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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 331 302
Rank change year-on-year -38 -29 -25
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 279 382 581
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.82% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.57% 7.78% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 187 173 479
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £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 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -11.86%

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 3,254 4,913 6,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.80% 10.49% 11.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,201 2,763 5,657
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,796 £60,781
% change year-on-year -1.31% +0.02% -6.49%

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 31 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 31 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 -17 102 £88,750 +1.43% 74
North of England +32 81 £75,000 +13.21% 45
Yorkshire +20 46 £77,500 +50.54% 13
South East -23 29 £82,500 +13.79% 68
North West +20 28 £65,000 -3.70% 30
South West -22 28 £74,500 +19.20% 25
Midlands +1 17 £57,600 -17.71% 14
West Midlands +11 12 £60,000 -12.73% 10
East of England +25 11 £67,500 -6.90% 15
North East +4 7 £66,250 -5.36% 2
East Midlands -5 5 £55,200 -26.40% 4
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 (5.38%) Apache
2 14 (5.02%) Confluence
3 9 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.79%) IIS
4 5 (1.79%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.43%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.08%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.72%) nginx
7 2 (0.72%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.08%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 180 (64.52%) AWS
2 112 (40.14%) Azure
3 80 (28.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 62 (22.22%) Serverless
5 56 (20.07%) GitHub
6 55 (19.71%) AWS Lambda
7 52 (18.64%) GCP
8 41 (14.70%) Amazon S3
9 37 (13.26%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (11.11%) OpenShift
11 30 (10.75%) AWS Step Functions
12 28 (10.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (10.04%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (9.68%) Amazon ECR
14 24 (8.60%) Apigee
15 19 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (5.73%) Datadog
18 13 (4.66%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.68%) DNS
2 13 (4.66%) Firewall
3 8 (2.87%) VPN
4 6 (2.15%) DSL
5 5 (1.79%) BGP
5 5 (1.79%) DHCP
5 5 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.79%) WAN
6 3 (1.08%) Asterisk PBX
6 3 (1.08%) LAN
6 3 (1.08%) MPLS
6 3 (1.08%) MQTT
6 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.08%) VLAN
6 3 (1.08%) VoIP
6 3 (1.08%) VPLS
6 3 (1.08%) VSAN
7 2 (0.72%) RTMP
7 2 (0.72%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.90%) DynamoDB
1 36 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 32 (11.47%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (10.75%) MongoDB
4 29 (10.39%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.58%) MySQL
8 8 (2.87%) Power BI
9 5 (1.79%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.79%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.43%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.43%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.08%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.08%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 154 (55.20%) Jenkins
2 70 (25.09%) Git
3 34 (12.19%) SonarQube
4 30 (10.75%) Cypress.io
5 29 (10.39%) JIRA
5 29 (10.39%) Maven
6 25 (8.96%) Cucumber
7 21 (7.53%) Selenium
8 19 (6.81%) JUnit
9 16 (5.73%) Bitbucket
10 14 (5.02%) CircleCI
11 9 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (2.87%) Postman
13 6 (2.15%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.79%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.79%) TestNG
14 5 (1.79%) Vite
15 4 (1.43%) Artifactory
15 4 (1.43%) Gradle
15 4 (1.43%) JMeter
General
1 71 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 56 (20.07%) Finance
3 25 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.53%) Banking
5 15 (5.38%) Advertising
6 14 (5.02%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.23%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.87%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.51%) Marketing
10 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.79%) Games
10 5 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.79%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.43%) Electronics
12 2 (0.72%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.72%) Automotive
12 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (21.86%) Lead
2 52 (18.64%) Developer
3 38 (13.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 34 (12.19%) Senior
5 31 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (7.17%) Software Engineer
9 19 (6.81%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.30%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.30%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (4.30%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.30%) Senior Developer
