GitLab Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GitLab
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 320 289
Rank change year-on-year -23 -31 -11
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 177 264 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.71% 0.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.03% 7.19% 7.60%
Number of salaries quoted 98 142 226
10th Percentile £48,875 £43,911 £35,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +7.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £83,438 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £92,375 £86,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -13.33%

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 2,205 3,674 3,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.26% 9.82% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 2,105 2,914
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,563 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -5.98% +6.36%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

GitLab job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GitLab
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 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 31 December 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 78 £75,000 +19.56% 369
Yorkshire +21 39 £80,000 +38.02% 168
North West +33 32 £65,000 - 174
South West -17 25 £74,500 +24.17% 199
South East -36 22 £80,250 +11.07% 361
Midlands +9 20 £57,600 -16.22% 286
East of England +27 15 £61,250 -14.04% 265
Scotland +4 15 - - 76
West Midlands +12 14 £63,750 +6.25% 145
North East +11 7 £66,250 +14.29% 27
East Midlands -6 6 £53,600 -28.53% 123
Wales +7 4 £57,600 -38.40% 41
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (4.52%) Confluence
2 6 (3.39%) Apache
3 4 (2.26%) Camunda
4 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.69%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 94 (53.11%) AWS
2 65 (36.72%) Azure
3 37 (20.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (15.82%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (14.69%) GCP
5 26 (14.69%) GitHub
5 26 (14.69%) Serverless
6 25 (14.12%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (12.99%) Amazon S3
8 19 (10.73%) Amazon ECR
9 17 (9.60%) Apigee
9 17 (9.60%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (9.04%) OpenShift
11 15 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (5.08%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (3.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.47%) Broadband
2 12 (6.78%) DNS
3 5 (2.82%) Firewall
4 4 (2.26%) VSAN
5 3 (1.69%) Skype
5 3 (1.69%) VPN
6 2 (1.13%) SSL
6 2 (1.13%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.56%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) Internet
7 1 (0.56%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.56%) SAN
7 1 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.86%) DynamoDB
2 18 (10.17%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.21%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.95%) Power BI
6 6 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.39%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.82%) CockroachDB
7 5 (2.82%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.82%) MySQL
8 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.13%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.13%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.13%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.56%) Big Data
9 1 (0.56%) Redis
9 1 (0.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 98 (55.37%) Jenkins
2 45 (25.42%) Git
3 44 (24.86%) SonarQube
4 21 (11.86%) Maven
5 19 (10.73%) Cypress.io
6 17 (9.60%) JIRA
7 16 (9.04%) JUnit
8 15 (8.47%) Bitbucket
8 15 (8.47%) Selenium
9 13 (7.34%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.95%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (2.82%) Artifactory
11 5 (2.82%) CircleCI
11 5 (2.82%) TeamCity
11 5 (2.82%) TestNG
12 4 (2.26%) Postman
13 3 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (1.69%) Gradle
13 3 (1.69%) REST Assured
14 2 (1.13%) Mockito
General
1 42 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.30%) Marketing
3 16 (9.04%) Finance
3 16 (9.04%) Games
4 15 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.21%) Advertising
7 9 (5.08%) Aerospace
7 9 (5.08%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.95%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.39%) Banking
10 5 (2.82%) Electronics
10 5 (2.82%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.13%) Automotive
11 2 (1.13%) Law
11 2 (1.13%) Retail
12 1 (0.56%) Aviation
12 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 42 (23.73%) Lead
2 32 (18.08%) Developer
3 25 (14.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (10.17%) Architect
