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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 268 311
Rank change year-on-year -66 +43 +16
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 634 530 580
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.08% 0.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.21% 14.17% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 388 172 263
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,750 £108,625 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -

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 4,798 3,739 6,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.65% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,924 2,206 3,427
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,615 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £94,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -52 586 £70,000 -9.68% 167
UK excluding London -111 404 £67,500 -3.57% 130
London -10 188 £95,000 +5.56% 49
North of England -43 179 £67,500 -1.82% 40
Work from Home -181 131 £68,405 -14.49% 97
South West -20 80 £75,000 +7.14% 33
North East -10 72 £60,000 -9.43% 7
South East -6 71 £65,000 -14.75% 17
North West -80 71 £69,310 +10.90% 26
Yorkshire -4 45 £72,500 -3.33% 7
Midlands -79 42 £60,000 -14.29% 26
West Midlands -48 28 £63,750 -21.54% 20
East Midlands -68 14 £60,000 -1.64% 6
East of England -64 12 £53,000 -3.64% 7
Wales -69 10 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Scotland -57 9 £87,500 +0.29% 3
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 36 (5.68%) Apache
2 33 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (4.73%) Confluence
4 27 (4.26%) Apache Spark
5 23 (3.63%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.10%) nginx
7 6 (0.95%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.47%) IIS
9 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 413 (65.14%) AWS
2 228 (35.96%) Azure
3 180 (28.39%) GitHub
4 112 (17.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 95 (14.98%) GitHub Actions
6 87 (13.72%) Amazon S3
7 83 (13.09%) GCP
8 80 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (11.36%) Serverless
10 68 (10.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 61 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
12 56 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (7.41%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (5.84%) OpenShift
16 32 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
16 32 (5.05%) Azure AKS
17 26 (4.10%) Amazon SQS
18 24 (3.79%) Datadog
19 23 (3.63%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.10%) DNS
2 17 (2.68%) Firewall
3 14 (2.21%) Network Security
4 13 (2.05%) Broadband
4 13 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.89%) HTTP
6 11 (1.74%) MQTT
7 9 (1.42%) VPN
8 8 (1.26%) DHCP
9 6 (0.95%) BGP
9 6 (0.95%) IPv4
9 6 (0.95%) NX-OS
9 6 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.95%) Wireless
9 6 (0.95%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.79%) LAN
11 4 (0.63%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.63%) SSH
11 4 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (13.56%) NoSQL
2 71 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (11.04%) MongoDB
4 41 (6.47%) MySQL
5 37 (5.84%) DynamoDB
6 28 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.10%) Relational Database
8 21 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.00%) Redis
10 17 (2.68%) Pinecone
11 13 (2.05%) Chroma
11 13 (2.05%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.89%) Big Data
13 9 (1.42%) Delta Lake
13 9 (1.42%) Power BI
14 7 (1.10%) DocumentDB
14 7 (1.10%) SQL Server
15 6 (0.95%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 261 (41.17%) Jenkins
2 216 (34.07%) Git
3 74 (11.67%) Cucumber
4 71 (11.20%) JIRA
5 48 (7.57%) Cypress.io
6 40 (6.31%) SonarQube
7 38 (5.99%) Selenium
8 33 (5.21%) Postman
9 32 (5.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 29 (4.57%) JUnit
11 21 (3.31%) Maven
12 19 (3.00%) JMeter
13 17 (2.68%) Gatling
14 14 (2.21%) Spock
15 13 (2.05%) REST Assured
15 13 (2.05%) Vite
16 12 (1.89%) Zephyr
17 11 (1.74%) Artifactory
17 11 (1.74%) Robot Framework
18 10 (1.58%) Bitbucket
General
1 178 (28.08%) Social Skills
2 141 (22.24%) Finance
3 120 (18.93%) Public Sector
4 64 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (9.15%) Banking
6 50 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.31%) Financial Institution
8 18 (2.84%) Aerospace
9 16 (2.52%) Marketing
10 15 (2.37%) Law
11 11 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.42%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.26%) Electronics
13 8 (1.26%) Legal
14 5 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Military
16 2 (0.32%) Automotive
17 1 (0.16%) Advertising
17 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 157 (24.76%) Senior
2 150 (23.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 95 (14.98%) Developer
4 67 (10.57%) Software Engineer
5 61 (9.62%) Principal Engineer
6 59 (9.31%) Java Engineer
7 51 (8.04%) Lead
8 41 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 35 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
9 35 (5.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 34 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (4.89%) Test Engineer
12 30 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.73%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.57%) Senior Developer
14 26 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (4.10%) Senior Java Engineer
