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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 333 306
Rank change year-on-year -23 -27 -27
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 275 383 584
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.82% 0.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.50% 7.82% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 183 173 482
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £63,125 £56,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £89,250 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +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 3,236 4,898 6,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.76% 10.48% 11.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,191 2,746 5,750
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £37,215
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -12 101 £87,500 - 85
North of England +31 80 £75,000 +13.21% 48
Yorkshire +15 45 £77,500 +50.54% 15
South East -18 29 £82,500 +13.79% 63
North West +27 28 £65,000 -3.70% 31
South West -23 28 £74,500 +19.20% 26
Midlands 0 16 £55,200 -21.14% 14
East of England +21 11 £67,500 -6.90% 16
West Midlands +17 11 £57,600 -16.22% 10
North East +3 7 £66,250 -5.36% 2
East Midlands -7 5 £55,200 -26.40% 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 15 (5.45%) Apache
2 14 (5.09%) Confluence
3 9 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.82%) IIS
4 5 (1.82%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.45%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.09%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.73%) nginx
7 2 (0.73%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 177 (64.36%) AWS
2 108 (39.27%) Azure
3 80 (29.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 62 (22.55%) Serverless
5 55 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 55 (20.00%) GitHub
6 50 (18.18%) GCP
7 41 (14.91%) Amazon S3
8 37 (13.45%) Amazon ECS
9 30 (10.91%) AWS Step Functions
9 30 (10.91%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (10.91%) OpenShift
10 28 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (9.82%) Amazon ECR
12 26 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (8.73%) Apigee
14 19 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
16 16 (5.82%) Datadog
17 13 (4.73%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.82%) DNS
2 13 (4.73%) Firewall
3 8 (2.91%) VPN
4 6 (2.18%) DSL
5 5 (1.82%) BGP
5 5 (1.82%) DHCP
5 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.82%) WAN
6 3 (1.09%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (1.09%) LAN
6 3 (1.09%) MPLS
6 3 (1.09%) MQTT
6 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.09%) VLAN
6 3 (1.09%) VoIP
6 3 (1.09%) VPLS
6 3 (1.09%) VSAN
7 2 (0.73%) RTMP
7 2 (0.73%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.09%) DynamoDB
1 36 (13.09%) NoSQL
2 32 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (10.91%) MongoDB
4 29 (10.55%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.82%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.64%) MySQL
8 8 (2.91%) Power BI
9 5 (1.82%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.82%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.45%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.45%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.09%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 153 (55.64%) Jenkins
2 69 (25.09%) Git
3 34 (12.36%) SonarQube
4 30 (10.91%) Cypress.io
5 29 (10.55%) JIRA
5 29 (10.55%) Maven
6 25 (9.09%) Cucumber
7 21 (7.64%) Selenium
8 19 (6.91%) JUnit
9 16 (5.82%) Bitbucket
10 14 (5.09%) CircleCI
11 9 (3.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (2.91%) Postman
13 6 (2.18%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.82%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.82%) TestNG
14 5 (1.82%) Vite
15 4 (1.45%) Artifactory
15 4 (1.45%) Gradle
15 4 (1.45%) JMeter
General
1 71 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.36%) Finance
3 24 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.64%) Banking
5 15 (5.45%) Advertising
6 14 (5.09%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.27%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.91%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.55%) Marketing
10 5 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.82%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.82%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.45%) Electronics
11 4 (1.45%) Games
12 2 (0.73%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.73%) Automotive
12 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (21.45%) Lead
2 52 (18.91%) Developer
3 36 (13.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (12.36%) Senior
5 31 (11.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (7.27%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.91%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.64%) Java Engineer
