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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 350 319
Rank change year-on-year +5 -31 -43
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 312 349 575
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.80% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.26% 7.47% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 206 162 481
10th Percentile £47,125 £47,231 £35,920
25th Percentile £61,313 £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 £105,000 £102,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -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 3,369 4,672 7,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.54% 10.72% 10.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,288 2,749 5,796
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% -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 22 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 22 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 +3 115 £85,000 -5.56% 77
North of England +28 87 £67,500 -1.82% 39
Yorkshire +8 54 £77,500 +28.17% 12
South East -19 46 £72,500 -6.45% 60
South West -35 30 £72,500 +16.00% 19
North West +3 26 £65,000 -5.45% 20
Midlands -8 16 £55,200 -19.71% 20
West Midlands +9 13 £56,350 -6.08% 17
East of England +15 8 £67,500 -6.90% 17
North East -9 7 £66,250 -5.36% 7
East Midlands -25 3 £55,200 -31.00% 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 14 (4.49%) Apache
1 14 (4.49%) Confluence
2 9 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.60%) IIS
3 5 (1.60%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.60%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.64%) JBoss
6 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.64%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 201 (64.42%) AWS
2 125 (40.06%) Azure
3 101 (32.37%) AWS CloudFormation
4 79 (25.32%) Serverless
5 67 (21.47%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (21.15%) GitHub
7 57 (18.27%) GCP
8 48 (15.38%) Amazon S3
9 44 (14.10%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (13.46%) GitHub Actions
11 41 (13.14%) AWS Step Functions
12 35 (11.22%) Amazon ECR
12 35 (11.22%) OpenShift
13 34 (10.90%) Apigee
14 31 (9.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 29 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
16 23 (7.37%) Datadog
17 19 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
19 15 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.65%) DNS
2 19 (6.09%) Firewall
3 10 (3.21%) DSL
4 9 (2.88%) VPN
5 6 (1.92%) BGP
5 6 (1.92%) DHCP
5 6 (1.92%) WAN
6 5 (1.60%) MQTT
6 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.28%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.28%) LAN
7 4 (1.28%) MPLS
7 4 (1.28%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.28%) VoIP
7 4 (1.28%) VPLS
8 3 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.96%) HTTP
8 3 (0.96%) VLAN
9 2 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (14.42%) DynamoDB
2 40 (12.82%) NoSQL
3 28 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (8.01%) MongoDB
4 25 (8.01%) SQL Server
5 16 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.88%) MySQL
8 7 (2.24%) Power BI
9 5 (1.60%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.28%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.28%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.28%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.28%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.96%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.96%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.96%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 167 (53.53%) Jenkins
2 78 (25.00%) Git
3 43 (13.78%) SonarQube
4 36 (11.54%) Maven
5 35 (11.22%) Cypress.io
6 32 (10.26%) JIRA
7 28 (8.97%) Cucumber
8 23 (7.37%) Selenium
9 19 (6.09%) CircleCI
10 17 (5.45%) JUnit
11 14 (4.49%) Bitbucket
12 11 (3.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (2.88%) Postman
14 6 (1.92%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.60%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.60%) TestNG
16 4 (1.28%) Vite
17 3 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
17 3 (0.96%) TestRail
17 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 85 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 62 (19.87%) Finance
3 32 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.09%) Banking
4 19 (6.09%) Telecoms
5 17 (5.45%) Advertising
6 9 (2.88%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.56%) Marketing
8 7 (2.24%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.92%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.92%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.28%) Electronics
11 4 (1.28%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.96%) Games
12 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.64%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.64%) Front Office
13 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (19.55%) Developer
2 60 (19.23%) Lead
3 44 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (13.46%) Senior
5 37 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (8.65%) Java Developer
7 25 (8.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
9 20 (6.41%) Software Engineer