14 26 (4.10%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.94%) Principal Java Engineer
16 24 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (48.58%) Terraform
2 104 (16.40%) Kafka
3 101 (15.93%) Spring
4 95 (14.98%) Spring Boot
5 80 (12.62%) React
6 69 (10.88%) RESTful
7 65 (10.25%) Node.js
8 60 (9.46%) REST
9 56 (8.83%) AngularJS
10 42 (6.62%) Playwright
11 39 (6.15%) .NET
11 39 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
12 31 (4.89%) Jest
13 29 (4.57%) FastAPI
14 28 (4.42%) LangChain
15 25 (3.94%) PySpark
16 24 (3.79%) CSS
16 24 (3.79%) Gherkin
17 23 (3.63%) Vue
18 21 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 211 (33.28%) Cloud Native
2 90 (14.20%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (8.83%) Product Ownership
4 52 (8.20%) Public Cloud
5 46 (7.26%) e-Learning
6 40 (6.31%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (4.42%) Private Cloud
8 18 (2.84%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.52%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.37%) Virtual Team
11 14 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (2.05%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.74%) Embedded Systems
14 10 (1.58%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.10%) IoT
16 7 (1.10%) Management Information System
16 7 (1.10%) PKI
16 7 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.95%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 182 (28.71%) Linux
2 55 (8.68%) Windows
3 49 (7.73%) CentOS
4 43 (6.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (4.10%) Unix
6 15 (2.37%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.26%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.79%) VMS
9 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.63%) Debian
9 4 (0.63%) Rocky
9 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.47%) Android
10 3 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (91.17%) CI/CD
2 408 (64.35%) DevOps
3 363 (57.26%) Agile
4 327 (51.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 269 (42.43%) Test Automation
6 206 (32.49%) Microservices
7 186 (29.34%) Containerisation
8 166 (26.18%) Mentoring
9 164 (25.87%) Software Engineering
10 145 (22.87%) AI
11 141 (22.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 137 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
13 131 (20.66%) Observability
14 114 (17.98%) SDLC
15 106 (16.72%) Technical Leadership
16 104 (16.40%) Platform Engineering
17 97 (15.30%) Coaching
17 97 (15.30%) Scrum
18 96 (15.14%) Full-Stack Development
19 82 (12.93%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 298 (47.00%) Python
2 209 (32.97%) Java
3 154 (24.29%) Bash
4 148 (23.34%) SQL
5 105 (16.56%) TypeScript
6 102 (16.09%) JavaScript
7 80 (12.62%) PowerShell
8 36 (5.68%) Go
9 35 (5.52%) C#
10 33 (5.21%) C++
11 26 (4.10%) Groovy
12 18 (2.84%) Rust
13 14 (2.21%) PHP
14 12 (1.89%) C
15 11 (1.74%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.74%) Shell Script
16 8 (1.26%) Bicep
16 8 (1.26%) Scala
17 7 (1.10%) Ruby
18 5 (0.79%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 263 (41.48%) Security Cleared
2 179 (28.23%) SC Cleared
3 81 (12.78%) AWS Certification
4 79 (12.46%) Degree
5 66 (10.41%) DV Cleared
6 50 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 37 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.00%) Master's Degree
9 18 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (2.52%) ISTQB
11 13 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (2.05%) RHCSA
12 12 (1.89%) CCNA
12 12 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (1.10%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.95%) MCSE
16 6 (0.95%) OSCP
16 6 (0.95%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (15.46%) QA
2 32 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 31 (4.89%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.84%) WCAG
5 11 (1.74%) GDPR
6 10 (1.58%) SLA
7 8 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.10%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.95%) JTAG
10 4 (0.63%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.47%) NIST
11 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 320 (50.47%) Docker
2 23 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.89%) vSphere
5 8 (1.26%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.10%) Firmware
7 6 (0.95%) Squid
7 6 (0.95%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.16%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.16%) zsh
Systems Management
1 273 (43.06%) Kubernetes
2 142 (22.40%) Ansible
3 93 (14.67%) Grafana
4 67 (10.57%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.31%) Argo
6 23 (3.63%) Puppet
7 19 (3.00%) Kibana
7 19 (3.00%) Nagios
8 14 (2.21%) HP Fortify
8 14 (2.21%) logstash
9 10 (1.58%) Packer
9 10 (1.58%) Progress Chef
10 9 (1.42%) Podman
11 6 (0.95%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.95%) vCenter Server
11 6 (0.95%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
13 3 (0.47%) Istio
13 3 (0.47%) linkerd
13 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (8.52%) Splunk
2 52 (8.20%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.84%) Red Hat
4 31 (4.89%) VMware
5 23 (3.63%) Oracle
6 20 (3.15%) Google
6 20 (3.15%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.84%) Databricks
7 18 (2.84%) Mistral
8 16 (2.52%) AppDynamics
9 15 (2.37%) Atlassian
10 12 (1.89%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.42%) Rapid7
11 9 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.42%) SAP
12 8 (1.26%) YouTube
13 7 (1.10%) Cisco
13 7 (1.10%) NVIDIA
13 7 (1.10%) OneLogin
13 7 (1.10%) Pega