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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 326 314
Rank change year-on-year -48 -12 -37
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 297 531 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.80% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.09% 8.67% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 195 250 371
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,875 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £86,253 £86,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,775 £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 3,669 6,128 6,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.78% 9.25% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,365 3,516 5,386
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £42,439
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £94,389 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,425
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.86% +6.23%

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 29 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 29 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 -56 255 £75,000 +7.14% 182
UK excluding London -28 161 £70,000 +7.69% 167
Work from Home -18 112 £77,500 +16.98% 94
London -41 102 £85,000 - 60
North of England +70 68 £68,750 +11.82% 25
North West +64 38 £65,000 - 15
Yorkshire +11 24 £77,500 +33.70% 7
South West -13 24 £70,000 +16.67% 38
South East -24 20 £77,500 +10.71% 72
Midlands +24 17 £65,000 +1.96% 19
Scotland +4 16 - - 5
East of England +37 15 £61,250 +6.52% 9
West Midlands +25 10 £70,000 +16.67% 18
East Midlands +27 7 £55,200 -21.14% 1
North East +16 6 £65,000 +12.14% 3
Wales +8 3 £57,600 -38.40% 4

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 18 (6.06%) Confluence
2 9 (3.03%) Apache
3 6 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.02%) nginx
4 5 (1.68%) IIS
4 5 (1.68%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.35%) Camunda
5 4 (1.35%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.01%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Simulink
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.34%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 176 (59.26%) AWS
2 116 (39.06%) Azure
3 61 (20.54%) GitHub
4 52 (17.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 47 (15.82%) GCP
6 42 (14.14%) Serverless
7 37 (12.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (12.46%) GitHub Actions
8 34 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (10.44%) Amazon ECS
9 31 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (10.44%) OpenShift
10 28 (9.43%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (9.43%) Amazon S3
11 20 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (5.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (4.38%) Datadog
14 9 (3.03%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (3.03%) Power Platform
15 8 (2.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.39%) Broadband
2 15 (5.05%) DNS
3 10 (3.37%) Firewall
4 6 (2.02%) VPN
5 5 (1.68%) Network Security
5 5 (1.68%) WAN
6 4 (1.35%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.35%) VLAN
6 4 (1.35%) VSAN
7 3 (1.01%) OSPF
7 3 (1.01%) Skype
8 2 (0.67%) BGP
8 2 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.67%) HTTP
8 2 (0.67%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.67%) SAN
8 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.10%) MongoDB
3 27 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.07%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (5.39%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.38%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.03%) MySQL
7 9 (3.03%) Power BI
8 8 (2.69%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.68%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.67%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.67%) Metadata
12 2 (0.67%) Redis
12 2 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.34%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 162 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 63 (21.21%) Git
3 39 (13.13%) SonarQube
4 34 (11.45%) JIRA
5 28 (9.43%) Bitbucket
5 28 (9.43%) Cucumber
6 25 (8.42%) Selenium
7 18 (6.06%) JUnit
7 18 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (4.71%) Cypress.io
9 12 (4.04%) CircleCI
9 12 (4.04%) Maven
10 11 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (3.37%) JMeter
11 10 (3.37%) Postman
12 9 (3.03%) Subversion
13 7 (2.36%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.36%) Gatling
13 7 (2.36%) TeamCity
14 4 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 77 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 71 (23.91%) Finance
3 45 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.07%) Banking
5 21 (7.07%) Games
5 21 (7.07%) Marketing
6 18 (6.06%) Telecoms
7 16 (5.39%) Manufacturing
8 13 (4.38%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.04%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.37%) Advertising
11 8 (2.69%) Retail
12 7 (2.36%) Electronics
13 6 (2.02%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.02%) Investment Banking
13 6 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.68%) Automotive
15 4 (1.35%) Aviation
15 4 (1.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (16.16%) Lead
3 41 (13.80%) Senior
4 39 (13.13%) Developer
