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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 363 347
Rank change year-on-year +35 -16 -59
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 401 339 677
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.77% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.09% 7.15% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 235 196 567
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +14.23% -8.13%
75th Percentile £86,938 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,250 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +8.70%

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 3,976 4,743 8,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.45% 10.82% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,569 3,073 6,715
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,050 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -3.51%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -11 328 £77,500 +3.33% 222
UK excluding London +18 233 £67,500 -3.57% 198
Work from Home +44 149 £72,500 +7.41% 144
London 0 124 £82,500 -5.71% 56
North of England +12 86 £67,500 +0.34% 52
Yorkshire +1 54 £77,500 +3.33% 14
South East -6 53 £67,500 -14.29% 50
Scotland +5 39 £95,000 +33.33% 30
South West -35 31 £70,000 +12.00% 28
North West -8 25 £65,000 -3.04% 20
Midlands -21 17 £56,350 -13.31% 15
West Midlands -6 15 £57,500 -4.17% 10
North East -13 7 £66,538 -4.95% 18
East of England -6 6 £67,500 -14.29% 17
Wales -7 2 £55,200 +69.85% 10
East Midlands -38 2 £55,200 -26.40% 5

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 23 (5.74%) Confluence
2 17 (4.24%) Apache
3 9 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.25%) IIS
5 5 (1.25%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.75%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.50%) JBoss
8 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.50%) nginx
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.75%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.25%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 241 (60.10%) AWS
2 151 (37.66%) Azure
3 120 (29.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 103 (25.69%) Serverless
5 92 (22.94%) GitHub
6 88 (21.95%) AWS Lambda
7 70 (17.46%) GCP
8 68 (16.96%) Amazon S3
9 66 (16.46%) GitHub Actions
10 51 (12.72%) Amazon ECS
11 47 (11.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 46 (11.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (10.47%) OpenShift
14 39 (9.73%) Amazon ECR
15 37 (9.23%) Apigee
16 35 (8.73%) Datadog
17 33 (8.23%) Amazon EKS
17 33 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
18 30 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
19 19 (4.74%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (10.22%) Broadband
2 27 (6.73%) DNS
3 19 (4.74%) Firewall
4 13 (3.24%) DSL
5 7 (1.75%) VPN
6 6 (1.50%) DHCP
7 5 (1.25%) BGP
7 5 (1.25%) MQTT
7 5 (1.25%) WAN
8 4 (1.00%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.00%) LAN
8 4 (1.00%) MPLS
8 4 (1.00%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.00%) VoIP
8 4 (1.00%) VPLS
9 2 (0.50%) HTTP
9 2 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (12.22%) DynamoDB
2 45 (11.22%) NoSQL
3 30 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (5.74%) MongoDB
5 23 (5.74%) SQL Server
6 18 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.24%) MySQL
8 7 (1.75%) Power BI
9 5 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.25%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.00%) InfluxDB
10 4 (1.00%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.00%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.75%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.75%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.75%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 224 (55.86%) Jenkins
2 91 (22.69%) Git
3 88 (21.95%) SonarQube
4 46 (11.47%) JIRA
5 44 (10.97%) Cypress.io
6 37 (9.23%) Maven
7 36 (8.98%) Cucumber
8 28 (6.98%) Selenium
9 22 (5.49%) Bitbucket
10 21 (5.24%) CircleCI
11 18 (4.49%) JUnit
12 14 (3.49%) Postman
13 11 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (2.24%) REST Assured
15 8 (2.00%) JMeter
15 8 (2.00%) Subversion
16 6 (1.50%) SoapUI
17 5 (1.25%) LoadRunner
17 5 (1.25%) TestNG
18 4 (1.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 103 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 78 (19.45%) Finance
3 48 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (11.72%) Marketing
5 42 (10.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (9.98%) Games
7 29 (7.23%) Telecoms
8 27 (6.73%) Banking
9 20 (4.99%) Public Sector
10 16 (3.99%) Advertising
11 14 (3.49%) Manufacturing
12 8 (2.00%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.50%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.00%) Electronics
15 4 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 70 (17.46%) Developer
2 67 (16.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 60 (14.96%) Lead
4 56 (13.97%) Senior
5 54 (13.47%) Architect
6 41 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (9.48%) Salesforce Architect
8 29 (7.23%) Java Developer
