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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 276 312
Rank change year-on-year -70 +36 +42
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 595 529 658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.07% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.84% 14.00% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 358 174 303
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,375 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +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 4,635 3,779 6,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.02% 7.65% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,918 2,254 3,885
10th Percentile £37,425 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £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 £77,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,175 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -50 550 £69,310 -10.57% 663
UK excluding London -119 380 £65,576 -6.32% 377
London -3 178 £87,500 +2.94% 322
North of England -56 160 £69,310 +2.68% 110
Work from Home -174 120 £67,500 -15.63% 288
South East +13 78 £65,000 -13.33% 57
South West -41 77 £72,500 +3.57% 77
North East -21 57 £57,500 -13.21% 27
North West -73 56 £69,310 +15.52% 57
Yorkshire -14 50 £73,750 -1.67% 26
Midlands -83 37 £60,000 -14.29% 44
West Midlands -52 24 £50,000 -38.46% 36
East Midlands -74 13 £60,000 -1.64% 8
Scotland -44 12 £110,000 +26.07% 33
Wales -62 10 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East of England -51 8 £60,000 -7.69% 41
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 9

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 31 (5.21%) Apache
2 25 (4.20%) Confluence
3 24 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.53%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.86%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.34%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 389 (65.38%) AWS
2 209 (35.13%) Azure
3 140 (23.53%) GitHub
4 112 (18.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 84 (14.12%) Amazon S3
6 78 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (12.94%) GCP
7 77 (12.94%) Serverless
8 75 (12.61%) GitHub Actions
9 62 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (9.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 56 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (8.57%) Amazon ECR
13 44 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
14 43 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (6.72%) Azure AKS
16 35 (5.88%) OpenShift
17 27 (4.54%) AWS Step Functions
18 25 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
19 22 (3.70%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.53%) DNS
2 18 (3.03%) Firewall
3 17 (2.86%) Broadband
4 11 (1.85%) HTTP
4 11 (1.85%) MQTT
4 11 (1.85%) Network Security
5 10 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.34%) DHCP
6 8 (1.34%) IPv4
6 8 (1.34%) LAN
6 8 (1.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.18%) VPN
7 7 (1.18%) WAN
8 6 (1.01%) BGP
8 6 (1.01%) NX-OS
8 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.01%) Wireless
8 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (13.11%) NoSQL
2 64 (10.76%) MongoDB
3 61 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (7.90%) DynamoDB
5 41 (6.89%) MySQL
6 31 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (4.03%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.35%) Pinecone
9 14 (2.35%) Redis
10 13 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.85%) Big Data
12 9 (1.51%) Chroma
13 8 (1.34%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.34%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
15 6 (1.01%) DocumentDB
15 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.84%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 259 (43.53%) Jenkins
2 201 (33.78%) Git
3 75 (12.61%) Cucumber
4 68 (11.43%) JIRA
5 60 (10.08%) SonarQube
6 58 (9.75%) Cypress.io
7 41 (6.89%) Selenium
8 34 (5.71%) Postman
9 29 (4.87%) JUnit
10 28 (4.71%) Maven
11 25 (4.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 20 (3.36%) JMeter
13 16 (2.69%) Gatling
14 15 (2.52%) REST Assured
14 15 (2.52%) Vite
15 14 (2.35%) Spock
15 14 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
16 13 (2.18%) Bitbucket
17 12 (2.02%) Robot Framework
18 10 (1.68%) Zephyr
General
1 154 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 131 (22.02%) Finance
3 103 (17.31%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.24%) Banking
5 50 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.86%) Aerospace
7 17 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.69%) Marketing
9 14 (2.35%) Law
10 13 (2.18%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.68%) Electronics
12 8 (1.34%) Legal
13 7 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.01%) Games
15 5 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.67%) Automotive
16 4 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 3 (0.50%) Military
17 3 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 149 (25.04%) Senior
2 136 (22.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (15.13%) Developer
4 65 (10.92%) Software Engineer
5 52 (8.74%) Principal Engineer
6 51 (8.57%) Java Engineer
7 49 (8.24%) Lead
8 37 (6.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 37 (6.22%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (6.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 36 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (5.21%) Test Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
11 29 (4.87%) Java Developer
12 27 (4.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.87%) Principal DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.87%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (48.91%) Terraform
2 91 (15.29%) Spring
2 91 (15.29%) Spring Boot
3 86 (14.45%) Kafka
4 70 (11.76%) React
5 65 (10.92%) AngularJS
6 64 (10.76%) Node.js
7 62 (10.42%) RESTful
8 59 (9.92%) REST
9 44 (7.39%) Playwright
10 41 (6.89%) Elastic Stack
11 37 (6.22%) Jest
12 34 (5.71%) .NET
13 29 (4.87%) Gherkin
14 26 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (4.37%) Vue
15 25 (4.20%) LangChain
16 22 (3.70%) FastAPI
16 22 (3.70%) Next.js
17 21 (3.53%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 190 (31.93%) Cloud Native
2 83 (13.95%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.24%) Product Ownership
4 47 (7.90%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.72%) e-Learning
6 39 (6.55%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (4.37%) Private Cloud
8 21 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (3.03%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.86%) Algorithms
11 13 (2.18%) Virtual Team
12 12 (2.02%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.68%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.51%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.18%) IoT
16 6 (1.01%) Device Driver
16 6 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 178 (29.92%) Linux
2 60 (10.08%) Windows
3 43 (7.23%) CentOS
4 35 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.03%) Unix
6 18 (3.03%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.68%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) VMS
9 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Debian
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (90.59%) CI/CD
2 397 (66.72%) DevOps
3 343 (57.65%) Agile
4 296 (49.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 239 (40.17%) Test Automation
6 191 (32.10%) Microservices
7 169 (28.40%) Containerisation
8 143 (24.03%) Software Engineering
9 142 (23.87%) Mentoring
10 121 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (18.66%) AI
13 108 (18.15%) Observability
14 104 (17.48%) Scrum
14 104 (17.48%) SDLC
15 94 (15.80%) Full-Stack Development
16 91 (15.29%) Coaching
17 81 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
18 77 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
19 75 (12.61%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 277 (46.55%) Python
2 210 (35.29%) Java
3 151 (25.38%) Bash
4 124 (20.84%) SQL
5 101 (16.97%) JavaScript
5 101 (16.97%) TypeScript
6 76 (12.77%) PowerShell
7 38 (6.39%) Groovy
8 37 (6.22%) Go
9 36 (6.05%) C++
10 35 (5.88%) C#
11 20 (3.36%) Rust
12 13 (2.18%) PHP
13 11 (1.85%) C
14 10 (1.68%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.51%) Apex Code
15 9 (1.51%) Perl
16 7 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.18%) Scala
16 7 (1.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 250 (42.02%) Security Cleared
2 165 (27.73%) SC Cleared
3 82 (13.78%) Degree
4 77 (12.94%) AWS Certification
5 57 (9.58%) DV Cleared
6 45 (7.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.87%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (3.87%) Master's Degree
9 17 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.86%) ISTQB
10 15 (2.52%) CCNA
10 15 (2.52%) RHCSA
11 14 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.51%) OSCP
13 8 (1.34%) RHCE
14 7 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.01%) Azure Certification
15 6 (1.01%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.97%) QA
2 31 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.19%) WCAG
5 11 (1.85%) GDPR
6 9 (1.51%) SLA
7 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.01%) JTAG
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.67%) NIST
11 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 294 (49.41%) Docker
2 27 (4.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.35%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.35%) vSphere
5 8 (1.34%) Squid
5 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Firmware
7 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 260 (43.70%) Kubernetes
2 148 (24.87%) Ansible
3 86 (14.45%) Grafana
4 61 (10.25%) Prometheus
5 42 (7.06%) Argo
6 22 (3.70%) HP Fortify
6 22 (3.70%) Puppet
7 21 (3.53%) Kibana
7 21 (3.53%) Nagios
8 17 (2.86%) logstash
9 14 (2.35%) Packer
10 10 (1.68%) Progress Chef
11 9 (1.51%) Podman
12 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.18%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.01%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.50%) Istio
16 3 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 61 (10.25%) Splunk
2 51 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.72%) Red Hat
4 37 (6.22%) VMware
5 21 (3.53%) Oracle
6 20 (3.36%) AppDynamics
7 19 (3.19%) Google
8 17 (2.86%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.52%) Mistral
10 14 (2.35%) Atlassian
11 13 (2.18%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.68%) Databricks
12 10 (1.68%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.68%) Rapid7
13 9 (1.51%) SAP
14 7 (1.18%) Cisco
14 7 (1.18%) NVIDIA
14 7 (1.18%) OneLogin
14 7 (1.18%) Pega
14 7 (1.18%) Veracode