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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 345 304
Rank change year-on-year -13 -41 -29
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 281 369 588
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.80% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.63% 7.66% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 190 173 486
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,813 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £89,625 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%

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 3,257 4,820 7,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.73% 10.48% 10.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,210 2,745 5,824
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £47,407
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 £91,375 £102,000 £97,290
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 4 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 4 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 -13 103 £87,500 +2.94% 69
North of England +29 80 £75,000 +13.21% 44
Yorkshire +13 46 £77,500 +50.54% 12
South East -23 32 £80,250 +10.69% 62
South West -19 28 £74,500 +19.20% 29
North West +14 27 £65,000 -3.70% 29
Midlands -2 17 £56,350 -19.50% 14
West Midlands +18 12 £57,500 -16.36% 10
East of England +19 11 £67,500 -6.90% 15
North East -2 7 £66,250 -5.36% 3
East Midlands -2 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 (5.34%) Apache
2 14 (4.98%) Confluence
3 9 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.78%) IIS
4 5 (1.78%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.78%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.42%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.07%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.71%) nginx
7 2 (0.71%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 181 (64.41%) AWS
2 111 (39.50%) Azure
3 83 (29.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 65 (23.13%) Serverless
5 57 (20.28%) GitHub
6 56 (19.93%) AWS Lambda
7 51 (18.15%) GCP
8 41 (14.59%) Amazon S3
9 37 (13.17%) Amazon ECS
10 32 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
11 31 (11.03%) AWS Step Functions
12 30 (10.68%) OpenShift
13 28 (9.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (9.61%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
15 24 (8.54%) Apigee
16 19 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (6.05%) Datadog
18 12 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.61%) DNS
2 13 (4.63%) Firewall
3 8 (2.85%) VPN
4 7 (2.49%) DSL
5 5 (1.78%) BGP
5 5 (1.78%) DHCP
5 5 (1.78%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.78%) WAN
6 3 (1.07%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (1.07%) LAN
6 3 (1.07%) MPLS
6 3 (1.07%) MQTT
6 3 (1.07%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.07%) VLAN
6 3 (1.07%) VoIP
6 3 (1.07%) VPLS
6 3 (1.07%) VSAN
7 2 (0.71%) RTMP
7 2 (0.71%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.81%) DynamoDB
1 36 (12.81%) NoSQL
2 31 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (10.32%) MongoDB
4 28 (9.96%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.20%) MySQL
8 7 (2.49%) Power BI
9 5 (1.78%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.78%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.07%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.07%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.07%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.71%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 155 (55.16%) Jenkins
2 69 (24.56%) Git
3 35 (12.46%) SonarQube
4 29 (10.32%) Cypress.io
4 29 (10.32%) JIRA
4 29 (10.32%) Maven
5 25 (8.90%) Cucumber
6 21 (7.47%) Selenium
7 18 (6.41%) JUnit
8 16 (5.69%) Bitbucket
9 15 (5.34%) CircleCI
10 10 (3.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (2.85%) Postman
12 6 (2.14%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.78%) SoapUI
13 5 (1.78%) TestNG
13 5 (1.78%) Vite
14 4 (1.42%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.42%) Gradle
14 4 (1.42%) JMeter
General
1 74 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.57%) Finance
3 24 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.12%) Banking
5 15 (5.34%) Advertising
6 14 (4.98%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.20%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.20%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.49%) Marketing
9 5 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.78%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.42%) Electronics
10 4 (1.42%) Games
10 4 (1.42%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.71%) Automotive
11 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (21.71%) Lead
2 51 (18.15%) Developer
3 37 (13.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 35 (12.46%) Senior
5 33 (11.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (8.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (7.12%) Software Engineer
9 18 (6.41%) Java Developer
10 16 (5.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.27%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.27%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.27%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.56%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (3.56%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (3.56%) Security Engineer
13 9 (3.20%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.20%) Software Developer
13 9 (3.20%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (18.15%) Spring Boot
2 40 (14.23%) Spring
3 33 (11.74%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (11.03%) AngularJS
5 28 (9.96%) Kafka
6 26 (9.25%) Jest
7 24 (8.54%) Gherkin
8 22 (7.83%) React
9 20 (7.12%) RESTful
10 17 (6.05%) Node.js
11 14 (4.98%) FastAPI
12 13 (4.63%) pytest
13 12 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (4.27%) REST
14 9 (3.20%) Apache NiFi
14 9 (3.20%) AWS CDK
14 9 (3.20%) HTML
15 8 (2.85%) .NET
15 8 (2.85%) Django
15 8 (2.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.86%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.27%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.56%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.85%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.49%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.49%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.49%) Web3
8 6 (2.14%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.14%) PKI
9 5 (1.78%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.78%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.42%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.07%) IoT
11 3 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 79 (28.11%) Linux
2 28 (9.96%) Windows
3 10 (3.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.20%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.49%) Unix
6 6 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.42%) Debian
9 3 (1.07%) CentOS
10 1 (0.36%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (78.29%) CI/CD
2 173 (61.57%) DevOps
3 128 (45.55%) Agile
4 119 (42.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (28.47%) Containerisation
6 79 (28.11%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (20.28%) Microservices
7 57 (20.28%) Software Engineering
8 56 (19.93%) Test Automation
9 52 (18.51%) Mentoring
10 48 (17.08%) Observability
11 43 (15.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 42 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (14.59%) Continuous Integration
14 40 (14.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (13.17%) Technical Leadership
16 36 (12.81%) Incident Response
17 35 (12.46%) Scrum
18 34 (12.10%) DevSecOps
19 30 (10.68%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 149 (53.02%) Python
2 97 (34.52%) Java
3 83 (29.54%) Bash
4 62 (22.06%) TypeScript
5 58 (20.64%) SQL
6 36 (12.81%) JavaScript
6 36 (12.81%) PowerShell
7 32 (11.39%) Go
8 23 (8.19%) Groovy
9 13 (4.63%) C#
10 11 (3.91%) Rust
11 7 (2.49%) ANSI SQL
11 7 (2.49%) Delphi
12 6 (2.14%) Bicep
12 6 (2.14%) C++
13 5 (1.78%) C
14 3 (1.07%) Embedded C
14 3 (1.07%) Perl
15 1 (0.36%) PHP
15 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.39%) DV Cleared
3 31 (11.03%) AWS Certification
4 29 (10.32%) Degree
5 25 (8.90%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.27%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (3.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.85%) ISTQB
9 8 (2.85%) OSCP
10 5 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.42%) CCNA
11 4 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (1.07%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.71%) CISSP
13 2 (0.71%) LPIC
13 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.81%) QA
2 9 (3.20%) NIST
3 8 (2.85%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.14%) GDPR
5 5 (1.78%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.42%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.71%) ECSS
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 121 (43.06%) Docker
2 20 (7.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.27%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.14%) vSphere
5 5 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.42%) Firmware
6 4 (1.42%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.71%) NFS
8 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 126 (44.84%) Terraform
2 123 (43.77%) Kubernetes
3 83 (29.54%) Ansible
4 60 (21.35%) Grafana
5 55 (19.57%) Prometheus
6 24 (8.54%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.20%) Kibana
7 9 (3.20%) Puppet
8 6 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.14%) Rancher
9 5 (1.78%) Argo
9 5 (1.78%) WSUS
10 4 (1.42%) logstash
11 3 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.07%) Istio
11 3 (1.07%) Nagios
11 3 (1.07%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.07%) vRealize
12 2 (0.71%) Nessus
12 2 (0.71%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 38 (13.52%) Oracle
2 25 (8.90%) Splunk
3 22 (7.83%) VMware
4 20 (7.12%) Microsoft
5 16 (5.69%) Atlassian
6 12 (4.27%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.85%) Google
8 6 (2.14%) SAP
9 5 (1.78%) Cisco
9 5 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.42%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.42%) HP
11 3 (1.07%) Dell
12 2 (0.71%) Adobe
12 2 (0.71%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.71%) IBM
12 2 (0.71%) Juniper
12 2 (0.71%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.71%) New Relic
12 2 (0.71%) Veeam