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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 300 316
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 -48
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 380 533 465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.87% 0.88% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.68% 9.72% 7.55%
Number of salaries quoted 159 243 347
10th Percentile £55,000 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £85,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £107,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -6.90%

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 3,254 5,484 6,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.46% 9.04% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,070 3,022 5,002
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £79,688 £77,875 £82,548
90th Percentile £96,025 £95,000 £98,850
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 4 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 4 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
North of England +79 139 £67,500 +12.50% 61
North West +82 119 £62,500 +2.04% 39
London -61 113 £87,000 +2.35% 188
Midlands +45 47 £70,000 +6.93% 39
East of England +46 29 £55,000 -18.52% 12
East Midlands +45 24 £61,000 -12.86% 12
South East -32 24 £77,500 +10.71% 164
West Midlands +27 23 £70,000 +16.67% 26
South West -1 23 £77,500 +29.17% 54
Yorkshire +3 14 £75,000 +29.39% 12
North East +11 6 £66,250 +7.35% 10
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 85 (22.37%) Confluence
2 9 (2.37%) Apache
3 6 (1.58%) nginx
4 5 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.05%) Camunda
6 3 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.79%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.26%) IIS
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Simulink
2 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 292 (76.84%) AWS
2 233 (61.32%) Azure
3 108 (28.42%) GCP
4 39 (10.26%) GitHub
5 36 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (7.37%) Serverless
7 26 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (5.26%) OpenShift
11 19 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (4.47%) Amazon S3
13 17 (4.47%) Datadog
14 11 (2.89%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (2.37%) Route 53
16 8 (2.11%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.16%) Firewall
2 10 (2.63%) DNS
3 7 (1.84%) WAN
4 6 (1.58%) Network Security
4 6 (1.58%) VPN
5 4 (1.05%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.05%) VLAN
5 4 (1.05%) VSAN
6 3 (0.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.79%) OSPF
6 3 (0.79%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.79%) Skype
7 2 (0.53%) BGP
7 2 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.53%) HTTP
7 2 (0.53%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.53%) LAN
7 2 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.53%) RTMP
7 2 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (41.05%) SQL Server
2 34 (8.95%) MongoDB
3 24 (6.32%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (2.11%) MySQL
7 7 (1.84%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.58%) Power BI
8 6 (1.58%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.79%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.79%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.53%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.53%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.53%) Metadata
11 2 (0.53%) Redis
12 1 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 163 (42.89%) JIRA
2 162 (42.63%) Cucumber
3 157 (41.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 156 (41.05%) Selenium
5 154 (40.53%) SonarQube
6 153 (40.26%) Bitbucket
7 143 (37.63%) Maven
8 114 (30.00%) Jenkins
9 44 (11.58%) Git
10 17 (4.47%) JUnit
11 16 (4.21%) CircleCI
12 10 (2.63%) TeamCity
13 8 (2.11%) JMeter
14 7 (1.84%) Artifactory
14 7 (1.84%) Gatling
14 7 (1.84%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (1.84%) Postman
15 6 (1.58%) Cypress.io
16 4 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 4 (1.05%) Mockito
General
1 208 (54.74%) Finance
2 158 (41.58%) Banking
3 154 (40.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (21.05%) Retail
5 73 (19.21%) Investment Banking
6 69 (18.16%) Corporate Banking
6 69 (18.16%) Social Skills
7 36 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (2.89%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.89%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.37%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.11%) Electronics
11 7 (1.84%) Advertising
11 7 (1.84%) Automotive
12 6 (1.58%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.58%) Games
12 6 (1.58%) Marketing
13 5 (1.32%) Law
14 4 (1.05%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 156 (41.05%) Software Engineer
2 45 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (8.95%) Developer
4 31 (8.16%) Lead
5 28 (7.37%) Senior
6 25 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
8 16 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (3.68%) Java Engineer
