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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 356 355
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 -68
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 432 307 703
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.75% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.51% 7.15% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 253 188 557
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,438 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,538 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.22% +16.00% +8.70%

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 4,112 4,294 9,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.03% 10.48% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,734 3,024 6,731
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,700 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.30% +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 6 April 2026.

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 6 April 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 +7 357 £77,500 -3.13% 210
UK excluding London +24 254 £66,538 -8.22% 163
Work from Home +39 156 £71,250 -0.35% 99
London +7 133 £82,500 -2.94% 56
North of England -6 94 £67,788 +0.43% 49
Yorkshire -4 64 £80,000 +6.67% 14
South East -5 63 £67,500 -15.63% 39
Scotland -4 41 £95,000 +8.57% 6
South West -54 34 £70,000 +12.00% 36
North West -26 24 £65,000 -3.04% 16
Midlands -32 17 £56,350 -13.31% 19
West Midlands -6 16 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North East -24 6 £68,076 -2.75% 19
East of England -35 6 £67,500 -12.90% 12
Wales -26 2 £55,200 +69.85% 4
East Midlands -51 1 £55,200 -31.00% 7

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 22 (5.09%) Confluence
2 16 (3.70%) Apache
3 7 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.16%) IIS
5 5 (1.16%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.69%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.69%) JBoss
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 260 (60.19%) AWS
2 165 (38.19%) Azure
3 132 (30.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 110 (25.46%) Serverless
5 96 (22.22%) GitHub
6 95 (21.99%) AWS Lambda
7 80 (18.52%) Amazon S3
8 74 (17.13%) GCP
9 65 (15.05%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (12.73%) Amazon ECS
10 55 (12.73%) AWS Step Functions
11 47 (10.88%) OpenShift
12 46 (10.65%) Amazon ECR
12 46 (10.65%) Apigee
13 44 (10.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (9.03%) Amazon EKS
15 39 (9.03%) Datadog
16 33 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (9.49%) Broadband
2 27 (6.25%) DNS
3 25 (5.79%) Firewall
4 13 (3.01%) DSL
5 6 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.39%) DHCP
5 6 (1.39%) LAN
5 6 (1.39%) VPN
5 6 (1.39%) WAN
6 5 (1.16%) Network Security
6 5 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.93%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (0.93%) BGP
7 4 (0.93%) MPLS
7 4 (0.93%) MQTT
7 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.93%) VoIP
7 4 (0.93%) VPLS
8 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (13.43%) DynamoDB
2 49 (11.34%) NoSQL
3 25 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.40%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (3.94%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.94%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.31%) MySQL
8 5 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.16%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.16%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.16%) InfluxDB
8 5 (1.16%) Pinecone
9 4 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.93%) Power BI
10 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.46%) Big Data
11 2 (0.46%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.46%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 241 (55.79%) Jenkins
2 104 (24.07%) SonarQube
3 100 (23.15%) Git
4 56 (12.96%) Cypress.io
5 50 (11.57%) JIRA
6 44 (10.19%) Cucumber
6 44 (10.19%) Maven
7 32 (7.41%) Selenium
8 25 (5.79%) Bitbucket
8 25 (5.79%) CircleCI
9 18 (4.17%) JUnit
10 13 (3.01%) Postman
11 12 (2.78%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (2.55%) JMeter
13 8 (1.85%) Subversion
14 6 (1.39%) Gatling
15 5 (1.16%) Artifactory
15 5 (1.16%) Robot Framework
15 5 (1.16%) TestRail
General
1 111 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 81 (18.75%) Finance
3 51 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (10.88%) Marketing
5 41 (9.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (9.26%) Games
7 32 (7.41%) Banking
7 32 (7.41%) Telecoms
8 24 (5.56%) Public Sector
9 16 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 15 (3.47%) Advertising
11 9 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.62%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.16%) Electronics
14 5 (1.16%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (17.59%) Developer
1 76 (17.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (15.97%) Senior
3 62 (14.35%) Lead
4 57 (13.19%) Architect
5 47 (10.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 38 (8.80%) Salesforce Architect
