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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 267 360
Rank change year-on-year -54 +93 -21
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 595 570 660
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.16% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.71% 13.62% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 363 186 428
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,625 £45,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +17.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -

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 4,340 4,184 8,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.33% 8.52% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,919 2,649 5,427
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -57 527 £69,655 -10.12% 218
UK excluding London -73 370 £65,000 -5.45% 149
London +7 190 £85,000 +6.25% 92
Work from Home -138 153 £65,576 -9.55% 105
North of England -60 127 £66,538 -0.74% 47
South East +58 100 £65,000 -13.33% 30
South West -36 67 £73,750 +22.92% 23
Yorkshire +9 56 £69,310 -7.59% 7
North West -84 41 £65,000 -3.04% 28
Scotland -9 37 £102,500 +10.81% 13
North East -26 30 £55,000 - 12
Midlands -79 30 £58,750 -17.54% 24
West Midlands -46 21 £57,500 -28.13% 14
East Midlands -61 9 £60,000 -9.43% 10
Wales -46 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -29 3 - - 13
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 1

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 28 (4.71%) Apache
2 26 (4.37%) Confluence
3 17 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.18%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.50%) IIS
5 3 (0.50%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 375 (63.03%) AWS
2 218 (36.64%) Azure
3 135 (22.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 122 (20.50%) GitHub
5 100 (16.81%) Serverless
6 84 (14.12%) Amazon S3
7 81 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
7 81 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (12.94%) GCP
9 70 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (9.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (9.08%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (8.57%) Amazon ECR
12 45 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
12 45 (7.56%) OpenShift
13 44 (7.39%) AWS Step Functions
14 40 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (6.39%) Azure AKS
16 35 (5.88%) Apigee
17 34 (5.71%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.56%) Broadband
2 28 (4.71%) Firewall
3 14 (2.35%) MQTT
4 13 (2.18%) DNS
4 13 (2.18%) Network Security
5 10 (1.68%) HTTP
5 10 (1.68%) LAN
5 10 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (1.34%) DSL
6 8 (1.34%) IPv4
6 8 (1.34%) WAN
7 6 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.01%) Wireless
7 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
8 5 (0.84%) BGP
8 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.84%) VPN
9 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.50%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.93%) NoSQL
2 57 (9.58%) DynamoDB
3 52 (8.74%) MongoDB
4 50 (8.40%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (5.88%) MySQL
6 29 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.70%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.68%) Big Data
9 10 (1.68%) Pinecone
10 9 (1.51%) Redis
11 7 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.50%) Flink
14 3 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 278 (46.72%) Jenkins
2 183 (30.76%) Git
3 88 (14.79%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.25%) JIRA
5 58 (9.75%) Cucumber
6 54 (9.08%) Cypress.io
7 33 (5.55%) Selenium
8 29 (4.87%) Maven
9 25 (4.20%) CircleCI
10 20 (3.36%) JUnit
10 20 (3.36%) Postman
11 19 (3.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 17 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
13 16 (2.69%) Bitbucket
14 14 (2.35%) REST Assured
15 13 (2.18%) JMeter
16 12 (2.02%) Gatling
17 11 (1.85%) Vite
18 10 (1.68%) Robot Framework
18 10 (1.68%) Spock
General
1 144 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 122 (20.50%) Finance
3 80 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (9.58%) Banking
6 36 (6.05%) Marketing
7 34 (5.71%) Games
8 15 (2.52%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.52%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.02%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.68%) Electronics
11 10 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.01%) Advertising
12 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Legal
14 4 (0.67%) Automotive
14 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 141 (23.70%) Senior
2 123 (20.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 88 (14.79%) Developer
4 62 (10.42%) Software Engineer
5 50 (8.40%) Architect
6 44 (7.39%) Lead
7 43 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
8 37 (6.22%) Java Developer
8 37 (6.22%) Principal Engineer
9 36 (6.05%) Java Engineer
10 35 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
11 31 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (5.21%) Senior DevOps
11 31 (5.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 29 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
13 28 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
13 28 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (4.37%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.61%) Spring Boot
2 78 (13.11%) Kafka
3 72 (12.10%) REST
4 71 (11.93%) Spring
5 59 (9.92%) AngularJS
6 52 (8.74%) Node.js
7 50 (8.40%) React
8 47 (7.90%) RESTful
9 42 (7.06%) Elastic Stack
10 40 (6.72%) SOAP
11 36 (6.05%) Jest
11 36 (6.05%) Lightning Web Components
12 35 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (5.88%) Visualforce
13 30 (5.04%) Gherkin
13 30 (5.04%) Playwright
14 27 (4.54%) JSON
15 23 (3.87%) Vue
16 22 (3.70%) .NET
17 21 (3.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (25.71%) Cloud Native
2 79 (13.28%) Product Ownership
3 68 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.71%) Public Cloud
5 33 (5.55%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (4.71%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.86%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.35%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.18%) Blockchain
11 12 (2.02%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.02%) Web3
12 9 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.51%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 163 (27.39%) Linux
2 65 (10.92%) Windows
3 37 (6.22%) CentOS
4 26 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.20%) Unix
6 24 (4.03%) Windows Server
7 12 (2.02%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Debian
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (90.92%) CI/CD
2 415 (69.75%) DevOps
3 322 (54.12%) Agile
4 290 (48.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (31.60%) Containerisation
6 187 (31.43%) Microservices
7 182 (30.59%) Test Automation
8 147 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 125 (21.01%) Software Engineering
10 123 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
10 123 (20.67%) Scrum
11 120 (20.17%) Mentoring
12 109 (18.32%) Continuous Integration
13 105 (17.65%) Observability
14 91 (15.29%) Event-Driven
15 89 (14.96%) SDLC
16 85 (14.29%) DevSecOps
17 83 (13.95%) AI
18 78 (13.11%) Continuous Delivery
19 77 (12.94%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 282 (47.39%) Python
2 179 (30.08%) Java
3 154 (25.88%) Bash
4 105 (17.65%) SQL
5 82 (13.78%) JavaScript
6 78 (13.11%) TypeScript
7 68 (11.43%) PowerShell
8 49 (8.24%) Go
9 41 (6.89%) Groovy
10 36 (6.05%) Apex Code
10 36 (6.05%) C#
11 35 (5.88%) SOQL
11 35 (5.88%) SOSL
12 33 (5.55%) C++
13 29 (4.87%) Rust
14 10 (1.68%) C
14 10 (1.68%) PHP
15 8 (1.34%) Ruby
16 7 (1.18%) Perl
16 7 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 208 (34.96%) Security Cleared
2 125 (21.01%) SC Cleared
3 81 (13.61%) Degree
4 71 (11.93%) AWS Certification
5 46 (7.73%) DV Cleared
6 33 (5.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.03%) Master's Degree
8 21 (3.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (3.53%) ITIL Certification
9 19 (3.19%) OSCP
10 17 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.86%) ISTQB
11 16 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.52%) RHCSA
13 12 (2.02%) CCNA
14 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.34%) RHCE
16 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
18 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (12.77%) QA
2 27 (4.54%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.87%) GDPR
4 16 (2.69%) SOC 2
5 15 (2.52%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.35%) WCAG
7 13 (2.18%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.85%) NIST
9 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (1.01%) JTAG
11 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 272 (45.71%) Docker
2 26 (4.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.19%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.85%) vSphere
5 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.68%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.34%) Squid
7 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Firmware
8 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 294 (49.41%) Terraform
2 262 (44.03%) Kubernetes
3 147 (24.71%) Ansible
4 92 (15.46%) Grafana
5 76 (12.77%) Prometheus
6 36 (6.05%) Argo
7 29 (4.87%) HP Fortify
8 25 (4.20%) Nagios
9 20 (3.36%) Kibana
10 16 (2.69%) logstash
10 16 (2.69%) Puppet
11 13 (2.18%) Packer
12 9 (1.51%) Podman
13 8 (1.34%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.84%) VxRail
16 4 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 87 (14.62%) Splunk
2 52 (8.74%) Red Hat
3 40 (6.72%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.72%) Salesforce
4 37 (6.22%) VMware
5 17 (2.86%) AppDynamics
6 16 (2.69%) Oracle
7 14 (2.35%) Atlassian
7 14 (2.35%) Google
8 13 (2.18%) Cisco
8 13 (2.18%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.02%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.68%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.34%) Databricks
11 8 (1.34%) Intel
11 8 (1.34%) Tenable
12 7 (1.18%) SAP
13 6 (1.01%) IBM
13 6 (1.01%) Juniper
13 6 (1.01%) Palo Alto