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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 260 357
Rank change year-on-year -63 +97 -17
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 585 566 714
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.15% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.52% 13.39% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 352 182 474
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,625 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,269 £62,783
% change year-on-year -3.37% +7.15% +0.45%

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 4,328 4,226 8,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.38% 8.58% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,880 2,679 6,087
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -40 516 £70,000 -6.67% 229
UK excluding London -75 362 £65,000 -3.37% 160
London +8 186 £85,000 - 101
Work from Home -136 147 £67,500 -5.59% 107
North of England -57 127 £65,576 -2.18% 56
South East +57 102 £65,000 -13.33% 20
South West -43 66 £72,500 +18.37% 39
Yorkshire +8 59 £69,310 -3.74% 8
North West -96 41 £65,000 -3.04% 38
Scotland -21 37 £102,500 +13.89% 15
North East -27 27 £55,000 - 10
Midlands -88 23 £53,750 -23.21% 21
West Midlands -41 16 £57,500 -17.86% 14
East Midlands -66 7 £39,194 -40.84% 7
Wales -45 5 £47,500 +46.15% 1
East of England -39 4 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 1

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 30 (5.13%) Apache
2 25 (4.27%) Confluence
3 17 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (2.05%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.51%) IIS
6 3 (0.51%) JBoss
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 369 (63.08%) AWS
2 212 (36.24%) Azure
3 138 (23.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 115 (19.66%) GitHub
5 105 (17.95%) Serverless
6 87 (14.87%) Amazon S3
7 86 (14.70%) AWS Lambda
8 80 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (12.99%) GCP
10 67 (11.45%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (8.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (8.72%) Amazon ECR
11 51 (8.72%) Amazon ECS
12 47 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (8.03%) AWS Step Functions
13 44 (7.52%) OpenShift
14 40 (6.84%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (6.84%) Azure AKS
15 37 (6.32%) Apigee
16 35 (5.98%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.69%) Broadband
2 30 (5.13%) Firewall
3 17 (2.91%) DNS
4 14 (2.39%) MQTT
5 12 (2.05%) LAN
5 12 (2.05%) Software-Defined Networking
6 11 (1.88%) Network Security
7 10 (1.71%) DSL
7 10 (1.71%) HTTP
7 10 (1.71%) WAN
8 8 (1.37%) IPv4
9 7 (1.20%) BGP
9 7 (1.20%) VPN
10 6 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.03%) DHCP
10 6 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.03%) Wireless
10 6 (1.03%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.85%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.79%) NoSQL
2 60 (10.26%) DynamoDB
3 52 (8.89%) MongoDB
4 47 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (5.47%) MySQL
6 30 (5.13%) Elasticsearch
7 19 (3.25%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.88%) Big Data
10 11 (1.88%) Pinecone
11 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.20%) InfluxDB
13 6 (1.03%) Redis
14 5 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.68%) Delta Lake
16 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
17 2 (0.34%) DocumentDB
17 2 (0.34%) GIS
17 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 281 (48.03%) Jenkins
2 169 (28.89%) Git
3 95 (16.24%) SonarQube
4 58 (9.91%) JIRA
5 56 (9.57%) Cypress.io
6 54 (9.23%) Cucumber
7 32 (5.47%) Maven
8 31 (5.30%) Selenium
9 26 (4.44%) CircleCI
10 18 (3.08%) Bitbucket
11 17 (2.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (2.91%) JUnit
11 17 (2.91%) Visual Studio Code
12 16 (2.74%) Postman
13 14 (2.39%) REST Assured
14 12 (2.05%) Vite
15 11 (1.88%) JMeter
15 11 (1.88%) Robot Framework
16 10 (1.71%) Gatling
16 10 (1.71%) TestRail
General
1 137 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 124 (21.20%) Finance
3 73 (12.48%) Public Sector
4 56 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (9.40%) Banking
5 55 (9.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.15%) Marketing
7 34 (5.81%) Games
8 15 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.39%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.22%) Aerospace
10 13 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.71%) Electronics
12 8 (1.37%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.03%) Advertising
13 6 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.85%) Retail
15 4 (0.68%) Automotive
15 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.51%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 129 (22.05%) Senior
2 116 (19.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (15.38%) Developer
4 62 (10.60%) Software Engineer
5 50 (8.55%) Architect
6 44 (7.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 42 (7.18%) Lead
8 41 (7.01%) Java Developer
9 37 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
10 35 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (5.98%) Principal Engineer
10 35 (5.98%) Salesforce Architect
11 32 (5.47%) Java Engineer
12 29 (4.96%) Senior DevOps
12 29 (4.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 28 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
14 27 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (4.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (13.50%) Spring Boot
2 72 (12.31%) Kafka
2 72 (12.31%) REST
3 67 (11.45%) Spring
4 60 (10.26%) AngularJS
5 48 (8.21%) Node.js
6 46 (7.86%) Elastic Stack
6 46 (7.86%) React
7 43 (7.35%) RESTful
8 39 (6.67%) SOAP
9 38 (6.50%) Jest
10 36 (6.15%) Lightning Web Components
11 35 (5.98%) Visualforce
12 34 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
13 32 (5.47%) Gherkin
14 27 (4.62%) Playwright
15 25 (4.27%) JSON
16 24 (4.10%) Vue
17 23 (3.93%) .NET
18 22 (3.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 146 (24.96%) Cloud Native
2 74 (12.65%) Product Ownership
3 63 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (5.47%) Public Cloud
5 30 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (4.27%) e-Learning
7 22 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (3.08%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.91%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.39%) Blockchain
10 14 (2.39%) Security Posture
11 13 (2.22%) Web3
12 12 (2.05%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
13 10 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.37%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
15 8 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 165 (28.21%) Linux
2 68 (11.62%) Windows
3 36 (6.15%) CentOS
4 26 (4.44%) Unix
5 25 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.27%) Windows Server
6 13 (2.22%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.34%) Android
10 2 (0.34%) Debian
10 2 (0.34%) Rocky
10 2 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (89.57%) CI/CD
2 409 (69.91%) DevOps
3 307 (52.48%) Agile
4 286 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 181 (30.94%) Containerisation
6 179 (30.60%) Microservices
7 171 (29.23%) Test Automation
8 143 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (20.68%) Software Engineering
10 117 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (19.66%) Scrum
12 108 (18.46%) Continuous Integration
13 107 (18.29%) Mentoring
14 103 (17.61%) Observability
15 87 (14.87%) DevSecOps
16 86 (14.70%) Event-Driven
16 86 (14.70%) SDLC
17 78 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
18 76 (12.99%) AI
19 74 (12.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 287 (49.06%) Python
2 179 (30.60%) Java
3 158 (27.01%) Bash
4 94 (16.07%) SQL
5 81 (13.85%) JavaScript
6 77 (13.16%) TypeScript
7 70 (11.97%) PowerShell
8 52 (8.89%) Go
9 43 (7.35%) Groovy
10 36 (6.15%) Apex Code
11 35 (5.98%) C#
11 35 (5.98%) SOQL
11 35 (5.98%) SOSL
12 33 (5.64%) C++
13 32 (5.47%) Rust
14 10 (1.71%) C
14 10 (1.71%) PHP
15 7 (1.20%) Perl
15 7 (1.20%) Scala
16 6 (1.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 213 (36.41%) Security Cleared
2 119 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.50%) Degree
4 70 (11.97%) AWS Certification
5 47 (8.03%) DV Cleared
6 30 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.10%) Master's Degree
8 23 (3.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (3.93%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.59%) OSCP
10 18 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 15 (2.56%) ISTQB
11 15 (2.56%) RHCSA
12 14 (2.39%) CCNA
13 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.37%) RHCE
15 7 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
17 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (11.97%) QA
2 21 (3.59%) Accessibility
2 21 (3.59%) GDPR
3 13 (2.22%) NIST
3 13 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.22%) SOC 2
4 12 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.88%) WCAG
6 6 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.03%) JTAG
7 5 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 260 (44.44%) Docker
2 32 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.76%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.22%) vSphere
5 12 (2.05%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.37%) Squid
8 7 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.68%) Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 295 (50.43%) Terraform
2 261 (44.62%) Kubernetes
3 150 (25.64%) Ansible
4 94 (16.07%) Grafana
5 76 (12.99%) Prometheus
6 35 (5.98%) Argo
7 31 (5.30%) HP Fortify
8 24 (4.10%) Nagios
9 22 (3.76%) Kibana
10 18 (3.08%) logstash
11 16 (2.74%) Puppet
12 13 (2.22%) Packer
13 10 (1.71%) vCenter Server
14 9 (1.54%) Podman
15 8 (1.37%) ZABBIX
16 7 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 6 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (1.03%) VxRail
18 4 (0.68%) WSUS
19 3 (0.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (15.04%) Splunk
2 52 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 43 (7.35%) VMware
4 39 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 38 (6.50%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.56%) AppDynamics
6 15 (2.56%) Oracle
7 14 (2.39%) Atlassian
7 14 (2.39%) Cisco
7 14 (2.39%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.05%) Dynatrace
8 12 (2.05%) Google
9 9 (1.54%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.37%) Tenable
11 7 (1.20%) IBM
11 7 (1.20%) Intel
11 7 (1.20%) Juniper
12 6 (1.03%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.03%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.03%) Veracode