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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 318 308
Rank change year-on-year -53 -10 -35
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 250 485 448
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.85% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.27% 8.81% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 173 228 335
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,688 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £104,000
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 3,023 5,504 5,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.41% 9.61% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,033 3,152 4,730
10th Percentile £29,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 2 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 2 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 -33 99 £85,000 - 69
North of England +60 67 £70,000 +13.85% 93
North West +54 36 £65,000 - 48
Yorkshire +13 25 £77,500 +33.70% 34
South West -18 23 £70,000 +16.67% 65
South East -37 21 £77,500 +7.64% 122
Midlands +17 18 £67,500 +5.88% 59
East of England +33 14 £67,500 +8.00% 45
West Midlands +20 11 £68,750 +14.58% 38
East Midlands +24 7 £55,200 -21.14% 18
North East +13 6 £65,000 +12.14% 11
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 12 (4.80%) Confluence
2 9 (3.60%) Apache
3 6 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.00%) IIS
4 5 (2.00%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.60%) Camunda
5 4 (1.60%) nginx
5 4 (1.60%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.20%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Simulink
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 150 (60.00%) AWS
2 104 (41.60%) Azure
3 46 (18.40%) GitHub
4 43 (17.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 40 (16.00%) GCP
6 32 (12.80%) Serverless
7 30 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (11.60%) OpenShift
9 26 (10.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (8.80%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (7.60%) Amazon S3
14 17 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (4.00%) Datadog
17 9 (3.60%) Amazon ECR
17 9 (3.60%) Power Platform
17 9 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 8 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.00%) DNS
2 9 (3.60%) Firewall
3 5 (2.00%) VPN
3 5 (2.00%) WAN
4 4 (1.60%) Network Security
4 4 (1.60%) VSAN
5 3 (1.20%) Skype
5 3 (1.20%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (1.20%) VLAN
6 2 (0.80%) BGP
6 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.80%) HTTP
6 2 (0.80%) LAN
6 2 (0.80%) MQTT
6 2 (0.80%) OSPF
6 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.80%) RTMP
6 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.40%) SQL Server
2 29 (11.60%) MongoDB
3 25 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (8.40%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (4.80%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.60%) Power BI
8 8 (3.20%) MySQL
8 8 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.00%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.20%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.80%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.80%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.80%) Metadata
13 2 (0.80%) Redis
13 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 130 (52.00%) Jenkins
2 55 (22.00%) Git
3 25 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 24 (9.60%) JIRA
5 23 (9.20%) Selenium
6 22 (8.80%) SonarQube
7 20 (8.00%) Bitbucket
8 17 (6.80%) JUnit
8 17 (6.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (5.20%) Cypress.io
10 11 (4.40%) CircleCI
10 11 (4.40%) Maven
11 10 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (3.60%) JMeter
13 8 (3.20%) Postman
14 7 (2.80%) Artifactory
14 7 (2.80%) Gatling
14 7 (2.80%) TeamCity
15 4 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
16 3 (1.20%) SoapUI
General
1 71 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.00%) Finance
3 35 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.40%) Banking
5 12 (4.80%) Aerospace
5 12 (4.80%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.00%) Advertising
8 9 (3.60%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.80%) Retail
10 6 (2.40%) Electronics
10 6 (2.40%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.40%) Games
10 6 (2.40%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.00%) Marketing
12 4 (1.60%) Automotive
12 4 (1.60%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.20%) Aviation
13 3 (1.20%) Law
14 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (19.20%) Lead
2 43 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (14.40%) Developer
4 30 (12.00%) Senior
5 29 (11.60%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (8.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.60%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.20%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (4.00%) Backend Developer
