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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 321 358
Rank change year-on-year 0 +37 -51
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 506 399 730
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.93% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.22% 9.55% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 306 187 555
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,350 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,344 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,875 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +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 4,142 4,177 9,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.55% 9.72% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,717 2,942 6,731
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.09% +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 5 May 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 5 May 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 +8 440 £75,000 -3.23% 214
UK excluding London -29 300 £67,500 -3.57% 152
Work from Home -18 170 £69,310 -0.99% 121
London +16 159 £82,500 -8.33% 70
North of England -19 117 £69,310 +3.39% 51
South East +14 80 £67,500 -11.48% 33
Yorkshire -6 75 £73,405 +4.86% 10
South West -52 42 £65,000 +6.12% 18
Scotland -25 35 £95,000 +11.76% 5
North West -46 28 £65,000 -3.04% 23
Midlands -63 19 £55,200 -21.14% 30
West Midlands -27 18 £56,350 -19.50% 18
North East -19 14 £65,576 +2.86% 18
East of England -18 7 £67,500 -12.90% 14
Wales -28 2 £55,200 +69.85% 2
Northern Ireland -38 1 £72,500 - 3
East Midlands -67 1 £55,200 -21.14% 12

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 (4.94%) Confluence
2 19 (3.75%) Apache
3 8 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.79%) IIS
5 4 (0.79%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.79%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.59%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.59%) JBoss
7 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
1 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 310 (61.26%) AWS
2 193 (38.14%) Azure
3 140 (27.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 112 (22.13%) Serverless
5 98 (19.37%) GitHub
6 97 (19.17%) AWS Lambda
7 83 (16.40%) Amazon S3
8 78 (15.42%) GCP
9 61 (12.06%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (11.46%) Amazon ECS
11 58 (11.46%) AWS Step Functions
12 49 (9.68%) Amazon ECR
13 48 (9.49%) Apigee
13 48 (9.49%) OpenShift
14 45 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
16 38 (7.51%) Datadog
17 35 (6.92%) Azure AKS
18 33 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 40 (7.91%) Broadband
2 31 (6.13%) DNS
3 28 (5.53%) Firewall
4 13 (2.57%) DSL
5 10 (1.98%) LAN
6 8 (1.58%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (1.58%) WAN
7 7 (1.38%) Network Security
8 6 (1.19%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.19%) DHCP
8 6 (1.19%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.99%) BGP
9 5 (0.99%) HTTP
9 5 (0.99%) MQTT
9 5 (0.99%) VPN
10 4 (0.79%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (0.79%) IPv4
10 4 (0.79%) MPLS
10 4 (0.79%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.79%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.04%) DynamoDB
2 55 (10.87%) NoSQL
3 47 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (8.70%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (4.74%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (3.56%) MySQL
7 16 (3.16%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.78%) Pinecone
9 8 (1.58%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.19%) InfluxDB
11 5 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.99%) Big Data
11 5 (0.99%) CockroachDB
12 4 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.59%) Power BI
14 2 (0.40%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 253 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 126 (24.90%) Git
3 105 (20.75%) SonarQube
4 60 (11.86%) Cypress.io
5 51 (10.08%) Cucumber
6 50 (9.88%) JIRA
7 45 (8.89%) Maven
8 33 (6.52%) Selenium
9 28 (5.53%) CircleCI
10 26 (5.14%) Bitbucket
11 17 (3.36%) JUnit
12 15 (2.96%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (2.57%) Postman
13 13 (2.57%) REST Assured
14 11 (2.17%) JMeter
15 10 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 10 (1.98%) Vite
16 8 (1.58%) Gatling
17 6 (1.19%) LoadRunner
17 6 (1.19%) Subversion
General
1 114 (22.53%) Social Skills
2 99 (19.57%) Finance
3 46 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.70%) Banking
5 43 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 39 (7.71%) Marketing
7 38 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (6.72%) Games
9 23 (4.55%) Telecoms
10 16 (3.16%) Advertising
11 15 (2.96%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.17%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.19%) Electronics
14 6 (1.19%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.99%) Automotive
15 5 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 108 (21.34%) Senior
2 96 (18.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 86 (17.00%) Developer
4 67 (13.24%) Lead
5 51 (10.08%) Architect
5 51 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 39 (7.71%) Java Developer
8 35 (6.92%) Software Engineer
9 33 (6.52%) Salesforce Architect
