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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 268 312
Rank change year-on-year -78 +44 +22
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 628 534 640
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.08% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.19% 14.10% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 386 177 290
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +14.81% -2.53%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,288 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.73% +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 4,762 3,788 6,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.64% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,939 2,197 3,672
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,150 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,375 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -49 583 £69,310 -10.57% 745
UK excluding London -106 396 £65,288 -6.73% 488
London +8 190 £90,000 +2.86% 339
North of England -48 171 £67,500 - 134
Work from Home -179 127 £68,405 -14.49% 360
South West -20 81 £72,750 +3.93% 89
South East +2 75 £65,000 -13.33% 73
North East -3 69 £60,000 -9.43% 30
North West -81 65 £69,310 +10.90% 85
Yorkshire -5 46 £71,250 -5.00% 19
Midlands -87 40 £60,000 -14.29% 54
West Midlands -49 27 £62,500 -23.08% 43
East Midlands -70 13 £60,000 -1.64% 10
East of England -60 10 £60,000 -7.69% 44
Wales -68 10 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Scotland -47 8 £87,500 +17.45% 69
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 14

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 34 (5.41%) Apache
2 30 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (4.62%) Confluence
4 23 (3.66%) Apache Spark
5 21 (3.34%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.80%) nginx
8 3 (0.48%) IIS
9 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 407 (64.81%) AWS
2 228 (36.31%) Azure
3 161 (25.64%) GitHub
4 113 (17.99%) AWS CloudFormation
5 84 (13.38%) GitHub Actions
6 82 (13.06%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (12.74%) GCP
8 79 (12.58%) Amazon S3
9 67 (10.67%) Serverless
10 63 (10.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 56 (8.92%) Amazon ECS
12 52 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (7.32%) Amazon ECR
14 44 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (6.53%) Azure AKS
16 38 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
17 34 (5.41%) OpenShift
18 23 (3.66%) Datadog
19 22 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
20 21 (3.34%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.50%) DNS
2 19 (3.03%) Firewall
3 13 (2.07%) Broadband
3 13 (2.07%) Network Security
4 11 (1.75%) HTTP
4 11 (1.75%) MQTT
4 11 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.27%) DHCP
5 8 (1.27%) IPv4
5 8 (1.27%) LAN
5 8 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
5 8 (1.27%) VPN
6 7 (1.11%) WAN
7 6 (0.96%) BGP
7 6 (0.96%) NX-OS
7 6 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.96%) Wireless
7 6 (0.96%) ZigBee
8 4 (0.64%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (13.54%) NoSQL
2 72 (11.46%) MongoDB
3 71 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (6.37%) DynamoDB
4 40 (6.37%) MySQL
5 29 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
6 24 (3.82%) Relational Database
7 19 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (3.03%) Pinecone
8 17 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (2.71%) Redis
9 16 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (2.39%) Chroma
11 13 (2.07%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.91%) Big Data
13 8 (1.27%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.11%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.11%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.96%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 258 (41.08%) Jenkins
2 214 (34.08%) Git
3 72 (11.46%) Cucumber
4 68 (10.83%) JIRA
5 49 (7.80%) Cypress.io
6 43 (6.85%) SonarQube
7 39 (6.21%) Selenium
8 33 (5.25%) Postman
9 29 (4.62%) JUnit
10 27 (4.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 21 (3.34%) Maven
12 18 (2.87%) JMeter
13 15 (2.39%) Gatling
13 15 (2.39%) Vite
14 14 (2.23%) Spock
14 14 (2.23%) Visual Studio Code
15 13 (2.07%) Bitbucket
15 13 (2.07%) REST Assured
16 12 (1.91%) Robot Framework
17 11 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 164 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 137 (21.82%) Finance
3 121 (19.27%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (9.08%) Banking
6 45 (7.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.03%) Aerospace
7 19 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.23%) Law
9 13 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.07%) Marketing
10 10 (1.59%) Electronics
11 9 (1.43%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.27%) Legal
13 5 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.64%) Automotive
14 4 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.48%) Military
15 3 (0.48%) Retail
16 1 (0.16%) Billing
Job Titles
1 164 (26.11%) Senior
2 143 (22.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 95 (15.13%) Developer
4 70 (11.15%) Software Engineer
5 57 (9.08%) Principal Engineer
6 54 (8.60%) Java Engineer
7 52 (8.28%) Lead
8 39 (6.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 39 (6.21%) Senior DevOps
8 39 (6.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 35 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (4.94%) Test Engineer
11 30 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
12 29 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 29 (4.62%) Senior Developer