11 10 (3.64%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (3.27%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.27%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.27%) Software Developer
13 8 (2.91%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.91%) Spring Boot
2 40 (14.55%) Spring
3 32 (11.64%) AngularJS
3 32 (11.64%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (9.82%) Kafka
5 26 (9.45%) Jest
6 24 (8.73%) Gherkin
7 22 (8.00%) React
8 21 (7.64%) RESTful
9 16 (5.82%) Node.js
10 14 (5.09%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.73%) pytest
11 13 (4.73%) REST
12 12 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (3.64%) HTML
14 9 (3.27%) Apache NiFi
15 8 (2.91%) .NET
15 8 (2.91%) AWS CDK
15 8 (2.91%) CSS
15 8 (2.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.36%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.64%) Private Cloud
4 10 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.55%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.55%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.55%) Web3
7 6 (2.18%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (2.18%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.18%) PKI
8 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.45%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) IoT
10 3 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 77 (28.00%) Linux
2 28 (10.18%) Windows
3 10 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.27%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.55%) Unix
6 6 (2.18%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.45%) Debian
9 3 (1.09%) CentOS
10 1 (0.36%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (77.45%) CI/CD
2 170 (61.82%) DevOps
3 126 (45.82%) Agile
4 114 (41.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (28.73%) Containerisation
6 78 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (20.36%) Microservices
7 56 (20.36%) Software Engineering
8 55 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 51 (18.55%) Mentoring
10 47 (17.09%) Observability
11 42 (15.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 40 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 39 (14.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 38 (13.82%) Continuous Integration
15 36 (13.09%) Technical Leadership
16 35 (12.73%) Incident Response
17 33 (12.00%) Scrum
18 31 (11.27%) DevSecOps
19 30 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 144 (52.36%) Python
2 96 (34.91%) Java
3 81 (29.45%) Bash
4 62 (22.55%) TypeScript
5 58 (21.09%) SQL
6 37 (13.45%) JavaScript
7 36 (13.09%) PowerShell
8 30 (10.91%) Go
9 23 (8.36%) Groovy
10 13 (4.73%) C#
11 9 (3.27%) Rust
12 8 (2.91%) ANSI SQL
13 7 (2.55%) Delphi
14 6 (2.18%) Bicep
14 6 (2.18%) C++
15 5 (1.82%) C
16 3 (1.09%) Embedded C
16 3 (1.09%) Perl
17 1 (0.36%) PHP
17 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.27%) AWS Certification
2 31 (11.27%) DV Cleared
3 28 (10.18%) Degree
4 24 (8.73%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.36%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (3.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.91%) ISTQB
9 7 (2.55%) OSCP
10 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.45%) CCNA
11 4 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.73%) CISSP
13 2 (0.73%) LPIC
13 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.73%) QA
2 8 (2.91%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.91%) NIST
3 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.82%) GDPR
4 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.73%) ECSS
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 119 (43.27%) Docker
2 20 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.36%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.18%) vSphere
5 5 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.45%) Firmware
6 4 (1.45%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.73%) NFS
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 121 (44.00%) Terraform
2 120 (43.64%) Kubernetes
3 80 (29.09%) Ansible
4 58 (21.09%) Grafana
5 53 (19.27%) Prometheus
6 24 (8.73%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.27%) Kibana
8 8 (2.91%) Puppet
9 6 (2.18%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.18%) Rancher
10 5 (1.82%) Argo
10 5 (1.82%) WSUS
11 4 (1.45%) logstash
12 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.09%) Istio
12 3 (1.09%) Nagios
12 3 (1.09%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.09%) vRealize
13 2 (0.73%) Nessus
13 2 (0.73%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 39 (14.18%) Oracle
2 25 (9.09%) Splunk
3 22 (8.00%) VMware
4 20 (7.27%) Microsoft
5 16 (5.82%) Atlassian
6 12 (4.36%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.91%) Google
8 6 (2.18%) SAP
9 5 (1.82%) Cisco
9 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.45%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.45%) HP
11 3 (1.09%) Dell
12 2 (0.73%) Adobe
12 2 (0.73%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.73%) IBM
12 2 (0.73%) Juniper
12 2 (0.73%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.73%) New Relic
12 2 (0.73%) Veeam