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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 352 314
Rank change year-on-year -5 -38 -35
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 283 362 581
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.79% 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.69% 7.49% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 190 167 482
10th Percentile £51,000 £49,500 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,813 £56,969 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £89,625 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £101,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -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 3,258 4,830 7,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.69% 10.50% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,219 2,754 5,809
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,796
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £57,750 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.85% +3.33% -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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -11 106 £87,000 +2.35% 78
North of England +20 77 £71,250 +9.62% 42
Yorkshire +8 45 £77,500 +50.54% 10
South East -25 33 £78,000 +7.59% 60
South West -16 28 £74,500 +19.20% 29
North West +10 25 £65,000 -1.89% 29
Midlands +3 18 £55,200 -21.14% 10
West Midlands +15 13 £56,350 -16.52% 7
East of England +18 10 £73,750 +1.72% 9
North East -5 7 £66,250 -5.36% 3
East Midlands -14 5 £55,200 -26.40% 3
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 15 (5.30%) Apache
2 14 (4.95%) Confluence
3 9 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.12%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.77%) IIS
5 5 (1.77%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.06%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.71%) nginx
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 185 (65.37%) AWS
2 114 (40.28%) Azure
3 85 (30.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 68 (24.03%) Serverless
5 59 (20.85%) AWS Lambda
5 59 (20.85%) GitHub
6 52 (18.37%) GCP
7 42 (14.84%) Amazon S3
8 37 (13.07%) Amazon ECS
9 34 (12.01%) GitHub Actions
10 33 (11.66%) AWS Step Functions
11 30 (10.60%) OpenShift
12 28 (9.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (9.89%) Amazon ECR
12 28 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (9.19%) Apigee
14 19 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (6.36%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (6.01%) Datadog
17 13 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.54%) DNS
2 15 (5.30%) Firewall
3 8 (2.83%) DSL
3 8 (2.83%) VPN
4 5 (1.77%) BGP
4 5 (1.77%) DHCP
4 5 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.77%) WAN
5 3 (1.06%) Asterisk PBX
5 3 (1.06%) LAN
5 3 (1.06%) MPLS
5 3 (1.06%) MQTT
5 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
5 3 (1.06%) VLAN
5 3 (1.06%) VoIP
5 3 (1.06%) VPLS
6 2 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.71%) RTMP
6 2 (0.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.07%) DynamoDB
2 35 (12.37%) NoSQL
3 31 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (10.25%) MongoDB
5 27 (9.54%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (4.95%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.18%) MySQL
9 7 (2.47%) Power BI
10 5 (1.77%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.77%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.41%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.41%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.06%) Data Vault
12 3 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.06%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.06%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 156 (55.12%) Jenkins
2 68 (24.03%) Git
3 36 (12.72%) SonarQube
4 30 (10.60%) Cypress.io
4 30 (10.60%) JIRA
4 30 (10.60%) Maven
5 25 (8.83%) Cucumber
6 21 (7.42%) Selenium
7 18 (6.36%) JUnit
8 16 (5.65%) Bitbucket
9 15 (5.30%) CircleCI
10 9 (3.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (2.83%) Postman
12 6 (2.12%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.77%) SoapUI
13 5 (1.77%) TestNG
13 5 (1.77%) Vite
14 4 (1.41%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.41%) Gradle
14 4 (1.41%) JMeter
General
1 74 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.73%) Finance
3 25 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.36%) Banking
5 16 (5.65%) Advertising
6 15 (5.30%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.18%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.18%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.47%) Marketing
9 5 (1.77%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.77%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.41%) Electronics
10 4 (1.41%) Games
10 4 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.71%) Automotive
11 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (21.20%) Lead
2 52 (18.37%) Developer
3 37 (13.07%) Senior
4 36 (12.72%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (12.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (7.07%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.71%) Java Developer
