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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 345 359
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 -67
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 451 314 723
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.76% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.79% 7.32% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 267 194 559
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,629 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,938 £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 4,180 4,290 9,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.86% 10.32% 9.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,756 3,019 6,820
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,000 £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 £75,900 £82,375 £78,291
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 17 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 17 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 +1 384 £75,000 -3.23% 211
UK excluding London -1 265 £65,576 -8.92% 149
Work from Home +38 157 £69,310 -0.99% 93
London +5 141 £82,500 -2.94% 79
North of England -1 99 £67,500 +0.69% 44
South East -1 70 £67,500 -15.63% 40
Yorkshire -10 68 £77,500 +10.71% 11
South West -49 38 £68,750 +10.00% 29
Scotland -10 35 £95,000 +11.76% 5
North West -21 22 £65,000 -3.04% 18
Midlands -48 18 £57,500 -23.33% 20
West Midlands -16 17 £58,750 -16.07% 15
North East -31 9 £66,826 -4.53% 15
East of England -29 6 £67,500 -12.90% 10
Wales -27 2 £55,200 +69.85% 1
East Midlands -51 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 (5.10%) Confluence
2 17 (3.77%) Apache
3 7 (1.55%) 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%) 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 (60.09%) AWS
2 176 (39.02%) Azure
3 134 (29.71%) AWS CloudFormation
4 107 (23.73%) Serverless
5 96 (21.29%) GitHub
6 94 (20.84%) AWS Lambda
7 78 (17.29%) Amazon S3
8 76 (16.85%) GCP
9 62 (13.75%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (12.42%) AWS Step Functions
11 54 (11.97%) Amazon ECS
12 50 (11.09%) OpenShift
13 47 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
14 46 (10.20%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (10.20%) Apigee
15 41 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 41 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
16 37 (8.20%) Datadog
17 30 (6.65%) Amazon EC2
18 24 (5.32%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.76%) Broadband
2 28 (6.21%) DNS
2 28 (6.21%) Firewall
3 13 (2.88%) DSL
4 7 (1.55%) LAN
4 7 (1.55%) 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 (13.30%) DynamoDB
2 50 (11.09%) NoSQL
3 34 (7.54%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.54%) MongoDB
5 23 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (3.77%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.44%) MySQL
9 8 (1.77%) 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%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.44%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.44%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 241 (53.44%) Jenkins
2 110 (24.39%) Git
3 101 (22.39%) SonarQube
4 57 (12.64%) Cypress.io
5 51 (11.31%) JIRA
6 46 (10.20%) Cucumber
7 44 (9.76%) Maven
8 33 (7.32%) Selenium
9 27 (5.99%) Bitbucket
10 25 (5.54%) CircleCI
11 17 (3.77%) JUnit
12 13 (2.88%) Postman
13 12 (2.66%) REST Assured
14 11 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 11 (2.44%) JMeter
15 9 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
16 8 (1.77%) Subversion
17 6 (1.33%) Gatling
17 6 (1.33%) TestRail
17 6 (1.33%) Vite
General
1 114 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 82 (18.18%) Finance
3 49 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.65%) Marketing
5 35 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (7.54%) Games
7 32 (7.10%) Public Sector
8 30 (6.65%) Banking
9 28 (6.21%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.33%) Advertising
10 15 (3.33%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.00%) Aerospace
11 9 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.77%) 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 83 (18.40%) Senior
2 82 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (16.85%) Developer
4 65 (14.41%) Lead
5 51 (11.31%) Architect
6 49 (10.86%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (8.43%) Java Developer
8 36 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 33 (7.32%) Salesforce Architect
10 30 (6.65%) Software Engineer
11 24 (5.32%) Senior Developer
12 23 (5.10%) Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
14 20 (4.43%) Security Engineer