9 26 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.49%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.49%) Software Engineer
11 20 (4.99%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 20 (4.99%) Technical Architect
12 17 (4.24%) Security Engineer
13 16 (3.99%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.49%) AWS Architect
15 13 (3.24%) Security Architect
15 13 (3.24%) Software Developer
15 13 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (15.46%) Spring Boot
2 57 (14.21%) REST
3 45 (11.22%) Elastic Stack
4 43 (10.72%) Kafka
5 42 (10.47%) SOAP
5 42 (10.47%) Spring
6 41 (10.22%) AngularJS
7 40 (9.98%) Lightning Web Components
7 40 (9.98%) Visualforce
8 36 (8.98%) Gherkin
9 35 (8.73%) Jest
10 24 (5.99%) RESTful
11 23 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (5.24%) React
13 18 (4.49%) Node.js
14 16 (3.99%) AWS CDK
15 15 (3.74%) pytest
16 12 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
16 12 (2.99%) OAuth
16 12 (2.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 59 (14.71%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (3.74%) Security Posture
4 13 (3.24%) Cloud Security Posture
5 12 (2.99%) Blockchain
6 11 (2.74%) Public Cloud
6 11 (2.74%) Web3
7 9 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.00%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.50%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.25%) PKI
12 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 3 (0.75%) Clustering
13 3 (0.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 92 (22.94%) Linux
2 34 (8.48%) Windows
3 13 (3.24%) CentOS
3 13 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 12 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.99%) Unix
5 11 (2.74%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.75%) Debian
9 1 (0.25%) Fedora
9 1 (0.25%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (85.79%) CI/CD
2 280 (69.83%) DevOps
3 198 (49.38%) Agile
4 170 (42.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 120 (29.93%) Containerisation
6 113 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (27.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 92 (22.94%) Continuous Integration
9 80 (19.95%) Scrum
10 77 (19.20%) Microservices
11 75 (18.70%) Observability
12 70 (17.46%) Test Automation
13 69 (17.21%) Event-Driven
14 65 (16.21%) Software Engineering
15 62 (15.46%) Continuous Delivery
16 61 (15.21%) Roadmaps
17 59 (14.71%) Mentoring
18 56 (13.97%) DevSecOps
19 46 (11.47%) Design Patterns
20 45 (11.22%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 192 (47.88%) Python
2 109 (27.18%) Bash
3 108 (26.93%) Java
4 64 (15.96%) TypeScript
5 63 (15.71%) SQL
6 49 (12.22%) JavaScript
7 40 (9.98%) Apex Code
7 40 (9.98%) Go
7 40 (9.98%) SOQL
7 40 (9.98%) SOSL
8 38 (9.48%) PowerShell
9 32 (7.98%) Groovy
10 20 (4.99%) Rust
11 15 (3.74%) C#
12 8 (2.00%) Delphi
13 7 (1.75%) ANSI SQL
13 7 (1.75%) C++
14 5 (1.25%) Bicep
15 4 (1.00%) Perl
16 3 (0.75%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 87 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.47%) AWS Certification
3 41 (10.22%) Degree
4 36 (8.98%) SC Cleared
5 33 (8.23%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 18 (4.49%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (3.74%) OSCP
9 13 (3.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (2.24%) ISTQB
12 8 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (1.00%) CCNA
16 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
16 3 (0.75%) CISSP
16 3 (0.75%) LPIC
16 3 (0.75%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.47%) QA
2 16 (3.99%) NIST
3 10 (2.49%) GDPR
4 9 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.24%) PCI DSS
4 9 (2.24%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) ECSS
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 170 (42.39%) Docker
2 21 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.25%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.25%) vSphere
6 3 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) Firmware
7 1 (0.25%) NFS
7 1 (0.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 182 (45.39%) Terraform
2 166 (41.40%) Kubernetes
3 92 (22.94%) Grafana
4 90 (22.44%) Ansible
5 83 (20.70%) Prometheus
6 34 (8.48%) HP Fortify
7 10 (2.49%) Kibana
7 10 (2.49%) Nagios
8 9 (2.24%) Puppet
9 8 (2.00%) Argo
9 8 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.25%) logstash
10 5 (1.25%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.25%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.00%) WSUS
12 3 (0.75%) Istio
12 3 (0.75%) Rancher
12 3 (0.75%) VxRail
13 2 (0.50%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 75 (18.70%) Splunk
2 41 (10.22%) Salesforce
3 37 (9.23%) Oracle
4 30 (7.48%) Microsoft
5 28 (6.98%) Red Hat
6 22 (5.49%) Atlassian
7 21 (5.24%) VMware
8 11 (2.74%) Cisco
9 8 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 8 (2.00%) Google
10 6 (1.50%) Juniper
10 6 (1.50%) SAP
11 5 (1.25%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.00%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.00%) Dell
12 4 (1.00%) F5
12 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.00%) Rapid7
13 3 (0.75%) BeyondTrust
13 3 (0.75%) IBM