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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 315 309
Rank change year-on-year -64 -6 -42
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 251 503 451
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 0.84% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.00% 8.92% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 169 234 337
10th Percentile £52,400 £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 £88,500 £87,500 £87,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £103,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 3,136 5,642 5,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.72% 9.38% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,106 3,200 4,752
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 £77,500 £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 26 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 26 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 -40 107 £85,000 - 62
North of England +60 62 £67,500 +8.00% 35
North West +50 36 £65,000 - 23
South West -15 24 £70,000 +16.67% 32
Yorkshire +20 21 £77,500 +33.70% 8
South East -29 19 £77,500 +10.71% 69
Midlands +12 16 £60,000 -5.88% 22
East of England +29 15 £61,250 +6.52% 8
West Midlands +22 9 £65,000 +8.33% 20
East Midlands +26 7 £55,200 -21.14% 2
North East +18 5 £65,000 +12.14% 4
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 12 (4.78%) Confluence
2 10 (3.98%) Apache
3 6 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.99%) nginx
5 4 (1.59%) Camunda
5 4 (1.59%) IIS
5 4 (1.59%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.59%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.20%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Simulink
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
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
1 156 (62.15%) AWS
2 99 (39.44%) Azure
3 47 (18.73%) GitHub
4 42 (16.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (15.54%) GCP
6 32 (12.75%) Serverless
7 29 (11.55%) Azure DevOps
8 28 (11.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (11.16%) OpenShift
9 26 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
11 24 (9.56%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (7.97%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (7.97%) Amazon S3
13 13 (5.18%) Datadog
14 10 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (3.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
15 9 (3.59%) Power Platform
16 8 (3.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.38%) DNS
1 11 (4.38%) Firewall
2 6 (2.39%) VPN
2 6 (2.39%) WAN
3 5 (1.99%) Network Security
4 4 (1.59%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (1.59%) VLAN
4 4 (1.59%) 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%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.80%) LAN
6 2 (0.80%) MQTT
6 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.80%) RTMP
6 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.35%) SQL Server
2 29 (11.55%) MongoDB
3 26 (10.36%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (8.37%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.77%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (4.78%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.59%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.59%) MySQL
7 9 (3.59%) Power BI
8 8 (3.19%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.99%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.59%) 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%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 132 (52.59%) Jenkins
2 49 (19.52%) Git
3 26 (10.36%) JIRA
4 25 (9.96%) Cucumber
5 22 (8.76%) Selenium
5 22 (8.76%) SonarQube
6 19 (7.57%) Bitbucket
7 18 (7.17%) JUnit
7 18 (7.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 13 (5.18%) CircleCI
9 12 (4.78%) Cypress.io
10 10 (3.98%) Maven
11 9 (3.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (3.59%) JMeter
12 8 (3.19%) Postman
12 8 (3.19%) TeamCity
13 7 (2.79%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.79%) Gatling
14 5 (1.99%) Octopus Deploy
15 3 (1.20%) LoadRunner
General
1 71 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 63 (25.10%) Finance
3 36 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.76%) Banking
5 14 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.78%) Aerospace
6 12 (4.78%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.38%) Manufacturing
8 9 (3.59%) Advertising
8 9 (3.59%) Retail
9 8 (3.19%) Electronics
10 6 (2.39%) Automotive
10 6 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.39%) Games
10 6 (2.39%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.99%) Marketing
12 4 (1.59%) Law
12 4 (1.59%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.20%) Aviation
14 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (17.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (15.54%) Developer
2 39 (15.54%) Lead
3 32 (12.75%) Senior
4 28 (11.16%) Platform Engineer
5 19 (7.57%) Software Engineer
6 16 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (5.58%) Software Developer
8 13 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
8 13 (5.18%) Principal Engineer
9 12 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.38%) Backend Developer
11 10 (3.98%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (3.59%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 7 (2.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (2.79%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.15%) Spring
1 33 (13.15%) Spring Boot
2 28 (11.16%) Elastic Stack
3 25 (9.96%) React
4 21 (8.37%) Node.js
4 21 (8.37%) REST
5 17 (6.77%) AngularJS
5 17 (6.77%) Kafka
6 15 (5.98%) .NET
7 11 (4.38%) FastAPI
8 10 (3.98%) Playwright
9 9 (3.59%) Django
9 9 (3.59%) Hibernate
9 9 (3.59%) pytest
10 8 (3.19%) .NET Core
10 8 (3.19%) CSS
10 8 (3.19%) HTML
10 8 (3.19%) Middleware
10 8 (3.19%) RESTful
11 7 (2.79%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.73%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.18%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.38%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.98%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.98%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.99%) PKI
9 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.59%) FPGA
9 4 (1.59%) IoT
9 4 (1.59%) Verilog
9 4 (1.59%) VHDL
10 3 (1.20%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.20%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.20%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 79 (31.47%) Linux
2 25 (9.96%) Windows
3 15 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.38%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.98%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.19%) Debian
7 6 (2.39%) Unix
8 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.20%) CentOS
10 2 (0.80%) Android
11 1 (0.40%) Fedora
11 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (75.70%) CI/CD
2 154 (61.35%) DevOps
3 109 (43.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (40.24%) Agile
5 79 (31.47%) Containerisation
6 59 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (19.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (19.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 47 (18.73%) Microservices
9 44 (17.53%) Software Engineering
9 44 (17.53%) Test Automation
10 42 (16.73%) Observability
11 38 (15.14%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (13.55%) Mentoring
12 34 (13.55%) Scrum
13 30 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (11.55%) Configuration Management
14 29 (11.55%) Incident Response
15 24 (9.56%) Computer Science
16 23 (9.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (54.18%) Python
2 76 (30.28%) Java
3 62 (24.70%) Bash
4 51 (20.32%) SQL
5 44 (17.53%) PowerShell
6 43 (17.13%) TypeScript
7 37 (14.74%) JavaScript
8 17 (6.77%) C#
9 15 (5.98%) Go
10 13 (5.18%) C++
11 11 (4.38%) C
12 8 (3.19%) Groovy
13 7 (2.79%) Bicep
13 7 (2.79%) Delphi
13 7 (2.79%) Shell Script
14 6 (2.39%) ANSI SQL
15 3 (1.20%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.20%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.20%) Ruby
16 2 (0.80%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.16%) DV Cleared
3 21 (8.37%) AWS Certification
4 20 (7.97%) Degree
5 17 (6.77%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.79%) ISTQB
9 6 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.39%) CCNA
9 6 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.80%) CCNP
12 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.40%) CISM
13 1 (0.40%) GIAC
13 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.94%) QA
2 5 (1.99%) GDPR
3 4 (1.59%) 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
1 101 (40.24%) Docker
2 18 (7.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.38%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.99%) vSphere
5 4 (1.59%) 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
1 118 (47.01%) Kubernetes
2 95 (37.85%) Terraform
3 75 (29.88%) Ansible
4 63 (25.10%) Grafana
5 55 (21.91%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.18%) Kibana
7 7 (2.79%) Puppet
8 6 (2.39%) HP Fortify
8 6 (2.39%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.99%) Argo
10 4 (1.59%) Rancher
10 4 (1.59%) vRealize
10 4 (1.59%) 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%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 37 (14.74%) Oracle
2 24 (9.56%) VMware
3 20 (7.97%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.97%) Splunk
4 19 (7.57%) Atlassian
5 12 (4.78%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.39%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.39%) SAP
7 5 (1.99%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.59%) Cisco
8 4 (1.59%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.20%) Databricks
9 3 (1.20%) Google
9 3 (1.20%) HP
10 2 (0.80%) Citrix
10 2 (0.80%) F5
10 2 (0.80%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.80%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.80%) Ubiquiti