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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 259 353
Rank change year-on-year -67 +94 -12
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 596 573 623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.16% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.29% 13.87% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 368 190 379
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £44,572
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -

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 4,484 4,132 7,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 8.36% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,976 2,610 4,908
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,075 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% +5.13% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,125 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,198 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 31 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 31 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 -57 536 £69,655 -7.13% 234
UK excluding London -76 375 £65,000 -3.04% 156
London -2 189 £86,250 +7.81% 102
Work from Home -146 147 £66,538 -11.28% 107
North of England -53 132 £67,500 +0.69% 54
South East +41 98 £63,750 -15.00% 31
South West -36 72 £73,750 +22.92% 28
Yorkshire +5 55 £69,310 -7.59% 7
North West -84 43 £65,000 -3.04% 33
North East -18 34 £55,000 - 14
Midlands -90 32 £58,750 -16.07% 20
Scotland -22 31 £110,000 +15.79% 10
West Midlands -35 23 £57,500 -28.13% 15
East Midlands -58 9 £60,000 - 5
Wales -53 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -41 4 £60,000 -5.88% 14
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 27 (4.53%) Apache
2 26 (4.36%) Confluence
3 18 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.02%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.18%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.50%) IIS
5 3 (0.50%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 376 (63.09%) AWS
2 222 (37.25%) Azure
3 130 (21.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 124 (20.81%) GitHub
5 95 (15.94%) Serverless
6 82 (13.76%) Amazon S3
6 82 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
8 75 (12.58%) GCP
9 68 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (9.90%) Amazon ECS
11 54 (9.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 52 (8.72%) Amazon ECR
13 48 (8.05%) OpenShift
14 44 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
15 42 (7.05%) AWS Step Functions
16 38 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (6.21%) Azure AKS
18 34 (5.70%) Apigee
19 32 (5.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.21%) Broadband
2 27 (4.53%) Firewall
3 14 (2.35%) Network Security
4 13 (2.18%) MQTT
5 12 (2.01%) DNS
6 10 (1.68%) HTTP
7 9 (1.51%) LAN
7 9 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
8 8 (1.34%) IPv4
9 7 (1.17%) DSL
9 7 (1.17%) WAN
10 6 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.01%) Wireless
10 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.67%) BGP
12 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
12 4 (0.67%) VPN
13 3 (0.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (11.41%) NoSQL
2 55 (9.23%) DynamoDB
3 53 (8.89%) MongoDB
4 50 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (6.04%) MySQL
6 30 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.69%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.68%) Big Data
9 10 (1.68%) Pinecone
10 9 (1.51%) Redis
11 8 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.67%) Metadata
14 4 (0.67%) Power BI
14 4 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 269 (45.13%) Jenkins
2 189 (31.71%) Git
3 80 (13.42%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.23%) JIRA
5 59 (9.90%) Cucumber
6 54 (9.06%) Cypress.io
7 36 (6.04%) Selenium
8 29 (4.87%) Maven
9 25 (4.19%) JUnit
10 23 (3.86%) Postman
11 21 (3.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 21 (3.52%) CircleCI
12 15 (2.52%) Bitbucket
12 15 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (2.35%) Gatling
13 14 (2.35%) REST Assured
14 13 (2.18%) JMeter
15 12 (2.01%) Spock
16 11 (1.85%) Vite
17 10 (1.68%) Robot Framework
General
1 149 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 127 (21.31%) Finance
3 85 (14.26%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (9.73%) Banking
6 53 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (5.03%) Marketing
8 26 (4.36%) Games
9 15 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.18%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.85%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.68%) Electronics
14 7 (1.17%) Legal
15 6 (1.01%) Advertising
15 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.67%) Automotive
16 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 145 (24.33%) Senior
2 126 (21.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 88 (14.77%) Developer
4 61 (10.23%) Software Engineer
5 44 (7.38%) Architect
5 44 (7.38%) Lead
6 41 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (6.54%) Principal Engineer
8 37 (6.21%) Java Engineer
9 36 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (6.04%) Java Developer
10 33 (5.54%) Senior DevOps
10 33 (5.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) Salesforce Architect
12 28 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
12 28 (4.70%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 25 (4.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.59%) Spring Boot
2 77 (12.92%) Kafka
3 74 (12.42%) Spring
4 67 (11.24%) REST
5 63 (10.57%) AngularJS
6 55 (9.23%) Node.js
7 53 (8.89%) React
8 48 (8.05%) RESTful
9 41 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
10 36 (6.04%) Jest
11 34 (5.70%) RabbitMQ
12 33 (5.54%) SOAP
13 32 (5.37%) Playwright
14 29 (4.87%) Gherkin
14 29 (4.87%) Lightning Web Components
15 27 (4.53%) JSON
15 27 (4.53%) Visualforce
16 24 (4.03%) .NET
17 22 (3.69%) Vue
18 21 (3.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 161 (27.01%) Cloud Native
2 72 (12.08%) Product Ownership
3 71 (11.91%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.70%) Public Cloud
5 33 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (4.70%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.85%) Private Cloud
9 16 (2.68%) Algorithms
9 16 (2.68%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.01%) Blockchain
11 11 (1.85%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.85%) Web3
12 10 (1.68%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.68%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 166 (27.85%) Linux
2 65 (10.91%) Windows
3 41 (6.88%) CentOS
4 29 (4.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.19%) Unix
6 24 (4.03%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.85%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) VMS
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (91.11%) CI/CD
2 412 (69.13%) DevOps
3 319 (53.52%) Agile
4 289 (48.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 189 (31.71%) Microservices
5 189 (31.71%) Test Automation
6 187 (31.38%) Containerisation
7 143 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 126 (21.14%) Software Engineering
9 124 (20.81%) Mentoring
10 122 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (18.96%) Scrum
12 106 (17.79%) Observability
13 101 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
14 90 (15.10%) AI
14 90 (15.10%) SDLC
15 83 (13.93%) DevSecOps
15 83 (13.93%) Event-Driven
16 81 (13.59%) Coaching
17 78 (13.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 277 (46.48%) Python
2 181 (30.37%) Java
3 153 (25.67%) Bash
4 103 (17.28%) SQL
5 87 (14.60%) JavaScript
6 81 (13.59%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.58%) PowerShell
8 47 (7.89%) Go
9 41 (6.88%) Groovy
10 34 (5.70%) C#
11 32 (5.37%) C++
12 29 (4.87%) Apex Code
13 27 (4.53%) SOQL
13 27 (4.53%) SOSL
14 26 (4.36%) Rust
15 11 (1.85%) PHP
16 10 (1.68%) C
17 7 (1.17%) Kotlin
17 7 (1.17%) Perl
17 7 (1.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 216 (36.24%) Security Cleared
2 132 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 78 (13.09%) Degree
4 69 (11.58%) AWS Certification
5 49 (8.22%) DV Cleared
6 34 (5.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (3.69%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (3.69%) Master's Degree
8 20 (3.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 19 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (3.02%) OSCP
11 17 (2.85%) ISTQB
12 15 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.52%) RHCSA
13 11 (1.85%) CCNA
14 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.34%) RHCE
16 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
17 5 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (12.92%) QA
2 29 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.52%) GDPR
4 17 (2.85%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.68%) WCAG
6 14 (2.35%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.85%) NIST
7 11 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.01%) JTAG
10 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.50%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 277 (46.48%) Docker
2 25 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.68%) vSphere
5 9 (1.51%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.34%) Squid
7 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Firmware
9 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 296 (49.66%) Terraform
2 265 (44.46%) Kubernetes
3 148 (24.83%) Ansible
4 91 (15.27%) Grafana
5 73 (12.25%) Prometheus
6 38 (6.38%) Argo
7 28 (4.70%) HP Fortify
8 26 (4.36%) Nagios
9 20 (3.36%) Kibana
10 16 (2.68%) logstash
10 16 (2.68%) Puppet
11 13 (2.18%) Packer
12 9 (1.51%) Podman
13 8 (1.34%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.84%) VxRail
16 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 82 (13.76%) Splunk
2 54 (9.06%) Red Hat
3 46 (7.72%) Microsoft
4 36 (6.04%) VMware
5 33 (5.54%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.19%) AppDynamics
7 15 (2.52%) Oracle
8 14 (2.35%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.35%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.18%) Cisco
9 13 (2.18%) Google
9 13 (2.18%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
11 10 (1.68%) Databricks
12 8 (1.34%) Intel
12 8 (1.34%) Tenable
13 7 (1.17%) SAP
14 6 (1.01%) Juniper
14 6 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 6 (1.01%) ServiceNow