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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 309 312
Rank change year-on-year -73 +3 -39
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 247 504 464
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 0.84% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.85% 9.30% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 165 231 350
10th Percentile £52,042 £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 £91,875 £86,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -9.50%

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 3,145 5,419 6,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.88% 9.03% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,098 3,000 4,907
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £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% -

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 18 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 18 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 -62 107 £85,000 - 122
North of England +53 58 £67,500 +11.64% 58
North West +46 38 £63,750 +3.69% 40
South West -5 24 £70,000 +16.67% 38
South East -25 18 £77,500 +10.71% 60
Midlands +14 17 £60,000 -5.88% 28
East of England +21 15 £61,250 +6.52% 8
Yorkshire +13 15 £76,250 +28.77% 11
West Midlands +19 10 £65,000 +8.33% 21
East Midlands +26 7 £55,200 -21.14% 7
North East +8 5 £65,000 +12.14% 7
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 (6.07%) Confluence
2 10 (4.05%) Apache
3 6 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.02%) nginx
5 4 (1.62%) Camunda
6 3 (1.21%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.21%) IIS
6 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.21%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.21%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.21%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.62%) Simulink
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 156 (63.16%) AWS
2 99 (40.08%) Azure
3 46 (18.62%) GitHub
4 40 (16.19%) GCP
5 35 (14.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (10.93%) OpenShift
8 26 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (10.12%) Serverless
10 22 (8.91%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (7.29%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (5.26%) Amazon S3
14 13 (5.26%) Datadog
15 10 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
17 8 (3.24%) Power Platform
17 8 (3.24%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.45%) Firewall
2 10 (4.05%) DNS
3 6 (2.43%) VPN
3 6 (2.43%) WAN
4 5 (2.02%) Network Security
5 4 (1.62%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (1.62%) VLAN
5 4 (1.62%) VSAN
6 3 (1.21%) OSPF
6 3 (1.21%) Skype
7 2 (0.81%) BGP
7 2 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.81%) HTTP
7 2 (0.81%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.81%) MQTT
7 2 (0.81%) SAN
7 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.96%) MongoDB
2 30 (12.15%) SQL Server
3 29 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (9.31%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.88%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.24%) MySQL
7 8 (3.24%) Power BI
7 8 (3.24%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.43%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.02%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.62%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.21%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.81%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.81%) Metadata
12 2 (0.81%) Redis
12 2 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 124 (50.20%) Jenkins
2 49 (19.84%) Git
3 27 (10.93%) Cucumber
3 27 (10.93%) JIRA
4 24 (9.72%) Selenium
5 18 (7.29%) Bitbucket
5 18 (7.29%) JUnit
5 18 (7.29%) Sonatype Nexus
6 16 (6.48%) SonarQube
7 13 (5.26%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.64%) JMeter
8 9 (3.64%) TeamCity
9 8 (3.24%) Postman
10 7 (2.83%) Artifactory
10 7 (2.83%) Gatling
11 6 (2.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (2.43%) Cypress.io
11 6 (2.43%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (1.62%) Maven
13 3 (1.21%) LoadRunner
General
1 72 (29.15%) Social Skills
2 65 (26.32%) Finance
3 35 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.91%) Banking
5 15 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.86%) Aerospace
7 11 (4.45%) Manufacturing
7 11 (4.45%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.05%) Retail
9 9 (3.64%) Advertising
10 8 (3.24%) Electronics
11 7 (2.83%) Automotive
12 6 (2.43%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.43%) Games
12 6 (2.43%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.43%) Marketing
13 5 (2.02%) Law
14 4 (1.62%) Public Sector
15 3 (1.21%) Aviation
16 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (18.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (14.98%) Developer
3 32 (12.96%) Senior
4 30 (12.15%) Lead
5 27 (10.93%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (8.10%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (5.67%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.26%) Java Engineer
9 13 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