10 18 (5.77%) Senior Developer
11 16 (5.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.49%) Security Engineer
13 12 (3.85%) Architect
13 12 (3.85%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.53%) AWS Developer
14 11 (3.53%) Java Engineer
14 11 (3.53%) Principal Engineer
15 10 (3.21%) AWS Architect
15 10 (3.21%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (19.23%) Spring Boot
2 42 (13.46%) Spring
3 38 (12.18%) AngularJS
3 38 (12.18%) Kafka
4 34 (10.90%) Elastic Stack
5 33 (10.58%) Jest
6 31 (9.94%) Gherkin
7 22 (7.05%) React
7 22 (7.05%) RESTful
8 18 (5.77%) Node.js
9 16 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (5.13%) REST
10 13 (4.17%) AWS CDK
10 13 (4.17%) pytest
11 11 (3.53%) FastAPI
12 10 (3.21%) Apache NiFi
13 9 (2.88%) gRPC
13 9 (2.88%) Vue
13 9 (2.88%) web3js
14 8 (2.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 59 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.21%) Cloud Security Posture
6 10 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.88%) Blockchain
7 9 (2.88%) Web3
8 8 (2.56%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.56%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.24%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.24%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.60%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.60%) PKI
11 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.96%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.96%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 82 (26.28%) Linux
2 31 (9.94%) Windows
3 12 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.21%) Unix
5 9 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.92%) CentOS
7 6 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.60%) Debian
8 5 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.32%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (81.09%) CI/CD
2 199 (63.78%) DevOps
3 142 (45.51%) Agile
4 137 (43.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 91 (29.17%) Containerisation
6 87 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (22.44%) Microservices
8 61 (19.55%) Software Engineering
9 60 (19.23%) Test Automation
10 58 (18.59%) Observability
11 57 (18.27%) Mentoring
12 55 (17.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (15.71%) Continuous Integration
14 45 (14.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 41 (13.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 40 (12.82%) Technical Leadership
17 39 (12.50%) DevSecOps
17 39 (12.50%) Incident Response
18 38 (12.18%) Scrum
19 32 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (52.24%) Python
2 103 (33.01%) Java
3 92 (29.49%) Bash
4 64 (20.51%) TypeScript
5 60 (19.23%) SQL
6 40 (12.82%) JavaScript
7 38 (12.18%) Go
8 35 (11.22%) PowerShell
9 30 (9.62%) Groovy
10 16 (5.13%) Rust
11 12 (3.85%) C#
12 7 (2.24%) ANSI SQL
12 7 (2.24%) C++
12 7 (2.24%) Delphi
13 6 (1.92%) Bicep
14 4 (1.28%) Perl
15 3 (0.96%) C
16 2 (0.64%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.64%) PHP
16 2 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.86%) AWS Certification
2 37 (11.86%) Degree
3 33 (10.58%) DV Cleared
4 25 (8.01%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.13%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (4.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.85%) OSCP
8 8 (2.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 8 (2.56%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.60%) CCNA
10 5 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.96%) CISSP
11 3 (0.96%) LPIC
11 3 (0.96%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.18%) QA
2 13 (4.17%) NIST
3 9 (2.88%) GDPR
4 8 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.24%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.24%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.92%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.64%) ECSS
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 138 (44.23%) Docker
2 20 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.60%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.60%) vSphere
6 2 (0.64%) Firmware
6 2 (0.64%) NFS
6 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.32%) Squid
Systems Management
1 146 (46.79%) Terraform
2 138 (44.23%) Kubernetes
3 88 (28.21%) Ansible
4 64 (20.51%) Grafana
5 63 (20.19%) Prometheus
6 31 (9.94%) HP Fortify
7 10 (3.21%) Puppet
8 9 (2.88%) Kibana
9 7 (2.24%) Argo
9 7 (2.24%) Nagios
10 6 (1.92%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (1.60%) Rancher
12 4 (1.28%) logstash
12 4 (1.28%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.28%) WSUS
13 3 (0.96%) Istio
13 3 (0.96%) VxRail
14 2 (0.64%) Sysdig
14 2 (0.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (10.90%) Oracle
2 31 (9.94%) Splunk
3 24 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 22 (7.05%) VMware
5 18 (5.77%) Red Hat
6 13 (4.17%) Atlassian
7 10 (3.21%) Cisco
8 8 (2.56%) Google
9 6 (1.92%) SAP
10 5 (1.60%) Juniper
11 4 (1.28%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.28%) Dell
11 4 (1.28%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.28%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.96%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (0.96%) F5
12 3 (0.96%) IBM
13 2 (0.64%) Adobe
13 2 (0.64%) HP
13 2 (0.64%) Salesforce