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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 336 295
Rank change year-on-year -26 -41 -12
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 278 395 571
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.84% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.59% 8.00% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 186 173 469
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,813 £56,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £88,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £76,250 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.17% +11.54% -10.34%

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 3,235 4,938 6,691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.83% 10.46% 11.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,180 2,782 5,500
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.31% -6.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 28 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 28 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 -27 101 £87,500 - 70
North of England +47 81 £75,000 +15.38% 52
Yorkshire +8 44 £78,750 +52.97% 19
North West +23 30 £65,000 -3.70% 29
South West -18 29 £73,500 +17.60% 39
South East -32 28 £80,250 +10.69% 94
Midlands -4 18 £55,200 -21.14% 27
West Midlands +14 12 £60,000 -12.73% 15
East of England +22 10 £67,500 -6.90% 25
North East +1 7 £66,250 -5.36% 4
East Midlands -8 6 £53,600 -28.53% 11
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 (5.40%) Apache
2 14 (5.04%) Confluence
3 9 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.80%) IIS
4 5 (1.80%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.44%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.08%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.08%) nginx
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.36%) Camunda
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 178 (64.03%) AWS
2 111 (39.93%) Azure
3 76 (27.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 60 (21.58%) Serverless
5 56 (20.14%) GitHub
6 54 (19.42%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (18.71%) GCP
8 40 (14.39%) Amazon S3
9 36 (12.95%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (11.15%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (11.15%) OpenShift
11 29 (10.43%) AWS Step Functions
11 29 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (9.35%) Amazon ECR
14 23 (8.27%) Apigee
15 19 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (5.40%) Datadog
18 14 (5.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.35%) DNS
2 12 (4.32%) Firewall
3 7 (2.52%) VPN
4 6 (2.16%) DSL
5 5 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.44%) BGP
6 4 (1.44%) DHCP
6 4 (1.44%) WAN
7 3 (1.08%) VLAN
7 3 (1.08%) VSAN
8 2 (0.72%) LAN
8 2 (0.72%) MPLS
8 2 (0.72%) OSPF
8 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.72%) RTMP
8 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.72%) VoIP
8 2 (0.72%) VPLS
8 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.59%) DynamoDB
2 34 (12.23%) NoSQL
3 33 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (11.15%) SQL Server
5 30 (10.79%) MongoDB
6 16 (5.76%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (4.68%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.96%) MySQL
9 9 (3.24%) Power BI
10 5 (1.80%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.80%) Data Vault
10 5 (1.80%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.44%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.44%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.08%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.08%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 156 (56.12%) Jenkins
2 68 (24.46%) Git
3 35 (12.59%) SonarQube
4 31 (11.15%) Cypress.io
5 29 (10.43%) JIRA
6 28 (10.07%) Maven
7 26 (9.35%) Cucumber
8 23 (8.27%) Selenium
9 20 (7.19%) JUnit
10 18 (6.47%) Bitbucket
11 13 (4.68%) CircleCI
12 9 (3.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (3.24%) Postman
13 7 (2.52%) REST Assured
14 6 (2.16%) JMeter
14 6 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
14 6 (2.16%) Vite
15 5 (1.80%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.80%) TestNG
16 4 (1.44%) Gradle
General
1 73 (26.26%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.50%) Finance
3 27 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.91%) Banking
5 16 (5.76%) Advertising
6 14 (5.04%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.24%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.88%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.52%) Marketing
10 6 (2.16%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.80%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.80%) Games
11 5 (1.80%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.44%) Electronics
13 3 (1.08%) Retail
14 2 (0.72%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.72%) Automotive
14 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (22.30%) Lead
2 56 (20.14%) Developer
3 37 (13.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (12.59%) Senior
5 28 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (8.27%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (7.19%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.47%) Java Developer
