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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 334 292
Rank change year-on-year -23 -42 -7
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 261 403 493
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.84% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.40% 8.02% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 183 181 391
10th Percentile £51,361 £44,250 £35,920
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -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 3,106 5,022 5,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.92% 10.41% 11.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,127 2,877 4,650
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,603 £49,364
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,474 £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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -35 93 £86,000 +1.18% 68
North of England +50 77 £75,000 +15.38% 56
Yorkshire +10 38 £80,000 +55.39% 27
North West +31 32 £65,000 - 23
South West -25 25 £73,500 +22.50% 47
South East -31 23 £78,000 +7.59% 68
Midlands +15 20 £57,600 -17.71% 26
West Midlands +11 14 £63,750 -5.56% 16
East of England +16 12 £67,500 -5.26% 30
North East +10 7 £66,250 -5.36% 6
East Midlands +5 6 £53,600 -28.53% 9
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 13 (4.98%) Confluence
2 12 (4.60%) Apache
3 9 (3.45%) 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%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.15%) nginx
6 3 (1.15%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.38%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 159 (60.92%) AWS
2 112 (42.91%) Azure
3 59 (22.61%) AWS CloudFormation
4 52 (19.92%) GitHub
5 49 (18.77%) GCP
6 48 (18.39%) Serverless
7 43 (16.48%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (12.26%) Amazon S3
9 31 (11.88%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (10.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (10.73%) OpenShift
12 27 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (7.66%) Amazon ECR
13 20 (7.66%) AWS Step Functions
14 19 (7.28%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (6.51%) Apigee
16 15 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (4.21%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.43%) DNS
2 10 (3.83%) Firewall
3 5 (1.92%) VPN
4 4 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.53%) VSAN
5 3 (1.15%) DSL
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%) MQTT
6 2 (0.77%) OSPF
6 2 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.77%) RTMP
6 2 (0.77%) SSL
6 2 (0.77%) WAN
6 2 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.77%) Wireless
7 1 (0.38%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.88%) MongoDB
2 30 (11.49%) SQL Server
3 29 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (9.96%) NoSQL
5 25 (9.58%) DynamoDB
6 15 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.83%) MySQL
9 9 (3.45%) Power BI
10 7 (2.68%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.92%) CockroachDB
11 5 (1.92%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.15%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.15%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.77%) Metadata
14 2 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 141 (54.02%) Jenkins
2 63 (24.14%) Git
3 30 (11.49%) SonarQube
4 25 (9.58%) Cypress.io
4 25 (9.58%) JIRA
5 21 (8.05%) Cucumber
5 21 (8.05%) JUnit
5 21 (8.05%) Maven
5 21 (8.05%) Selenium
6 20 (7.66%) Bitbucket
7 11 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (3.83%) Postman
9 9 (3.45%) CircleCI
10 8 (3.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (2.68%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.30%) Artifactory
12 6 (2.30%) JMeter
13 5 (1.92%) SoapUI
13 5 (1.92%) TestNG
14 4 (1.53%) Gradle
General
1 70 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.77%) Finance
3 29 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.66%) Banking
5 16 (6.13%) Advertising
6 15 (5.75%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.45%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.07%) Marketing
9 7 (2.68%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.30%) Games
10 6 (2.30%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.92%) Electronics
11 5 (1.92%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.92%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.15%) Retail
14 2 (0.77%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.77%) Automotive
14 2 (0.77%) Law
14 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (24.14%) Lead
2 48 (18.39%) Developer
3 40 (15.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (11.49%) Senior
5 27 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (9.96%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (6.51%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.75%) Lead DevOps
