 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.02%) DV Cleared
3 18 (7.09%) AWS Certification
3 18 (7.09%) Degree
3 18 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.15%) ISTQB
6 7 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.36%) CCNA
7 6 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.79%) CCNP
10 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CISM
11 1 (0.39%) CISSP
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.39%) OSCP
11 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.60%) QA
2 5 (1.97%) GDPR
3 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.79%) ECSS
5 2 (0.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (40.16%) Docker
2 16 (6.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.94%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.97%) vSphere
5 4 (1.57%) Firmware
6 3 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.18%) vCloud
7 2 (0.79%) NFS
7 2 (0.79%) Squid
7 2 (0.79%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 129 (50.79%) Kubernetes
2 96 (37.80%) Terraform
3 76 (29.92%) Ansible
4 63 (24.80%) Grafana
5 57 (22.44%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.51%) Kibana
7 5 (1.97%) Argo
7 5 (1.97%) Progress Chef
7 5 (1.97%) Puppet
8 4 (1.57%) Rancher
8 4 (1.57%) vRealize
8 4 (1.57%) WSUS
9 3 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.18%) logstash
9 3 (1.18%) Nessus
9 3 (1.18%) Rundeck
9 3 (1.18%) SCOM
10 2 (0.79%) Istio
10 2 (0.79%) Nagios
10 2 (0.79%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 34 (13.39%) Oracle
2 24 (9.45%) VMware
3 22 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.66%) Splunk
4 18 (7.09%) Atlassian
5 10 (3.94%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.36%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.97%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.97%) SAP
7 5 (1.97%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.57%) Cisco
8 4 (1.57%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.18%) Databricks
9 3 (1.18%) Google
9 3 (1.18%) HP
10 2 (0.79%) Citrix
10 2 (0.79%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.79%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.79%) Starlink
10 2 (0.79%) Ubiquiti