12 11 (3.94%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.58%) Java Engineer
13 10 (3.58%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (3.23%) Security Engineer
14 9 (3.23%) Software Developer
15 8 (2.87%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (18.64%) Spring Boot
2 40 (14.34%) Spring
3 32 (11.47%) AngularJS
3 32 (11.47%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (9.68%) Kafka
5 26 (9.32%) Jest
6 24 (8.60%) Gherkin
7 22 (7.89%) React
8 21 (7.53%) RESTful
9 16 (5.73%) Node.js
10 14 (5.02%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.66%) pytest
11 13 (4.66%) REST
12 12 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (3.58%) HTML
14 9 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
15 8 (2.87%) .NET
15 8 (2.87%) AWS CDK
15 8 (2.87%) CSS
15 8 (2.87%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.66%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.94%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.58%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.51%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.51%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.51%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.51%) Web3
8 6 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (2.15%) e-Learning
8 6 (2.15%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.15%) PKI
9 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.08%) IoT
10 3 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 78 (27.96%) Linux
2 28 (10.04%) Windows
3 10 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.51%) Unix
6 6 (2.15%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.43%) Debian
9 3 (1.08%) CentOS
10 1 (0.36%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (77.42%) CI/CD
2 174 (62.37%) DevOps
3 128 (45.88%) Agile
4 118 (42.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (28.67%) Containerisation
6 78 (27.96%) Problem-Solving
7 56 (20.07%) Microservices
7 56 (20.07%) Software Engineering
8 55 (19.71%) Test Automation
9 51 (18.28%) Mentoring
10 49 (17.56%) Observability
11 45 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 41 (14.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 40 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (13.98%) Continuous Integration
15 37 (13.26%) Incident Response
16 36 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
17 33 (11.83%) Scrum
18 32 (11.47%) DevSecOps
19 31 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 146 (52.33%) Python
2 96 (34.41%) Java
3 82 (29.39%) Bash
4 62 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 58 (20.79%) SQL
6 37 (13.26%) JavaScript
6 37 (13.26%) PowerShell
7 31 (11.11%) Go
8 23 (8.24%) Groovy
9 13 (4.66%) C#
10 9 (3.23%) Rust
11 8 (2.87%) ANSI SQL
12 7 (2.51%) Bicep
12 7 (2.51%) Delphi
13 6 (2.15%) C++
14 5 (1.79%) C
15 3 (1.08%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.08%) Perl
16 1 (0.36%) PHP
16 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 31 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 28 (10.04%) Degree
4 24 (8.60%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.30%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (3.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.87%) ISTQB
9 7 (2.51%) OSCP
10 5 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.79%) CCNA
10 5 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.72%) CISSP
13 2 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.54%) QA
2 8 (2.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.87%) NIST
3 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.79%) GDPR
4 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.08%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.72%) ECSS
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 122 (43.73%) Docker
2 21 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.30%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.15%) vSphere
5 5 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.43%) Firmware
6 4 (1.43%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.72%) NFS
8 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 125 (44.80%) Terraform
2 124 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 83 (29.75%) Ansible
4 60 (21.51%) Grafana
5 55 (19.71%) Prometheus
6 24 (8.60%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.23%) Kibana
8 8 (2.87%) Puppet
9 7 (2.51%) Rancher
10 6 (2.15%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.79%) Argo
11 5 (1.79%) WSUS
12 4 (1.43%) logstash
12 4 (1.43%) vRealize
13 3 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.08%) Istio
13 3 (1.08%) Nagios
13 3 (1.08%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.72%) Nessus
14 2 (0.72%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 39 (13.98%) Oracle
2 25 (8.96%) Splunk
3 23 (8.24%) VMware
4 20 (7.17%) Microsoft
5 16 (5.73%) Atlassian
6 12 (4.30%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.87%) Google
8 6 (2.15%) SAP
9 5 (1.79%) Cisco
9 5 (1.79%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.43%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.43%) HP
11 3 (1.08%) Dell
12 2 (0.72%) Adobe
12 2 (0.72%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.72%) IBM
12 2 (0.72%) Juniper
12 2 (0.72%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.72%) New Relic
12 2 (0.72%) Veeam