10 14 (3.68%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (2.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (2.89%) Backend Developer
13 8 (2.11%) Architect
13 8 (2.11%) Lead DevOps
13 8 (2.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.11%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (2.11%) Software Developer
14 7 (1.84%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (43.42%) Spring
2 163 (42.89%) React
2 163 (42.89%) Spring Boot
3 160 (42.11%) Kafka
4 144 (37.89%) CSS
4 144 (37.89%) HTML
5 138 (36.32%) JPA
5 138 (36.32%) Redux
6 91 (23.95%) REST
7 78 (20.53%) Hibernate
7 78 (20.53%) RESTful
8 73 (19.21%) CSS3
8 73 (19.21%) HTML5
9 70 (18.42%) Jest
9 70 (18.42%) Sass
10 20 (5.26%) Node.js
11 19 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
12 17 (4.47%) .NET
13 11 (2.89%) FastAPI
14 10 (2.63%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 147 (38.68%) Product Ownership
2 146 (38.42%) Enterprise Software
3 42 (11.05%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.89%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.89%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.37%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.58%) Wiki
9 5 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.32%) PKI
10 4 (1.05%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.05%) Equities
10 4 (1.05%) FPGA
10 4 (1.05%) IoT
10 4 (1.05%) Verilog
10 4 (1.05%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 79 (20.79%) Linux
2 23 (6.05%) Windows
3 13 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.89%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.63%) Debian
6 9 (2.37%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.32%) Unix
8 4 (1.05%) Android
8 4 (1.05%) CentOS
9 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.26%) Fedora
10 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 316 (83.16%) CI/CD
2 281 (73.95%) DevOps
3 230 (60.53%) Agile
4 220 (57.89%) Containerisation
5 185 (48.68%) Microservices
6 184 (48.42%) Software Engineering
7 181 (47.63%) Test Automation
8 158 (41.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 155 (40.79%) Performance Optimisation
9 155 (40.79%) SDLC
10 150 (39.47%) Front End Development
11 110 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 108 (28.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 97 (25.53%) Mentoring
14 85 (22.37%) TDD
14 85 (22.37%) User Experience
15 77 (20.26%) Clean Code
16 74 (19.47%) Strategic Thinking
17 71 (18.68%) Migration
18 69 (18.16%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 205 (53.95%) Java
2 183 (48.16%) SQL
3 172 (45.26%) JavaScript
4 125 (32.89%) Python
5 102 (26.84%) TypeScript
6 51 (13.42%) Bash
7 41 (10.79%) PowerShell
8 18 (4.74%) C#
9 17 (4.47%) Go
10 16 (4.21%) C++
11 12 (3.16%) C
12 8 (2.11%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.84%) Bicep
14 4 (1.05%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (1.05%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.79%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.79%) Groovy
15 3 (0.79%) Ruby
15 3 (0.79%) Scala
16 2 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 43 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 25 (6.58%) DV Cleared
3 17 (4.47%) AWS Certification
3 17 (4.47%) Degree
3 17 (4.47%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (1.84%) CCNA
5 7 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (1.84%) ISTQB
6 6 (1.58%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.26%) CISM
9 1 (0.26%) CISSP
9 1 (0.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (44.47%) QA
2 70 (18.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.32%) GDPR
4 4 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.53%) ECSS
6 2 (0.53%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.26%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 232 (61.05%) Docker
2 14 (3.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.37%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.32%) vSphere
5 4 (1.05%) Firmware
6 3 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.79%) vCloud
7 2 (0.53%) NFS
7 2 (0.53%) Squid
7 2 (0.53%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 259 (68.16%) Kubernetes
2 95 (25.00%) Terraform
3 75 (19.74%) Ansible
4 55 (14.47%) Prometheus
5 53 (13.95%) Grafana
6 13 (3.42%) Kibana
7 4 (1.05%) Argo
7 4 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.05%) Puppet
7 4 (1.05%) Rancher
7 4 (1.05%) vRealize
7 4 (1.05%) WSUS
8 3 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.79%) Rundeck
8 3 (0.79%) SCOM
9 2 (0.53%) logstash
9 2 (0.53%) Nessus
9 2 (0.53%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 137 (36.05%) Solace
2 25 (6.58%) Oracle
3 22 (5.79%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.79%) Splunk
3 22 (5.79%) VMware
4 17 (4.47%) Atlassian
5 9 (2.37%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.58%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.32%) SAP
7 5 (1.32%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.05%) Cisco
8 4 (1.05%) Cribl.io
9 3 (0.79%) Databricks
9 3 (0.79%) F5
9 3 (0.79%) Google
9 3 (0.79%) HP
10 2 (0.53%) NETGEAR
10 2 (0.53%) New Relic
10 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow