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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 263 354
Rank change year-on-year -62 +91 -32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 536 547 786
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.22% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.76% 13.30% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 328 164 552
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,375 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £88,611 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,375 £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 4,200 4,112 9,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.47% 9.17% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,780 2,599 6,505
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,938 £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 £101,050 £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 19 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 19 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 -55 473 £70,000 -9.68% 157
UK excluding London -98 318 £65,000 -3.04% 127
London +4 181 £83,375 -1.91% 52
Work from Home -114 151 £67,500 -5.59% 73
North of England -61 118 £65,576 -2.18% 34
South East +48 92 £65,000 +23.81% 28
Yorkshire +3 60 £69,310 -2.38% 5
South West -45 52 £65,000 +6.12% 32
North West -79 38 £65,000 -3.04% 18
Scotland -22 35 £95,000 +5.56% 7
North East -25 20 £55,000 - 11
Midlands -82 16 £57,500 -17.86% 13
West Midlands -37 12 £57,500 -17.86% 10
East of England -38 4 - - 13
East Midlands -65 4 - - 3
Wales -45 3 £51,250 +57.69% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 1

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 25 (4.66%) Apache
1 25 (4.66%) Confluence
2 15 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 13 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.87%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) IIS
5 3 (0.56%) JBoss
5 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 337 (62.87%) AWS
2 197 (36.75%) Azure
3 134 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 103 (19.22%) Serverless
5 99 (18.47%) GitHub
6 85 (15.86%) AWS Lambda
7 83 (15.49%) Amazon S3
8 72 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (13.25%) GCP
10 59 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (9.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 48 (8.96%) Amazon ECR
12 48 (8.96%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (8.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 42 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
14 39 (7.28%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (6.90%) Apigee
15 37 (6.90%) Azure AKS
16 36 (6.72%) Datadog
16 36 (6.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (8.21%) Broadband
2 29 (5.41%) Firewall
3 17 (3.17%) DNS
4 12 (2.24%) DSL
4 12 (2.24%) LAN
4 12 (2.24%) MQTT
4 12 (2.24%) Software-Defined Networking
5 11 (2.05%) Network Security
6 10 (1.87%) WAN
7 9 (1.68%) HTTP
8 8 (1.49%) IPv4
9 7 (1.31%) BGP
9 7 (1.31%) VPN
10 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.93%) DHCP
11 5 (0.93%) MPLS
12 4 (0.75%) Asterisk PBX
12 4 (0.75%) Bluetooth
12 4 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.31%) NoSQL
2 59 (11.01%) DynamoDB
3 52 (9.70%) MongoDB
4 44 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
5 28 (5.22%) MySQL
6 25 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.05%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.87%) Big Data
12 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.93%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.93%) Redis
14 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.56%) Delta Lake
16 2 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
16 2 (0.37%) CockroachDB
16 2 (0.37%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 253 (47.20%) Jenkins
2 142 (26.49%) Git
3 93 (17.35%) SonarQube
4 54 (10.07%) Cypress.io
5 49 (9.14%) JIRA
6 46 (8.58%) Cucumber
7 33 (6.16%) Maven
8 28 (5.22%) CircleCI
8 28 (5.22%) Selenium
9 17 (3.17%) Bitbucket
10 16 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
11 15 (2.80%) JUnit
12 14 (2.61%) REST Assured
13 13 (2.43%) Postman
14 12 (2.24%) Vite
15 10 (1.87%) Gatling
15 10 (1.87%) JMeter
16 9 (1.68%) Robot Framework
17 7 (1.31%) Artifactory
18 6 (1.12%) Spock
General
1 114 (21.27%) Finance
2 111 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 55 (10.26%) Banking
3 55 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 52 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (9.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.72%) Marketing
7 34 (6.34%) Games
8 15 (2.80%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.24%) Aerospace
10 12 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.49%) Electronics
12 7 (1.31%) Advertising
12 7 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.93%) Retail
14 4 (0.75%) Automotive
14 4 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (22.76%) Senior
2 101 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (16.60%) Developer
4 51 (9.51%) Architect
5 49 (9.14%) Software Engineer
6 43 (8.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 43 (8.02%) Lead
7 41 (7.65%) Java Developer
8 35 (6.53%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (6.34%) Salesforce Architect
10 31 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 27 (5.04%) Java Engineer
12 27 (5.04%) Senior Developer
13 26 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
14 25 (4.66%) Security Engineer
15 23 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
16 22 (4.10%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.62%) Spring Boot
2 71 (13.25%) REST
3 68 (12.69%) Kafka
4 58 (10.82%) Spring
5 56 (10.45%) AngularJS
6 43 (8.02%) Node.js
7 42 (7.84%) React
8 38 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
8 38 (7.09%) RESTful
9 36 (6.72%) Jest
9 36 (6.72%) SOAP
10 35 (6.53%) Lightning Web Components
10 35 (6.53%) RabbitMQ
10 35 (6.53%) Visualforce
11 32 (5.97%) Gherkin
12 24 (4.48%) Playwright
13 23 (4.29%) JSON
14 22 (4.10%) YAML
15 21 (3.92%) LangChain
16 20 (3.73%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 125 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 66 (12.31%) Product Ownership
3 53 (9.89%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.85%) Public Cloud
5 25 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (4.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (3.92%) e-Learning
8 18 (3.36%) Data Centre
9 17 (3.17%) Algorithms
9 17 (3.17%) Blockchain
10 16 (2.99%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.99%) Web3
11 12 (2.24%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.68%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 6 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 138 (25.75%) Linux
2 61 (11.38%) Windows
3 25 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.48%) Unix
5 23 (4.29%) CentOS
6 15 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (2.43%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.37%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) Debian
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
12 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (88.81%) CI/CD
2 373 (69.59%) DevOps
3 280 (52.24%) Agile
4 263 (49.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 170 (31.72%) Containerisation
6 157 (29.29%) Microservices
7 146 (27.24%) Test Automation
8 132 (24.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 107 (19.96%) Continuous Integration
10 106 (19.78%) Scrum
11 105 (19.59%) Software Engineering
12 104 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
13 102 (19.03%) Observability
14 95 (17.72%) Mentoring
15 87 (16.23%) DevSecOps
16 82 (15.30%) Event-Driven
17 79 (14.74%) SDLC
18 76 (14.18%) Continuous Delivery
19 68 (12.69%) AI
20 60 (11.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 262 (48.88%) Python
2 163 (30.41%) Java
3 149 (27.80%) Bash
4 84 (15.67%) SQL
5 74 (13.81%) TypeScript
6 73 (13.62%) JavaScript
7 61 (11.38%) PowerShell
8 52 (9.70%) Go
9 42 (7.84%) Groovy
10 35 (6.53%) Apex Code
10 35 (6.53%) SOQL
10 35 (6.53%) SOSL
11 34 (6.34%) C#
12 32 (5.97%) Rust
13 27 (5.04%) C++
14 8 (1.49%) Perl
15 7 (1.31%) PHP
16 6 (1.12%) Bicep
16 6 (1.12%) C
16 6 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 180 (33.58%) Security Cleared
2 102 (19.03%) SC Cleared
3 74 (13.81%) Degree
4 65 (12.13%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.60%) DV Cleared
6 26 (4.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (4.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 23 (4.29%) OSCP
8 22 (4.10%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.92%) Master's Degree
10 17 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.99%) ISTQB
12 14 (2.61%) RHCSA
13 13 (2.43%) CCNA
14 12 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.49%) RHCE
16 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.57%) QA
2 19 (3.54%) Accessibility
2 19 (3.54%) GDPR
3 15 (2.80%) NIST
4 13 (2.43%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.24%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.87%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.31%) WCAG
8 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.75%) JTAG
11 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 242 (45.15%) Docker
2 29 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.10%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.24%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.24%) vSphere
5 8 (1.49%) Squid
5 8 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 275 (51.31%) Terraform
2 239 (44.59%) Kubernetes
3 130 (24.25%) Ansible
4 89 (16.60%) Grafana
5 81 (15.11%) Prometheus
6 33 (6.16%) Argo
7 31 (5.78%) HP Fortify
8 23 (4.29%) Nagios
9 17 (3.17%) Kibana
10 14 (2.61%) Puppet
11 13 (2.43%) logstash
11 13 (2.43%) Packer
12 9 (1.68%) Podman
13 8 (1.49%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.49%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.12%) VxRail
16 4 (0.75%) WSUS
17 3 (0.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 87 (16.23%) Splunk
2 49 (9.14%) Red Hat
3 40 (7.46%) VMware
4 37 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 35 (6.53%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.99%) Oracle
7 14 (2.61%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.43%) AppDynamics
8 13 (2.43%) Cisco
9 12 (2.24%) Atlassian
9 12 (2.24%) Dynatrace
10 11 (2.05%) Google
11 8 (1.49%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.49%) Tenable
12 7 (1.31%) IBM
12 7 (1.31%) Juniper
13 6 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (1.12%) F5
13 6 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow