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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 256 362
Rank change year-on-year -64 +106 -47
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 535 544 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.23% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.74% 13.14% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 330 161 566
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,288 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +7.26% +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 4,199 4,139 9,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 9.35% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,782 2,625 6,499
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,858 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,600 £93,750
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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -41 476 £72,500 -6.45% 178
UK excluding London -89 318 £65,288 -2.61% 137
London +13 184 £84,625 -0.44% 62
Work from Home -113 153 £68,076 -4.79% 101
North of England -54 121 £67,500 +0.69% 34
South East +49 94 £67,500 +28.57% 34
Yorkshire +10 65 £69,310 -2.38% 8
South West -59 44 £65,000 +6.12% 31
North West -69 36 £65,000 -3.04% 16
Scotland -24 35 £95,000 +5.56% 7
North East -22 20 £57,500 - 10
Midlands -78 19 £53,750 -10.42% 13
West Midlands -44 15 £53,750 -24.56% 10
East of England -37 4 - - 17
East Midlands -71 4 - - 3
Wales -39 3 £51,250 +57.69% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 1

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 (4.67%) Apache
1 25 (4.67%) Confluence
2 14 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.68%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) IIS
5 3 (0.56%) JBoss
5 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 337 (62.99%) AWS
2 205 (38.32%) Azure
3 140 (26.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 108 (20.19%) Serverless
5 97 (18.13%) GitHub
6 90 (16.82%) AWS Lambda
7 84 (15.70%) Amazon S3
8 74 (13.83%) GCP
9 73 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (9.72%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (9.53%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (9.35%) Amazon ECR
14 47 (8.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 41 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (7.29%) Apigee
17 38 (7.10%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (7.10%) OpenShift
18 37 (6.92%) Azure AKS
19 35 (6.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.66%) Broadband
2 29 (5.42%) Firewall
3 22 (4.11%) DNS
4 13 (2.43%) DSL
5 12 (2.24%) LAN
5 12 (2.24%) MQTT
5 12 (2.24%) Software-Defined Networking
6 11 (2.06%) Network Security
7 10 (1.87%) WAN
8 9 (1.68%) HTTP
9 8 (1.50%) IPv4
10 7 (1.31%) BGP
10 7 (1.31%) VPN
11 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.93%) DHCP
12 5 (0.93%) MPLS
13 4 (0.75%) VPLS
13 4 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (12.71%) NoSQL
2 61 (11.40%) DynamoDB
3 53 (9.91%) MongoDB
4 43 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
5 26 (4.86%) MySQL
6 21 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.24%) Pinecone
9 11 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.87%) Big Data
11 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.93%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.75%) Redis
14 2 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.37%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.37%) CockroachDB
14 2 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 255 (47.66%) Jenkins
2 144 (26.92%) Git
3 95 (17.76%) SonarQube
4 55 (10.28%) Cypress.io
5 46 (8.60%) Cucumber
6 45 (8.41%) JIRA
7 35 (6.54%) Maven
8 28 (5.23%) CircleCI
8 28 (5.23%) Selenium
9 18 (3.36%) Bitbucket
10 15 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
11 14 (2.62%) REST Assured
12 13 (2.43%) JUnit
12 13 (2.43%) Vite
13 12 (2.24%) Postman
14 10 (1.87%) Gatling
14 10 (1.87%) JMeter
15 9 (1.68%) Robot Framework
16 7 (1.31%) Artifactory
17 6 (1.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 111 (20.75%) Finance
2 109 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 56 (10.47%) Banking
4 52 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 49 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (6.92%) Marketing
8 34 (6.36%) Games
9 13 (2.43%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.24%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.87%) Advertising
12 8 (1.50%) Electronics
13 7 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Retail
15 4 (0.75%) Automotive
15 4 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (21.68%) Senior
2 98 (18.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (16.82%) Developer
4 52 (9.72%) Architect
5 50 (9.35%) Lead
6 49 (9.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 43 (8.04%) Java Developer
8 41 (7.66%) Software Engineer
9 35 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (6.36%) Salesforce Architect
11 30 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (5.23%) Senior Developer
13 27 (5.05%) Java Engineer
13 27 (5.05%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (5.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 26 (4.86%) Security Engineer
15 24 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
16 22 (4.11%) Principal Engineer
17 21 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
18 20 (3.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 71 (13.27%) REST
3 67 (12.52%) Kafka
4 55 (10.28%) Spring
5 54 (10.09%) AngularJS
6 40 (7.48%) Node.js
6 40 (7.48%) React
7 38 (7.10%) Jest
8 36 (6.73%) SOAP
9 35 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
9 35 (6.54%) Lightning Web Components
9 35 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
9 35 (6.54%) Visualforce
10 34 (6.36%) Gherkin
10 34 (6.36%) RESTful
11 24 (4.49%) Playwright
12 23 (4.30%) JSON
13 22 (4.11%) LangChain
13 22 (4.11%) YAML
14 20 (3.74%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 122 (22.80%) Cloud Native
2 66 (12.34%) Product Ownership
3 48 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (5.05%) Public Cloud
5 25 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (3.93%) e-Learning
7 20 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (3.36%) Data Centre
9 17 (3.18%) Blockchain
9 17 (3.18%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.99%) Algorithms
10 16 (2.99%) Web3
11 13 (2.43%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.12%) Private Cloud
15 6 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
16 5 (0.93%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 138 (25.79%) Linux
2 59 (11.03%) Windows
3 24 (4.49%) CentOS
3 24 (4.49%) Unix
3 24 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.37%) Android
9 2 (0.37%) Debian
9 2 (0.37%) Rocky
10 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (88.04%) CI/CD
2 367 (68.60%) DevOps
3 276 (51.59%) Agile
4 262 (48.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 167 (31.21%) Containerisation
6 152 (28.41%) Microservices
7 144 (26.92%) Test Automation
8 130 (24.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (20.37%) Continuous Integration
10 103 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (19.25%) Scrum
11 100 (18.69%) Mentoring
12 99 (18.50%) Observability
13 94 (17.57%) Software Engineering
14 89 (16.64%) DevSecOps
15 81 (15.14%) Event-Driven
16 78 (14.58%) SDLC
17 76 (14.21%) Continuous Delivery
18 62 (11.59%) Coaching
19 61 (11.40%) AI
Programming Languages
1 256 (47.85%) Python
2 161 (30.09%) Java
3 148 (27.66%) Bash
4 83 (15.51%) SQL
5 77 (14.39%) TypeScript
6 71 (13.27%) JavaScript
7 60 (11.21%) PowerShell
8 52 (9.72%) Go
9 44 (8.22%) Groovy
10 35 (6.54%) Apex Code
10 35 (6.54%) SOQL
10 35 (6.54%) SOSL
11 31 (5.79%) Rust
12 30 (5.61%) C#
13 25 (4.67%) C++
14 8 (1.50%) Perl
15 7 (1.31%) Bicep
15 7 (1.31%) PHP
16 6 (1.12%) C
16 6 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 172 (32.15%) Security Cleared
2 97 (18.13%) SC Cleared
3 71 (13.27%) Degree
4 67 (12.52%) AWS Certification
5 31 (5.79%) DV Cleared
6 26 (4.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.49%) OSCP
8 23 (4.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 22 (4.11%) ITIL Certification
10 20 (3.74%) Master's Degree
11 17 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (3.18%) ISTQB
12 13 (2.43%) CCNA
12 13 (2.43%) RHCSA
13 12 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.50%) RHCE
15 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.78%) QA
2 19 (3.55%) GDPR
3 17 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.18%) NIST
4 13 (2.43%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.24%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.87%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.93%) WCAG
8 4 (0.75%) JTAG
9 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 235 (43.93%) Docker
2 29 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.93%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.24%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.24%) vSphere
5 8 (1.50%) Squid
5 8 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 279 (52.15%) Terraform
2 236 (44.11%) Kubernetes
3 133 (24.86%) Ansible
4 87 (16.26%) Grafana
5 79 (14.77%) Prometheus
6 33 (6.17%) HP Fortify
7 32 (5.98%) Argo
8 24 (4.49%) Nagios
9 16 (2.99%) Kibana
10 13 (2.43%) Packer
10 13 (2.43%) Puppet
11 12 (2.24%) logstash
12 9 (1.68%) Podman
13 8 (1.50%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.50%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.93%) VxRail
17 4 (0.75%) WSUS
18 3 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (16.26%) Splunk
2 50 (9.35%) Red Hat
3 39 (7.29%) VMware
4 37 (6.92%) Microsoft
5 35 (6.54%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.99%) Oracle
7 15 (2.80%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.43%) Cisco
9 12 (2.24%) Dynatrace
10 11 (2.06%) AppDynamics
10 11 (2.06%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.87%) Google
12 9 (1.68%) Rapid7
13 8 (1.50%) Tenable
14 7 (1.31%) IBM
14 7 (1.31%) Juniper
15 6 (1.12%) F5
15 6 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow
16 5 (0.93%) SolarWinds