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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 301 314
Rank change year-on-year -75 +13 -44
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 257 523 468
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.56% 0.86% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.08% 9.50% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 171 236 351
10th Percentile £51,804 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,250
% change year-on-year +7.14% +4.09% -9.84%

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 3,180 5,503 6,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.91% 9.04% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,127 3,045 4,949
10th Percentile £30,250 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,140 £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 £78,000 £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% +1.96%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 -56 111 £87,000 +2.35% 131
North of England +51 62 £67,500 +11.64% 49
North West +49 41 £63,750 +3.69% 35
South West -9 25 £73,750 +22.92% 39
Midlands +21 18 £57,600 -9.65% 29
South East -41 18 £77,500 +10.71% 64
Yorkshire +11 16 £77,500 +30.88% 8
East of England +30 15 £61,250 +6.52% 8
West Midlands +9 11 £60,000 - 21
East Midlands +25 7 £55,200 -21.14% 8
North East +10 5 £65,000 +12.14% 6
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 19 (7.39%) Confluence
2 10 (3.89%) Apache
3 6 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.95%) nginx
5 4 (1.56%) Camunda
6 3 (1.17%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.17%) IIS
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.17%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.17%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Simulink
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.39%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.39%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 166 (64.59%) AWS
2 99 (38.52%) Azure
3 49 (19.07%) GitHub
4 41 (15.95%) GCP
5 35 (13.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (10.51%) OpenShift
6 27 (10.51%) Serverless
7 26 (10.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (8.56%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (8.56%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (7.00%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (5.84%) Amazon S3
12 14 (5.45%) Datadog
13 10 (3.89%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (3.11%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.28%) Firewall
2 10 (3.89%) DNS
3 6 (2.33%) VPN
3 6 (2.33%) WAN
4 5 (1.95%) Network Security
5 4 (1.56%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.56%) VLAN
5 4 (1.56%) VSAN
6 3 (1.17%) OSPF
6 3 (1.17%) Skype
7 2 (0.78%) BGP
7 2 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.78%) HTTP
7 2 (0.78%) LAN
7 2 (0.78%) MQTT
7 2 (0.78%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.78%) SAN
7 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.62%) MongoDB
2 32 (12.45%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (11.67%) SQL Server
4 26 (10.12%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.61%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.11%) MySQL
7 8 (3.11%) Power BI
7 8 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.33%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.95%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.17%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.78%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.78%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.78%) Metadata
12 2 (0.78%) Redis
12 2 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 124 (48.25%) Jenkins
2 51 (19.84%) Git
3 33 (12.84%) Cucumber
4 30 (11.67%) JIRA
5 27 (10.51%) Selenium
6 23 (8.95%) JUnit
7 19 (7.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 18 (7.00%) Bitbucket
9 17 (6.61%) SonarQube
10 13 (5.06%) CircleCI
11 9 (3.50%) TeamCity
12 8 (3.11%) JMeter
13 7 (2.72%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.72%) Gatling
13 7 (2.72%) Postman
14 6 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (2.33%) Cypress.io
14 6 (2.33%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (1.95%) Maven
16 3 (1.17%) Mockito
General
1 75 (29.18%) Social Skills
2 72 (28.02%) Finance
3 37 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.56%) Banking
5 15 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.67%) Aerospace
7 11 (4.28%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.28%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.89%) Retail
9 9 (3.50%) Advertising
10 8 (3.11%) Electronics
11 7 (2.72%) Automotive
11 7 (2.72%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.33%) Games
12 6 (2.33%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.33%) Marketing
13 5 (1.95%) Law
14 4 (1.56%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.17%) Aviation
16 2 (0.78%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 48 (18.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (15.18%) Developer
3 34 (13.23%) Senior
4 33 (12.84%) Lead
5 27 (10.51%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (8.56%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