10 16 (5.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.89%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.53%) Java Engineer
13 10 (3.53%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (3.18%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.18%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.18%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.37%) Spring Boot
2 40 (14.13%) Spring
3 32 (11.31%) AngularJS
3 32 (11.31%) Elastic Stack
4 28 (9.89%) Kafka
5 27 (9.54%) Jest
6 25 (8.83%) Gherkin
7 22 (7.77%) React
8 20 (7.07%) RESTful
9 17 (6.01%) Node.js
10 14 (4.95%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.59%) pytest
11 13 (4.59%) REST
12 12 (4.24%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.89%) AWS CDK
14 9 (3.18%) Apache NiFi
14 9 (3.18%) HTML
15 8 (2.83%) Django
15 8 (2.83%) Vue
16 7 (2.47%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.73%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.24%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.53%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.18%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.83%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.47%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.47%) Web3
8 6 (2.12%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.77%) PKI
10 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.06%) Clustering
11 3 (1.06%) IoT
11 3 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 79 (27.92%) Linux
2 26 (9.19%) Windows
3 9 (3.18%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (2.83%) Unix
5 6 (2.12%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.41%) Debian
8 3 (1.06%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (79.15%) CI/CD
2 173 (61.13%) DevOps
3 128 (45.23%) Agile
4 120 (42.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (27.92%) Containerisation
6 78 (27.56%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (20.14%) Microservices
7 57 (20.14%) Software Engineering
8 56 (19.79%) Test Automation
9 51 (18.02%) Mentoring
10 47 (16.61%) Observability
11 43 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 42 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
14 38 (13.43%) Incident Response
14 38 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (13.07%) Technical Leadership
16 35 (12.37%) DevSecOps
17 34 (12.01%) Scrum
18 31 (10.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 151 (53.36%) Python
2 95 (33.57%) Java
3 83 (29.33%) Bash
4 62 (21.91%) TypeScript
5 56 (19.79%) SQL
6 37 (13.07%) JavaScript
7 34 (12.01%) PowerShell
8 33 (11.66%) Go
9 24 (8.48%) Groovy
10 12 (4.24%) C#
10 12 (4.24%) Rust
11 7 (2.47%) ANSI SQL
11 7 (2.47%) Delphi
12 6 (2.12%) Bicep
12 6 (2.12%) C++
13 5 (1.77%) C
14 4 (1.41%) Perl
15 3 (1.06%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.35%) PHP
16 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (22.26%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.95%) DV Cleared
3 30 (10.60%) AWS Certification
3 30 (10.60%) Degree
4 25 (8.83%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.59%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.53%) OSCP
8 8 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.83%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.41%) CCNA
10 4 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.06%) CISSP
11 3 (1.06%) LPIC
12 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.37%) QA
2 11 (3.89%) NIST
3 8 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.12%) GDPR
5 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.77%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.77%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.71%) ECSS
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 122 (43.11%) Docker
2 19 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.24%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.77%) vSphere
5 4 (1.41%) Firmware
5 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.71%) NFS
7 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 129 (45.58%) Terraform
2 122 (43.11%) Kubernetes
3 81 (28.62%) Ansible
4 59 (20.85%) Grafana
5 56 (19.79%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.83%) HP Fortify
7 10 (3.53%) Kibana
7 10 (3.53%) Puppet
8 6 (2.12%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.12%) Rancher
9 5 (1.77%) Argo
10 4 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.41%) logstash
10 4 (1.41%) Nagios
10 4 (1.41%) WSUS
11 3 (1.06%) Istio
11 3 (1.06%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.06%) vRealize
12 2 (0.71%) Nessus
12 2 (0.71%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 38 (13.43%) Oracle
2 26 (9.19%) Splunk
3 21 (7.42%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.42%) VMware
4 16 (5.65%) Atlassian
5 12 (4.24%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.83%) Google
7 6 (2.12%) Cisco
7 6 (2.12%) SAP
8 5 (1.77%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.41%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.06%) Dell
10 3 (1.06%) HP
10 3 (1.06%) Juniper
11 2 (0.71%) Adobe
11 2 (0.71%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.71%) IBM
11 2 (0.71%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.71%) New Relic
11 2 (0.71%) Veeam