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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 316 290
Rank change year-on-year -28 -26 -16
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 272 436 464
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 0.87% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.72% 8.33% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 190 208 362
10th Percentile £51,748 £44,775 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,688 £50,063
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 3,118 5,234 5,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.92% 10.47% 12.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,158 3,054 4,583
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,875 £96,250 £102,500
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 27 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 27 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 -37 100 £85,000 - 160
North of England +52 79 £75,000 +19.56% 138
Yorkshire +23 38 £80,000 +38.02% 66
North West +28 34 £67,500 +3.85% 63
South West -34 24 £74,500 +24.17% 95
South East -39 22 £80,250 +11.46% 127
Midlands +12 20 £57,600 -14.67% 91
East of England +32 15 £61,250 -14.04% 82
West Midlands +12 14 £63,750 +6.25% 53
North East +16 7 £66,250 +14.29% 9
East Midlands -3 6 £53,600 -28.53% 33
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 (4.41%) Apache
1 12 (4.41%) Confluence
2 9 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.84%) IIS
3 5 (1.84%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.47%) Camunda
4 4 (1.47%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.10%) Apache Superset
5 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.10%) nginx
5 3 (1.10%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Simulink
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 168 (61.76%) AWS
2 116 (42.65%) Azure
3 59 (21.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 50 (18.38%) GCP
4 50 (18.38%) GitHub
5 49 (18.01%) Serverless
6 42 (15.44%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (11.40%) Amazon ECS
8 31 (11.40%) Amazon S3
9 28 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (10.29%) OpenShift
10 26 (9.56%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (7.35%) Amazon ECR
11 20 (7.35%) AWS Step Functions
12 19 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (6.25%) Apigee
14 16 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (3.68%) Datadog
15 10 (3.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.09%) DNS
2 10 (3.68%) Firewall
3 5 (1.84%) VPN
4 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.47%) VSAN
4 4 (1.47%) WAN
5 3 (1.10%) Network Security
5 3 (1.10%) Skype
5 3 (1.10%) VLAN
6 2 (0.74%) BGP
6 2 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.74%) DSL
6 2 (0.74%) HTTP
6 2 (0.74%) LAN
6 2 (0.74%) MQTT
6 2 (0.74%) OSPF
6 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.74%) RTMP
6 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 30 (11.03%) SQL Server
3 28 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (9.19%) DynamoDB
5 24 (8.82%) NoSQL
6 15 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.68%) MySQL
9 9 (3.31%) Power BI
10 7 (2.57%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.84%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.47%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.47%) CockroachDB
12 4 (1.47%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.10%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.10%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 143 (52.57%) Jenkins
2 67 (24.63%) Git
3 29 (10.66%) SonarQube
4 24 (8.82%) Cucumber
4 24 (8.82%) Cypress.io
4 24 (8.82%) JIRA
5 23 (8.46%) Selenium
6 22 (8.09%) Maven
7 20 (7.35%) Bitbucket
7 20 (7.35%) JUnit
8 12 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (4.04%) CircleCI
10 10 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (3.68%) Postman
11 9 (3.31%) JMeter
12 7 (2.57%) Gatling
13 6 (2.21%) Artifactory
13 6 (2.21%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.84%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.84%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 58 (21.32%) Finance
3 31 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.72%) Banking
5 16 (5.88%) Advertising
6 14 (5.15%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.31%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.94%) Marketing
9 7 (2.57%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.21%) Games
10 6 (2.21%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.84%) Electronics
11 5 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.84%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.84%) Retail
12 3 (1.10%) Aviation
13 2 (0.74%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.74%) Automotive
13 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (23.90%) Lead
2 46 (16.91%) Developer
3 42 (15.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (11.40%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (10.29%) Senior
6 27 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
7 19 (6.99%) Software Engineer
8 18 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.51%) Lead DevOps
