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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 355 369
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -84
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 450 315 724
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.76% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.77% 7.33% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 266 194 560
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £58,125 £56,629 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,219 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £109,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £72,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.92% +15.20% +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 4,177 4,298 9,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.87% 10.36% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,755 3,017 6,817
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,300 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 16 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 16 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 -2 382 £77,500 - 195
UK excluding London +8 263 £65,576 -8.92% 137
Work from Home +32 155 £69,310 -0.99% 95
London +9 141 £82,500 -2.94% 73
North of England -5 98 £66,538 -0.74% 45
South East -6 70 £67,500 -15.63% 39
Yorkshire -3 67 £77,500 +10.71% 9
South West -63 38 £68,750 +10.00% 24
Scotland -10 35 £95,000 +11.76% 4
North West -31 22 £65,000 -3.04% 18
Midlands -40 17 £56,350 -24.87% 17
West Midlands -7 16 £57,500 -17.86% 12
North East -27 9 £66,826 -4.53% 18
East of England -34 6 £67,500 -12.90% 8
Wales -27 2 £55,200 +69.85% 1
East Midlands -56 1 £55,200 -31.00% 5

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 23 (5.11%) Confluence
2 17 (3.78%) Apache
3 7 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.11%) IIS
5 5 (1.11%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.89%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.67%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.67%) JBoss
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.22%) nginx
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 271 (60.22%) AWS
2 173 (38.44%) Azure
3 135 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 108 (24.00%) Serverless
5 96 (21.33%) GitHub
6 94 (20.89%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (17.33%) Amazon S3
8 76 (16.89%) GCP
9 62 (13.78%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (12.44%) AWS Step Functions
11 54 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (10.89%) OpenShift
13 46 (10.22%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (10.22%) Apigee
14 44 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
15 42 (9.33%) Amazon EKS
16 41 (9.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (8.22%) Datadog
18 31 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
19 24 (5.33%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.78%) Broadband
2 28 (6.22%) DNS
2 28 (6.22%) Firewall
3 13 (2.89%) DSL
4 7 (1.56%) LAN
4 7 (1.56%) WAN
5 6 (1.33%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.33%) DHCP
5 6 (1.33%) Network Security
5 6 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (1.11%) VPN
7 4 (0.89%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (0.89%) BGP
7 4 (0.89%) MPLS
7 4 (0.89%) MQTT
7 4 (0.89%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.89%) VoIP
7 4 (0.89%) VPLS
8 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 51 (11.33%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (4.89%) MongoDB
6 21 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (3.78%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.44%) MySQL
9 7 (1.56%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.33%) InfluxDB
11 5 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.11%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.11%) CockroachDB
12 4 (0.89%) Big Data
12 4 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.89%) Power BI
13 3 (0.67%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 240 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 110 (24.44%) Git
3 101 (22.44%) SonarQube
4 57 (12.67%) Cypress.io
5 51 (11.33%) JIRA
6 47 (10.44%) Cucumber
7 44 (9.78%) Maven
8 33 (7.33%) Selenium
9 27 (6.00%) Bitbucket
10 25 (5.56%) CircleCI
11 17 (3.78%) JUnit
12 13 (2.89%) Postman
13 12 (2.67%) REST Assured
14 11 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (2.44%) JMeter
15 9 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
16 8 (1.78%) Subversion
17 6 (1.33%) Gatling
17 6 (1.33%) TestRail
17 6 (1.33%) Vite
General
1 114 (25.33%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.44%) Finance
3 49 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.67%) Marketing
5 35 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (7.56%) Games
7 31 (6.89%) Banking
8 30 (6.67%) Public Sector
9 28 (6.22%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.33%) Advertising
10 15 (3.33%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.00%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Retail
14 4 (0.89%) Automotive
14 4 (0.89%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 82 (18.22%) Senior
2 80 (17.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (17.11%) Developer
4 64 (14.22%) Lead
5 51 (11.33%) Architect
6 49 (10.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (8.44%) Java Developer