4 18 (10.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (9.04%) Software Engineer
6 14 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (7.91%) Salesforce Architect
7 13 (7.34%) Senior
7 13 (7.34%) Software Developer
8 11 (6.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.21%) Lead DevOps
9 10 (5.65%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.52%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.52%) Salesforce Technical Architect
10 8 (4.52%) Technical Architect
11 7 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (16.95%) Spring Boot
2 25 (14.12%) AngularJS
2 25 (14.12%) REST
3 22 (12.43%) Spring
4 21 (11.86%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (9.60%) Gherkin
5 17 (9.60%) Jest
6 16 (9.04%) Lightning Web Components
6 16 (9.04%) SOAP
6 16 (9.04%) Visualforce
7 15 (8.47%) React
8 9 (5.08%) .NET
9 8 (4.52%) pytest
10 7 (3.95%) Django
10 7 (3.95%) RESTful
11 6 (3.39%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (3.39%) Flask
12 5 (2.82%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.82%) JSF
12 5 (2.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 23 (12.99%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.39%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Blackberry
5 3 (1.69%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.69%) PKI
5 3 (1.69%) RSA SecurID
6 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.13%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (24.86%) Linux
2 14 (7.91%) Windows
3 6 (3.39%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.82%) Debian
4 5 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) CentOS
6 1 (0.56%) Fedora
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (74.01%) CI/CD
2 117 (66.10%) DevOps
3 96 (54.24%) Agile
4 51 (28.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (28.25%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (19.77%) Scrum
8 34 (19.21%) Containerisation
9 33 (18.64%) Mentoring
9 33 (18.64%) Software Engineering
10 32 (18.08%) Continuous Integration
11 27 (15.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 27 (15.25%) Roadmaps
12 25 (14.12%) Observability
13 24 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 24 (13.56%) Test Automation
14 23 (12.99%) Microservices
15 21 (11.86%) Event-Driven
16 20 (11.30%) Secure Coding
17 19 (10.73%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.24%) Python
2 67 (37.85%) Java
3 44 (24.86%) Bash
4 40 (22.60%) TypeScript
5 29 (16.38%) SQL
6 20 (11.30%) JavaScript
7 16 (9.04%) Apex Code
7 16 (9.04%) Groovy
8 15 (8.47%) PowerShell
8 15 (8.47%) SOQL
8 15 (8.47%) SOSL
9 11 (6.21%) C#
10 8 (4.52%) C
11 6 (3.39%) ANSI SQL
11 6 (3.39%) C++
11 6 (3.39%) Delphi
11 6 (3.39%) Go
12 3 (1.69%) Bicep
12 3 (1.69%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 33 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.60%) DV Cleared
3 16 (9.04%) AWS Certification
4 14 (7.91%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.21%) Degree
6 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.69%) CCNA
9 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.69%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.13%) CISSP
11 1 (0.56%) CISM
11 1 (0.56%) LPIC
11 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.04%) QA
2 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.13%) ECSS
3 2 (1.13%) GDPR
3 2 (1.13%) NIST
3 2 (1.13%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (37.29%) Docker
2 5 (2.82%) Firmware
3 4 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.26%) vSphere
4 3 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) Squid
6 1 (0.56%) vCloud
6 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (37.85%) Kubernetes
2 55 (31.07%) Terraform
3 41 (23.16%) Ansible
4 37 (20.90%) Grafana
5 28 (15.82%) Prometheus
6 17 (9.60%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.52%) Kibana
8 3 (1.69%) Argo
8 3 (1.69%) Istio
8 3 (1.69%) SCOM
8 3 (1.69%) WSUS
9 2 (1.13%) Nessus
9 2 (1.13%) Puppet
9 2 (1.13%) Rancher
9 2 (1.13%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.56%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.56%) logstash
10 1 (0.56%) Packer
10 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (16.38%) Oracle
2 25 (14.12%) Splunk
3 17 (9.60%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.52%) VMware
5 7 (3.95%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.39%) Google
6 6 (3.39%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.82%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.26%) HP
8 4 (2.26%) SAP
9 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.13%) Cisco
10 2 (1.13%) New Relic
11 1 (0.56%) Adobe
11 1 (0.56%) Dell
11 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.56%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.56%) Juniper
11 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.56%) Veeam