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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 339 302
Rank change year-on-year -18 -37 -27
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 321 432 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.81% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.61% 7.89% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 205 189 486
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,500 £35,920
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £86,375 £90,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £74,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.43% +16.67% -4.00%

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 3,730 5,476 7,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.02% 10.31% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 3,123 5,724
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,125 £82,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £97,500
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 22 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 22 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 -32 274 £77,500 +6.90% 311
UK excluding London -22 180 £74,500 +6.43% 293
Work from Home -3 118 £77,500 +6.90% 209
London -28 98 £85,000 -5.56% 60
North of England +57 82 £75,000 +11.11% 60
Yorkshire +13 43 £80,000 +55.39% 19
North West +31 32 £65,000 -7.14% 36
South West -12 29 £72,500 +18.37% 46
South East -32 24 £82,500 +13.79% 89
Midlands +8 19 £55,200 -21.14% 24
Scotland -11 15 - - 23
West Midlands +18 13 £60,000 -12.73% 10
East of England +19 10 £67,500 -6.90% 37
North East +9 7 £66,250 -5.36% 5
East Midlands -2 6 £53,600 -28.53% 14
Wales +5 3 £55,200 -32.06% 14

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 (6.85%) Confluence
2 17 (5.30%) Apache
3 9 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.56%) IIS
4 5 (1.56%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.25%) nginx
5 4 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.93%) Camunda
6 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.93%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 199 (61.99%) AWS
2 126 (39.25%) Azure
3 83 (25.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 71 (22.12%) GitHub
5 66 (20.56%) Serverless
6 60 (18.69%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (18.69%) GCP
7 48 (14.95%) Amazon S3
8 43 (13.40%) GitHub Actions
9 42 (13.08%) Amazon ECS
10 39 (12.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (9.97%) OpenShift
12 30 (9.35%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
13 27 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
13 27 (8.41%) AWS Step Functions
14 25 (7.79%) Amazon ECR
15 22 (6.85%) Apigee
16 16 (4.98%) Datadog
17 13 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.79%) DNS
2 16 (4.98%) Broadband
3 12 (3.74%) Firewall
4 6 (1.87%) VPN
5 5 (1.56%) DSL
5 5 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.25%) VSAN
7 3 (0.93%) BGP
7 3 (0.93%) DHCP
7 3 (0.93%) Skype
7 3 (0.93%) VLAN
7 3 (0.93%) WAN
8 2 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.62%) HTTP
8 2 (0.62%) MQTT
8 2 (0.62%) OSPF
8 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.62%) SSL
8 2 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.28%) DynamoDB
1 33 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (9.97%) MongoDB
2 32 (9.97%) NoSQL
2 32 (9.97%) SQL Server
3 22 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (3.43%) MySQL
6 9 (2.80%) Power BI
7 7 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.56%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.56%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.56%) Data Vault
8 5 (1.56%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.93%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 182 (56.70%) Jenkins
2 74 (23.05%) Git
3 55 (17.13%) SonarQube
4 40 (12.46%) JIRA
5 34 (10.59%) Cypress.io
6 32 (9.97%) Cucumber
7 30 (9.35%) Bitbucket
8 26 (8.10%) Maven
9 25 (7.79%) Selenium
10 23 (7.17%) JUnit
11 14 (4.36%) Postman
12 11 (3.43%) CircleCI
13 9 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
14 8 (2.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (2.49%) JMeter
14 8 (2.49%) Subversion
15 7 (2.18%) REST Assured
16 6 (1.87%) Vite
17 5 (1.56%) SoapUI
17 5 (1.56%) TestNG
General
1 84 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 66 (20.56%) Finance
3 39 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.85%) Banking
4 22 (6.85%) Marketing
4 22 (6.85%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.54%) Games
6 17 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.98%) Advertising
8 15 (4.67%) Manufacturing
8 15 (4.67%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.80%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.87%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.56%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.25%) Electronics
14 3 (0.93%) Retail
15 2 (0.62%) Automotive
15 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (19.94%) Lead
2 60 (18.69%) Developer
3 52 (16.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (12.77%) Senior
5 28 (8.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (7.48%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (6.85%) Architect
8 21 (6.54%) Software Engineer
9 19 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.61%) Software Developer
11 16 (4.98%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.67%) Lead DevOps
13 14 (4.36%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.36%) Salesforce Architect
14 13 (4.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.05%) Senior Developer
15 12 (3.74%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 12 (3.74%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (3.12%) Consultant
16 10 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.58%) Spring Boot
2 40 (12.46%) Elastic Stack
3 39 (12.15%) Spring
4 35 (10.90%) REST
5 32 (9.97%) AngularJS
6 25 (7.79%) Gherkin
7 24 (7.48%) Jest
7 24 (7.48%) React
8 23 (7.17%) Kafka
9 19 (5.92%) RESTful
10 18 (5.61%) SOAP
11 17 (5.30%) Node.js
12 15 (4.67%) FastAPI
12 15 (4.67%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (4.67%) Visualforce
13 14 (4.36%) pytest
14 12 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
15 11 (3.43%) Playwright
16 10 (3.12%) Apache NiFi
16 10 (3.12%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.51%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.43%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.43%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.87%) Blockchain
6 6 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.87%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.87%) Web3
7 5 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.56%) PKI
8 4 (1.25%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.93%) IoT
9 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 89 (27.73%) Linux
2 30 (9.35%) Windows
3 15 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.12%) Ubuntu
4 10 (3.12%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.80%) Unix
6 6 (1.87%) CentOS
7 5 (1.56%) Debian
7 5 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (79.13%) CI/CD
2 217 (67.60%) DevOps
3 147 (45.79%) Agile
4 125 (38.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (28.66%) Containerisation
7 60 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (18.07%) Test Automation
9 54 (16.82%) Continuous Integration
10 53 (16.51%) Observability
11 50 (15.58%) Microservices
12 49 (15.26%) Software Engineering
13 48 (14.95%) Mentoring
14 45 (14.02%) Scrum
14 45 (14.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 43 (13.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 40 (12.46%) Incident Response
17 37 (11.53%) DevSecOps
18 36 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
19 35 (10.90%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 156 (48.60%) Python
2 102 (31.78%) Java
3 89 (27.73%) Bash
4 68 (21.18%) TypeScript
5 61 (19.00%) SQL
6 48 (14.95%) JavaScript
7 37 (11.53%) PowerShell
8 27 (8.41%) Go
9 21 (6.54%) Groovy
10 15 (4.67%) Apex Code
10 15 (4.67%) SOQL
10 15 (4.67%) SOSL
11 12 (3.74%) C#
12 9 (2.80%) ANSI SQL
13 8 (2.49%) Delphi
14 7 (2.18%) Bicep
14 7 (2.18%) Rust
15 5 (1.56%) C
16 4 (1.25%) C++
17 3 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 72 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 33 (10.28%) DV Cleared
3 31 (9.66%) AWS Certification
4 30 (9.35%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.48%) Degree
6 14 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.12%) ISTQB
8 10 (3.12%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.87%) OSCP
12 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.93%) CCNA
14 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.62%) CISSP
15 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.62%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (12.77%) QA
2 9 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.18%) NIST
4 5 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) ECSS
7 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 134 (41.74%) Docker
2 19 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 19 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.56%) vSphere
4 4 (1.25%) Firmware
4 4 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.62%) NFS
5 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 139 (43.30%) Kubernetes
2 137 (42.68%) Terraform
3 86 (26.79%) Ansible
4 80 (24.92%) Grafana
5 69 (21.50%) Prometheus
6 22 (6.85%) HP Fortify
7 10 (3.12%) Kibana
8 8 (2.49%) Puppet
8 8 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.18%) Argo
9 7 (2.18%) Rancher
10 6 (1.87%) Progress Chef
11 4 (1.25%) logstash
11 4 (1.25%) vRealize
11 4 (1.25%) WSUS
12 3 (0.93%) Istio
12 3 (0.93%) Nagios
12 3 (0.93%) SCOM
12 3 (0.93%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.62%) Nessus
Vendors
1 44 (13.71%) Oracle
2 43 (13.40%) Splunk
3 28 (8.72%) Microsoft
4 25 (7.79%) Atlassian
5 22 (6.85%) VMware
6 16 (4.98%) Salesforce
7 14 (4.36%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.18%) Google
9 6 (1.87%) SAP
10 5 (1.56%) AppDynamics
10 5 (1.56%) Cisco
10 5 (1.56%) HP
10 5 (1.56%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.62%) Databricks
11 2 (0.62%) MikroTik
11 2 (0.62%) New Relic
11 2 (0.62%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.62%) Starlink
11 2 (0.62%) Ubiquiti
11 2 (0.62%) YouTube