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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 264 349
Rank change year-on-year -56 +85 -33
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 536 534 764
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.25% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.64% 13.42% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 327 161 566
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +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 4,239 3,980 9,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.57% 9.35% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,787 2,587 6,608
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -42 474 £75,000 -6.25% 182
UK excluding London -76 323 £67,500 -3.57% 147
London +17 172 £84,250 -3.71% 54
Work from Home -97 162 £69,310 -3.06% 93
North of England -54 126 £69,310 +3.39% 61
South East +53 90 £67,500 +5.88% 32
Yorkshire +5 73 £69,310 -3.74% 11
South West -56 46 £65,000 +6.12% 14
North West -84 36 £65,000 -3.04% 29
Scotland -33 35 £95,000 +8.57% 5
Midlands -98 20 £60,000 -14.29% 21
North East -27 17 £61,538 - 21
West Midlands -63 16 £60,000 -15.79% 14
East of England -42 6 £56,250 -29.69% 8
East Midlands -72 4 - - 7
Wales -31 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 25 (4.66%) Confluence
2 23 (4.29%) Apache
3 11 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.75%) IIS
7 3 (0.56%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.56%) JBoss
7 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 325 (60.63%) AWS
2 205 (38.25%) Azure
3 144 (26.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 114 (21.27%) Serverless
5 96 (17.91%) AWS Lambda
6 89 (16.60%) GitHub
7 87 (16.23%) Amazon S3
8 78 (14.55%) GCP
9 70 (13.06%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (10.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 56 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (10.07%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (9.33%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (8.40%) Apigee
15 43 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 42 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
17 38 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (7.09%) OpenShift
18 37 (6.90%) Datadog
19 36 (6.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.65%) Broadband
2 30 (5.60%) DNS
3 29 (5.41%) Firewall
4 13 (2.43%) DSL
5 12 (2.24%) LAN
5 12 (2.24%) MQTT
6 11 (2.05%) Software-Defined Networking
7 10 (1.87%) Network Security
8 9 (1.68%) WAN
9 8 (1.49%) HTTP
9 8 (1.49%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.31%) IPv4
11 6 (1.12%) BGP
11 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.12%) DHCP
11 6 (1.12%) VPN
12 5 (0.93%) MPLS
13 4 (0.75%) Asterisk PBX
13 4 (0.75%) Bluetooth
13 4 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 61 (11.38%) NoSQL
3 49 (9.14%) MongoDB
4 39 (7.28%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (4.10%) MySQL
8 16 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.68%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.49%) Big Data
11 7 (1.31%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.93%) CockroachDB
12 5 (0.93%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.37%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.37%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 255 (47.57%) Jenkins
2 143 (26.68%) Git
3 100 (18.66%) SonarQube
4 59 (11.01%) Cypress.io
5 47 (8.77%) JIRA
6 45 (8.40%) Cucumber
7 42 (7.84%) Maven
8 29 (5.41%) CircleCI
9 24 (4.48%) Bitbucket
10 23 (4.29%) Selenium
11 15 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (2.61%) JUnit
12 14 (2.61%) REST Assured
13 12 (2.24%) Postman
14 10 (1.87%) JMeter
14 10 (1.87%) Vite
15 8 (1.49%) Gatling
15 8 (1.49%) Robot Framework
16 6 (1.12%) Artifactory
17 5 (0.93%) LoadRunner
General
1 108 (20.15%) Social Skills
2 106 (19.78%) Finance
3 53 (9.89%) Banking
4 47 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 39 (7.28%) Marketing
7 34 (6.34%) Games
8 17 (3.17%) Telecoms
9 16 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.61%) Advertising
11 13 (2.43%) Aerospace
12 12 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.87%) Electronics
14 6 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.93%) Automotive
15 5 (0.93%) Retail
16 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.75%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (21.46%) Senior
2 95 (17.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 92 (17.16%) Developer
4 61 (11.38%) Lead
5 55 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 51 (9.51%) Architect
7 45 (8.40%) Java Developer
8 42 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 41 (7.65%) Software Engineer
10 33 (6.16%) Salesforce Architect
11 30 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (5.60%) Senior DevOps
12 28 (5.22%) Senior Developer
13 27 (5.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (4.66%) Security Engineer
15 21 (3.92%) Java Engineer
16 20 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
16 20 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
16 20 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
17 19 (3.54%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.62%) Spring Boot
2 67 (12.50%) REST
3 62 (11.57%) Kafka
4 58 (10.82%) AngularJS
5 51 (9.51%) Spring
6 42 (7.84%) Gherkin
7 41 (7.65%) Jest
8 37 (6.90%) RESTful
9 36 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
9 36 (6.72%) RabbitMQ
10 35 (6.53%) Node.js
10 35 (6.53%) SOAP
11 34 (6.34%) Lightning Web Components
11 34 (6.34%) React
11 34 (6.34%) Visualforce
12 23 (4.29%) JSON
13 22 (4.10%) YAML
14 21 (3.92%) gRPC
15 19 (3.54%) LangChain
15 19 (3.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 108 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.75%) Product Ownership
3 43 (8.02%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 21 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.36%) Blockchain
7 17 (3.17%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.17%) e-Learning
7 17 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.17%) Web3
8 16 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.99%) Security Posture
9 13 (2.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 9 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 140 (26.12%) Linux
2 58 (10.82%) Windows
3 25 (4.66%) Unix
4 22 (4.10%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.36%) CentOS
6 13 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (2.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.37%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) Debian
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
12 1 (0.19%) VMS
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (86.19%) CI/CD
2 366 (68.28%) DevOps
3 275 (51.31%) Agile
4 246 (45.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 156 (29.10%) Containerisation
6 142 (26.49%) Microservices
7 133 (24.81%) Test Automation
8 123 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 114 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (19.78%) Continuous Integration
11 104 (19.40%) Scrum
12 101 (18.84%) Mentoring
13 97 (18.10%) Observability
14 93 (17.35%) Software Engineering
15 87 (16.23%) DevSecOps
16 78 (14.55%) SDLC
17 77 (14.37%) Event-Driven
18 76 (14.18%) Continuous Delivery
19 63 (11.75%) Coaching
20 62 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 252 (47.01%) Python
2 163 (30.41%) Java
3 151 (28.17%) Bash
4 81 (15.11%) TypeScript
5 76 (14.18%) SQL
6 67 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 58 (10.82%) PowerShell
8 53 (9.89%) Go
9 50 (9.33%) Groovy
10 34 (6.34%) Apex Code
10 34 (6.34%) SOQL
10 34 (6.34%) SOSL
11 32 (5.97%) C#
12 31 (5.78%) Rust
13 26 (4.85%) C++
14 9 (1.68%) Perl
15 8 (1.49%) C
16 6 (1.12%) Bicep
16 6 (1.12%) PHP
17 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 153 (28.54%) Security Cleared
2 81 (15.11%) SC Cleared
3 68 (12.69%) Degree
4 64 (11.94%) AWS Certification
5 28 (5.22%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.48%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (4.29%) OSCP
9 21 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.36%) Master's Degree
11 16 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.80%) ISTQB
13 14 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (2.24%) CCNA
14 12 (2.24%) RHCSA
15 7 (1.31%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (1.31%) RHCE
16 5 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.94%) QA
2 19 (3.54%) GDPR
3 17 (3.17%) NIST
4 13 (2.43%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.43%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.75%) JTAG
7 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 226 (42.16%) Docker
2 29 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (4.48%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.05%) VMware NSX
4 11 (2.05%) vSphere
5 7 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.31%) Squid
5 7 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 273 (50.93%) Terraform
2 223 (41.60%) Kubernetes
3 133 (24.81%) Ansible
4 90 (16.79%) Grafana
5 83 (15.49%) Prometheus
6 39 (7.28%) HP Fortify
7 32 (5.97%) Argo
8 21 (3.92%) Nagios
9 15 (2.80%) Kibana
10 13 (2.43%) Puppet
11 12 (2.24%) Packer
12 11 (2.05%) logstash
13 8 (1.49%) Podman
14 7 (1.31%) vCenter Server
14 7 (1.31%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.93%) VxRail
17 4 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (15.67%) Splunk
2 48 (8.96%) Red Hat
3 38 (7.09%) Microsoft
3 38 (7.09%) VMware
4 35 (6.53%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.92%) Oracle
6 14 (2.61%) Cisco
7 13 (2.43%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.24%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.05%) AppDynamics
9 11 (2.05%) Google
10 10 (1.87%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.49%) Juniper
11 8 (1.49%) Tenable
12 7 (1.31%) IBM
12 7 (1.31%) Rapid7
13 6 (1.12%) F5
13 6 (1.12%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.93%) SolarWinds
14 5 (0.93%) Veracode