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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 150 214
Rank change year-on-year +8 +64 -5
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 23 12 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.45% 0.44% 0.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.96% 4.11% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 18
10th Percentile - £44,950 £56,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,000 £57,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £49,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.55% -30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £52,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - £53,050 £82,500
South East median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -15.63% +20.75% -8.62%

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 231 292 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.57% 10.63% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 163 197 427
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £50,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,160 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.07% - +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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +18 18 £62,500 - 10
Oxfordshire -12 4 - - 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 - - 1
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 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) Azure
3 10 (43.48%) OpenShift
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
4 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (26.09%) Serverless
5 5 (21.74%) Apigee
5 5 (21.74%) GCP
5 5 (21.74%) Kong
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (52.17%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (8.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (60.87%) Git
2 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
4 5 (21.74%) Cucumber
4 5 (21.74%) JIRA
5 4 (17.39%) Artifactory
General
1 16 (69.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (47.83%) Telecoms
3 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Finance
5 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.35%) Automotive
6 1 (4.35%) Aviation
6 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Automation Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) Network Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) Telecoms Engineer
3 8 (34.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (26.09%) Automation Specialist
4 6 (26.09%) Network Specialist
4 6 (26.09%) Telecoms Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Development Team Leader
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Software Development Team Leader
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (8.70%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) JSON
2 14 (60.87%) YAML
3 10 (43.48%) Jinja
3 10 (43.48%) REST
4 5 (21.74%) XML
4 5 (21.74%) YANG
5 4 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (17.39%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (8.70%) .NET
7 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 1 (4.35%) React
7 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (8.70%) Life Science
2 2 (8.70%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) CI/CD
2 17 (73.91%) Containerisation
3 14 (60.87%) DevOps
4 12 (52.17%) Agile
4 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (47.83%) Microservices
5 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (43.48%) API Management
6 10 (43.48%) Task Automation
7 9 (39.13%) Secrets Management
8 6 (26.09%) Auto-Scaling
8 6 (26.09%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
9 5 (21.74%) API Integration
9 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
9 5 (21.74%) Project Delivery
9 5 (21.74%) Scrum
9 5 (21.74%) Security Hardening
9 5 (21.74%) Webhook
10 4 (17.39%) Issue Tracking
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) Java
3 6 (26.09%) Groovy
4 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 4 (17.39%) Perl
6 2 (8.70%) C#
6 2 (8.70%) C++
6 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.70%) SQL
7 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) ECSS
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Kubernetes
2 7 (30.43%) Ansible
2 7 (30.43%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Packer
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Red Hat
2 10 (43.48%) Cisco
3 5 (21.74%) AppDynamics
3 5 (21.74%) F5
3 5 (21.74%) Juniper
3 5 (21.74%) Palo Alto
4 4 (17.39%) IBM
5 2 (8.70%) Google
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) Atlassian