10 11 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.45%) Backend Developer
11 9 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.64%) Lead DevOps
11 9 (3.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.83%) Architect
12 7 (2.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (2.83%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.55%) Spring
2 30 (12.15%) Spring Boot
3 27 (10.93%) Elastic Stack
4 26 (10.53%) React
5 20 (8.10%) Node.js
5 20 (8.10%) REST
6 19 (7.69%) Kafka
7 16 (6.48%) .NET
8 11 (4.45%) FastAPI
9 10 (4.05%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.05%) Playwright
10 9 (3.64%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.64%) Hibernate
10 9 (3.64%) pytest
11 8 (3.24%) CSS
11 8 (3.24%) Django
11 8 (3.24%) HTML
11 8 (3.24%) RESTful
12 7 (2.83%) Flask
12 7 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (18.22%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.45%) Public Cloud
5 10 (4.05%) Private Cloud
5 10 (4.05%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.43%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.02%) PKI
9 4 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.62%) FPGA
9 4 (1.62%) Verilog
9 4 (1.62%) VHDL
10 3 (1.21%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.21%) RSA SecurID
10 3 (1.21%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 79 (31.98%) Linux
2 25 (10.12%) Windows
3 15 (6.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (4.45%) Ubuntu
4 11 (4.45%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.64%) Debian
6 5 (2.02%) Unix
7 4 (1.62%) Android
7 4 (1.62%) CentOS
7 4 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.40%) Fedora
9 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (75.30%) CI/CD
2 147 (59.51%) DevOps
3 106 (42.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (38.87%) Agile
5 81 (32.79%) Containerisation
6 54 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (20.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 49 (19.84%) Microservices
9 48 (19.43%) Software Engineering
10 46 (18.62%) Test Automation
11 43 (17.41%) Observability
12 42 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (14.98%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (13.77%) Mentoring
15 29 (11.74%) Scrum
16 28 (11.34%) Configuration Management
16 28 (11.34%) Continuous Integration
16 28 (11.34%) Incident Response
17 22 (8.91%) Computer Science
17 22 (8.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (55.06%) Python
2 74 (29.96%) Java
3 56 (22.67%) Bash
4 50 (20.24%) SQL
5 42 (17.00%) PowerShell
6 38 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 36 (14.57%) TypeScript
8 18 (7.29%) C#
9 16 (6.48%) Go
10 14 (5.67%) C++
11 12 (4.86%) C
12 7 (2.83%) Bicep
12 7 (2.83%) Delphi
12 7 (2.83%) Shell Script
13 6 (2.43%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (1.62%) MATLAB
15 3 (1.21%) Embedded C
15 3 (1.21%) Groovy
15 3 (1.21%) Ruby
16 2 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (19.43%) Security Cleared
2 28 (11.34%) DV Cleared
3 19 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 19 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.29%) Degree
5 12 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.83%) ISTQB
8 6 (2.43%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.43%) CCNA
8 6 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.81%) CCNP
11 2 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.40%) CISM
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
12 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.40%) OSCP
12 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.36%) QA
2 5 (2.02%) GDPR
3 4 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.21%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.81%) ECSS
5 2 (0.81%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 97 (39.27%) Docker
2 17 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.05%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.02%) vSphere
5 4 (1.62%) Firmware
6 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.21%) vCloud
7 2 (0.81%) NFS
7 2 (0.81%) Squid
7 2 (0.81%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 122 (49.39%) Kubernetes
2 94 (38.06%) Terraform
3 74 (29.96%) Ansible
4 64 (25.91%) Grafana
5 57 (23.08%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.67%) Kibana
7 6 (2.43%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.43%) Puppet
8 5 (2.02%) Argo
9 4 (1.62%) Rancher
9 4 (1.62%) vRealize
9 4 (1.62%) WSUS
10 3 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.21%) logstash
10 3 (1.21%) Nessus
10 3 (1.21%) Rundeck
10 3 (1.21%) SCOM
11 2 (0.81%) Istio
11 2 (0.81%) Nagios
11 2 (0.81%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 36 (14.57%) Oracle
2 25 (10.12%) VMware
3 21 (8.50%) Splunk
4 20 (8.10%) Microsoft
5 19 (7.69%) Atlassian
6 11 (4.45%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.43%) AppDynamics
7 6 (2.43%) SAP
8 5 (2.02%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.02%) Sonatype
9 4 (1.62%) Cisco
9 4 (1.62%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.21%) Databricks
10 3 (1.21%) Google
10 3 (1.21%) HP
11 2 (0.81%) Citrix
11 2 (0.81%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.81%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.81%) Starlink
11 2 (0.81%) Ubiquiti