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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 352 314
Rank change year-on-year -8 -38 -37
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 335 411 667
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.80% 0.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.85% 7.69% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 206 182 554
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £64,063 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £88,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,250 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +1.79% +13.82% +0.41%

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 3,784 5,343 8,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.90% 10.39% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,432 3,012 6,524
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £36,270
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,339 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% +2.23% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -28 277 £80,000 +10.34% 229
UK excluding London -7 189 £71,250 +1.79% 170
Work from Home -1 124 £77,500 +10.71% 122
London -13 102 £88,750 +4.41% 81
North of England +24 79 £75,000 +13.21% 44
Yorkshire +9 45 £77,500 +50.54% 13
South East -26 31 £82,500 +13.79% 60
South West -19 28 £74,500 +19.20% 32
North West +20 27 £65,000 -3.70% 28
Scotland -7 23 - - 4
Midlands +1 16 £55,200 -21.14% 14
East of England +19 11 £67,500 -6.90% 14
West Midlands +12 11 £57,600 -16.22% 10
North East +1 7 £66,250 -5.36% 3
East Midlands +1 5 £55,200 -26.40% 4
Wales - 3 £55,200 - 3

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 (6.57%) Confluence
2 17 (5.07%) Apache
3 9 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.49%) IIS
4 5 (1.49%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.49%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.90%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.90%) nginx
7 2 (0.60%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 205 (61.19%) AWS
2 125 (37.31%) Azure
3 94 (28.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 76 (22.69%) GitHub
5 74 (22.09%) Serverless
6 66 (19.70%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (17.61%) GCP
8 51 (15.22%) Amazon S3
9 48 (14.33%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (13.13%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (9.25%) AWS Step Functions
12 31 (9.25%) OpenShift
13 30 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (8.36%) Amazon ECR
16 24 (7.16%) Apigee
17 19 (5.67%) Datadog
18 13 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.06%) DNS
2 24 (7.16%) Broadband
3 13 (3.88%) Firewall
4 8 (2.39%) VPN
5 7 (2.09%) DSL
6 5 (1.49%) BGP
6 5 (1.49%) DHCP
6 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.49%) WAN
7 3 (0.90%) Asterisk PBX
7 3 (0.90%) LAN
7 3 (0.90%) MPLS
7 3 (0.90%) MQTT
7 3 (0.90%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.90%) VLAN
7 3 (0.90%) VoIP
7 3 (0.90%) VPLS
7 3 (0.90%) VSAN
8 2 (0.60%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.75%) DynamoDB
2 35 (10.45%) NoSQL
3 32 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (8.66%) MongoDB
4 29 (8.66%) SQL Server
5 21 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.99%) MySQL
8 7 (2.09%) Power BI
9 5 (1.49%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.49%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.49%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.90%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.90%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.90%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 194 (57.91%) Jenkins
2 77 (22.99%) Git
3 62 (18.51%) SonarQube
4 42 (12.54%) JIRA
5 33 (9.85%) Cucumber
6 32 (9.55%) Cypress.io
7 29 (8.66%) Maven
8 25 (7.46%) Bitbucket
9 23 (6.87%) Selenium
10 19 (5.67%) JUnit
11 14 (4.18%) CircleCI
12 12 (3.58%) Postman
13 10 (2.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (2.39%) Subversion
15 6 (1.79%) JMeter
15 6 (1.79%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.49%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.49%) TestNG
16 5 (1.49%) Vite
17 4 (1.19%) Gradle
General
1 82 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 69 (20.60%) Finance
3 34 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.96%) Marketing
5 27 (8.06%) Games
6 25 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (6.57%) Telecoms
8 21 (6.27%) Banking
9 16 (4.78%) Manufacturing
9 16 (4.78%) Public Sector
10 15 (4.48%) Advertising
11 9 (2.69%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.49%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.19%) Electronics
14 4 (1.19%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.60%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (18.51%) Lead
2 55 (16.42%) Developer
3 52 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (13.43%) Senior
5 34 (10.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (9.25%) Architect
7 24 (7.16%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (6.87%) Software Engineer
9 22 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (6.27%) Salesforce Architect
