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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 344 312
Rank change year-on-year -18 -32 -40
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 286 359 584
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.79% 0.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.82% 7.47% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 191 161 487
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £35,920
25th Percentile £64,375 £56,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -10.34%

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 3,243 4,804 7,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.62% 10.59% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,211 2,731 5,850
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £46,350
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 £92,500 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £57,750 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.85% +3.33% -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 9 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 9 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 -7 109 £87,250 -3.06% 77
North of England +28 77 £71,250 +7.55% 42
Yorkshire 0 45 £77,500 +50.54% 10
South East -28 34 £80,250 +10.69% 61
South West -26 28 £74,500 +19.20% 23
North West +20 25 £65,000 -3.70% 30
Midlands +1 18 £55,200 -21.14% 10
West Midlands +14 13 £56,350 -16.52% 7
East of England +18 9 £73,750 +1.72% 8
North East +2 7 £66,250 -5.36% 2
East Midlands -16 5 £55,200 -26.40% 3
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 (5.24%) Apache
2 14 (4.90%) Confluence
3 9 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.10%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.75%) IIS
5 5 (1.75%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.40%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.05%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.70%) nginx
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 189 (66.08%) AWS
2 116 (40.56%) Azure
3 87 (30.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 69 (24.13%) Serverless
5 60 (20.98%) AWS Lambda
5 60 (20.98%) GitHub
6 54 (18.88%) GCP
7 43 (15.03%) Amazon S3
8 37 (12.94%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
10 33 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
11 30 (10.49%) OpenShift
12 29 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (9.79%) Amazon ECR
13 28 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (9.09%) Apigee
15 20 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (6.29%) Datadog
17 13 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.44%) DNS
2 15 (5.24%) Firewall
3 8 (2.80%) DSL
3 8 (2.80%) VPN
4 5 (1.75%) BGP
4 5 (1.75%) DHCP
4 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.75%) WAN
5 4 (1.40%) MQTT
6 3 (1.05%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (1.05%) LAN
6 3 (1.05%) MPLS
6 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.05%) VLAN
6 3 (1.05%) VoIP
6 3 (1.05%) VPLS
7 2 (0.70%) HTTP
7 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.70%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.29%) DynamoDB
2 37 (12.94%) NoSQL
3 31 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (10.14%) MongoDB
5 26 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 16 (5.59%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.15%) MySQL
9 7 (2.45%) Power BI
10 5 (1.75%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.75%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.40%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.40%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.05%) Data Vault
12 3 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.05%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 158 (55.24%) Jenkins
2 68 (23.78%) Git
3 36 (12.59%) SonarQube
4 31 (10.84%) JIRA
5 30 (10.49%) Cypress.io
5 30 (10.49%) Maven
6 26 (9.09%) Cucumber
7 21 (7.34%) Selenium
8 18 (6.29%) JUnit
9 16 (5.59%) Bitbucket
9 16 (5.59%) CircleCI
10 9 (3.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (2.80%) Postman
12 6 (2.10%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.75%) SoapUI
13 5 (1.75%) TestNG
13 5 (1.75%) Vite
14 4 (1.40%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.40%) Gradle
14 4 (1.40%) JMeter
General
1 75 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.23%) Finance
3 25 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.64%) Banking
5 16 (5.59%) Advertising
6 15 (5.24%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.15%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.80%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.45%) Marketing
10 5 (1.75%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.75%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.40%) Electronics
11 4 (1.40%) Games
11 4 (1.40%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.70%) Automotive
12 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (20.98%) Lead
2 53 (18.53%) Developer
3 38 (13.29%) Senior
4 36 (12.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 34 (11.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 20 (6.99%) Software Engineer
8 19 (6.64%) Java Developer
