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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 362 365
Rank change year-on-year +38 +3 -67
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 488 318 723
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.75% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.78% 7.67% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 295 189 553
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,253 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +16.00% +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 4,141 4,147 9,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.62% 9.79% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,713 2,965 6,729
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 April 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 April 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 +46 421 £75,000 -3.23% 232
UK excluding London +26 294 £67,500 -6.90% 170
Work from Home +43 165 £69,310 -0.99% 138
London 0 148 £82,500 -5.71% 84
North of England +15 115 £69,310 +3.39% 45
South East +8 75 £67,500 -14.29% 48
Yorkshire -5 75 £73,405 +4.86% 5
South West -50 42 £65,000 +4.00% 24
Scotland -11 35 £95,000 +11.76% 3
North West -30 28 £65,000 -3.04% 20
Midlands -27 21 £56,350 -19.50% 25
West Midlands -20 20 £57,500 -17.86% 15
North East -28 12 £68,076 +6.79% 20
East of England -23 6 £67,500 -12.90% 24
Wales -29 2 £55,200 +69.85% 1
Northern Ireland -37 1 £72,500 - 4
East Midlands -53 1 £55,200 -21.14% 10

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 25 (5.12%) Confluence
2 17 (3.48%) Apache
3 7 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.82%) IIS
5 4 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.82%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.61%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.61%) JBoss
7 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 296 (60.66%) AWS
2 191 (39.14%) Azure
3 136 (27.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 110 (22.54%) Serverless
5 98 (20.08%) GitHub
6 97 (19.88%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (16.60%) Amazon S3
8 77 (15.78%) GCP
9 61 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (11.89%) Amazon ECS
11 58 (11.89%) AWS Step Functions
12 49 (10.04%) Amazon ECR
12 49 (10.04%) OpenShift
13 48 (9.84%) Apigee
14 43 (8.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
16 38 (7.79%) Datadog
17 35 (7.17%) Azure AKS
18 31 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.17%) Broadband
2 30 (6.15%) DNS
3 29 (5.94%) Firewall
4 13 (2.66%) DSL
5 9 (1.84%) LAN
6 8 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (1.64%) WAN
7 6 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.23%) DHCP
7 6 (1.23%) Network Security
7 6 (1.23%) VPN
8 5 (1.02%) BGP
8 5 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.82%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (0.82%) HTTP
9 4 (0.82%) IPv4
9 4 (0.82%) MPLS
9 4 (0.82%) MQTT
9 4 (0.82%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.11%) DynamoDB
2 53 (10.86%) NoSQL
3 46 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (7.79%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (4.71%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (3.28%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.66%) MySQL
9 9 (1.84%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.23%) InfluxDB
11 5 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.02%) Big Data
11 5 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.02%) CockroachDB
12 4 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.82%) Power BI
13 3 (0.61%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.41%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 250 (51.23%) Jenkins
2 119 (24.39%) Git
3 103 (21.11%) SonarQube
4 60 (12.30%) Cypress.io
5 50 (10.25%) JIRA
6 49 (10.04%) Cucumber
7 45 (9.22%) Maven
8 33 (6.76%) Selenium
9 27 (5.53%) Bitbucket
9 27 (5.53%) CircleCI
10 17 (3.48%) JUnit
11 15 (3.07%) Visual Studio Code
12 13 (2.66%) Postman
12 13 (2.66%) REST Assured
13 11 (2.25%) JMeter
14 10 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (2.05%) Vite
15 8 (1.64%) Gatling
16 7 (1.43%) Subversion
17 6 (1.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 115 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 93 (19.06%) Finance
3 47 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.99%) Marketing
6 38 (7.79%) Banking
7 36 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (6.97%) Games
9 25 (5.12%) Telecoms
10 16 (3.28%) Advertising
10 16 (3.28%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.25%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.23%) Electronics
14 6 (1.23%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.02%) Automotive
15 5 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (21.93%) Senior
2 96 (19.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 83 (17.01%) Developer
4 66 (13.52%) Lead
5 52 (10.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 51 (10.45%) Architect
7 40 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 39 (7.99%) Java Developer
9 35 (7.17%) Software Engineer
10 34 (6.97%) Senior DevOps
11 33 (6.76%) Salesforce Architect
12 27 (5.53%) Senior Developer
