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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 258 359
Rank change year-on-year -78 +101 -19
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 598 578 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.17% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.13% 14.02% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 363 196 358
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,911
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £68,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +9.89% +1.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £108,250 £112,500 £105,925
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 4,553 4,124 7,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 8.31% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,993 2,590 4,624
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £63,075 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +5.13% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -59 536 £69,310 -7.59% 357
UK excluding London -85 378 £65,000 -3.04% 199
London -22 189 £87,500 +9.38% 181
Work from Home -148 145 £67,500 -10.00% 180
North of England -62 134 £67,500 +0.69% 59
South East +42 95 £62,500 -16.67% 39
South West -28 75 £72,500 +20.83% 44
Yorkshire +2 53 £70,905 -5.46% 7
North West -85 43 £65,000 -3.04% 41
North East -18 38 £55,000 - 11
Scotland -17 33 £110,000 +15.79% 15
Midlands -84 30 £60,000 -15.79% 27
West Midlands -48 21 £62,500 -30.56% 19
East Midlands -57 9 £60,000 - 8
Wales -46 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -46 5 £46,000 -27.84% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 2

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 28 (4.68%) Apache
2 26 (4.35%) Confluence
3 21 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.51%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.34%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.50%) IIS
5 3 (0.50%) JBoss
6 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
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 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 378 (63.21%) AWS
2 224 (37.46%) Azure
3 129 (21.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 128 (21.40%) GitHub
5 93 (15.55%) Serverless
6 83 (13.88%) Amazon S3
7 82 (13.71%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (13.04%) GCP
9 75 (12.54%) AWS Lambda
10 71 (11.87%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (10.03%) Amazon ECS
12 56 (9.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 53 (8.86%) Amazon ECR
14 49 (8.19%) OpenShift
15 44 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (6.69%) AWS Step Functions
17 39 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
18 37 (6.19%) Azure AKS
19 33 (5.52%) Datadog
20 32 (5.35%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.19%) Broadband
2 26 (4.35%) Firewall
3 14 (2.34%) MQTT
3 14 (2.34%) Network Security
4 12 (2.01%) DNS
5 10 (1.67%) HTTP
6 9 (1.51%) LAN
6 9 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (1.34%) IPv4
8 7 (1.17%) WAN
9 6 (1.00%) DSL
9 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.00%) Wireless
9 6 (1.00%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.67%) BGP
11 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.67%) VPN
12 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.71%) NoSQL
2 55 (9.20%) DynamoDB
2 55 (9.20%) MongoDB
3 51 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (6.19%) MySQL
5 30 (5.02%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (3.68%) Relational Database
7 18 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.67%) Big Data
9 10 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.67%) Pinecone
10 9 (1.51%) Redis
11 8 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.00%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.67%) DocumentDB
14 4 (0.67%) Metadata
14 4 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 270 (45.15%) Jenkins
2 191 (31.94%) Git
3 81 (13.55%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.20%) Cucumber
4 61 (10.20%) JIRA
5 55 (9.20%) Cypress.io
6 38 (6.35%) Selenium
7 28 (4.68%) Maven
8 27 (4.52%) JUnit
9 25 (4.18%) Postman
10 20 (3.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 20 (3.34%) CircleCI
11 15 (2.51%) Bitbucket
11 15 (2.51%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (2.34%) Gatling
12 14 (2.34%) REST Assured
13 13 (2.17%) JMeter
14 12 (2.01%) Spock
15 11 (1.84%) Vite
16 10 (1.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 149 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 133 (22.24%) Finance
3 88 (14.72%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.87%) Banking
5 58 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (9.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (5.35%) Marketing
7 26 (4.35%) Games
8 14 (2.34%) Aerospace
8 14 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.01%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.67%) Electronics
11 8 (1.34%) Law
12 7 (1.17%) Legal
13 6 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.84%) Advertising
15 4 (0.67%) Automotive
15 4 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 147 (24.58%) Senior
2 126 (21.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 91 (15.22%) Developer
4 62 (10.37%) Software Engineer
5 43 (7.19%) Architect
5 43 (7.19%) Lead
6 40 (6.69%) Principal Engineer
