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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 347 314
Rank change year-on-year -14 -33 -34
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 339 403 660
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.79% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.92% 7.61% 8.20%
Number of salaries quoted 210 184 550
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year - +13.82% +2.50%

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 3,801 5,297 8,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.89% 10.38% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,448 3,030 6,479
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 4 February 2026.

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 4 February 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 -13 281 £79,000 +8.97% 232
UK excluding London -6 192 £70,000 - 167
Work from Home +9 126 £75,000 +7.14% 114
London -13 103 £87,500 +2.94% 85
North of England +29 80 £75,000 +13.21% 44
Yorkshire +13 46 £77,500 +50.54% 13
South East -23 32 £80,250 +10.69% 62
South West -19 28 £74,500 +19.20% 32
North West +14 27 £65,000 -3.70% 27
Scotland -17 23 - - 2
Midlands -2 17 £56,350 -19.50% 13
West Midlands +18 12 £57,500 -16.36% 8
East of England +19 11 £67,500 -6.90% 12
North East -2 7 £66,250 -5.36% 4
East Midlands -2 5 £55,200 -26.40% 5
Wales - 3 £55,200 - 2

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 22 (6.49%) Confluence
2 17 (5.01%) Apache
3 9 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.47%) IIS
4 5 (1.47%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.47%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.88%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.88%) nginx
7 2 (0.59%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.88%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 208 (61.36%) AWS
2 127 (37.46%) Azure
3 95 (28.02%) AWS CloudFormation
4 76 (22.42%) GitHub
4 76 (22.42%) Serverless
5 66 (19.47%) AWS Lambda
6 61 (17.99%) GCP
7 51 (15.04%) Amazon S3
8 48 (14.16%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (12.98%) Amazon ECS
10 41 (12.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 31 (9.14%) AWS Step Functions
11 31 (9.14%) OpenShift
12 30 (8.85%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
13 29 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (8.26%) Amazon ECR
15 24 (7.08%) Apigee
16 20 (5.90%) Datadog
17 13 (3.83%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (7.96%) DNS
2 24 (7.08%) Broadband
3 13 (3.83%) Firewall
4 8 (2.36%) VPN
5 7 (2.06%) DSL
6 5 (1.47%) BGP
6 5 (1.47%) DHCP
6 5 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.47%) WAN
7 3 (0.88%) Asterisk PBX
7 3 (0.88%) LAN
7 3 (0.88%) MPLS
7 3 (0.88%) MQTT
7 3 (0.88%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.88%) VLAN
7 3 (0.88%) VoIP
7 3 (0.88%) VPLS
7 3 (0.88%) VSAN
8 2 (0.59%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.62%) DynamoDB
1 36 (10.62%) NoSQL
2 32 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (8.55%) MongoDB
3 29 (8.55%) SQL Server
4 21 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.01%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.95%) MySQL
7 7 (2.06%) Power BI
8 5 (1.47%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.47%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.47%) Pinecone
8 5 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.18%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.88%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.88%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.88%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.59%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (57.52%) Jenkins
2 78 (23.01%) Git
3 63 (18.58%) SonarQube
4 42 (12.39%) JIRA
5 33 (9.73%) Cucumber
6 32 (9.44%) Cypress.io
7 29 (8.55%) Maven
8 25 (7.37%) Bitbucket
9 23 (6.78%) Selenium
10 19 (5.60%) JUnit
11 15 (4.42%) CircleCI
12 12 (3.54%) Postman
13 10 (2.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (2.36%) Subversion
15 6 (1.77%) JMeter
15 6 (1.77%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.47%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.47%) TestNG
16 5 (1.47%) Vite
17 4 (1.18%) Gradle
General
1 85 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 69 (20.35%) Finance
3 34 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.85%) Marketing
5 27 (7.96%) Games
6 25 (7.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (6.49%) Telecoms
8 21 (6.19%) Banking
9 17 (5.01%) Manufacturing
10 16 (4.72%) Public Sector
11 15 (4.42%) Advertising
12 9 (2.65%) Aerospace
13 8 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.47%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.18%) Electronics
15 4 (1.18%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.59%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.59%) Automotive
16 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (18.29%) Lead
2 56 (16.52%) Developer
3 53 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (13.27%) Senior
5 35 (10.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (9.14%) Architect
7 24 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 21 (6.19%) Salesforce Architect
10 18 (5.31%) Java Developer
11 16 (4.72%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.83%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.83%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.54%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.54%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.54%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 12 (3.54%) Technical Architect
14 11 (3.24%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (3.24%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.34%) Spring Boot
2 42 (12.39%) Elastic Stack
3 41 (12.09%) Spring
4 36 (10.62%) REST
5 32 (9.44%) AngularJS
6 29 (8.55%) Kafka
7 27 (7.96%) Gherkin
8 26 (7.67%) Jest
8 26 (7.67%) SOAP
9 23 (6.78%) Lightning Web Components
9 23 (6.78%) React
9 23 (6.78%) Visualforce
10 20 (5.90%) RESTful
11 18 (5.31%) Node.js
12 14 (4.13%) FastAPI
12 14 (4.13%) pytest
13 13 (3.83%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.24%) Apache NiFi
15 10 (2.95%) Vue
16 9 (2.65%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 55 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.73%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.54%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.95%) Private Cloud
6 8 (2.36%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.06%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.06%) Cloud Security Posture
7 7 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.06%) Web3
8 6 (1.77%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.77%) PKI
9 5 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.88%) IoT
11 3 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 91 (26.84%) Linux
2 30 (8.85%) Windows
3 13 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.65%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.36%) Unix
6 7 (2.06%) CentOS
7 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.18%) Debian
9 1 (0.29%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (80.83%) CI/CD
2 228 (67.26%) DevOps
3 161 (47.49%) Agile
4 136 (40.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (28.02%) Containerisation
5 95 (28.02%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (20.06%) Continuous Integration
8 61 (17.99%) Software Engineering
8 61 (17.99%) Test Automation
9 60 (17.70%) Scrum
10 58 (17.11%) Microservices
11 55 (16.22%) Observability
12 54 (15.93%) Mentoring
13 45 (13.27%) Event-Driven
14 43 (12.68%) DevSecOps
14 43 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 41 (12.09%) Roadmaps
15 41 (12.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 39 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 168 (49.56%) Python
2 103 (30.38%) Java
3 94 (27.73%) Bash
4 65 (19.17%) TypeScript
5 59 (17.40%) SQL
6 45 (13.27%) JavaScript
7 36 (10.62%) PowerShell
8 32 (9.44%) Go
9 23 (6.78%) Apex Code
9 23 (6.78%) Groovy
9 23 (6.78%) SOQL
9 23 (6.78%) SOSL
10 14 (4.13%) C#
11 11 (3.24%) Rust
12 8 (2.36%) Delphi
13 7 (2.06%) ANSI SQL
14 6 (1.77%) Bicep
14 6 (1.77%) C++
15 5 (1.47%) C
16 3 (0.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 78 (23.01%) Security Cleared
2 36 (10.62%) AWS Certification
3 35 (10.32%) DV Cleared
4 33 (9.73%) SC Cleared
5 29 (8.55%) Degree
6 13 (3.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.65%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.36%) OSCP
11 5 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.18%) CCNA
12 4 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.59%) CISSP
13 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.59%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.68%) QA
2 9 (2.65%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.65%) NIST
3 6 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.77%) GDPR
4 5 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.18%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.59%) ECSS
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.29%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 139 (41.00%) Docker
2 20 (5.90%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.77%) vSphere
4 5 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.18%) Firmware
5 4 (1.18%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.59%) NFS
7 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 146 (43.07%) Terraform
2 141 (41.59%) Kubernetes
3 90 (26.55%) Ansible
4 81 (23.89%) Grafana
5 69 (20.35%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.08%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.65%) Kibana
7 9 (2.65%) Puppet
8 8 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.77%) Rancher
10 5 (1.47%) Argo
10 5 (1.47%) WSUS
11 4 (1.18%) logstash
11 4 (1.18%) Nagios
12 3 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.88%) Istio
12 3 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.88%) vRealize
13 2 (0.59%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 52 (15.34%) Splunk
2 40 (11.80%) Oracle
3 29 (8.55%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.08%) Atlassian
4 24 (7.08%) Salesforce
5 22 (6.49%) VMware
6 13 (3.83%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.36%) Google
8 6 (1.77%) SAP
9 5 (1.47%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.47%) Cisco
9 5 (1.47%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.18%) HP
11 3 (0.88%) Dell
12 2 (0.59%) Adobe
12 2 (0.59%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.59%) IBM
12 2 (0.59%) Juniper
12 2 (0.59%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.59%) Veeam