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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 341 303
Rank change year-on-year -24 -38 -20
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 323 429 636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.81% 0.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.62% 7.89% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 205 185 521
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £101,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +16.67% -4.00%

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 3,749 5,434 7,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.98% 10.29% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,401 3,082 6,051
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,507 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,232 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -3.63% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £56,763
% change year-on-year -7.27% -3.11% +3.20%

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 25 January 2026.

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 25 January 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 -25 274 £77,500 +6.90% 286
UK excluding London -10 180 £68,750 -1.79% 256
Work from Home -8 118 £77,500 +6.90% 169
London -31 99 £87,250 -3.06% 70
North of England +42 81 £75,000 +15.38% 53
Yorkshire +9 43 £78,750 +52.97% 17
North West +20 31 £65,000 -3.70% 33
South West -26 29 £73,500 +17.60% 39
South East -32 25 £80,250 +10.69% 89
Midlands 0 18 £55,200 -21.14% 20
Scotland -17 15 - - 21
West Midlands +13 12 £60,000 -12.73% 7
East of England +20 11 £67,500 -6.90% 25
North East +6 7 £66,250 -5.36% 3
East Midlands -2 6 £53,600 -28.53% 12
Wales +9 3 £55,200 -18.22% 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 22 (6.81%) Confluence
2 17 (5.26%) Apache
3 9 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.55%) IIS
4 5 (1.55%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.24%) nginx
5 4 (1.24%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.93%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 201 (62.23%) AWS
2 125 (38.70%) Azure
3 86 (26.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 73 (22.60%) GitHub
5 68 (21.05%) Serverless
6 61 (18.89%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (18.58%) GCP
8 47 (14.55%) Amazon S3
9 45 (13.93%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (13.00%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (12.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (9.91%) OpenShift
13 30 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (8.98%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (8.67%) AWS Step Functions
16 26 (8.05%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (6.81%) Apigee
18 17 (5.26%) Datadog
19 13 (4.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.05%) DNS
2 16 (4.95%) Broadband
3 12 (3.72%) Firewall
4 7 (2.17%) VPN
5 6 (1.86%) DSL
6 5 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.24%) BGP
7 4 (1.24%) DHCP
7 4 (1.24%) VSAN
7 4 (1.24%) WAN
8 3 (0.93%) Skype
8 3 (0.93%) VLAN
9 2 (0.62%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.62%) MQTT
9 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.62%) VPLS
9 2 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.22%) DynamoDB
1 33 (10.22%) NoSQL
1 33 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (9.91%) SQL Server
3 30 (9.29%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (3.72%) MySQL
7 9 (2.79%) Power BI
8 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.55%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.55%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.55%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.55%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.93%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 184 (56.97%) Jenkins
2 76 (23.53%) Git
3 54 (16.72%) SonarQube
4 42 (13.00%) JIRA
5 34 (10.53%) Cucumber
6 33 (10.22%) Cypress.io
7 27 (8.36%) Maven
8 26 (8.05%) Bitbucket
9 25 (7.74%) Selenium
10 21 (6.50%) JUnit
11 13 (4.02%) Postman
12 12 (3.72%) CircleCI
13 8 (2.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (2.48%) JMeter
13 8 (2.48%) Subversion
14 7 (2.17%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (1.86%) Vite
16 5 (1.55%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.55%) TestNG
General
1 83 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.36%) Finance
3 36 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.81%) Banking
4 22 (6.81%) Marketing
4 22 (6.81%) Telecoms
5 20 (6.19%) Games
6 17 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.95%) Advertising
7 16 (4.95%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.64%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.79%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.86%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.55%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.24%) Electronics
14 3 (0.93%) Retail
15 2 (0.62%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (18.89%) Lead
2 59 (18.27%) Developer
3 51 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 43 (13.31%) Senior
5 30 (9.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.74%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (7.12%) Architect
8 22 (6.81%) Software Engineer
9 21 (6.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (5.26%) Java Developer
11 16 (4.95%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.33%) Salesforce Architect
13 13 (4.02%) Lead DevOps
13 13 (4.02%) Senior Developer
14 12 (3.72%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.72%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.72%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (3.10%) Consultant
15 10 (3.10%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.48%) Spring Boot
2 41 (12.69%) Elastic Stack
3 40 (12.38%) Spring
4 33 (10.22%) REST
5 32 (9.91%) AngularJS
6 25 (7.74%) Gherkin
7 24 (7.43%) Jest
7 24 (7.43%) Kafka
7 24 (7.43%) React
8 21 (6.50%) RESTful
9 18 (5.57%) SOAP
10 17 (5.26%) Node.js
11 15 (4.64%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.64%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (4.64%) Visualforce
12 14 (4.33%) pytest
13 12 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.41%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (3.41%) HTML
15 10 (3.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.41%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.05%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.72%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.41%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.86%) Blockchain
7 6 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.86%) PKI
7 6 (1.86%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.86%) Web3
8 5 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.55%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.93%) IoT
10 3 (0.93%) RSA SecurID
10 3 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 89 (27.55%) Linux
2 31 (9.60%) Windows
3 14 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.10%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.48%) Unix
7 7 (2.17%) CentOS
8 5 (1.55%) Debian
8 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.31%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 216 (66.87%) DevOps
3 145 (44.89%) Agile
4 128 (39.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (28.48%) Containerisation
7 61 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (18.58%) Test Automation
9 56 (17.34%) Continuous Integration
10 55 (17.03%) Software Engineering
11 53 (16.41%) Microservices
12 51 (15.79%) Mentoring
12 51 (15.79%) Observability
13 46 (14.24%) Scrum
14 43 (13.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 41 (12.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 39 (12.07%) DevSecOps
17 37 (11.46%) Incident Response
17 37 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
18 36 (11.15%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 161 (49.85%) Python
2 100 (30.96%) Java
3 91 (28.17%) Bash
4 65 (20.12%) TypeScript
5 61 (18.89%) SQL
6 47 (14.55%) JavaScript
7 37 (11.46%) PowerShell
8 28 (8.67%) Go
9 21 (6.50%) Groovy
10 15 (4.64%) Apex Code
10 15 (4.64%) SOQL
10 15 (4.64%) SOSL
11 13 (4.02%) C#
12 9 (2.79%) ANSI SQL
12 9 (2.79%) Rust
13 8 (2.48%) Delphi
14 7 (2.17%) Bicep
15 5 (1.55%) C
15 5 (1.55%) C++
16 3 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.53%) DV Cleared
3 32 (9.91%) AWS Certification
4 30 (9.29%) SC Cleared
5 27 (8.36%) Degree
6 14 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.10%) ISTQB
8 10 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.17%) OSCP
11 5 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.24%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.24%) CCNA
12 4 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.62%) CISSP
13 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.62%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.69%) QA
2 9 (2.79%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.17%) NIST
4 5 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.24%) GDPR
5 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.62%) ECSS
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 135 (41.80%) Docker
2 20 (6.19%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.86%) vSphere
4 5 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.24%) Firmware
6 3 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.62%) NFS
7 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 139 (43.03%) Kubernetes
1 139 (43.03%) Terraform
2 87 (26.93%) Ansible
3 79 (24.46%) Grafana
4 67 (20.74%) Prometheus
5 22 (6.81%) HP Fortify
6 9 (2.79%) Kibana
7 8 (2.48%) Puppet
7 8 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.17%) Rancher
9 6 (1.86%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.55%) Argo
10 5 (1.55%) WSUS
11 4 (1.24%) logstash
11 4 (1.24%) Nagios
11 4 (1.24%) vRealize
12 3 (0.93%) Istio
12 3 (0.93%) SCOM
12 3 (0.93%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.62%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 44 (13.62%) Splunk
2 42 (13.00%) Oracle
3 29 (8.98%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.43%) Atlassian
5 23 (7.12%) VMware
6 16 (4.95%) Salesforce
7 15 (4.64%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.17%) Google
9 6 (1.86%) SAP
10 5 (1.55%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.55%) Cisco
10 5 (1.55%) HP
10 5 (1.55%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.93%) Dell
12 2 (0.62%) Adobe
12 2 (0.62%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.62%) Juniper
12 2 (0.62%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.62%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.62%) Veeam