10 14 (5.36%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.36%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.60%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.60%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.21%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.83%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.45%) Senior Developer
16 8 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
16 8 (3.07%) Principal Engineer
17 7 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (16.86%) Spring Boot
2 37 (14.18%) Spring
3 27 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
4 26 (9.96%) AngularJS
5 22 (8.43%) React
6 19 (7.28%) Kafka
6 19 (7.28%) REST
7 18 (6.90%) Jest
7 18 (6.90%) Node.js
8 17 (6.51%) Gherkin
9 15 (5.75%) RESTful
10 14 (5.36%) FastAPI
11 11 (4.21%) pytest
12 10 (3.83%) HTML
13 9 (3.45%) .NET
13 9 (3.45%) CSS
13 9 (3.45%) Django
13 9 (3.45%) Playwright
13 9 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (2.68%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 49 (18.77%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.21%) Private Cloud
4 10 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.92%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.53%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.53%) PKI
9 4 (1.53%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.53%) Web3
10 3 (1.15%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.15%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.15%) IoT
10 3 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.15%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 73 (27.97%) Linux
2 28 (10.73%) Windows
3 12 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.83%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.68%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.68%) Unix
6 5 (1.92%) Debian
6 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.77%) CentOS
8 1 (0.38%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 168 (64.37%) DevOps
3 116 (44.44%) Agile
4 105 (40.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (28.74%) Containerisation
7 47 (18.01%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 46 (17.62%) Observability
8 46 (17.62%) Test Automation
9 45 (17.24%) Mentoring
9 45 (17.24%) Microservices
10 43 (16.48%) Software Engineering
11 40 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (14.94%) Incident Response
12 39 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 33 (12.64%) Platform Engineering
14 32 (12.26%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (11.49%) Continuous Integration
15 30 (11.49%) Scrum
16 26 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 133 (50.96%) Python
2 88 (33.72%) Java
3 70 (26.82%) Bash
4 58 (22.22%) SQL
4 58 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 37 (14.18%) JavaScript
5 37 (14.18%) PowerShell
6 21 (8.05%) Go
7 17 (6.51%) Groovy
8 12 (4.60%) C#
9 9 (3.45%) ANSI SQL
10 8 (3.07%) Bicep
11 7 (2.68%) C
11 7 (2.68%) Delphi
12 6 (2.30%) C++
13 5 (1.92%) Rust
14 3 (1.15%) Embedded C
14 3 (1.15%) Perl
15 2 (0.77%) PHP
16 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 49 (18.77%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.73%) DV Cleared
3 22 (8.43%) AWS Certification
3 22 (8.43%) Degree
4 20 (7.66%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.45%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (1.53%) OSCP
10 3 (1.15%) CCNA
10 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.77%) CISSP
11 2 (0.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.77%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.03%) QA
2 7 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.92%) NIST
4 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.15%) GDPR
6 2 (0.77%) ECSS
6 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.77%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (42.91%) Docker
2 15 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.92%) Firmware
5 4 (1.53%) vSphere
6 2 (0.77%) NFS
6 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.38%) Squid
7 1 (0.38%) vCloud
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 120 (45.98%) Kubernetes
2 112 (42.91%) Terraform
3 74 (28.35%) Ansible
4 61 (23.37%) Grafana
5 57 (21.84%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.51%) HP Fortify
7 8 (3.07%) Kibana
8 7 (2.68%) Argo
8 7 (2.68%) Puppet
9 6 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.30%) Rancher
10 4 (1.53%) vRealize
11 3 (1.15%) Istio
11 3 (1.15%) Nagios
11 3 (1.15%) SCOM
11 3 (1.15%) WSUS
12 2 (0.77%) Nessus
12 2 (0.77%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (16.09%) Oracle
2 23 (8.81%) Splunk
3 19 (7.28%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.28%) VMware
4 18 (6.90%) Atlassian
5 13 (4.98%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.68%) SAP
7 6 (2.30%) Google
8 4 (1.53%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.53%) Cisco
8 4 (1.53%) HP
9 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.15%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.77%) Adobe
10 2 (0.77%) Cribl.io
10 2 (0.77%) Databricks
10 2 (0.77%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.77%) New Relic
10 2 (0.77%) Starlink
10 2 (0.77%) Ubiquiti