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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 275 305
Rank change year-on-year -71 +30 +34
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 609 528 654
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.07% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.88% 14.07% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 372 172 299
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +12.00% -3.85%

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 4,729 3,752 6,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.60% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,943 2,219 3,775
10th Percentile £37,050 £36,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -46 568 £69,310 -10.57% 715
UK excluding London -126 385 £65,576 -6.32% 430
London +12 184 £90,000 +4.65% 334
North of England -55 164 £69,310 +2.68% 128
Work from Home -186 119 £67,500 -15.63% 333
South West -27 80 £72,500 +3.57% 86
South East +3 79 £65,000 -13.33% 65
North East -14 63 £58,750 -11.32% 27
North West -88 57 £69,310 +10.90% 79
Yorkshire -3 50 £72,500 -3.33% 22
Midlands -80 39 £60,000 -14.29% 52
West Midlands -51 26 £50,000 -38.46% 44
East Midlands -64 13 £60,000 -1.64% 8
Wales -62 10 £55,000 -8.33% 8
East of England -42 9 £60,000 -7.69% 36
Scotland -46 6 £110,000 +47.65% 38
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 18

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 32 (5.25%) Apache
2 27 (4.43%) Confluence
3 25 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.45%) Apache Spark
5 18 (2.96%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.49%) IIS
7 3 (0.49%) nginx
8 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 398 (65.35%) AWS
2 218 (35.80%) Azure
3 147 (24.14%) GitHub
4 113 (18.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 84 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 83 (13.63%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (13.14%) GitHub Actions
8 78 (12.81%) GCP
9 75 (12.32%) Serverless
10 61 (10.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 60 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (9.03%) Amazon ECS
13 49 (8.05%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (6.57%) Azure AKS
17 35 (5.75%) OpenShift
18 24 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (3.94%) AWS Step Functions
19 21 (3.45%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.45%) DNS
2 19 (3.12%) Firewall
3 12 (1.97%) Broadband
3 12 (1.97%) Network Security
4 11 (1.81%) HTTP
4 11 (1.81%) MQTT
4 11 (1.81%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.31%) DHCP
5 8 (1.31%) IPv4
5 8 (1.31%) LAN
5 8 (1.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (1.15%) VPN
6 7 (1.15%) WAN
7 6 (0.99%) BGP
7 6 (0.99%) NX-OS
7 6 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.99%) Wireless
7 6 (0.99%) ZigBee
8 4 (0.66%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (13.46%) NoSQL
2 66 (10.84%) MongoDB
3 62 (10.18%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (7.22%) DynamoDB
5 40 (6.57%) MySQL
6 29 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (3.94%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (2.46%) Redis
10 14 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.30%) Pinecone
11 11 (1.81%) Big Data
11 11 (1.81%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.48%) Chroma
13 8 (1.31%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.15%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.15%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.99%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 259 (42.53%) Jenkins
2 207 (33.99%) Git
3 77 (12.64%) Cucumber
4 70 (11.49%) JIRA
5 54 (8.87%) Cypress.io
6 52 (8.54%) SonarQube
7 41 (6.73%) Selenium
8 34 (5.58%) Postman
9 29 (4.76%) JUnit
10 27 (4.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 25 (4.11%) Maven
12 19 (3.12%) JMeter
13 16 (2.63%) Gatling
14 15 (2.46%) Vite
15 14 (2.30%) REST Assured
15 14 (2.30%) Spock
15 14 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
16 13 (2.13%) Bitbucket
17 12 (1.97%) Artifactory
17 12 (1.97%) Robot Framework
General
1 163 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 133 (21.84%) Finance
3 112 (18.39%) Public Sector
4 56 (9.20%) Banking
5 54 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.96%) Aerospace
7 18 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.30%) Law
9 13 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.81%) Marketing
11 10 (1.64%) Electronics
12 8 (1.31%) Legal
12 8 (1.31%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.66%) Automotive
14 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.49%) Military
15 3 (0.49%) Retail
16 1 (0.16%) Billing
Job Titles
1 154 (25.29%) Senior
2 141 (23.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 92 (15.11%) Developer
4 68 (11.17%) Software Engineer
5 55 (9.03%) Principal Engineer
6 54 (8.87%) Java Engineer
7 52 (8.54%) Lead
8 37 (6.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 37 (6.08%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (6.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 35 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (4.93%) Test Engineer
11 29 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 27 (4.43%) Java Developer
14 26 (4.27%) Software Developer
15 25 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
15 25 (4.11%) Senior Developer
15 25 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (49.75%) Terraform
2 94 (15.44%) Spring
3 92 (15.11%) Kafka
4 91 (14.94%) Spring Boot
5 72 (11.82%) React
6 66 (10.84%) RESTful
7 64 (10.51%) Node.js
8 63 (10.34%) AngularJS
9 56 (9.20%) REST
10 44 (7.22%) Elastic Stack
11 43 (7.06%) Playwright
12 35 (5.75%) .NET
12 35 (5.75%) Jest
13 26 (4.27%) Gherkin
13 26 (4.27%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (4.27%) Vue
14 25 (4.11%) LangChain
15 23 (3.78%) FastAPI
16 22 (3.61%) Next.js
17 21 (3.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 196 (32.18%) Cloud Native
2 88 (14.45%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (8.21%) Product Ownership
4 49 (8.05%) Public Cloud
5 42 (6.90%) e-Learning
6 41 (6.73%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (4.43%) Private Cloud
8 20 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.96%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.79%) Algorithms
11 14 (2.30%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.97%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.81%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.48%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.15%) IoT
16 6 (0.99%) Blockchain
16 6 (0.99%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 187 (30.71%) Linux
2 61 (10.02%) Windows
3 44 (7.22%) CentOS
4 37 (6.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (4.43%) Unix
6 18 (2.96%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.64%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.82%) VMS
9 4 (0.66%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.49%) Debian
10 3 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.49%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.33%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (90.48%) CI/CD
2 399 (65.52%) DevOps
3 348 (57.14%) Agile
4 306 (50.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 249 (40.89%) Test Automation
6 198 (32.51%) Microservices
7 177 (29.06%) Containerisation
8 151 (24.79%) Mentoring
9 150 (24.63%) Software Engineering
10 125 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
11 122 (20.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (19.21%) AI
13 113 (18.56%) Observability
14 107 (17.57%) SDLC
15 98 (16.09%) Scrum
16 96 (15.76%) Full-Stack Development
17 95 (15.60%) Coaching
18 87 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
19 84 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
20 75 (12.32%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 284 (46.63%) Python
2 214 (35.14%) Java
3 152 (24.96%) Bash
4 129 (21.18%) SQL
5 104 (17.08%) JavaScript
6 101 (16.58%) TypeScript
7 79 (12.97%) PowerShell
8 38 (6.24%) C++
9 37 (6.08%) Go
10 36 (5.91%) C#
11 35 (5.75%) Groovy
12 20 (3.28%) Rust
13 14 (2.30%) PHP
14 11 (1.81%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.64%) C
16 9 (1.48%) Perl
17 7 (1.15%) Kotlin
17 7 (1.15%) Ruby
18 6 (0.99%) Bicep
18 6 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 262 (43.02%) Security Cleared
2 172 (28.24%) SC Cleared
3 84 (13.79%) Degree
4 76 (12.48%) AWS Certification
5 60 (9.85%) DV Cleared
6 47 (7.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 33 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.78%) Master's Degree
9 20 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
10 17 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.63%) ISTQB
12 15 (2.46%) CCNA
12 15 (2.46%) RHCSA
13 14 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (1.48%) OSCP
16 8 (1.31%) RHCE
17 7 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
18 6 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 6 (0.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.60%) QA
2 30 (4.93%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.96%) WCAG
5 11 (1.81%) GDPR
6 9 (1.48%) SLA
7 8 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.15%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.99%) JTAG
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.66%) NIST
11 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 301 (49.43%) Docker
2 27 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.30%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.30%) vSphere
5 8 (1.31%) Squid
5 8 (1.31%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.82%) Firmware
7 3 (0.49%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 265 (43.51%) Kubernetes
2 153 (25.12%) Ansible
3 90 (14.78%) Grafana
4 65 (10.67%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.90%) Argo
6 23 (3.78%) Puppet
7 21 (3.45%) Kibana
8 20 (3.28%) Nagios
9 19 (3.12%) HP Fortify
10 17 (2.79%) logstash
11 15 (2.46%) Packer
12 10 (1.64%) Progress Chef
13 9 (1.48%) Podman
14 8 (1.31%) ZABBIX
15 7 (1.15%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.99%) FortiGate
17 5 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
18 4 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
19 3 (0.49%) Istio
19 3 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (9.03%) Splunk
2 53 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.40%) Red Hat
4 38 (6.24%) VMware
5 22 (3.61%) Oracle
6 20 (3.28%) AppDynamics
7 19 (3.12%) Google
8 17 (2.79%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.46%) Mistral
10 14 (2.30%) Atlassian
11 12 (1.97%) Databricks
12 11 (1.81%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.48%) Rapid7
13 9 (1.48%) SAP
14 8 (1.31%) Salesforce
15 7 (1.15%) Cisco
15 7 (1.15%) NVIDIA
15 7 (1.15%) OneLogin
15 7 (1.15%) Pega
15 7 (1.15%) Veracode