GitLab Job Trends

GitLab
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring GitLab skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 315 349
Rank change year-on-year +43 +34 -82
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 530 656 555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 0.84% 0.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.03% 9.75% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 176 307 382
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £82,500 £86,500
90th Percentile £110,625 £107,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 3,778 6,728 8,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.62% 8.60% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,253 3,944 6,491
10th Percentile £36,650 £38,575 £42,069
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,218 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +4.03% -6.78% +7.27%

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

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +18 460 £77,500 +10.71% 206
UK excluding London +116 397 £70,000 +12.00% 153
Work from Home +75 333 £80,000 +18.52% 161
North of England +105 171 £68,750 +18.61% 49
North West +84 148 £60,000 +4.35% 27
London -68 119 £85,000 - 87
Midlands +89 77 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Scotland +106 63 £87,250 +42.45% 13
East Midlands +66 45 £61,000 +8.44% 1
South West +47 32 £65,000 +8.33% 27
West Midlands +29 32 £81,250 +24.11% 9
East of England +8 30 £65,000 +4.00% 6
South East -45 24 £75,000 +15.38% 45
Yorkshire +35 19 £75,000 +29.39% 11
North East +17 4 £67,500 +12.50% 11
Wales +19 3 £60,000 -11.11% 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
1 173 (32.64%) Confluence
2 8 (1.51%) nginx
3 4 (0.75%) Apache
3 4 (0.75%) Camunda
4 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.57%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.57%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Simulink
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 422 (79.62%) AWS
2 350 (66.04%) Azure
3 203 (38.30%) GCP
4 34 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (6.42%) GitHub
5 31 (5.85%) Amazon EC2
6 28 (5.28%) Serverless
7 25 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (4.34%) Amazon S3
8 23 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (4.15%) OpenShift
10 20 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (3.40%) Datadog
13 14 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (1.89%) Route 53
16 9 (1.70%) AWS CodeBuild
17 8 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.64%) DNS
2 11 (2.08%) Firewall
3 9 (1.70%) Network Security
4 8 (1.51%) WAN
5 6 (1.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.75%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.57%) Skype
8 3 (0.57%) VPN
8 3 (0.57%) VSAN
9 2 (0.38%) Broadband
9 2 (0.38%) HTTP
9 2 (0.38%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.38%) LAN
9 2 (0.38%) OSPF
9 2 (0.38%) SAN
9 2 (0.38%) VLAN
9 2 (0.38%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
10 1 (0.19%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (50.19%) SQL Server
2 34 (6.42%) MongoDB
3 30 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (3.96%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (2.64%) MySQL
7 10 (1.89%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.51%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.57%) Hazelcast
9 3 (0.57%) Power BI
10 2 (0.38%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.38%) DB2
10 2 (0.38%) Endeca
10 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.38%) Redis
10 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.19%) Big Data
11 1 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 273 (51.51%) Sonatype Nexus
2 271 (51.13%) Cucumber
2 271 (51.13%) JIRA
2 271 (51.13%) SonarQube
3 267 (50.38%) Selenium
4 264 (49.81%) Bitbucket
5 259 (48.87%) Maven
6 128 (24.15%) Jenkins
7 58 (10.94%) Git
8 25 (4.72%) JUnit
9 16 (3.02%) CircleCI
10 14 (2.64%) TeamCity
11 12 (2.26%) Mockito
12 11 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (1.51%) JMeter
14 7 (1.32%) Artifactory
14 7 (1.32%) Gatling
14 7 (1.32%) IntelliJ
15 6 (1.13%) Postman
16 5 (0.94%) Cypress.io
General
1 321 (60.57%) Finance
2 275 (51.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 272 (51.32%) Banking
4 105 (19.81%) Retail
5 93 (17.55%) Investment Banking
6 90 (16.98%) Corporate Banking
7 76 (14.34%) Social Skills
8 33 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (2.26%) Marketing
10 10 (1.89%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.70%) Games
11 9 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.13%) Automotive
12 6 (1.13%) Electronics
12 6 (1.13%) Law
13 5 (0.94%) Advertising
13 5 (0.94%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.57%) Aviation
15 3 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 276 (52.08%) Software Engineer
2 63 (11.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (8.87%) Developer
4 37 (6.98%) Senior
5 34 (6.42%) Lead
6 23 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
7 22 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
8 21 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
9 17 (3.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (2.83%) Architect
10 15 (2.83%) Java Developer
10 15 (2.83%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (2.45%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (2.26%) Java Engineer
12 12 (2.26%) Senior Developer
13 9 (1.70%) AWS Developer
13 9 (1.70%) Engineering Manager
13 9 (1.70%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (54.53%) React
2 282 (53.21%) Spring
3 279 (52.64%) Spring Boot
4 271 (51.13%) Kafka
5 258 (48.68%) CSS
5 258 (48.68%) HTML
6 250 (47.17%) JPA
7 248 (46.79%) Redux
8 172 (32.45%) Hibernate
9 124 (23.40%) REST
10 113 (21.32%) RESTful
11 96 (18.11%) HTML5
12 95 (17.92%) CSS3
13 91 (17.17%) Jest
13 91 (17.17%) Sass
14 27 (5.09%) .NET
15 22 (4.15%) AngularJS
16 21 (3.96%) Node.js
17 18 (3.40%) .NET Core
18 15 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 262 (49.43%) Enterprise Software
2 261 (49.25%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.60%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 14 (2.64%) Private Cloud
6 13 (2.45%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.13%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.13%) Wiki
11 5 (0.94%) Credit Derivative
11 5 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.75%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.75%) FPGA
12 4 (0.75%) PKI
12 4 (0.75%) VHDL
12 4 (0.75%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 77 (14.53%) Linux
2 19 (3.58%) Windows
3 13 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.08%) Debian
4 11 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.13%) Android
7 3 (0.57%) CentOS
8 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.38%) zOS
9 1 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (87.36%) CI/CD
2 425 (80.19%) DevOps
3 365 (68.87%) Agile
4 345 (65.09%) Containerisation
5 316 (59.62%) Software Engineering
6 311 (58.68%) Microservices
7 297 (56.04%) Test Automation
8 278 (52.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 269 (50.75%) SDLC
10 268 (50.57%) Performance Optimisation
11 263 (49.62%) Front End Development
12 204 (38.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 177 (33.40%) TDD
14 168 (31.70%) Clean Code
15 126 (23.77%) Mentoring
16 116 (21.89%) Infrastructure as Code
17 111 (20.94%) User Experience
18 95 (17.92%) Strategic Thinking
19 94 (17.74%) Migration
20 90 (16.98%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 333 (62.83%) Java
2 295 (55.66%) SQL
3 289 (54.53%) JavaScript
4 127 (23.96%) TypeScript
5 120 (22.64%) Python
6 57 (10.75%) Bash
7 39 (7.36%) PowerShell
8 25 (4.72%) C#
9 22 (4.15%) C++
10 21 (3.96%) Go
11 14 (2.64%) C
12 10 (1.89%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.13%) Bicep
14 5 (0.94%) Rust
15 4 (0.75%) Groovy
15 4 (0.75%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.57%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.57%) Embedded C
16 3 (0.57%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (8.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (4.15%) DV Cleared
2 22 (4.15%) SC Cleared
3 18 (3.40%) AWS Certification
4 15 (2.83%) Degree
5 10 (1.89%) CCNA
5 10 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.32%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.13%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.13%) CCNP
8 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (52.83%) QA
2 91 (17.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.13%) GDPR
4 5 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.38%) SLA
7 1 (0.19%) ECSS
7 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 365 (68.87%) Docker
2 12 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.70%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.75%) Firmware
4 4 (0.75%) vSphere
5 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.57%) vCloud
5 3 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.38%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.19%) NFS
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 396 (74.72%) Kubernetes
2 114 (21.51%) Terraform
3 86 (16.23%) Ansible
4 55 (10.38%) Prometheus
5 51 (9.62%) Grafana
6 14 (2.64%) Kibana
7 11 (2.08%) Argo
8 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.94%) Rancher
10 4 (0.75%) Puppet
10 4 (0.75%) vRealize
10 4 (0.75%) WSUS
11 3 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.57%) Rundeck
11 3 (0.57%) SCOM
12 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.38%) CA Endevor
12 2 (0.38%) logstash
12 2 (0.38%) Packer
12 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 247 (46.60%) Solace
2 27 (5.09%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.96%) Splunk
3 21 (3.96%) VMware
4 18 (3.40%) Oracle
5 11 (2.08%) Atlassian
6 8 (1.51%) IBM
7 7 (1.32%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.13%) F5
8 6 (1.13%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.94%) AppDynamics
9 5 (0.94%) Google
10 4 (0.75%) Sonatype
11 3 (0.57%) Cribl.io
11 3 (0.57%) HP
11 3 (0.57%) New Relic
11 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.38%) Citrix
12 2 (0.38%) CyberSource
12 2 (0.38%) ForgeRock