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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 268 366
Rank change year-on-year -53 +98 -47
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 543 545 786
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.21% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.82% 13.26% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 331 163 548
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,250 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,125 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £89,074 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% +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 4,235 4,110 9,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 9.16% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,801 2,599 6,485
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £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 20 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 20 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 -60 478 £70,000 -9.68% 125
UK excluding London -77 323 £65,000 -3.04% 107
London +13 182 £83,375 -1.91% 39
Work from Home -119 153 £67,500 -5.59% 55
North of England -57 118 £65,576 -2.18% 30
South East +50 93 £65,000 +23.81% 25
Yorkshire +5 60 £69,310 -2.38% 5
South West -49 54 £65,000 +6.12% 20
North West -78 38 £65,000 -3.04% 15
Scotland -22 36 £102,500 +13.89% 3
North East -32 20 £55,000 - 10
Midlands -86 17 £53,750 -23.21% 12
West Midlands -42 12 £57,500 -17.86% 9
East Midlands -71 5 £39,194 -40.84% 3
East of England -32 4 - - 13
Wales -44 3 £51,250 +57.69% 1
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 26 (4.79%) Apache
2 25 (4.60%) Confluence
3 15 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.84%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.55%) IIS
6 3 (0.55%) JBoss
6 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 340 (62.62%) AWS
2 200 (36.83%) Azure
3 135 (24.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 104 (19.15%) Serverless
5 99 (18.23%) GitHub
6 86 (15.84%) AWS Lambda
7 84 (15.47%) Amazon S3
8 73 (13.44%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (13.26%) GCP
10 59 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (9.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 48 (8.84%) Amazon ECR
12 48 (8.84%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (8.84%) AWS Step Functions
13 44 (8.10%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (7.00%) Azure AKS
16 37 (6.81%) Apigee
16 37 (6.81%) OpenShift
17 36 (6.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (8.29%) Broadband
2 30 (5.52%) Firewall
3 18 (3.31%) DNS
4 12 (2.21%) DSL
4 12 (2.21%) LAN
4 12 (2.21%) MQTT
4 12 (2.21%) Software-Defined Networking
5 11 (2.03%) Network Security
6 10 (1.84%) WAN
7 9 (1.66%) HTTP
8 8 (1.47%) IPv4
9 7 (1.29%) BGP
9 7 (1.29%) VPN
10 6 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.10%) DHCP
10 6 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.92%) MPLS
12 4 (0.74%) VPLS
12 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.34%) NoSQL
2 60 (11.05%) DynamoDB
3 53 (9.76%) MongoDB
4 46 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (5.52%) MySQL
6 27 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.03%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.84%) Big Data
12 6 (1.10%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.92%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.92%) Redis
14 4 (0.74%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 2 (0.37%) CockroachDB
16 2 (0.37%) DocumentDB
16 2 (0.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 256 (47.15%) Jenkins
2 144 (26.52%) Git
3 94 (17.31%) SonarQube
4 54 (9.94%) Cypress.io
5 51 (9.39%) JIRA
6 47 (8.66%) Cucumber
7 33 (6.08%) Maven
8 28 (5.16%) CircleCI
8 28 (5.16%) Selenium
9 18 (3.31%) Bitbucket
10 16 (2.95%) Visual Studio Code
11 15 (2.76%) JUnit
12 14 (2.58%) REST Assured
13 13 (2.39%) Postman
14 12 (2.21%) Vite
15 10 (1.84%) Gatling
15 10 (1.84%) JMeter
16 9 (1.66%) Robot Framework
17 7 (1.29%) Artifactory
18 6 (1.10%) Spock
General
1 115 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 114 (20.99%) Finance
3 55 (10.13%) Banking
3 55 (10.13%) Public Sector
4 53 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (6.81%) Marketing
7 34 (6.26%) Games
8 16 (2.95%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.39%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.21%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.47%) Electronics
12 7 (1.29%) Advertising
12 7 (1.29%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.92%) Retail
14 4 (0.74%) Automotive
14 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (22.65%) Senior
2 101 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (16.57%) Developer
4 52 (9.58%) Architect
5 50 (9.21%) Software Engineer
6 44 (8.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 43 (7.92%) Lead
8 41 (7.55%) Java Developer
9 35 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
9 35 (6.45%) Salesforce Architect
10 32 (5.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (5.16%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (5.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 27 (4.97%) Java Engineer
12 27 (4.97%) Senior Developer
13 26 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
14 25 (4.60%) Security Engineer
15 23 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
15 23 (4.24%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.44%) Spring Boot
2 72 (13.26%) REST
3 69 (12.71%) Kafka
4 58 (10.68%) Spring
5 56 (10.31%) AngularJS
6 43 (7.92%) Node.js
7 42 (7.73%) React
7 42 (7.73%) RESTful
8 39 (7.18%) Elastic Stack
9 37 (6.81%) SOAP
10 36 (6.63%) Jest
10 36 (6.63%) Lightning Web Components
11 35 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
11 35 (6.45%) Visualforce
12 32 (5.89%) Gherkin
13 24 (4.42%) JSON
13 24 (4.42%) Playwright
14 22 (4.05%) YAML
15 21 (3.87%) LangChain
16 20 (3.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 126 (23.20%) Cloud Native
2 67 (12.34%) Product Ownership
3 54 (9.94%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.97%) Public Cloud
5 25 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.87%) e-Learning
8 19 (3.50%) Data Centre
9 17 (3.13%) Algorithms
9 17 (3.13%) Blockchain
10 16 (2.95%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.95%) Web3
11 12 (2.21%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.66%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 140 (25.78%) Linux
2 62 (11.42%) Windows
3 25 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.42%) Unix
5 23 (4.24%) CentOS
6 15 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.74%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.37%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) Debian
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
12 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (88.77%) CI/CD
2 379 (69.80%) DevOps
3 285 (52.49%) Agile
4 266 (48.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 171 (31.49%) Containerisation
6 160 (29.47%) Microservices
7 148 (27.26%) Test Automation
8 133 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
9 107 (19.71%) Continuous Integration
9 107 (19.71%) Software Engineering
10 106 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (19.52%) Scrum
11 102 (18.78%) Observability
12 95 (17.50%) Mentoring
13 87 (16.02%) DevSecOps
14 82 (15.10%) Event-Driven
15 79 (14.55%) SDLC
16 76 (14.00%) Continuous Delivery
17 69 (12.71%) AI
18 60 (11.05%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 267 (49.17%) Python
2 165 (30.39%) Java
3 150 (27.62%) Bash
4 87 (16.02%) SQL
5 74 (13.63%) TypeScript
6 73 (13.44%) JavaScript
7 63 (11.60%) PowerShell
8 53 (9.76%) Go
9 42 (7.73%) Groovy
10 36 (6.63%) Apex Code
11 35 (6.45%) C#
11 35 (6.45%) SOQL
11 35 (6.45%) SOSL
12 32 (5.89%) Rust
13 27 (4.97%) C++
14 8 (1.47%) Perl
15 7 (1.29%) PHP
16 6 (1.10%) Bicep
16 6 (1.10%) C
16 6 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 182 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 102 (18.78%) SC Cleared
3 76 (14.00%) Degree
4 65 (11.97%) AWS Certification
5 31 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 26 (4.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (4.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (4.24%) OSCP
8 22 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.87%) Master's Degree
10 18 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.95%) ISTQB
12 14 (2.58%) CCNA
12 14 (2.58%) RHCSA
13 12 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.47%) RHCE
16 5 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.42%) QA
2 19 (3.50%) Accessibility
2 19 (3.50%) GDPR
3 15 (2.76%) NIST
4 13 (2.39%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.39%) SOC 2
5 11 (2.03%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.29%) WCAG
7 6 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.74%) JTAG
10 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 243 (44.75%) Docker
2 30 (5.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.05%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.39%) vSphere
5 12 (2.21%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.47%) Squid
8 7 (1.29%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 279 (51.38%) Terraform
2 241 (44.38%) Kubernetes
3 133 (24.49%) Ansible
4 90 (16.57%) Grafana
5 81 (14.92%) Prometheus
6 33 (6.08%) Argo
7 31 (5.71%) HP Fortify
8 23 (4.24%) Nagios
9 18 (3.31%) Kibana
10 14 (2.58%) logstash
10 14 (2.58%) Puppet
11 13 (2.39%) Packer
12 9 (1.66%) Podman
13 8 (1.47%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.47%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.10%) VxRail
16 4 (0.74%) WSUS
17 3 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (16.02%) Splunk
2 49 (9.02%) Red Hat
3 41 (7.55%) VMware
4 38 (7.00%) Microsoft
5 36 (6.63%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.95%) Oracle
7 14 (2.58%) Cisco
7 14 (2.58%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.39%) AppDynamics
9 12 (2.21%) Atlassian
9 12 (2.21%) Dynatrace
10 11 (2.03%) Google
11 8 (1.47%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.47%) Tenable
12 7 (1.29%) IBM
12 7 (1.29%) Juniper
13 6 (1.10%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (1.10%) F5
13 6 (1.10%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.10%) ServiceNow