8 36 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 33 (7.33%) Salesforce Architect
10 30 (6.67%) Software Engineer
11 24 (5.33%) Senior Developer
12 23 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.44%) Security Engineer
13 20 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
14 18 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 18 (4.00%) Technical Architect
15 17 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
16 15 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (15.33%) Spring Boot
2 60 (13.33%) REST
3 51 (11.33%) AngularJS
4 49 (10.89%) Elastic Stack
5 47 (10.44%) Kafka
6 44 (9.78%) Gherkin
7 43 (9.56%) Spring
8 42 (9.33%) Jest
9 35 (7.78%) SOAP
10 34 (7.56%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (7.56%) Visualforce
11 30 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
12 28 (6.22%) RESTful
13 23 (5.11%) React
13 23 (5.11%) YAML
14 20 (4.44%) JSON
15 18 (4.00%) Node.js
16 16 (3.56%) AWS CDK
16 16 (3.56%) Vue
17 15 (3.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 72 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 57 (12.67%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.56%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.11%) Blockchain
6 14 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.89%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (2.89%) Web3
8 12 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.22%) Data Centre
11 9 (2.00%) e-Learning
12 8 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (1.56%) Onboarding
14 6 (1.33%) Private Cloud
15 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 107 (23.78%) Linux
2 42 (9.33%) Windows
3 16 (3.56%) Unix
4 15 (3.33%) CentOS
4 15 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.89%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.67%) Debian
11 2 (0.44%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (86.89%) CI/CD
2 316 (70.22%) DevOps
3 225 (50.00%) Agile
4 203 (45.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 133 (29.56%) Containerisation
6 119 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (25.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 98 (21.78%) Continuous Integration
9 95 (21.11%) Microservices
10 88 (19.56%) Test Automation
11 80 (17.78%) Scrum
12 79 (17.56%) Observability
13 74 (16.44%) Software Engineering
14 73 (16.22%) Mentoring
15 66 (14.67%) Event-Driven
16 63 (14.00%) DevSecOps
17 61 (13.56%) Continuous Delivery
18 60 (13.33%) Roadmaps
19 56 (12.44%) Collaborative Culture
20 55 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 213 (47.33%) Python
2 128 (28.44%) Java
3 127 (28.22%) Bash
4 70 (15.56%) TypeScript
5 66 (14.67%) SQL
6 54 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 47 (10.44%) Go
8 46 (10.22%) PowerShell
9 45 (10.00%) Groovy
10 34 (7.56%) Apex Code
10 34 (7.56%) SOQL
10 34 (7.56%) SOSL
11 24 (5.33%) Rust
12 17 (3.78%) C#
12 17 (3.78%) C++
13 8 (1.78%) Bicep
13 8 (1.78%) Delphi
13 8 (1.78%) Perl
14 5 (1.11%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 117 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 54 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.33%) AWS Certification
4 49 (10.89%) Degree
5 30 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.33%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (4.22%) OSCP
9 15 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.89%) ISTQB
11 11 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (2.00%) Master's Degree
14 8 (1.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (1.56%) CCNA
16 5 (1.11%) CISSP
17 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.89%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.67%) QA
2 18 (4.00%) NIST
3 16 (3.56%) GDPR
4 13 (2.89%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 9 (2.00%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.11%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.44%) ECSS
10 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 189 (42.00%) Docker
2 27 (6.00%) Active Directory
3 23 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.33%) VMware NSX
4 6 (1.33%) vSphere
5 5 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.44%) Squid
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 225 (50.00%) Terraform
2 192 (42.67%) Kubernetes
3 119 (26.44%) Ansible
4 94 (20.89%) Grafana
5 80 (17.78%) Prometheus
6 42 (9.33%) HP Fortify
7 14 (3.11%) Kibana
8 12 (2.67%) Argo
8 12 (2.67%) Nagios
9 11 (2.44%) logstash
10 10 (2.22%) Puppet
10 10 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.33%) Packer
11 6 (1.33%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.89%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.89%) Rancher
12 4 (0.89%) WSUS
13 3 (0.67%) Istio
13 3 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 72 (16.00%) Splunk
2 40 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 36 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.78%) Salesforce
5 29 (6.44%) Oracle
6 28 (6.22%) VMware
7 19 (4.22%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.89%) Cisco
9 10 (2.22%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.00%) Google
11 8 (1.78%) Juniper
12 7 (1.56%) AppDynamics
12 7 (1.56%) IBM
12 7 (1.56%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.33%) F5
13 6 (1.33%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.11%) Rapid7
15 4 (0.89%) Dell
15 4 (0.89%) Tenable
16 3 (0.67%) CrowdStrike