7 16 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (6.23%) Java Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.28%) Backend Developer
11 10 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (3.89%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.72%) Administrator
13 7 (2.72%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.01%) Spring
2 34 (13.23%) Spring Boot
3 27 (10.51%) Elastic Stack
3 27 (10.51%) React
4 25 (9.73%) Kafka
5 21 (8.17%) REST
6 20 (7.78%) Node.js
7 16 (6.23%) .NET
8 11 (4.28%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.28%) FastAPI
9 10 (3.89%) Hibernate
9 10 (3.89%) Playwright
10 9 (3.50%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.50%) pytest
11 8 (3.11%) CSS
11 8 (3.11%) Django
11 8 (3.11%) HTML
11 8 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (3.11%) RESTful
12 7 (2.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 46 (17.90%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.89%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.89%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.72%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.33%) Wiki
9 5 (1.95%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.95%) PKI
10 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.56%) Equities
10 4 (1.56%) FPGA
10 4 (1.56%) IoT
10 4 (1.56%) Verilog
10 4 (1.56%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 80 (31.13%) Linux
2 25 (9.73%) Windows
3 15 (5.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.28%) Ubuntu
4 11 (4.28%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.50%) Debian
6 5 (1.95%) Unix
7 4 (1.56%) Android
7 4 (1.56%) CentOS
7 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.39%) Fedora
9 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (74.71%) CI/CD
2 156 (60.70%) DevOps
3 110 (42.80%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (39.69%) Agile
5 85 (33.07%) Containerisation
6 55 (21.40%) Software Engineering
7 54 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (20.62%) Microservices
9 51 (19.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 48 (18.68%) Test Automation
11 44 (17.12%) Observability
12 43 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (14.79%) Platform Engineering
14 35 (13.62%) Mentoring
15 30 (11.67%) Scrum
16 29 (11.28%) Incident Response
17 28 (10.89%) Configuration Management
17 28 (10.89%) Continuous Integration
18 24 (9.34%) TDD
19 23 (8.95%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 137 (53.31%) Python
2 79 (30.74%) Java
3 56 (21.79%) Bash
4 51 (19.84%) SQL
5 42 (16.34%) PowerShell
6 38 (14.79%) JavaScript
7 36 (14.01%) TypeScript
8 18 (7.00%) C#
9 16 (6.23%) Go
10 15 (5.84%) C++
11 12 (4.67%) C
12 7 (2.72%) Bicep
12 7 (2.72%) Delphi
12 7 (2.72%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.33%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (1.56%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.17%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.17%) Groovy
15 3 (1.17%) Ruby
15 3 (1.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.89%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.39%) AWS Certification
3 19 (7.39%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.00%) Degree
5 12 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.11%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.33%) CCNA
7 6 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.78%) CCNP
10 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.39%) CISM
11 1 (0.39%) CISSP
11 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.39%) OSCP
11 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.45%) QA
2 5 (1.95%) GDPR
3 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.17%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.78%) ECSS
5 2 (0.78%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (39.69%) Docker
2 17 (6.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.89%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.95%) vSphere
5 4 (1.56%) Firmware
6 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.17%) vCloud
7 2 (0.78%) NFS
7 2 (0.78%) Squid
7 2 (0.78%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 128 (49.81%) Kubernetes
2 97 (37.74%) Terraform
3 77 (29.96%) Ansible
4 65 (25.29%) Grafana
5 58 (22.57%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.45%) Kibana
7 6 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.33%) Puppet
8 5 (1.95%) Argo
9 4 (1.56%) Rancher
9 4 (1.56%) vRealize
9 4 (1.56%) WSUS
10 3 (1.17%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.17%) logstash
10 3 (1.17%) Nessus
10 3 (1.17%) Rundeck
10 3 (1.17%) SCOM
11 2 (0.78%) Istio
11 2 (0.78%) Nagios
11 2 (0.78%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 36 (14.01%) Oracle
2 25 (9.73%) VMware
3 21 (8.17%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.17%) Splunk
4 19 (7.39%) Atlassian
5 11 (4.28%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.33%) AppDynamics
7 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.95%) SAP
7 5 (1.95%) Sonatype
8 4 (1.56%) Cisco
8 4 (1.56%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.17%) Databricks
9 3 (1.17%) Google
9 3 (1.17%) HP
10 2 (0.78%) Citrix
10 2 (0.78%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.78%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.78%) Starlink
10 2 (0.78%) Ubiquiti