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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 309 306
Rank change year-on-year -70 -3 -31
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 249 507 456
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 0.84% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.87% 9.23% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 167 238 340
10th Percentile £52,162 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +2.94% -9.33%
75th Percentile £88,500 £90,938 £87,125
90th Percentile £107,500 £104,000 £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 3,162 5,493 5,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.82% 9.10% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,112 3,062 4,821
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 £78,750 £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% -

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 21 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 21 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 -48 107 £82,500 -2.94% 132
North of England +41 58 £67,500 +11.64% 72
North West +44 38 £63,750 +3.69% 51
South West -11 24 £70,000 +16.67% 37
South East -18 20 £78,000 +11.43% 74
Midlands +25 17 £60,000 -5.88% 26
East of England +28 15 £61,250 +6.52% 10
Yorkshire +11 15 £76,250 +28.77% 12
West Midlands +15 10 £65,000 +8.33% 21
East Midlands +30 7 £55,200 -21.14% 5
North East +10 5 £65,000 +1.59% 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 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
1 154 (61.85%) AWS
2 101 (40.56%) Azure
3 49 (19.68%) GitHub
4 40 (16.06%) GCP
5 36 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (11.24%) OpenShift
8 27 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (10.04%) Serverless
10 20 (8.03%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (7.23%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (5.62%) Datadog
14 13 (5.22%) Amazon S3
15 10 (4.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.61%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
17 8 (3.21%) Power Platform
17 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%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.80%) HTTP
6 2 (0.80%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.80%) MQTT
6 2 (0.80%) SAN
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
1 128 (51.41%) 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%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (3.61%) JMeter
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 65 (26.10%) 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%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (18.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (14.86%) Developer
3 32 (12.85%) Lead
4 31 (12.45%) Senior
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%) Architect
13 7 (2.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
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%) PKI
9 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
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%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.20%) IoT
10 3 (1.20%) Wiki
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
2 151 (60.64%) DevOps
3 108 (43.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (39.36%) Agile
5 81 (32.53%) Containerisation
6 55 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (20.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 48 (19.28%) Microservices
9 47 (18.88%) Software Engineering
10 46 (18.47%) Test Automation
11 44 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (17.27%) Observability
13 39 (15.66%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (13.65%) Mentoring
15 31 (12.45%) Continuous Integration
15 31 (12.45%) Scrum
16 29 (11.65%) Configuration Management
16 29 (11.65%) Incident Response
17 23 (9.24%) Computer Science
18 22 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (55.02%) Python
2 73 (29.32%) Java
3 58 (23.29%) Bash
4 51 (20.48%) SQL
5 44 (17.67%) PowerShell
6 37 (14.86%) 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%) Rust
Qualifications
1 50 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.05%) 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%) CISM
11 1 (0.40%) CISSP
11 1 (0.40%) GIAC
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%) Puppet
8 6 (2.41%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.01%) Argo
10 4 (1.61%) Rancher
10 4 (1.61%) vRealize
10 4 (1.61%) WSUS
11 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.20%) logstash
11 3 (1.20%) Nessus
11 3 (1.20%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.20%) SCOM
12 2 (0.80%) Istio
12 2 (0.80%) Nagios
12 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%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.80%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.80%) Starlink
10 2 (0.80%) Ubiquiti