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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 138 201
Rank change year-on-year -25 +63 -1
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 8 38 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% 1.12% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.81% 8.64% 4.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 15
10th Percentile - £54,625 £56,250
25th Percentile - £65,000 £57,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% - -17.65%
75th Percentile - £79,688 £78,750
90th Percentile - £81,250 £83,750
South East median annual salary £82,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.79% +3.57% -3.45%

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 285 440 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.70% 12.99% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 129 236 406
10th Percentile £32,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £46,250 £51,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +3.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £92,500
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
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 2 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
Oxfordshire +9 4 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +6 2 £90,000 - 1
Berkshire -18 2 - - 8
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 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Testinfra
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (12.50%) Aviation
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Development Team Leader
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Lead
1 2 (25.00%) Software Development Team Leader
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Team Leader
1 2 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Development Team Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Java Team Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (25.00%) Life Science
1 2 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) AI
5 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Data Management
5 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (25.00%) Observability
5 2 (25.00%) OO
5 2 (25.00%) OOP
5 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ECSS
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Packer
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Google
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat