GitLab
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 255 358
Rank change year-on-year -68 +103 -36
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 532 542 764
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.26% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.50% 13.47% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 321 162 563
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,324 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% +21.15% -7.14%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +4.17%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,255 4,023 9,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.57% 9.38% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 2,604 6,594
10th Percentile £33,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +9.20% -8.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the UK

GitLab
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 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
England -51 472 £73,500 -6.67% 164
UK excluding London -93 320 £67,500 -3.57% 137
London +14 174 £84,250 -0.88% 47
Work from Home -100 157 £69,310 -3.06% 87
North of England -67 122 £69,310 +3.39% 52
South East +34 90 £66,250 +3.92% 32
Yorkshire -2 72 £69,310 -2.38% 9
South West -50 46 £65,000 +4.00% 20
Scotland -37 35 £95,000 +8.57% 5
North West -86 34 £65,000 -3.04% 25
Midlands -86 21 £57,500 -17.86% 15
West Midlands -52 17 £57,500 -19.30% 10
North East -23 16 £57,500 - 18
East of England -38 6 £56,250 -29.69% 7
East Midlands -74 4 - - 5
Wales -35 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 5

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 23 (4.32%) Confluence
2 22 (4.14%) Apache
3 11 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.88%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.13%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.56%) IIS
6 3 (0.56%) JBoss
6 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 326 (61.28%) AWS
2 200 (37.59%) Azure
3 144 (27.07%) AWS CloudFormation
4 112 (21.05%) Serverless
5 94 (17.67%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (17.11%) GitHub
7 85 (15.98%) Amazon S3
8 75 (14.10%) GCP
9 70 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
11 55 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (10.15%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (9.40%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (8.46%) Apigee
15 42 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 40 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
17 37 (6.95%) Datadog
18 36 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
18 36 (6.77%) Azure AKS
18 36 (6.77%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.71%) Broadband
2 29 (5.45%) Firewall
3 25 (4.70%) DNS
4 13 (2.44%) DSL
5 12 (2.26%) LAN
5 12 (2.26%) MQTT
6 11 (2.07%) Software-Defined Networking
7 10 (1.88%) Network Security
8 9 (1.69%) HTTP
8 9 (1.69%) WAN
9 8 (1.50%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.32%) IPv4
11 6 (1.13%) BGP
11 6 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.13%) DHCP
11 6 (1.13%) VPN
12 5 (0.94%) MPLS
13 4 (0.75%) Asterisk PBX
13 4 (0.75%) Bluetooth
13 4 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.41%) DynamoDB
2 61 (11.47%) NoSQL
3 47 (8.83%) MongoDB
4 38 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (4.14%) MySQL
7 16 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.69%) Pinecone
9 8 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.50%) Big Data
10 6 (1.13%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.94%) CockroachDB
11 5 (0.94%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.75%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.38%) Apache Iceberg
13 2 (0.38%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 257 (48.31%) Jenkins
2 140 (26.32%) Git
3 100 (18.80%) SonarQube
4 60 (11.28%) Cypress.io
5 48 (9.02%) Cucumber
6 45 (8.46%) JIRA
7 42 (7.89%) Maven
8 29 (5.45%) CircleCI
9 24 (4.51%) Selenium
10 20 (3.76%) Bitbucket
11 15 (2.82%) JUnit
11 15 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (2.63%) Postman
12 14 (2.63%) REST Assured
13 10 (1.88%) Gatling
13 10 (1.88%) JMeter
13 10 (1.88%) Vite
14 8 (1.50%) Robot Framework
15 6 (1.13%) Artifactory
15 6 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 109 (20.49%) Finance
1 109 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 53 (9.96%) Banking
3 48 (9.02%) Public Sector
4 47 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (7.14%) Marketing
7 34 (6.39%) Games
8 16 (3.01%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.44%) Advertising
10 13 (2.44%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.88%) Electronics
13 6 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.94%) Automotive
14 5 (0.94%) Retail
15 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (21.62%) Senior
2 96 (18.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 93 (17.48%) Developer
4 54 (10.15%) Lead
5 51 (9.59%) Architect
6 49 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 46 (8.65%) Java Developer
8 39 (7.33%) Software Engineer
9 37 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (6.20%) Salesforce Architect
11 30 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (5.45%) Senior DevOps
