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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 311 290
Rank change year-on-year -34 -21 -10
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 269 425 466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 0.86% 1.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.59% 8.27% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 187 198 367
10th Percentile £51,582 £44,775 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -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 3,130 5,136 5,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.01% 10.41% 12.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 2,967 4,556
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £102,500
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 2 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 2 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 -35 98 £85,000 - 83
North of England +53 78 £75,000 +19.56% 62
Yorkshire +19 39 £80,000 +38.02% 31
North West +42 32 £65,000 - 27
South West -14 26 £73,500 +22.50% 44
South East -41 22 £80,250 +11.07% 48
Midlands +6 20 £57,600 -17.71% 22
East of England +31 14 £67,500 -5.26% 23
West Midlands +10 14 £63,750 +6.25% 18
North East +9 7 £66,250 +14.29% 4
East Midlands -15 6 £53,600 -28.53% 4
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 (4.83%) Confluence
2 12 (4.46%) Apache
3 9 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.86%) IIS
4 5 (1.86%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.49%) Camunda
5 4 (1.49%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.12%) Apache Superset
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.12%) nginx
6 3 (1.12%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Simulink
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 164 (60.97%) AWS
2 115 (42.75%) Azure
3 59 (21.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 52 (19.33%) GCP
4 52 (19.33%) GitHub
5 49 (18.22%) Serverless
6 42 (15.61%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (11.52%) Amazon ECS
7 31 (11.52%) Amazon S3
8 30 (11.15%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (10.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (10.41%) OpenShift
11 26 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (7.43%) Amazon ECR
12 20 (7.43%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (6.32%) Apigee
15 15 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (3.72%) Datadog
16 10 (3.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.18%) DNS
2 10 (3.72%) Firewall
3 5 (1.86%) VPN
4 4 (1.49%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.49%) VSAN
4 4 (1.49%) WAN
5 3 (1.12%) Network Security
5 3 (1.12%) Skype
5 3 (1.12%) VLAN
6 2 (0.74%) BGP
6 2 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.74%) DSL
6 2 (0.74%) HTTP
6 2 (0.74%) LAN
6 2 (0.74%) MQTT
6 2 (0.74%) OSPF
6 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.74%) SSL
6 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.90%) MongoDB
2 30 (11.15%) SQL Server
3 29 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (9.29%) DynamoDB
4 25 (9.29%) NoSQL
5 15 (5.58%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.72%) MySQL
8 9 (3.35%) Power BI
9 7 (2.60%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.86%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.86%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.49%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.12%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.12%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.74%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 143 (53.16%) Jenkins
2 66 (24.54%) Git
3 30 (11.15%) SonarQube
4 25 (9.29%) Cypress.io
4 25 (9.29%) JIRA
5 22 (8.18%) Maven
6 21 (7.81%) Cucumber
6 21 (7.81%) JUnit
6 21 (7.81%) Selenium
7 20 (7.43%) Bitbucket
8 12 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (4.09%) CircleCI
10 10 (3.72%) Postman
11 9 (3.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (2.60%) REST Assured
13 6 (2.23%) Artifactory
13 6 (2.23%) JMeter
14 5 (1.86%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.86%) TestNG
15 4 (1.49%) TeamCity
General
1 71 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.70%) Finance
3 31 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.43%) Banking
5 16 (5.95%) Advertising
6 14 (5.20%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.35%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.97%) Marketing
9 7 (2.60%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.23%) Games
10 6 (2.23%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.86%) Electronics
11 5 (1.86%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.86%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.49%) Retail
13 2 (0.74%) Automotive
13 2 (0.74%) Aviation
13 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 64 (23.79%) Lead
2 47 (17.47%) Developer
3 42 (15.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (11.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 28 (10.41%) Senior
6 27 (10.04%) Platform Engineer
7 18 (6.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.69%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.95%) Lead DevOps
9 15 (5.58%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (5.20%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.83%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.46%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (4.09%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.72%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.72%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
16 8 (2.97%) AWS DevOps
16 8 (2.97%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (16.73%) Spring Boot
2 38 (14.13%) Spring
3 28 (10.41%) Elastic Stack
4 27 (10.04%) AngularJS
5 22 (8.18%) React
6 20 (7.43%) REST
7 19 (7.06%) Node.js
8 18 (6.69%) Jest
8 18 (6.69%) Kafka
9 17 (6.32%) Gherkin
10 14 (5.20%) FastAPI
10 14 (5.20%) RESTful
11 11 (4.09%) pytest
12 10 (3.72%) .NET
12 10 (3.72%) HTML
13 9 (3.35%) CSS
13 9 (3.35%) Django
13 9 (3.35%) Playwright
14 8 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (2.60%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 51 (18.96%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.09%) Private Cloud
3 11 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.60%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.23%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.86%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.49%) PKI
10 3 (1.12%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.12%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.12%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.12%) IoT
10 3 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.12%) RSA SecurID
10 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (28.62%) Linux
2 28 (10.41%) Windows
3 14 (5.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.72%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.97%) Ubuntu
6 7 (2.60%) Unix
7 6 (2.23%) Debian
8 5 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.12%) CentOS
10 1 (0.37%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (75.46%) CI/CD
2 174 (64.68%) DevOps
3 120 (44.61%) Agile
4 108 (40.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 81 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (29.37%) Containerisation
7 49 (18.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 47 (17.47%) Microservices
8 47 (17.47%) Observability
9 46 (17.10%) Test Automation
10 44 (16.36%) Mentoring
11 43 (15.99%) Software Engineering
12 42 (15.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 41 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (14.50%) Incident Response
15 34 (12.64%) Platform Engineering
16 32 (11.90%) Scrum
17 31 (11.52%) Technical Leadership
18 30 (11.15%) Continuous Integration
19 28 (10.41%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 138 (51.30%) Python
2 90 (33.46%) Java
3 74 (27.51%) Bash
4 59 (21.93%) SQL
4 59 (21.93%) TypeScript
5 41 (15.24%) PowerShell
6 38 (14.13%) JavaScript
7 19 (7.06%) Go
8 18 (6.69%) Groovy
9 13 (4.83%) C#
10 9 (3.35%) ANSI SQL
11 8 (2.97%) Bicep
11 8 (2.97%) C
11 8 (2.97%) C++
12 7 (2.60%) Delphi
13 4 (1.49%) Rust
14 3 (1.12%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.74%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.74%) Perl
15 2 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.41%) DV Cleared
3 22 (8.18%) AWS Certification
3 22 (8.18%) Degree
4 20 (7.43%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.35%) ISTQB
7 6 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.86%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (1.86%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.12%) CCNA
10 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.12%) OSCP
11 2 (0.74%) CISSP
11 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.37%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.01%) QA
2 7 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.86%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.86%) GDPR
4 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.49%) NIST
5 2 (0.74%) ECSS
5 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 114 (42.38%) Docker
2 18 (6.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.35%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.86%) Firmware
5 4 (1.49%) vSphere
6 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.74%) NFS
7 2 (0.74%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) Squid
8 1 (0.37%) vCloud
8 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 123 (45.72%) Kubernetes
2 115 (42.75%) Terraform
3 79 (29.37%) Ansible
4 63 (23.42%) Grafana
5 58 (21.56%) Prometheus
6 17 (6.32%) HP Fortify
7 8 (2.97%) Kibana
8 7 (2.60%) Argo
8 7 (2.60%) Puppet
9 6 (2.23%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.23%) Rancher
10 4 (1.49%) vRealize
11 3 (1.12%) Istio
11 3 (1.12%) Nagios
11 3 (1.12%) SCOM
11 3 (1.12%) WSUS
12 2 (0.74%) Nessus
12 2 (0.74%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (15.61%) Oracle
2 24 (8.92%) Splunk
3 22 (8.18%) VMware
4 21 (7.81%) Microsoft
5 18 (6.69%) Atlassian
6 14 (5.20%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.60%) SAP
8 6 (2.23%) Google
9 4 (1.49%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.49%) Cisco
9 4 (1.49%) HP
9 4 (1.49%) Sonatype
10 3 (1.12%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.74%) Databricks
11 2 (0.74%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.74%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.74%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.74%) Starlink
11 2 (0.74%) Ubiquiti