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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 266 349
Rank change year-on-year -42 +83 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 480 470 689
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 1.19% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.65% 12.90% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 319 155 497
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,500 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £59,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,824 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,000 £100,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -3.70%

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 3,794 3,642 7,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.59% 9.24% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,538 2,414 5,910
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,130 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -7.49% +11.11% -10.00%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +22 180 £84,625 -0.44% 69
North of England -60 123 £68,076 +1.55% 45
South East +52 94 £67,500 +28.57% 40
Yorkshire +7 69 £69,310 -2.38% 10
South West -48 46 £65,000 +4.00% 23
North West -97 34 £65,000 -3.04% 20
North East -25 20 £57,500 - 15
Midlands -95 20 £53,750 -23.21% 16
West Midlands -42 16 £53,750 -24.56% 13
East of England -38 6 £56,250 -27.42% 15
East Midlands -66 4 - - 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 25 (5.21%) Confluence
2 22 (4.58%) Apache
3 13 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.50%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.88%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.63%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.63%) IIS
6 3 (0.63%) JBoss
6 3 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 319 (66.46%) AWS
2 192 (40.00%) Azure
3 137 (28.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 107 (22.29%) Serverless
5 88 (18.33%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (17.92%) GitHub
7 83 (17.29%) Amazon S3
8 71 (14.79%) Azure DevOps
9 69 (14.38%) GCP
10 53 (11.04%) AWS Step Functions
11 52 (10.83%) GitHub Actions
12 50 (10.42%) Amazon ECR
12 50 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
13 43 (8.96%) Apigee
14 39 (8.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 37 (7.71%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
16 36 (7.50%) Azure AKS
17 34 (7.08%) Datadog
17 34 (7.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.04%) Firewall
2 23 (4.79%) DNS
3 13 (2.71%) DSL
4 12 (2.50%) MQTT
4 12 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
5 11 (2.29%) LAN
5 11 (2.29%) Network Security
6 10 (2.08%) WAN
7 9 (1.88%) Broadband
8 8 (1.67%) HTTP
8 8 (1.67%) IPv4
9 7 (1.46%) BGP
9 7 (1.46%) TCP/IP
9 7 (1.46%) VPN
10 6 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.25%) DHCP
11 5 (1.04%) MPLS
12 4 (0.83%) VoIP
12 4 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.54%) DynamoDB
2 63 (13.13%) NoSQL
3 48 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 38 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (4.38%) MySQL
7 16 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (1.88%) Big Data
10 8 (1.67%) Pinecone
11 5 (1.04%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.83%) CockroachDB
12 4 (0.83%) InfluxDB
13 3 (0.63%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.63%) Redis
14 2 (0.42%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.42%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 215 (44.79%) Jenkins
2 137 (28.54%) Git
3 62 (12.92%) SonarQube
4 57 (11.88%) Cypress.io
5 44 (9.17%) Cucumber
6 43 (8.96%) JIRA
7 40 (8.33%) Maven
8 27 (5.63%) CircleCI
8 27 (5.63%) Selenium
9 17 (3.54%) Bitbucket
10 15 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
11 14 (2.92%) REST Assured
12 13 (2.71%) JUnit
13 12 (2.50%) Postman
14 10 (2.08%) Gatling
14 10 (2.08%) JMeter
14 10 (2.08%) Vite
15 8 (1.67%) Robot Framework
16 7 (1.46%) Artifactory
17 6 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 104 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 97 (20.21%) Finance
3 50 (10.42%) Banking
4 49 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 46 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (2.92%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.71%) Aerospace
7 13 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (2.71%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.50%) Advertising
8 12 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.08%) Electronics
10 7 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.25%) Marketing
12 5 (1.04%) Automotive
12 5 (1.04%) Retail
13 4 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 114 (23.75%) Senior
2 91 (18.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (16.88%) Developer
4 51 (10.63%) Lead
5 46 (9.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 45 (9.38%) Java Developer
7 36 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 36 (7.50%) Software Engineer
8 28 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
9 27 (5.63%) Senior Developer
9 27 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
9 27 (5.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 26 (5.42%) Java Engineer
10 26 (5.42%) Security Engineer