12 10 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) Java Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 7 (2.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.60%) Spring Boot
2 33 (13.20%) Spring
3 26 (10.40%) Elastic Stack
4 24 (9.60%) React
5 20 (8.00%) Node.js
5 20 (8.00%) REST
6 19 (7.60%) AngularJS
7 17 (6.80%) Kafka
8 14 (5.60%) .NET
9 11 (4.40%) FastAPI
10 10 (4.00%) Playwright
11 9 (3.60%) CSS
11 9 (3.60%) Django
11 9 (3.60%) HTML
11 9 (3.60%) pytest
12 8 (3.20%) Hibernate
12 8 (3.20%) Jest
12 8 (3.20%) RESTful
13 7 (2.80%) .NET Core
13 7 (2.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 44 (17.60%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.60%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.60%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.60%) IoT
8 4 (1.60%) PKI
9 3 (1.20%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.20%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.20%) FPGA
9 3 (1.20%) RSA SecurID
9 3 (1.20%) Verilog
9 3 (1.20%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 78 (31.20%) Linux
2 26 (10.40%) Windows
3 16 (6.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.60%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.80%) Debian
6 7 (2.80%) Unix
7 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.20%) CentOS
9 1 (0.40%) Android
9 1 (0.40%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (74.80%) CI/CD
2 154 (61.60%) DevOps
3 107 (42.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (42.40%) Agile
5 76 (30.40%) Containerisation
6 66 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (18.40%) Microservices
7 46 (18.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 45 (18.00%) Software Engineering
9 43 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (16.80%) Test Automation
11 41 (16.40%) Mentoring
12 37 (14.80%) Observability
12 37 (14.80%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (13.20%) Scrum
14 30 (12.00%) Incident Response
14 30 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 29 (11.60%) Configuration Management
16 28 (11.20%) Continuous Integration
17 25 (10.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 134 (53.60%) Python
2 78 (31.20%) Java
3 63 (25.20%) Bash
4 52 (20.80%) SQL
5 43 (17.20%) PowerShell
6 42 (16.80%) TypeScript
7 36 (14.40%) JavaScript
8 15 (6.00%) C#
8 15 (6.00%) Go
9 13 (5.20%) C++
10 12 (4.80%) C
11 9 (3.60%) Groovy
12 7 (2.80%) Bicep
12 7 (2.80%) Delphi
13 6 (2.40%) ANSI SQL
14 5 (2.00%) Shell Script
15 3 (1.20%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.20%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.20%) Ruby
16 2 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.40%) DV Cleared
3 22 (8.80%) AWS Certification
4 21 (8.40%) Degree
5 17 (6.80%) SC Cleared
6 15 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.80%) ISTQB
9 6 (2.40%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.60%) CCNA
11 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.40%) CISM
14 1 (0.40%) GIAC
14 1 (0.40%) GREM
14 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.40%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.60%) QA
2 4 (1.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.60%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.80%) ECSS
4 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.80%) SLA
5 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (38.80%) Docker
2 18 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.60%) Firmware
4 4 (1.60%) vSphere
5 3 (1.20%) vCloud
5 3 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.80%) NFS
6 2 (0.80%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.40%) Squid
7 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 115 (46.00%) Kubernetes
2 96 (38.40%) Terraform
3 76 (30.40%) Ansible
4 61 (24.40%) Grafana
5 52 (20.80%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.00%) Kibana
7 7 (2.80%) HP Fortify
7 7 (2.80%) Puppet
8 6 (2.40%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.00%) Argo
9 5 (2.00%) Rancher
10 4 (1.60%) vRealize
11 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.20%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.20%) SCOM
11 3 (1.20%) WSUS
12 2 (0.80%) Istio
12 2 (0.80%) logstash
12 2 (0.80%) Nagios
12 2 (0.80%) Nessus
Vendors
1 37 (14.80%) Oracle
2 24 (9.60%) VMware
3 20 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 18 (7.20%) Atlassian
4 18 (7.20%) Splunk
5 14 (5.60%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.40%) SAP
7 5 (2.00%) AppDynamics
7 5 (2.00%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.60%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.60%) Google
9 3 (1.20%) Cisco
9 3 (1.20%) Databricks
9 3 (1.20%) HP
10 2 (0.80%) Citrix
10 2 (0.80%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.80%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.80%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.80%) Starlink
10 2 (0.80%) Ubiquiti