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 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 329 297
Rank change year-on-year -14 -32 -14
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 175 254 302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.69% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.99% 7.06% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 97 135 242
10th Percentile £50,750 £43,911 £35,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.76% -5.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £92,500 £86,000
UK median annual salary £76,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.93% +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 2,190 3,600 3,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.22% 9.84% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 2,036 2,968
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,264
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,100 £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 5 January 2026.

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 5 January 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
North of England +58 77 £75,000 +15.38% 97
Yorkshire +18 39 £80,000 +38.02% 52
North West +26 31 £66,250 +1.92% 37
South West -22 25 £73,500 +22.50% 56
South East -47 22 £80,250 +11.07% 92
Midlands +9 20 £57,600 -17.71% 56
Scotland -4 15 - - 11
East of England +30 14 £67,500 -5.26% 51
West Midlands +10 14 £63,750 - 32
North East +11 7 £66,250 +3.54% 8
East Midlands -4 6 £53,600 -28.53% 21
Wales +5 4 £57,600 -38.40% 6
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 (4.57%) Confluence
2 6 (3.43%) Apache
3 4 (2.29%) Camunda
4 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.71%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 92 (52.57%) AWS
2 65 (37.14%) Azure
3 36 (20.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
5 27 (15.43%) GCP
6 26 (14.86%) GitHub
6 26 (14.86%) Serverless
7 25 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (13.14%) Amazon S3
9 19 (10.86%) Amazon ECR
10 17 (9.71%) Apigee
10 17 (9.71%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (9.14%) OpenShift
12 15 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.57%) Broadband
2 12 (6.86%) DNS
3 5 (2.86%) Firewall
4 4 (2.29%) VSAN
5 3 (1.71%) Skype
5 3 (1.71%) VPN
6 2 (1.14%) SSL
6 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.57%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) Internet
7 1 (0.57%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.57%) SAN
7 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.00%) DynamoDB
2 18 (10.29%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.29%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (4.00%) Power BI
6 6 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (3.43%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.43%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.86%) CockroachDB
7 5 (2.86%) Data Vault
7 5 (2.86%) MySQL
8 2 (1.14%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.14%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.14%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.14%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.57%) Big Data
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
9 1 (0.57%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 96 (54.86%) Jenkins
2 44 (25.14%) Git
2 44 (25.14%) SonarQube
3 21 (12.00%) Maven
4 19 (10.86%) Cypress.io
5 17 (9.71%) JIRA
6 16 (9.14%) JUnit
7 15 (8.57%) Bitbucket
7 15 (8.57%) Selenium
8 13 (7.43%) Cucumber
9 7 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (2.86%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.86%) TestNG
11 4 (2.29%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.29%) Postman
11 4 (2.29%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.29%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (1.71%) Gradle
13 2 (1.14%) Checkstyle
General
1 42 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.43%) Marketing
3 16 (9.14%) Finance
3 16 (9.14%) Games
4 15 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (6.29%) Advertising
7 9 (5.14%) Aerospace
7 9 (5.14%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.43%) Banking
10 5 (2.86%) Electronics
10 5 (2.86%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.86%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.14%) Automotive
11 2 (1.14%) Law
12 1 (0.57%) Aviation
12 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (24.57%) Lead
2 32 (18.29%) Developer
3 25 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (10.29%) Architect
4 18 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (9.14%) Software Engineer
6 14 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (8.00%) Salesforce Architect
7 13 (7.43%) Senior
7 13 (7.43%) Software Developer
8 11 (6.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.29%) Lead DevOps
9 10 (5.71%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.71%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.71%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Salesforce Technical Architect
10 8 (4.57%) Technical Architect
11 7 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.43%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.14%) Spring Boot
2 25 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 25 (14.29%) REST
3 22 (12.57%) Spring
4 20 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
5 17 (9.71%) Gherkin
5 17 (9.71%) Jest
6 16 (9.14%) Lightning Web Components
6 16 (9.14%) SOAP
6 16 (9.14%) Visualforce
7 14 (8.00%) React
8 8 (4.57%) .NET
8 8 (4.57%) pytest
8 8 (4.57%) RESTful
9 7 (4.00%) Django
10 6 (3.43%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (3.43%) Flask
11 5 (2.86%) HTML
11 5 (2.86%) JSF
11 5 (2.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.71%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.14%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.43%) Private Cloud
4 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.71%) Blackberry
5 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.71%) PKI
5 3 (1.71%) RSA SecurID
6 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (24.57%) Linux
2 14 (8.00%) Windows
3 5 (2.86%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.29%) Debian
4 4 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.57%) CentOS
5 1 (0.57%) Fedora
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (74.29%) CI/CD
2 117 (66.86%) DevOps
3 94 (53.71%) Agile
4 50 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (19.43%) Scrum
7 34 (19.43%) Software Engineering
8 33 (18.86%) Containerisation
8 33 (18.86%) Mentoring
9 31 (17.71%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (15.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 27 (15.43%) Roadmaps
11 25 (14.29%) Observability
12 24 (13.71%) Microservices
12 24 (13.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 24 (13.71%) Test Automation
13 21 (12.00%) Event-Driven
14 20 (11.43%) Secure Coding
15 19 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 72 (41.14%) Python
2 68 (38.86%) Java
3 43 (24.57%) Bash
4 41 (23.43%) TypeScript
5 29 (16.57%) SQL
6 20 (11.43%) JavaScript
7 16 (9.14%) Apex Code
7 16 (9.14%) Groovy
8 15 (8.57%) PowerShell
8 15 (8.57%) SOQL
8 15 (8.57%) SOSL
9 10 (5.71%) C#
10 7 (4.00%) C
11 6 (3.43%) ANSI SQL
11 6 (3.43%) Delphi
11 6 (3.43%) Go
12 5 (2.86%) C++
13 3 (1.71%) Bicep
13 3 (1.71%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 33 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.71%) DV Cleared
3 16 (9.14%) AWS Certification
4 14 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.29%) Degree
6 8 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.29%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.71%) CCNA
9 3 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.14%) CISSP
10 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.57%) CISM
11 1 (0.57%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.71%) QA
2 4 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.14%) ECSS
4 2 (1.14%) GDPR
4 2 (1.14%) NIST
4 2 (1.14%) SLA
5 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (37.14%) Docker
2 5 (2.86%) Firmware
3 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.29%) vSphere
4 3 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.57%) Squid
6 1 (0.57%) vCloud
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (38.29%) Kubernetes
2 55 (31.43%) Terraform
3 40 (22.86%) Ansible
4 36 (20.57%) Grafana
5 27 (15.43%) Prometheus
6 17 (9.71%) HP Fortify
7 8 (4.57%) Kibana
8 3 (1.71%) Argo
8 3 (1.71%) Istio
8 3 (1.71%) SCOM
8 3 (1.71%) WSUS
9 2 (1.14%) Nessus
9 2 (1.14%) Puppet
9 2 (1.14%) Rancher
9 2 (1.14%) Sysdig
10 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.57%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.57%) logstash
10 1 (0.57%) Packer
10 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (16.57%) Oracle
2 24 (13.71%) Splunk
3 17 (9.71%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.57%) VMware
5 7 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.43%) Google
6 6 (3.43%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.86%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.29%) HP
8 4 (2.29%) SAP
9 3 (1.71%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.14%) Cisco
10 2 (1.14%) Guidewire
10 2 (1.14%) New Relic
11 1 (0.57%) Adobe
11 1 (0.57%) Dell
11 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.57%) Juniper
11 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.57%) Veeam