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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 267 352
Rank change year-on-year -50 +85 -33
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 538 543 788
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.22% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.81% 13.16% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 329 161 558
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £96,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% +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 4,199 4,125 9,377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 9.25% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,784 2,610 6,497
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,671 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £64,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% +12.17% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £101,025 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 June 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 16 June 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 -47 476 £70,000 -9.68% 193
UK excluding London -79 322 £65,000 -3.04% 136
London +6 180 £84,625 -0.44% 78
Work from Home -114 151 £67,500 -5.59% 86
North of England -57 121 £65,576 -2.18% 33
South East +56 93 £67,500 +28.57% 36
Yorkshire +9 63 £69,310 -2.38% 7
South West -46 50 £65,000 +6.12% 25
North West -78 38 £65,000 -3.04% 15
Scotland -30 35 £95,000 +5.56% 9
North East -27 20 £55,000 - 11
Midlands -72 18 £50,000 -24.53% 14
West Midlands -42 14 £50,000 -29.82% 11
East of England -37 4 - - 16
East Midlands -62 4 - - 3
Wales -43 3 £51,250 +57.69% 1
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 25 (4.65%) Confluence
2 24 (4.46%) Apache
3 15 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.86%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.56%) IIS
6 3 (0.56%) JBoss
6 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 340 (63.20%) AWS
2 197 (36.62%) Azure
3 141 (26.21%) AWS CloudFormation
4 109 (20.26%) Serverless
5 98 (18.22%) GitHub
6 91 (16.91%) AWS Lambda
7 87 (16.17%) Amazon S3
8 72 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (13.20%) GCP
10 59 (10.97%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (9.85%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (9.48%) Amazon ECR
12 51 (9.48%) AWS Step Functions
13 50 (9.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 43 (7.99%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (7.43%) Apigee
16 37 (6.88%) Azure AKS
16 37 (6.88%) Datadog
16 37 (6.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.99%) Broadband
2 29 (5.39%) Firewall
3 17 (3.16%) DNS
4 12 (2.23%) DSL
4 12 (2.23%) LAN
4 12 (2.23%) MQTT
4 12 (2.23%) Software-Defined Networking
5 11 (2.04%) Network Security
6 10 (1.86%) WAN
7 9 (1.67%) HTTP
8 8 (1.49%) IPv4
9 7 (1.30%) BGP
9 7 (1.30%) VPN
10 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.93%) DHCP
11 5 (0.93%) MPLS
12 4 (0.74%) VPLS
12 4 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.45%) NoSQL
2 63 (11.71%) DynamoDB
3 52 (9.67%) MongoDB
4 43 (7.99%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (5.02%) MySQL
6 24 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.97%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.04%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.86%) Big Data
12 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.93%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.93%) Redis
14 3 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.37%) CockroachDB
15 2 (0.37%) Delta Lake
15 2 (0.37%) DocumentDB
15 2 (0.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 258 (47.96%) Jenkins
2 140 (26.02%) Git
3 95 (17.66%) SonarQube
4 57 (10.59%) Cypress.io
5 48 (8.92%) JIRA
6 45 (8.36%) Cucumber
7 36 (6.69%) Maven
8 29 (5.39%) CircleCI
9 28 (5.20%) Selenium
10 17 (3.16%) Bitbucket
11 15 (2.79%) JUnit
11 15 (2.79%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (2.60%) REST Assured
13 13 (2.42%) Postman
14 12 (2.23%) Vite
15 10 (1.86%) Gatling
15 10 (1.86%) JMeter
16 9 (1.67%) Robot Framework
17 7 (1.30%) Artifactory
18 6 (1.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 115 (21.38%) Finance
2 112 (20.82%) Social Skills
3 56 (10.41%) Banking
4 53 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (6.69%) Marketing
8 34 (6.32%) Games
9 14 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.42%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.23%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.67%) Advertising
13 8 (1.49%) Electronics
14 7 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.93%) Retail
16 4 (0.74%) Automotive
16 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (22.68%) Senior
2 101 (18.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 92 (17.10%) Developer
4 51 (9.48%) Architect
5 46 (8.55%) Software Engineer
6 44 (8.18%) Java Developer
6 44 (8.18%) Lead
7 43 (7.99%) Cloud Engineer
8 35 (6.51%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (6.32%) Salesforce Architect
10 31 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (5.20%) Senior Developer
11 28 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (5.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 27 (5.02%) Java Engineer
13 26 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
14 25 (4.65%) Security Engineer
15 22 (4.09%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (4.09%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (13.94%) Spring Boot
2 71 (13.20%) REST
3 68 (12.64%) Kafka
4 58 (10.78%) AngularJS
4 58 (10.78%) Spring
5 42 (7.81%) Node.js
6 41 (7.62%) React
7 39 (7.25%) Jest
8 37 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
8 37 (6.88%) RESTful
9 36 (6.69%) RabbitMQ
9 36 (6.69%) SOAP
10 35 (6.51%) Gherkin
10 35 (6.51%) Lightning Web Components
10 35 (6.51%) Visualforce
11 24 (4.46%) Playwright
12 23 (4.28%) JSON
13 22 (4.09%) YAML
14 21 (3.90%) gRPC
14 21 (3.90%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 125 (23.23%) Cloud Native
2 66 (12.27%) Product Ownership
3 52 (9.67%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 25 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (3.90%) e-Learning
6 21 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.35%) Blockchain
7 18 (3.35%) Data Centre
8 17 (3.16%) Web3
9 16 (2.97%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.97%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.23%) Cloud Security Posture
11 9 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.67%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 6 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 139 (25.84%) Linux
2 60 (11.15%) Windows
3 25 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.46%) Unix
5 23 (4.28%) CentOS
6 15 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (2.42%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.74%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.37%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) Debian
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
12 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (88.85%) CI/CD
2 376 (69.89%) DevOps
3 280 (52.04%) Agile
4 265 (49.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 171 (31.78%) Containerisation
6 156 (29.00%) Microservices
7 147 (27.32%) Test Automation
8 132 (24.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (20.26%) Continuous Integration
10 105 (19.52%) Observability
10 105 (19.52%) Scrum
11 103 (19.14%) Software Engineering
12 102 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
13 97 (18.03%) Mentoring
14 87 (16.17%) DevSecOps
15 82 (15.24%) Event-Driven
16 81 (15.06%) SDLC
17 77 (14.31%) Continuous Delivery
18 66 (12.27%) AI
19 60 (11.15%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 258 (47.96%) Python
2 164 (30.48%) Java
3 151 (28.07%) Bash
4 83 (15.43%) SQL
5 78 (14.50%) TypeScript
6 72 (13.38%) JavaScript
7 61 (11.34%) PowerShell
8 52 (9.67%) Go
9 45 (8.36%) Groovy
10 35 (6.51%) Apex Code
10 35 (6.51%) SOQL
10 35 (6.51%) SOSL
11 32 (5.95%) C#
12 31 (5.76%) Rust
13 25 (4.65%) C++
14 8 (1.49%) Perl
15 7 (1.30%) PHP
16 6 (1.12%) Bicep
16 6 (1.12%) C
16 6 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 177 (32.90%) Security Cleared
2 100 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 72 (13.38%) Degree
4 68 (12.64%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 26 (4.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (4.28%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (4.28%) OSCP
9 20 (3.72%) Master's Degree
10 17 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.97%) ISTQB
12 14 (2.60%) RHCSA
13 13 (2.42%) CCNA
14 12 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.49%) RHCE
16 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
16 5 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.52%) QA
2 19 (3.53%) GDPR
3 18 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.97%) NIST
5 13 (2.42%) PCI DSS
6 12 (2.23%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.86%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.12%) WCAG
9 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.74%) JTAG
11 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 244 (45.35%) Docker
2 29 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.90%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.23%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.23%) vSphere
5 8 (1.49%) Squid
5 8 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 274 (50.93%) Terraform
2 239 (44.42%) Kubernetes
3 129 (23.98%) Ansible
4 88 (16.36%) Grafana
5 82 (15.24%) Prometheus
6 34 (6.32%) Argo
6 34 (6.32%) HP Fortify
7 23 (4.28%) Nagios
8 16 (2.97%) Kibana
9 14 (2.60%) Puppet
10 13 (2.42%) Packer
11 12 (2.23%) logstash
12 9 (1.67%) Podman
13 8 (1.49%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.49%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.12%) VxRail
16 4 (0.74%) WSUS
17 3 (0.56%) Istio
Vendors
1 87 (16.17%) Splunk
2 49 (9.11%) Red Hat
3 40 (7.43%) VMware
4 37 (6.88%) Microsoft
5 35 (6.51%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.97%) Oracle
7 14 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.42%) AppDynamics
8 13 (2.42%) Cisco
9 12 (2.23%) Dynatrace
10 11 (2.04%) Atlassian
10 11 (2.04%) Google
11 8 (1.49%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.49%) Tenable
12 7 (1.30%) IBM
12 7 (1.30%) Juniper
13 6 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (1.12%) F5
13 6 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow