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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 328 280
Rank change year-on-year -20 -48 +7
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 267 413 474
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.85% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.56% 8.13% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 186 190 374
10th Percentile £51,527 £44,216 £41,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,125 £50,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £105,875
UK median annual salary £76,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.93% +7.69% -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 3,119 5,082 5,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.99% 10.43% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,148 2,921 4,557
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £41,250
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 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £101,250
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 5 January 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 5 January 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 -23 98 £85,000 - 76
North of England +58 77 £75,000 +15.38% 92
Yorkshire +18 39 £80,000 +38.02% 48
North West +26 31 £66,250 +1.92% 37
South West -22 25 £73,500 +22.50% 56
South East -47 22 £80,250 +11.07% 91
Midlands +9 20 £57,600 -17.71% 55
East of England +30 14 £67,500 -5.26% 51
West Midlands +10 14 £63,750 - 31
North East +11 7 £66,250 +3.54% 7
East Midlands -4 6 £53,600 -28.53% 21
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 13 (4.87%) Confluence
2 12 (4.49%) Apache
3 9 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.87%) IIS
4 5 (1.87%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.50%) Camunda
5 4 (1.50%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.12%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.12%) nginx
6 3 (1.12%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.37%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 163 (61.05%) AWS
2 114 (42.70%) Azure
3 58 (21.72%) AWS CloudFormation
4 52 (19.48%) GitHub
5 51 (19.10%) GCP
6 49 (18.35%) Serverless
7 43 (16.10%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (11.99%) Amazon S3
9 31 (11.61%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (10.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (10.49%) OpenShift
13 26 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (7.49%) Amazon ECR
14 20 (7.49%) AWS Step Functions
15 19 (7.12%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (6.37%) Apigee
17 15 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (4.12%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (4.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.24%) DNS
2 10 (3.75%) Firewall
3 5 (1.87%) VPN
4 4 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.50%) VSAN
5 3 (1.12%) Skype
5 3 (1.12%) VLAN
5 3 (1.12%) WAN
6 2 (0.75%) BGP
6 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.75%) DSL
6 2 (0.75%) HTTP
6 2 (0.75%) MQTT
6 2 (0.75%) Network Security
6 2 (0.75%) OSPF
6 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.75%) RTMP
6 2 (0.75%) SSL
6 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.99%) MongoDB
2 30 (11.24%) SQL Server
3 29 (10.86%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (9.74%) DynamoDB
4 26 (9.74%) NoSQL
5 15 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.75%) MySQL
8 9 (3.37%) Power BI
9 7 (2.62%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.87%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.87%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.50%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.12%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 141 (52.81%) Jenkins
2 65 (24.34%) Git
3 30 (11.24%) SonarQube
4 25 (9.36%) Cypress.io
4 25 (9.36%) JIRA
5 22 (8.24%) Maven
6 21 (7.87%) Cucumber
6 21 (7.87%) JUnit
6 21 (7.87%) Selenium
7 20 (7.49%) Bitbucket
8 12 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (3.75%) CircleCI
9 10 (3.75%) Postman
10 9 (3.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.62%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.25%) Artifactory
12 6 (2.25%) JMeter
13 5 (1.87%) SoapUI
13 5 (1.87%) TestNG
14 4 (1.50%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.85%) Finance
3 30 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.87%) Banking
5 16 (5.99%) Advertising
6 14 (5.24%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.37%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.00%) Marketing
9 7 (2.62%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.25%) Games
10 6 (2.25%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.87%) Electronics
11 5 (1.87%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.50%) Retail
13 2 (0.75%) Automotive
13 2 (0.75%) Aviation
13 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 64 (23.97%) Lead
2 48 (17.98%) Developer
3 42 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (10.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (10.86%) Senior
5 26 (9.74%) Platform Engineer
6 18 (6.74%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (5.99%) Lead DevOps
