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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 311 296
Rank change year-on-year -58 -15 -20
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 261 461 440
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.88% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.46% 8.59% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 180 219 334
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,050 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £86,656 £88,750 £89,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £105,000
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 3,085 5,364 5,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.06% 10.25% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,120 3,156 4,614
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £42,252
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,482 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -6.95% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £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 14 December 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 14 December 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 -31 94 £85,000 - 108
North of England +57 76 £75,000 +19.56% 128
North West +43 35 £66,250 +1.92% 64
Yorkshire +20 34 £80,000 +38.02% 52
South West -21 25 £73,750 +22.92% 106
South East -35 22 £77,500 +7.27% 144
Midlands +6 19 £67,500 +5.88% 106
East of England +31 15 £61,250 -14.04% 73
West Midlands +8 13 £70,000 +16.67% 51
North East +4 7 £66,250 +14.29% 12
East Midlands 0 6 £53,600 -23.43% 49
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 11 (4.21%) Confluence
2 10 (3.83%) Apache
3 7 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.92%) IIS
4 5 (1.92%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.53%) Camunda
5 4 (1.53%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.15%) nginx
6 3 (1.15%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Simulink
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 157 (60.15%) AWS
2 110 (42.15%) Azure
3 49 (18.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 46 (17.62%) GitHub
5 41 (15.71%) GCP
6 40 (15.33%) Serverless
7 32 (12.26%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (10.34%) OpenShift
9 26 (9.96%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (9.96%) Amazon S3
10 23 (8.81%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (6.13%) Amazon ECR
13 15 (5.75%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (5.36%) Apigee
15 13 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (3.45%) Power Platform
16 9 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.05%) DNS
2 9 (3.45%) Firewall
3 5 (1.92%) VPN
4 4 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.53%) VSAN
4 4 (1.53%) WAN
5 3 (1.15%) Network Security
5 3 (1.15%) Skype
5 3 (1.15%) VLAN
6 2 (0.77%) BGP
6 2 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.77%) HTTP
6 2 (0.77%) LAN
6 2 (0.77%) MQTT
6 2 (0.77%) OSPF
6 2 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
6 2 (0.77%) SSL
6 2 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.88%) MongoDB
2 30 (11.49%) SQL Server
3 27 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (8.81%) NoSQL
5 20 (7.66%) DynamoDB
6 14 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.45%) MySQL
7 9 (3.45%) Power BI
8 7 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.68%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.92%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.15%) CockroachDB
11 3 (1.15%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.15%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.77%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.77%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.77%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.77%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 137 (52.49%) Jenkins
2 67 (25.67%) Git
3 27 (10.34%) SonarQube
4 25 (9.58%) Cucumber
5 23 (8.81%) JIRA
6 22 (8.43%) Selenium
7 20 (7.66%) Bitbucket
7 20 (7.66%) Cypress.io
8 19 (7.28%) JUnit
9 18 (6.90%) Maven
10 14 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (3.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (3.83%) CircleCI
11 10 (3.83%) Postman
12 9 (3.45%) JMeter
13 7 (2.68%) Gatling
14 6 (2.30%) Artifactory
15 5 (1.92%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.92%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 70 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 59 (22.61%) Finance
3 34 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.28%) Banking
5 14 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 13 (4.98%) Advertising
7 10 (3.83%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.68%) Electronics
10 6 (2.30%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.30%) Games
10 6 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.30%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.30%) Marketing
11 5 (1.92%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.92%) Retail
12 4 (1.53%) Automotive
13 3 (1.15%) Aviation
14 2 (0.77%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (22.61%) Lead
2 42 (16.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (15.33%) Developer
4 28 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (10.73%) Platform Engineer
5 27 (10.34%) Senior
6 19 (7.28%) Software Engineer
7 18 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (5.36%) Software Developer
9 13 (4.98%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (4.60%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.21%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (4.21%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) Backend Developer
13 9 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (3.07%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (15.33%) Spring Boot
2 36 (13.79%) Spring
3 27 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
4 26 (9.96%) AngularJS
5 23 (8.81%) React
6 20 (7.66%) REST
7 19 (7.28%) Node.js
8 17 (6.51%) Kafka
9 15 (5.75%) Jest
10 14 (5.36%) Gherkin
11 13 (4.98%) FastAPI
12 12 (4.60%) .NET
13 11 (4.21%) pytest
14 10 (3.83%) Playwright
14 10 (3.83%) RESTful
15 9 (3.45%) Django
15 9 (3.45%) HTML
16 8 (3.07%) CSS
17 7 (2.68%) Middleware
17 7 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 47 (18.01%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.83%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.45%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.07%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.53%) IoT
9 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.53%) PKI
10 3 (1.15%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.15%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.15%) RSA SecurID
11 2 (0.77%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 79 (30.27%) Linux
2 28 (10.73%) Windows
3 16 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.83%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.45%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.68%) Debian
6 7 (2.68%) Unix
7 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.15%) CentOS
9 1 (0.38%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (73.18%) CI/CD
2 163 (62.45%) DevOps
3 117 (44.83%) Agile
4 103 (39.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (30.27%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (29.50%) Containerisation
7 47 (18.01%) Microservices
8 45 (17.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 44 (16.86%) Mentoring
10 43 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (16.48%) Test Automation
11 41 (15.71%) Software Engineering
12 39 (14.94%) Observability
13 38 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 35 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (13.41%) Scrum
15 32 (12.26%) Incident Response
16 30 (11.49%) Continuous Integration
17 29 (11.11%) Configuration Management
18 27 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 136 (52.11%) Python
2 86 (32.95%) Java
3 72 (27.59%) Bash
4 56 (21.46%) SQL
5 51 (19.54%) TypeScript
6 43 (16.48%) PowerShell
7 38 (14.56%) JavaScript
8 16 (6.13%) Go
8 16 (6.13%) Groovy
9 15 (5.75%) C#
10 12 (4.60%) C++
11 11 (4.21%) C
12 7 (2.68%) ANSI SQL
12 7 (2.68%) Bicep
12 7 (2.68%) Delphi
13 3 (1.15%) Embedded C
13 3 (1.15%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.15%) Ruby
14 2 (0.77%) Perl
14 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.34%) DV Cleared
3 25 (9.58%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.05%) Degree
5 19 (7.28%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.07%) ISTQB
8 7 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.15%) CCNA
11 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.77%) CISSP
12 2 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.38%) GREM
13 1 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.79%) QA
2 5 (1.92%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.92%) GDPR
3 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.77%) ECSS
5 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.77%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (39.08%) Docker
2 19 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.92%) Firmware
5 4 (1.53%) vSphere
6 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.15%) vCloud
6 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.77%) NFS
7 2 (0.77%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.38%) Squid
8 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 113 (43.30%) Kubernetes
2 101 (38.70%) Terraform
3 77 (29.50%) Ansible
4 59 (22.61%) Grafana
5 52 (19.92%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.36%) HP Fortify
7 8 (3.07%) Kibana
8 7 (2.68%) Puppet
9 6 (2.30%) Argo
9 6 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.30%) Rancher
10 4 (1.53%) vRealize
11 3 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.15%) Istio
11 3 (1.15%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.15%) SCOM
11 3 (1.15%) WSUS
12 2 (0.77%) Nagios
12 2 (0.77%) Nessus
12 2 (0.77%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 39 (14.94%) Oracle
2 25 (9.58%) VMware
3 20 (7.66%) Splunk
4 19 (7.28%) Microsoft
5 17 (6.51%) Atlassian
6 14 (5.36%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.68%) SAP
8 5 (1.92%) Sonatype
9 4 (1.53%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.53%) Cisco
9 4 (1.53%) Cribl.io
9 4 (1.53%) Google
9 4 (1.53%) HP
10 3 (1.15%) Databricks
10 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.77%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.77%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.77%) Starlink
11 2 (0.77%) Ubiquiti