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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 140 171
Rank change year-on-year -40 +31 +16
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 6 56 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.17% 1.29% 0.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.88% 11.72% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 6
10th Percentile £71,500 - £57,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £43,911 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,500 £81,250 £84,375
South East median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% +7.69% -7.14%

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 319 478 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.04% 11.02% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 143 241 364
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,625 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £97,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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
Buckinghamshire +13 4 £75,000 +108.33% 5
Oxfordshire +20 2 - - 10
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) Testinfra
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
2 1 (16.67%) Aviation
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
1 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Runbook
3 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
4 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (33.33%) Data Management
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) OO
4 2 (33.33%) OOP
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ECSS
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (50.00%) Rundeck
4 1 (16.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware