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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 264 359
Rank change year-on-year -57 +95 -40
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 551 548 762
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.21% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.85% 13.33% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 333 165 521
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £114,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +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 4,288 4,111 9,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 9.07% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,833 2,600 6,443
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,969 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £92,500
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 25 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 25 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 -44 485 £70,000 -9.68% 122
UK excluding London -86 333 £65,000 -3.70% 100
London -3 182 £85,000 - 41
Work from Home -124 150 £67,500 -6.90% 58
North of England -67 119 £65,288 -2.61% 26
South East +46 97 £65,000 -13.33% 21
Yorkshire +12 60 £69,310 -3.74% 5
South West -44 57 £65,000 +6.12% 18
North West -87 38 £65,000 -3.04% 13
Scotland -24 36 £102,500 +13.89% 6
North East -28 21 £55,000 - 8
Midlands -83 18 £57,500 -17.86% 14
West Midlands -41 13 £60,000 -14.29% 11
East Midlands -70 5 £39,194 -40.84% 3
East of England -31 4 - - 14
Wales -44 4 £47,500 +46.15% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 2

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 27 (4.90%) Apache
2 24 (4.36%) Confluence
3 16 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.00%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.54%) IIS
6 3 (0.54%) JBoss
6 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 346 (62.79%) AWS
2 201 (36.48%) Azure
3 138 (25.05%) AWS CloudFormation
4 107 (19.42%) Serverless
5 100 (18.15%) GitHub
6 89 (16.15%) Amazon S3
6 89 (16.15%) AWS Lambda
7 75 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (12.70%) GCP
9 61 (11.07%) GitHub Actions
10 52 (9.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 52 (9.44%) Amazon ECR
10 52 (9.44%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
12 45 (8.17%) Amazon EKS
13 42 (7.62%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (7.26%) OpenShift
15 39 (7.08%) Apigee
15 39 (7.08%) Azure AKS
16 37 (6.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (8.17%) Broadband
2 29 (5.26%) Firewall
3 17 (3.09%) DNS
4 12 (2.18%) LAN
4 12 (2.18%) MQTT
4 12 (2.18%) Software-Defined Networking
5 11 (2.00%) DSL
5 11 (2.00%) Network Security
6 10 (1.81%) HTTP
6 10 (1.81%) WAN
7 8 (1.45%) IPv4
8 7 (1.27%) BGP
8 7 (1.27%) VPN
9 6 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.09%) DHCP
9 6 (1.09%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.91%) MPLS
11 4 (0.73%) VPLS
11 4 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (12.52%) NoSQL
2 64 (11.62%) DynamoDB
3 52 (9.44%) MongoDB
4 46 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
5 31 (5.63%) MySQL
6 29 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
8 19 (3.45%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.36%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.00%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.81%) Big Data
12 8 (1.45%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.09%) InfluxDB
14 5 (0.91%) Redis
15 4 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.73%) Delta Lake
16 2 (0.36%) Apache Iceberg
16 2 (0.36%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.36%) DocumentDB
16 2 (0.36%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 264 (47.91%) Jenkins
2 149 (27.04%) Git
3 96 (17.42%) SonarQube
4 57 (10.34%) Cypress.io
5 53 (9.62%) JIRA
6 49 (8.89%) Cucumber
7 34 (6.17%) Maven
8 29 (5.26%) CircleCI
8 29 (5.26%) Selenium
9 18 (3.27%) Bitbucket
10 17 (3.09%) Visual Studio Code
11 15 (2.72%) JUnit
12 14 (2.54%) Postman
12 14 (2.54%) REST Assured
13 12 (2.18%) Vite
14 10 (1.81%) Gatling
14 10 (1.81%) JMeter
14 10 (1.81%) Robot Framework
15 8 (1.45%) TestRail
16 7 (1.27%) Artifactory
General
1 122 (22.14%) Social Skills
2 119 (21.60%) Finance
3 57 (10.34%) Banking
3 57 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 53 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 51 (9.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.53%) Marketing
7 34 (6.17%) Games
8 16 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.36%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.45%) Electronics
12 7 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.09%) Advertising
14 5 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.91%) Retail
15 4 (0.73%) Automotive
15 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (22.69%) Senior
2 101 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 95 (17.24%) Developer
4 53 (9.62%) Software Engineer
5 51 (9.26%) Architect
6 45 (8.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 44 (7.99%) Java Developer
8 41 (7.44%) Lead
9 36 (6.53%) AWS Engineer
10 35 (6.35%) Salesforce Architect
11 34 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 28 (5.08%) Java Engineer
12 28 (5.08%) Senior Developer
12 28 (5.08%) Senior DevOps
