GitLab
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 363 312
Rank change year-on-year -31 -51 -46
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 320 739 1,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.75% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.82% 7.73% 7.73%
Number of salaries quoted 190 555 673
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,920 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.31% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.60% +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 5,498 9,566 15,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 9.73% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 6,755 9,183
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitLab.

Salary trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 -31 286 £77,500 +19.23% 343
UK excluding London -19 176 £72,250 +15.60% 202
London +25 133 £85,000 -5.29% 151
Work from Home -29 117 £70,000 +11.50% 273
South West +106 48 £62,500 -1.96% 63
North of England -14 45 £67,037 +11.73% 52
South East +35 34 £77,500 +14.81% 28
North West -29 26 £67,037 +11.73% 29
Scotland +99 23 £85,000 +38.21% 12
Yorkshire +47 17 £70,000 +11.50% 19
Midlands +25 15 £70,000 +27.27% 27
East of England +39 11 £77,500 +24.00% 15
West Midlands +26 10 £70,000 +75.00% 14
East Midlands +38 5 £70,000 +27.27% 13
North East +38 2 £63,750 +1.54% 4
Northern Ireland +36 2 - - 5
Wales +10 1 £32,500 -48.00% 2

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 30 (9.38%) Confluence
2 8 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.56%) Apache
4 4 (1.25%) nginx
5 3 (0.94%) CICS
6 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.31%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Strapi
7 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 201 (62.81%) AWS
2 105 (32.81%) Azure
3 51 (15.94%) Amazon EC2
4 49 (15.31%) Amazon S3
5 48 (15.00%) GitHub
6 46 (14.38%) Serverless
7 45 (14.06%) GCP
8 41 (12.81%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (11.88%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (8.13%) Datadog
12 21 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (3.75%) Amazon ECR
17 11 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
18 10 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
19 8 (2.50%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.13%) Firewall
2 7 (2.19%) DNS
3 6 (1.88%) VPN
4 4 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (0.94%) Internet
6 2 (0.63%) Broadband
6 2 (0.63%) IPv6
6 2 (0.63%) Multicast
6 2 (0.63%) Network Security
6 2 (0.63%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.63%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.63%) WAN
6 2 (0.63%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.31%) 4G
7 1 (0.31%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.31%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.31%) SCTP
7 1 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.31%) SpaceWire
7 1 (0.31%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.31%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (11.88%) MongoDB
3 33 (10.31%) NoSQL
4 31 (9.69%) MySQL
5 16 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 14 (4.38%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.75%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.88%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.56%) Tableau
10 4 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.25%) Power BI
11 3 (0.94%) Big Data
11 3 (0.94%) Couchbase
11 3 (0.94%) DB2
11 3 (0.94%) Parquet
11 3 (0.94%) Redis
11 3 (0.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 127 (39.69%) Jenkins
2 83 (25.94%) Git
3 35 (10.94%) JIRA
4 26 (8.13%) Sonatype Nexus
5 24 (7.50%) Maven
6 23 (7.19%) JUnit
7 19 (5.94%) Mockito
8 18 (5.63%) SonarQube
9 17 (5.31%) CircleCI
9 17 (5.31%) Cucumber
9 17 (5.31%) IntelliJ
10 12 (3.75%) Robot Framework
11 11 (3.44%) Bitbucket
11 11 (3.44%) TeamCity
12 10 (3.13%) Postman
13 9 (2.81%) Artifactory
14 8 (2.50%) Selenium
15 5 (1.56%) Fiddler
15 5 (1.56%) JMeter
15 5 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.44%) Finance
3 46 (14.38%) Banking
4 23 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.75%) Marketing
8 11 (3.44%) Retail
9 9 (2.81%) Automotive
9 9 (2.81%) Front Office
9 9 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.50%) Law
11 7 (2.19%) Aerospace
11 7 (2.19%) Electronics
11 7 (2.19%) Legal
11 7 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.88%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.88%) Social Science
13 5 (1.56%) Private Banking
13 5 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (21.56%) Software Engineer
2 63 (19.69%) Developer
3 60 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (16.25%) Senior
5 31 (9.69%) Java Developer
5 31 (9.69%) Lead
6 28 (8.75%) Senior Developer
7 27 (8.44%) AWS DevOps
8 24 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
9 23 (7.19%) Python Engineer
10 21 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (5.94%) Senior Java Developer
13 18 (5.63%) Architect
14 17 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
15 16 (5.00%) AWS Developer
15 16 (5.00%) DevOps Developer
16 14 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
17 13 (4.06%) Java Pricing Developer
17 13 (4.06%) Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.25%) React
2 42 (13.13%) REST
2 42 (13.13%) Spring
3 41 (12.81%) RESTful
4 40 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 36 (11.25%) Kafka
6 26 (8.13%) .NET
7 22 (6.88%) Django
8 21 (6.56%) AngularJS
9 16 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (4.69%) .NET Core
10 15 (4.69%) CSS
10 15 (4.69%) HTML
10 15 (4.69%) Node.js
11 14 (4.38%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (4.38%) JMS
12 13 (4.06%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (3.75%) Hibernate
13 12 (3.75%) Web Services
14 11 (3.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.31%) Cloud Native
1 17 (5.31%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 14 (4.38%) Credit Derivative
4 13 (4.06%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.44%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (2.50%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.19%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.88%) Molecular Biology
9 6 (1.88%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.56%) Blockchain
10 5 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.56%) Web3
11 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 78 (24.38%) Linux
2 17 (5.31%) Windows
3 10 (3.13%) Rocky
4 9 (2.81%) Android
4 9 (2.81%) Apple iOS
4 9 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.56%) VMS
6 4 (1.25%) CentOS
7 3 (0.94%) Debian
7 3 (0.94%) Unix
7 3 (0.94%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.94%) zOS
8 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (71.25%) CI/CD
2 181 (56.56%) DevOps
3 126 (39.38%) Containerisation
4 121 (37.81%) Agile
5 115 (35.94%) Software Engineering
6 106 (33.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (24.38%) Microservices
8 60 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (17.81%) Mentoring
10 52 (16.25%) Test Automation
11 47 (14.69%) Continuous Integration
12 42 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (12.81%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (11.25%) Analytics
15 35 (10.94%) Scrum
16 34 (10.63%) Machine Learning
17 33 (10.31%) Full-Stack Development
18 32 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
19 29 (9.06%) Configuration Management
19 29 (9.06%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (49.06%) Python
2 101 (31.56%) Java
3 82 (25.63%) SQL
4 66 (20.63%) JavaScript
5 64 (20.00%) Bash
6 41 (12.81%) TypeScript
7 34 (10.63%) C++
8 24 (7.50%) C#
9 20 (6.25%) Go
10 18 (5.63%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.19%) Rust
12 6 (1.88%) Bicep
12 6 (1.88%) C
12 6 (1.88%) Swift
13 5 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (1.25%) Groovy
14 4 (1.25%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.25%) PHP
15 3 (0.94%) COBOL
15 3 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (19.06%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.81%) DV Cleared
4 24 (7.50%) Degree
5 14 (4.38%) AWS Certification
6 10 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.94%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.63%) PhD
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (11.88%) QA
2 7 (2.19%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.88%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) ECSS
6 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.31%) NCSC
6 1 (0.31%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 149 (46.56%) Docker
2 9 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.94%) LXC
5 3 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 170 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 137 (42.81%) Terraform
3 103 (32.19%) Ansible
4 39 (12.19%) Prometheus
5 33 (10.31%) Grafana
6 17 (5.31%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.06%) Argo
8 10 (3.13%) Kibana
8 10 (3.13%) Nagios
8 10 (3.13%) Puppet
9 8 (2.50%) Kustomize
10 4 (1.25%) Graylog
10 4 (1.25%) Packer
10 4 (1.25%) Rundeck
11 3 (0.94%) Rancher
12 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.63%) CA Endevor
12 2 (0.63%) Istio
12 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (6.25%) IBM
2 15 (4.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.69%) Red Hat
3 13 (4.06%) Atlassian
4 11 (3.44%) Oracle
4 11 (3.44%) Splunk
5 8 (2.50%) Google
6 7 (2.19%) Databricks
6 7 (2.19%) VMware
7 6 (1.88%) Cisco
7 6 (1.88%) Sawtooth Software
8 5 (1.56%) F5
8 5 (1.56%) Juniper
9 4 (1.25%) Citrix
9 4 (1.25%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.25%) NetApp
9 4 (1.25%) New Relic
9 4 (1.25%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.25%) Pure Storage
9 4 (1.25%) Rapid7