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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 277 314
Rank change year-on-year -65 +37 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 598 529 656
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.06% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.90% 13.95% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 360 174 309
10th Percentile £47,375 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% +8.93% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £111,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 4,634 3,791 6,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.10% 7.63% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,987 2,281 3,947
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -55 547 £69,310 -10.57% 521
UK excluding London -112 377 £65,000 -7.14% 292
London -4 183 £90,000 +5.88% 288
North of England -57 148 £68,076 -0.98% 80
Work from Home -172 133 £66,538 -16.83% 256
South East +36 81 £62,500 -16.67% 53
South West -35 76 £72,500 +7.41% 61
North West -78 55 £69,310 +15.52% 43
North East -14 50 £55,000 -18.52% 13
Yorkshire -21 43 £73,750 -1.67% 24
Midlands -78 40 £60,000 -14.29% 28
West Midlands -35 27 £62,500 -23.08% 22
Scotland -34 19 £110,000 +26.07% 31
East Midlands -55 13 £60,000 -1.64% 6
Wales -70 8 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East of England -50 7 £60,000 +9.09% 29
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 30 (5.02%) Apache
2 25 (4.18%) Confluence
3 22 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.51%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.68%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 380 (63.55%) AWS
2 218 (36.45%) Azure
3 134 (22.41%) GitHub
4 113 (18.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 81 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (13.21%) GCP
7 76 (12.71%) Amazon S3
8 74 (12.37%) Serverless
9 69 (11.54%) GitHub Actions
10 57 (9.53%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (8.86%) Amazon ECS
12 52 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 49 (8.19%) Amazon ECR
14 43 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
15 39 (6.52%) Azure AKS
15 39 (6.52%) OpenShift
16 38 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (4.52%) AWS Step Functions
18 23 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
18 23 (3.85%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.85%) Broadband
2 22 (3.68%) Firewall
3 19 (3.18%) DNS
4 13 (2.17%) Network Security
5 12 (2.01%) HTTP
6 11 (1.84%) MQTT
7 9 (1.51%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.34%) IPv4
8 8 (1.34%) LAN
8 8 (1.34%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (1.17%) WAN
10 6 (1.00%) DHCP
10 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.00%) Wireless
10 6 (1.00%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.84%) BGP
11 5 (0.84%) NX-OS
11 5 (0.84%) VPN
12 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
13 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.88%) NoSQL
2 61 (10.20%) MongoDB
3 59 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 41 (6.86%) MySQL
6 32 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.34%) Redis
10 13 (2.17%) Pinecone
11 12 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.84%) Big Data
13 8 (1.34%) Chroma
13 8 (1.34%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.17%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.17%) InfluxDB
14 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
15 5 (0.84%) DocumentDB
16 4 (0.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 262 (43.81%) Jenkins
2 199 (33.28%) Git
3 73 (12.21%) Cucumber
4 67 (11.20%) SonarQube
5 62 (10.37%) JIRA
6 58 (9.70%) Cypress.io
7 47 (7.86%) Selenium
8 32 (5.35%) Postman
9 30 (5.02%) JUnit
10 27 (4.52%) Maven
11 23 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 20 (3.34%) JMeter
12 20 (3.34%) REST Assured
13 19 (3.18%) Gatling
14 15 (2.51%) Bitbucket
15 14 (2.34%) Spock
15 14 (2.34%) Visual Studio Code
16 13 (2.17%) Vite
17 12 (2.01%) Robot Framework
18 11 (1.84%) CircleCI
General
1 155 (25.92%) Social Skills
2 136 (22.74%) Finance
3 99 (16.56%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.03%) Banking
5 49 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (8.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.34%) Marketing
8 16 (2.68%) Aerospace
8 16 (2.68%) Financial Institution
9 14 (2.34%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.01%) Games
10 12 (2.01%) Law
11 11 (1.84%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.67%) Electronics
13 7 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.17%) Legal
14 5 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.67%) Automotive
15 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 158 (26.42%) Senior
2 134 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 88 (14.72%) Developer
4 64 (10.70%) Software Engineer
5 51 (8.53%) Lead
6 49 (8.19%) Principal Engineer
7 48 (8.03%) Java Engineer
8 41 (6.86%) Senior DevOps
8 41 (6.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 35 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 31 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (4.85%) Test Engineer
14 28 (4.68%) Full-Stack Developer
14 28 (4.68%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
15 26 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
16 24 (4.01%) Senior Developer
17 22 (3.68%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (48.16%) Terraform
2 89 (14.88%) Spring
3 88 (14.72%) Spring Boot
4 85 (14.21%) Kafka
5 68 (11.37%) React
6 66 (11.04%) REST
7 63 (10.54%) AngularJS
8 62 (10.37%) Node.js
9 57 (9.53%) RESTful
10 45 (7.53%) Playwright
11 44 (7.36%) Elastic Stack
12 35 (5.85%) Jest
13 32 (5.35%) .NET
14 29 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
15 24 (4.01%) LangChain
15 24 (4.01%) Vue
16 22 (3.68%) CSS
16 22 (3.68%) Gherkin
17 21 (3.51%) JSON
17 21 (3.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 183 (30.60%) Cloud Native
2 82 (13.71%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (9.53%) Product Ownership
4 44 (7.36%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.69%) Enterprise Software
6 38 (6.35%) e-Learning
7 26 (4.35%) Private Cloud
8 23 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.84%) Algorithms
9 17 (2.84%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.17%) Data Structures
10 13 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.67%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
12 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (1.34%) Blockchain
13 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.17%) IoT
14 7 (1.17%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 176 (29.43%) Linux
2 62 (10.37%) Windows
3 43 (7.19%) CentOS
4 33 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.01%) Unix
6 18 (3.01%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Kali Linux
8 5 (0.84%) VMS
9 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Debian
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.33%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (91.14%) CI/CD
2 400 (66.89%) DevOps
3 333 (55.69%) Agile
4 291 (48.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 232 (38.80%) Test Automation
6 191 (31.94%) Microservices
7 176 (29.43%) Containerisation
8 145 (24.25%) Mentoring
9 141 (23.58%) Software Engineering
10 125 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 111 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
12 107 (17.89%) AI
13 104 (17.39%) Scrum
14 103 (17.22%) Observability
15 96 (16.05%) SDLC
16 91 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
17 90 (15.05%) Coaching
18 81 (13.55%) Platform Engineering
19 80 (13.38%) Continuous Integration
20 79 (13.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 275 (45.99%) Python
2 209 (34.95%) Java
3 152 (25.42%) Bash
4 120 (20.07%) SQL
5 99 (16.56%) JavaScript
6 91 (15.22%) TypeScript
7 73 (12.21%) PowerShell
8 38 (6.35%) Go
9 36 (6.02%) Groovy
10 35 (5.85%) C++
11 34 (5.69%) C#
12 19 (3.18%) Rust
13 15 (2.51%) Apex Code
14 13 (2.17%) SOQL
14 13 (2.17%) SOSL
15 12 (2.01%) PHP
16 11 (1.84%) C
17 9 (1.51%) Perl
17 9 (1.51%) Shell Script
18 8 (1.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 236 (39.46%) Security Cleared
2 151 (25.25%) SC Cleared
3 81 (13.55%) Degree
4 73 (12.21%) AWS Certification
5 52 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 43 (7.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.85%) Master's Degree
9 22 (3.68%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (3.01%) ISTQB
11 17 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (2.51%) RHCSA
14 14 (2.34%) CCNA
15 13 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (1.67%) OSCP
17 8 (1.34%) RHCE
18 7 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 7 (1.17%) Oracle Certification
19 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.89%) QA
2 34 (5.69%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.34%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.18%) WCAG
5 15 (2.51%) GDPR
6 10 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.67%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.34%) SLA
8 6 (1.00%) JTAG
9 5 (0.84%) NIST
9 5 (0.84%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 288 (48.16%) Docker
2 27 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (2.51%) Active Directory
5 13 (2.17%) vSphere
6 8 (1.34%) Squid
6 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.84%) Firmware
8 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 259 (43.31%) Kubernetes
2 151 (25.25%) Ansible
3 88 (14.72%) Grafana
4 61 (10.20%) Prometheus
5 39 (6.52%) Argo
6 22 (3.68%) HP Fortify
6 22 (3.68%) Nagios
6 22 (3.68%) Puppet
7 21 (3.51%) Kibana
8 18 (3.01%) logstash
9 14 (2.34%) Packer
10 10 (1.67%) Progress Chef
11 9 (1.51%) Podman
12 8 (1.34%) vCenter Server
12 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.84%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.50%) Istio
15 3 (0.50%) linkerd
15 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (11.37%) Splunk
2 52 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 47 (7.86%) Red Hat
4 36 (6.02%) VMware
5 21 (3.51%) AppDynamics
5 21 (3.51%) Oracle
6 19 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 18 (3.01%) Google
8 16 (2.68%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.51%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.34%) Mistral
11 11 (1.84%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.84%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.67%) Cisco
12 10 (1.67%) Databricks
13 9 (1.51%) SAP
14 7 (1.17%) Intel
14 7 (1.17%) NVIDIA
14 7 (1.17%) Pega
14 7 (1.17%) Veracode