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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 259 367
Rank change year-on-year -67 +108 -19
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 602 576 617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.16% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.34% 13.91% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 372 194 373
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,375 £44,076
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -

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 4,514 4,142 7,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.37% 8.36% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 2,616 4,793
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,261 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -47 541 £69,310 -9.10% 273
UK excluding London -82 380 £65,000 -3.04% 171
London -4 190 £87,500 +9.38% 125
Work from Home -146 147 £66,538 -11.28% 148
North of England -61 135 £67,500 +0.69% 51
South East +43 99 £62,500 -16.67% 33
South West -43 72 £73,750 +22.92% 36
Yorkshire +6 55 £69,310 -7.59% 7
North West -85 43 £65,000 -3.04% 35
North East -18 37 £55,000 - 9
Scotland -17 32 £110,000 +15.79% 13
Midlands -80 32 £58,750 -17.54% 23
West Midlands -44 23 £57,500 -36.11% 15
East Midlands -63 9 £60,000 - 8
Wales -56 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -39 4 £60,000 -5.88% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 4

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 28 (4.65%) Apache
2 26 (4.32%) Confluence
3 20 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.33%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.50%) IIS
5 3 (0.50%) JBoss
6 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.33%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 380 (63.12%) AWS
2 225 (37.38%) Azure
3 130 (21.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 125 (20.76%) GitHub
5 98 (16.28%) Serverless
6 84 (13.95%) Amazon S3
7 82 (13.62%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
9 77 (12.79%) GCP
10 69 (11.46%) GitHub Actions
11 61 (10.13%) Amazon ECS
12 56 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (8.97%) Amazon ECR
14 48 (7.97%) OpenShift
15 45 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
16 42 (6.98%) AWS Step Functions
17 39 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
18 37 (6.15%) Azure AKS
19 34 (5.65%) Apigee
20 33 (5.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.15%) Broadband
2 27 (4.49%) Firewall
3 14 (2.33%) MQTT
3 14 (2.33%) Network Security
4 12 (1.99%) DNS
5 10 (1.66%) HTTP
6 9 (1.50%) LAN
6 9 (1.50%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (1.33%) IPv4
8 7 (1.16%) DSL
8 7 (1.16%) WAN
9 6 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.00%) Wireless
9 6 (1.00%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.83%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.66%) BGP
11 4 (0.66%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.66%) VPN
12 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (11.30%) NoSQL
2 56 (9.30%) DynamoDB
3 54 (8.97%) MongoDB
4 50 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (5.98%) MySQL
6 30 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.65%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.66%) Big Data
10 10 (1.66%) Pinecone
11 9 (1.50%) Redis
12 8 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.33%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.16%) SQL Server
14 6 (1.00%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.00%) InfluxDB
15 4 (0.66%) Metadata
15 4 (0.66%) Power BI
15 4 (0.66%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 272 (45.18%) Jenkins
2 191 (31.73%) Git
3 81 (13.46%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.13%) JIRA
5 59 (9.80%) Cucumber
6 54 (8.97%) Cypress.io
7 36 (5.98%) Selenium
8 29 (4.82%) Maven
9 25 (4.15%) JUnit
10 23 (3.82%) Postman
11 21 (3.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 21 (3.49%) CircleCI
12 15 (2.49%) Bitbucket
12 15 (2.49%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (2.33%) Gatling
13 14 (2.33%) REST Assured
14 13 (2.16%) JMeter
15 12 (1.99%) Spock
16 11 (1.83%) Vite
17 10 (1.66%) Robot Framework
General
1 149 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 130 (21.59%) Finance
3 86 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (9.63%) Banking
6 56 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.15%) Marketing
8 26 (4.32%) Games
9 15 (2.49%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.49%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.16%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.83%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.66%) Electronics
14 7 (1.16%) Legal
15 6 (1.00%) Advertising
15 6 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.83%) Law
17 4 (0.66%) Automotive
17 4 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 146 (24.25%) Senior
2 127 (21.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (14.78%) Developer
4 62 (10.30%) Software Engineer
5 45 (7.48%) Lead
6 44 (7.31%) Architect
7 41 (6.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (6.48%) Principal Engineer
9 37 (6.15%) Java Engineer
10 36 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (5.98%) Java Developer
11 34 (5.65%) Senior DevOps
11 34 (5.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 29 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
12 29 (4.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 29 (4.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 29 (4.82%) Salesforce Architect
13 28 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (4.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (13.62%) Spring Boot
2 80 (13.29%) Kafka
3 75 (12.46%) Spring
4 69 (11.46%) REST
5 64 (10.63%) AngularJS
6 56 (9.30%) Node.js
7 53 (8.80%) React
8 49 (8.14%) RESTful
9 41 (6.81%) Elastic Stack
10 37 (6.15%) Jest
11 34 (5.65%) RabbitMQ
12 33 (5.48%) SOAP
13 32 (5.32%) Playwright
14 29 (4.82%) Gherkin
14 29 (4.82%) Lightning Web Components
15 27 (4.49%) JSON
15 27 (4.49%) Visualforce
16 25 (4.15%) .NET
17 22 (3.65%) Vue
18 21 (3.49%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 164 (27.24%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.13%) Product Ownership
3 71 (11.79%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (5.65%) Public Cloud
5 28 (4.65%) e-Learning
6 24 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.99%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.82%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.66%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.99%) Blockchain
10 12 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.83%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.83%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.83%) Web3
12 10 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 168 (27.91%) Linux
2 65 (10.80%) Windows
3 41 (6.81%) CentOS
4 29 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.15%) Unix
6 24 (3.99%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.83%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.66%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) VMS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.33%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (91.20%) CI/CD
2 416 (69.10%) DevOps
3 323 (53.65%) Agile
4 293 (48.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 192 (31.89%) Test Automation
6 190 (31.56%) Microservices
7 188 (31.23%) Containerisation
8 144 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 127 (21.10%) Software Engineering
10 126 (20.93%) Mentoring
11 123 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
12 113 (18.77%) Scrum
13 107 (17.77%) Observability
14 102 (16.94%) Continuous Integration
15 92 (15.28%) SDLC
16 91 (15.12%) AI
17 84 (13.95%) DevSecOps
17 84 (13.95%) Event-Driven
18 82 (13.62%) Coaching
19 79 (13.12%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 280 (46.51%) Python
2 183 (30.40%) Java
3 153 (25.42%) Bash
4 104 (17.28%) SQL
5 89 (14.78%) JavaScript
6 82 (13.62%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.46%) PowerShell
8 47 (7.81%) Go
9 41 (6.81%) Groovy
10 34 (5.65%) C#
11 32 (5.32%) C++
12 29 (4.82%) Apex Code
13 27 (4.49%) Rust
13 27 (4.49%) SOQL
13 27 (4.49%) SOSL
14 11 (1.83%) PHP
15 10 (1.66%) C
16 7 (1.16%) Perl
16 7 (1.16%) Ruby
16 7 (1.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 220 (36.54%) Security Cleared
2 135 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.12%) Degree
4 70 (11.63%) AWS Certification
5 49 (8.14%) DV Cleared
6 35 (5.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (3.65%) Master's Degree
9 20 (3.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 19 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (2.99%) OSCP
12 17 (2.82%) ISTQB
13 15 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (2.49%) RHCSA
14 11 (1.83%) CCNA
15 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.33%) RHCE
17 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 5 (0.83%) Azure Certification
18 5 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (12.96%) QA
2 29 (4.82%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.49%) GDPR
4 18 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.66%) WCAG
6 14 (2.33%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.83%) NIST
7 11 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.00%) JTAG
10 5 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.66%) SLA
12 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 281 (46.68%) Docker
2 25 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.66%) vSphere
5 9 (1.50%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.33%) Squid
7 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.66%) Firmware
9 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 301 (50.00%) Terraform
2 268 (44.52%) Kubernetes
3 150 (24.92%) Ansible
4 92 (15.28%) Grafana
5 74 (12.29%) Prometheus
6 39 (6.48%) Argo
7 28 (4.65%) HP Fortify
8 26 (4.32%) Nagios
9 20 (3.32%) Kibana
10 17 (2.82%) Puppet
11 16 (2.66%) logstash
12 13 (2.16%) Packer
13 10 (1.66%) Podman
14 8 (1.33%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.33%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.00%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.83%) VxRail
17 4 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 4 (0.66%) Istio
Vendors
1 83 (13.79%) Splunk
2 54 (8.97%) Red Hat
3 47 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 36 (5.98%) VMware
5 33 (5.48%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.16%) AppDynamics
7 16 (2.66%) Dynatrace
8 15 (2.49%) Oracle
9 14 (2.33%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.16%) Cisco
10 13 (2.16%) Google
10 13 (2.16%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.83%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.66%) Databricks
13 8 (1.33%) Intel
13 8 (1.33%) Tenable
14 7 (1.16%) SAP
15 6 (1.00%) F5
15 6 (1.00%) Juniper
15 6 (1.00%) ServiceNow