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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 124 181
Rank change year-on-year -63 +57 +50
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 14 67 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.36% 1.39% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.76% 14.79% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 8 29 6
10th Percentile - £43,911 £55,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £76,875 £77,500 £81,875
90th Percentile £84,750 £82,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% +1.92% +5.26%

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 294 453 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.47% 9.40% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 147 261 471
10th Percentile £32,650 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £62,000 £57,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.36% -3.75% +4.35%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -5 11 £70,000 +94.44%
Oxfordshire +18 2 - - 5
Berkshire -55 1 £75,000 +7.14% 7
GitLab
South East

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (92.86%) Azure
3 10 (71.43%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) SonarQube
2 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (42.86%) Bitbucket
3 6 (42.86%) Cucumber
3 6 (42.86%) JIRA
3 6 (42.86%) Maven
3 6 (42.86%) Selenium
3 6 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (21.43%) JUnit
4 3 (21.43%) Mockito
5 2 (14.29%) Git
6 1 (7.14%) Testinfra
General
1 9 (64.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 6 (42.86%) Finance
4 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Hibernate
1 9 (64.29%) Kafka
1 9 (64.29%) React
1 9 (64.29%) Spring
1 9 (64.29%) Spring Boot
2 6 (42.86%) CSS
2 6 (42.86%) HTML
2 6 (42.86%) JPA
2 6 (42.86%) Redux
3 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
3 3 (21.43%) OAuth
3 3 (21.43%) OAuth2
3 3 (21.43%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 3 (21.43%) Vue
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
1 13 (92.86%) Containerisation
2 11 (78.57%) Agile
3 10 (71.43%) DevOps
4 9 (64.29%) Microservices
4 9 (64.29%) SDLC
5 7 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (42.86%) Clean Code
6 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (42.86%) Front End Development
6 6 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (42.86%) TDD
7 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (28.57%) Runbook
8 3 (21.43%) Analytical Thinking
8 3 (21.43%) API Development
8 3 (21.43%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
8 3 (21.43%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (21.43%) Rundeck
4 1 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (7.14%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Packer
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Solace
2 3 (21.43%) VMware