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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 271 319
Rank change year-on-year -72 +48 +21
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 592 528 653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.07% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.77% 14.01% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 353 172 299
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,625 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +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 4,635 3,770 6,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.64% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,919 2,245 3,865
10th Percentile £36,975 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,600 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -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 17 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 17 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 -55 545 £69,310 -10.57% 841
UK excluding London -113 375 £65,576 -6.32% 486
London +3 180 £90,000 +5.88% 413
North of England -53 153 £69,310 +2.68% 143
Work from Home -180 121 £67,500 -15.63% 391
South East +2 77 £65,000 -13.33% 75
South West -28 77 £72,500 +7.41% 101
North West -91 54 £69,310 +15.52% 76
North East -19 51 £55,000 -18.52% 30
Yorkshire -11 48 £77,500 +3.33% 38
Midlands -80 38 £60,000 -14.29% 48
West Midlands -43 25 £56,250 -30.77% 40
Scotland -45 14 £110,000 +26.07% 49
East Midlands -73 13 £60,000 -1.64% 8
Wales -66 10 £55,000 -8.33% 8
East of England -53 8 £60,000 -7.69% 50
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 13

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 (5.07%) Apache
2 25 (4.22%) Confluence
3 23 (3.89%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (3.38%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.70%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.51%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 386 (65.20%) AWS
2 209 (35.30%) Azure
3 138 (23.31%) GitHub
4 114 (19.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 83 (14.02%) Amazon S3
6 79 (13.34%) Serverless
7 78 (13.18%) Azure DevOps
7 78 (13.18%) GCP
8 74 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
9 63 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (9.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 53 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (8.28%) Amazon ECR
13 44 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (6.76%) Azure AKS
16 35 (5.91%) OpenShift
17 28 (4.73%) AWS Step Functions
18 23 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
19 22 (3.72%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.55%) DNS
2 18 (3.04%) Broadband
2 18 (3.04%) Firewall
3 11 (1.86%) HTTP
3 11 (1.86%) MQTT
3 11 (1.86%) Network Security
4 10 (1.69%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.35%) DHCP
5 8 (1.35%) IPv4
5 8 (1.35%) LAN
5 8 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (1.18%) VPN
6 7 (1.18%) WAN
7 6 (1.01%) BGP
7 6 (1.01%) NX-OS
7 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.01%) Wireless
7 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
8 4 (0.68%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.51%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (13.51%) NoSQL
2 62 (10.47%) MongoDB
3 61 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (8.11%) DynamoDB
5 41 (6.93%) MySQL
6 31 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.36%) Pinecone
10 14 (2.36%) Redis
11 13 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.86%) Big Data
13 9 (1.52%) Chroma
14 8 (1.35%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.18%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
16 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
17 5 (0.84%) DocumentDB
17 5 (0.84%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 259 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 198 (33.45%) Git
3 74 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 68 (11.49%) JIRA
5 61 (10.30%) SonarQube
6 58 (9.80%) Cypress.io
7 41 (6.93%) Selenium
8 34 (5.74%) Postman
9 29 (4.90%) JUnit
10 28 (4.73%) Maven
11 23 (3.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 20 (3.38%) JMeter
13 15 (2.53%) Gatling
13 15 (2.53%) REST Assured
13 15 (2.53%) Vite
14 14 (2.36%) Spock
14 14 (2.36%) Visual Studio Code
15 13 (2.20%) Bitbucket
16 12 (2.03%) Robot Framework
17 10 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 152 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 133 (22.47%) Finance
3 96 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.63%) Banking
5 47 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.87%) Aerospace
7 17 (2.87%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.70%) Marketing
9 14 (2.36%) Law
9 14 (2.36%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.69%) Electronics
11 8 (1.35%) Legal
12 7 (1.18%) Games
12 7 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Automotive
14 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Military
15 3 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (25.51%) Senior
2 133 (22.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 88 (14.86%) Developer
4 65 (10.98%) Software Engineer
5 51 (8.61%) Java Engineer
6 50 (8.45%) Lead
6 50 (8.45%) Principal Engineer
7 38 (6.42%) Senior DevOps
7 38 (6.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 37 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 37 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 31 (5.24%) Test Engineer
10 30 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.90%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 28 (4.73%) Java Developer
13 27 (4.56%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (4.05%) Senior Developer
16 23 (3.89%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (48.48%) Terraform
2 90 (15.20%) Spring
2 90 (15.20%) Spring Boot
3 85 (14.36%) Kafka
4 70 (11.82%) React
5 64 (10.81%) AngularJS
6 63 (10.64%) Node.js
7 62 (10.47%) RESTful
8 60 (10.14%) REST
9 44 (7.43%) Playwright
10 42 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
11 36 (6.08%) Jest
12 34 (5.74%) .NET
13 28 (4.73%) Gherkin
14 27 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
15 26 (4.39%) Vue
16 25 (4.22%) LangChain
17 22 (3.72%) FastAPI
17 22 (3.72%) Next.js
18 21 (3.55%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 188 (31.76%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.02%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (9.12%) Product Ownership
4 47 (7.94%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.76%) e-Learning
6 38 (6.42%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (4.39%) Private Cloud
8 21 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (3.04%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.87%) Algorithms
11 13 (2.20%) Virtual Team
12 12 (2.03%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.69%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.52%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.18%) Blockchain
15 7 (1.18%) IoT
15 7 (1.18%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 176 (29.73%) Linux
2 60 (10.14%) Windows
3 41 (6.93%) CentOS
4 33 (5.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.05%) Unix
6 18 (3.04%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.69%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) VMS
9 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Debian
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (90.71%) CI/CD
2 393 (66.39%) DevOps
3 338 (57.09%) Agile
4 293 (49.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 235 (39.70%) Test Automation
6 191 (32.26%) Microservices
7 170 (28.72%) Containerisation
8 144 (24.32%) Software Engineering
9 143 (24.16%) Mentoring
10 119 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 114 (19.26%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (18.75%) AI
13 107 (18.07%) Observability
14 104 (17.57%) Scrum
15 102 (17.23%) SDLC
16 93 (15.71%) Full-Stack Development
17 91 (15.37%) Coaching
18 78 (13.18%) Platform Engineering
19 77 (13.01%) Continuous Integration
20 76 (12.84%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 278 (46.96%) Python
2 209 (35.30%) Java
3 152 (25.68%) Bash
4 126 (21.28%) SQL
5 100 (16.89%) JavaScript
5 100 (16.89%) TypeScript
6 76 (12.84%) PowerShell
7 39 (6.59%) Go
8 38 (6.42%) Groovy
9 36 (6.08%) C++
10 35 (5.91%) C#
11 20 (3.38%) Rust
12 13 (2.20%) PHP
13 11 (1.86%) C
14 10 (1.69%) Apex Code
14 10 (1.69%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.52%) Perl
16 8 (1.35%) SOQL
16 8 (1.35%) SOSL
17 7 (1.18%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 243 (41.05%) Security Cleared
2 158 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 82 (13.85%) Degree
4 76 (12.84%) AWS Certification
5 55 (9.29%) DV Cleared
6 45 (7.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.89%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (3.89%) Master's Degree
9 17 (2.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.87%) ISTQB
10 15 (2.53%) CCNA
10 15 (2.53%) RHCSA
11 14 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.52%) OSCP
13 8 (1.35%) RHCE
14 7 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (1.01%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (15.88%) QA
2 31 (5.24%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.21%) WCAG
5 12 (2.03%) GDPR
6 9 (1.52%) SLA
7 8 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.01%) JTAG
9 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.68%) NIST
10 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) 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
1 292 (49.32%) Docker
2 27 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.36%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.36%) vSphere
5 8 (1.35%) Squid
5 8 (1.35%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Firmware
7 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 258 (43.58%) Kubernetes
2 146 (24.66%) Ansible
3 86 (14.53%) Grafana
4 62 (10.47%) Prometheus
5 42 (7.09%) Argo
6 22 (3.72%) HP Fortify
6 22 (3.72%) Puppet
7 21 (3.55%) Kibana
7 21 (3.55%) Nagios
8 17 (2.87%) logstash
9 14 (2.36%) Packer
10 10 (1.69%) Progress Chef
11 9 (1.52%) Podman
12 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.18%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.01%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
16 3 (0.51%) Istio
16 3 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 62 (10.47%) Splunk
2 52 (8.78%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.76%) Red Hat
4 37 (6.25%) VMware
5 21 (3.55%) Oracle
6 20 (3.38%) AppDynamics
7 19 (3.21%) Google
8 17 (2.87%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.53%) Mistral
10 14 (2.36%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.36%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.69%) Databricks
11 10 (1.69%) Rapid7
12 9 (1.52%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.52%) SAP
13 7 (1.18%) Cisco
13 7 (1.18%) NVIDIA
13 7 (1.18%) OneLogin
13 7 (1.18%) Pega
13 7 (1.18%) Veracode