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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 338 290
Rank change year-on-year -17 -48 -9
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 275 396 558
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.83% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.52% 7.95% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 186 175 452
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,250 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,344 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £88,250 £90,000 £87,875
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +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 3,226 4,982 6,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.86% 10.42% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,169 2,822 5,319
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,702 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 24 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 24 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 -15 101 £87,250 -3.06% 64
North of England +49 81 £75,000 +15.38% 56
Yorkshire +8 43 £78,750 +52.97% 18
North West +25 31 £65,000 -3.70% 34
South West -18 29 £73,500 +17.60% 44
South East -27 25 £80,250 +10.69% 89
Midlands +3 18 £55,200 -21.14% 22
West Midlands +23 12 £60,000 -12.73% 8
East of England +24 11 £67,500 -6.90% 30
North East +5 7 £66,250 -5.36% 4
East Midlands -2 6 £53,600 -28.53% 13
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 (5.45%) Apache
2 14 (5.09%) Confluence
3 9 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.82%) IIS
4 5 (1.82%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.45%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.09%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.09%) nginx
6 3 (1.09%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.36%) Camunda
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 174 (63.27%) AWS
2 108 (39.27%) Azure
3 75 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 58 (21.09%) Serverless
5 54 (19.64%) GitHub
6 52 (18.91%) AWS Lambda
7 50 (18.18%) GCP
8 38 (13.82%) Amazon S3
9 35 (12.73%) Amazon ECS
10 31 (11.27%) OpenShift
11 29 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (10.18%) AWS Step Functions
12 28 (10.18%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
14 22 (8.00%) Apigee
15 19 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (5.09%) Datadog
18 13 (4.73%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.45%) DNS
2 12 (4.36%) Firewall
3 7 (2.55%) VPN
4 6 (2.18%) DSL
5 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.45%) BGP
6 4 (1.45%) DHCP
6 4 (1.45%) VSAN
6 4 (1.45%) WAN
7 3 (1.09%) Skype
7 3 (1.09%) VLAN
8 2 (0.73%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.73%) MQTT
8 2 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.73%) RTMP
8 2 (0.73%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.73%) VPLS
8 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.00%) DynamoDB
1 33 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 32 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (11.27%) SQL Server
4 30 (10.91%) MongoDB
5 16 (5.82%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (4.00%) MySQL
8 9 (3.27%) Power BI
9 5 (1.82%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.82%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.82%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.45%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.09%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.09%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 152 (55.27%) Jenkins
2 66 (24.00%) Git
3 34 (12.36%) SonarQube
4 31 (11.27%) Cypress.io
5 28 (10.18%) JIRA
6 27 (9.82%) Maven
7 26 (9.45%) Cucumber
8 23 (8.36%) Selenium
9 21 (7.64%) JUnit
10 18 (6.55%) Bitbucket
11 12 (4.36%) CircleCI
12 10 (3.64%) Postman
13 8 (2.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (2.55%) REST Assured
15 6 (2.18%) JMeter
15 6 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (2.18%) Vite
16 5 (1.82%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.82%) TestNG
17 4 (1.45%) Gradle
General
1 73 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.73%) Finance
3 27 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.00%) Banking
5 16 (5.82%) Advertising
6 14 (5.09%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.27%) Aerospace
8 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.55%) Marketing
9 6 (2.18%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.82%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.82%) Games
10 5 (1.82%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.45%) Electronics
12 3 (1.09%) Retail
13 2 (0.73%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.73%) Automotive
13 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (21.82%) Lead
2 54 (19.64%) Developer
3 35 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (11.64%) Senior
5 28 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
7 21 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 20 (7.27%) Software Engineer
9 17 (6.18%) Java Developer
10 14 (5.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (4.36%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (4.36%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.36%) Software Developer
