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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 332 313
Rank change year-on-year -46 -19 -35
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 293 522 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.80% 0.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.27% 8.62% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 192 245 367
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £64,688 £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 £86,565 £84,250 £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 3,544 6,056 6,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.54% 9.34% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,272 3,485 5,368
10th Percentile £29,075 £37,500 £42,255
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 £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +7.27%

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 1 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 1 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 -48 251 £75,000 +7.14% 188
UK excluding London -19 160 £70,000 +7.69% 174
Work from Home -14 111 £77,500 +14.81% 114
London -43 100 £85,000 - 50
North of England +45 67 £70,000 +13.85% 44
North West +51 36 £65,000 - 24
Yorkshire +15 25 £77,500 +33.70% 12
South West -17 24 £70,000 +16.67% 40
South East -25 21 £77,500 +9.15% 64
Midlands +20 17 £65,000 +1.96% 13
Scotland +11 16 - - 6
East of England +31 14 £67,500 +8.00% 11
West Midlands +24 10 £70,000 +16.67% 13
East Midlands +24 7 £55,200 -21.14%
North East +15 6 £65,000 +12.14% 8
Wales +10 3 £57,600 -38.40% 4

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 (6.14%) Confluence
2 9 (3.07%) Apache
3 6 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.05%) nginx
4 5 (1.71%) IIS
4 5 (1.71%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.37%) Camunda
5 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.02%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Simulink
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 172 (58.70%) AWS
2 115 (39.25%) Azure
3 60 (20.48%) GitHub
4 52 (17.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (15.70%) GCP
6 41 (13.99%) Serverless
7 36 (12.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 36 (12.29%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (11.26%) AWS Lambda
9 31 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (10.58%) OpenShift
10 29 (9.90%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (9.22%) Amazon S3
12 26 (8.87%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (5.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (4.10%) Datadog
16 9 (3.07%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (3.07%) Power Platform
17 8 (2.73%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.46%) Broadband
1 16 (5.46%) DNS
2 9 (3.07%) Firewall
3 5 (1.71%) Network Security
3 5 (1.71%) VPN
3 5 (1.71%) WAN
4 4 (1.37%) Software-Defined Radio
4 4 (1.37%) VSAN
5 3 (1.02%) Skype
5 3 (1.02%) VLAN
6 2 (0.68%) BGP
6 2 (0.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (0.68%) HTTP
6 2 (0.68%) LAN
6 2 (0.68%) MQTT
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 (10.92%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.24%) MongoDB
3 25 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.17%) NoSQL
5 15 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (5.12%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (4.10%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.07%) Power BI
8 8 (2.73%) MySQL
8 8 (2.73%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.71%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.02%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.68%) Metadata
12 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.34%) Redis
13 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 159 (54.27%) Jenkins
2 63 (21.50%) Git
3 39 (13.31%) SonarQube
4 32 (10.92%) JIRA
5 28 (9.56%) Cucumber
6 27 (9.22%) Bitbucket
7 25 (8.53%) Selenium
8 18 (6.14%) JUnit
8 18 (6.14%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (4.78%) Cypress.io
10 12 (4.10%) Maven
11 11 (3.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 11 (3.75%) CircleCI
12 10 (3.41%) JMeter
12 10 (3.41%) Postman
13 9 (3.07%) Subversion
14 7 (2.39%) Artifactory
14 7 (2.39%) Gatling
14 7 (2.39%) TeamCity
15 4 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 78 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 70 (23.89%) Finance
3 45 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.17%) Banking
5 21 (7.17%) Games
5 21 (7.17%) Marketing
6 18 (6.14%) Telecoms
7 16 (5.46%) Manufacturing
8 13 (4.44%) Aerospace
8 13 (4.44%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.41%) Advertising
10 7 (2.39%) Electronics
10 7 (2.39%) Retail
11 6 (2.05%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.05%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.71%) Automotive
13 4 (1.37%) Aviation
13 4 (1.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (19.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (16.72%) Lead
3 38 (12.97%) Developer
3 38 (12.97%) Senior
4 29 (9.90%) Platform Engineer
5 23 (7.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (7.51%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.17%) Architect
8 15 (5.12%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.78%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (4.78%) Salesforce Architect
10 12 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
11 11 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.75%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (3.75%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.41%) Backend Developer
12 10 (3.41%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.29%) REST
1 36 (12.29%) Spring Boot
2 35 (11.95%) Spring
3 33 (11.26%) Elastic Stack
4 24 (8.19%) React
5 20 (6.83%) AngularJS
5 20 (6.83%) Node.js
6 17 (5.80%) Kafka
6 17 (5.80%) SOAP
7 16 (5.46%) Lightning Web Components
7 16 (5.46%) Visualforce
8 14 (4.78%) .NET
9 11 (3.75%) FastAPI
9 11 (3.75%) Playwright
10 10 (3.41%) Django
10 10 (3.41%) pytest
11 9 (3.07%) CSS
11 9 (3.07%) HTML
12 8 (2.73%) Flask
12 8 (2.73%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 45 (15.36%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.56%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 10 (3.41%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.07%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.37%) FPGA
9 4 (1.37%) IoT
9 4 (1.37%) PKI
9 4 (1.37%) Verilog
9 4 (1.37%) VHDL
10 3 (1.02%) e-Learning
10 3 (1.02%) Replication
10 3 (1.02%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 90 (30.72%) Linux
2 28 (9.56%) Windows
3 18 (6.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.75%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.41%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.73%) Unix
7 7 (2.39%) Debian
8 5 (1.71%) CentOS
8 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.68%) Android
10 1 (0.34%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (76.45%) CI/CD
2 191 (65.19%) DevOps
3 131 (44.71%) Agile
4 120 (40.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 90 (30.72%) Containerisation
6 75 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (21.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (17.41%) Scrum
9 49 (16.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 47 (16.04%) Continuous Integration
10 47 (16.04%) Software Engineering
11 46 (15.70%) Microservices
11 46 (15.70%) Test Automation
12 43 (14.68%) Mentoring
13 42 (14.33%) Observability
14 38 (12.97%) Platform Engineering
15 32 (10.92%) Configuration Management
16 30 (10.24%) Event-Driven
16 30 (10.24%) Incident Response
16 30 (10.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (50.51%) Python
2 81 (27.65%) Java
3 72 (24.57%) Bash
4 52 (17.75%) SQL
5 44 (15.02%) PowerShell
6 42 (14.33%) TypeScript
7 40 (13.65%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.46%) Apex Code
8 16 (5.46%) C#
8 16 (5.46%) Go
9 15 (5.12%) SOQL
9 15 (5.12%) SOSL
10 13 (4.44%) C++
11 12 (4.10%) C
12 9 (3.07%) Groovy
13 8 (2.73%) Delphi
14 7 (2.39%) Bicep
15 6 (2.05%) ANSI SQL
15 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
16 3 (1.02%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 57 (19.45%) Security Cleared
2 27 (9.22%) DV Cleared
3 25 (8.53%) AWS Certification
4 24 (8.19%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.51%) Degree
6 15 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.73%) ISTQB
10 7 (2.39%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.71%) CCNA
11 5 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.68%) CCNP
14 1 (0.34%) CISSP
14 1 (0.34%) ISEB
14 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (12.97%) QA
2 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.37%) GDPR
3 3 (1.02%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.02%) 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
1 111 (37.88%) Docker
2 18 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.46%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.37%) Firmware
4 4 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.37%) vSphere
5 3 (1.02%) 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
1 130 (44.37%) Kubernetes
2 111 (37.88%) Terraform
3 80 (27.30%) Ansible
4 75 (25.60%) Grafana
5 63 (21.50%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.41%) Kibana
7 7 (2.39%) HP Fortify
7 7 (2.39%) Puppet
8 6 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.71%) Argo
9 5 (1.71%) Rancher
10 4 (1.37%) vRealize
11 3 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.02%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.02%) SCOM
11 3 (1.02%) WSUS
12 2 (0.68%) logstash
12 2 (0.68%) Nessus
12 2 (0.68%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 38 (12.97%) Oracle
2 36 (12.29%) Splunk
3 27 (9.22%) Microsoft
4 24 (8.19%) Atlassian
4 24 (8.19%) VMware
5 16 (5.46%) Salesforce
6 14 (4.78%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.05%) AppDynamics
7 6 (2.05%) SAP
8 5 (1.71%) Sonatype
9 4 (1.37%) Cribl.io
9 4 (1.37%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.37%) Google
10 3 (1.02%) Cisco
10 3 (1.02%) Databricks
10 3 (1.02%) HP
11 2 (0.68%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.68%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.68%) Ubiquiti
11 2 (0.68%) YouTube