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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 263 361
Rank change year-on-year -53 +98 -15
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 592 569 687
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.15% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.70% 13.58% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 363 185 452
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £114,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,269 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.37% +7.63% -

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 4,320 4,190 8,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.33% 8.49% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,903 2,653 5,715
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,850 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
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 20 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 20 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 -47 524 £70,000 -9.68% 151
UK excluding London -82 365 £65,000 -3.37% 120
London +4 191 £85,000 - 56
Work from Home -135 149 £67,500 -6.90% 75
North of England -54 128 £66,538 -0.74% 42
South East +55 100 £65,000 -13.33% 27
South West -39 65 £75,000 +25.00% 19
Yorkshire +18 58 £69,310 -5.70% 8
North West -88 41 £65,000 -3.04% 20
Scotland -14 37 £102,500 +10.81% 7
North East -19 29 £55,000 - 14
Midlands -82 26 £53,750 -24.56% 18
West Midlands -36 19 £57,500 -28.13% 11
Wales -50 7 £51,250 +10.81% 1
East Midlands -56 7 £39,194 -40.84% 7
East of England -39 4 - - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 -

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 (4.73%) Apache
2 26 (4.39%) Confluence
3 17 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 16 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (2.03%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.51%) IIS
6 3 (0.51%) JBoss
7 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 373 (63.01%) AWS
2 217 (36.66%) Azure
3 137 (23.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 122 (20.61%) GitHub
5 104 (17.57%) Serverless
6 86 (14.53%) Amazon S3
7 85 (14.36%) AWS Lambda
8 80 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (12.84%) GCP
10 71 (11.99%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (9.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 54 (9.12%) Amazon ECS
12 52 (8.78%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (7.77%) AWS Step Functions
14 45 (7.60%) OpenShift
15 44 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (6.25%) Azure AKS
18 36 (6.08%) Apigee
19 35 (5.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.60%) Broadband
2 28 (4.73%) Firewall
3 14 (2.36%) DNS
3 14 (2.36%) MQTT
4 12 (2.03%) Network Security
5 11 (1.86%) LAN
5 11 (1.86%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (1.69%) HTTP
7 9 (1.52%) DSL
7 9 (1.52%) WAN
8 8 (1.35%) IPv4
9 6 (1.01%) BGP
9 6 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.01%) VPN
9 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.01%) Wireless
9 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.68%) DHCP
11 4 (0.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.82%) NoSQL
2 58 (9.80%) DynamoDB
3 52 (8.78%) MongoDB
4 47 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (5.91%) MySQL
6 30 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (3.55%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.69%) Big Data
10 10 (1.69%) Pinecone
11 8 (1.35%) Redis
12 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.51%) GIS
16 2 (0.34%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 279 (47.13%) Jenkins
2 177 (29.90%) Git
3 90 (15.20%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.30%) JIRA
5 55 (9.29%) Cypress.io
6 54 (9.12%) Cucumber
7 31 (5.24%) Maven
7 31 (5.24%) Selenium
8 26 (4.39%) CircleCI
9 19 (3.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 18 (3.04%) JUnit
10 18 (3.04%) Postman
11 17 (2.87%) Visual Studio Code
12 16 (2.70%) Bitbucket
13 14 (2.36%) REST Assured
14 12 (2.03%) JMeter
15 11 (1.86%) Gatling
15 11 (1.86%) Vite
16 10 (1.69%) Robot Framework
17 9 (1.52%) Spock
General
1 143 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 123 (20.78%) Finance
3 79 (13.34%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.80%) Banking
5 57 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.08%) Marketing
7 34 (5.74%) Games
8 15 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.03%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.69%) Electronics
12 9 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.01%) Advertising
13 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.84%) Legal
15 4 (0.68%) Automotive
15 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 138 (23.31%) Senior
2 122 (20.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 88 (14.86%) Developer
4 63 (10.64%) Software Engineer
5 51 (8.61%) Architect
6 45 (7.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 42 (7.09%) Lead
8 39 (6.59%) Java Developer
9 38 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
11 35 (5.91%) Java Engineer
11 35 (5.91%) Salesforce Architect
12 32 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 31 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
13 31 (5.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 28 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.56%) Senior Software Engineer