5 29 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
6 22 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.07%) Architect
8 15 (5.05%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.71%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (4.71%) Salesforce Architect
10 12 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) Backend Developer
11 11 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.37%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.12%) REST
1 36 (12.12%) Spring Boot
2 35 (11.78%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (11.78%) Spring
3 24 (8.08%) React
4 21 (7.07%) Node.js
5 20 (6.73%) AngularJS
6 17 (5.72%) Kafka
6 17 (5.72%) SOAP
7 16 (5.39%) Lightning Web Components
7 16 (5.39%) Visualforce
8 14 (4.71%) .NET
9 11 (3.70%) FastAPI
9 11 (3.70%) Playwright
10 10 (3.37%) Django
10 10 (3.37%) pytest
11 9 (3.03%) CSS
11 9 (3.03%) HTML
12 8 (2.69%) Flask
12 8 (2.69%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.43%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.04%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.37%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.03%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.68%) PKI
9 4 (1.35%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.35%) FPGA
9 4 (1.35%) IoT
9 4 (1.35%) Verilog
9 4 (1.35%) VHDL
10 3 (1.01%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.01%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 93 (31.31%) Linux
2 29 (9.76%) Windows
3 18 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (4.38%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.70%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.69%) Debian
6 8 (2.69%) Unix
7 5 (1.68%) CentOS
7 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.67%) Android
9 1 (0.34%) Fedora
9 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (76.43%) CI/CD
2 194 (65.32%) DevOps
3 131 (44.11%) Agile
4 122 (41.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 93 (31.31%) Containerisation
6 75 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (17.51%) Scrum
9 50 (16.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 48 (16.16%) Microservices
11 47 (15.82%) Continuous Integration
11 47 (15.82%) Software Engineering
11 47 (15.82%) Test Automation
12 44 (14.81%) Observability
13 41 (13.80%) Mentoring
14 38 (12.79%) Platform Engineering
15 34 (11.45%) Configuration Management
16 30 (10.10%) Event-Driven
16 30 (10.10%) Incident Response
16 30 (10.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 150 (50.51%) Python
2 81 (27.27%) Java
3 73 (24.58%) Bash
4 52 (17.51%) SQL
5 44 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 43 (14.48%) TypeScript
7 40 (13.47%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.39%) Apex Code
8 16 (5.39%) C#
8 16 (5.39%) Go
9 15 (5.05%) SOQL
9 15 (5.05%) SOSL
10 13 (4.38%) C++
11 12 (4.04%) C
12 9 (3.03%) Groovy
13 8 (2.69%) Delphi
13 8 (2.69%) Shell Script
14 7 (2.36%) Bicep
15 6 (2.02%) ANSI SQL
16 3 (1.01%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 57 (19.19%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.43%) DV Cleared
3 25 (8.42%) AWS Certification
4 24 (8.08%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.41%) Degree
6 15 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.69%) ISTQB
10 7 (2.36%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.02%) CCNA
11 6 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.67%) CCNP
14 1 (0.34%) CISM
14 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.13%) QA
2 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.35%) GDPR
3 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.67%) ECSS
4 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.67%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (38.72%) Docker
2 19 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.72%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.68%) vSphere
5 4 (1.35%) Firmware
5 4 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.01%) vCloud
7 2 (0.67%) NFS
7 2 (0.67%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.34%) Squid
8 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 132 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 113 (38.05%) Terraform
3 82 (27.61%) Ansible
4 79 (26.60%) Grafana
5 67 (22.56%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.70%) Kibana
7 7 (2.36%) HP Fortify
7 7 (2.36%) Puppet
8 6 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.68%) Argo
9 5 (1.68%) Rancher
10 4 (1.35%) vRealize
10 4 (1.35%) WSUS
11 3 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.01%) logstash
11 3 (1.01%) Nessus
11 3 (1.01%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.01%) SCOM
12 2 (0.67%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 38 (12.79%) Oracle
1 38 (12.79%) Splunk
2 27 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.42%) VMware
4 24 (8.08%) Atlassian
5 16 (5.39%) Salesforce
6 14 (4.71%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.36%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.02%) SAP
9 5 (1.68%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.68%) Sonatype
10 4 (1.35%) Cisco
10 4 (1.35%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.35%) Google
11 3 (1.01%) Databricks
11 3 (1.01%) HP
12 2 (0.67%) MikroTik
12 2 (0.67%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.67%) Ubiquiti
12 2 (0.67%) YouTube