GitLab Job Trends in the Midlands

GitLab
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands 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 194 207 197
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 20 33 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.52% 0.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.60% 6.48% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 27
10th Percentile £43,223 £47,000 -
25th Percentile £47,188 £55,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,600 £70,000 £36,128
Median % change year-on-year -17.71% +93.76% -51.83%
75th Percentile £82,815 £74,375 £68,125
90th Percentile £96,751 £87,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -10.00%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 303 509 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.89% 7.99% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 232 291 408
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £77,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GitLab
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the Midlands

GitLab
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +11 14 £63,750 -5.56% 14
East Midlands -8 6 £53,600 -28.53% 9
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 8 (40.00%) GitHub
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (20.00%) Serverless
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) GCP
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.00%) PaaS
8 1 (5.00%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (5.00%) Cloud Run
8 1 (5.00%) dbt
8 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) Redis
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (35.00%) Git
3 4 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (20.00%) Selenium
4 3 (15.00%) JUnit
5 2 (10.00%) Gatling
5 2 (10.00%) JIRA
5 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Spring
1 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.00%) Django
2 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.00%) Flask
2 3 (15.00%) pytest
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) CSS3
3 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) HTML5
3 2 (10.00%) Playwright
3 2 (10.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (60.00%) DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) TDD
5 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (20.00%) Microservices
7 4 (20.00%) Observability
7 4 (20.00%) SDLC
7 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (15.00%) BDD
8 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
8 3 (15.00%) OWASP
8 3 (15.00%) Secrets Management
8 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.00%) Delphi
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Bicep
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) C
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) CCNA
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (40.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Grafana
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
5 1 (5.00%) Nagios
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk