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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 308 310
Rank change year-on-year -61 +2 -40
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 249 508 452
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 0.84% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.87% 9.29% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 167 234 338
10th Percentile £52,162 £48,975 £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 £88,500 £90,938 £86,813
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,000 £102,500
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 3,163 5,471 5,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.86% 9.09% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,112 3,043 4,793
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 £78,375 £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% +0.48%

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 20 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 20 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 -64 108 £85,000 - 125
North of England +45 58 £67,500 +11.64% 65
North West +39 38 £63,750 +2.00% 45
South West -10 24 £70,000 +16.67% 41
South East -26 19 £77,750 +11.07% 67
Midlands +31 17 £60,000 -5.88% 24
East of England +26 15 £61,250 +6.52% 9
Yorkshire +6 15 £76,250 +28.77% 14
West Midlands +13 10 £65,000 +8.33% 19
East Midlands +25 7 £55,200 -21.14% 5
North East +9 5 £65,000 +1.59% 6
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 (6.43%) Confluence
2 10 (4.02%) Apache
3 6 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.01%) nginx
5 4 (1.61%) Camunda
5 4 (1.61%) IIS
5 4 (1.61%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.20%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.20%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Simulink
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 155 (62.25%) AWS
2 100 (40.16%) Azure
3 48 (19.28%) GitHub
4 40 (16.06%) GCP
5 36 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 29 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (11.24%) OpenShift
8 27 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (10.04%) Serverless
10 24 (9.64%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (8.03%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (7.23%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (5.62%) Datadog
15 13 (5.22%) Amazon S3
16 10 (4.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
17 9 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
18 8 (3.21%) Power Platform
18 8 (3.21%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.42%) DNS
1 11 (4.42%) Firewall
2 6 (2.41%) VPN
2 6 (2.41%) WAN
3 5 (2.01%) Network Security
4 4 (1.61%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (1.61%) VLAN
4 4 (1.61%) VSAN
5 3 (1.20%) OSPF
5 3 (1.20%) Skype
6 2 (0.80%) BGP
6 2 (0.80%) HTTP
6 2 (0.80%) LAN
6 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.80%) RTMP
6 2 (0.80%) SAN
6 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.85%) MongoDB
2 31 (12.45%) SQL Server
3 29 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (9.64%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.83%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.21%) MySQL
7 8 (3.21%) Power BI
7 8 (3.21%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.41%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.01%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.20%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.80%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.80%) Metadata
12 2 (0.80%) Redis
12 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 127 (51.00%) Jenkins
2 49 (19.68%) Git
3 28 (11.24%) JIRA
4 27 (10.84%) Cucumber
5 24 (9.64%) Selenium
6 19 (7.63%) Bitbucket
7 18 (7.23%) JUnit
7 18 (7.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (6.43%) SonarQube
9 13 (5.22%) CircleCI
10 9 (3.61%) JMeter
11 8 (3.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (3.21%) Postman
11 8 (3.21%) TeamCity
12 7 (2.81%) Artifactory
12 7 (2.81%) Gatling
13 6 (2.41%) Cypress.io
14 5 (2.01%) Octopus Deploy
15 4 (1.61%) Maven
16 3 (1.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 72 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 66 (26.51%) Finance
3 36 (14.46%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.84%) Banking
5 14 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.82%) Aerospace
6 12 (4.82%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.42%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.61%) Advertising
8 9 (3.61%) Retail
9 8 (3.21%) Electronics
10 7 (2.81%) Automotive
11 6 (2.41%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.41%) Games
11 6 (2.41%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.41%) Marketing
12 5 (2.01%) Law
13 4 (1.61%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.20%) Aviation
15 2 (0.80%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 46 (18.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (14.86%) Developer
3 32 (12.85%) Senior
4 31 (12.45%) Lead
5 29 (11.65%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (8.03%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.62%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.22%) Java Engineer
9 13 (5.22%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (4.42%) Backend Developer
12 9 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (3.61%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (2.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.45%) Spring
2 30 (12.05%) Spring Boot
3 28 (11.24%) Elastic Stack
4 25 (10.04%) React
5 20 (8.03%) Kafka
5 20 (8.03%) Node.js
5 20 (8.03%) REST
6 15 (6.02%) .NET
7 11 (4.42%) FastAPI
8 10 (4.02%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.02%) Playwright
9 9 (3.61%) Hibernate
9 9 (3.61%) pytest
10 8 (3.21%) .NET Core
10 8 (3.21%) CSS
10 8 (3.21%) Django
10 8 (3.21%) HTML
10 8 (3.21%) Middleware
10 8 (3.21%) RESTful
11 7 (2.81%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.42%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.02%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.02%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.01%) PKI
9 4 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.61%) FPGA
9 4 (1.61%) Verilog
9 4 (1.61%) VHDL
10 3 (1.20%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.20%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.20%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 81 (32.53%) Linux
2 27 (10.84%) Windows
3 16 (6.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.82%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.42%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.61%) Debian
7 6 (2.41%) Unix
8 5 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.61%) Android
9 4 (1.61%) CentOS
9 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.40%) Fedora
10 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (75.50%) CI/CD
2 150 (60.24%) DevOps
3 107 (42.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (38.96%) Agile
5 81 (32.53%) Containerisation
6 55 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (20.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 49 (19.68%) Microservices
9 47 (18.88%) Software Engineering
10 46 (18.47%) Test Automation
11 43 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (17.27%) Observability
12 39 (15.66%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (13.65%) Mentoring
14 30 (12.05%) Continuous Integration
14 30 (12.05%) Scrum
15 29 (11.65%) Configuration Management
15 29 (11.65%) Incident Response
16 23 (9.24%) Computer Science
17 22 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 138 (55.42%) Python
2 74 (29.72%) Java
3 58 (23.29%) Bash
4 51 (20.48%) SQL
5 44 (17.67%) PowerShell
6 38 (15.26%) JavaScript
7 36 (14.46%) TypeScript
8 17 (6.83%) C#
9 16 (6.43%) Go
10 14 (5.62%) C++
11 12 (4.82%) C
12 7 (2.81%) Bicep
12 7 (2.81%) Delphi
12 7 (2.81%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.41%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (1.61%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.20%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.20%) Groovy
15 3 (1.20%) Ruby
16 2 (0.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 49 (19.68%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.65%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.63%) AWS Certification
3 19 (7.63%) Degree
3 19 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.81%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.41%) CCNA
7 6 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.80%) CCNP
10 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) GAWN
11 1 (0.40%) GREM
11 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.40%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.25%) QA
2 5 (2.01%) GDPR
3 4 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.80%) ECSS
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 98 (39.36%) Docker
2 18 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.01%) vSphere
5 4 (1.61%) Firmware
6 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.20%) vCloud
7 2 (0.80%) NFS
7 2 (0.80%) Squid
7 2 (0.80%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 123 (49.40%) Kubernetes
2 95 (38.15%) Terraform
3 76 (30.52%) Ansible
4 65 (26.10%) Grafana
5 58 (23.29%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.62%) Kibana
7 7 (2.81%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.81%) Puppet
8 5 (2.01%) Argo
9 4 (1.61%) Rancher
9 4 (1.61%) vRealize
9 4 (1.61%) WSUS
10 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.20%) logstash
10 3 (1.20%) Nessus
10 3 (1.20%) Rundeck
10 3 (1.20%) SCOM
11 2 (0.80%) Istio
11 2 (0.80%) Nagios
11 2 (0.80%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 37 (14.86%) Oracle
2 26 (10.44%) VMware
3 22 (8.84%) Splunk
4 20 (8.03%) Atlassian
4 20 (8.03%) Microsoft
5 12 (4.82%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.41%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.41%) SAP
7 5 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.01%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.61%) Cisco
8 4 (1.61%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.20%) Databricks
9 3 (1.20%) Google
9 3 (1.20%) HP
10 2 (0.80%) Citrix
10 2 (0.80%) F5
10 2 (0.80%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.80%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.80%) Ubiquiti