13 27 (4.30%) Full-Stack Developer
13 27 (4.30%) Software Developer
14 25 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (3.98%) Principal Java Engineer
14 25 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (49.68%) Terraform
2 97 (15.45%) Kafka
2 97 (15.45%) Spring
3 90 (14.33%) Spring Boot
4 79 (12.58%) React
5 68 (10.83%) RESTful
6 64 (10.19%) Node.js
7 59 (9.39%) AngularJS
8 55 (8.76%) REST
9 43 (6.85%) Playwright
10 41 (6.53%) Elastic Stack
11 37 (5.89%) .NET
12 31 (4.94%) Jest
13 30 (4.78%) LangChain
14 29 (4.62%) FastAPI
15 26 (4.14%) Vue
16 22 (3.50%) Gherkin
16 22 (3.50%) LangGraph
16 22 (3.50%) Next.js
16 22 (3.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 197 (31.37%) Cloud Native
2 87 (13.85%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (8.44%) Product Ownership
4 52 (8.28%) Public Cloud
5 44 (7.01%) e-Learning
6 41 (6.53%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (4.30%) Private Cloud
8 19 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.71%) AI Agents
9 17 (2.71%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.71%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.23%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.91%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
13 9 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.43%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.11%) IoT
15 6 (0.96%) Device Driver
15 6 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 185 (29.46%) Linux
2 62 (9.87%) Windows
3 44 (7.01%) CentOS
4 37 (5.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (4.62%) Unix
6 17 (2.71%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.59%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.80%) VMS
9 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.48%) Android
10 3 (0.48%) Debian
10 3 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.48%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.48%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.32%) Rocky
12 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (90.29%) CI/CD
2 399 (63.54%) DevOps
3 363 (57.80%) Agile
4 318 (50.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 257 (40.92%) Test Automation
6 205 (32.64%) Microservices
7 181 (28.82%) Containerisation
8 163 (25.96%) Mentoring
9 161 (25.64%) Software Engineering
10 133 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
11 132 (21.02%) AI
12 129 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 126 (20.06%) Observability
14 107 (17.04%) SDLC
15 102 (16.24%) Scrum
16 99 (15.76%) Coaching
17 97 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
18 93 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
19 91 (14.49%) Technical Leadership
20 78 (12.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 297 (47.29%) Python
2 211 (33.60%) Java
3 151 (24.04%) Bash
4 137 (21.82%) SQL
5 105 (16.72%) JavaScript
6 104 (16.56%) TypeScript
7 80 (12.74%) PowerShell
8 40 (6.37%) C++
9 38 (6.05%) C#
9 38 (6.05%) Go
10 27 (4.30%) Groovy
11 20 (3.18%) Rust
12 14 (2.23%) PHP
13 11 (1.75%) C
14 10 (1.59%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.11%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.11%) Ruby
15 7 (1.11%) Scala
16 6 (0.96%) Perl
17 5 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 265 (42.20%) Security Cleared
2 175 (27.87%) SC Cleared
3 86 (13.69%) Degree
4 77 (12.26%) AWS Certification
5 61 (9.71%) DV Cleared
6 48 (7.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.66%) Master's Degree
9 17 (2.71%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (2.55%) ISTQB
11 15 (2.39%) RHCSA
12 14 (2.23%) CCNA
12 14 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.43%) OSCP
15 8 (1.27%) RHCE
16 7 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.96%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (14.81%) QA
2 31 (4.94%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.87%) WCAG
5 11 (1.75%) GDPR
6 9 (1.43%) SLA
7 8 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.11%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.96%) JTAG
10 4 (0.64%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.64%) NIST
11 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 309 (49.20%) Docker
2 27 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.23%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.23%) vSphere
5 8 (1.27%) Squid
5 8 (1.27%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.96%) Firmware
7 3 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.48%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 268 (42.68%) Kubernetes
2 150 (23.89%) Ansible
3 93 (14.81%) Grafana
4 66 (10.51%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.53%) Argo
6 23 (3.66%) Puppet
7 21 (3.34%) Kibana
8 19 (3.03%) Nagios
9 17 (2.71%) logstash
10 14 (2.23%) HP Fortify
11 11 (1.75%) Packer
12 10 (1.59%) Progress Chef
13 9 (1.43%) Podman
14 8 (1.27%) ZABBIX
15 7 (1.11%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.96%) FortiGate
17 5 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
18 4 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
19 3 (0.48%) linkerd
19 3 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (8.76%) Splunk
2 53 (8.44%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.21%) Red Hat
4 37 (5.89%) VMware
5 25 (3.98%) Oracle
6 22 (3.50%) OpenAI
7 20 (3.18%) Mistral
8 18 (2.87%) Google
9 16 (2.55%) AppDynamics
10 14 (2.23%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.23%) Databricks
11 11 (1.75%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.43%) Rapid7
12 9 (1.43%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.43%) SAP
13 7 (1.11%) Cisco
13 7 (1.11%) NVIDIA
13 7 (1.11%) OneLogin
13 7 (1.11%) Pega
14 6 (0.96%) YouTube