13 28 (5.26%) Senior Developer
14 27 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (4.89%) Security Engineer
16 22 (4.14%) Java Engineer
17 20 (3.76%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (3.76%) Principal Engineer
18 19 (3.57%) Automation Engineer
18 19 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (13.91%) Spring Boot
2 69 (12.97%) REST
3 63 (11.84%) Kafka
4 57 (10.71%) AngularJS
5 53 (9.96%) Spring
6 42 (7.89%) Gherkin
7 41 (7.71%) Jest
8 36 (6.77%) Node.js
8 36 (6.77%) RabbitMQ
8 36 (6.77%) RESTful
9 35 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (6.58%) React
9 35 (6.58%) SOAP
10 34 (6.39%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (6.39%) Visualforce
11 23 (4.32%) JSON
12 22 (4.14%) YAML
13 21 (3.95%) gRPC
13 21 (3.95%) Playwright
14 19 (3.57%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 112 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.84%) Product Ownership
3 44 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (4.32%) Public Cloud
5 22 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.38%) Blockchain
6 18 (3.38%) e-Learning
6 18 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.20%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.20%) Security Posture
7 17 (3.20%) Web3
8 16 (3.01%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
10 9 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.32%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 136 (25.56%) Linux
2 56 (10.53%) Windows
3 24 (4.51%) Unix
4 21 (3.95%) Windows Server
5 20 (3.76%) CentOS
6 14 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (2.26%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.38%) Android
10 2 (0.38%) Debian
10 2 (0.38%) Rocky
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (86.84%) CI/CD
2 365 (68.61%) DevOps
3 270 (50.75%) Agile
4 247 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 154 (28.95%) Containerisation
6 143 (26.88%) Microservices
7 137 (25.75%) Test Automation
8 126 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 108 (20.30%) Continuous Integration
10 107 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (19.17%) Scrum
12 98 (18.42%) Mentoring
13 95 (17.86%) Observability
14 90 (16.92%) Software Engineering
15 89 (16.73%) DevSecOps
16 79 (14.85%) Event-Driven
16 79 (14.85%) SDLC
17 76 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
18 61 (11.47%) Coaching
19 57 (10.71%) AI
Programming Languages
1 246 (46.24%) Python
2 161 (30.26%) Java
3 149 (28.01%) Bash
4 81 (15.23%) TypeScript
5 76 (14.29%) SQL
6 67 (12.59%) JavaScript
7 57 (10.71%) PowerShell
8 52 (9.77%) Go
9 50 (9.40%) Groovy
10 34 (6.39%) Apex Code
10 34 (6.39%) SOQL
10 34 (6.39%) SOSL
11 32 (6.02%) C#
12 31 (5.83%) Rust
13 26 (4.89%) C++
14 8 (1.50%) Perl
15 7 (1.32%) C
16 6 (1.13%) Bicep
16 6 (1.13%) PHP
17 5 (0.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 159 (29.89%) Security Cleared
2 85 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 69 (12.97%) Degree
4 64 (12.03%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.64%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.51%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (4.32%) OSCP
9 22 (4.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.38%) Master's Degree
11 16 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.82%) ISTQB
13 13 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (2.26%) CCNA
14 12 (2.26%) RHCSA
15 7 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (1.32%) RHCE
16 6 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (12.03%) QA
2 19 (3.57%) GDPR
3 17 (3.20%) NIST
4 13 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.44%) SOC 2
5 11 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.88%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.75%) JTAG
8 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 228 (42.86%) Docker
2 28 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.14%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.07%) VMware NSX
4 11 (2.07%) vSphere
5 7 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.32%) Squid
5 7 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 267 (50.19%) Terraform
2 224 (42.11%) Kubernetes
3 131 (24.62%) Ansible
4 86 (16.17%) Grafana
5 80 (15.04%) Prometheus
6 39 (7.33%) HP Fortify
7 32 (6.02%) Argo
8 21 (3.95%) Nagios
9 14 (2.63%) Kibana
10 13 (2.44%) Puppet
11 12 (2.26%) Packer
12 11 (2.07%) logstash
13 8 (1.50%) Podman
14 7 (1.32%) vCenter Server
14 7 (1.32%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.94%) VxRail
17 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
17 4 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 83 (15.60%) Splunk
2 46 (8.65%) Red Hat
3 37 (6.95%) VMware
4 36 (6.77%) Microsoft
5 35 (6.58%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.57%) Oracle
7 14 (2.63%) Cisco
8 12 (2.26%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.26%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.07%) AppDynamics
10 10 (1.88%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.88%) Google
11 8 (1.50%) Juniper
11 8 (1.50%) Tenable
12 7 (1.32%) IBM
12 7 (1.32%) Rapid7
13 6 (1.13%) F5
13 6 (1.13%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.94%) BeyondTrust
14 5 (0.94%) Veracode