12 28 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 27 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (4.72%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (4.36%) Security Engineer
15 24 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.97%) Spring Boot
2 73 (13.25%) REST
3 71 (12.89%) Kafka
4 61 (11.07%) Spring
5 59 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 44 (7.99%) Node.js
6 44 (7.99%) React
7 43 (7.80%) RESTful
8 41 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (7.08%) Jest
10 38 (6.90%) SOAP
11 37 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
12 36 (6.53%) Lightning Web Components
13 35 (6.35%) Visualforce
14 34 (6.17%) Gherkin
15 25 (4.54%) Playwright
16 24 (4.36%) JSON
17 22 (3.99%) .NET
17 22 (3.99%) Vue
17 22 (3.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 128 (23.23%) Cloud Native
2 70 (12.70%) Product Ownership
3 55 (9.98%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (5.08%) Public Cloud
5 26 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (3.99%) e-Learning
6 22 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (3.45%) Data Centre
8 17 (3.09%) Algorithms
8 17 (3.09%) Blockchain
9 16 (2.90%) Web3
10 15 (2.72%) Security Posture
11 11 (2.00%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.45%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 144 (26.13%) Linux
2 63 (11.43%) Windows
3 25 (4.54%) CentOS
3 25 (4.54%) Unix
3 25 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.36%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.73%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.36%) Android
9 2 (0.36%) Debian
9 2 (0.36%) Rocky
10 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (89.11%) CI/CD
2 386 (70.05%) DevOps
3 292 (52.99%) Agile
4 269 (48.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 174 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 164 (29.76%) Microservices
7 154 (27.95%) Test Automation
8 133 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (20.15%) Software Engineering
10 109 (19.78%) Continuous Integration
11 108 (19.60%) Scrum
12 106 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (18.33%) Observability
14 100 (18.15%) Mentoring
15 85 (15.43%) Event-Driven
16 83 (15.06%) DevSecOps
16 83 (15.06%) SDLC
17 78 (14.16%) Continuous Delivery
18 70 (12.70%) AI
19 63 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 269 (48.82%) Python
2 171 (31.03%) Java
3 154 (27.95%) Bash
4 87 (15.79%) SQL
5 76 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 74 (13.43%) JavaScript
7 64 (11.62%) PowerShell
8 54 (9.80%) Go
9 44 (7.99%) Groovy
10 36 (6.53%) Apex Code
11 35 (6.35%) C#
11 35 (6.35%) SOQL
11 35 (6.35%) SOSL
12 32 (5.81%) Rust
13 30 (5.44%) C++
14 8 (1.45%) Perl
15 7 (1.27%) C
15 7 (1.27%) PHP
16 6 (1.09%) Scala
17 5 (0.91%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 186 (33.76%) Security Cleared
2 104 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 77 (13.97%) Degree
4 68 (12.34%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.44%) DV Cleared
6 27 (4.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (4.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (4.54%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (3.99%) Master's Degree
8 22 (3.99%) OSCP
9 18 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.72%) ISTQB
11 14 (2.54%) CCNA
11 14 (2.54%) RHCSA
12 13 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.45%) RHCE
15 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
17 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (11.80%) QA
2 20 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.45%) GDPR
4 14 (2.54%) NIST
5 13 (2.36%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.36%) SOC 2
6 11 (2.00%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.63%) WCAG
8 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.73%) JTAG
11 3 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.18%) GRC
12 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 247 (44.83%) Docker
2 31 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.99%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.36%) vSphere
5 12 (2.18%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.45%) Squid
8 7 (1.27%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 281 (51.00%) Terraform
2 242 (43.92%) Kubernetes
3 135 (24.50%) Ansible
4 91 (16.52%) Grafana
5 79 (14.34%) Prometheus
6 33 (5.99%) Argo
6 33 (5.99%) HP Fortify
7 24 (4.36%) Nagios
8 20 (3.63%) Kibana
9 16 (2.90%) logstash
10 15 (2.72%) Puppet
11 13 (2.36%) Packer
12 9 (1.63%) Podman
12 9 (1.63%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.45%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.09%) VxRail
16 4 (0.73%) WSUS
17 3 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (15.79%) Splunk
2 51 (9.26%) Red Hat
3 42 (7.62%) VMware
4 39 (7.08%) Microsoft
5 36 (6.53%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.54%) Cisco
6 14 (2.54%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.54%) Oracle
7 13 (2.36%) AppDynamics
8 12 (2.18%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.18%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.81%) Google
10 9 (1.63%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.45%) Tenable
12 7 (1.27%) IBM
12 7 (1.27%) Juniper
13 6 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (1.09%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.09%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.09%) Veracode