GitLab Job Trends in the South West

GitLab
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 133 182
Rank change year-on-year -24 +49 -6
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 31 45 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.55% 1.24% 1.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.47% 10.02% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9 30 67
10th Percentile £47,385 £41,125 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £63,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% +2.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £83,750 £92,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £95,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +11.54% -13.33%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 296 449 943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.21% 12.41% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 193 268 809
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,375 £81,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -7.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the South West

GitLab
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the South West over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the South West

GitLab
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Gloucestershire +5 16 £72,500 -19.44% 13
Dorset -15 5 £80,000 +60.00% 1
Bristol -4 3 - - 4
Wiltshire - 3 - - 1
Devon - 1 £42,750 -
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (29.03%) Confluence
2 7 (22.58%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) GitHub
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
4 3 (9.68%) Serverless
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (6.45%) Slack
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) DHCP
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.23%) VLAN
3 1 (3.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (16.13%) CockroachDB
3 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.45%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
5 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Git
1 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
2 10 (32.26%) JIRA
2 10 (32.26%) JUnit
3 6 (19.35%) Bitbucket
3 6 (19.35%) Cucumber
4 5 (16.13%) SonarQube
4 5 (16.13%) TestNG
5 4 (12.90%) REST Assured
5 4 (12.90%) Selenium
6 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
6 3 (9.68%) Gradle
6 3 (9.68%) Maven
7 2 (6.45%) Checkstyle
7 2 (6.45%) ESLint
7 2 (6.45%) Mockito
7 2 (6.45%) Postman
7 2 (6.45%) SoapUI
8 1 (3.23%) Robot Framework
8 1 (3.23%) TestRail
General
1 7 (22.58%) Finance
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Electronics
4 1 (3.23%) Games
4 1 (3.23%) Law
4 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Test Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (6.45%) Lead
4 2 (6.45%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) QA Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Automation Tester
5 1 (3.23%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.23%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) Apache NiFi
1 10 (32.26%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (16.13%) React
3 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
3 4 (12.90%) JSF
3 4 (12.90%) PrimeFaces
3 4 (12.90%) pytest
3 4 (12.90%) Spring
3 4 (12.90%) Spring Boot
4 3 (9.68%) Keycloak
4 3 (9.68%) Playwright
4 3 (9.68%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) Spring MVC
4 3 (9.68%) Vue
5 2 (6.45%) JWT
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth
5 2 (6.45%) OAuth2
5 2 (6.45%) OpenAPI
5 2 (6.45%) RESTful
5 2 (6.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) Linux
2 6 (19.35%) Windows
3 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.45%) CentOS
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 18 (58.06%) DevOps
3 13 (41.94%) Software Engineering
4 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (32.26%) Agile
5 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (29.03%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
8 7 (22.58%) Containerisation
8 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (16.13%) Microservices
10 5 (16.13%) Project Management
11 4 (12.90%) Analytics
11 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
11 4 (12.90%) Customer Requirements
11 4 (12.90%) End-to-End Testing
11 4 (12.90%) Scrum
12 3 (9.68%) Creative Thinking
12 3 (9.68%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) Python
2 15 (48.39%) Java
3 11 (35.48%) Bash
4 10 (32.26%) JavaScript
5 9 (29.03%) TypeScript
6 5 (16.13%) SQL
7 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
8 2 (6.45%) C#
8 2 (6.45%) Go
9 1 (3.23%) Bicep
9 1 (3.23%) C++
9 1 (3.23%) Delphi
9 1 (3.23%) Rust
9 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) Degree
3 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.45%) ISTQB
5 2 (6.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (6.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (3.23%) CCNA
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Docker
2 8 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (16.13%) Hyper-V
4 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
4 3 (9.68%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
5 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (45.16%) Kubernetes
2 9 (29.03%) Ansible
2 9 (29.03%) Terraform
3 8 (25.81%) Grafana
3 8 (25.81%) Kibana
4 4 (12.90%) logstash
4 4 (12.90%) vCenter Server
5 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 3 (9.68%) VxRail
6 2 (6.45%) NetBackup
7 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Oracle
2 9 (29.03%) VMware
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.13%) Atlassian
4 5 (16.13%) Splunk
5 4 (12.90%) Dell
6 3 (9.68%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (9.68%) Cisco
6 3 (9.68%) Google
7 2 (6.45%) Guidewire
7 2 (6.45%) HP
7 2 (6.45%) Juniper
7 2 (6.45%) Thales
7 2 (6.45%) Veeam
8 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
8 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.23%) SAP