GitLab
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 358 292
Rank change year-on-year -33 -66 -7
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 320 694 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.77% 1.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.73% 7.51% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 192 554 705
10th Percentile £47,382 £35,920 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £65,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% -7.80% +4.44%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,438 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,000 £102,500 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.20% +8.70% -3.36%

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 5,585 9,242 16,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.82% 10.24% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,835 6,729 10,082
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £45,383 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.24%
75th Percentile £76,250 £79,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitLab.

Salary trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 24 March 2025.

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 24 March 2025. 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 -28 287 £77,500 +19.23% 214
UK excluding London -31 177 £72,000 +15.20% 140
London +31 133 £87,500 -2.78% 104
Work from Home -45 119 £70,000 +11.50% 193
South West +89 48 £63,750 - 22
North of England -27 41 £67,500 +12.50% 37
South East +36 36 £80,000 +23.08% 41
North West -36 25 £67,037 +11.73% 26
Scotland +77 22 £85,000 +38.21% 10
Midlands +20 19 £60,000 +6.67% 11
Yorkshire +28 13 £75,000 +19.73% 7
West Midlands +18 13 £57,500 +51.06% 8
East of England +31 10 £78,750 +26.00% 19
East Midlands +37 6 £80,000 +20.75% 3
Northern Ireland +38 3 - - 4
North East +32 3 £70,000 +11.50% 4
Wales +10 1 £32,500 -48.00% 1

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (10.31%) Confluence
2 10 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.88%) Apache
4 5 (1.56%) nginx
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.63%) CMS
5 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.31%) Camunda
6 1 (0.31%) CICS
6 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) Strapi
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 207 (64.69%) AWS
2 101 (31.56%) Azure
3 55 (17.19%) Amazon EC2
4 51 (15.94%) GitHub
5 50 (15.63%) Amazon S3
6 49 (15.31%) Serverless
7 44 (13.75%) GCP
8 40 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
9 35 (10.94%) Amazon EKS
10 30 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (8.75%) Datadog
12 27 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (5.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
16 12 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (3.44%) Cloud Computing
18 8 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.81%) Firewall
2 8 (2.50%) VPN
3 5 (1.56%) DNS
4 4 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.94%) Internet
6 2 (0.63%) Broadband
6 2 (0.63%) IPv6
6 2 (0.63%) MQTT
6 2 (0.63%) Multicast
6 2 (0.63%) Network Security
6 2 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.31%) BGP
7 1 (0.31%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.31%) DHCP
7 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.31%) SSL
7 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.31%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.31%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (11.88%) MongoDB
3 35 (10.94%) NoSQL
4 30 (9.38%) MySQL
5 22 (6.88%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (5.94%) Relational Database
7 16 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (3.44%) SQL Server
9 9 (2.81%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.50%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (1.56%) Redis
12 4 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.25%) Big Data
12 4 (1.25%) Tableau
13 3 (0.94%) Couchbase
13 3 (0.94%) Parquet
13 3 (0.94%) Power BI
13 3 (0.94%) Spark SQL
14 2 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 124 (38.75%) Jenkins
2 81 (25.31%) Git
3 40 (12.50%) JIRA
4 25 (7.81%) Maven
5 23 (7.19%) CircleCI
6 22 (6.88%) Sonatype Nexus
7 20 (6.25%) JUnit
8 19 (5.94%) Cucumber
9 15 (4.69%) IntelliJ
9 15 (4.69%) Mockito
10 14 (4.38%) SonarQube
11 13 (4.06%) Robot Framework
12 10 (3.13%) TeamCity
13 9 (2.81%) Artifactory
13 9 (2.81%) Bitbucket
13 9 (2.81%) Postman
14 7 (2.19%) Selenium
15 5 (1.56%) Fiddler
15 5 (1.56%) JMeter
15 5 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 90 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 71 (22.19%) Finance
3 43 (13.44%) Banking
4 22 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.44%) Legal
7 11 (3.44%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.13%) Electronics
8 10 (3.13%) Marketing
9 9 (2.81%) Automotive
9 9 (2.81%) Front Office
9 9 (2.81%) Law
9 9 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.81%) Retail
10 7 (2.19%) Games
10 7 (2.19%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.88%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.88%) Social Science
12 5 (1.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (21.56%) Developer
2 68 (21.25%) Software Engineer
3 56 (17.50%) Senior
4 54 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (9.69%) Java Developer
5 31 (9.69%) Lead
5 31 (9.69%) Senior Developer
6 23 (7.19%) AWS DevOps
7 22 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (6.56%) Python Engineer
9 20 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
10 19 (5.94%) Architect
11 18 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
12 16 (5.00%) AWS Developer
13 15 (4.69%) DevOps Developer
14 13 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (3.13%) Java Pricing Developer
15 10 (3.13%) Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.63%) React
2 43 (13.44%) Spring
3 40 (12.50%) Kafka
3 40 (12.50%) REST
4 38 (11.88%) Spring Boot
5 32 (10.00%) RESTful
6 25 (7.81%) Django
7 21 (6.56%) .NET
8 19 (5.94%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (5.31%) CSS
9 17 (5.31%) HTML
10 15 (4.69%) ActiveMQ
10 15 (4.69%) JMS
11 14 (4.38%) Node.js
12 13 (4.06%) AngularJS
13 12 (3.75%) Flask
13 12 (3.75%) HTML5
14 11 (3.44%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (3.13%) Web Services
16 9 (2.81%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.69%) Credit Derivative
3 15 (4.69%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (2.81%) Molecular Biology
4 9 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 8 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.19%) Sports Betting
7 6 (1.88%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.88%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.56%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.56%) Mobile Games
8 5 (1.56%) Online Games
8 5 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 82 (25.63%) Linux
2 19 (5.94%) Windows
3 11 (3.44%) Rocky
4 10 (3.13%) Android
5 9 (2.81%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.56%) Debian
7 5 (1.56%) Unix
7 5 (1.56%) VMS
7 5 (1.56%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (65.94%) CI/CD
2 174 (54.38%) DevOps
3 120 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 116 (36.25%) Agile
5 112 (35.00%) Software Engineering
6 105 (32.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 73 (22.81%) Microservices
8 57 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (17.50%) Test Automation
10 53 (16.56%) Mentoring
11 49 (15.31%) Continuous Integration
12 39 (12.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (11.25%) Scrum
14 35 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
15 34 (10.63%) Analytics
15 34 (10.63%) Machine Learning
16 32 (10.00%) Configuration Management
17 30 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
18 29 (9.06%) Full-Stack Development
18 29 (9.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 171 (53.44%) Python
2 102 (31.88%) Java
3 73 (22.81%) SQL
4 66 (20.63%) JavaScript
5 59 (18.44%) Bash
6 41 (12.81%) TypeScript
7 37 (11.56%) C++
8 23 (7.19%) C#
9 19 (5.94%) Go
10 13 (4.06%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.81%) Kotlin
12 8 (2.50%) Rust
13 7 (2.19%) Bicep
13 7 (2.19%) C
14 6 (1.88%) Swift
15 5 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (1.56%) PHP
15 5 (1.56%) Scala
16 4 (1.25%) Ruby
17 3 (0.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 62 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.63%) SC Cleared
3 30 (9.38%) Degree
4 25 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.38%) AWS Certification
6 12 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.44%) Master's Degree
8 7 (2.19%) PhD
9 6 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.25%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.94%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.63%) QA
2 8 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.88%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.31%) NCSC
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 157 (49.06%) Docker
2 7 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.94%) LXC
Systems Management
1 167 (52.19%) Kubernetes
2 136 (42.50%) Terraform
3 99 (30.94%) Ansible
4 36 (11.25%) Prometheus
5 33 (10.31%) Grafana
6 17 (5.31%) Progress Chef
7 14 (4.38%) Kibana
8 12 (3.75%) Puppet
9 10 (3.13%) Argo
9 10 (3.13%) Nagios
10 8 (2.50%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.25%) Graylog
11 4 (1.25%) Rundeck
12 3 (0.94%) logstash
12 3 (0.94%) Packer
13 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.63%) Consul
13 2 (0.63%) Istio
13 2 (0.63%) Rancher
14 1 (0.31%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 18 (5.63%) IBM
2 16 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 14 (4.38%) Atlassian
4 11 (3.44%) Google
5 10 (3.13%) Splunk
6 9 (2.81%) Oracle
7 8 (2.50%) Microsoft
7 8 (2.50%) VMware
8 7 (2.19%) Databricks
9 6 (1.88%) Cisco
9 6 (1.88%) Sawtooth Software
10 5 (1.56%) F5
10 5 (1.56%) Juniper
11 4 (1.25%) Citrix
11 4 (1.25%) NetApp
11 4 (1.25%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.25%) Pure Storage
11 4 (1.25%) Rapid7
12 2 (0.63%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.63%) SAP