7 39 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (6.52%) Java Engineer
8 35 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
8 35 (5.85%) Java Developer
8 35 (5.85%) Senior DevOps
8 35 (5.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 29 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 29 (4.85%) Salesforce Architect
10 28 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
10 28 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (4.35%) Senior Developer
12 26 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (14.21%) Spring Boot
2 83 (13.88%) Kafka
3 78 (13.04%) Spring
4 68 (11.37%) REST
5 67 (11.20%) AngularJS
6 59 (9.87%) Node.js
7 56 (9.36%) React
8 53 (8.86%) RESTful
9 42 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
10 37 (6.19%) Jest
11 35 (5.85%) RabbitMQ
12 33 (5.52%) SOAP
13 32 (5.35%) Playwright
14 30 (5.02%) .NET
15 29 (4.85%) Lightning Web Components
16 28 (4.68%) Gherkin
17 27 (4.52%) Visualforce
18 26 (4.35%) JSON
19 23 (3.85%) Vue
20 21 (3.51%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 169 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.21%) Distributed Systems
2 73 (12.21%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.02%) Public Cloud
4 35 (5.85%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (5.02%) e-Learning
6 24 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.01%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.01%) Private Cloud
8 13 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.01%) Blockchain
9 12 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.84%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.84%) Web3
11 10 (1.67%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 162 (27.09%) Linux
2 64 (10.70%) Windows
3 41 (6.86%) CentOS
4 29 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.01%) Unix
6 23 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.84%) 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
11 2 (0.33%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 544 (90.97%) CI/CD
2 413 (69.06%) DevOps
3 327 (54.68%) Agile
4 291 (48.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 196 (32.78%) Test Automation
6 191 (31.94%) Microservices
7 188 (31.44%) Containerisation
8 144 (24.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 129 (21.57%) Software Engineering
10 127 (21.24%) Mentoring
11 123 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (18.56%) Scrum
13 108 (18.06%) Observability
14 99 (16.56%) Continuous Integration
15 91 (15.22%) AI
16 90 (15.05%) SDLC
17 86 (14.38%) Event-Driven
18 81 (13.55%) Coaching
18 81 (13.55%) DevSecOps
19 78 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 276 (46.15%) Python
2 187 (31.27%) Java
3 148 (24.75%) Bash
4 106 (17.73%) SQL
5 91 (15.22%) JavaScript
6 81 (13.55%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.54%) PowerShell
8 46 (7.69%) Go
9 40 (6.69%) Groovy
10 34 (5.69%) C#
11 32 (5.35%) C++
12 29 (4.85%) Apex Code
13 27 (4.52%) SOQL
13 27 (4.52%) SOSL
14 25 (4.18%) Rust
15 11 (1.84%) PHP
16 10 (1.67%) C
17 7 (1.17%) Kotlin
17 7 (1.17%) Ruby
17 7 (1.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 220 (36.79%) Security Cleared
2 135 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.38%) Degree
4 72 (12.04%) AWS Certification
5 47 (7.86%) DV Cleared
6 38 (6.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (3.68%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (3.68%) Master's Degree
8 19 (3.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.84%) ISTQB
9 17 (2.84%) OSCP
10 15 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.51%) RHCSA
11 11 (1.84%) CCNA
12 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.34%) RHCE
14 7 (1.17%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (12.88%) QA
2 29 (4.85%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.34%) GDPR
4 18 (3.01%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.84%) WCAG
6 13 (2.17%) SOC 2
7 12 (2.01%) NIST
8 10 (1.67%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (1.00%) JTAG
11 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.67%) SLA
13 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.17%) GRC
14 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 280 (46.82%) Docker
2 25 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.01%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.67%) 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
1 298 (49.83%) Terraform
2 266 (44.48%) Kubernetes
3 147 (24.58%) Ansible
4 93 (15.55%) Grafana
5 74 (12.37%) Prometheus
6 40 (6.69%) Argo
7 27 (4.52%) HP Fortify
8 25 (4.18%) Nagios
9 19 (3.18%) Kibana
10 16 (2.68%) logstash
11 15 (2.51%) Puppet
12 13 (2.17%) Packer
13 10 (1.67%) Podman
14 8 (1.34%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.00%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.84%) VxRail
17 4 (0.67%) Istio
18 3 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 83 (13.88%) Splunk
2 55 (9.20%) Red Hat
3 46 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 35 (5.85%) VMware
5 33 (5.52%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.18%) AppDynamics
7 17 (2.84%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.68%) Oracle
9 14 (2.34%) Atlassian
9 14 (2.34%) Google
10 13 (2.17%) OpenAI
11 12 (2.01%) Cisco
12 11 (1.84%) Rapid7
13 10 (1.67%) Databricks
14 8 (1.34%) Intel
15 7 (1.17%) OneLogin
15 7 (1.17%) SAP
15 7 (1.17%) Tenable
16 6 (1.00%) ServiceNow
17 5 (0.84%) F5