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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 361 363
Rank change year-on-year +33 +2 -65
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 471 323 727
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.77% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.32% 7.61% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 284 196 556
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £51,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,283 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.90% +16.00% +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 4,159 4,244 9,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.72% 10.12% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,756 3,011 6,766
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +32 405 £75,000 -3.23% 237
UK excluding London +17 282 £67,500 -6.90% 175
Work from Home +60 161 £69,310 -3.06% 136
London -2 144 £82,500 -5.71% 91
North of England -3 106 £69,310 +3.39% 43
South East +6 76 £67,500 -15.63% 50
Yorkshire +1 72 £73,405 +4.86% 6
South West -54 40 £65,000 +4.00% 29
Scotland -9 35 £95,000 +11.76% 4
North West -29 24 £65,000 -3.04% 18
Midlands -31 20 £57,500 -23.33% 17
West Midlands -15 19 £58,750 -16.07% 9
North East -36 10 £68,076 +6.79% 19
East of England -42 6 £67,500 -12.90% 25
Wales -21 2 £55,200 +69.85% 1
East Midlands -53 1 £55,200 -31.00% 8

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 (5.31%) Confluence
2 17 (3.61%) Apache
3 7 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.06%) IIS
5 5 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.85%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.64%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.64%) JBoss
8 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 281 (59.66%) AWS
2 182 (38.64%) Azure
3 133 (28.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 108 (22.93%) Serverless
5 95 (20.17%) AWS Lambda
6 94 (19.96%) GitHub
7 79 (16.77%) Amazon S3
8 74 (15.71%) GCP
9 61 (12.95%) GitHub Actions
10 57 (12.10%) AWS Step Functions
11 55 (11.68%) Amazon ECS
11 55 (11.68%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (10.40%) OpenShift
13 47 (9.98%) Apigee
14 46 (9.77%) Amazon ECR
15 40 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
16 37 (7.86%) Datadog
17 32 (6.79%) Azure AKS
18 30 (6.37%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.43%) Broadband
2 31 (6.58%) DNS
3 29 (6.16%) Firewall
4 13 (2.76%) DSL
5 9 (1.91%) LAN
6 8 (1.70%) WAN
7 7 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.27%) DHCP
8 6 (1.27%) Network Security
8 6 (1.27%) VPN
9 5 (1.06%) BGP
9 5 (1.06%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.85%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (0.85%) HTTP
10 4 (0.85%) MPLS
10 4 (0.85%) MQTT
10 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.85%) VoIP
10 4 (0.85%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (13.16%) DynamoDB
2 51 (10.83%) NoSQL
3 42 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (7.01%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (3.61%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.34%) MySQL
9 8 (1.70%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.27%) InfluxDB
11 5 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.06%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.06%) CockroachDB
12 4 (0.85%) Big Data
12 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.85%) Power BI
13 3 (0.64%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.42%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 242 (51.38%) Jenkins
2 117 (24.84%) Git
3 102 (21.66%) SonarQube
4 59 (12.53%) Cypress.io
5 51 (10.83%) JIRA
6 48 (10.19%) Cucumber
7 45 (9.55%) Maven
8 33 (7.01%) Selenium
9 27 (5.73%) Bitbucket
10 26 (5.52%) CircleCI
11 17 (3.61%) JUnit
12 14 (2.97%) Postman
12 14 (2.97%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (2.76%) REST Assured
14 12 (2.55%) JMeter
15 11 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (1.49%) Gatling
16 7 (1.49%) Subversion
17 6 (1.27%) LoadRunner
17 6 (1.27%) Vite
General
1 112 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 87 (18.47%) Finance
3 47 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.28%) Marketing
5 38 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 35 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 34 (7.22%) Games
8 33 (7.01%) Banking
9 26 (5.52%) Telecoms
10 15 (3.18%) Advertising
10 15 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.12%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.06%) Automotive
14 5 (1.06%) Electronics
14 5 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 98 (20.81%) Senior
2 88 (18.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 79 (16.77%) Developer
4 66 (14.01%) Lead
5 51 (10.83%) Architect
6 49 (10.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (8.28%) Java Developer
8 38 (8.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (7.43%) Software Engineer
10 33 (7.01%) Salesforce Architect
11 30 (6.37%) Senior DevOps
12 25 (5.31%) Senior Developer
13 23 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 22 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (4.46%) Security Engineer
16 19 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
17 18 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
17 18 (3.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (3.82%) Salesforce Technical Architect
17 18 (3.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (14.86%) Spring Boot
2 61 (12.95%) REST
3 53 (11.25%) AngularJS
4 49 (10.40%) Kafka
5 46 (9.77%) Elastic Stack
6 45 (9.55%) Gherkin
7 43 (9.13%) Jest
7 43 (9.13%) Spring
8 35 (7.43%) SOAP
9 34 (7.22%) Lightning Web Components
9 34 (7.22%) Visualforce
10 32 (6.79%) RabbitMQ
11 29 (6.16%) RESTful
12 27 (5.73%) Node.js
13 24 (5.10%) React
14 23 (4.88%) YAML
15 20 (4.25%) JSON
16 16 (3.40%) AWS CDK
16 16 (3.40%) Playwright
16 16 (3.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 75 (15.92%) Cloud Native
2 58 (12.31%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.40%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.18%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.18%) Blockchain
6 14 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.97%) Public Cloud
6 14 (2.97%) Web3
7 13 (2.76%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.91%) e-Learning
10 8 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.49%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.27%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 120 (25.48%) Linux
2 51 (10.83%) Windows
3 23 (4.88%) Unix
4 16 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.97%) CentOS
6 12 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (2.34%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.64%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.42%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (86.20%) CI/CD
2 331 (70.28%) DevOps
3 242 (51.38%) Agile
4 203 (43.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 134 (28.45%) Containerisation
6 119 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (24.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 106 (22.51%) Microservices
9 105 (22.29%) Continuous Integration
10 100 (21.23%) Test Automation
11 94 (19.96%) Scrum
12 84 (17.83%) Mentoring
13 81 (17.20%) Observability
14 80 (16.99%) Software Engineering
15 67 (14.23%) Event-Driven
16 65 (13.80%) DevSecOps
17 63 (13.38%) Continuous Delivery
18 60 (12.74%) Roadmaps
19 57 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 54 (11.46%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 222 (47.13%) Python
2 141 (29.94%) Java
3 129 (27.39%) Bash
4 71 (15.07%) TypeScript
5 68 (14.44%) SQL
6 55 (11.68%) JavaScript
7 48 (10.19%) Go
8 47 (9.98%) PowerShell
9 46 (9.77%) Groovy
10 34 (7.22%) Apex Code
10 34 (7.22%) SOQL
10 34 (7.22%) SOSL
11 24 (5.10%) Rust
12 22 (4.67%) C#
12 22 (4.67%) C++
13 8 (1.70%) Bicep
13 8 (1.70%) Delphi
13 8 (1.70%) Perl
14 5 (1.06%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 122 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 56 (11.89%) Degree
4 52 (11.04%) AWS Certification
5 29 (6.16%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.31%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (4.25%) OSCP
9 14 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.76%) ISTQB
10 13 (2.76%) Master's Degree
11 12 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (1.70%) CCNA
15 7 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (1.06%) CISSP
16 5 (1.06%) RHCSA
17 4 (0.85%) CISM
17 4 (0.85%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.40%) QA
2 18 (3.82%) NIST
3 16 (3.40%) GDPR
4 13 (2.76%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.55%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.91%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.06%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.42%) ECSS
10 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 190 (40.34%) Docker
2 28 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 27 (5.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.49%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.49%) vSphere
5 6 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.64%) Squid
8 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 232 (49.26%) Terraform
2 193 (40.98%) Kubernetes
3 118 (25.05%) Ansible
4 91 (19.32%) Grafana
5 76 (16.14%) Prometheus
6 44 (9.34%) HP Fortify
7 23 (4.88%) Argo
8 15 (3.18%) Kibana
9 14 (2.97%) Nagios
10 11 (2.34%) logstash
11 10 (2.12%) Puppet
12 9 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (1.70%) Packer
14 7 (1.49%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.85%) Progress Chef
16 4 (0.85%) Rancher
16 4 (0.85%) WSUS
17 3 (0.64%) Istio
17 3 (0.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (15.07%) Splunk
2 42 (8.92%) Red Hat
3 38 (8.07%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.43%) Salesforce
5 32 (6.79%) VMware
6 30 (6.37%) Oracle
7 19 (4.03%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.76%) Cisco
9 10 (2.12%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.12%) Google
10 8 (1.70%) Juniper
10 8 (1.70%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.49%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.49%) IBM
12 6 (1.27%) F5
12 6 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.06%) Rapid7
14 4 (0.85%) Dell
14 4 (0.85%) Tenable
14 4 (0.85%) Veracode