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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 304 313
Rank change year-on-year -74 +9 -49
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 256 527 465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.87% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.04% 9.56% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 170 240 350
10th Percentile £51,748 £48,750 £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 £90,000 £92,500 £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% -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 3,184 5,513 6,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.91% 9.05% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 3,052 4,920
10th Percentile £30,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £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% +2.36%

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 14 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 14 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 -58 112 £86,000 +1.18% 144
North of England +40 60 £67,500 +12.07% 55
North West +50 41 £62,500 +3.37% 38
South West -3 25 £73,750 +22.92% 40
Midlands +25 18 £57,600 -9.65% 30
South East -42 18 £77,500 +10.71% 65
East of England +26 15 £61,250 +6.52% 9
Yorkshire +6 15 £76,250 +28.77% 10
West Midlands +8 11 £60,000 - 22
East Midlands +22 7 £55,200 -21.14% 8
North East +9 4 £65,000 +12.14% 7
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 19 (7.42%) Confluence
2 10 (3.91%) Apache
3 6 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.95%) nginx
5 4 (1.56%) Camunda
6 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.17%) IIS
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.17%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.17%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Simulink
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.39%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 164 (64.06%) AWS
2 97 (37.89%) Azure
3 48 (18.75%) GitHub
4 40 (15.63%) GCP
5 36 (14.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (10.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (10.55%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (10.55%) OpenShift
6 27 (10.55%) Serverless
7 23 (8.98%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (5.86%) Amazon S3
12 14 (5.47%) Datadog
13 11 (4.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.52%) Route 53
16 8 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.69%) Firewall
2 11 (4.30%) DNS
3 7 (2.73%) WAN
4 6 (2.34%) VPN
5 5 (1.95%) Network Security
6 4 (1.56%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.56%) VLAN
6 4 (1.56%) VSAN
7 3 (1.17%) OSPF
7 3 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.17%) Skype
8 2 (0.78%) BGP
8 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.78%) HTTP
8 2 (0.78%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.78%) MQTT
8 2 (0.78%) SAN
8 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.67%) MongoDB
2 32 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (11.72%) SQL Server
4 26 (10.16%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.64%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.13%) MySQL
7 8 (3.13%) Power BI
7 8 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.34%) DynamoDB
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%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.78%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.78%) Metadata
12 2 (0.78%) Redis
12 2 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 123 (48.05%) Jenkins
2 51 (19.92%) Git
3 33 (12.89%) Cucumber
4 30 (11.72%) JIRA
5 27 (10.55%) Selenium
6 23 (8.98%) JUnit
7 19 (7.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (7.03%) Bitbucket
9 17 (6.64%) SonarQube
10 14 (5.47%) CircleCI
11 9 (3.52%) TeamCity
12 8 (3.13%) JMeter
13 7 (2.73%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.73%) Gatling
13 7 (2.73%) Postman
14 6 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (2.34%) Cypress.io
14 6 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (1.95%) Maven
16 3 (1.17%) Mockito
General
1 76 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 73 (28.52%) Finance
3 37 (14.45%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.59%) Banking
5 16 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.69%) Aerospace
7 11 (4.30%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.91%) Retail
9 9 (3.52%) Advertising
9 9 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 8 (3.13%) Electronics
11 7 (2.73%) Automotive
11 7 (2.73%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.34%) Games
12 6 (2.34%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.34%) Marketing
13 5 (1.95%) Law
14 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.17%) Aviation
16 2 (0.78%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 47 (18.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (15.23%) Developer
3 34 (13.28%) Senior
4 32 (12.50%) Lead
5 27 (10.55%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (8.59%) Software Engineer
