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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 357 339
Rank change year-on-year +35 -18 -52
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 413 335 677
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.77% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.13% 7.09% 7.87%
Number of salaries quoted 244 193 567
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,534 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -8.13%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,375 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +8.70%

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 4,075 4,724 8,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.54% 10.81% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,661 3,067 6,702
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -3.51%

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 March 2026.

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 12 March 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 +3 338 £77,500 +1.64% 277
UK excluding London +22 238 £67,500 -3.57% 233
Work from Home +37 154 £72,500 +7.41% 134
London +15 129 £84,250 -3.71% 77
North of England +10 88 £67,500 +0.34% 68
Yorkshire -5 55 £77,500 +3.33% 24
South East -8 55 £67,500 -15.63% 62
Scotland +7 39 £95,000 +33.33% 20
South West -39 32 £67,500 +8.00% 31
North West -9 26 £65,000 -3.04% 23
Midlands -23 17 £56,350 -19.50% 24
West Midlands +4 15 £57,500 -4.17% 15
North East -14 7 £66,538 -4.95% 21
East of England -4 6 £67,500 -14.29% 26
Wales -11 2 £55,200 +69.85% 8
East Midlands -40 2 £55,200 -26.40% 9

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 23 (5.57%) Confluence
2 17 (4.12%) Apache
3 9 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.21%) IIS
5 5 (1.21%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.97%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.73%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.48%) JBoss
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.48%) nginx
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 247 (59.81%) AWS
2 157 (38.01%) Azure
3 123 (29.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 104 (25.18%) Serverless
5 95 (23.00%) GitHub
6 88 (21.31%) AWS Lambda
7 73 (17.68%) GCP
8 68 (16.46%) Amazon S3
8 68 (16.46%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (12.35%) Amazon ECS
10 47 (11.38%) AWS Step Functions
11 46 (11.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (10.65%) OpenShift
13 39 (9.44%) Amazon ECR
14 38 (9.20%) Apigee
15 36 (8.72%) Datadog
16 35 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
17 34 (8.23%) Amazon EKS
18 30 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.93%) Broadband
2 27 (6.54%) DNS
3 22 (5.33%) Firewall
4 13 (3.15%) DSL
5 7 (1.69%) VPN
6 6 (1.45%) DHCP
7 5 (1.21%) BGP
7 5 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.21%) MQTT
7 5 (1.21%) WAN
8 4 (0.97%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (0.97%) LAN
8 4 (0.97%) MPLS
8 4 (0.97%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (0.97%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.97%) VoIP
8 4 (0.97%) VPLS
9 3 (0.73%) Network Security
10 2 (0.48%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.86%) DynamoDB
2 47 (11.38%) NoSQL
3 31 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (5.81%) MongoDB
6 23 (5.57%) SQL Server
7 18 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.42%) MySQL
9 7 (1.69%) Power BI
10 5 (1.21%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.21%) CockroachDB
11 4 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.97%) InfluxDB
11 4 (0.97%) Pinecone
11 4 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.73%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.73%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 230 (55.69%) Jenkins
2 93 (22.52%) Git
3 89 (21.55%) SonarQube
4 46 (11.14%) JIRA
5 45 (10.90%) Cypress.io
6 37 (8.96%) Maven
7 36 (8.72%) Cucumber
8 29 (7.02%) Selenium
9 24 (5.81%) Bitbucket
10 22 (5.33%) CircleCI
11 18 (4.36%) JUnit
12 14 (3.39%) Postman
13 11 (2.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (2.42%) REST Assured
15 9 (2.18%) JMeter
16 8 (1.94%) Subversion
17 6 (1.45%) SoapUI
18 5 (1.21%) LoadRunner
18 5 (1.21%) TestNG
19 4 (0.97%) Robot Framework
General
1 107 (25.91%) Social Skills
2 82 (19.85%) Finance
3 50 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (11.38%) Marketing
5 42 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (9.69%) Games
7 31 (7.51%) Telecoms
8 29 (7.02%) Banking
9 21 (5.08%) Public Sector
10 16 (3.87%) Advertising
11 14 (3.39%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.94%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.21%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.97%) Electronics
15 4 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.48%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 71 (17.19%) Developer
1 71 (17.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (15.25%) Senior
3 61 (14.77%) Lead
4 54 (13.08%) Architect
5 43 (10.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (9.20%) Salesforce Architect
7 29 (7.02%) Java Developer
8 28 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (5.57%) Software Engineer
