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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 319 316
Rank change year-on-year -63 -3 -34
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 292 523 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.84% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.20% 8.67% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 192 246 368
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,125 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £103,875 £103,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%

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 3,563 6,030 6,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.32% 9.71% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,314 3,510 5,328
10th Percentile £28,750 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,425
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.86% +6.23%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 -62 249 £75,000 +7.14% 375
UK excluding London -14 160 £70,000 +7.69% 338
Work from Home -21 114 £77,500 +14.81% 182
London -38 95 £85,000 - 93
North of England +49 68 £72,500 +17.92% 91
North West +48 35 £65,000 - 40
Yorkshire +7 27 £78,750 +35.86% 40
South West -12 23 £70,000 +16.67% 58
South East -30 21 £77,500 +7.64% 96
Midlands +8 18 £67,500 +5.88% 44
Scotland 0 15 - - 15
East of England +30 14 £67,500 -3.57% 34
West Midlands +7 11 £68,750 +14.58% 27
East Midlands +15 7 £55,200 -21.14% 16
North East +10 6 £65,000 +12.14% 11
Wales +3 3 £57,600 -38.40% 6

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 19 (6.51%) Confluence
2 9 (3.08%) Apache
3 6 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.71%) IIS
4 5 (1.71%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.37%) Camunda
5 4 (1.37%) nginx
5 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.03%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Simulink
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 171 (58.56%) AWS
2 116 (39.73%) Azure
3 61 (20.89%) GitHub
4 54 (18.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (15.75%) GCP
6 44 (15.07%) Serverless
7 37 (12.67%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (12.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 35 (11.99%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (9.93%) Amazon ECS
11 29 (9.93%) Amazon S3
11 29 (9.93%) OpenShift
12 26 (8.90%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (5.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (4.11%) Datadog
16 11 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
17 10 (3.42%) AWS Step Functions
18 9 (3.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.48%) Broadband
2 13 (4.45%) DNS
3 8 (2.74%) Firewall
4 5 (1.71%) VPN
5 4 (1.37%) VSAN
5 4 (1.37%) WAN
6 3 (1.03%) Network Security
6 3 (1.03%) Skype
6 3 (1.03%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (1.03%) VLAN
7 2 (0.68%) BGP
7 2 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.68%) HTTP
7 2 (0.68%) LAN
7 2 (0.68%) MQTT
7 2 (0.68%) OSPF
7 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.96%) SQL Server
2 29 (9.93%) MongoDB
3 26 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.19%) NoSQL
5 15 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (4.79%) DynamoDB
6 14 (4.79%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.08%) Power BI
8 8 (2.74%) MySQL
9 7 (2.40%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.71%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.03%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.68%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.68%) Metadata
13 2 (0.68%) Redis
13 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 160 (54.79%) Jenkins
2 65 (22.26%) Git
3 40 (13.70%) SonarQube
4 35 (11.99%) JIRA
5 30 (10.27%) Cucumber
6 28 (9.59%) Bitbucket
7 25 (8.56%) Selenium
8 19 (6.51%) JUnit
9 17 (5.82%) Cypress.io
9 17 (5.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (4.79%) Maven
11 12 (4.11%) Postman
12 11 (3.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (3.77%) CircleCI
13 10 (3.42%) JMeter
13 10 (3.42%) Subversion
14 7 (2.40%) Artifactory
14 7 (2.40%) Gatling
15 6 (2.05%) TeamCity
16 4 (1.37%) SoapUI
General
1 78 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 70 (23.97%) Finance
3 44 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.19%) Banking
5 21 (7.19%) Games
6 20 (6.85%) Marketing
7 19 (6.51%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.48%) Manufacturing
9 14 (4.79%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.77%) Aerospace
11 10 (3.42%) Advertising
12 7 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (2.05%) Electronics
13 6 (2.05%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.05%) Investment Banking
13 6 (2.05%) Retail
14 4 (1.37%) Automotive
14 4 (1.37%) Aviation
15 3 (1.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 55 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (17.81%) Lead
3 40 (13.70%) Developer
4 39 (13.36%) Senior
5 29 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (7.53%) Software Engineer
7 19 (6.51%) Architect
8 15 (5.14%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (4.79%) Salesforce Architect
10 12 (4.11%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (4.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.42%) Backend Developer
13 9 (3.08%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (3.08%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.01%) Spring Boot
2 36 (12.33%) Spring
3 35 (11.99%) REST
4 34 (11.64%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (8.22%) React
6 22 (7.53%) AngularJS
7 21 (7.19%) Node.js
8 18 (6.16%) Kafka
9 17 (5.82%) SOAP
10 16 (5.48%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (5.48%) Visualforce
11 13 (4.45%) .NET
12 11 (3.77%) FastAPI
12 11 (3.77%) Gherkin
12 11 (3.77%) Jest
12 11 (3.77%) Playwright
12 11 (3.77%) pytest
13 10 (3.42%) Django
13 10 (3.42%) HTML
14 9 (3.08%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 47 (16.10%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.25%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (3.42%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.74%) Private Cloud
6 8 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.37%) IoT
8 4 (1.37%) PKI
9 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.03%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.03%) FPGA
9 3 (1.03%) Replication
9 3 (1.03%) RSA SecurID
9 3 (1.03%) Verilog
9 3 (1.03%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 87 (29.79%) Linux
2 28 (9.59%) Windows
3 18 (6.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.77%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.42%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.74%) Unix
7 7 (2.40%) Debian
8 5 (1.71%) CentOS
8 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) Android
9 1 (0.34%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (77.05%) CI/CD
2 195 (66.78%) DevOps
3 131 (44.86%) Agile
4 117 (40.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 88 (30.14%) Containerisation
6 78 (26.71%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (17.81%) Scrum
9 49 (16.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 47 (16.10%) Microservices
11 46 (15.75%) Continuous Integration
11 46 (15.75%) Software Engineering
12 45 (15.41%) Test Automation
13 41 (14.04%) Observability
14 39 (13.36%) Mentoring
15 36 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
16 32 (10.96%) Configuration Management
17 31 (10.62%) Incident Response
17 31 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 30 (10.27%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 144 (49.32%) Python
2 84 (28.77%) Java
3 74 (25.34%) Bash
4 52 (17.81%) SQL
5 45 (15.41%) TypeScript
6 43 (14.73%) PowerShell
7 41 (14.04%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.48%) Apex Code
8 16 (5.48%) C#
8 16 (5.48%) Go
9 15 (5.14%) SOQL
9 15 (5.14%) SOSL
10 13 (4.45%) C++
11 12 (4.11%) C
12 11 (3.77%) Groovy
13 8 (2.74%) Delphi
14 7 (2.40%) Bicep
15 6 (2.05%) ANSI SQL
15 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
16 3 (1.03%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 55 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.25%) DV Cleared
3 26 (8.90%) AWS Certification
4 24 (8.22%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.53%) Degree
6 15 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.74%) ISTQB
10 7 (2.40%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.03%) CCNA
12 3 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.34%) GAWN
14 1 (0.34%) GREM
14 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.04%) QA
2 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.37%) GDPR
3 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.68%) ECSS
4 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (38.01%) Docker
2 18 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.48%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.37%) Firmware
4 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.37%) vSphere
5 3 (1.03%) vCloud
6 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.68%) NFS
6 2 (0.68%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Squid
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 125 (42.81%) Kubernetes
2 107 (36.64%) Terraform
3 80 (27.40%) Ansible
4 75 (25.68%) Grafana
5 64 (21.92%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.08%) HP Fortify
6 9 (3.08%) Kibana
7 7 (2.40%) Puppet
7 7 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (2.05%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.71%) Argo
9 5 (1.71%) Rancher
10 4 (1.37%) vRealize
11 3 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.03%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.03%) SCOM
11 3 (1.03%) WSUS
12 2 (0.68%) logstash
12 2 (0.68%) Nagios
12 2 (0.68%) Nessus
Vendors
1 38 (13.01%) Oracle
2 36 (12.33%) Splunk
3 27 (9.25%) Microsoft
4 24 (8.22%) Atlassian
4 24 (8.22%) VMware
5 16 (5.48%) Salesforce
6 14 (4.79%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.05%) AppDynamics
7 6 (2.05%) SAP
8 5 (1.71%) Sonatype
9 4 (1.37%) Cribl.io
9 4 (1.37%) Google
10 3 (1.03%) Cisco
10 3 (1.03%) Databricks
10 3 (1.03%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.03%) HP
11 2 (0.68%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.68%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.68%) Ubiquiti
11 2 (0.68%) YouTube