7 17 (6.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (6.25%) Java Engineer
9 14 (5.47%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (5.47%) Software Developer
10 13 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.30%) Backend Developer
13 10 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (3.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.13%) Senior Developer
16 7 (2.73%) Administrator
16 7 (2.73%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.06%) Spring
2 34 (13.28%) Spring Boot
3 28 (10.94%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (10.55%) React
5 25 (9.77%) Kafka
6 21 (8.20%) REST
7 20 (7.81%) Node.js
8 16 (6.25%) .NET
9 11 (4.30%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.30%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.91%) Hibernate
10 10 (3.91%) Playwright
11 9 (3.52%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.52%) pytest
12 8 (3.13%) CSS
12 8 (3.13%) Django
12 8 (3.13%) HTML
12 8 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (3.13%) RESTful
13 7 (2.73%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (5.08%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.30%) Public Cloud
3 11 (4.30%) Virtual Team
4 10 (3.91%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.34%) Wiki
8 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.95%) PKI
9 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.56%) Equities
9 4 (1.56%) FPGA
9 4 (1.56%) IoT
9 4 (1.56%) Verilog
9 4 (1.56%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 81 (31.64%) Linux
2 25 (9.77%) Windows
3 15 (5.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.69%) Ubuntu
5 11 (4.30%) Windows Server
6 10 (3.91%) Debian
7 5 (1.95%) Unix
8 4 (1.56%) Android
8 4 (1.56%) CentOS
8 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.39%) Fedora
10 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (74.61%) CI/CD
2 154 (60.16%) DevOps
3 109 (42.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (39.84%) Agile
5 86 (33.59%) Containerisation
6 55 (21.48%) Software Engineering
7 54 (21.09%) Microservices
7 54 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (19.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 48 (18.75%) Test Automation
10 44 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (16.02%) Observability
12 39 (15.23%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (12.89%) Mentoring
14 30 (11.72%) Scrum
15 29 (11.33%) Configuration Management
15 29 (11.33%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (10.16%) Incident Response
17 24 (9.38%) TDD
18 23 (8.98%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 139 (54.30%) Python
2 79 (30.86%) Java
3 57 (22.27%) Bash
4 52 (20.31%) SQL
5 43 (16.80%) PowerShell
6 38 (14.84%) JavaScript
7 36 (14.06%) TypeScript
8 18 (7.03%) C#
9 16 (6.25%) Go
10 15 (5.86%) C++
11 12 (4.69%) C
12 7 (2.73%) Bicep
12 7 (2.73%) Delphi
12 7 (2.73%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.34%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (1.56%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.17%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.17%) Groovy
15 3 (1.17%) Ruby
15 3 (1.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.94%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.42%) AWS Certification
3 19 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.03%) Degree
5 12 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.13%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.34%) CCNA
7 6 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.78%) CCNP
10 2 (0.78%) 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 (12.50%) QA
2 5 (1.95%) GDPR
3 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.78%) ECSS
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (39.84%) Docker
2 17 (6.64%) 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
7 2 (0.78%) NFS
7 2 (0.78%) Squid
7 2 (0.78%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 128 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 96 (37.50%) Terraform
3 77 (30.08%) Ansible
4 63 (24.61%) Grafana
5 56 (21.88%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.47%) Kibana
7 6 (2.34%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.34%) Puppet
8 5 (1.95%) Argo
9 4 (1.56%) Rancher
9 4 (1.56%) vRealize
9 4 (1.56%) WSUS
10 3 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.17%) logstash
10 3 (1.17%) Nessus
10 3 (1.17%) Rundeck
10 3 (1.17%) SCOM
11 2 (0.78%) Istio
11 2 (0.78%) Nagios
11 2 (0.78%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 36 (14.06%) Oracle
2 25 (9.77%) VMware
3 22 (8.59%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.59%) Splunk
4 19 (7.42%) Atlassian
5 11 (4.30%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.34%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.95%) SAP
7 5 (1.95%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.56%) Cisco
8 4 (1.56%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.17%) Databricks
9 3 (1.17%) Google
9 3 (1.17%) HP
10 2 (0.78%) Citrix
10 2 (0.78%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.78%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.78%) Starlink
10 2 (0.78%) Ubiquiti