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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 331 296
Rank change year-on-year -32 -35 -14
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 304 437 567
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 0.82% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.49% 7.97% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 202 194 452
10th Percentile £51,863 £44,475 £35,920
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +9.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £86,253 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £104,425 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -7.69%

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 3,581 5,484 6,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.04% 10.25% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,332 3,150 5,278
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,566 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.35% +4.55%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -21 259 £77,500 +6.90% 317
UK excluding London -16 172 £75,000 +11.11% 277
Work from Home -14 118 £77,500 +7.27% 197
London -22 93 £86,000 +1.18% 69
North of England +47 77 £75,000 +15.38% 60
Yorkshire +14 38 £80,000 +55.39% 27
North West +41 32 £65,000 - 26
South West -17 24 £73,500 +22.50% 45
South East -36 23 £78,000 +7.59% 80
Midlands +7 20 £57,600 -17.71% 28
Scotland -2 15 - - 14
West Midlands +10 14 £63,750 -5.56% 16
East of England +25 11 £67,500 -5.26% 41
North East +9 7 £66,250 -5.36% 7
East Midlands -7 6 £53,600 -28.53% 11
Wales 0 4 £57,600 -38.40% 12

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 21 (6.91%) Confluence
2 13 (4.28%) Apache
3 9 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.64%) IIS
4 5 (1.64%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.32%) Camunda
5 4 (1.32%) nginx
5 4 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.99%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.99%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 180 (59.21%) AWS
2 125 (41.12%) Azure
3 69 (22.70%) GitHub
4 68 (22.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 58 (19.08%) GCP
6 57 (18.75%) Serverless
7 51 (16.78%) AWS Lambda
8 41 (13.49%) GitHub Actions
9 40 (13.16%) Amazon S3
10 37 (12.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 37 (12.17%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (9.54%) OpenShift
13 28 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (6.58%) Amazon ECR
15 20 (6.58%) AWS Step Functions
16 17 (5.59%) Apigee
17 14 (4.61%) Datadog
18 11 (3.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.24%) DNS
2 16 (5.26%) Broadband
3 10 (3.29%) Firewall
4 5 (1.64%) VPN
5 4 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.32%) VSAN
6 3 (0.99%) DSL
6 3 (0.99%) Skype
6 3 (0.99%) VLAN
7 2 (0.66%) BGP
7 2 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.66%) HTTP
7 2 (0.66%) MQTT
7 2 (0.66%) OSPF
7 2 (0.66%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.66%) RTMP
7 2 (0.66%) SSL
7 2 (0.66%) WAN
7 2 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.20%) MongoDB
1 31 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 30 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (8.55%) NoSQL
4 25 (8.22%) DynamoDB
5 20 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (3.29%) MySQL
8 9 (2.96%) Power BI
9 8 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.64%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.64%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.64%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.99%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.99%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.66%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 169 (55.59%) Jenkins
2 70 (23.03%) Git
3 48 (15.79%) SonarQube
4 38 (12.50%) JIRA
5 29 (9.54%) Bitbucket
6 28 (9.21%) Cucumber
6 28 (9.21%) Cypress.io
7 23 (7.57%) Selenium
8 22 (7.24%) JUnit
9 21 (6.91%) Maven
10 14 (4.61%) Postman
11 11 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (2.96%) CircleCI
13 8 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (2.63%) JMeter
13 8 (2.63%) Subversion
14 7 (2.30%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.97%) Artifactory
16 5 (1.64%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.64%) TestNG
General
1 80 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 60 (19.74%) Finance
3 38 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.57%) Marketing
4 23 (7.57%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.91%) Games
6 20 (6.58%) Banking
7 19 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (5.26%) Advertising
8 16 (5.26%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.93%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.96%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.97%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.64%) Electronics
13 5 (1.64%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.66%) Automotive
14 2 (0.66%) Law
14 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (21.05%) Lead
2 52 (17.11%) Developer
2 52 (17.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (13.16%) Senior
4 28 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
5 26 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (6.91%) Architect
7 20 (6.58%) Software Engineer
8 16 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
8 16 (5.26%) Software Developer
9 15 (4.93%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.61%) Salesforce Architect
11 13 (4.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.95%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 12 (3.95%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (3.62%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.29%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.80%) Spring Boot
2 38 (12.50%) Spring
3 35 (11.51%) Elastic Stack
4 34 (11.18%) REST
5 26 (8.55%) AngularJS
6 22 (7.24%) React
7 20 (6.58%) Gherkin
8 19 (6.25%) Kafka
8 19 (6.25%) Node.js
9 18 (5.92%) Jest
10 17 (5.59%) SOAP
11 16 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (5.26%) Visualforce
12 15 (4.93%) RESTful
13 14 (4.61%) FastAPI
14 12 (3.95%) pytest
15 10 (3.29%) Django
15 10 (3.29%) HTML
15 10 (3.29%) Playwright
16 9 (2.96%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.12%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.55%) Product Ownership
3 14 (4.61%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.62%) Private Cloud
5 9 (2.96%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.32%) Blockchain
8 4 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.32%) PKI
8 4 (1.32%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.32%) Web3
9 3 (0.99%) Blackberry
9 3 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
9 3 (0.99%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.99%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.99%) IoT
9 3 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 83 (27.30%) Linux
2 30 (9.87%) Windows
3 14 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.29%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.96%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.63%) Unix
7 5 (1.64%) Debian
7 5 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (78.29%) CI/CD
2 210 (69.08%) DevOps
3 138 (45.39%) Agile
4 117 (38.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 90 (29.61%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (28.62%) Containerisation
7 59 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (16.45%) Observability
9 49 (16.12%) Test Automation
10 48 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
10 48 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 47 (15.46%) Mentoring
12 46 (15.13%) Microservices
12 46 (15.13%) Scrum
13 44 (14.47%) Software Engineering
14 39 (12.83%) Incident Response
14 39 (12.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 34 (11.18%) DevSecOps
15 34 (11.18%) Platform Engineering
15 34 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 147 (48.36%) Python
2 93 (30.59%) Java
3 79 (25.99%) Bash
4 60 (19.74%) TypeScript
5 59 (19.41%) SQL
6 45 (14.80%) JavaScript
7 37 (12.17%) PowerShell
8 21 (6.91%) Go
9 17 (5.59%) Groovy
10 16 (5.26%) Apex Code
11 15 (4.93%) SOQL
11 15 (4.93%) SOSL
12 12 (3.95%) C#
13 9 (2.96%) ANSI SQL
14 8 (2.63%) Bicep
14 8 (2.63%) Delphi
15 6 (1.97%) C
16 5 (1.64%) C++
16 5 (1.64%) Rust
17 3 (0.99%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 60 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.87%) DV Cleared
3 27 (8.88%) SC Cleared
4 25 (8.22%) AWS Certification
5 22 (7.24%) Degree
6 15 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.29%) ISTQB
8 9 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.97%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.32%) OSCP
13 3 (0.99%) CCNA
13 3 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.66%) CISSP
14 2 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.66%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (13.16%) QA
2 8 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.64%) NIST
4 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.99%) GDPR
6 2 (0.66%) ECSS
6 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.66%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 124 (40.79%) Docker
2 17 (5.59%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.64%) Firmware
5 4 (1.32%) vSphere
6 2 (0.66%) NFS
6 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.33%) Squid
7 1 (0.33%) vCloud
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 133 (43.75%) Kubernetes
2 126 (41.45%) Terraform
3 78 (25.66%) Ansible
4 76 (25.00%) Grafana
5 67 (22.04%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.59%) HP Fortify
7 8 (2.63%) Kibana
7 8 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.30%) Argo
8 7 (2.30%) Puppet
9 6 (1.97%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.97%) Rancher
10 4 (1.32%) vRealize
11 3 (0.99%) Istio
11 3 (0.99%) Nagios
11 3 (0.99%) SCOM
11 3 (0.99%) WSUS
12 2 (0.66%) Nessus
12 2 (0.66%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 44 (14.47%) Oracle
2 40 (13.16%) Splunk
3 28 (9.21%) Microsoft
4 26 (8.55%) Atlassian
5 19 (6.25%) VMware
6 17 (5.59%) Salesforce
7 13 (4.28%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.30%) SAP
9 6 (1.97%) Google
10 5 (1.64%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.32%) Cisco
11 4 (1.32%) HP
12 3 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.99%) Sonatype
13 2 (0.66%) Cribl.io
13 2 (0.66%) Databricks
13 2 (0.66%) MikroTik
13 2 (0.66%) New Relic
13 2 (0.66%) Starlink
13 2 (0.66%) Ubiquiti