GitLab Jobs in the UK excluding London

GitLab
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 369 378
Rank change year-on-year +104 +9 -48
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 399 482 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.02% 0.65% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.92% 7.24% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 83 392 244
10th Percentile £50,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £84,625 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £78,750 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +21.15% -7.14% +3.70%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,023 6,653 7,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.32% 8.99% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,426 4,542 4,308
10th Percentile £37,574 £33,750 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,000 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,780 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £59,526 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.16% -8.42% +4.00%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
North of England +46 159 £67,037 +11.73% 426
North West +32 139 £67,037 +13.62% 210
Midlands +89 79 £70,000 +40.00% 363
Scotland +148 73 £87,500 +42.28% 94
East Midlands +63 44 £70,000 +27.27% 148
South West +101 40 £62,500 -1.96% 265
West Midlands +55 35 £71,250 +97.22% 193
South East +8 25 £63,750 -1.92% 520
East of England +30 24 £80,000 +28.00% 281
Yorkshire +35 17 £71,000 +13.09% 165
North East +35 3 - - 51
Wales +18 2 £32,500 -48.00% 48
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 178 (44.61%) Confluence
2 5 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.25%) nginx
3 4 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.25%) Strapi
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 334 (83.71%) AWS
2 289 (72.43%) Azure
3 179 (44.86%) GCP
4 23 (5.76%) GitHub
5 21 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (4.76%) Serverless
7 18 (4.51%) Amazon S3
8 16 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.51%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.50%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (1.00%) Power Platform
15 3 (0.75%) Amazon SageMaker
15 3 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (0.75%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) VPN
2 3 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (0.75%) DNS
2 3 (0.75%) Firewall
2 3 (0.75%) Network Security
3 2 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.25%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.25%) Broadband
4 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.25%) GSM
4 1 (0.25%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) IOS XR
4 1 (0.25%) MPLS
4 1 (0.25%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.25%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (64.41%) SQL Server
2 39 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
3 37 (9.27%) MongoDB
4 26 (6.52%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.26%) MySQL
6 11 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.76%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.00%) DynamoDB
9 3 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.75%) Parquet
9 3 (0.75%) Power BI
9 3 (0.75%) Redis
9 3 (0.75%) Spark SQL
9 3 (0.75%) Tableau
10 2 (0.50%) Couchbase
10 2 (0.50%) Endeca
10 2 (0.50%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 268 (67.17%) JIRA
2 259 (64.91%) Selenium
3 252 (63.16%) Cucumber
4 251 (62.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 249 (62.41%) Maven
6 248 (62.16%) Bitbucket
7 247 (61.90%) SonarQube
8 59 (14.79%) Jenkins
9 40 (10.03%) Git
10 11 (2.76%) JUnit
11 6 (1.50%) Postman
11 6 (1.50%) Visual Studio
12 5 (1.25%) Fiddler
12 5 (1.25%) Mockito
12 5 (1.25%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.00%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.75%) Gradle
14 3 (0.75%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.75%) Xcode
14 3 (0.75%) XCTest
General
1 270 (67.67%) Finance
2 263 (65.91%) Banking
3 254 (63.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (23.81%) Retail
5 93 (23.31%) Investment Banking
6 90 (22.56%) Corporate Banking
7 35 (8.77%) Social Skills
8 12 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (2.26%) Marketing
10 8 (2.01%) Automotive
10 8 (2.01%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.50%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.25%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.00%) Electronics
13 4 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.75%) Private Banking
14 3 (0.75%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.50%) Law
16 1 (0.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 285 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 30 (7.52%) Developer
3 26 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 22 (5.51%) Senior
5 21 (5.26%) Lead
