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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 321 317
Rank change year-on-year -72 -4 -45
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 292 539 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.80% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.87% 9.00% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 186 253 369
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,813 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -9.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,050 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%

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 3,709 5,987 6,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.95% 8.88% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,368 3,356 5,452
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,574 £42,251
25th Percentile £43,320 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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 -70 249 £75,000 +7.14% 321
UK excluding London -44 155 £70,000 +7.69% 240
London -48 107 £82,500 -2.94% 128
Work from Home -20 106 £77,500 +19.23% 184
North of England +41 58 £67,500 +11.64% 65
North West +44 38 £63,750 +3.69% 46
South West -11 24 £70,000 +16.67% 38
South East -18 20 £78,000 +11.43% 73
Scotland +16 19 £100,000 +73.91% 20
Midlands +25 17 £60,000 -5.88% 25
East of England +28 15 £61,250 +6.52% 9
Yorkshire +11 15 £76,250 +28.77% 13
West Midlands +15 10 £65,000 +8.33% 20
East Midlands +30 7 £55,200 -21.14% 5
North East +10 5 £65,000 +1.59% 6
Wales +12 4 £57,600 -38.40% 5

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 21 (7.19%) Confluence
2 10 (3.42%) Apache
3 8 (2.74%) nginx
4 6 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.37%) Camunda
5 4 (1.37%) IIS
5 4 (1.37%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.03%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.03%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Simulink
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.34%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 177 (60.62%) AWS
2 113 (38.70%) Azure
3 62 (21.23%) GitHub
4 48 (16.44%) GCP
5 46 (15.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (12.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 36 (12.33%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (11.64%) Serverless
8 32 (10.96%) OpenShift
9 31 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (7.88%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (6.85%) Amazon S3
14 17 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (5.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (4.79%) Datadog
16 9 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
17 8 (2.74%) Power Platform
17 8 (2.74%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.48%) Broadband
2 13 (4.45%) DNS
3 11 (3.77%) Firewall
4 7 (2.40%) Network Security
5 6 (2.05%) VPN
5 6 (2.05%) WAN
6 4 (1.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (1.37%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.37%) VLAN
6 4 (1.37%) VSAN
7 3 (1.03%) OSPF
7 3 (1.03%) Skype
8 2 (0.68%) BGP
8 2 (0.68%) HTTP
8 2 (0.68%) RTMP
8 2 (0.68%) SAN
8 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.30%) MongoDB
2 32 (10.96%) SQL Server
3 30 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (8.22%) NoSQL
5 17 (5.82%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.74%) MySQL
7 8 (2.74%) Power BI
7 8 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.05%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.71%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.03%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.68%) Metadata
12 2 (0.68%) Redis
12 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 158 (54.11%) Jenkins
2 58 (19.86%) Git
3 35 (11.99%) JIRA
4 33 (11.30%) SonarQube
5 29 (9.93%) Cucumber
6 26 (8.90%) Selenium
7 25 (8.56%) Bitbucket
8 19 (6.51%) JUnit
8 19 (6.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (4.45%) CircleCI
10 10 (3.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (3.42%) JMeter
11 9 (3.08%) Postman
12 8 (2.74%) Subversion
12 8 (2.74%) TeamCity
13 7 (2.40%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.40%) Gatling
14 6 (2.05%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.71%) Maven
15 5 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 78 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 74 (25.34%) Finance
3 44 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (7.88%) Banking
6 22 (7.53%) Games
6 22 (7.53%) Marketing
7 17 (5.82%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.48%) Manufacturing
9 12 (4.11%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.77%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.08%) Advertising
11 9 (3.08%) Retail
12 8 (2.74%) Electronics
13 7 (2.40%) Automotive
13 7 (2.40%) Investment Banking
14 6 (2.05%) Financial Institution
14 6 (2.05%) Law
15 5 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (1.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 59 (20.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (14.04%) Developer
3 39 (13.36%) Senior
4 35 (11.99%) Lead
5 29 (9.93%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (8.22%) Architect
7 21 (7.19%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.14%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (4.79%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (4.79%) Salesforce Architect
11 13 (4.45%) Java Engineer
12 12 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (4.11%) Backend Developer
12 12 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.11%) Technical Architect
13 11 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (3.77%) Lead DevOps
14 10 (3.42%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.33%) REST
2 34 (11.64%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (11.30%) Spring
4 32 (10.96%) Spring Boot
5 26 (8.90%) React
6 21 (7.19%) Node.js
7 20 (6.85%) Kafka
8 18 (6.16%) SOAP
9 16 (5.48%) Lightning Web Components
9 16 (5.48%) Visualforce
10 15 (5.14%) .NET
11 11 (3.77%) AngularJS
11 11 (3.77%) FastAPI
11 11 (3.77%) Playwright
12 10 (3.42%) pytest
13 9 (3.08%) Django
13 9 (3.08%) Hibernate
14 8 (2.74%) CSS
14 8 (2.74%) Middleware
14 8 (2.74%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.75%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.59%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.45%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.11%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.42%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.71%) PKI
9 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.37%) FPGA
9 4 (1.37%) Verilog
9 4 (1.37%) VHDL
10 3 (1.03%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.03%) Replication
10 3 (1.03%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 91 (31.16%) Linux
2 29 (9.93%) Windows
3 18 (6.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (4.45%) Ubuntu
5 12 (4.11%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.08%) Debian
7 7 (2.40%) Unix
8 6 (2.05%) CentOS
9 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (1.37%) Android
10 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.34%) Fedora
11 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (77.05%) CI/CD
2 189 (64.73%) DevOps
3 124 (42.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (41.78%) Agile
5 96 (32.88%) Containerisation
6 64 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (18.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 52 (17.81%) Test Automation
10 49 (16.78%) Continuous Integration
10 49 (16.78%) Microservices
10 49 (16.78%) Software Engineering
11 48 (16.44%) Scrum
12 46 (15.75%) Observability
13 40 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (13.01%) Mentoring
15 35 (11.99%) Event-Driven
16 32 (10.96%) Configuration Management
17 29 (9.93%) Incident Response
18 25 (8.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 150 (51.37%) Python
2 78 (26.71%) Java
3 67 (22.95%) Bash
4 52 (17.81%) SQL
5 45 (15.41%) PowerShell
6 40 (13.70%) JavaScript
7 37 (12.67%) TypeScript
8 19 (6.51%) C#
9 18 (6.16%) Go
10 16 (5.48%) Apex Code
11 15 (5.14%) C++
11 15 (5.14%) SOQL
11 15 (5.14%) SOSL
12 12 (4.11%) C
13 8 (2.74%) Delphi
13 8 (2.74%) Shell Script
14 7 (2.40%) Bicep
15 6 (2.05%) ANSI SQL
16 4 (1.37%) MATLAB
17 3 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.62%) DV Cleared
3 26 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.53%) AWS Certification
5 20 (6.85%) Degree
6 13 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.74%) CCNA
8 8 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.74%) ISTQB
9 7 (2.40%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.37%) CCNP
11 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.34%) CISM
13 1 (0.34%) GREM
13 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.33%) QA
2 5 (1.71%) GDPR
3 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.68%) ECSS
5 2 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (38.70%) Docker
2 18 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.48%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.71%) vSphere
5 4 (1.37%) Firmware
6 3 (1.03%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.03%) vCloud
6 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.68%) NFS
7 2 (0.68%) Squid
7 2 (0.68%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 140 (47.95%) Kubernetes
2 110 (37.67%) Terraform
3 80 (27.40%) Ansible
4 77 (26.37%) Grafana
5 69 (23.63%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.79%) Kibana
7 8 (2.74%) Puppet
8 7 (2.40%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.71%) Argo
9 5 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.37%) Rancher
10 4 (1.37%) vRealize
10 4 (1.37%) WSUS
11 3 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.03%) logstash
11 3 (1.03%) Nessus
11 3 (1.03%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.03%) SCOM
12 2 (0.68%) Istio
12 2 (0.68%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 39 (13.36%) Splunk
2 38 (13.01%) Oracle
3 26 (8.90%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.90%) VMware
4 25 (8.56%) Atlassian
5 16 (5.48%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.11%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.40%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.05%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.05%) SAP
9 5 (1.71%) Sonatype
10 4 (1.37%) Cisco
10 4 (1.37%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.37%) F5
11 3 (1.03%) Databricks
11 3 (1.03%) Google
11 3 (1.03%) HP
12 2 (0.68%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.68%) New Relic
12 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow