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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 144 177
Rank change year-on-year -40 +33 +29
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 10 56 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.26% 1.28% 0.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.08% 12.10% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4 20 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 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% - +5.69%

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 325 463 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.51% 10.56% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 144 238 390
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £34,563 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,750 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -1.16% +7.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £92,525 £97,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 21 October 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 21 October 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 8 £75,000 +108.33% 3
Oxfordshire +7 2 - - 9
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 6 (60.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) SonarQube
2 6 (60.00%) Bitbucket
2 6 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 6 (60.00%) Maven
2 6 (60.00%) Selenium
2 6 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (20.00%) Git
5 1 (10.00%) Testinfra
General
1 6 (60.00%) Banking
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
1 6 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
1 6 (60.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (60.00%) HTML
1 6 (60.00%) JPA
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
1 6 (60.00%) React
1 6 (60.00%) Redux
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (90.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (60.00%) Clean Code
4 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (60.00%) Front End Development
4 6 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (60.00%) Microservices
4 6 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (60.00%) SDLC
4 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) TDD
5 4 (40.00%) Runbook
6 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 3 (30.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 9 (90.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
3 3 (30.00%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (30.00%) Rundeck
4 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Solace
2 3 (30.00%) VMware