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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 273 311
Rank change year-on-year -74 +38 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 600 526 658
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.07% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.83% 14.00% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 359 172 304
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,625 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +12.00% -3.85%

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 4,675 3,757 6,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.02% 7.62% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,934 2,236 3,877
10th Percentile £37,075 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £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 £77,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -4.76%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -68 555 £69,310 -10.57% 692
UK excluding London -108 385 £65,576 -6.32% 401
London -11 178 £87,500 +1.74% 331
North of England -60 161 £69,310 +2.68% 114
Work from Home -182 122 £66,538 -16.83% 311
South East +9 79 £65,000 -13.33% 59
South West -27 77 £72,500 +3.57% 86
North East -12 58 £57,500 -13.21% 29
North West -86 56 £69,310 +13.16% 61
Yorkshire -6 50 £73,750 -1.67% 24
Midlands -84 39 £60,000 -14.29% 45
West Midlands -53 26 £50,000 -38.46% 36
East Midlands -67 13 £60,000 -1.64% 9
Scotland -35 12 £110,000 +26.07% 37
Wales -61 10 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East of England -55 9 £60,000 -7.69% 44
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 11

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 31 (5.17%) Apache
2 25 (4.17%) Confluence
3 24 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.50%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.83%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.33%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 391 (65.17%) AWS
2 211 (35.17%) Azure
3 142 (23.67%) GitHub
4 111 (18.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 83 (13.83%) Amazon S3
6 78 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (12.83%) GCP
7 77 (12.83%) GitHub Actions
8 76 (12.67%) Serverless
9 61 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (9.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 53 (8.83%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (8.17%) Amazon ECR
13 44 (7.33%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (6.67%) Azure AKS
16 35 (5.83%) OpenShift
17 26 (4.33%) AWS Step Functions
18 24 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
19 21 (3.50%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.50%) DNS
2 18 (3.00%) Firewall
3 17 (2.83%) Broadband
4 12 (2.00%) Network Security
5 11 (1.83%) HTTP
5 11 (1.83%) MQTT
5 11 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.33%) DHCP
6 8 (1.33%) IPv4
6 8 (1.33%) LAN
6 8 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.17%) VPN
7 7 (1.17%) WAN
8 6 (1.00%) BGP
8 6 (1.00%) NX-OS
8 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.00%) Wireless
8 6 (1.00%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (13.00%) NoSQL
2 64 (10.67%) MongoDB
3 62 (10.33%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (7.67%) DynamoDB
5 40 (6.67%) MySQL
6 30 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (2.50%) Redis
10 14 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.33%) Pinecone
11 11 (1.83%) Big Data
12 10 (1.67%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.50%) Chroma
14 8 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
16 6 (1.00%) DocumentDB
16 6 (1.00%) InfluxDB
17 5 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 261 (43.50%) Jenkins
2 203 (33.83%) Git
3 75 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 69 (11.50%) JIRA
5 59 (9.83%) SonarQube
6 57 (9.50%) Cypress.io
7 41 (6.83%) Selenium
8 34 (5.67%) Postman
9 29 (4.83%) JUnit
10 27 (4.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 27 (4.50%) Maven
11 20 (3.33%) JMeter
12 16 (2.67%) Gatling
13 15 (2.50%) REST Assured
13 15 (2.50%) Vite
14 14 (2.33%) Spock
14 14 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
15 13 (2.17%) Bitbucket
16 12 (2.00%) Robot Framework
17 10 (1.67%) Zephyr
General
1 158 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 130 (21.67%) Finance
3 106 (17.67%) Public Sector
4 54 (9.00%) Banking
5 51 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.00%) Aerospace
8 17 (2.83%) Financial Institution
9 16 (2.67%) Marketing
10 14 (2.33%) Law
11 13 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.67%) Electronics
13 8 (1.33%) Legal
14 7 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.00%) Games
16 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
17 4 (0.67%) Automotive
17 4 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 3 (0.50%) Military
18 3 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (25.17%) Senior
2 137 (22.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (14.83%) Developer
4 65 (10.83%) Software Engineer
5 54 (9.00%) Principal Engineer
6 52 (8.67%) Java Engineer
7 50 (8.33%) Lead
8 37 (6.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 37 (6.17%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (6.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 35 (5.83%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (5.17%) Test Engineer
11 29 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (4.67%) Java Developer
13 27 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (4.17%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 25 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.83%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (49.00%) Terraform
2 91 (15.17%) Spring
3 90 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 87 (14.50%) Kafka
5 71 (11.83%) React
6 64 (10.67%) AngularJS
6 64 (10.67%) Node.js
7 63 (10.50%) RESTful
8 59 (9.83%) REST
9 44 (7.33%) Playwright
10 41 (6.83%) Elastic Stack
11 36 (6.00%) Jest
12 34 (5.67%) .NET
13 28 (4.67%) Gherkin
14 26 (4.33%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (4.33%) Vue
15 25 (4.17%) LangChain
16 23 (3.83%) FastAPI
17 22 (3.67%) Next.js
18 21 (3.50%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 192 (32.00%) Cloud Native
2 83 (13.83%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.17%) Product Ownership
4 47 (7.83%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.67%) e-Learning
6 39 (6.50%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (4.33%) Private Cloud
8 21 (3.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (3.00%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.83%) Algorithms
11 14 (2.33%) Virtual Team
12 12 (2.00%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.83%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.50%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.17%) IoT
16 6 (1.00%) Blockchain
16 6 (1.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 181 (30.17%) Linux
2 61 (10.17%) Windows
3 44 (7.33%) CentOS
4 37 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.00%) Unix
6 18 (3.00%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.83%) VMS
9 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Debian
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.33%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (90.67%) CI/CD
2 397 (66.17%) DevOps
3 345 (57.50%) Agile
4 297 (49.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 239 (39.83%) Test Automation
6 194 (32.33%) Microservices
7 169 (28.17%) Containerisation
8 145 (24.17%) Mentoring
9 144 (24.00%) Software Engineering
10 123 (20.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 119 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
12 113 (18.83%) AI
13 108 (18.00%) Observability
14 106 (17.67%) SDLC
15 104 (17.33%) Scrum
16 95 (15.83%) Full-Stack Development
17 91 (15.17%) Coaching
18 84 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
19 79 (13.17%) Technical Leadership
20 77 (12.83%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 279 (46.50%) Python
2 210 (35.00%) Java
3 150 (25.00%) Bash
4 125 (20.83%) SQL
5 102 (17.00%) JavaScript
6 101 (16.83%) TypeScript
7 77 (12.83%) PowerShell
8 37 (6.17%) Go
8 37 (6.17%) Groovy
9 36 (6.00%) C++
10 35 (5.83%) C#
11 20 (3.33%) Rust
12 14 (2.33%) PHP
13 11 (1.83%) C
14 10 (1.67%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.50%) Apex Code
15 9 (1.50%) Perl
16 7 (1.17%) Ruby
16 7 (1.17%) Scala
16 7 (1.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 254 (42.33%) Security Cleared
2 166 (27.67%) SC Cleared
3 82 (13.67%) Degree
4 75 (12.50%) AWS Certification
5 60 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 45 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.83%) Master's Degree
9 22 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
10 17 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (2.83%) ISTQB
11 15 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 15 (2.50%) CCNA
11 15 (2.50%) RHCSA
12 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (1.50%) OSCP
14 8 (1.33%) RHCE
15 7 (1.17%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
16 6 (1.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (15.83%) QA
2 31 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.17%) WCAG
5 11 (1.83%) GDPR
6 9 (1.50%) SLA
7 8 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.00%) JTAG
10 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.67%) NIST
11 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 295 (49.17%) Docker
2 27 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.33%) vSphere
5 8 (1.33%) Squid
5 8 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) Firmware
7 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 262 (43.67%) Kubernetes
2 151 (25.17%) Ansible
3 85 (14.17%) Grafana
4 61 (10.17%) Prometheus
5 42 (7.00%) Argo
6 22 (3.67%) Puppet
7 21 (3.50%) HP Fortify
7 21 (3.50%) Kibana
8 20 (3.33%) Nagios
9 17 (2.83%) logstash
10 14 (2.33%) Packer
11 10 (1.67%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.50%) Podman
13 8 (1.33%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.17%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.00%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.50%) Istio
17 3 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (10.00%) Splunk
2 53 (8.83%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.50%) Red Hat
4 37 (6.17%) VMware
5 22 (3.67%) Oracle
6 20 (3.33%) AppDynamics
7 19 (3.17%) Google
8 17 (2.83%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.50%) Mistral
10 14 (2.33%) Atlassian
11 13 (2.17%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.83%) Databricks
13 10 (1.67%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.50%) Rapid7
14 9 (1.50%) SAP
15 7 (1.17%) Cisco
15 7 (1.17%) NVIDIA
15 7 (1.17%) OneLogin
15 7 (1.17%) Pega
15 7 (1.17%) Veracode