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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 308 306
Rank change year-on-year -69 -2 -27
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 250 489 443
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.87% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.18% 8.84% 7.74%
Number of salaries quoted 171 230 333
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £105,000
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 3,056 5,530 5,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.29% 9.83% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,074 3,183 4,712
10th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 6 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 6 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 -42 96 £85,000 - 77
North of England +56 68 £72,500 +17.92% 107
North West +48 35 £65,000 - 44
Yorkshire +14 27 £78,750 +35.86% 49
South West -12 23 £70,000 +16.67% 69
South East -44 21 £77,500 +7.64% 128
Midlands +3 18 £67,500 +5.88% 60
East of England +30 14 £67,500 +5.88% 49
West Midlands +6 11 £68,750 +14.58% 34
East Midlands +17 7 £55,200 -21.14% 21
North East +11 6 £65,000 +12.14% 14
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
2 105 (42.00%) Azure
3 45 (18.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 45 (18.00%) GitHub
4 40 (16.00%) GCP
5 34 (13.60%) Serverless
6 30 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (11.60%) OpenShift
8 27 (10.80%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (10.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (9.60%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (9.20%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (8.40%) Amazon S3
13 17 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (4.40%) Amazon ECR
16 10 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (4.00%) Datadog
17 9 (3.60%) Apigee
17 9 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.60%) DNS
2 8 (3.20%) Firewall
3 5 (2.00%) VPN
4 4 (1.60%) Network Security
4 4 (1.60%) VSAN
4 4 (1.60%) WAN
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 28 (11.20%) MongoDB
3 25 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (8.40%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.60%) DynamoDB
5 14 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.60%) Power BI
7 8 (3.20%) MySQL
8 7 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.80%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.00%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.20%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.80%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.80%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.80%) Metadata
12 2 (0.80%) Redis
12 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 132 (52.80%) Jenkins
2 56 (22.40%) Git
3 26 (10.40%) Cucumber
4 25 (10.00%) JIRA
5 23 (9.20%) Selenium
5 23 (9.20%) SonarQube
6 20 (8.00%) Bitbucket
7 18 (7.20%) JUnit
8 16 (6.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (6.00%) Cypress.io
10 13 (5.20%) Maven
11 11 (4.40%) CircleCI
12 10 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (3.60%) JMeter
13 9 (3.60%) Postman
14 7 (2.80%) Artifactory
14 7 (2.80%) Gatling
15 6 (2.40%) TeamCity
16 4 (1.60%) REST Assured
16 4 (1.60%) SoapUI
General
1 70 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.00%) Finance
3 34 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.40%) Banking
5 12 (4.80%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.40%) Aerospace
7 10 (4.00%) Advertising
8 9 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.60%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.40%) Electronics
9 6 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.40%) Games
9 6 (2.40%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.40%) Retail
10 5 (2.00%) Marketing
11 4 (1.60%) Automotive
11 4 (1.60%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.20%) Aviation
12 3 (1.20%) Law
13 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (20.40%) Lead
2 42 (16.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (14.80%) Developer
4 30 (12.00%) Senior
5 29 (11.60%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (7.60%) Software Engineer
8 14 (5.60%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.20%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.40%) Lead DevOps
10 11 (4.40%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.00%) Backend Developer
12 9 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.60%) Java Engineer
13 8 (3.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.40%) Spring Boot
2 34 (13.60%) Spring
3 27 (10.80%) Elastic Stack
4 23 (9.20%) React
5 21 (8.40%) AngularJS
6 20 (8.00%) Node.js
7 19 (7.60%) REST
8 18 (7.20%) Kafka
9 13 (5.20%) .NET
10 11 (4.40%) FastAPI
10 11 (4.40%) Jest
11 10 (4.00%) HTML
11 10 (4.00%) Playwright
11 10 (4.00%) pytest
12 9 (3.60%) CSS
12 9 (3.60%) Django
12 9 (3.60%) Gherkin
12 9 (3.60%) RESTful
13 7 (2.80%) Hibernate
13 7 (2.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.40%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 9 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.60%) Private Cloud
5 8 (3.20%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
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 76 (30.40%) 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
1 186 (74.40%) CI/CD
2 157 (62.80%) DevOps
3 106 (42.40%) Agile
4 105 (42.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (29.60%) Containerisation
6 67 (26.80%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (18.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 46 (18.40%) Microservices
9 44 (17.60%) Software Engineering
10 43 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (17.20%) Test Automation
11 39 (15.60%) Mentoring
12 38 (15.20%) Observability
13 35 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (13.60%) Scrum
15 31 (12.40%) Incident Response
15 31 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 29 (11.60%) Configuration Management
17 28 (11.20%) Continuous Integration
18 25 (10.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 131 (52.40%) Python
2 80 (32.00%) Java
3 65 (26.00%) Bash
4 52 (20.80%) SQL
5 44 (17.60%) TypeScript
6 42 (16.80%) PowerShell
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 11 (4.40%) 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 45 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.40%) DV Cleared
3 23 (9.20%) 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%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.60%) CCNA
11 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 36 (14.40%) 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 9 (3.60%) 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
1 112 (44.80%) Kubernetes
2 95 (38.00%) Terraform
3 76 (30.40%) Ansible
4 61 (24.40%) Grafana
5 53 (21.20%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.60%) HP Fortify
6 9 (3.60%) Kibana
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%) logstash
12 2 (0.80%) Nagios
12 2 (0.80%) Nessus
12 2 (0.80%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 37 (14.80%) Oracle
2 24 (9.60%) VMware
3 19 (7.60%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.60%) Splunk
4 17 (6.80%) Atlassian
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