12 27 (5.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 21 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (4.30%) Security Engineer
14 20 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
15 19 (3.89%) Automation Engineer
15 19 (3.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 18 (3.69%) Salesforce Technical Architect
16 18 (3.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.96%) Spring Boot
2 60 (12.30%) REST
3 54 (11.07%) AngularJS
4 50 (10.25%) Kafka
5 47 (9.63%) Elastic Stack
6 46 (9.43%) Gherkin
6 46 (9.43%) Spring
7 44 (9.02%) Jest
8 35 (7.17%) Node.js
8 35 (7.17%) SOAP
9 34 (6.97%) Lightning Web Components
9 34 (6.97%) Visualforce
10 33 (6.76%) RabbitMQ
11 30 (6.15%) RESTful
12 29 (5.94%) React
13 22 (4.51%) YAML
14 20 (4.10%) JSON
15 17 (3.48%) Vue
16 16 (3.28%) AWS CDK
16 16 (3.28%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 77 (15.78%) Cloud Native
2 58 (11.89%) Product Ownership
3 27 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 16 (3.28%) Blockchain
4 16 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.07%) Public Cloud
5 15 (3.07%) Web3
6 14 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.66%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.05%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.23%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 127 (26.02%) Linux
2 54 (11.07%) Windows
3 26 (5.33%) Unix
4 17 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.28%) CentOS
6 11 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.25%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.82%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.41%) Android
10 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.41%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (86.07%) CI/CD
2 342 (70.08%) DevOps
3 250 (51.23%) Agile
4 209 (42.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 142 (29.10%) Containerisation
6 122 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 118 (24.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 117 (23.98%) Microservices
9 108 (22.13%) Continuous Integration
10 107 (21.93%) Test Automation
11 98 (20.08%) Scrum
12 89 (18.24%) Mentoring
13 83 (17.01%) Software Engineering
14 82 (16.80%) Observability
15 69 (14.14%) Event-Driven
16 67 (13.73%) Continuous Delivery
17 66 (13.52%) DevSecOps
18 60 (12.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 60 (12.30%) Roadmaps
19 57 (11.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 230 (47.13%) Python
2 147 (30.12%) Java
3 133 (27.25%) Bash
4 77 (15.78%) TypeScript
5 67 (13.73%) SQL
6 55 (11.27%) JavaScript
7 49 (10.04%) Go
8 47 (9.63%) Groovy
9 46 (9.43%) PowerShell
10 34 (6.97%) Apex Code
10 34 (6.97%) SOQL
10 34 (6.97%) SOSL
11 24 (4.92%) Rust
12 22 (4.51%) C#
13 21 (4.30%) C++
14 8 (1.64%) Delphi
14 8 (1.64%) Perl
15 6 (1.23%) Bicep
16 5 (1.02%) ANSI SQL
17 4 (0.82%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 133 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 63 (12.91%) SC Cleared
3 56 (11.48%) Degree
4 54 (11.07%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.15%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.12%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (4.30%) OSCP
9 15 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (2.87%) Master's Degree
11 13 (2.66%) ISTQB
12 12 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.84%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (1.84%) CCNA
15 6 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (1.23%) RHCSA
16 5 (1.02%) CISSP
17 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.82%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.45%) QA
2 18 (3.69%) NIST
3 17 (3.48%) GDPR
4 13 (2.66%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.46%) PCI DSS
6 10 (2.05%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.02%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 198 (40.57%) Docker
2 28 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 27 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.64%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.64%) vSphere
5 7 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.82%) Squid
8 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 241 (49.39%) Terraform
2 203 (41.60%) Kubernetes
3 121 (24.80%) Ansible
4 94 (19.26%) Grafana
5 77 (15.78%) Prometheus
6 45 (9.22%) HP Fortify
7 27 (5.53%) Argo
8 16 (3.28%) Nagios
9 15 (3.07%) Kibana
10 11 (2.25%) logstash
11 10 (2.05%) Puppet
12 9 (1.84%) Packer
12 9 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (1.43%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.82%) Rancher
15 4 (0.82%) VxRail
15 4 (0.82%) WSUS
15 4 (0.82%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 74 (15.16%) Splunk
2 44 (9.02%) Red Hat
3 38 (7.79%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.17%) Salesforce
5 33 (6.76%) VMware
6 30 (6.15%) Oracle
7 18 (3.69%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.66%) Cisco
9 12 (2.46%) OpenAI
10 10 (2.05%) Google
11 9 (1.84%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.64%) Juniper
13 7 (1.43%) IBM
13 7 (1.43%) Rapid7
14 6 (1.23%) AppDynamics
14 6 (1.23%) F5
14 6 (1.23%) Palo Alto
15 5 (1.02%) Veracode
16 4 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
16 4 (0.82%) Dell