15 18 (3.99%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.99%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (3.99%) Salesforce Technical Architect
15 18 (3.99%) Technical Architect
16 17 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
17 15 (3.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (15.08%) Spring Boot
2 60 (13.30%) REST
3 51 (11.31%) AngularJS
4 49 (10.86%) Elastic Stack
5 46 (10.20%) Kafka
6 44 (9.76%) Gherkin
7 42 (9.31%) Jest
7 42 (9.31%) Spring
8 35 (7.76%) SOAP
9 34 (7.54%) Lightning Web Components
9 34 (7.54%) Visualforce
10 30 (6.65%) RabbitMQ
11 28 (6.21%) RESTful
12 23 (5.10%) React
12 23 (5.10%) YAML
13 20 (4.43%) JSON
14 19 (4.21%) Node.js
15 16 (3.55%) AWS CDK
15 16 (3.55%) Vue
16 15 (3.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 72 (15.96%) Cloud Native
2 57 (12.64%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.55%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.10%) Blockchain
7 13 (2.88%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (2.88%) Public Cloud
7 13 (2.88%) Web3
8 12 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (2.22%) Algorithms
10 10 (2.22%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.33%) Private Cloud
14 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 109 (24.17%) Linux
2 44 (9.76%) Windows
3 18 (3.99%) Unix
4 15 (3.33%) CentOS
4 15 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 11 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.55%) 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
1 392 (86.92%) CI/CD
2 319 (70.73%) DevOps
3 226 (50.11%) Agile
4 201 (44.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 133 (29.49%) Containerisation
6 120 (26.61%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (25.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 100 (22.17%) Continuous Integration
9 96 (21.29%) Microservices
10 90 (19.96%) Test Automation
11 82 (18.18%) Scrum
12 79 (17.52%) Observability
13 75 (16.63%) Mentoring
14 74 (16.41%) Software Engineering
15 65 (14.41%) Event-Driven
16 63 (13.97%) DevSecOps
17 61 (13.53%) Continuous Delivery
18 60 (13.30%) Roadmaps
19 55 (12.20%) Collaborative Culture
19 55 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 213 (47.23%) Python
2 129 (28.60%) Java
3 126 (27.94%) Bash
4 70 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 65 (14.41%) SQL
6 54 (11.97%) JavaScript
7 47 (10.42%) Go
8 46 (10.20%) PowerShell
9 45 (9.98%) Groovy
10 34 (7.54%) Apex Code
10 34 (7.54%) SOQL
10 34 (7.54%) SOSL
11 24 (5.32%) Rust
12 17 (3.77%) C#
12 17 (3.77%) C++
13 8 (1.77%) Bicep
13 8 (1.77%) Delphi
13 8 (1.77%) Perl
14 5 (1.11%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.89%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 116 (25.72%) Security Cleared
2 53 (11.75%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.09%) AWS Certification
4 49 (10.86%) Degree
5 30 (6.65%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.32%) ITIL Certification
8 19 (4.21%) OSCP
9 14 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.88%) 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 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (1.55%) CCNA
16 5 (1.11%) CISSP
17 4 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.89%) CISM
17 4 (0.89%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.64%) QA
2 18 (3.99%) NIST
3 16 (3.55%) GDPR
4 13 (2.88%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.66%) 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 (41.91%) Docker
2 27 (5.99%) Active Directory
3 23 (5.10%) 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
1 226 (50.11%) Terraform
2 193 (42.79%) Kubernetes
3 118 (26.16%) Ansible
4 93 (20.62%) Grafana
5 79 (17.52%) Prometheus
6 42 (9.31%) HP Fortify
7 15 (3.33%) Argo
8 14 (3.10%) Kibana
9 12 (2.66%) Nagios
10 11 (2.44%) logstash
11 10 (2.22%) Puppet
11 10 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (1.33%) Packer
12 6 (1.33%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.89%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.89%) Rancher
13 4 (0.89%) WSUS
14 3 (0.67%) Istio
14 3 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 72 (15.96%) Splunk
2 40 (8.87%) Red Hat
3 36 (7.98%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.76%) Salesforce
5 29 (6.43%) Oracle
6 28 (6.21%) VMware
7 19 (4.21%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.88%) Cisco
9 10 (2.22%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.22%) Google
10 8 (1.77%) Juniper
10 8 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.55%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.55%) IBM
12 6 (1.33%) F5
12 6 (1.33%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.11%) Rapid7
14 4 (0.89%) Dell
14 4 (0.89%) Tenable
15 3 (0.67%) CrowdStrike