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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 275 315
Rank change year-on-year -60 +40 +12
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 636 526 588
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.07% 0.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.42% 14.05% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 388 168 270
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £95,313 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,750 £110,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -3.85%

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 4,740 3,743 6,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.02% 7.61% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,890 2,195 3,494
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,574
25th Percentile £47,313 £46,448 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -42 588 £70,000 -9.68% 646
UK excluding London -103 405 £67,500 -3.57% 382
London +3 188 £93,750 +1.35% 288
North of England -38 177 £68,405 -0.50% 122
Work from Home -181 127 £69,310 -13.36% 317
South West -19 84 £75,000 +1.69% 64
North East -5 73 £60,000 -9.43% 31
South East +2 72 £65,000 -14.75% 51
North West -79 69 £69,310 +10.90% 68
Yorkshire -11 44 £72,500 -3.33% 23
Midlands -78 42 £60,000 -14.29% 43
West Midlands -45 28 £63,750 -21.54% 32
East Midlands -61 14 £60,000 -1.64% 11
East of England -57 10 £60,000 +9.09% 42
Wales -61 10 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Scotland -56 9 £87,500 +17.45% 35
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 16

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 37 (5.82%) Apache
2 32 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (4.72%) Confluence
4 25 (3.93%) Apache Spark
5 22 (3.46%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.10%) nginx
7 6 (0.94%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.47%) IIS
9 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 416 (65.41%) AWS
2 229 (36.01%) Azure
3 176 (27.67%) GitHub
4 112 (17.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 91 (14.31%) GitHub Actions
6 86 (13.52%) Amazon S3
7 84 (13.21%) GCP
8 82 (12.89%) Azure DevOps
9 70 (11.01%) Serverless
10 67 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 61 (9.59%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (7.39%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (5.97%) OpenShift
16 34 (5.35%) Azure AKS
17 33 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
19 24 (3.77%) Datadog
20 22 (3.46%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.25%) DNS
2 21 (3.30%) Firewall
3 15 (2.36%) Network Security
4 13 (2.04%) Broadband
4 13 (2.04%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.89%) HTTP
6 11 (1.73%) MQTT
7 9 (1.42%) VPN
8 8 (1.26%) DHCP
9 7 (1.10%) IPv4
9 7 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.94%) BGP
10 6 (0.94%) LAN
10 6 (0.94%) NX-OS
10 6 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.94%) Wireless
10 6 (0.94%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.79%) WAN
12 4 (0.63%) Bluetooth
13 3 (0.47%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (13.05%) NoSQL
2 69 (10.85%) MongoDB
3 67 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (6.45%) MySQL
5 37 (5.82%) DynamoDB
6 30 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (3.77%) Relational Database
8 21 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (2.99%) Redis
10 18 (2.83%) Pinecone
11 14 (2.20%) Chroma
12 13 (2.04%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.89%) Big Data
14 9 (1.42%) Power BI
15 8 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 7 (1.10%) DocumentDB
16 7 (1.10%) SQL Server
17 6 (0.94%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 263 (41.35%) Jenkins
2 214 (33.65%) Git
3 75 (11.79%) Cucumber
4 70 (11.01%) JIRA
5 49 (7.70%) Cypress.io
6 43 (6.76%) SonarQube
7 39 (6.13%) Selenium
8 33 (5.19%) Postman
9 31 (4.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 29 (4.56%) JUnit
11 21 (3.30%) Maven
12 19 (2.99%) JMeter
13 17 (2.67%) Gatling
14 14 (2.20%) Spock
14 14 (2.20%) Vite
15 13 (2.04%) REST Assured
16 12 (1.89%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.89%) Robot Framework
16 12 (1.89%) Zephyr
17 11 (1.73%) Artifactory
General
1 173 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 140 (22.01%) Finance
3 120 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 62 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (8.96%) Banking
6 50 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.14%) Aerospace
7 20 (3.14%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.36%) Law
9 14 (2.20%) Marketing
10 12 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.42%) Electronics
11 9 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.26%) Legal
13 5 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Automotive
15 3 (0.47%) Military
16 2 (0.31%) Retail
17 1 (0.16%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 158 (24.84%) Senior
2 151 (23.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 96 (15.09%) Developer
4 68 (10.69%) Software Engineer
5 61 (9.59%) Principal Engineer
6 55 (8.65%) Java Engineer
7 52 (8.18%) Lead
8 39 (6.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 36 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
9 36 (5.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 35 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (5.03%) Test Engineer
12 29 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.56%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 29 (4.56%) Senior Developer
