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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 329 296
Rank change year-on-year -33 -33 -14
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 265 413 471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.85% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.50% 8.13% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 185 190 372
10th Percentile £51,472 £44,216 £41,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,125 £50,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £106,125
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 3,116 5,083 5,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.92% 10.42% 11.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,144 2,929 4,533
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,603 £50,000
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 £97,695 £101,250
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 8 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 8 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 -24 95 £86,000 +1.18% 77
North of England +48 77 £75,000 +15.38% 118
Yorkshire +14 38 £80,000 +38.02% 60
North West +32 32 £65,000 - 41
South West -22 25 £73,500 +22.50% 91
South East -39 23 £78,000 +7.96% 151
Midlands 0 20 £57,600 -17.71% 83
East of England +28 14 £67,500 -5.26% 93
West Midlands +6 14 £63,750 - 29
North East +6 7 £66,250 +3.54% 17
East Midlands +4 6 £53,600 -28.53% 49
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 (4.91%) Confluence
2 12 (4.53%) Apache
3 9 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.89%) IIS
4 5 (1.89%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.89%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.51%) Camunda
6 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.13%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.13%) nginx
6 3 (1.13%) 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 (1.13%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 162 (61.13%) AWS
2 112 (42.26%) Azure
3 57 (21.51%) AWS CloudFormation
4 51 (19.25%) GitHub
5 50 (18.87%) GCP
6 47 (17.74%) Serverless
7 42 (15.85%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (12.08%) Amazon S3
9 31 (11.70%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (10.57%) OpenShift
13 26 (9.81%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (7.55%) Amazon ECR
15 19 (7.17%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (7.17%) AWS Step Functions
16 17 (6.42%) Apigee
17 15 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
18 11 (4.15%) Cloud Computing
18 11 (4.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.30%) DNS
2 10 (3.77%) Firewall
3 5 (1.89%) VPN
4 4 (1.51%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.51%) VSAN
5 3 (1.13%) Skype
5 3 (1.13%) VLAN
6 2 (0.75%) BGP
6 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.75%) DSL
6 2 (0.75%) HTTP
6 2 (0.75%) MQTT
6 2 (0.75%) OSPF
6 2 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.75%) RTMP
6 2 (0.75%) SSL
6 2 (0.75%) WAN
6 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.75%) Wireless
7 1 (0.38%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.08%) MongoDB
2 30 (11.32%) SQL Server
3 29 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (9.81%) NoSQL
5 25 (9.43%) DynamoDB
6 15 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.77%) MySQL
9 9 (3.40%) Power BI
10 7 (2.64%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.89%) CockroachDB
11 5 (1.89%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.51%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.51%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.13%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.13%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.75%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 141 (53.21%) Jenkins
2 65 (24.53%) Git
3 30 (11.32%) SonarQube
4 26 (9.81%) JIRA
5 25 (9.43%) Cypress.io
6 22 (8.30%) Maven
7 21 (7.92%) Cucumber
7 21 (7.92%) JUnit
7 21 (7.92%) Selenium
8 20 (7.55%) Bitbucket
9 12 (4.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (3.77%) Postman
11 9 (3.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (3.40%) CircleCI
12 7 (2.64%) REST Assured
13 6 (2.26%) Artifactory
13 6 (2.26%) JMeter
14 5 (1.89%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.89%) TestNG
15 4 (1.51%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.62%) Finance
3 30 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.92%) Banking
5 16 (6.04%) Advertising
6 15 (5.66%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.40%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.02%) Marketing
9 7 (2.64%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.26%) Games
10 6 (2.26%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.89%) Electronics
11 5 (1.89%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.89%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.13%) Retail
14 2 (0.75%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.75%) Automotive
14 2 (0.75%) Aviation
14 2 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (23.77%) Lead
2 48 (18.11%) Developer
3 42 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (11.32%) Senior
5 27 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (9.81%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (6.79%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.66%) Lead DevOps