6 13 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (2.51%) Java Developer
8 8 (2.01%) Architect
9 7 (1.75%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (1.75%) Java Engineer
9 7 (1.75%) Senior Developer
9 7 (1.75%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (1.50%) Technical Leader
11 5 (1.25%) Administrator
11 5 (1.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 5 (1.25%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (1.25%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (1.25%) Test Engineer
12 4 (1.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
12 4 (1.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 281 (70.43%) React
2 271 (67.92%) Kafka
3 265 (66.42%) Spring
4 264 (66.17%) Spring Boot
5 253 (63.41%) CSS
5 253 (63.41%) HTML
6 248 (62.16%) JPA
7 247 (61.90%) Redux
8 168 (42.11%) Hibernate
9 112 (28.07%) RESTful
10 106 (26.57%) REST
11 97 (24.31%) HTML5
12 94 (23.56%) CSS3
13 92 (23.06%) Jest
14 90 (22.56%) Sass
15 19 (4.76%) .NET
16 17 (4.26%) AngularJS
17 11 (2.76%) .NET Core
18 10 (2.51%) .NET Framework
18 10 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 250 (62.66%) Product Ownership
2 248 (62.16%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (2.51%) Mobile App
3 10 (2.51%) Private Cloud
4 6 (1.50%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.50%) Wiki
5 5 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.75%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.75%) W3C
8 2 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.50%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.50%) IoT
8 2 (0.50%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.50%) Molecular Biology
8 2 (0.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 32 (8.02%) Linux
2 8 (2.01%) Android
2 8 (2.01%) Windows
3 7 (1.75%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.75%) Debian
4 3 (0.75%) VMS
5 2 (0.50%) Rocky
5 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) CentOS
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (87.72%) CI/CD
2 328 (82.21%) DevOps
3 317 (79.45%) Agile
4 303 (75.94%) Software Engineering
5 294 (73.68%) Microservices
6 293 (73.43%) Containerisation
7 277 (69.42%) Test Automation
8 276 (69.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 256 (64.16%) SDLC
10 254 (63.66%) Front End Development
11 253 (63.41%) Performance Optimisation
12 178 (44.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 170 (42.61%) TDD
14 162 (40.60%) Clean Code
15 125 (31.33%) Mentoring
16 109 (27.32%) User Experience
17 91 (22.81%) Migration
18 90 (22.56%) Responsive Web Design
18 90 (22.56%) Strategic Thinking
19 33 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 310 (77.69%) Java
2 290 (72.68%) SQL
3 280 (70.18%) JavaScript
4 119 (29.82%) TypeScript
5 55 (13.78%) Python
6 32 (8.02%) Bash
7 13 (3.26%) C#
8 9 (2.26%) C++
8 9 (2.26%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.00%) C
9 4 (1.00%) Go
9 4 (1.00%) Swift
10 3 (0.75%) Rust
11 2 (0.50%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.25%) Bicep
12 1 (0.25%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.25%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 15 (3.76%) SC Cleared
3 14 (3.51%) DV Cleared
4 7 (1.75%) Degree
5 6 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.50%) CCNA
7 2 (0.50%) CCNP
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.50%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.25%) PhD
8 1 (0.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (66.42%) QA
2 97 (24.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.75%) GDPR
3 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.25%) ECSS
4 1 (0.25%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 306 (76.69%) Docker
2 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.75%) LXC
2 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.50%) Squid
4 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 312 (78.20%) Kubernetes
2 44 (11.03%) Terraform
3 28 (7.02%) Ansible
4 13 (3.26%) Grafana
5 12 (3.01%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.26%) Kibana
7 7 (1.75%) Puppet
8 6 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.25%) Argo
10 3 (0.75%) Graylog
10 3 (0.75%) Nagios
10 3 (0.75%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.50%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.50%) Packer
11 2 (0.50%) Rancher
11 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.25%) Consul
12 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 246 (61.65%) Solace
2 11 (2.76%) Atlassian
3 9 (2.26%) Oracle
4 8 (2.01%) Microsoft
5 6 (1.50%) F5
6 5 (1.25%) New Relic
7 4 (1.00%) Cisco
7 4 (1.00%) Juniper
7 4 (1.00%) VMware
8 3 (0.75%) Citrix
8 3 (0.75%) Databricks
8 3 (0.75%) Google
8 3 (0.75%) NetApp
8 3 (0.75%) PagerDuty
8 3 (0.75%) Pure Storage
8 3 (0.75%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.75%) Splunk
9 2 (0.50%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.50%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.50%) Sawtooth Software