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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 325 314
Rank change year-on-year -41 -11 -41
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 298 537 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.80% 1.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.07% 8.72% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 193 254 371
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -9.50%
75th Percentile £86,253 £86,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -10.71%

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 3,694 6,161 6,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.84% 9.22% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 3,515 5,371
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £42,439
25th Percentile £42,570 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -5.98% +6.36%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -49 256 £75,000 +7.14% 185
UK excluding London -13 161 £70,000 +7.69% 169
Work from Home -19 111 £77,500 +19.23% 95
London -48 104 £85,000 - 61
North of England +45 67 £67,500 +8.00% 30
North West +57 38 £65,000 - 19
South West -21 25 £70,000 +16.67% 35
Yorkshire +25 24 £77,500 +33.70% 7
South East -29 20 £77,500 +10.71% 70
Scotland +13 17 - - 6
Midlands +30 16 £60,000 -5.88% 19
East of England +36 15 £61,250 +6.52% 9
West Midlands +25 9 £65,000 +8.33% 18
East Midlands +23 7 £55,200 -21.14% 1
North East +13 5 £65,000 +12.14% 4
Wales +10 3 £57,600 -38.40% 4

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 18 (6.04%) Confluence
2 10 (3.36%) Apache
3 8 (2.68%) nginx
4 6 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.68%) IIS
5 5 (1.68%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.34%) Camunda
6 4 (1.34%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.01%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Simulink
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.34%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 179 (60.07%) AWS
2 115 (38.59%) Azure
3 60 (20.13%) GitHub
4 52 (17.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (16.44%) GCP
6 41 (13.76%) Serverless
7 37 (12.42%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (12.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 33 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (11.07%) OpenShift
10 31 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (10.07%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (9.06%) Amazon EC2
12 27 (9.06%) Amazon S3
13 19 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (5.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (4.36%) Datadog
16 9 (3.02%) Amazon ECR
16 9 (3.02%) Power Platform
17 8 (2.68%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.37%) Broadband
2 15 (5.03%) DNS
3 10 (3.36%) Firewall
4 7 (2.35%) Network Security
5 6 (2.01%) VPN
6 5 (1.68%) WAN
7 4 (1.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (1.34%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (1.34%) VLAN
7 4 (1.34%) VSAN
8 3 (1.01%) OSPF
8 3 (1.01%) Skype
9 2 (0.67%) BGP
9 2 (0.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.67%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.67%) SAN
9 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.07%) SQL Server
2 31 (10.40%) MongoDB
3 27 (9.06%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.05%) NoSQL
5 17 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (4.36%) DynamoDB
8 9 (3.02%) MySQL
8 9 (3.02%) Power BI
9 8 (2.68%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.68%) Data Vault
11 4 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.67%) Geospatial Data
13 2 (0.67%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.67%) Metadata
13 2 (0.67%) Redis
13 2 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
14 1 (0.34%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 162 (54.36%) Jenkins
2 62 (20.81%) Git
3 40 (13.42%) SonarQube
4 34 (11.41%) JIRA
5 28 (9.40%) Bitbucket
5 28 (9.40%) Cucumber
6 25 (8.39%) Selenium
7 19 (6.38%) JUnit
7 19 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (4.70%) Cypress.io
9 12 (4.03%) CircleCI
9 12 (4.03%) Maven
10 11 (3.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (3.36%) JMeter
11 10 (3.36%) Postman
12 9 (3.02%) Subversion
13 7 (2.35%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.35%) Gatling
13 7 (2.35%) TeamCity
14 4 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 77 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 71 (23.83%) Finance
3 45 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (7.05%) Banking
5 21 (7.05%) Games
5 21 (7.05%) Marketing
6 18 (6.04%) Telecoms
7 17 (5.70%) Manufacturing
8 13 (4.36%) Aerospace
9 12 (4.03%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.36%) Advertising
11 8 (2.68%) Electronics
11 8 (2.68%) Retail
12 6 (2.01%) Automotive
12 6 (2.01%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.01%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.34%) Aviation
13 4 (1.34%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (19.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (15.44%) Lead
3 41 (13.76%) Senior
4 39 (13.09%) Developer
5 29 (9.73%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (7.72%) Architect
6 23 (7.72%) Software Engineer
7 20 (6.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 15 (5.03%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.70%) Principal Engineer
9 14 (4.70%) Salesforce Architect
10 13 (4.36%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (4.03%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.69%) Backend Developer
12 11 (3.69%) Lead DevOps
12 11 (3.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.36%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.42%) REST
2 36 (12.08%) Spring Boot
3 35 (11.74%) Spring
4 34 (11.41%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (8.39%) React
6 21 (7.05%) Node.js
7 20 (6.71%) AngularJS
8 17 (5.70%) Kafka
8 17 (5.70%) SOAP
9 16 (5.37%) Lightning Web Components
9 16 (5.37%) Visualforce
10 14 (4.70%) .NET
11 11 (3.69%) FastAPI
11 11 (3.69%) Playwright
12 10 (3.36%) Django
12 10 (3.36%) pytest
13 9 (3.02%) CSS
13 9 (3.02%) Hibernate
13 9 (3.02%) HTML
14 8 (2.68%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.40%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.70%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (4.03%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.02%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.68%) PKI
10 4 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.34%) FPGA
10 4 (1.34%) IoT
10 4 (1.34%) Verilog
10 4 (1.34%) VHDL
11 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.01%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 93 (31.21%) Linux
2 29 (9.73%) Windows
3 18 (6.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (4.36%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.69%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.68%) Debian
6 8 (2.68%) Unix
7 5 (1.68%) CentOS
7 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.67%) Android
9 1 (0.34%) Fedora
9 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (76.51%) CI/CD
2 196 (65.77%) DevOps
3 129 (43.29%) Agile
4 125 (41.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (31.54%) Containerisation
6 73 (24.50%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (17.45%) Scrum
9 50 (16.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 49 (16.44%) Test Automation
11 48 (16.11%) Microservices
11 48 (16.11%) Software Engineering
12 47 (15.77%) Continuous Integration
13 45 (15.10%) Observability
14 41 (13.76%) Mentoring
15 39 (13.09%) Platform Engineering
16 33 (11.07%) Configuration Management
17 31 (10.40%) Event-Driven
18 30 (10.07%) Incident Response
19 28 (9.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 151 (50.67%) Python
2 82 (27.52%) Java
3 73 (24.50%) Bash
4 52 (17.45%) SQL
5 44 (14.77%) PowerShell
5 44 (14.77%) TypeScript
6 41 (13.76%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.37%) Apex Code
7 16 (5.37%) C#
7 16 (5.37%) Go
8 15 (5.03%) SOQL
8 15 (5.03%) SOSL
9 13 (4.36%) C++
10 12 (4.03%) C
11 9 (3.02%) Groovy
12 8 (2.68%) Delphi
12 8 (2.68%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.35%) Bicep
14 6 (2.01%) ANSI SQL
15 3 (1.01%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 57 (19.13%) Security Cleared
2 28 (9.40%) DV Cleared
3 25 (8.39%) AWS Certification
4 24 (8.05%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.38%) Degree
6 15 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (2.68%) CCNA
8 8 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.68%) ISTQB
9 7 (2.35%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.34%) CCNP
11 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.34%) GAWN
13 1 (0.34%) GREM
13 1 (0.34%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.09%) QA
2 4 (1.34%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.34%) GDPR
3 3 (1.01%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.67%) ECSS
4 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.67%) SLA
5 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.34%) NIST
5 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 115 (38.59%) Docker
2 19 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.70%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.68%) vSphere
5 4 (1.34%) Firmware
5 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.01%) vCloud
7 2 (0.67%) NFS
7 2 (0.67%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.34%) Squid
8 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 134 (44.97%) Kubernetes
2 113 (37.92%) Terraform
3 82 (27.52%) Ansible
4 78 (26.17%) Grafana
5 66 (22.15%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.03%) Kibana
7 7 (2.35%) HP Fortify
7 7 (2.35%) Puppet
8 6 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.68%) Argo
9 5 (1.68%) Rancher
10 4 (1.34%) vRealize
10 4 (1.34%) WSUS
11 3 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.01%) logstash
11 3 (1.01%) Nessus
11 3 (1.01%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.01%) SCOM
12 2 (0.67%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 39 (13.09%) Oracle
2 38 (12.75%) Splunk
3 26 (8.72%) Microsoft
4 25 (8.39%) Atlassian
4 25 (8.39%) VMware
5 16 (5.37%) Salesforce
6 14 (4.70%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.35%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.01%) SAP
9 5 (1.68%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.68%) Sonatype
10 4 (1.34%) Cisco
10 4 (1.34%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.34%) F5
10 4 (1.34%) Google
11 3 (1.01%) Databricks
11 3 (1.01%) HP
12 2 (0.67%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.67%) Ubiquiti
12 2 (0.67%) YouTube