GitLab
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 378 335
Rank change year-on-year +70 -43 -87
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 556 740 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.70% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.51% 7.96% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 174 500 530
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,813 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,375 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +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 5,845 9,294 12,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 8.73% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,356 6,302 8,049
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitLab.

Salary trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 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
England +34 481 £75,000 +14.57% 1,238
UK excluding London +114 404 £67,500 +8.00% 786
Work from Home +116 348 £71,500 +13.89% 676
North of England +84 167 £67,037 +9.45% 200
North West +64 147 £67,037 +11.73% 112
London -4 141 £85,000 - 543
Midlands +104 80 £70,000 +18.68% 115
Scotland +126 69 £90,000 +46.34% 64
South West +96 45 £61,250 +2.08% 115
East Midlands +81 44 £66,250 +15.22% 42
West Midlands +65 36 £70,000 +16.67% 73
East of England +21 23 £76,250 +22.00% 97
South East -22 21 £75,000 +15.38% 161
Yorkshire +43 17 £72,000 +14.68% 74
North East +35 3 - - 14
Wales +18 2 £32,500 -48.00% 17

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 180 (32.37%) Confluence
2 6 (1.08%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.08%) nginx
3 2 (0.36%) Apache
3 2 (0.36%) CICS
3 2 (0.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.18%) Camunda
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.18%) Strapi
4 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Simulink
3 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 457 (82.19%) AWS
2 353 (63.49%) Azure
3 205 (36.87%) GCP
4 46 (8.27%) Amazon EC2
4 46 (8.27%) Serverless
5 40 (7.19%) Amazon S3
5 40 (7.19%) GitHub
6 39 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (5.40%) Datadog
9 29 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (2.70%) OpenShift
13 14 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (2.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.80%) Azure Monitor
17 6 (1.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.70%) DNS
2 8 (1.44%) Firewall
2 8 (1.44%) Network Security
3 6 (1.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 6 (1.08%) WAN
4 5 (0.90%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.72%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (0.54%) VPN
6 3 (0.54%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.18%) Broadband
7 1 (0.18%) DHCP
7 1 (0.18%) GSM
7 1 (0.18%) HTTP
7 1 (0.18%) LAN
7 1 (0.18%) SAN
7 1 (0.18%) SNMP
7 1 (0.18%) SSH
7 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.18%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (46.76%) SQL Server
2 41 (7.37%) MongoDB
3 39 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (6.83%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (3.24%) MySQL
7 16 (2.88%) DynamoDB
8 14 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.34%) Relational Database
10 5 (0.90%) Redis
11 4 (0.72%) Power BI
11 4 (0.72%) Tableau
12 3 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.54%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.54%) Hazelcast
12 3 (0.54%) Parquet
12 3 (0.54%) Spark SQL
13 2 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.36%) Big Data
13 2 (0.36%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 276 (49.64%) JIRA
2 274 (49.28%) Sonatype Nexus
3 273 (49.10%) Cucumber
4 271 (48.74%) SonarQube
5 267 (48.02%) Selenium
6 265 (47.66%) Maven
7 258 (46.40%) Bitbucket
8 122 (21.94%) Jenkins
9 66 (11.87%) Git
10 26 (4.68%) JUnit
11 20 (3.60%) CircleCI
12 17 (3.06%) TeamCity
13 16 (2.88%) Mockito
14 12 (2.16%) IntelliJ
15 11 (1.98%) Octopus Deploy
16 9 (1.62%) Postman
17 8 (1.44%) JMeter
18 7 (1.26%) Gatling
19 6 (1.08%) Artifactory
20 5 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 337 (60.61%) Finance
2 290 (52.16%) Banking
3 271 (48.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (19.42%) Retail
5 95 (17.09%) Investment Banking
6 91 (16.37%) Social Skills
7 90 (16.19%) Corporate Banking
8 25 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (2.52%) Marketing
10 13 (2.34%) Automotive
11 11 (1.98%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.80%) Public Sector
13 9 (1.62%) Front Office
13 9 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.08%) Electronics
14 6 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.08%) Law
14 6 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.90%) Private Banking
16 4 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 295 (53.06%) Software Engineer
2 62 (11.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (10.25%) Developer
4 46 (8.27%) Senior
5 33 (5.94%) Lead
6 26 (4.68%) Java Developer
6 26 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
8 23 (4.14%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (3.78%) Python Engineer
9 21 (3.78%) Senior Developer
10 20 (3.60%) Architect