13 26 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (4.09%) Software Developer
14 25 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (3.93%) Principal Java Engineer
15 24 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (48.90%) Terraform
2 103 (16.19%) Kafka
3 98 (15.41%) Spring
4 92 (14.47%) Spring Boot
5 78 (12.26%) React
6 66 (10.38%) RESTful
7 63 (9.91%) Node.js
8 57 (8.96%) REST
9 56 (8.81%) AngularJS
10 43 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
10 43 (6.76%) Playwright
11 39 (6.13%) .NET
12 31 (4.87%) Jest
13 30 (4.72%) FastAPI
14 29 (4.56%) LangChain
15 25 (3.93%) Vue
16 24 (3.77%) Gherkin
17 23 (3.62%) PySpark
18 21 (3.30%) LangGraph
18 21 (3.30%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 207 (32.55%) Cloud Native
2 90 (14.15%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (8.96%) Product Ownership
4 51 (8.02%) Public Cloud
5 45 (7.08%) e-Learning
6 40 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (4.40%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.67%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.52%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (2.20%) Virtual Team
12 13 (2.04%) Data Structures
13 12 (1.89%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
15 9 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (1.26%) Management Information System
16 8 (1.26%) Renewable Energy
17 7 (1.10%) IoT
18 6 (0.94%) ARM Cortex
18 6 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 186 (29.25%) Linux
2 58 (9.12%) Windows
3 49 (7.70%) CentOS
4 42 (6.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (4.25%) Unix
6 16 (2.52%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.79%) VMS
9 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.63%) Rocky
9 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.47%) Android
10 3 (0.47%) Debian
10 3 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (91.19%) CI/CD
2 409 (64.31%) DevOps
3 363 (57.08%) Agile
4 325 (51.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 269 (42.30%) Test Automation
6 204 (32.08%) Microservices
7 189 (29.72%) Containerisation
8 164 (25.79%) Mentoring
9 160 (25.16%) Software Engineering
10 143 (22.48%) AI
11 141 (22.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 137 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
13 130 (20.44%) Observability
14 111 (17.45%) SDLC
15 103 (16.19%) Platform Engineering
16 102 (16.04%) Technical Leadership
17 98 (15.41%) Scrum
18 97 (15.25%) Coaching
19 95 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
20 81 (12.74%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 304 (47.80%) Python
2 210 (33.02%) Java
3 159 (25.00%) Bash
4 142 (22.33%) SQL
5 105 (16.51%) TypeScript
6 103 (16.19%) JavaScript
7 84 (13.21%) PowerShell
8 37 (5.82%) C#
8 37 (5.82%) Go
9 36 (5.66%) C++
10 26 (4.09%) Groovy
11 19 (2.99%) Rust
12 14 (2.20%) PHP
13 12 (1.89%) C
14 11 (1.73%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.26%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.26%) Scala
16 7 (1.10%) Bicep
16 7 (1.10%) Ruby
17 5 (0.79%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 270 (42.45%) Security Cleared
2 178 (27.99%) SC Cleared
3 82 (12.89%) Degree
4 81 (12.74%) AWS Certification
5 66 (10.38%) DV Cleared
6 49 (7.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 37 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (3.14%) Master's Degree
9 17 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (2.52%) ISTQB
11 15 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (2.20%) RHCSA
13 13 (2.04%) CCNA
13 13 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (1.26%) OSCP
16 7 (1.10%) Azure Certification
16 7 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
16 7 (1.10%) RHCE
17 6 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (15.41%) QA
2 31 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 29 (4.56%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.83%) WCAG
5 11 (1.73%) GDPR
6 9 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.42%) SLA
7 8 (1.26%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.94%) JTAG
9 4 (0.63%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.63%) NIST
10 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 319 (50.16%) Docker
2 26 (4.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (2.04%) vSphere
5 11 (1.73%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.10%) Firmware
6 7 (1.10%) Squid
6 7 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 275 (43.24%) Kubernetes
2 149 (23.43%) Ansible
3 97 (15.25%) Grafana
4 67 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.29%) Argo
6 24 (3.77%) Puppet
7 22 (3.46%) Kibana
8 19 (2.99%) Nagios
9 17 (2.67%) logstash
10 14 (2.20%) HP Fortify
11 11 (1.73%) Packer
12 10 (1.57%) Progress Chef
13 9 (1.42%) Podman
14 7 (1.10%) vCenter Server
14 7 (1.10%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.94%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.47%) linkerd
17 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (8.81%) Splunk
2 52 (8.18%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.13%) Red Hat
4 34 (5.35%) VMware
5 24 (3.77%) Oracle
6 21 (3.30%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.99%) Mistral
8 18 (2.83%) Google
9 16 (2.52%) AppDynamics
9 16 (2.52%) Atlassian
9 16 (2.52%) Databricks
10 12 (1.89%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.42%) Rapid7
11 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.42%) SAP
12 8 (1.26%) YouTube
13 7 (1.10%) Cisco
13 7 (1.10%) NVIDIA
13 7 (1.10%) OneLogin
13 7 (1.10%) Pega