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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 310 328
Rank change year-on-year -85 +18 -62
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 299 552 514
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.81% 0.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.02% 9.22% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 189 250 376
10th Percentile £52,281 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +4.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,188 £84,063
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £101,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.80% +2.00% -7.41%

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 3,727 5,985 6,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 8.81% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,376 3,331 5,592
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,574 £42,439
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.17% +5.45%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 -75 257 £75,000 +7.14% 316
UK excluding London -29 159 £70,000 +9.80% 222
London -56 111 £87,000 +2.35% 129
Work from Home -50 108 £77,500 +19.23% 193
North of England +51 62 £67,500 +11.64% 55
North West +49 41 £63,750 +3.69% 38
South West -9 25 £73,750 +22.92% 39
Scotland +11 19 £100,000 +73.91% 18
Midlands +21 18 £57,600 -9.65% 30
South East -41 18 £77,500 +10.71% 64
Yorkshire +11 16 £77,500 +30.88% 10
East of England +30 15 £61,250 +6.52% 8
West Midlands +9 11 £60,000 - 22
East Midlands +25 7 £55,200 -21.14% 8
North East +10 5 £65,000 +12.14% 7
Wales +10 4 £57,600 -38.40% 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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 10 (3.34%) Apache
3 8 (2.68%) nginx
4 6 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.34%) Camunda
6 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.00%) IIS
6 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.00%) Skype for Business
6 3 (1.00%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Simulink
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.33%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 188 (62.88%) AWS
2 110 (36.79%) Azure
3 61 (20.40%) GitHub
4 48 (16.05%) GCP
5 45 (15.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (12.04%) Serverless
7 35 (11.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 32 (10.70%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (10.37%) OpenShift
10 30 (10.03%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (7.36%) Amazon S3
14 18 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (5.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (4.68%) Datadog
17 9 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
18 8 (2.68%) Power Platform
18 8 (2.68%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.35%) Broadband
2 12 (4.01%) DNS
3 11 (3.68%) Firewall
4 7 (2.34%) Network Security
5 6 (2.01%) VPN
5 6 (2.01%) WAN
6 4 (1.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (1.34%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.34%) VLAN
6 4 (1.34%) VSAN
7 3 (1.00%) OSPF
7 3 (1.00%) Skype
8 2 (0.67%) BGP
8 2 (0.67%) HTTP
8 2 (0.67%) LAN
8 2 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.67%) RTMP
8 2 (0.67%) SAN
8 2 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.04%) MongoDB
2 33 (11.04%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (10.37%) SQL Server
4 26 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 17 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.68%) MySQL
7 8 (2.68%) Power BI
7 8 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.67%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.00%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.67%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.67%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.67%) Metadata
12 2 (0.67%) Redis
12 2 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 154 (51.51%) Jenkins
2 60 (20.07%) Git
3 36 (12.04%) JIRA
4 35 (11.71%) Cucumber
5 34 (11.37%) SonarQube
6 29 (9.70%) Selenium
7 24 (8.03%) JUnit
8 23 (7.69%) Bitbucket
9 20 (6.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (4.35%) CircleCI
11 9 (3.01%) JMeter
11 9 (3.01%) TeamCity
12 8 (2.68%) Postman
13 7 (2.34%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (2.34%) Gatling
13 7 (2.34%) Subversion
14 6 (2.01%) Cypress.io
14 6 (2.01%) Maven
14 6 (2.01%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 80 (26.76%) Finance
1 80 (26.76%) Social Skills
2 44 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (10.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (7.69%) Banking
5 22 (7.36%) Games
5 22 (7.36%) Marketing
6 15 (5.02%) Manufacturing
6 15 (5.02%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.01%) Aerospace
8 10 (3.34%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.34%) Retail
9 9 (3.01%) Advertising
10 8 (2.68%) Electronics
11 7 (2.34%) Automotive
11 7 (2.34%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.34%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.01%) Law
13 4 (1.34%) Aviation
13 4 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (20.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (14.38%) Developer
3 41 (13.71%) Senior
4 36 (12.04%) Lead
5 27 (9.03%) Platform Engineer
6 24 (8.03%) Architect
7 23 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
9 16 (5.35%) Java Engineer
10 15 (5.02%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (5.02%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.68%) Salesforce Architect
12 13 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (4.01%) Backend Developer
13 12 (4.01%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (4.01%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.01%) Technical Architect
14 11 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (3.68%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.71%) Spring
2 37 (12.37%) REST
3 36 (12.04%) Spring Boot
4 33 (11.04%) Elastic Stack
5 28 (9.36%) React
6 25 (8.36%) Kafka
7 21 (7.02%) Node.js
8 18 (6.02%) SOAP
9 16 (5.35%) .NET
9 16 (5.35%) Lightning Web Components
9 16 (5.35%) Visualforce
10 12 (4.01%) AngularJS
11 11 (3.68%) FastAPI
11 11 (3.68%) Playwright
12 10 (3.34%) Hibernate
12 10 (3.34%) pytest
13 9 (3.01%) .NET Core
13 9 (3.01%) Django
14 8 (2.68%) Flask
14 8 (2.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.72%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.36%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.01%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.34%) Virtual Team
6 9 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.01%) Wiki
9 5 (1.67%) PKI
10 4 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.34%) FPGA
10 4 (1.34%) IoT
10 4 (1.34%) Verilog
10 4 (1.34%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 90 (30.10%) Linux
2 27 (9.03%) Windows
3 17 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (4.35%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.68%) Windows Server
6 9 (3.01%) Debian
7 6 (2.01%) CentOS
7 6 (2.01%) Unix
8 4 (1.34%) Android
8 4 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.33%) Fedora
10 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (76.25%) CI/CD
2 193 (64.55%) DevOps
3 126 (42.14%) Agile
3 126 (42.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (33.44%) Containerisation
5 62 (20.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (19.06%) Software Engineering
7 54 (18.06%) Microservices
7 54 (18.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 54 (18.06%) Test Automation
8 47 (15.72%) Observability
8 47 (15.72%) Scrum
9 46 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
10 39 (13.04%) Event-Driven
10 39 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 39 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (10.37%) Configuration Management
12 29 (9.70%) Incident Response
13 26 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 150 (50.17%) Python
2 84 (28.09%) Java
3 65 (21.74%) Bash
4 52 (17.39%) SQL
5 43 (14.38%) PowerShell
6 41 (13.71%) JavaScript
7 37 (12.37%) TypeScript
8 20 (6.69%) C#
9 18 (6.02%) Go
10 16 (5.35%) Apex Code
10 16 (5.35%) C++
11 15 (5.02%) SOQL
11 15 (5.02%) SOSL
12 12 (4.01%) C
13 8 (2.68%) Delphi
13 8 (2.68%) Shell Script
14 7 (2.34%) Bicep
15 6 (2.01%) ANSI SQL
16 4 (1.34%) MATLAB
17 3 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.70%) DV Cleared
3 26 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.36%) AWS Certification
5 19 (6.35%) Degree
6 12 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.01%) ISTQB
9 8 (2.68%) CCNA
9 8 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.34%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.34%) CCNP
12 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.33%) CISM
14 1 (0.33%) GAWN
14 1 (0.33%) GIAC
14 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.71%) QA
2 5 (1.67%) GDPR
3 4 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.67%) ECSS
5 2 (0.67%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.33%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (39.13%) Docker
2 17 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.68%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.67%) vSphere
5 4 (1.34%) Firmware
6 3 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.00%) vCloud
6 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.67%) NFS
7 2 (0.67%) Squid
7 2 (0.67%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 145 (48.49%) Kubernetes
2 112 (37.46%) Terraform
3 81 (27.09%) Ansible
4 77 (25.75%) Grafana
5 69 (23.08%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.68%) Kibana
7 7 (2.34%) Progress Chef
7 7 (2.34%) Puppet
8 5 (1.67%) Argo
9 4 (1.34%) Rancher
9 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.34%) vRealize
9 4 (1.34%) WSUS
10 3 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.00%) logstash
10 3 (1.00%) Nessus
10 3 (1.00%) Rundeck
10 3 (1.00%) SCOM
11 2 (0.67%) Istio
11 2 (0.67%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 38 (12.71%) Splunk
2 37 (12.37%) Oracle
3 26 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 25 (8.36%) VMware
5 23 (7.69%) Atlassian
6 16 (5.35%) Salesforce
7 11 (3.68%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.34%) AppDynamics
9 6 (2.01%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.67%) SAP
10 5 (1.67%) Sonatype
11 4 (1.34%) Cisco
11 4 (1.34%) Cribl.io
11 4 (1.34%) F5
12 3 (1.00%) Databricks
12 3 (1.00%) Google
12 3 (1.00%) HP
13 2 (0.67%) Citrix
13 2 (0.67%) NETGEAR
13 2 (0.67%) ServiceNow