11 21 (4.38%) Principal Engineer
12 20 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 20 (4.17%) Test Engineer
13 19 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
13 19 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
14 18 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (15.00%) Spring Boot
2 57 (11.88%) Kafka
3 52 (10.83%) Spring
4 49 (10.21%) AngularJS
5 40 (8.33%) Jest
6 38 (7.92%) Gherkin
6 38 (7.92%) Node.js
7 32 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
7 32 (6.67%) React
7 32 (6.67%) RESTful
8 30 (6.25%) REST
9 28 (5.83%) RabbitMQ
10 22 (4.58%) JSON
10 22 (4.58%) Playwright
11 21 (4.38%) YAML
12 20 (4.17%) gRPC
13 18 (3.75%) LangChain
13 18 (3.75%) OAuth
14 16 (3.33%) AWS CDK
14 16 (3.33%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 110 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 40 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 25 (5.21%) Public Cloud
5 22 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (4.17%) e-Learning
6 20 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.54%) Blockchain
7 17 (3.54%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.54%) Security Posture
8 16 (3.33%) Algorithms
8 16 (3.33%) Web3
9 13 (2.71%) Cloud Security Posture
10 8 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.46%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.04%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.04%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 134 (27.92%) Linux
2 59 (12.29%) Windows
3 24 (5.00%) Unix
3 24 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 18 (3.75%) CentOS
5 13 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.50%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.04%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.83%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.42%) Android
10 2 (0.42%) Debian
10 2 (0.42%) Rocky
11 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 318 (66.25%) DevOps
3 241 (50.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 240 (50.00%) Agile
5 155 (32.29%) Containerisation
6 144 (30.00%) Microservices
7 133 (27.71%) Test Automation
8 100 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
9 99 (20.63%) Mentoring
10 93 (19.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (17.71%) Observability
12 83 (17.29%) Software Engineering
13 82 (17.08%) DevSecOps
14 80 (16.67%) SDLC
15 73 (15.21%) Continuous Integration
16 69 (14.38%) Scrum
17 62 (12.92%) Coaching
18 56 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 52 (10.83%) Cloud Security
19 52 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 233 (48.54%) Python
2 159 (33.13%) Java
3 146 (30.42%) Bash
4 78 (16.25%) SQL
5 74 (15.42%) TypeScript
6 59 (12.29%) PowerShell
7 58 (12.08%) JavaScript
8 52 (10.83%) Go
9 48 (10.00%) Groovy
10 31 (6.46%) C#
10 31 (6.46%) Rust
11 25 (5.21%) C++
12 8 (1.67%) Perl
13 7 (1.46%) PHP
14 6 (1.25%) Bicep
14 6 (1.25%) C
15 5 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.04%) Scala
15 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 156 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 91 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 72 (15.00%) Degree
4 64 (13.33%) AWS Certification
5 29 (6.04%) DV Cleared
6 25 (5.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (5.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
7 24 (5.00%) OSCP
8 20 (4.17%) Master's Degree
9 17 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (3.33%) ISTQB
11 13 (2.71%) CCNA
11 13 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (2.50%) RHCSA
13 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.67%) RHCE
14 5 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (1.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (12.71%) QA
2 20 (4.17%) GDPR
3 17 (3.54%) NIST
4 15 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.71%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.71%) SOC 2
6 11 (2.29%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.83%) JTAG
10 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 216 (45.00%) Docker
2 28 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.38%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.50%) vSphere
5 8 (1.67%) Squid
6 7 (1.46%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 259 (53.96%) Terraform
2 217 (45.21%) Kubernetes
3 122 (25.42%) Ansible
4 69 (14.38%) Grafana
5 68 (14.17%) Prometheus
6 37 (7.71%) HP Fortify
7 33 (6.88%) Argo
8 19 (3.96%) Nagios
9 15 (3.13%) Kibana
10 13 (2.71%) Packer
10 13 (2.71%) Puppet
11 11 (2.29%) logstash
12 9 (1.88%) Podman
13 8 (1.67%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (1.46%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (1.04%) VxRail
17 4 (0.83%) WSUS
18 3 (0.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 50 (10.42%) Splunk
2 44 (9.17%) Red Hat
3 38 (7.92%) VMware
4 34 (7.08%) Microsoft
5 18 (3.75%) Oracle
6 14 (2.92%) Cisco
7 12 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.50%) OpenAI
8 10 (2.08%) AppDynamics
8 10 (2.08%) Atlassian
8 10 (2.08%) Google
9 8 (1.67%) Juniper
9 8 (1.67%) Tenable
10 7 (1.46%) IBM
11 6 (1.25%) F5
11 6 (1.25%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.25%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.04%) BeyondTrust
12 5 (1.04%) Rapid7
12 5 (1.04%) Veracode