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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 198 260
Rank change year-on-year -35 +62 -31
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 19 16 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.16% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.92% 3.76% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 16 6 47
10th Percentile £41,588 £55,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £59,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,350 £75,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.87% +36.36% -18.52%
75th Percentile £70,309 £83,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £89,375 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -10.34%

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 386 426 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.18% 8.76% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 297 322 681
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £64,950
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
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 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -16 18 £57,500 -17.86% 15
East Midlands -60 1 £55,200 -31.00% 5
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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) GitHub
3 5 (26.32%) Serverless
4 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (15.79%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (15.79%) GCP
5 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
6 2 (10.53%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Run
7 1 (5.26%) dbt
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) Redis
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (5.26%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (42.11%) Git
3 7 (36.84%) Selenium
4 6 (31.58%) Cucumber
5 4 (21.05%) Cypress.io
5 4 (21.05%) JMeter
5 4 (21.05%) LoadRunner
5 4 (21.05%) Postman
5 4 (21.05%) REST Assured
6 3 (15.79%) Burp Suite
6 3 (15.79%) Gatling
6 3 (15.79%) JUnit
6 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
7 2 (10.53%) HP UFT
8 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Advertising
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
3 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Lead
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Leader
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Playwright
1 4 (21.05%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) AWS CDK
2 3 (15.79%) Django
2 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.79%) Flask
2 3 (15.79%) pytest
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) Node.js
3 2 (10.53%) React
3 2 (10.53%) RESTful
4 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.26%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (5.26%) Blockchain
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.26%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Kali Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) CI/CD
2 13 (68.42%) DevOps
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
4 7 (36.84%) Mentoring
5 6 (31.58%) Microservices
5 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
7 4 (21.05%) BDD
7 4 (21.05%) Coaching
7 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (21.05%) OWASP
7 4 (21.05%) Performance Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Secrets Management
7 4 (21.05%) Security Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
7 4 (21.05%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 10 (52.63%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
4 3 (15.79%) Delphi
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) C
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) C++
5 1 (5.26%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Grafana
2 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Terraform
4 3 (15.79%) HP Fortify
5 1 (5.26%) Ansible
5 1 (5.26%) Argo
5 1 (5.26%) Nagios
5 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
1 3 (15.79%) Veracode
2 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
2 1 (5.26%) Google
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.26%) Splunk