GitLab Job Trends in London

GitLab
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 275 289
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 -25
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 166 133 231
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.81% 1.05% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.63% 9.47% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 115 74 148
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,625 £60,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £88,625
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -4.09% +10.78%
75th Percentile £96,875 £106,250 £102,500
90th Percentile £134,000 £120,000 £116,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -10.34%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,427 1,405 2,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.00% 11.10% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 880 977 1,860
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

GitLab job vacancy trend in London

GitLab
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in London

GitLab
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Central London +1 14 £86,250 +1.47% 13
West London - 2 - - 1
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (5.42%) Confluence
2 7 (4.22%) Apache
3 4 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.81%) Apache Superset
4 3 (1.81%) IIS
4 3 (1.81%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) SAP CX
1 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 135 (81.33%) AWS
2 74 (44.58%) AWS CloudFormation
3 68 (40.96%) Azure
4 47 (28.31%) GitHub
5 46 (27.71%) Serverless
6 35 (21.08%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (19.28%) GCP
8 27 (16.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (15.66%) Datadog
10 25 (15.06%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (13.25%) Amazon S3
12 17 (10.24%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (9.64%) AWS Step Functions
13 16 (9.64%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (7.83%) Pulumi
15 8 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
15 8 (4.82%) Vercel
16 7 (4.22%) OpenShift
17 6 (3.61%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.83%) DSL
2 10 (6.02%) Firewall
3 9 (5.42%) DNS
4 7 (4.22%) LAN
4 7 (4.22%) Network Security
5 4 (2.41%) Broadband
5 4 (2.41%) HTTP
5 4 (2.41%) IPv4
5 4 (2.41%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.41%) WAN
6 3 (1.81%) WLAN
7 1 (0.60%) BGP
7 1 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.60%) MPLS
7 1 (0.60%) OSPF
7 1 (0.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.60%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (30.72%) NoSQL
2 18 (10.84%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (10.84%) DynamoDB
2 18 (10.84%) MongoDB
3 12 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (5.42%) MySQL
5 8 (4.82%) Pinecone
6 6 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.81%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.81%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.20%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (1.20%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.60%) Looker
11 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.60%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 87 (52.41%) Jenkins
2 34 (20.48%) Git
3 27 (16.27%) CircleCI
4 17 (10.24%) Cucumber
5 11 (6.63%) Bitbucket
5 11 (6.63%) JIRA
6 8 (4.82%) Vite
7 3 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.81%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.20%) Appium
8 2 (1.20%) Maven
9 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.60%) Deequ
9 1 (0.60%) JMeter
9 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.60%) Postman
9 1 (0.60%) Selenium
9 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
General
1 58 (34.94%) Finance
2 45 (27.11%) Social Skills
3 42 (25.30%) Banking
4 11 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.22%) Advertising
6 5 (3.01%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.41%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.41%) Automotive
7 4 (2.41%) Electronics
7 4 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.41%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.41%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.41%) Retail
8 3 (1.81%) Marketing
8 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Front Office
10 1 (0.60%) Billing
10 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (24.10%) Senior
2 25 (15.06%) Cloud Engineer
3 24 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (13.86%) Developer
5 21 (12.65%) Security Engineer
6 19 (11.45%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (10.24%) Java Engineer
8 16 (9.64%) Principal Engineer
8 16 (9.64%) Senior Developer
9 15 (9.04%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 14 (8.43%) Architect
10 14 (8.43%) AWS Architect
11 13 (7.83%) AWS Security Architect
11 13 (7.83%) Lead
11 13 (7.83%) Security Architect
12 11 (6.63%) Analyst
12 11 (6.63%) Principal Java Engineer
13 10 (6.02%) AWS DevOps
14 9 (5.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (25.90%) Kafka
2 23 (13.86%) Spring
2 23 (13.86%) Spring Boot
3 17 (10.24%) RESTful
4 16 (9.64%) gRPC
4 16 (9.64%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (9.64%) web3js
5 14 (8.43%) LangChain
5 14 (8.43%) React
6 13 (7.83%) AWS CDK
6 13 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (6.63%) FastAPI
8 8 (4.82%) CrewAI
8 8 (4.82%) LangGraph
8 8 (4.82%) Next.js
8 8 (4.82%) pgvector
9 6 (3.61%) Ollama
10 5 (3.01%) Node.js
11 4 (2.41%) HTML
11 4 (2.41%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 68 (40.96%) Cloud Native
2 20 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (9.64%) Blockchain
3 16 (9.64%) Security Posture
3 16 (9.64%) Web3
4 15 (9.04%) Public Cloud
5 14 (8.43%) e-Learning
5 14 (8.43%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (7.83%) Cloud Security Posture
7 10 (6.02%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.41%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.60%) Equities
11 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.48%) Linux
2 18 (10.84%) Windows
3 9 (5.42%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.01%) CentOS
5 5 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.81%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.20%) Android
7 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.20%) Rocky
7 2 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (92.77%) CI/CD
2 120 (72.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 108 (65.06%) DevOps
4 64 (38.55%) Containerisation
5 62 (37.35%) Microservices
6 48 (28.92%) DevSecOps
7 45 (27.11%) Test Automation
8 42 (25.30%) Agile
9 41 (24.70%) Cloud Security
10 39 (23.49%) Continuous Integration
10 39 (23.49%) Software Engineering
11 31 (18.67%) Continuous Delivery
11 31 (18.67%) Observability
12 30 (18.07%) Event-Driven
12 30 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (16.87%) Mentoring
15 27 (16.27%) Performance Monitoring
16 25 (15.06%) High Availability
17 23 (13.86%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 98 (59.04%) Python
2 50 (30.12%) Bash
3 49 (29.52%) SQL
4 41 (24.70%) Go
5 35 (21.08%) Java
6 26 (15.66%) PowerShell
7 16 (9.64%) TypeScript
8 15 (9.04%) Rust
9 13 (7.83%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.41%) Bicep
11 3 (1.81%) ANSI SQL
11 3 (1.81%) C#
12 1 (0.60%) C++
12 1 (0.60%) Groovy
12 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.60%) Perl
12 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.86%) Degree
3 21 (12.65%) AWS Certification
4 20 (12.05%) OSCP
5 17 (10.24%) SC Cleared
6 15 (9.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.82%) RHCSA
8 7 (4.22%) ISTQB
9 5 (3.01%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.41%) CCNA
10 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.41%) RHCE
11 3 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.81%) CCSP
11 3 (1.81%) CISM
11 3 (1.81%) CISSP
11 3 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.81%) GCIA
11 3 (1.81%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.64%) NIST
1 16 (9.64%) QA
2 13 (7.83%) GDPR
3 12 (7.23%) SOC 2
4 10 (6.02%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.41%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (42.77%) Docker
2 13 (7.83%) Active Directory
3 12 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.41%) Squid
4 4 (2.41%) VMware NSX
4 4 (2.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 115 (69.28%) Terraform
2 89 (53.61%) Kubernetes
3 42 (25.30%) Ansible
4 34 (20.48%) Prometheus
5 21 (12.65%) Grafana
6 11 (6.63%) Nagios
7 6 (3.61%) Argo
8 4 (2.41%) Packer
8 4 (2.41%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.81%) Kibana
10 2 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.20%) Puppet
10 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.60%) Cilium
11 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.60%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.60%) Istio
11 1 (0.60%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (12.05%) Red Hat
2 18 (10.84%) Splunk
3 17 (10.24%) VMware
4 15 (9.04%) Microsoft
5 10 (6.02%) OpenAI
6 9 (5.42%) Oracle
7 5 (3.01%) Rapid7
8 4 (2.41%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.81%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.81%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (1.81%) Google
9 3 (1.81%) Intel
9 3 (1.81%) Tenable
9 3 (1.81%) Varonis
10 2 (1.20%) Commvault
10 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.20%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.60%) Cisco
11 1 (0.60%) Cognizant
11 1 (0.60%) SAP