10 14 (5.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (4.68%) Senior Developer
12 12 (4.32%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.32%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (4.32%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.32%) Software Developer
13 11 (3.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.24%) Java Engineer
14 9 (3.24%) Principal Engineer
15 8 (2.88%) Architect
15 8 (2.88%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (17.99%) Spring Boot
2 39 (14.03%) Spring
3 32 (11.51%) AngularJS
4 31 (11.15%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (8.99%) Jest
6 24 (8.63%) Kafka
7 23 (8.27%) Gherkin
7 23 (8.27%) React
8 22 (7.91%) RESTful
9 17 (6.12%) REST
10 16 (5.76%) Node.js
11 15 (5.40%) FastAPI
12 13 (4.68%) pytest
13 12 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.96%) HTML
15 10 (3.60%) CSS
16 9 (3.24%) .NET
16 9 (3.24%) Apache NiFi
16 9 (3.24%) Django
16 9 (3.24%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.06%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.32%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.96%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.52%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.52%) Web3
8 6 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.16%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (1.80%) e-Learning
9 5 (1.80%) PKI
10 4 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.44%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.08%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.08%) IoT
11 3 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 76 (27.34%) Linux
2 28 (10.07%) Windows
3 10 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.52%) Unix
5 6 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.44%) Debian
8 3 (1.08%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (76.98%) CI/CD
2 174 (62.59%) DevOps
3 125 (44.96%) Agile
4 114 (41.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (29.14%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (27.70%) Containerisation
7 56 (20.14%) Test Automation
8 55 (19.78%) Software Engineering
9 53 (19.06%) Microservices
10 49 (17.63%) Mentoring
11 46 (16.55%) Observability
12 43 (15.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 40 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (14.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 38 (13.67%) Continuous Integration
15 37 (13.31%) Incident Response
16 35 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (11.51%) Scrum
18 31 (11.15%) Platform Engineering
19 30 (10.79%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 144 (51.80%) Python
2 96 (34.53%) Java
3 80 (28.78%) Bash
4 63 (22.66%) TypeScript
5 60 (21.58%) SQL
6 38 (13.67%) JavaScript
7 36 (12.95%) PowerShell
8 29 (10.43%) Go
9 22 (7.91%) Groovy
10 14 (5.04%) C#
11 9 (3.24%) ANSI SQL
11 9 (3.24%) Rust
12 7 (2.52%) Bicep
12 7 (2.52%) Delphi
13 6 (2.16%) C++
14 5 (1.80%) C
15 3 (1.08%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.08%) Perl
16 2 (0.72%) PHP
17 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.15%) DV Cleared
3 29 (10.43%) AWS Certification
3 29 (10.43%) Degree
4 23 (8.27%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (3.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.24%) ISTQB
9 8 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.52%) OSCP
11 5 (1.80%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.44%) CCNA
12 4 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.72%) CISSP
14 2 (0.72%) LPIC
14 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.59%) QA
2 8 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.52%) NIST
4 5 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.44%) GDPR
5 4 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.72%) ECSS
7 2 (0.72%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 120 (43.17%) Docker
2 20 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.96%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.80%) vSphere
5 4 (1.44%) Firmware
6 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.08%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.72%) NFS
7 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 122 (43.88%) Kubernetes
2 121 (43.53%) Terraform
3 78 (28.06%) Ansible
4 58 (20.86%) Grafana
5 54 (19.42%) Prometheus
6 23 (8.27%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.24%) Kibana
8 8 (2.88%) Puppet
9 7 (2.52%) Rancher
10 6 (2.16%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.80%) Argo
12 4 (1.44%) logstash
12 4 (1.44%) vRealize
12 4 (1.44%) WSUS
13 3 (1.08%) Istio
13 3 (1.08%) Nagios
13 3 (1.08%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.72%) Nessus
14 2 (0.72%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 41 (14.75%) Oracle
2 24 (8.63%) Splunk
3 22 (7.91%) VMware
4 19 (6.83%) Microsoft
5 16 (5.76%) Atlassian
6 13 (4.68%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.88%) Google
8 6 (2.16%) SAP
9 5 (1.80%) Cisco
9 5 (1.80%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.44%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.44%) HP
11 3 (1.08%) Dell
12 2 (0.72%) Adobe
12 2 (0.72%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.72%) Juniper
12 2 (0.72%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.72%) New Relic
12 2 (0.72%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.72%) Veeam