9 15 (5.62%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.24%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (4.87%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.49%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.12%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.75%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.37%) Senior Developer
16 8 (3.00%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (16.85%) Spring Boot
2 38 (14.23%) Spring
3 27 (10.11%) AngularJS
3 27 (10.11%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (8.24%) React
5 20 (7.49%) REST
6 19 (7.12%) Kafka
6 19 (7.12%) Node.js
7 18 (6.74%) Jest
8 17 (6.37%) Gherkin
9 15 (5.62%) RESTful
10 14 (5.24%) FastAPI
11 11 (4.12%) pytest
12 10 (3.75%) .NET
12 10 (3.75%) HTML
13 9 (3.37%) CSS
13 9 (3.37%) Django
13 9 (3.37%) Playwright
13 9 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (2.62%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.10%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.12%) Private Cloud
3 11 (4.12%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.62%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.25%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.50%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.50%) PKI
9 4 (1.50%) Web3
10 3 (1.12%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.12%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.12%) RSA SecurID
10 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 76 (28.46%) Linux
2 28 (10.49%) Windows
3 14 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.75%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.62%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.62%) Unix
6 5 (1.87%) Debian
6 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.37%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (75.66%) CI/CD
2 173 (64.79%) DevOps
3 119 (44.57%) Agile
4 107 (40.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (29.96%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (29.21%) Containerisation
7 49 (18.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 48 (17.98%) Observability
9 47 (17.60%) Microservices
10 46 (17.23%) Test Automation
11 44 (16.48%) Mentoring
11 44 (16.48%) Software Engineering
12 41 (15.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 40 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (14.61%) Incident Response
15 33 (12.36%) Platform Engineering
16 31 (11.61%) Scrum
16 31 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
17 30 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
18 28 (10.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 136 (50.94%) Python
2 90 (33.71%) Java
3 72 (26.97%) Bash
4 59 (22.10%) SQL
4 59 (22.10%) TypeScript
5 40 (14.98%) PowerShell
6 38 (14.23%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.49%) Go
8 18 (6.74%) Groovy
9 13 (4.87%) C#
10 9 (3.37%) ANSI SQL
11 8 (3.00%) Bicep
12 7 (2.62%) C
12 7 (2.62%) C++
12 7 (2.62%) Delphi
13 4 (1.50%) Rust
14 3 (1.12%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.75%) Perl
15 2 (0.75%) PHP
15 2 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (18.35%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.49%) DV Cleared
3 22 (8.24%) AWS Certification
3 22 (8.24%) Degree
4 20 (7.49%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.37%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.12%) CCNA
10 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.12%) OSCP
11 2 (0.75%) CISSP
11 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.37%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.11%) QA
2 7 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.50%) GDPR
4 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.50%) NIST
5 2 (0.75%) ECSS
5 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (42.32%) Docker
2 18 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.37%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.87%) Firmware
5 4 (1.50%) vSphere
6 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.75%) NFS
7 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) Squid
8 1 (0.37%) Terminal Server
8 1 (0.37%) vCloud
8 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 122 (45.69%) Kubernetes
2 114 (42.70%) Terraform
3 78 (29.21%) Ansible
4 62 (23.22%) Grafana
5 58 (21.72%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.37%) HP Fortify
7 8 (3.00%) Kibana
8 7 (2.62%) Argo
8 7 (2.62%) Puppet
9 6 (2.25%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.25%) Rancher
10 4 (1.50%) vRealize
11 3 (1.12%) Istio
11 3 (1.12%) Nagios
11 3 (1.12%) SCOM
11 3 (1.12%) WSUS
12 2 (0.75%) Nessus
12 2 (0.75%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (15.73%) Oracle
2 23 (8.61%) Splunk
3 22 (8.24%) VMware
4 20 (7.49%) Microsoft
5 18 (6.74%) Atlassian
6 14 (5.24%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.62%) SAP
8 6 (2.25%) Google
9 4 (1.50%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.50%) Cisco
9 4 (1.50%) HP
9 4 (1.50%) Sonatype
10 3 (1.12%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.75%) Databricks
11 2 (0.75%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.75%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.75%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.75%) Starlink
11 2 (0.75%) Ubiquiti