GitLab Job Trends

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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 354 359
Rank change year-on-year +19 +5 -71
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 427 327 679
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.77% 0.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.31% 7.19% 7.68%
Number of salaries quoted 255 194 562
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,686 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -8.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £103,250 £106,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +8.70%

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 4,143 4,551 8,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.42% 10.73% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,692 3,066 6,713
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £79,500
90th Percentile £90,900 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 22 March 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 16 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 22 March 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 +19 348 £76,250 -1.61% 211
UK excluding London +12 246 £65,000 -7.14% 153
Work from Home +42 156 £72,500 +5.45% 104
London -9 133 £82,500 -5.71% 64
North of England -3 90 £67,500 - 51
Yorkshire +4 57 £77,500 +3.33% 18
South East -4 57 £65,000 -18.75% 39
Scotland 0 42 £95,000 +11.76% 5
South West -45 32 £67,500 +8.00% 31
North West -19 26 £65,000 -3.04% 13
Midlands -34 17 £57,500 -4.17% 14
West Midlands +2 16 £58,750 +2.17% 7
North East -24 7 £68,076 -2.75% 20
East of England -17 6 £67,500 -14.29% 12
Wales -21 2 £55,200 +69.85% 4
East Midlands -44 1 £55,200 -31.00% 7

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 (5.39%) Confluence
2 16 (3.75%) Apache
3 7 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.17%) IIS
4 5 (1.17%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.70%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.47%) JBoss
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 256 (59.95%) AWS
2 164 (38.41%) Azure
3 128 (29.98%) AWS CloudFormation
4 108 (25.29%) Serverless
5 102 (23.89%) GitHub
6 91 (21.31%) AWS Lambda
7 76 (17.80%) GCP
8 73 (17.10%) Amazon S3
9 69 (16.16%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (12.41%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (11.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 47 (11.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (10.77%) OpenShift
14 41 (9.60%) Amazon ECR
15 40 (9.37%) Apigee
16 39 (9.13%) Datadog
17 36 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
17 36 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
18 31 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.84%) Broadband
2 27 (6.32%) DNS
3 23 (5.39%) Firewall
4 13 (3.04%) DSL
5 6 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.41%) DHCP
5 6 (1.41%) VPN
6 5 (1.17%) Network Security
7 4 (0.94%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (0.94%) BGP
7 4 (0.94%) LAN
7 4 (0.94%) MPLS
7 4 (0.94%) MQTT
7 4 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.94%) VoIP
7 4 (0.94%) VPLS
7 4 (0.94%) WAN
8 3 (0.70%) HTTP
8 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (11.94%) DynamoDB
2 49 (11.48%) NoSQL
3 30 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (4.92%) MongoDB
5 21 (4.92%) SQL Server
6 20 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.34%) MySQL
8 7 (1.64%) Power BI
9 5 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.17%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.17%) CockroachDB
10 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.94%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.94%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.70%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.47%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.47%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 234 (54.80%) Jenkins
2 97 (22.72%) Git
3 90 (21.08%) SonarQube
4 48 (11.24%) Cypress.io
5 47 (11.01%) JIRA
6 38 (8.90%) Maven
7 36 (8.43%) Cucumber
8 30 (7.03%) Selenium
9 25 (5.85%) Bitbucket
9 25 (5.85%) CircleCI
10 19 (4.45%) JUnit
11 14 (3.28%) Postman
12 12 (2.81%) REST Assured
13 11 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (2.34%) JMeter
15 8 (1.87%) Subversion
16 6 (1.41%) Gatling
17 5 (1.17%) SoapUI
17 5 (1.17%) TestNG
18 4 (0.94%) LoadRunner
General
1 111 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 86 (20.14%) Finance
3 50 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.24%) Marketing
5 43 (10.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (9.60%) Games
7 34 (7.96%) Banking
8 32 (7.49%) Telecoms
9 23 (5.39%) Public Sector
10 18 (4.22%) Advertising
11 15 (3.51%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.64%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.41%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.94%) Electronics
17 4 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
18 2 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 74 (17.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (17.10%) Developer
3 66 (15.46%) Senior
4 60 (14.05%) Lead
5 57 (13.35%) Architect
6 46 (10.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (9.13%) Salesforce Architect
8 30 (7.03%) Java Developer
9 29 (6.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.39%) Senior Developer
11 23 (5.39%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.92%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 21 (4.92%) Technical Architect
13 18 (4.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.22%) Security Engineer
14 16 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (3.51%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 15 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
15 15 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (14.99%) Spring Boot
2 62 (14.52%) REST
3 47 (11.01%) Elastic Stack
4 45 (10.54%) Kafka
5 43 (10.07%) AngularJS
5 43 (10.07%) SOAP
5 43 (10.07%) Spring
6 41 (9.60%) Lightning Web Components
6 41 (9.60%) Visualforce
7 38 (8.90%) Gherkin
8 36 (8.43%) Jest
9 26 (6.09%) RESTful
10 25 (5.85%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (4.92%) React
12 19 (4.45%) Node.js
13 18 (4.22%) YAML
14 16 (3.75%) AWS CDK
15 15 (3.51%) OAuth
15 15 (3.51%) pytest
16 14 (3.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 69 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 61 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.51%) Security Posture
5 13 (3.04%) Blockchain
5 13 (3.04%) Cloud Security Posture
6 12 (2.81%) Web3
7 11 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.87%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.64%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.64%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.41%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.17%) PKI
13 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.48%) Linux
2 37 (8.67%) Windows
3 14 (3.28%) CentOS
3 14 (3.28%) Unix
4 13 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.58%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.70%) Debian
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
10 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (86.65%) CI/CD
2 298 (69.79%) DevOps
3 207 (48.48%) Agile
4 186 (43.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 135 (31.62%) Containerisation
6 118 (27.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 115 (26.93%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (22.25%) Continuous Integration
9 83 (19.44%) Microservices
10 82 (19.20%) Scrum
11 77 (18.03%) Observability
12 75 (17.56%) Test Automation
13 71 (16.63%) Event-Driven
14 67 (15.69%) Continuous Delivery
14 67 (15.69%) Software Engineering
15 64 (14.99%) Mentoring
15 64 (14.99%) Roadmaps
16 60 (14.05%) DevSecOps
17 48 (11.24%) Collaborative Culture
17 48 (11.24%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 204 (47.78%) Python
2 118 (27.63%) Bash
3 112 (26.23%) Java
4 66 (15.46%) SQL
5 65 (15.22%) TypeScript
6 52 (12.18%) JavaScript
7 43 (10.07%) PowerShell
8 42 (9.84%) Go
9 41 (9.60%) Apex Code
9 41 (9.60%) SOQL
9 41 (9.60%) SOSL
10 33 (7.73%) Groovy
11 20 (4.68%) Rust
12 14 (3.28%) C#
13 8 (1.87%) Delphi
14 7 (1.64%) ANSI SQL
14 7 (1.64%) Bicep
14 7 (1.64%) C++
15 4 (0.94%) Perl
15 4 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 93 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 44 (10.30%) AWS Certification
3 41 (9.60%) Degree
4 39 (9.13%) SC Cleared
5 34 (7.96%) DV Cleared
6 21 (4.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 19 (4.45%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (3.75%) OSCP
9 13 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (2.58%) ISTQB
12 8 (1.87%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.94%) CCNA
14 4 (0.94%) CISSP
15 3 (0.70%) CISM
15 3 (0.70%) GCIH
15 3 (0.70%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.48%) QA
2 17 (3.98%) GDPR
2 17 (3.98%) NIST
3 13 (3.04%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.81%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.34%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.87%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.47%) ECSS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 179 (41.92%) Docker
2 22 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.17%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.17%) vSphere
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 196 (45.90%) Terraform
2 177 (41.45%) Kubernetes
3 97 (22.72%) Ansible
4 96 (22.48%) Grafana
5 86 (20.14%) Prometheus
6 35 (8.20%) HP Fortify
7 11 (2.58%) Nagios
8 10 (2.34%) Kibana
9 9 (2.11%) Puppet
10 8 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.64%) Argo
12 5 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (1.17%) logstash
12 5 (1.17%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.17%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.94%) WSUS
14 3 (0.70%) Istio
14 3 (0.70%) Rancher
14 3 (0.70%) VxRail
15 2 (0.47%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 78 (18.27%) Splunk
2 42 (9.84%) Salesforce
3 37 (8.67%) Oracle
4 34 (7.96%) Red Hat
5 32 (7.49%) Microsoft
6 22 (5.15%) Atlassian
7 21 (4.92%) VMware
8 14 (3.28%) Cisco
9 10 (2.34%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.87%) Google
10 8 (1.87%) Juniper
11 7 (1.64%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.41%) F5
13 5 (1.17%) Rapid7
13 5 (1.17%) SAP
14 4 (0.94%) Dell
14 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.70%) AppDynamics
15 3 (0.70%) BeyondTrust
15 3 (0.70%) Tenable