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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 314 290
Rank change year-on-year -33 -24 -13
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 269 449 434
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 0.88% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.59% 8.45% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 186 217 331
10th Percentile £52,102 £46,600 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +2.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 3,131 5,312 5,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.06% 10.42% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,156 3,118 4,570
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £102,500
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 19 December 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 19 December 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 -36 97 £85,000 - 71
North of England +62 79 £75,000 +19.56% 122
Yorkshire +9 38 £80,000 +38.02% 51
North West +39 34 £67,500 +3.85% 57
South West -14 24 £73,750 +22.92% 75
South East -31 24 £77,750 +7.61% 116
Midlands -5 20 £57,600 -9.65% 80
East of England +35 15 £61,250 -14.04% 76
West Midlands +12 14 £63,750 +6.25% 50
North East +11 7 £66,250 +14.29% 14
East Midlands -9 6 £53,600 -23.43% 27
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 11 (4.09%) Apache
1 11 (4.09%) Confluence
2 8 (2.97%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.86%) IIS
3 5 (1.86%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.49%) Camunda
4 4 (1.49%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.12%) nginx
5 3 (1.12%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Simulink
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 165 (61.34%) AWS
2 114 (42.38%) Azure
3 56 (20.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (17.84%) GitHub
5 46 (17.10%) Serverless
6 45 (16.73%) GCP
7 39 (14.50%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
9 30 (11.15%) Amazon S3
10 28 (10.41%) OpenShift
11 27 (10.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (9.29%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (7.43%) Amazon ECR
14 19 (7.06%) AWS Step Functions
15 18 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (6.32%) Apigee
17 16 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
18 9 (3.35%) Power Platform
18 9 (3.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.81%) DNS
2 9 (3.35%) Firewall
3 5 (1.86%) VPN
4 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.49%) VSAN
4 4 (1.49%) WAN
5 3 (1.12%) Network Security
5 3 (1.12%) Skype
5 3 (1.12%) VLAN
6 2 (0.74%) BGP
6 2 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.74%) HTTP
6 2 (0.74%) LAN
6 2 (0.74%) MQTT
6 2 (0.74%) OSPF
6 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.74%) RTMP
6 2 (0.74%) SSL
6 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.52%) MongoDB
2 30 (11.15%) SQL Server
3 27 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (8.92%) DynamoDB
5 23 (8.55%) NoSQL
6 15 (5.58%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.72%) MySQL
8 9 (3.35%) Power BI
9 7 (2.60%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.86%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.12%) CockroachDB
12 3 (1.12%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.74%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.74%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 143 (53.16%) Jenkins
2 69 (25.65%) Git
3 30 (11.15%) SonarQube
4 24 (8.92%) Cucumber
5 23 (8.55%) Cypress.io
5 23 (8.55%) JIRA
6 22 (8.18%) Selenium
7 21 (7.81%) Maven
8 20 (7.43%) Bitbucket
9 19 (7.06%) JUnit
10 13 (4.83%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (3.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (3.72%) CircleCI
11 10 (3.72%) Postman
12 9 (3.35%) JMeter
13 7 (2.60%) Gatling
14 6 (2.23%) Artifactory
15 5 (1.86%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.86%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.86%) TeamCity
General
1 73 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.56%) Finance
3 32 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.43%) Banking
5 15 (5.58%) Advertising
6 14 (5.20%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.72%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.97%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.60%) Marketing
10 6 (2.23%) Electronics
10 6 (2.23%) Games
10 6 (2.23%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.86%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.86%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.86%) Retail
12 3 (1.12%) Automotive
12 3 (1.12%) Aviation
13 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 62 (23.05%) Lead
2 44 (16.36%) Developer
3 43 (15.99%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (11.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (10.41%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (10.04%) Senior
7 19 (7.06%) Software Engineer
8 18 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.20%) Software Developer
10 13 (4.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 13 (4.83%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (4.46%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.46%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) Backend Developer
13 9 (3.35%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (3.35%) Java Developer
14 8 (2.97%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.61%) Spring Boot
2 35 (13.01%) Spring
3 28 (10.41%) AngularJS
4 26 (9.67%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (8.18%) React
6 19 (7.06%) Node.js
6 19 (7.06%) REST
7 18 (6.69%) Jest
8 17 (6.32%) Gherkin
8 17 (6.32%) Kafka
9 13 (4.83%) FastAPI
10 12 (4.46%) .NET
11 11 (4.09%) pytest
11 11 (4.09%) RESTful
12 10 (3.72%) Playwright
13 9 (3.35%) Django
13 9 (3.35%) HTML
14 8 (2.97%) CSS
15 7 (2.60%) Middleware
15 7 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.84%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.35%) Private Cloud
4 9 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.97%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.49%) PKI
9 3 (1.12%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.12%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.12%) IoT
9 3 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.12%) RSA SecurID
10 2 (0.74%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.74%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 81 (30.11%) Linux
2 28 (10.41%) Windows
3 16 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.72%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.97%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.60%) Unix
7 6 (2.23%) Debian
8 5 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.49%) CentOS
10 1 (0.37%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (74.35%) CI/CD
2 171 (63.57%) DevOps
3 120 (44.61%) Agile
4 107 (39.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (29.74%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (29.00%) Containerisation
7 47 (17.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 46 (17.10%) Mentoring
8 46 (17.10%) Microservices
9 43 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (15.99%) Test Automation
10 42 (15.61%) Observability
11 41 (15.24%) Software Engineering
12 39 (14.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 36 (13.38%) Incident Response
14 35 (13.01%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (13.01%) Scrum
15 31 (11.52%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (10.41%) Configuration Management
16 28 (10.41%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 137 (50.93%) Python
2 87 (32.34%) Java
3 74 (27.51%) Bash
4 56 (20.82%) TypeScript
5 55 (20.45%) SQL
6 42 (15.61%) PowerShell
7 38 (14.13%) JavaScript
8 19 (7.06%) Groovy
9 17 (6.32%) Go
10 15 (5.58%) C#
11 11 (4.09%) C++
12 10 (3.72%) C
13 8 (2.97%) ANSI SQL
14 7 (2.60%) Bicep
14 7 (2.60%) Delphi
15 3 (1.12%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.12%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.12%) Ruby
15 3 (1.12%) Rust
16 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (17.84%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.04%) AWS Certification
2 27 (10.04%) DV Cleared
3 22 (8.18%) Degree
4 19 (7.06%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.97%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.86%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.12%) CCNA
10 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.74%) CISSP
11 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.74%) OSCP
12 1 (0.37%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.38%) QA
2 6 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.86%) GDPR
4 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.12%) NIST
6 2 (0.74%) ECSS
6 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 107 (39.78%) Docker
2 19 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.35%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.86%) Firmware
5 4 (1.49%) vSphere
6 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.12%) vCloud
6 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.74%) NFS
7 2 (0.74%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) Squid
8 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 117 (43.49%) Kubernetes
2 106 (39.41%) Terraform
3 79 (29.37%) Ansible
4 59 (21.93%) Grafana
5 52 (19.33%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.32%) HP Fortify
7 8 (2.97%) Kibana
8 7 (2.60%) Argo
8 7 (2.60%) Puppet
9 6 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.23%) Rancher
10 4 (1.49%) vRealize
11 3 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.12%) Istio
11 3 (1.12%) Nagios
11 3 (1.12%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.12%) SCOM
11 3 (1.12%) WSUS
12 2 (0.74%) Nessus
12 2 (0.74%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 39 (14.50%) Oracle
2 25 (9.29%) VMware
3 20 (7.43%) Splunk
4 19 (7.06%) Microsoft
5 17 (6.32%) Atlassian
6 15 (5.58%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.60%) SAP
8 5 (1.86%) Sonatype
9 4 (1.49%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.49%) Cisco
9 4 (1.49%) Cribl.io
9 4 (1.49%) Google
9 4 (1.49%) HP
10 3 (1.12%) Databricks
10 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.74%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.74%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.74%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.74%) Starlink
11 2 (0.74%) Ubiquiti