12 11 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.27%) Java Engineer
13 9 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (2.91%) Architect
14 8 (2.91%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (17.82%) Spring Boot
2 39 (14.18%) Spring
3 32 (11.64%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (11.27%) AngularJS
5 24 (8.73%) Jest
6 23 (8.36%) Kafka
6 23 (8.36%) React
7 22 (8.00%) Gherkin
8 20 (7.27%) RESTful
9 17 (6.18%) REST
10 16 (5.82%) Node.js
11 15 (5.45%) FastAPI
12 13 (4.73%) pytest
13 11 (4.00%) HTML
13 11 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
14 10 (3.64%) CSS
14 10 (3.64%) Playwright
15 9 (3.27%) Apache NiFi
15 9 (3.27%) Django
16 8 (2.91%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.36%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.00%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.27%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.18%) Blockchain
6 6 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.18%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.18%) PKI
6 6 (2.18%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.18%) Web3
7 5 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.82%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.45%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.09%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 78 (28.36%) Linux
2 30 (10.91%) Windows
3 12 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.91%) Unix
6 7 (2.55%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.82%) Debian
7 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.09%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (76.36%) CI/CD
2 171 (62.18%) DevOps
3 120 (43.64%) Agile
4 111 (40.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (28.73%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (28.36%) Containerisation
7 56 (20.36%) Test Automation
8 52 (18.91%) Software Engineering
9 51 (18.55%) Microservices
10 49 (17.82%) Mentoring
11 45 (16.36%) Observability
12 43 (15.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 40 (14.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 39 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 38 (13.82%) Incident Response
16 36 (13.09%) Continuous Integration
17 35 (12.73%) Technical Leadership
18 32 (11.64%) Platform Engineering
19 30 (10.91%) DevSecOps
19 30 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 143 (52.00%) Python
2 95 (34.55%) Java
3 80 (29.09%) Bash
4 63 (22.91%) TypeScript
5 60 (21.82%) SQL
6 39 (14.18%) JavaScript
7 37 (13.45%) PowerShell
8 28 (10.18%) Go
9 21 (7.64%) Groovy
10 12 (4.36%) C#
11 9 (3.27%) ANSI SQL
11 9 (3.27%) Rust
12 7 (2.55%) Bicep
12 7 (2.55%) Delphi
13 5 (1.82%) C
13 5 (1.82%) C++
14 3 (1.09%) Embedded C
14 3 (1.09%) Perl
15 2 (0.73%) PHP
16 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.27%) DV Cleared
3 28 (10.18%) AWS Certification
4 26 (9.45%) Degree
5 22 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 14 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (3.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (3.27%) ISTQB
9 8 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.55%) OSCP
11 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.45%) CCNA
12 4 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.73%) CISSP
14 2 (0.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.73%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.73%) QA
2 8 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.55%) NIST
4 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.45%) GDPR
5 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.73%) ECSS
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 2 (0.73%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (42.91%) Docker
2 21 (7.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.36%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.18%) vSphere
5 5 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.45%) Firmware
7 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.09%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.73%) NFS
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 122 (44.36%) Kubernetes
2 119 (43.27%) Terraform
3 79 (28.73%) Ansible
4 59 (21.45%) Grafana
5 54 (19.64%) Prometheus
6 22 (8.00%) HP Fortify
7 9 (3.27%) Kibana
8 8 (2.91%) Puppet
9 7 (2.55%) Rancher
10 6 (2.18%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.82%) Argo
11 5 (1.82%) WSUS
12 4 (1.45%) logstash
12 4 (1.45%) vRealize
13 3 (1.09%) Istio
13 3 (1.09%) Nagios
13 3 (1.09%) SCOM
13 3 (1.09%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.73%) Nessus
14 2 (0.73%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 40 (14.55%) Oracle
2 25 (9.09%) Splunk
3 24 (8.73%) VMware
4 20 (7.27%) Microsoft
5 16 (5.82%) Atlassian
6 14 (5.09%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.55%) Google
8 6 (2.18%) SAP
9 5 (1.82%) Cisco
9 5 (1.82%) HP
9 5 (1.82%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.45%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.09%) Dell
12 2 (0.73%) Adobe
12 2 (0.73%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.73%) Juniper
12 2 (0.73%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.73%) New Relic
12 2 (0.73%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.73%) Veeam