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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 180 155
Rank change year-on-year +24 -25 +39
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 34 14 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.52% 0.39% 0.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.38% 4.75% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 25
10th Percentile £46,250 - £43,911
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £61,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -12.50% +21.74%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,250 £82,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +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 221 295 428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.39% 8.22% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 158 156 297
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,625 £79,063 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £92,200
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.83% -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +37 22 £62,500 -16.67% 5
Oxfordshire -4 9 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Buckinghamshire -14 3 £62,000 +1.22% 5
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 (5.88%) ArcGIS
1 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) AWS
2 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 10 (29.41%) OpenShift
2 10 (29.41%) Serverless
3 8 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 8 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (20.59%) Apigee
5 6 (17.65%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (14.71%) Kong
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (5.88%) GCP
7 2 (5.88%) SaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (35.29%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) GIS
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.88%) MySQL
2 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.88%) QGIS
2 2 (5.88%) Redis
2 2 (5.88%) Spotfire
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Git
2 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 8 (23.53%) JIRA
3 8 (23.53%) SonarQube
4 5 (14.71%) Cucumber
5 4 (11.76%) Artifactory
6 3 (8.82%) Eclipse
6 3 (8.82%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 2 (5.88%) Maven
7 2 (5.88%) Mocha
7 2 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Telecoms
3 9 (26.47%) Manufacturing
4 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (14.71%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (11.76%) Electronics
7 2 (5.88%) Finance
7 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Automation Engineer
1 10 (29.41%) Network Engineer
1 10 (29.41%) Telecoms Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Automation Specialist
3 6 (17.65%) Java Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Network Specialist
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Telecoms Specialist
4 5 (14.71%) Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.76%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) JSON
2 14 (41.18%) YAML
3 11 (32.35%) REST
4 10 (29.41%) Jinja
5 7 (20.59%) XML
6 6 (17.65%) RESTful
7 5 (14.71%) YANG
8 4 (11.76%) .NET
8 4 (11.76%) .NET Core
8 4 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (11.76%) Jest
8 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (11.76%) WPF
9 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
9 3 (8.82%) OSGi
9 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
9 3 (8.82%) SWT
10 2 (5.88%) Express.js
10 2 (5.88%) Gherkin
10 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (14.71%) Life Science
2 5 (14.71%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (11.76%) Client/Server
3 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) CI/CD
2 23 (67.65%) DevOps
3 22 (64.71%) Agile
4 18 (52.94%) Containerisation
4 18 (52.94%) Microservices
5 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (32.35%) Test Automation
7 10 (29.41%) API Management
7 10 (29.41%) Task Automation
8 9 (26.47%) SDLC
8 9 (26.47%) Secrets Management
9 8 (23.53%) Computer Science
9 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
10 6 (17.65%) Auto-Scaling
10 6 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (17.65%) Project Delivery
10 6 (17.65%) Secure Coding
11 5 (14.71%) SOLID
11 5 (14.71%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 26 (76.47%) Python
2 14 (41.18%) Java
3 8 (23.53%) Groovy
4 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.76%) C#
5 4 (11.76%) Perl
5 4 (11.76%) SQL
6 2 (5.88%) Bash
6 2 (5.88%) C
6 2 (5.88%) C++
6 2 (5.88%) Go
6 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Degree
2 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
5 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.94%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (26.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (17.65%) Ansible
2 6 (17.65%) Terraform
3 4 (11.76%) Packer
4 2 (5.88%) Argo
4 2 (5.88%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Cisco
1 10 (29.41%) Red Hat
2 5 (14.71%) AppDynamics
2 5 (14.71%) F5
2 5 (14.71%) Juniper
2 5 (14.71%) Palo Alto
3 4 (11.76%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Atlassian