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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 348 357
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -69
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 429 304 692
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.74% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.45% 7.02% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 253 185 561
10th Percentile £46,900 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,250 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% +8.70%

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 4,107 4,330 9,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.20% 10.58% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,721 3,031 6,756
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,001 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +12 350 £77,500 - 210
UK excluding London +15 250 £65,000 -10.34% 163
Work from Home +46 156 £72,500 +2.47% 99
London -16 131 £82,500 -2.94% 56
North of England -2 92 £66,250 -1.85% 49
Yorkshire +4 61 £77,500 +3.33% 14
South East -3 57 £65,000 -18.75% 39
Scotland -8 42 £95,000 +8.57% 6
South West -50 33 £70,000 +12.00% 36
North West -15 25 £65,000 -3.04% 16
Midlands -27 18 £56,350 -13.31% 19
West Midlands -4 17 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North East -16 6 £68,076 -2.75% 19
East of England -31 6 £67,500 -14.29% 12
Wales -23 2 £55,200 +69.85% 4
East Midlands -51 1 £55,200 -31.00% 7

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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 16 (3.73%) Apache
3 7 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.17%) IIS
4 5 (1.17%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.70%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.70%) JBoss
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 262 (61.07%) AWS
2 166 (38.69%) Azure
3 135 (31.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 111 (25.87%) Serverless
5 102 (23.78%) GitHub
6 96 (22.38%) AWS Lambda
7 79 (18.41%) Amazon S3
8 76 (17.72%) GCP
9 70 (16.32%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (13.75%) Amazon ECS
11 55 (12.82%) AWS Step Functions
12 47 (10.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 47 (10.96%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (10.72%) Apigee
13 46 (10.72%) OpenShift
14 39 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
14 39 (9.09%) Datadog
15 37 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
16 31 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (5.59%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.79%) Broadband
2 27 (6.29%) DNS
3 23 (5.36%) Firewall
4 13 (3.03%) DSL
5 6 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.40%) DHCP
5 6 (1.40%) VPN
6 5 (1.17%) Network Security
7 4 (0.93%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (0.93%) BGP
7 4 (0.93%) LAN
7 4 (0.93%) MPLS
7 4 (0.93%) MQTT
7 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.93%) VoIP
7 4 (0.93%) VPLS
7 4 (0.93%) WAN
8 3 (0.70%) HTTP
8 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (13.29%) DynamoDB
2 48 (11.19%) NoSQL
3 27 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (4.43%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (3.96%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.33%) MySQL
8 5 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.17%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.17%) CockroachDB
9 4 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.93%) InfluxDB
9 4 (0.93%) Pinecone
9 4 (0.93%) Power BI
9 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.47%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.47%) Big Data
10 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 239 (55.71%) Jenkins
2 97 (22.61%) Git
2 97 (22.61%) SonarQube
3 55 (12.82%) Cypress.io
4 45 (10.49%) JIRA
5 44 (10.26%) Maven
6 38 (8.86%) Cucumber
7 32 (7.46%) Selenium
8 25 (5.83%) Bitbucket
8 25 (5.83%) CircleCI
9 19 (4.43%) JUnit
10 14 (3.26%) Postman
11 12 (2.80%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (2.56%) JMeter
13 8 (1.86%) Subversion
14 7 (1.63%) Gatling
15 5 (1.17%) LoadRunner
15 5 (1.17%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.17%) TestNG
General
1 109 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 82 (19.11%) Finance
3 49 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.19%) Marketing
5 43 (10.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (9.56%) Games
7 32 (7.46%) Telecoms
8 31 (7.23%) Banking
9 23 (5.36%) Public Sector
10 15 (3.50%) Advertising
10 15 (3.50%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.40%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.17%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.93%) Electronics
15 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 75 (17.48%) Developer
1 75 (17.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 67 (15.62%) Senior
3 60 (13.99%) Lead
4 58 (13.52%) Architect
5 47 (10.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (9.09%) Salesforce Architect
7 34 (7.93%) Java Developer
8 29 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.36%) Senior Developer
11 22 (5.13%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.90%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 21 (4.90%) Technical Architect
13 19 (4.43%) Security Engineer
14 18 (4.20%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (3.96%) Automation Engineer
16 16 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
17 15 (3.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (16.08%) Spring Boot
2 61 (14.22%) REST
3 49 (11.42%) AngularJS
4 47 (10.96%) Elastic Stack
5 45 (10.49%) Kafka
6 44 (10.26%) Gherkin
7 42 (9.79%) Jest
7 42 (9.79%) SOAP
7 42 (9.79%) Spring
8 41 (9.56%) Lightning Web Components
8 41 (9.56%) Visualforce
9 25 (5.83%) RESTful
10 24 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (4.90%) React
12 19 (4.43%) YAML
13 18 (4.20%) Node.js
14 16 (3.73%) AWS CDK
15 15 (3.50%) OAuth
16 14 (3.26%) JSON
16 14 (3.26%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 69 (16.08%) Cloud Native
2 61 (14.22%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.50%) Security Posture
5 13 (3.03%) Blockchain
5 13 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
6 12 (2.80%) Web3
7 11 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.86%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.86%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.40%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.17%) PKI
13 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 97 (22.61%) Linux
2 38 (8.86%) Windows
3 14 (3.26%) CentOS
3 14 (3.26%) Unix
3 14 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (2.56%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.70%) Debian
10 2 (0.47%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (87.65%) CI/CD
2 306 (71.33%) DevOps
3 211 (49.18%) Agile
4 188 (43.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 132 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 120 (27.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 112 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (22.14%) Continuous Integration
9 81 (18.88%) Microservices
10 80 (18.65%) Scrum
11 75 (17.48%) Observability
12 74 (17.25%) Test Automation
13 71 (16.55%) Event-Driven
14 67 (15.62%) Continuous Delivery
15 66 (15.38%) Software Engineering
16 65 (15.15%) Mentoring
17 64 (14.92%) Roadmaps
18 61 (14.22%) DevSecOps
19 48 (11.19%) Collaborative Culture
19 48 (11.19%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 201 (46.85%) Python
2 125 (29.14%) Bash
3 117 (27.27%) Java
4 70 (16.32%) TypeScript
5 64 (14.92%) SQL
6 51 (11.89%) JavaScript
7 43 (10.02%) Go
7 43 (10.02%) PowerShell
8 41 (9.56%) Apex Code
8 41 (9.56%) SOQL
8 41 (9.56%) SOSL
9 39 (9.09%) Groovy
10 20 (4.66%) Rust
11 12 (2.80%) C#
12 8 (1.86%) Bicep
12 8 (1.86%) Delphi
13 7 (1.63%) C++
14 5 (1.17%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 99 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.66%) AWS Certification
3 46 (10.72%) SC Cleared
4 43 (10.02%) Degree
5 34 (7.93%) DV Cleared
6 26 (6.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (5.59%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (3.73%) OSCP
9 14 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (2.56%) ISTQB
12 9 (2.10%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (1.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 7 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (1.17%) CCNA
17 4 (0.93%) Azure Certification
17 4 (0.93%) CISSP
17 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
18 3 (0.70%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.72%) QA
2 17 (3.96%) NIST
3 16 (3.73%) GDPR
4 12 (2.80%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.80%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.63%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.47%) ECSS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 184 (42.89%) Docker
2 22 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.17%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.17%) vSphere
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 199 (46.39%) Terraform
2 178 (41.49%) Kubernetes
3 98 (22.84%) Ansible
4 96 (22.38%) Grafana
5 86 (20.05%) Prometheus
6 42 (9.79%) HP Fortify
7 12 (2.80%) Nagios
8 10 (2.33%) Kibana
9 9 (2.10%) Puppet
10 8 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.63%) Argo
12 6 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.17%) logstash
13 5 (1.17%) Progress Chef
13 5 (1.17%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.93%) WSUS
15 3 (0.70%) Istio
15 3 (0.70%) Rancher
15 3 (0.70%) VxRail
16 2 (0.47%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 78 (18.18%) Splunk
2 42 (9.79%) Salesforce
3 33 (7.69%) Oracle
3 33 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 31 (7.23%) Microsoft
5 22 (5.13%) VMware
6 21 (4.90%) Atlassian
7 14 (3.26%) Cisco
8 10 (2.33%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.86%) Google
9 8 (1.86%) Juniper
10 7 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.40%) F5
12 5 (1.17%) Rapid7
12 5 (1.17%) SAP
13 4 (0.93%) Dell
13 4 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.70%) AppDynamics
14 3 (0.70%) BeyondTrust
14 3 (0.70%) Tenable