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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 333 291
Rank change year-on-year -23 -42 -2
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 263 400 495
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.83% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.42% 8.03% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 183 180 396
10th Percentile £51,923 £44,216 £35,920
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £105,625
UK median annual salary £77,500 £71,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% +9.23% -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 3,122 4,983 5,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.94% 10.39% 11.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,131 2,842 4,691
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,603 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,722 £100,000
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 13 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 13 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 -26 94 £87,000 +2.35% 59
North of England +66 80 £75,000 +15.38% 56
Yorkshire +20 41 £80,000 +55.39% 25
North West +35 32 £65,000 - 26
South West -20 24 £73,500 +22.50% 41
South East -39 23 £78,000 +7.59% 66
Midlands +13 20 £57,600 -17.71% 24
West Midlands +11 14 £63,750 -5.56% 14
East of England +25 11 £67,500 -5.26% 25
North East +8 7 £66,250 -5.36% 5
East Midlands -8 6 £53,600 -28.53% 9
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 13 (4.94%) Confluence
2 12 (4.56%) Apache
3 9 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.90%) IIS
4 5 (1.90%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.52%) Camunda
5 4 (1.52%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.14%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.14%) nginx
6 3 (1.14%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.14%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 162 (61.60%) AWS
2 111 (42.21%) Azure
3 63 (23.95%) AWS CloudFormation
4 52 (19.77%) GitHub
4 52 (19.77%) Serverless
5 49 (18.63%) GCP
6 47 (17.87%) AWS Lambda
7 36 (13.69%) Amazon S3
8 34 (12.93%) Amazon ECS
9 30 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (11.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (10.65%) OpenShift
12 27 (10.27%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (8.75%) Amazon ECR
13 23 (8.75%) AWS Step Functions
14 20 (7.60%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (7.60%) Apigee
15 15 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (4.56%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (4.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.37%) DNS
2 10 (3.80%) Firewall
3 5 (1.90%) VPN
4 4 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.52%) VSAN
5 3 (1.14%) DSL
5 3 (1.14%) Skype
5 3 (1.14%) VLAN
6 2 (0.76%) BGP
6 2 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.76%) HTTP
6 2 (0.76%) MQTT
6 2 (0.76%) OSPF
6 2 (0.76%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.76%) RTMP
6 2 (0.76%) SSL
6 2 (0.76%) WAN
6 2 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.76%) Wireless
7 1 (0.38%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.79%) MongoDB
2 30 (11.41%) SQL Server
3 29 (11.03%) DynamoDB
3 29 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (10.27%) NoSQL
5 15 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.80%) MySQL
8 9 (3.42%) Power BI
9 7 (2.66%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.90%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.90%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.52%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.14%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.14%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 144 (54.75%) Jenkins
2 62 (23.57%) Git
3 33 (12.55%) SonarQube
4 28 (10.65%) Cypress.io
5 25 (9.51%) JIRA
6 24 (9.13%) Maven
7 21 (7.98%) Cucumber
7 21 (7.98%) JUnit
7 21 (7.98%) Selenium
8 20 (7.60%) Bitbucket
9 11 (4.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (3.80%) CircleCI
10 10 (3.80%) Postman
11 8 (3.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.66%) REST Assured
13 6 (2.28%) Artifactory
13 6 (2.28%) JMeter
14 5 (1.90%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.90%) TestNG
15 4 (1.52%) Gradle
General
1 71 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.01%) Finance
3 28 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.98%) Banking
5 16 (6.08%) Advertising
6 15 (5.70%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.42%) Aerospace
8 8 (3.04%) Marketing
9 7 (2.66%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.28%) Games
10 6 (2.28%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.90%) Electronics
11 5 (1.90%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.90%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.76%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.76%) Automotive
13 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.76%) Law
13 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (23.95%) Lead
2 52 (19.77%) Developer
3 40 (15.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (12.17%) Senior
5 27 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (9.89%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (6.46%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.70%) Lead DevOps
10 14 (5.32%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.32%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (4.94%) Java Developer
12 12 (4.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.56%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) Backend Developer
13 11 (4.18%) Senior Developer
14 8 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
15 7 (2.66%) AWS Developer
15 7 (2.66%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.87%) Spring Boot
2 37 (14.07%) Spring
3 29 (11.03%) AngularJS
4 27 (10.27%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (7.98%) Jest
5 21 (7.98%) React
6 20 (7.60%) Gherkin
6 20 (7.60%) Kafka
7 19 (7.22%) REST
8 18 (6.84%) Node.js
9 16 (6.08%) RESTful
10 14 (5.32%) FastAPI
11 11 (4.18%) pytest
12 10 (3.80%) HTML
12 10 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (3.42%) CSS
13 9 (3.42%) Django
13 9 (3.42%) Playwright
14 8 (3.04%) .NET
15 7 (2.66%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.18%) Private Cloud
4 10 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.28%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.90%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.90%) Web3
9 4 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.52%) PKI
9 4 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.14%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.14%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.14%) IoT
10 3 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.14%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 73 (27.76%) Linux
2 28 (10.65%) Windows
3 12 (4.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.66%) Ubuntu
5 7 (2.66%) Unix
6 5 (1.90%) Debian
6 5 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.76%) CentOS
8 1 (0.38%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (76.43%) CI/CD
2 172 (65.40%) DevOps
3 117 (44.49%) Agile
4 106 (40.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
6 75 (28.52%) Containerisation
7 47 (17.87%) Observability
7 47 (17.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 46 (17.49%) Microservices
8 46 (17.49%) Test Automation
9 45 (17.11%) Mentoring
10 44 (16.73%) Software Engineering
11 39 (14.83%) Incident Response
11 39 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 38 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
14 32 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
16 29 (11.03%) Scrum
17 26 (9.89%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 133 (50.57%) Python
2 91 (34.60%) Java
3 73 (27.76%) Bash
4 61 (23.19%) TypeScript
5 58 (22.05%) SQL
6 37 (14.07%) JavaScript
6 37 (14.07%) PowerShell
7 22 (8.37%) Go
8 20 (7.60%) Groovy
9 11 (4.18%) C#
10 9 (3.42%) ANSI SQL
11 8 (3.04%) Bicep
12 7 (2.66%) Delphi
13 6 (2.28%) C
14 5 (1.90%) C++
14 5 (1.90%) Rust
15 3 (1.14%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.14%) Perl
16 2 (0.76%) PHP
17 1 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.65%) DV Cleared
3 25 (9.51%) AWS Certification
4 22 (8.37%) Degree
5 20 (7.60%) SC Cleared
6 15 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.42%) ISTQB
8 8 (3.04%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.90%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.90%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.52%) OSCP
13 3 (1.14%) CCNA
13 3 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.76%) CISSP
14 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.76%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.93%) QA
2 7 (2.66%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.90%) NIST
4 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.14%) GDPR
6 2 (0.76%) ECSS
6 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (43.73%) Docker
2 15 (5.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.42%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.90%) Firmware
5 4 (1.52%) vSphere
6 2 (0.76%) NFS
6 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.38%) Squid
7 1 (0.38%) vCloud
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 121 (46.01%) Kubernetes
2 113 (42.97%) Terraform
3 74 (28.14%) Ansible
4 61 (23.19%) Grafana
5 58 (22.05%) Prometheus
6 20 (7.60%) HP Fortify
7 8 (3.04%) Kibana
8 7 (2.66%) Argo
8 7 (2.66%) Puppet
9 6 (2.28%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.28%) Rancher
10 4 (1.52%) vRealize
11 3 (1.14%) Istio
11 3 (1.14%) Nagios
11 3 (1.14%) SCOM
11 3 (1.14%) WSUS
12 2 (0.76%) Nessus
12 2 (0.76%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (15.97%) Oracle
2 23 (8.75%) Splunk
3 19 (7.22%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.22%) VMware
4 18 (6.84%) Atlassian
5 13 (4.94%) Red Hat
6 7 (2.66%) SAP
7 6 (2.28%) Google
8 4 (1.52%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.52%) Cisco
8 4 (1.52%) HP
9 3 (1.14%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.14%) Sonatype
10 2 (0.76%) Cribl.io
10 2 (0.76%) Databricks
10 2 (0.76%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.76%) MikroTik
10 2 (0.76%) New Relic
10 2 (0.76%) Starlink
10 2 (0.76%) Ubiquiti