10 14 (5.28%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.28%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.53%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.53%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.15%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.77%) Java Developer
15 9 (3.40%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.40%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.40%) Senior Developer
16 8 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (16.98%) Spring Boot
2 38 (14.34%) Spring
3 27 (10.19%) AngularJS
3 27 (10.19%) Elastic Stack
4 22 (8.30%) React
5 20 (7.55%) REST
6 19 (7.17%) Kafka
6 19 (7.17%) Node.js
7 18 (6.79%) Jest
8 17 (6.42%) Gherkin
9 15 (5.66%) RESTful
10 14 (5.28%) FastAPI
11 11 (4.15%) pytest
12 10 (3.77%) .NET
12 10 (3.77%) HTML
13 9 (3.40%) CSS
13 9 (3.40%) Django
13 9 (3.40%) Playwright
13 9 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (2.64%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 48 (18.11%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.28%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.15%) Private Cloud
4 10 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.40%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.26%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.89%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.51%) Blockchain
9 4 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.51%) PKI
9 4 (1.51%) Web3
10 3 (1.13%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.13%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.13%) IoT
10 3 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.13%) RSA SecurID
10 3 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (29.06%) Linux
2 28 (10.57%) Windows
3 14 (5.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.77%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.64%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.64%) Unix
6 5 (1.89%) Debian
6 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.13%) CentOS
8 1 (0.38%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (75.47%) CI/CD
2 170 (64.15%) DevOps
3 117 (44.15%) Agile
4 104 (39.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (29.81%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (29.43%) Containerisation
7 48 (18.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 47 (17.74%) Observability
9 46 (17.36%) Test Automation
10 45 (16.98%) Mentoring
10 45 (16.98%) Microservices
11 44 (16.60%) Software Engineering
12 39 (14.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (14.72%) Incident Response
12 39 (14.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 33 (12.45%) Platform Engineering
14 31 (11.70%) Scrum
14 31 (11.70%) Technical Leadership
15 30 (11.32%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (10.19%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 135 (50.94%) Python
2 90 (33.96%) Java
3 72 (27.17%) Bash
4 58 (21.89%) SQL
4 58 (21.89%) TypeScript
5 38 (14.34%) JavaScript
5 38 (14.34%) PowerShell
6 20 (7.55%) Go
7 18 (6.79%) Groovy
8 13 (4.91%) C#
9 9 (3.40%) ANSI SQL
10 8 (3.02%) Bicep
11 7 (2.64%) C
11 7 (2.64%) C++
11 7 (2.64%) Delphi
12 4 (1.51%) Rust
13 3 (1.13%) Embedded C
13 3 (1.13%) Perl
14 2 (0.75%) PHP
14 2 (0.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.57%) DV Cleared
3 22 (8.30%) AWS Certification
3 22 (8.30%) Degree
4 20 (7.55%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.40%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.89%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.13%) CCNA
10 3 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.13%) OSCP
11 2 (0.75%) CISSP
11 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.75%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.21%) QA
2 7 (2.64%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.51%) NIST
5 3 (1.13%) GDPR
6 2 (0.75%) ECSS
6 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (42.26%) Docker
2 18 (6.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.40%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.89%) Firmware
5 4 (1.51%) vSphere
6 3 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.75%) NFS
7 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.38%) Squid
8 1 (0.38%) vCloud
8 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 120 (45.28%) Kubernetes
2 112 (42.26%) Terraform
3 78 (29.43%) Ansible
4 62 (23.40%) Grafana
5 58 (21.89%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.42%) HP Fortify
7 8 (3.02%) Kibana
7 8 (3.02%) Puppet
8 7 (2.64%) Argo
9 6 (2.26%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.26%) Rancher
10 4 (1.51%) vRealize
11 3 (1.13%) Istio
11 3 (1.13%) Nagios
11 3 (1.13%) SCOM
11 3 (1.13%) WSUS
12 2 (0.75%) Nessus
12 2 (0.75%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (15.85%) Oracle
2 23 (8.68%) Splunk
3 22 (8.30%) VMware
4 19 (7.17%) Microsoft
5 18 (6.79%) Atlassian
6 14 (5.28%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.64%) SAP
8 6 (2.26%) Google
9 4 (1.51%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.51%) Cisco
9 4 (1.51%) HP
9 4 (1.51%) Sonatype
10 3 (1.13%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.13%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.75%) Adobe
11 2 (0.75%) Databricks
11 2 (0.75%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.75%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.75%) Starlink
11 2 (0.75%) Ubiquiti