11 18 (5.37%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.88%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.88%) Software Developer
14 12 (3.58%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.58%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.58%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 12 (3.58%) Technical Architect
15 11 (3.28%) Lead DevOps
15 11 (3.28%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.52%) Spring Boot
2 41 (12.24%) Elastic Stack
3 40 (11.94%) Spring
4 36 (10.75%) REST
5 32 (9.55%) AngularJS
6 28 (8.36%) Kafka
7 27 (8.06%) Gherkin
8 26 (7.76%) Jest
8 26 (7.76%) SOAP
9 23 (6.87%) Lightning Web Components
9 23 (6.87%) Visualforce
10 22 (6.57%) React
11 20 (5.97%) RESTful
12 17 (5.07%) Node.js
13 14 (4.18%) FastAPI
13 14 (4.18%) pytest
14 13 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
15 11 (3.28%) Apache NiFi
16 9 (2.69%) Django
16 9 (2.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.42%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.85%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.58%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.99%) Private Cloud
6 8 (2.39%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.09%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.09%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (2.09%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.09%) Web3
8 6 (1.79%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.79%) PKI
9 5 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.90%) IoT
11 3 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 90 (26.87%) Linux
2 30 (8.96%) Windows
3 13 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.69%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.39%) Unix
6 7 (2.09%) CentOS
7 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.19%) Debian
9 1 (0.30%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (80.60%) CI/CD
2 226 (67.46%) DevOps
3 160 (47.76%) Agile
4 134 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (27.76%) Containerisation
7 72 (21.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
9 60 (17.91%) Software Engineering
9 60 (17.91%) Test Automation
10 59 (17.61%) Scrum
11 56 (16.72%) Microservices
12 54 (16.12%) Observability
13 53 (15.82%) Mentoring
14 44 (13.13%) Event-Driven
15 42 (12.54%) DevSecOps
15 42 (12.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 41 (12.24%) Roadmaps
17 40 (11.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 39 (11.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 165 (49.25%) Python
2 101 (30.15%) Java
3 93 (27.76%) Bash
4 65 (19.40%) TypeScript
5 58 (17.31%) SQL
6 45 (13.43%) JavaScript
7 36 (10.75%) PowerShell
8 31 (9.25%) Go
9 23 (6.87%) Apex Code
9 23 (6.87%) Groovy
9 23 (6.87%) SOQL
9 23 (6.87%) SOSL
10 14 (4.18%) C#
11 10 (2.99%) Rust
12 8 (2.39%) Delphi
13 7 (2.09%) ANSI SQL
14 6 (1.79%) Bicep
14 6 (1.79%) C++
15 5 (1.49%) C
16 3 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 77 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 36 (10.75%) AWS Certification
3 35 (10.45%) DV Cleared
4 32 (9.55%) SC Cleared
5 29 (8.66%) Degree
6 13 (3.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.58%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.69%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (2.39%) OSCP
11 5 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.19%) CCNA
12 4 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.60%) CISSP
13 2 (0.60%) LPIC
13 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.54%) QA
2 9 (2.69%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.69%) NIST
3 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.49%) GDPR
4 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.60%) ECSS
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 137 (40.90%) Docker
2 20 (5.97%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.79%) vSphere
4 5 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.19%) Firmware
5 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.60%) NFS
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 144 (42.99%) Terraform
2 139 (41.49%) Kubernetes
3 88 (26.27%) Ansible
4 79 (23.58%) Grafana
5 67 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.16%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.69%) Kibana
8 8 (2.39%) Puppet
8 8 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.79%) Rancher
10 5 (1.49%) Argo
10 5 (1.49%) WSUS
11 4 (1.19%) logstash
11 4 (1.19%) Nagios
12 3 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.90%) Istio
12 3 (0.90%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.90%) vRealize
13 2 (0.60%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 52 (15.52%) Splunk
2 40 (11.94%) Oracle
3 29 (8.66%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.16%) Atlassian
4 24 (7.16%) Salesforce
5 22 (6.57%) VMware
6 13 (3.88%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.39%) Google
8 6 (1.79%) SAP
9 5 (1.49%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.49%) Cisco
9 5 (1.49%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.19%) HP
11 3 (0.90%) Dell
12 2 (0.60%) Adobe
12 2 (0.60%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.60%) IBM
12 2 (0.60%) Juniper
12 2 (0.60%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.60%) Veeam