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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 329 310
Rank change year-on-year -52 -19 -27
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 296 526 489
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.83% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.19% 8.67% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 194 246 361
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,125 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £53,750
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 £102,500 £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 3,615 6,064 6,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.58% 9.56% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,331 3,493 5,255
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £42,253
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 £93,750 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.98% +6.36%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -49 253 £75,000 +7.14% 503
UK excluding London +1 162 £70,000 +7.69% 482
Work from Home -17 112 £77,500 +14.81% 165
London -37 100 £85,000 - 82
North of England +62 69 £70,000 +13.85% 120
North West +53 36 £65,000 - 57
Yorkshire +18 27 £78,750 +35.86% 47
South West -18 23 £70,000 +16.67% 78
South East -28 21 £77,500 +7.64% 128
Midlands +20 18 £67,500 +5.88% 75
Scotland +24 16 - - 19
East of England +27 14 £67,500 - 58
West Midlands +16 11 £68,750 +14.58% 42
East Midlands +19 7 £55,200 -21.14% 29
North East +17 6 £65,000 +12.14% 16
Wales +9 3 £57,600 -38.40% 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 18 (6.08%) Confluence
2 9 (3.04%) Apache
3 6 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.03%) nginx
4 5 (1.69%) IIS
4 5 (1.69%) 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
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 175 (59.12%) AWS
2 116 (39.19%) Azure
3 61 (20.61%) GitHub
4 55 (18.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 47 (15.88%) GCP
6 45 (15.20%) Serverless
7 37 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (10.47%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (10.47%) OpenShift
10 30 (10.14%) Amazon ECS
10 30 (10.14%) Amazon S3
11 27 (9.12%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (4.39%) Datadog
15 11 (3.72%) Amazon ECR
16 10 (3.38%) AWS Step Functions
17 9 (3.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.41%) Broadband
1 16 (5.41%) DNS
2 9 (3.04%) Firewall
3 5 (1.69%) Network Security
3 5 (1.69%) VPN
3 5 (1.69%) WAN
4 4 (1.35%) VSAN
5 3 (1.01%) Skype
5 3 (1.01%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (1.01%) VLAN
6 2 (0.68%) BGP
6 2 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.68%) HTTP
6 2 (0.68%) LAN
6 2 (0.68%) OSPF
6 2 (0.68%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.14%) MongoDB
3 26 (8.78%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (7.43%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (5.07%) DynamoDB
6 15 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (3.04%) Power BI
8 8 (2.70%) MySQL
8 8 (2.70%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.69%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.68%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.68%) Metadata
12 2 (0.68%) Redis
12 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 161 (54.39%) Jenkins
2 64 (21.62%) Git
3 41 (13.85%) SonarQube
4 33 (11.15%) JIRA
5 29 (9.80%) Cucumber
6 27 (9.12%) Bitbucket
7 25 (8.45%) Selenium
8 18 (6.08%) JUnit
8 18 (6.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (5.74%) Cypress.io
10 14 (4.73%) Maven
11 12 (4.05%) CircleCI
12 11 (3.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (3.72%) Postman
13 10 (3.38%) JMeter
14 9 (3.04%) Subversion
15 7 (2.36%) Artifactory
15 7 (2.36%) Gatling
15 7 (2.36%) TeamCity
16 4 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 79 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 70 (23.65%) Finance
3 44 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (7.43%) Banking
6 21 (7.09%) Games
7 20 (6.76%) Marketing
8 18 (6.08%) Telecoms
9 15 (5.07%) Manufacturing
10 13 (4.39%) Public Sector
11 12 (4.05%) Aerospace
12 10 (3.38%) Advertising
13 7 (2.36%) Retail
14 6 (2.03%) Electronics
14 6 (2.03%) Financial Institution
14 6 (2.03%) Investment Banking
14 6 (2.03%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.35%) Automotive
15 4 (1.35%) Aviation
16 3 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (17.23%) Lead
3 40 (13.51%) Developer
4 38 (12.84%) Senior
5 29 (9.80%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (7.77%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.09%) Architect
8 15 (5.07%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.73%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (4.73%) Salesforce Architect
10 12 (4.05%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (3.72%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.38%) Backend Developer
12 10 (3.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.84%) Spring Boot
2 36 (12.16%) REST
2 36 (12.16%) Spring
3 33 (11.15%) Elastic Stack
4 25 (8.45%) React
5 22 (7.43%) AngularJS
6 21 (7.09%) Node.js
7 18 (6.08%) Kafka
8 17 (5.74%) SOAP
9 16 (5.41%) Lightning Web Components
9 16 (5.41%) Visualforce
10 14 (4.73%) .NET
11 11 (3.72%) FastAPI
11 11 (3.72%) Gherkin
11 11 (3.72%) Playwright
12 10 (3.38%) Django
12 10 (3.38%) Jest
12 10 (3.38%) pytest
13 9 (3.04%) CSS
13 9 (3.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.88%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.46%) Product Ownership
3 16 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.05%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.38%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.04%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.35%) IoT
9 4 (1.35%) PKI
10 3 (1.01%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.01%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.01%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.01%) Verilog
10 3 (1.01%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 89 (30.07%) Linux
2 28 (9.46%) Windows
3 18 (6.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.72%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.38%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.70%) Unix
7 7 (2.36%) Debian
8 5 (1.69%) CentOS
8 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) Android
9 1 (0.34%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (77.03%) CI/CD
2 196 (66.22%) DevOps
3 133 (44.93%) Agile
4 122 (41.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 91 (30.74%) Containerisation
6 77 (26.01%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (17.57%) Scrum
9 49 (16.55%) Microservices
10 48 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 48 (16.22%) Software Engineering
11 47 (15.88%) Continuous Integration
11 47 (15.88%) Test Automation
12 43 (14.53%) Mentoring
12 43 (14.53%) Observability
13 38 (12.84%) Platform Engineering
14 32 (10.81%) Configuration Management
15 31 (10.47%) Event-Driven
16 30 (10.14%) Incident Response
16 30 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 147 (49.66%) Python
2 84 (28.38%) Java
3 74 (25.00%) Bash
4 52 (17.57%) SQL
5 45 (15.20%) TypeScript
6 44 (14.86%) PowerShell
7 41 (13.85%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.74%) Go
9 16 (5.41%) Apex Code
9 16 (5.41%) C#
10 15 (5.07%) SOQL
10 15 (5.07%) SOSL
11 13 (4.39%) C++
12 12 (4.05%) C
13 11 (3.72%) Groovy
14 8 (2.70%) Delphi
15 7 (2.36%) Bicep
16 6 (2.03%) ANSI SQL
16 6 (2.03%) Shell Script
17 3 (1.01%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 56 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.12%) DV Cleared
3 26 (8.78%) AWS Certification
4 24 (8.11%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.43%) Degree
6 15 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.70%) ISTQB
10 7 (2.36%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.69%) CCNA
11 5 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.68%) CCNP
15 1 (0.34%) CISM
15 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.51%) 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 (0.68%) ECSS
4 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 114 (38.51%) Docker
2 18 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.41%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.35%) Firmware
4 4 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.35%) vSphere
5 3 (1.01%) vCloud
6 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.68%) NFS
6 2 (0.68%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Squid
7 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 131 (44.26%) Kubernetes
2 111 (37.50%) Terraform
3 80 (27.03%) Ansible
4 75 (25.34%) Grafana
5 64 (21.62%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.38%) Kibana
7 9 (3.04%) HP Fortify
8 7 (2.36%) Puppet
9 6 (2.03%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.69%) Argo
10 5 (1.69%) Rancher
11 4 (1.35%) vRealize
12 3 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.01%) Rundeck
12 3 (1.01%) SCOM
12 3 (1.01%) WSUS
13 2 (0.68%) logstash
13 2 (0.68%) Nagios
13 2 (0.68%) Nessus
Vendors
1 38 (12.84%) Oracle
2 35 (11.82%) Splunk
3 27 (9.12%) Microsoft
4 24 (8.11%) Atlassian
4 24 (8.11%) VMware
5 16 (5.41%) Salesforce
6 14 (4.73%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.03%) AppDynamics
7 6 (2.03%) SAP
8 5 (1.69%) Sonatype
9 4 (1.35%) Cribl.io
9 4 (1.35%) Google
10 3 (1.01%) Cisco
10 3 (1.01%) Databricks
10 3 (1.01%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.01%) HP
11 2 (0.68%) New Relic
11 2 (0.68%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.68%) Ubiquiti