GitLab Job Trends in the Thames Valley

GitLab
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 181 197
Rank change year-on-year +32 +16 +11
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 33 16 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.54% 0.45% 0.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.10% 5.65% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 18 7 26
10th Percentile £46,250 - £61,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -25.00% +23.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% +4.00%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 205 283 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.36% 8.00% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 151 157 386
10th Percentile £33,250 £35,000 £40,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £65,938 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £91,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 July 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the Thames Valley

GitLab
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 July 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
Berkshire +27 23 £62,500 -16.67% 2
Oxfordshire -12 8 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Buckinghamshire -16 2 £62,000 +18.10% 2
GitLab
South East

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) AWS
2 12 (36.36%) Azure
3 10 (30.30%) OpenShift
3 10 (30.30%) Serverless
4 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
4 8 (24.24%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (21.21%) Apigee
6 6 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (15.15%) GCP
7 5 (15.15%) Kong
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (39.39%) Firewall
2 5 (15.15%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.06%) GIS
3 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.06%) Redis
3 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.03%) QGIS
4 1 (3.03%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Git
2 10 (30.30%) Jenkins
3 8 (24.24%) SonarQube
4 7 (21.21%) JIRA
5 5 (15.15%) Cucumber
6 4 (12.12%) Artifactory
7 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
7 2 (6.06%) Maven
7 2 (6.06%) Mocha
7 2 (6.06%) Selenium
8 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
8 1 (3.03%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Telecoms
3 8 (24.24%) Manufacturing
4 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (15.15%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (12.12%) Electronics
7 3 (9.09%) Finance
8 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Automation Engineer
1 10 (30.30%) Network Engineer
1 10 (30.30%) Telecoms Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Automation Specialist
3 6 (18.18%) Network Specialist
3 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) Telecoms Specialist
4 5 (15.15%) Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Java Developer
5 4 (12.12%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Java Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Development Team Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (48.48%) JSON
2 14 (42.42%) YAML
3 11 (33.33%) REST
4 10 (30.30%) Jinja
5 6 (18.18%) .NET
5 6 (18.18%) XML
6 5 (15.15%) RESTful
6 5 (15.15%) YANG
7 4 (12.12%) .NET Core
7 4 (12.12%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (12.12%) Jest
7 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (12.12%) WPF
8 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
9 2 (6.06%) Express.js
9 2 (6.06%) Gherkin
9 2 (6.06%) HTML5
9 2 (6.06%) Node.js
9 2 (6.06%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (15.15%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (12.12%) Client/Server
2 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Life Science
2 4 (12.12%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
2 23 (69.70%) DevOps
3 21 (63.64%) Agile
4 19 (57.58%) Containerisation
5 16 (48.48%) Microservices
6 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (30.30%) API Management
8 10 (30.30%) Task Automation
9 9 (27.27%) Secrets Management
9 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
10 8 (24.24%) SDLC
11 7 (21.21%) Computer Science
11 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
12 6 (18.18%) Auto-Scaling
12 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
13 5 (15.15%) API Integration
13 5 (15.15%) Design Patterns
13 5 (15.15%) Multithreading
13 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) Python
2 13 (39.39%) Java
3 8 (24.24%) Groovy
4 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
5 6 (18.18%) C#
6 4 (12.12%) Perl
7 3 (9.09%) SQL
8 2 (6.06%) Bash
8 2 (6.06%) C
8 2 (6.06%) Go
8 2 (6.06%) Shell Script
8 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.18%) Ansible
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 4 (12.12%) Packer
4 2 (6.06%) Argo
4 2 (6.06%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Cisco
1 10 (30.30%) Red Hat
2 5 (15.15%) AppDynamics
2 5 (15.15%) F5
2 5 (15.15%) Juniper
2 5 (15.15%) Palo Alto
3 4 (12.12%) IBM
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
5 1 (3.03%) Atlassian