10 22 (5.33%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.33%) Senior Developer
11 20 (4.84%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 20 (4.84%) Technical Architect
12 17 (4.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (4.12%) Security Engineer
13 14 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
13 14 (3.39%) AWS Architect
13 14 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (3.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.25%) Spring Boot
2 59 (14.29%) REST
3 46 (11.14%) Elastic Stack
4 45 (10.90%) Kafka
5 43 (10.41%) Spring
6 42 (10.17%) AngularJS
6 42 (10.17%) SOAP
7 40 (9.69%) Lightning Web Components
7 40 (9.69%) Visualforce
8 36 (8.72%) Gherkin
9 35 (8.47%) Jest
10 25 (6.05%) RESTful
11 24 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (5.33%) React
13 18 (4.36%) Node.js
14 16 (3.87%) AWS CDK
15 15 (3.63%) pytest
16 14 (3.39%) YAML
17 12 (2.91%) Apache NiFi
17 12 (2.91%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 68 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 59 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.87%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.15%) Cloud Security Posture
7 12 (2.91%) Blockchain
8 11 (2.66%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.66%) Web3
9 10 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.94%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.69%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.45%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.21%) PKI
14 4 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
15 3 (0.73%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 95 (23.00%) Linux
2 37 (8.96%) Windows
3 13 (3.15%) CentOS
3 13 (3.15%) Unix
3 13 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.66%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.73%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) Fedora
9 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (86.20%) CI/CD
2 288 (69.73%) DevOps
3 202 (48.91%) Agile
4 177 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 125 (30.27%) Containerisation
6 115 (27.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 115 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
7 93 (22.52%) Continuous Integration
8 81 (19.61%) Scrum
9 80 (19.37%) Microservices
10 77 (18.64%) Observability
11 72 (17.43%) Test Automation
12 69 (16.71%) Event-Driven
13 67 (16.22%) Software Engineering
14 63 (15.25%) Continuous Delivery
15 62 (15.01%) Mentoring
16 61 (14.77%) Roadmaps
17 58 (14.04%) DevSecOps
18 46 (11.14%) Collaborative Culture
18 46 (11.14%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 198 (47.94%) Python
2 111 (26.88%) Bash
2 111 (26.88%) Java
3 66 (15.98%) SQL
4 64 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 52 (12.59%) JavaScript
6 41 (9.93%) Go
7 40 (9.69%) Apex Code
7 40 (9.69%) SOQL
7 40 (9.69%) SOSL
8 39 (9.44%) PowerShell
9 32 (7.75%) Groovy
10 20 (4.84%) Rust
11 15 (3.63%) C#
12 8 (1.94%) Delphi
13 7 (1.69%) ANSI SQL
13 7 (1.69%) C++
14 6 (1.45%) Bicep
15 4 (0.97%) Perl
16 3 (0.73%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 91 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.17%) AWS Certification
3 41 (9.93%) Degree
4 37 (8.96%) SC Cleared
5 34 (8.23%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 18 (4.36%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (3.87%) OSCP
9 13 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.18%) ISTQB
12 8 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.97%) CCNA
14 4 (0.97%) CISSP
15 3 (0.73%) CISM
15 3 (0.73%) GCIH
15 3 (0.73%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.38%) QA
2 17 (4.12%) NIST
3 12 (2.91%) GDPR
4 11 (2.66%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.66%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.18%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.48%) ECSS
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 173 (41.89%) Docker
2 22 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.21%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.21%) vSphere
6 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) NFS
7 1 (0.24%) Squid
Systems Management
1 188 (45.52%) Terraform
2 171 (41.40%) Kubernetes
3 95 (23.00%) Ansible
4 94 (22.76%) Grafana
5 85 (20.58%) Prometheus
6 34 (8.23%) HP Fortify
7 10 (2.42%) Kibana
7 10 (2.42%) Nagios
8 9 (2.18%) Puppet
9 8 (1.94%) Argo
9 8 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.21%) logstash
10 5 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.21%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.97%) WSUS
12 3 (0.73%) Istio
12 3 (0.73%) Rancher
12 3 (0.73%) VxRail
13 2 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 76 (18.40%) Splunk
2 41 (9.93%) Salesforce
3 37 (8.96%) Oracle
4 31 (7.51%) Microsoft
5 30 (7.26%) Red Hat
6 22 (5.33%) Atlassian
7 21 (5.08%) VMware
8 13 (3.15%) Cisco
9 9 (2.18%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.94%) Google
11 7 (1.69%) Juniper
12 6 (1.45%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.45%) SAP
13 5 (1.21%) F5
14 4 (0.97%) AppDynamics
14 4 (0.97%) Dell
14 4 (0.97%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.97%) Rapid7
15 3 (0.73%) BeyondTrust
15 3 (0.73%) Tenable