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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 352 320
Rank change year-on-year +3 -32 -34
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 363 393 651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.79% 0.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.34% 7.49% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 218 175 547
10th Percentile £47,275 £47,838 £35,920
25th Percentile £61,563 £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 £88,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,750 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -

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 3,887 5,250 8,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.80% 10.57% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2,508 3,027 6,493
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,438 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,318 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.22% +2.40% -

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 14 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 14 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 +3 300 £79,000 +8.97% 194
UK excluding London +10 208 £67,500 -3.57% 145
Work from Home +15 135 £75,000 +11.11% 101
London -10 110 £87,000 -3.33% 66
North of England +31 81 £67,500 - 37
Yorkshire +2 48 £77,500 +50.54% 10
South East -18 41 £70,000 -6.67% 59
South West -31 32 £73,500 +17.60% 19
Scotland +1 27 - - 4
North West +12 26 £65,000 -5.45% 23
Midlands -3 17 £56,350 -19.50% 14
West Midlands +9 13 £56,350 -11.61% 11
East of England +16 9 £73,750 +1.72% 12
North East -4 7 £66,250 -5.36% 4
East Midlands -18 4 £62,600 -16.53% 3
Wales - 3 £55,200 - 3

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 24 (6.61%) Confluence
2 17 (4.68%) Apache
3 9 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.38%) IIS
4 5 (1.38%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.38%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.83%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.83%) nginx
7 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 219 (60.33%) AWS
2 138 (38.02%) Azure
3 103 (28.37%) AWS CloudFormation
4 81 (22.31%) GitHub
4 81 (22.31%) Serverless
5 70 (19.28%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (18.18%) GCP
7 54 (14.88%) Amazon S3
7 54 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
8 46 (12.67%) Amazon ECS
9 43 (11.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (9.64%) AWS Step Functions
11 34 (9.37%) OpenShift
12 32 (8.82%) Amazon ECR
12 32 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (7.99%) Apigee
16 23 (6.34%) Datadog
17 14 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.99%) Broadband
2 28 (7.71%) DNS
3 17 (4.68%) Firewall
4 9 (2.48%) VPN
5 8 (2.20%) DSL
6 6 (1.65%) BGP
6 6 (1.65%) DHCP
6 6 (1.65%) WAN
7 5 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.10%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (1.10%) LAN
8 4 (1.10%) MPLS
8 4 (1.10%) MQTT
8 4 (1.10%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.10%) VoIP
8 4 (1.10%) VPLS
9 3 (0.83%) VLAN
10 2 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.55%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (11.02%) DynamoDB
2 38 (10.47%) NoSQL
3 30 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (7.44%) MongoDB
5 26 (7.16%) SQL Server
6 22 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.75%) MySQL
9 7 (1.93%) Power BI
10 5 (1.38%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.38%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.38%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.10%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.83%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.83%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.83%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.55%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 205 (56.47%) Jenkins
2 84 (23.14%) Git
3 71 (19.56%) SonarQube
4 45 (12.40%) JIRA
5 35 (9.64%) Cucumber
5 35 (9.64%) Cypress.io
6 32 (8.82%) Maven
7 24 (6.61%) Bitbucket
8 23 (6.34%) Selenium
9 18 (4.96%) JUnit
10 17 (4.68%) CircleCI
11 12 (3.31%) Postman
12 10 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (2.20%) Subversion
14 6 (1.65%) JMeter
14 6 (1.65%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.38%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.38%) TestNG
16 4 (1.10%) Artifactory
16 4 (1.10%) Vite
General
1 91 (25.07%) Social Skills
2 75 (20.66%) Finance
3 38 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.64%) Marketing
5 32 (8.82%) Games
6 30 (8.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.89%) Telecoms
8 21 (5.79%) Banking
9 16 (4.41%) Advertising
9 16 (4.41%) Manufacturing
9 16 (4.41%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.48%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.10%) Electronics
13 4 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.55%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (17.36%) Lead
2 59 (16.25%) Developer
3 58 (15.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 50 (13.77%) Senior
5 37 (10.19%) Architect
5 37 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (7.16%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (7.16%) Salesforce Architect
7 25 (6.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (6.61%) Software Engineer
