GitLab Job Trends in the South East

GitLab
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 214 272
Rank change year-on-year -2 +58 +64
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 71 36 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.50% 0.53% 0.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.58% 4.75% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 49 25 76
10th Percentile - £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +18.52% -6.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 - £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
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 613 758 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.36% 11.09% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 427 498 1,075
10th Percentile £32,750 £33,200 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £46,773
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £85,000
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 South East

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the South East

GitLab
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the South East over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the South East

GitLab
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hampshire -14 25 £82,500 +3.13% 14
Thames Valley -6 24 £62,500 +19.05% 6
Berkshire +20 19 £62,500 -16.67% 3
West Sussex -9 12 £50,000 -
Surrey - 10 £63,750 - 2
Oxfordshire -15 4 - - 3
Buckinghamshire -24 1 - -
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (5.63%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 38 (53.52%) Azure
2 26 (36.62%) AWS
3 22 (30.99%) OpenShift
4 18 (25.35%) GitHub
5 17 (23.94%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (23.94%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (16.90%) GCP
7 10 (14.08%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (11.27%) Datadog
9 7 (9.86%) Serverless
10 6 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (8.45%) Amazon S3
10 6 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (8.45%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (7.04%) Apigee
11 5 (7.04%) Kong
12 4 (5.63%) Azure AKS
13 3 (4.23%) Azure Stack
14 1 (1.41%) Amazon ECR
14 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.31%) Firewall
2 5 (7.04%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (5.63%) MQTT
4 3 (4.23%) DNS
5 1 (1.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 40 (56.34%) Git
2 22 (30.99%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.90%) JIRA
4 10 (14.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (11.27%) SonarQube
6 6 (8.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (7.04%) Artifactory
7 5 (7.04%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.23%) Selenium
9 2 (2.82%) Robot Framework
9 2 (2.82%) TestRail
10 1 (1.41%) JUnit
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (28.17%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Telecoms
4 8 (11.27%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Aerospace
6 4 (5.63%) Finance
7 3 (4.23%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Automotive
9 1 (1.41%) Aviation
9 1 (1.41%) Games
9 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.41%) Marketing
9 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (30.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (19.72%) Senior
3 12 (16.90%) Lead
3 12 (16.90%) Software Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (14.08%) Network Engineer
5 10 (14.08%) Telecoms Engineer
6 9 (12.68%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Automation Specialist
7 6 (8.45%) Network Specialist
7 6 (8.45%) Telecoms Specialist
8 5 (7.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Team Leader
9 3 (4.23%) Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Project Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Project Leader
9 3 (4.23%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.54%) JSON
2 14 (19.72%) YAML
3 12 (16.90%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (16.90%) REST
4 10 (14.08%) Jinja
5 8 (11.27%) OAuth
5 8 (11.27%) SAML
6 7 (9.86%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (7.04%) XML
7 5 (7.04%) YANG
8 4 (5.63%) Kafka
9 3 (4.23%) ARM Templates
9 3 (4.23%) React
10 2 (2.82%) .NET
10 2 (2.82%) SOAP
10 2 (2.82%) Spring
11 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
11 1 (1.41%) RESTful
11 1 (1.41%) Swagger
11 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Algorithms
2 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
3 8 (11.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.04%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.23%) Clustering
5 3 (4.23%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.82%) Life Science
6 2 (2.82%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (47.89%) Linux
2 6 (8.45%) Unix
3 3 (4.23%) CentOS
3 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.23%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.23%) Windows
3 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (90.14%) CI/CD
2 50 (70.42%) DevOps
3 45 (63.38%) Agile
4 37 (52.11%) Containerisation
5 32 (45.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (42.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (36.62%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (36.62%) Scrum
8 22 (30.99%) Observability
9 21 (29.58%) Kanban
10 18 (25.35%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (23.94%) Deployment Automation
11 17 (23.94%) Software Testing
12 16 (22.54%) Computer Science
12 16 (22.54%) Microservices
13 14 (19.72%) Software Engineering
14 13 (18.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 12 (16.90%) Continuous Deployment
16 10 (14.08%) API Management
16 10 (14.08%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (69.01%) Python
2 18 (25.35%) Bash
3 12 (16.90%) C#
3 12 (16.90%) C++
4 11 (15.49%) Java
4 11 (15.49%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.86%) Perl
6 6 (8.45%) Groovy
6 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.04%) Rust
8 3 (4.23%) SQL
9 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.41%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.41%) PHP
10 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.41%) SOQL
10 1 (1.41%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 37 (52.11%) Security Cleared
2 20 (28.17%) Degree
3 18 (25.35%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.68%) DV Cleared
5 8 (11.27%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.23%) LPIC
8 2 (2.82%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (2.82%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) ECSS
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (49.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 41 (57.75%) Kubernetes
2 35 (49.30%) Terraform
3 24 (33.80%) Ansible
4 17 (23.94%) Grafana
4 17 (23.94%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.63%) Packer
5 4 (5.63%) Puppet
6 3 (4.23%) Nagios
7 2 (2.82%) Nessus
8 1 (1.41%) Argo
8 1 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.41%) Podman
8 1 (1.41%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Red Hat
2 10 (14.08%) Cisco
3 8 (11.27%) Dynatrace
4 5 (7.04%) AppDynamics
4 5 (7.04%) F5
4 5 (7.04%) Juniper
4 5 (7.04%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.63%) IBM
5 4 (5.63%) Splunk
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle
7 2 (2.82%) Google
8 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.41%) Tenable