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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 257 362
Rank change year-on-year -77 +105 -23
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 594 573 620
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.16% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.39% 13.82% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 366 190 389
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,125 £44,738
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 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -

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 4,437 4,145 7,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.37% 8.41% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,959 2,618 5,050
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,975
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.73% -9.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -44 533 £69,310 -7.59% 195
UK excluding London -79 371 £65,000 -3.70% 134
London -8 190 £85,000 +6.25% 86
Work from Home -155 147 £67,500 -6.90% 93
North of England -56 133 £67,500 +0.69% 47
South East +65 97 £65,000 -13.33% 28
South West -34 69 £75,000 +25.00% 16
Yorkshire +1 57 £69,310 -7.59% 7
North West -81 42 £65,000 -3.04% 25
North East -15 34 £55,000 - 15
Scotland -20 31 £110,000 +18.92% 10
Midlands -83 31 £58,750 -17.54% 22
West Midlands -30 22 £57,500 -28.13% 18
East Midlands -57 9 £60,000 -9.43% 4
Wales -55 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -37 4 £46,000 -27.84% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 1

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 27 (4.55%) Apache
2 26 (4.38%) Confluence
3 17 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.19%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) IIS
5 3 (0.51%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 377 (63.47%) AWS
2 221 (37.21%) Azure
3 134 (22.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 125 (21.04%) GitHub
5 98 (16.50%) Serverless
6 84 (14.14%) Amazon S3
7 82 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (13.30%) AWS Lambda
9 74 (12.46%) GCP
10 68 (11.45%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (9.60%) Amazon ECS
12 53 (8.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (8.75%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (7.74%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (7.74%) OpenShift
15 43 (7.24%) AWS Step Functions
16 39 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (6.40%) Azure AKS
18 35 (5.89%) Apigee
19 32 (5.39%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.40%) Broadband
2 28 (4.71%) Firewall
3 14 (2.36%) MQTT
4 13 (2.19%) DNS
4 13 (2.19%) Network Security
5 10 (1.68%) HTTP
5 10 (1.68%) LAN
5 10 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (1.35%) IPv4
6 8 (1.35%) WAN
7 7 (1.18%) DSL
8 6 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.01%) Wireless
8 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.84%) BGP
9 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.84%) VPN
10 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.51%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.78%) NoSQL
2 56 (9.43%) DynamoDB
3 53 (8.92%) MongoDB
4 50 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (5.89%) MySQL
6 29 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.70%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.68%) Big Data
9 10 (1.68%) Pinecone
10 9 (1.52%) Redis
11 8 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.67%) Metadata
14 4 (0.67%) Power BI
14 4 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 271 (45.62%) Jenkins
2 188 (31.65%) Git
3 82 (13.80%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.27%) JIRA
5 59 (9.93%) Cucumber
6 55 (9.26%) Cypress.io
7 35 (5.89%) Selenium
8 29 (4.88%) Maven
9 22 (3.70%) CircleCI
9 22 (3.70%) JUnit
9 22 (3.70%) Postman
10 21 (3.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 15 (2.53%) Bitbucket
11 15 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (2.36%) REST Assured
13 13 (2.19%) Gatling
13 13 (2.19%) JMeter
14 11 (1.85%) Vite
15 10 (1.68%) Robot Framework
15 10 (1.68%) Spock
General
1 147 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 122 (20.54%) Finance
3 84 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (9.60%) Banking
6 53 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (5.05%) Marketing
8 27 (4.55%) Games
9 15 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.19%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.85%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.68%) Electronics
14 7 (1.18%) Legal
15 6 (1.01%) Advertising
15 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.67%) Automotive
16 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 141 (23.74%) Senior
2 125 (21.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (14.98%) Developer
4 59 (9.93%) Software Engineer
5 45 (7.58%) Architect
6 43 (7.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 42 (7.07%) Lead
8 40 (6.73%) Principal Engineer
9 37 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (6.23%) Java Developer
9 37 (6.23%) Java Engineer
10 32 (5.39%) Senior DevOps
10 32 (5.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 30 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 30 (5.05%) Salesforce Architect
12 29 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
12 29 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
13 27 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
14 26 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 25 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (13.80%) Spring Boot
2 79 (13.30%) Kafka
3 72 (12.12%) Spring
4 68 (11.45%) REST
5 62 (10.44%) AngularJS
6 54 (9.09%) Node.js
7 52 (8.75%) React
8 47 (7.91%) RESTful
9 42 (7.07%) Elastic Stack
10 37 (6.23%) Jest
11 34 (5.72%) RabbitMQ
11 34 (5.72%) SOAP
12 31 (5.22%) Playwright
13 30 (5.05%) Gherkin
13 30 (5.05%) Lightning Web Components
14 28 (4.71%) Visualforce
15 27 (4.55%) JSON
16 23 (3.87%) .NET
17 22 (3.70%) Vue
18 21 (3.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (26.77%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.29%) Product Ownership
3 69 (11.62%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (5.89%) Public Cloud
5 34 (5.72%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (4.88%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.86%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.53%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.53%) Private Cloud
10 12 (2.02%) Blockchain
10 12 (2.02%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.85%) Web3
12 10 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.52%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
14 8 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 167 (28.11%) Linux
2 66 (11.11%) Windows
3 40 (6.73%) CentOS
4 29 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.21%) Unix
6 24 (4.04%) Windows Server
7 12 (2.02%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Debian
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 410 (69.02%) DevOps
3 317 (53.37%) Agile
4 289 (48.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 189 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 189 (31.82%) Microservices
6 186 (31.31%) Test Automation
7 143 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 123 (20.71%) Mentoring
9 120 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
9 120 (20.20%) Software Engineering
10 112 (18.86%) Scrum
11 105 (17.68%) Observability
12 101 (17.00%) Continuous Integration
13 90 (15.15%) SDLC
14 84 (14.14%) AI
14 84 (14.14%) DevSecOps
14 84 (14.14%) Event-Driven
15 80 (13.47%) Coaching
16 79 (13.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 277 (46.63%) Python
2 179 (30.13%) Java
3 153 (25.76%) Bash
4 105 (17.68%) SQL
5 84 (14.14%) JavaScript
6 79 (13.30%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.62%) PowerShell
8 48 (8.08%) Go
9 41 (6.90%) Groovy
10 34 (5.72%) C#
11 31 (5.22%) C++
12 30 (5.05%) Apex Code
13 28 (4.71%) SOQL
13 28 (4.71%) SOSL
14 27 (4.55%) Rust
15 11 (1.85%) PHP
16 10 (1.68%) C
17 7 (1.18%) Perl
17 7 (1.18%) Ruby
17 7 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 214 (36.03%) Security Cleared
2 130 (21.89%) SC Cleared
3 77 (12.96%) Degree
4 71 (11.95%) AWS Certification
5 48 (8.08%) DV Cleared
6 34 (5.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (3.70%) Master's Degree
8 21 (3.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (3.03%) OSCP
10 17 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.86%) ISTQB
11 16 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.53%) RHCSA
13 12 (2.02%) CCNA
14 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.35%) RHCE
16 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
17 5 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (12.79%) QA
2 28 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.70%) GDPR
4 17 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.53%) SOC 2
5 15 (2.53%) WCAG
6 12 (2.02%) NIST
6 12 (2.02%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.01%) JTAG
9 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.34%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 274 (46.13%) Docker
2 26 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.20%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.85%) vSphere
5 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.68%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.35%) Squid
7 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Firmware
8 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 295 (49.66%) Terraform
2 265 (44.61%) Kubernetes
3 149 (25.08%) Ansible
4 91 (15.32%) Grafana
5 74 (12.46%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.23%) Argo
7 29 (4.88%) HP Fortify
8 25 (4.21%) Nagios
9 20 (3.37%) Kibana
10 16 (2.69%) logstash
10 16 (2.69%) Puppet
11 13 (2.19%) Packer
12 9 (1.52%) Podman
13 8 (1.35%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.84%) VxRail
16 4 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 80 (13.47%) Splunk
2 53 (8.92%) Red Hat
3 44 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 37 (6.23%) VMware
5 34 (5.72%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.86%) AppDynamics
7 15 (2.53%) Oracle
8 14 (2.36%) Atlassian
9 13 (2.19%) Cisco
9 13 (2.19%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.19%) Google
9 13 (2.19%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.68%) Databricks
10 10 (1.68%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.35%) Intel
11 8 (1.35%) Tenable
12 7 (1.18%) SAP
13 6 (1.01%) IBM
13 6 (1.01%) Juniper
13 6 (1.01%) Palo Alto