7 36 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 31 (7.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 25 (5.79%) Platform Engineer
10 24 (5.56%) Senior Developer
10 24 (5.56%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.63%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 20 (4.63%) Technical Architect
12 19 (4.40%) Security Engineer
13 18 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.94%) Automation Engineer
15 16 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (15.51%) Spring Boot
2 66 (15.28%) REST
3 50 (11.57%) AngularJS
4 48 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 47 (10.88%) Kafka
6 44 (10.19%) Gherkin
7 42 (9.72%) Jest
8 41 (9.49%) SOAP
8 41 (9.49%) Spring
9 40 (9.26%) Lightning Web Components
9 40 (9.26%) Visualforce
10 30 (6.94%) RabbitMQ
11 26 (6.02%) RESTful
12 23 (5.32%) YAML
13 21 (4.86%) React
14 19 (4.40%) JSON
15 16 (3.70%) AWS CDK
16 15 (3.47%) Node.js
16 15 (3.47%) OAuth
17 14 (3.24%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 70 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 61 (14.12%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.47%) Security Posture
5 14 (3.24%) Blockchain
6 13 (3.01%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (3.01%) Web3
7 12 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.55%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.31%) Data Centre
10 8 (1.85%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.39%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 100 (23.15%) Linux
2 39 (9.03%) Windows
3 15 (3.47%) CentOS
3 15 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.24%) Unix
5 13 (3.01%) Ubuntu
6 12 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.69%) Debian
11 2 (0.46%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (87.27%) CI/CD
2 310 (71.76%) DevOps
3 213 (49.31%) Agile
4 196 (45.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (30.32%) Containerisation
6 119 (27.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 115 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (22.92%) Continuous Integration
9 86 (19.91%) Microservices
10 81 (18.75%) Test Automation
11 79 (18.29%) Scrum
12 77 (17.82%) Observability
13 71 (16.44%) Event-Driven
14 68 (15.74%) Software Engineering
15 67 (15.51%) Continuous Delivery
16 65 (15.05%) Roadmaps
17 63 (14.58%) Mentoring
18 59 (13.66%) DevSecOps
19 51 (11.81%) Collaborative Culture
20 48 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 203 (46.99%) Python
2 125 (28.94%) Bash
3 119 (27.55%) Java
4 68 (15.74%) TypeScript
5 64 (14.81%) SQL
6 51 (11.81%) JavaScript
7 45 (10.42%) Go
7 45 (10.42%) Groovy
7 45 (10.42%) PowerShell
8 40 (9.26%) Apex Code
8 40 (9.26%) SOQL
8 40 (9.26%) SOSL
9 22 (5.09%) Rust
10 13 (3.01%) C#
11 10 (2.31%) C++
12 8 (1.85%) Bicep
12 8 (1.85%) Delphi
12 8 (1.85%) Perl
13 5 (1.16%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (0.93%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 102 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.57%) AWS Certification
3 45 (10.42%) Degree
3 45 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 32 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 26 (6.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
7 17 (3.94%) OSCP
8 14 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.78%) ISTQB
11 9 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (1.39%) CCNA
14 5 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.16%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.93%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.93%) CISSP
16 3 (0.69%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.11%) QA
2 17 (3.94%) NIST
3 16 (3.70%) GDPR
4 12 (2.78%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.78%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.39%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) ECSS
8 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 185 (42.82%) Docker
2 25 (5.79%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.39%) vSphere
6 5 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 208 (48.15%) Terraform
2 183 (42.36%) Kubernetes
3 110 (25.46%) Ansible
4 93 (21.53%) Grafana
5 82 (18.98%) Prometheus
6 42 (9.72%) HP Fortify
7 12 (2.78%) Kibana
7 12 (2.78%) Nagios
8 10 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.08%) Puppet
10 8 (1.85%) Argo
10 8 (1.85%) logstash
11 6 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.39%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.16%) Packer
13 4 (0.93%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.93%) WSUS
14 3 (0.69%) Istio
14 3 (0.69%) Rancher
14 3 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 79 (18.29%) Splunk
2 41 (9.49%) Salesforce
3 37 (8.56%) Red Hat
4 34 (7.87%) Microsoft
5 30 (6.94%) Oracle
6 26 (6.02%) VMware
7 20 (4.63%) Atlassian
8 14 (3.24%) Cisco
9 10 (2.31%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.85%) Google
10 8 (1.85%) Juniper
11 7 (1.62%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.62%) IBM
11 7 (1.62%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.39%) F5
13 5 (1.16%) OpenAI
13 5 (1.16%) Rapid7
13 5 (1.16%) SAP
14 4 (0.93%) Dell
15 3 (0.69%) Veracode