9 21 (5.79%) Java Developer
10 16 (4.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.13%) Senior Developer
12 14 (3.86%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 14 (3.86%) Technical Architect
13 13 (3.58%) Software Developer
14 12 (3.31%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.31%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.31%) Security Engineer
15 11 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (15.43%) Spring Boot
2 43 (11.85%) REST
3 42 (11.57%) Elastic Stack
3 42 (11.57%) Spring
4 35 (9.64%) AngularJS
4 35 (9.64%) Kafka
5 31 (8.54%) SOAP
6 30 (8.26%) Gherkin
7 29 (7.99%) Jest
8 28 (7.71%) Lightning Web Components
8 28 (7.71%) Visualforce
9 23 (6.34%) React
10 21 (5.79%) RESTful
11 17 (4.68%) Node.js
12 16 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (3.86%) pytest
14 13 (3.58%) Apache NiFi
15 12 (3.31%) FastAPI
16 11 (3.03%) AWS CDK
17 10 (2.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 39 (10.74%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.86%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.48%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.20%) Blockchain
8 8 (2.20%) Cloud Security Posture
8 8 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.20%) e-Learning
8 8 (2.20%) Web3
9 7 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.65%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.38%) PKI
12 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (26.45%) Linux
2 31 (8.54%) Windows
3 11 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (3.03%) Ubuntu
3 11 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.75%) Unix
5 9 (2.48%) CentOS
6 6 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.38%) Debian
7 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.28%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 248 (68.32%) DevOps
3 173 (47.66%) Agile
4 148 (40.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 102 (28.10%) Containerisation
6 98 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (22.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 77 (21.21%) Continuous Integration
9 66 (18.18%) Scrum
10 65 (17.91%) Microservices
10 65 (17.91%) Software Engineering
11 64 (17.63%) Test Automation
12 62 (17.08%) Observability
13 56 (15.43%) Mentoring
14 53 (14.60%) Event-Driven
15 46 (12.67%) Roadmaps
16 45 (12.40%) DevSecOps
16 45 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 44 (12.12%) Continuous Delivery
18 41 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 178 (49.04%) Python
2 105 (28.93%) Java
3 99 (27.27%) Bash
4 64 (17.63%) TypeScript
5 58 (15.98%) SQL
6 48 (13.22%) JavaScript
7 36 (9.92%) Go
8 35 (9.64%) PowerShell
9 28 (7.71%) Apex Code
9 28 (7.71%) SOQL
9 28 (7.71%) SOSL
10 26 (7.16%) Groovy
11 13 (3.58%) C#
11 13 (3.58%) Rust
12 8 (2.20%) Delphi
13 7 (1.93%) ANSI SQL
13 7 (1.93%) C++
14 6 (1.65%) Bicep
15 4 (1.10%) C
15 4 (1.10%) Perl
Qualifications
1 83 (22.87%) Security Cleared
2 39 (10.74%) AWS Certification
3 37 (10.19%) DV Cleared
4 33 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 32 (8.82%) Degree
6 15 (4.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (3.86%) ITIL Certification
8 12 (3.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (2.75%) OSCP
11 9 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (2.48%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.38%) CCNA
13 5 (1.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (1.10%) Azure Certification
15 3 (0.83%) CISSP
15 3 (0.83%) LPIC
15 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.12%) QA
2 11 (3.03%) NIST
3 9 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.93%) GDPR
5 6 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.65%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.55%) ECSS
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (41.32%) Docker
2 22 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.79%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.38%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.38%) vSphere
6 3 (0.83%) Firmware
7 2 (0.55%) NFS
7 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.28%) Squid
Systems Management
1 159 (43.80%) Terraform
2 152 (41.87%) Kubernetes
3 95 (26.17%) Ansible
4 83 (22.87%) Grafana
5 74 (20.39%) Prometheus
6 27 (7.44%) HP Fortify
7 10 (2.75%) Kibana
7 10 (2.75%) Puppet
8 8 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.93%) Nagios
10 6 (1.65%) Argo
10 6 (1.65%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.65%) Rancher
11 5 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.10%) logstash
12 4 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.10%) WSUS
13 3 (0.83%) Istio
13 3 (0.83%) vRealize
13 3 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 61 (16.80%) Splunk
2 38 (10.47%) Oracle
3 33 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 29 (7.99%) Salesforce
5 24 (6.61%) VMware
6 23 (6.34%) Atlassian
7 16 (4.41%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.20%) Cisco
8 8 (2.20%) Google
9 6 (1.65%) SAP
10 5 (1.38%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.10%) Dell
11 4 (1.10%) Juniper
11 4 (1.10%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.83%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (0.83%) IBM
12 3 (0.83%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.83%) Rapid7
13 2 (0.55%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.55%) Sonatype