9 16 (5.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.55%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.20%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.20%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.85%) Java Engineer
12 11 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (3.85%) Security Engineer
13 10 (3.50%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (3.15%) Architect
14 9 (3.15%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (18.53%) Spring Boot
2 41 (14.34%) Spring
3 32 (11.19%) AngularJS
3 32 (11.19%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (10.84%) Kafka
5 27 (9.44%) Jest
6 25 (8.74%) Gherkin
7 22 (7.69%) React
8 21 (7.34%) RESTful
9 17 (5.94%) Node.js
10 14 (4.90%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.55%) pytest
11 13 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (4.55%) REST
12 11 (3.85%) AWS CDK
13 9 (3.15%) Apache NiFi
13 9 (3.15%) HTML
14 8 (2.80%) Django
14 8 (2.80%) gRPC
14 8 (2.80%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.58%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.29%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.50%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.15%) Private Cloud
6 8 (2.80%) Blockchain
6 8 (2.80%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.80%) Web3
7 7 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.45%) e-Learning
7 7 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.75%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.40%) PKI
10 3 (1.05%) Clustering
10 3 (1.05%) IoT
10 3 (1.05%) Robotics
10 3 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 78 (27.27%) Linux
2 25 (8.74%) Windows
3 8 (2.80%) Unix
3 8 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.40%) Debian
8 3 (1.05%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (79.72%) CI/CD
2 175 (61.19%) DevOps
3 130 (45.45%) Agile
4 123 (43.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (28.32%) Containerisation
6 79 (27.62%) Problem-Solving
7 60 (20.98%) Microservices
8 58 (20.28%) Software Engineering
8 58 (20.28%) Test Automation
9 52 (18.18%) Mentoring
10 50 (17.48%) Observability
11 43 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (15.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 42 (14.69%) Continuous Integration
13 39 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 38 (13.29%) Incident Response
15 37 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
16 36 (12.59%) DevSecOps
17 35 (12.24%) Scrum
18 31 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 153 (53.50%) Python
2 96 (33.57%) Java
3 83 (29.02%) Bash
4 62 (21.68%) TypeScript
5 57 (19.93%) SQL
6 37 (12.94%) JavaScript
7 34 (11.89%) Go
8 33 (11.54%) PowerShell
9 24 (8.39%) Groovy
10 13 (4.55%) Rust
11 12 (4.20%) C#
12 7 (2.45%) ANSI SQL
12 7 (2.45%) Delphi
13 6 (2.10%) Bicep
13 6 (2.10%) C++
14 4 (1.40%) C
14 4 (1.40%) Perl
15 2 (0.70%) Embedded C
16 1 (0.35%) PHP
16 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.84%) AWS Certification
2 31 (10.84%) Degree
3 30 (10.49%) DV Cleared
4 25 (8.74%) SC Cleared
5 13 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 12 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.50%) OSCP
8 9 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.80%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.40%) CCNA
11 4 (1.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.05%) CISSP
12 3 (1.05%) LPIC
13 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.59%) QA
2 11 (3.85%) NIST
3 8 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.10%) GDPR
5 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.75%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.75%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.70%) ECSS
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (43.71%) Docker
2 19 (6.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.85%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.40%) vSphere
6 3 (1.05%) Firmware
6 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.70%) NFS
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 132 (46.15%) Terraform
2 125 (43.71%) Kubernetes
3 81 (28.32%) Ansible
4 60 (20.98%) Grafana
5 58 (20.28%) Prometheus
6 25 (8.74%) HP Fortify
7 10 (3.50%) Kibana
7 10 (3.50%) Puppet
8 6 (2.10%) Argo
8 6 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.10%) Rancher
9 4 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.40%) logstash
9 4 (1.40%) Nagios
10 3 (1.05%) Istio
10 3 (1.05%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.05%) vRealize
10 3 (1.05%) WSUS
11 2 (0.70%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.70%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 38 (13.29%) Oracle
2 26 (9.09%) Splunk
3 20 (6.99%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.99%) VMware
4 16 (5.59%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.80%) Google
7 6 (2.10%) Cisco
7 6 (2.10%) SAP
8 5 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.40%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.05%) Dell
10 3 (1.05%) IBM
10 3 (1.05%) Juniper
11 2 (0.70%) Adobe
11 2 (0.70%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.70%) HP
11 2 (0.70%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.70%) New Relic
11 2 (0.70%) Veeam