9 33 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
10 27 (5.34%) Senior Developer
10 27 (5.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 24 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (4.74%) Security Engineer
12 20 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (3.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (3.56%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 18 (3.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.22%) Spring Boot
2 62 (12.25%) REST
3 54 (10.67%) Kafka
4 53 (10.47%) AngularJS
5 50 (9.88%) Spring
6 46 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
6 46 (9.09%) Gherkin
7 44 (8.70%) Jest
8 36 (7.11%) Node.js
9 35 (6.92%) SOAP
10 34 (6.72%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
10 34 (6.72%) Visualforce
11 30 (5.93%) RESTful
12 28 (5.53%) React
13 22 (4.35%) YAML
14 20 (3.95%) JSON
15 17 (3.36%) gRPC
16 16 (3.16%) Playwright
16 16 (3.16%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 92 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 63 (12.45%) Product Ownership
3 32 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.36%) Blockchain
4 17 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.36%) Public Cloud
5 16 (3.16%) Algorithms
5 16 (3.16%) Security Posture
5 16 (3.16%) Web3
6 14 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.57%) Cloud Security Posture
8 12 (2.37%) e-Learning
9 10 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 131 (25.89%) Linux
2 54 (10.67%) Windows
3 25 (4.94%) Unix
4 18 (3.56%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.36%) CentOS
6 13 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (2.37%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.79%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.40%) Android
10 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.40%) Debian
11 1 (0.20%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 437 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 353 (69.76%) DevOps
3 256 (50.59%) Agile
4 219 (43.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 146 (28.85%) Containerisation
6 128 (25.30%) Microservices
7 123 (24.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 122 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (22.33%) Continuous Integration
9 113 (22.33%) Test Automation
10 99 (19.57%) Scrum
11 93 (18.38%) Mentoring
12 90 (17.79%) Software Engineering
13 88 (17.39%) Observability
14 75 (14.82%) Event-Driven
15 74 (14.62%) DevSecOps
16 73 (14.43%) Continuous Delivery
17 68 (13.44%) SDLC
18 60 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 60 (11.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 240 (47.43%) Python
2 152 (30.04%) Java
3 141 (27.87%) Bash
4 78 (15.42%) TypeScript
5 69 (13.64%) SQL
6 55 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 50 (9.88%) Go
8 49 (9.68%) PowerShell
9 47 (9.29%) Groovy
10 34 (6.72%) Apex Code
10 34 (6.72%) SOQL
10 34 (6.72%) SOSL
11 27 (5.34%) Rust
12 22 (4.35%) C#
13 21 (4.15%) C++
14 9 (1.78%) Perl
15 8 (1.58%) Delphi
16 6 (1.19%) Bicep
17 5 (0.99%) ANSI SQL
18 4 (0.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 139 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 68 (13.44%) SC Cleared
3 58 (11.46%) Degree
4 56 (11.07%) AWS Certification
5 31 (6.13%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (4.94%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (4.15%) OSCP
9 17 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (2.77%) Master's Degree
11 13 (2.57%) ISTQB
12 12 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (1.78%) CCNA
15 7 (1.38%) RHCSA
16 6 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.79%) CISSP
17 4 (0.79%) GCIH
17 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.46%) QA
2 17 (3.36%) GDPR
2 17 (3.36%) NIST
3 13 (2.57%) SOC 2
4 12 (2.37%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.38%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 209 (41.30%) Docker
2 28 (5.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.34%) Active Directory
4 8 (1.58%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.58%) vSphere
5 7 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.79%) Squid
8 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 251 (49.60%) Terraform
2 214 (42.29%) Kubernetes
3 125 (24.70%) Ansible
4 96 (18.97%) Grafana
5 80 (15.81%) Prometheus
6 45 (8.89%) HP Fortify
7 27 (5.34%) Argo
8 18 (3.56%) Nagios
9 15 (2.96%) Kibana
10 13 (2.57%) Puppet
11 11 (2.17%) logstash
12 9 (1.78%) Packer
13 8 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (1.38%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.79%) Rancher
16 4 (0.79%) VxRail
16 4 (0.79%) WSUS
16 4 (0.79%) ZABBIX
17 3 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 73 (14.43%) Splunk
2 45 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 37 (7.31%) Microsoft
4 35 (6.92%) Salesforce
5 34 (6.72%) VMware
6 31 (6.13%) Oracle
7 18 (3.56%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.57%) Cisco
9 12 (2.37%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.78%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.78%) Google
11 8 (1.58%) Juniper
12 7 (1.38%) IBM
12 7 (1.38%) Rapid7
13 6 (1.19%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.19%) F5
13 6 (1.19%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.19%) Tenable
14 5 (0.99%) Veracode
15 4 (0.79%) Dell