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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 266 348
Rank change year-on-year -62 +82 -16
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 593 567 629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.14% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.92% 14.16% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 363 197 347
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -

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 4,589 4,004 7,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.27% 8.02% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,970 2,474 4,498
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,745 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -52 535 £69,310 -7.59% 350
UK excluding London -85 374 £65,000 -7.14% 238
London -4 186 £87,500 +9.38% 151
Work from Home -152 143 £65,576 -15.39% 170
North of England -56 141 £67,500 +0.34% 70
South East +35 87 £62,500 -13.79% 46
South West -30 73 £72,500 +11.54% 49
Yorkshire +5 49 £72,500 -3.33% 12
North East -13 47 £55,000 - 16
North West -89 45 £65,576 -2.18% 42
Midlands -82 35 £60,000 -14.29% 30
Scotland -34 28 £110,000 +15.79% 20
West Midlands -41 22 £56,250 -37.50% 22
East Midlands -50 13 £60,000 - 8
Wales -53 8 £55,000 +18.92% 4
East of England -52 4 £46,000 -29.23% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 29 (4.89%) Apache
2 24 (4.05%) Confluence
3 22 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.71%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.53%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) IIS
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 381 (64.25%) AWS
2 222 (37.44%) Azure
3 130 (21.92%) GitHub
4 123 (20.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 89 (15.01%) Serverless
6 82 (13.83%) Amazon S3
7 81 (13.66%) GCP
8 80 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
9 69 (11.64%) GitHub Actions
10 68 (11.47%) AWS Lambda
11 57 (9.61%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (9.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 50 (8.43%) Amazon ECR
14 48 (8.09%) OpenShift
15 45 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (6.07%) Azure AKS
18 34 (5.73%) AWS Step Functions
19 29 (4.89%) Datadog
20 27 (4.55%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.23%) Broadband
2 24 (4.05%) Firewall
3 13 (2.19%) DNS
4 12 (2.02%) MQTT
4 12 (2.02%) Network Security
5 10 (1.69%) HTTP
6 8 (1.35%) IPv4
6 8 (1.35%) LAN
6 8 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.18%) WAN
8 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.01%) Wireless
8 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.67%) BGP
10 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.67%) DSL
10 4 (0.67%) VPN
11 3 (0.51%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.80%) NoSQL
2 56 (9.44%) MongoDB
3 55 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (8.43%) DynamoDB
5 37 (6.24%) MySQL
6 32 (5.40%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.88%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.85%) Big Data
10 11 (1.85%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.52%) Redis
13 8 (1.35%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.18%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
15 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
16 4 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.67%) Power BI
16 4 (0.67%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 266 (44.86%) Jenkins
2 191 (32.21%) Git
3 76 (12.82%) SonarQube
4 64 (10.79%) Cucumber
5 59 (9.95%) JIRA
6 53 (8.94%) Cypress.io
7 38 (6.41%) Selenium
8 28 (4.72%) JUnit
9 26 (4.38%) Postman
10 25 (4.22%) Maven
11 23 (3.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 17 (2.87%) CircleCI
13 15 (2.53%) Bitbucket
13 15 (2.53%) Gatling
13 15 (2.53%) REST Assured
14 14 (2.36%) JMeter
14 14 (2.36%) Visual Studio Code
15 12 (2.02%) Spock
16 11 (1.85%) Vite
17 10 (1.69%) Robot Framework
General
1 154 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 127 (21.42%) Finance
3 95 (16.02%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.95%) Banking
5 54 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.38%) Marketing
8 20 (3.37%) Games
9 15 (2.53%) Aerospace
10 14 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.19%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.02%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.69%) Electronics
14 10 (1.69%) Law
15 7 (1.18%) Legal
16 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.67%) Automotive
17 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (25.46%) Senior
2 134 (22.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 85 (14.33%) Developer
4 62 (10.46%) Software Engineer
5 46 (7.76%) Lead
6 45 (7.59%) Principal Engineer
7 42 (7.08%) Java Engineer
8 40 (6.75%) Senior DevOps
8 40 (6.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 38 (6.41%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (5.90%) Architect
10 35 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (5.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 29 (4.89%) Full-Stack Developer
12 29 (4.89%) Java Developer
13 28 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
15 24 (4.05%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (13.83%) Spring Boot
2 79 (13.32%) Kafka
3 78 (13.15%) Spring
4 64 (10.79%) REST
5 62 (10.46%) React
6 61 (10.29%) AngularJS
6 61 (10.29%) Node.js
7 51 (8.60%) RESTful
8 42 (7.08%) Elastic Stack
9 34 (5.73%) Jest
10 33 (5.56%) Playwright
11 31 (5.23%) .NET
11 31 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
12 27 (4.55%) SOAP
13 24 (4.05%) Gherkin
14 23 (3.88%) JSON
14 23 (3.88%) Lightning Web Components
14 23 (3.88%) Vue
15 22 (3.71%) LangChain
16 21 (3.54%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 176 (29.68%) Cloud Native
2 74 (12.48%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (10.62%) Product Ownership
4 38 (6.41%) Public Cloud
5 35 (5.90%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (5.40%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.88%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.87%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.53%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.19%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.85%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.69%) Blockchain
14 9 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.52%) Web3
15 8 (1.35%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 166 (27.99%) Linux
2 60 (10.12%) Windows
3 43 (7.25%) CentOS
4 32 (5.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (3.88%) Unix
6 19 (3.20%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.51%) VMS
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
12 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (91.74%) CI/CD
2 407 (68.63%) DevOps
3 326 (54.97%) Agile
4 294 (49.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 206 (34.74%) Test Automation
6 188 (31.70%) Microservices
7 185 (31.20%) Containerisation
8 137 (23.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 131 (22.09%) Mentoring
10 130 (21.92%) Software Engineering
11 118 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
12 102 (17.20%) Observability
12 102 (17.20%) Scrum
13 94 (15.85%) Continuous Integration
14 91 (15.35%) SDLC
15 89 (15.01%) AI
16 84 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
17 82 (13.83%) Coaching
17 82 (13.83%) Platform Engineering
18 81 (13.66%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 273 (46.04%) Python
2 186 (31.37%) Java
3 149 (25.13%) Bash
4 110 (18.55%) SQL
5 91 (15.35%) JavaScript
6 84 (14.17%) TypeScript
7 71 (11.97%) PowerShell
8 40 (6.75%) Go
9 36 (6.07%) Groovy
10 34 (5.73%) C#
11 31 (5.23%) C++
12 23 (3.88%) Apex Code
13 22 (3.71%) Rust
14 21 (3.54%) SOQL
14 21 (3.54%) SOSL
15 11 (1.85%) PHP
16 10 (1.69%) C
17 8 (1.35%) Scala
18 7 (1.18%) Kotlin
18 7 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 228 (38.45%) Security Cleared
2 146 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.49%) Degree
4 71 (11.97%) AWS Certification
5 48 (8.09%) DV Cleared
6 39 (6.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.71%) Master's Degree
9 21 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (3.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 17 (2.87%) ISTQB
12 15 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.53%) RHCSA
13 14 (2.36%) OSCP
14 12 (2.02%) CCNA
15 11 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.35%) RHCE
17 7 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
18 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 6 (1.01%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (13.49%) QA
2 31 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.20%) GDPR
4 17 (2.87%) WCAG
5 13 (2.19%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.52%) NIST
7 9 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.01%) JTAG
8 6 (1.01%) SLA
9 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 282 (47.55%) Docker
2 24 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.85%) vSphere
6 8 (1.35%) Squid
6 8 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.67%) Firmware
8 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 298 (50.25%) Terraform
2 265 (44.69%) Kubernetes
3 148 (24.96%) Ansible
4 91 (15.35%) Grafana
5 68 (11.47%) Prometheus
6 41 (6.91%) Argo
7 24 (4.05%) HP Fortify
8 23 (3.88%) Nagios
9 19 (3.20%) Kibana
9 19 (3.20%) Puppet
10 16 (2.70%) logstash
11 14 (2.36%) Packer
12 9 (1.52%) Podman
12 9 (1.52%) Progress Chef
13 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.18%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.67%) Istio
17 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
17 3 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 74 (12.48%) Splunk
2 53 (8.94%) Red Hat
3 44 (7.42%) Microsoft
4 33 (5.56%) VMware
5 27 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.20%) AppDynamics
7 18 (3.04%) Oracle
8 17 (2.87%) Google
9 15 (2.53%) Dynatrace
10 14 (2.36%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.36%) OpenAI
11 12 (2.02%) Cisco
12 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
13 10 (1.69%) Databricks
14 7 (1.18%) Intel
14 7 (1.18%) OneLogin
14 7 (1.18%) SAP
15 6 (1.01%) ServiceNow
15 6 (1.01%) Tenable
15 6 (1.01%) Veracode