16 26 (4.39%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (4.39%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.51%) Spring Boot
2 75 (12.67%) Kafka
3 70 (11.82%) REST
4 69 (11.66%) Spring
5 59 (9.97%) AngularJS
6 52 (8.78%) Node.js
7 48 (8.11%) React
7 48 (8.11%) RESTful
8 42 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (6.59%) SOAP
10 37 (6.25%) Jest
11 36 (6.08%) Lightning Web Components
12 35 (5.91%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (5.91%) Visualforce
13 31 (5.24%) Gherkin
14 29 (4.90%) Playwright
15 26 (4.39%) JSON
16 22 (3.72%) .NET
16 22 (3.72%) Vue
16 22 (3.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 152 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 77 (13.01%) Product Ownership
3 65 (10.98%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 31 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (4.39%) e-Learning
7 22 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.87%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.87%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.36%) Blockchain
10 13 (2.20%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.20%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.20%) Web3
11 9 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
11 9 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.35%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 164 (27.70%) Linux
2 67 (11.32%) Windows
3 38 (6.42%) CentOS
4 26 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.22%) Unix
5 25 (4.22%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.34%) Android
10 2 (0.34%) Debian
10 2 (0.34%) Rocky
10 2 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (90.20%) CI/CD
2 413 (69.76%) DevOps
3 315 (53.21%) Agile
4 288 (48.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 185 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 185 (31.25%) Microservices
6 174 (29.39%) Test Automation
7 148 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 126 (21.28%) Software Engineering
9 120 (20.27%) Scrum
10 119 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (19.43%) Mentoring
12 108 (18.24%) Continuous Integration
13 105 (17.74%) Observability
14 89 (15.03%) Event-Driven
15 86 (14.53%) DevSecOps
15 86 (14.53%) SDLC
16 81 (13.68%) AI
17 79 (13.34%) Continuous Delivery
18 74 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 284 (47.97%) Python
2 178 (30.07%) Java
3 155 (26.18%) Bash
4 99 (16.72%) SQL
5 80 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 76 (12.84%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.66%) PowerShell
8 50 (8.45%) Go
9 42 (7.09%) Groovy
10 36 (6.08%) Apex Code
11 35 (5.91%) C#
11 35 (5.91%) SOQL
11 35 (5.91%) SOSL
12 33 (5.57%) C++
13 30 (5.07%) Rust
14 10 (1.69%) C
14 10 (1.69%) PHP
15 7 (1.18%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.18%) Perl
15 7 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 206 (34.80%) Security Cleared
2 121 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.51%) Degree
4 70 (11.82%) AWS Certification
5 48 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 31 (5.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.05%) Master's Degree
8 22 (3.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 22 (3.72%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (3.38%) OSCP
10 17 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (2.70%) ISTQB
12 15 (2.53%) RHCSA
13 13 (2.20%) CCNA
14 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.35%) RHCE
16 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
18 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (12.50%) QA
2 24 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.72%) GDPR
4 15 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.36%) SOC 2
6 13 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.20%) WCAG
7 12 (2.03%) NIST
8 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.01%) JTAG
9 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 267 (45.10%) Docker
2 28 (4.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.38%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.03%) vSphere
5 11 (1.86%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.35%) Squid
8 6 (1.01%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.68%) Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 294 (49.66%) Terraform
2 263 (44.43%) Kubernetes
3 148 (25.00%) Ansible
4 91 (15.37%) Grafana
5 75 (12.67%) Prometheus
6 36 (6.08%) Argo
7 30 (5.07%) HP Fortify
8 26 (4.39%) Nagios
9 20 (3.38%) Kibana
10 16 (2.70%) logstash
11 15 (2.53%) Puppet
12 13 (2.20%) Packer
13 9 (1.52%) Podman
14 8 (1.35%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.01%) VxRail
16 4 (0.68%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.51%) Istio
Vendors
1 88 (14.86%) Splunk
2 53 (8.95%) Red Hat
3 41 (6.93%) Microsoft
4 39 (6.59%) Salesforce
4 39 (6.59%) VMware
5 16 (2.70%) AppDynamics
6 15 (2.53%) Oracle
7 13 (2.20%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.20%) Cisco
7 13 (2.20%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.03%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.03%) Google
9 11 (1.86%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.35%) Databricks
10 8 (1.35%) Intel
10 8 (1.35%) Tenable
11 7 (1.18%) IBM
12 6 (1.01%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (1.01%) Juniper
12 6 (1.01%) Palo Alto