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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 326 297
Rank change year-on-year -29 -29 -20
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 310 481 489
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.85% 1.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.55% 8.29% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 204 230 373
10th Percentile £51,983 £47,275 £48,750
25th Percentile £64,688 £55,000 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £86,253 £86,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £105,475 £106,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -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 3,626 5,805 6,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 10.31% 12.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 3,416 5,109
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,537 £42,439
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £77,625 £82,548
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.60% +8.23%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -46 264 £77,500 +10.71% 164
UK excluding London -13 176 £72,500 +11.54% 142
Work from Home -24 121 £77,500 +12.73% 78
London -31 95 £85,000 +1.49% 53
North of England +52 79 £75,000 +19.56% 45
Yorkshire +20 38 £80,000 +38.02% 18
North West +45 34 £67,500 +3.85% 21
South West -23 23 £73,750 +22.92% 35
South East -32 22 £80,250 +11.07% 39
Midlands -5 20 £57,600 -9.65% 9
East of England +24 15 £61,250 -14.04% 16
Scotland +1 15 - - 7
West Midlands +12 14 £63,750 +6.25% 8
North East +8 7 £66,250 +14.29% 6
East Midlands -10 6 £53,600 -23.43% 1
Wales +1 4 £57,600 -38.40%

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 19 (6.13%) Confluence
2 12 (3.87%) Apache
3 8 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.61%) IIS
4 5 (1.61%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.29%) Camunda
5 4 (1.29%) nginx
5 4 (1.29%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.97%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.65%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Simulink
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.32%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 185 (59.68%) AWS
2 125 (40.32%) Azure
3 65 (20.97%) AWS CloudFormation
3 65 (20.97%) GitHub
4 55 (17.74%) Serverless
5 54 (17.42%) GCP
6 47 (15.16%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (12.58%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (12.26%) Amazon ECS
8 38 (12.26%) Amazon S3
9 35 (11.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (9.35%) OpenShift
12 27 (8.71%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
15 19 (6.13%) AWS Step Functions
16 17 (5.48%) Apigee
17 15 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 12 (3.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.77%) DNS
2 16 (5.16%) Broadband
3 9 (2.90%) Firewall
4 5 (1.61%) VPN
5 4 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.29%) VSAN
5 4 (1.29%) WAN
6 3 (0.97%) Network Security
6 3 (0.97%) Skype
6 3 (0.97%) VLAN
7 2 (0.65%) BGP
7 2 (0.65%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.65%) HTTP
7 2 (0.65%) LAN
7 2 (0.65%) MQTT
7 2 (0.65%) OSPF
7 2 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.65%) RTMP
7 2 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.32%) MongoDB
2 31 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 28 (9.03%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (7.74%) DynamoDB
5 23 (7.42%) NoSQL
6 18 (5.81%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (4.84%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (3.23%) MySQL
9 9 (2.90%) Power BI
10 8 (2.58%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.61%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.29%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.97%) CockroachDB
13 3 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.97%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.97%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
14 2 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 168 (54.19%) Jenkins
2 75 (24.19%) Git
3 46 (14.84%) SonarQube
4 36 (11.61%) JIRA
5 31 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 29 (9.35%) Bitbucket
7 26 (8.39%) Cypress.io
8 24 (7.74%) Selenium
9 22 (7.10%) Maven
10 20 (6.45%) JUnit
11 14 (4.52%) Postman
12 12 (3.87%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (3.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (3.55%) JMeter
13 11 (3.55%) Subversion
14 10 (3.23%) CircleCI
15 7 (2.26%) Gatling
16 6 (1.94%) Artifactory
17 5 (1.61%) SoapUI
17 5 (1.61%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.94%) Finance
3 42 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.10%) Marketing
4 22 (7.10%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.77%) Games
6 20 (6.45%) Banking
6 20 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (5.16%) Manufacturing
7 16 (5.16%) Public Sector
8 15 (4.84%) Advertising
9 10 (3.23%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.94%) Electronics
11 6 (1.94%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.61%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.61%) Retail
13 4 (1.29%) Aviation
14 3 (0.97%) Automotive
15 2 (0.65%) Law
Job Titles
1 63 (20.32%) Lead
2 52 (16.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 48 (15.48%) Developer
4 37 (11.94%) Senior
5 31 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (8.71%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (7.42%) Software Engineer
8 20 (6.45%) Architect
9 18 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.16%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.52%) Lead DevOps
11 14 (4.52%) Salesforce Architect
12 13 (4.19%) Lead Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.19%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.87%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (3.23%) Backend Developer
14 10 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
15 9 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (14.19%) Spring Boot
2 37 (11.94%) Spring
3 35 (11.29%) REST
4 34 (10.97%) Elastic Stack
5 29 (9.35%) AngularJS
6 23 (7.42%) React
7 20 (6.45%) Gherkin
8 19 (6.13%) Node.js
9 18 (5.81%) Jest
10 17 (5.48%) Kafka
10 17 (5.48%) SOAP
11 16 (5.16%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (5.16%) Visualforce
12 13 (4.19%) FastAPI
13 12 (3.87%) pytest
14 11 (3.55%) .NET
14 11 (3.55%) Playwright
14 11 (3.55%) RESTful
15 10 (3.23%) Django
16 9 (2.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (15.48%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.71%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.90%) Private Cloud
5 9 (2.90%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.58%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.29%) PKI
10 3 (0.97%) Blackberry
10 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.97%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.97%) IoT
10 3 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.97%) Replication
10 3 (0.97%) RSA SecurID
11 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 90 (29.03%) Linux
2 28 (9.03%) Windows
3 18 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (3.23%) Ubuntu
4 10 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.58%) Unix
6 6 (1.94%) CentOS
6 6 (1.94%) Debian
7 5 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.32%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (76.77%) CI/CD
2 210 (67.74%) DevOps
3 142 (45.81%) Agile
4 116 (37.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 92 (29.68%) Problem-Solving
6 88 (28.39%) Containerisation
7 63 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (16.13%) Scrum
9 47 (15.16%) Continuous Integration
9 47 (15.16%) Microservices
9 47 (15.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 46 (14.84%) Mentoring
10 46 (14.84%) Test Automation
11 45 (14.52%) Observability
12 43 (13.87%) Software Engineering
13 39 (12.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 36 (11.61%) Incident Response
15 35 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
16 33 (10.65%) Roadmaps
17 30 (9.68%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 147 (47.42%) Python
2 92 (29.68%) Java
3 81 (26.13%) Bash
4 58 (18.71%) TypeScript
5 56 (18.06%) SQL
6 45 (14.52%) JavaScript
7 40 (12.90%) PowerShell
8 18 (5.81%) Groovy
9 17 (5.48%) Go
10 16 (5.16%) Apex Code
11 15 (4.84%) C#
11 15 (4.84%) SOQL
11 15 (4.84%) SOSL
12 9 (2.90%) C
12 9 (2.90%) C++
13 8 (2.58%) ANSI SQL
13 8 (2.58%) Delphi
14 6 (1.94%) Bicep
15 3 (0.97%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 30 (9.68%) AWS Certification
3 29 (9.35%) DV Cleared
4 26 (8.39%) SC Cleared
5 23 (7.42%) Degree
6 15 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.90%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.94%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.97%) CCNA
11 3 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.65%) CISSP
12 2 (0.65%) OSCP
13 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.55%) QA
2 7 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.61%) GDPR
4 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.97%) NIST
6 2 (0.65%) ECSS
6 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.65%) SLA
7 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (37.74%) Docker
2 19 (6.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.48%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.61%) Firmware
5 4 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.29%) vSphere
6 3 (0.97%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.65%) NFS
7 2 (0.65%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.32%) Squid
8 1 (0.32%) vCloud
8 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 126 (40.65%) Kubernetes
2 119 (38.39%) Terraform
3 81 (26.13%) Ansible
4 73 (23.55%) Grafana
5 60 (19.35%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.48%) HP Fortify
7 8 (2.58%) Kibana
7 8 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.26%) Argo
8 7 (2.26%) Puppet
9 6 (1.94%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.94%) Rancher
10 4 (1.29%) vRealize
11 3 (0.97%) Istio
11 3 (0.97%) Nagios
11 3 (0.97%) SCOM
11 3 (0.97%) WSUS
12 2 (0.65%) Nessus
12 2 (0.65%) Sysdig
13 1 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 41 (13.23%) Oracle
2 37 (11.94%) Splunk
3 28 (9.03%) Microsoft
4 25 (8.06%) Atlassian
5 23 (7.42%) VMware
6 17 (5.48%) Salesforce
7 15 (4.84%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.26%) SAP
9 5 (1.61%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.29%) Cisco
10 4 (1.29%) Google
10 4 (1.29%) HP
10 4 (1.29%) Sonatype
11 3 (0.97%) Cribl.io
11 3 (0.97%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.65%) Databricks
12 2 (0.65%) MikroTik
12 2 (0.65%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.65%) Starlink
12 2 (0.65%) Ubiquiti