11 18 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
12 16 (2.88%) AWS Developer
12 16 (2.88%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 15 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (2.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 14 (2.52%) Senior Java Developer
15 13 (2.34%) Cloud Engineer
16 12 (2.16%) DevOps Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (52.88%) React
2 290 (52.16%) Kafka
3 287 (51.62%) Spring
4 286 (51.44%) Spring Boot
5 261 (46.94%) CSS
5 261 (46.94%) HTML
6 250 (44.96%) JPA
7 249 (44.78%) Redux
8 173 (31.12%) Hibernate
9 132 (23.74%) REST
10 127 (22.84%) RESTful
11 99 (17.81%) HTML5
12 96 (17.27%) CSS3
13 93 (16.73%) Jest
14 90 (16.19%) Sass
15 30 (5.40%) .NET
16 24 (4.32%) AngularJS
17 21 (3.78%) .NET Core
18 19 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
19 18 (3.24%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 267 (48.02%) Enterprise Software
2 258 (46.40%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.22%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.52%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.34%) Private Cloud
6 11 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.80%) Credit Derivative
8 9 (1.62%) Blockchain
8 9 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (1.62%) Web3
9 8 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.44%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.26%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.08%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.08%) Wiki
12 5 (0.90%) Data Centre
13 4 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.05%) Linux
2 13 (2.34%) Android
3 11 (1.98%) Windows
4 9 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.44%) Debian
6 7 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.90%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.36%) CentOS
8 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.36%) zOS
9 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (87.77%) CI/CD
2 437 (78.60%) DevOps
3 375 (67.45%) Agile
4 372 (66.91%) Containerisation
5 343 (61.69%) Software Engineering
6 336 (60.43%) Microservices
7 314 (56.47%) Test Automation
8 283 (50.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 274 (49.28%) SDLC
10 267 (48.02%) Performance Optimisation
11 258 (46.40%) Front End Development
12 206 (37.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 173 (31.12%) TDD
14 169 (30.40%) Clean Code
15 141 (25.36%) Mentoring
16 121 (21.76%) Infrastructure as Code
17 117 (21.04%) User Experience
18 96 (17.27%) Migration
19 90 (16.19%) Responsive Web Design
19 90 (16.19%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 348 (62.59%) Java
2 303 (54.50%) SQL
3 291 (52.34%) JavaScript
4 128 (23.02%) TypeScript
5 127 (22.84%) Python
6 53 (9.53%) Bash
7 30 (5.40%) C#
8 26 (4.68%) C++
9 23 (4.14%) Go
10 22 (3.96%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.80%) C
12 9 (1.62%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.08%) Bicep
13 6 (1.08%) Swift
14 5 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.90%) Scala
15 4 (0.72%) Groovy
15 4 (0.72%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.54%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (8.63%) Security Cleared
2 24 (4.32%) SC Cleared
3 18 (3.24%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.52%) Degree
6 7 (1.26%) CCNA
6 7 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.26%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.08%) CCNP
8 5 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.72%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.54%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.18%) PhD
11 1 (0.18%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (50.54%) QA
2 97 (17.45%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.26%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.72%) GDPR
5 4 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.18%) ECSS
6 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.18%) NCSC
6 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 394 (70.86%) Docker
2 6 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) LXC
4 2 (0.36%) Squid
4 2 (0.36%) vCloud
4 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 417 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 135 (24.28%) Terraform
3 92 (16.55%) Ansible
4 53 (9.53%) Prometheus
5 42 (7.55%) Grafana
6 16 (2.88%) Kibana
7 14 (2.52%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.62%) Argo
9 4 (0.72%) Puppet
10 3 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.54%) Nagios
11 2 (0.36%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.36%) logstash
11 2 (0.36%) Packer
11 2 (0.36%) Rancher
11 2 (0.36%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 247 (44.42%) Solace
2 20 (3.60%) Microsoft
3 16 (2.88%) Splunk
4 13 (2.34%) IBM
5 12 (2.16%) Oracle
6 10 (1.80%) Atlassian
6 10 (1.80%) F5
7 9 (1.62%) Google
8 8 (1.44%) Dynatrace
8 8 (1.44%) VMware
9 4 (0.72%) Databricks
10 3 (0.54%) Commvault
10 3 (0.54%) New Relic
11 2 (0.36%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.36%) Cisco
11 2 (0.36%) CyberSource
11 2 (0.36%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.36%) QNX
11 2 (0.36%) Qualys
11 2 (0.36%) Red Hat