10 14 (5.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (5.15%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.15%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.78%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.41%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.04%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.68%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.31%) Java Developer
16 8 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
16 8 (2.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (16.18%) Spring Boot
2 37 (13.60%) Spring
3 28 (10.29%) AngularJS
4 27 (9.93%) Elastic Stack
5 22 (8.09%) React
6 20 (7.35%) REST
7 19 (6.99%) Node.js
8 18 (6.62%) Jest
8 18 (6.62%) Kafka
9 17 (6.25%) Gherkin
10 14 (5.15%) FastAPI
11 13 (4.78%) RESTful
12 11 (4.04%) .NET
12 11 (4.04%) Playwright
12 11 (4.04%) pytest
13 9 (3.31%) Django
13 9 (3.31%) HTML
14 8 (2.94%) CSS
14 8 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (2.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.49%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.68%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.47%) PKI
10 3 (1.10%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.10%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.10%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.10%) IoT
10 3 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.10%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.10%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 79 (29.04%) Linux
2 27 (9.93%) Windows
3 16 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.94%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.57%) Unix
7 6 (2.21%) Debian
8 5 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.47%) CentOS
10 1 (0.37%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 174 (63.97%) DevOps
3 122 (44.85%) Agile
4 109 (40.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (29.78%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (29.04%) Containerisation
7 48 (17.65%) Microservices
7 48 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 46 (16.91%) Test Automation
9 45 (16.54%) Observability
10 44 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (16.18%) Mentoring
11 43 (15.81%) Software Engineering
12 41 (15.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 39 (14.34%) Incident Response
14 34 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
15 33 (12.13%) Scrum
16 30 (11.03%) Continuous Integration
16 30 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (9.93%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 137 (50.37%) Python
2 88 (32.35%) Java
3 73 (26.84%) Bash
4 57 (20.96%) SQL
4 57 (20.96%) TypeScript
5 40 (14.71%) PowerShell
6 38 (13.97%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.99%) Go
8 18 (6.62%) Groovy
9 14 (5.15%) C#
10 9 (3.31%) ANSI SQL
11 8 (2.94%) C
11 8 (2.94%) C++
12 7 (2.57%) Bicep
12 7 (2.57%) Delphi
13 4 (1.47%) Rust
14 3 (1.10%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.74%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.74%) Ruby
15 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.29%) DV Cleared
3 26 (9.56%) AWS Certification
4 23 (8.46%) Degree
5 19 (6.99%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.68%) ISTQB
8 6 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
9 5 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (1.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.10%) CCNA
11 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.10%) OSCP
12 2 (0.74%) CISSP
13 1 (0.37%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.60%) QA
2 7 (2.57%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.84%) GDPR
4 4 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.47%) NIST
5 2 (0.74%) ECSS
5 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 110 (40.44%) Docker
2 19 (6.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.31%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.84%) Firmware
5 4 (1.47%) vSphere
6 3 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.74%) NFS
7 2 (0.74%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) Squid
8 1 (0.37%) vCloud
8 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 119 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 112 (41.18%) Terraform
3 79 (29.04%) Ansible
4 61 (22.43%) Grafana
5 55 (20.22%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.25%) HP Fortify
7 8 (2.94%) Kibana
8 7 (2.57%) Argo
8 7 (2.57%) Puppet
9 6 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.21%) Rancher
10 4 (1.47%) vRealize
11 3 (1.10%) Istio
11 3 (1.10%) Nagios
11 3 (1.10%) SCOM
11 3 (1.10%) WSUS
12 2 (0.74%) Nessus
12 2 (0.74%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (15.07%) Oracle
2 23 (8.46%) VMware
3 22 (8.09%) Splunk
4 20 (7.35%) Microsoft
5 18 (6.62%) Atlassian
6 15 (5.51%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.57%) SAP
8 5 (1.84%) Google
9 4 (1.47%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.47%) Cisco
9 4 (1.47%) HP
9 4 (1.47%) Sonatype
10 3 (1.10%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.74%) Databricks
11 2 (0.74%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.74%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.74%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.74%) Starlink
11 2 (0.74%) Ubiquiti