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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 260 349
Rank change year-on-year -62 +89 -34
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 535 535 765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.26% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.55% 13.49% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 325 161 565
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +4.17%

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 4,264 3,965 9,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.59% 9.33% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,807 2,576 6,592
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +9.20% -8.42%
75th Percentile £79,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -47 473 £75,000 -3.23% 182
UK excluding London -71 322 £67,500 -3.57% 146
London +18 172 £84,625 -0.44% 55
Work from Home -97 161 £69,310 -3.06% 95
North of England -44 126 £69,310 +3.39% 60
South East +51 90 £67,500 +5.88% 33
Yorkshire +15 73 £70,905 -1.52% 12
South West -53 45 £65,000 +6.12% 16
North West -87 36 £65,288 -2.61% 28
Scotland -36 35 £95,000 +8.57% 5
Midlands -90 20 £60,000 -14.29% 18
North East -24 17 £61,538 - 20
West Midlands -55 16 £60,000 -15.79% 11
East of England -44 6 £56,250 -29.69% 8
East Midlands -74 4 - - 7
Wales -37 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 24 (4.49%) Confluence
2 22 (4.11%) Apache
3 11 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.12%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.56%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.56%) IIS
6 3 (0.56%) JBoss
6 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 325 (60.75%) AWS
2 206 (38.50%) Azure
3 144 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
4 113 (21.12%) Serverless
5 95 (17.76%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (17.01%) GitHub
7 86 (16.07%) Amazon S3
8 78 (14.58%) GCP
9 71 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (10.65%) AWS Step Functions
11 56 (10.47%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (10.09%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (9.35%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (8.41%) Apigee
15 43 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 41 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
17 37 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (6.92%) Datadog
17 37 (6.92%) OpenShift
18 36 (6.73%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.66%) Broadband
2 30 (5.61%) DNS
3 29 (5.42%) Firewall
4 13 (2.43%) DSL
5 12 (2.24%) LAN
5 12 (2.24%) MQTT
6 11 (2.06%) Software-Defined Networking
7 10 (1.87%) Network Security
8 9 (1.68%) HTTP
8 9 (1.68%) WAN
9 8 (1.50%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.31%) IPv4
11 6 (1.12%) BGP
11 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.12%) DHCP
11 6 (1.12%) VPN
12 5 (0.93%) MPLS
13 4 (0.75%) Asterisk PBX
13 4 (0.75%) Bluetooth
13 4 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.52%) DynamoDB
2 61 (11.40%) NoSQL
3 48 (8.97%) MongoDB
4 39 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (4.30%) MySQL
7 16 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.68%) Pinecone
9 8 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.50%) Big Data
10 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.93%) CockroachDB
11 5 (0.93%) InfluxDB
12 4 (0.75%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
13 2 (0.37%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 257 (48.04%) Jenkins
2 145 (27.10%) Git
3 100 (18.69%) SonarQube
4 60 (11.21%) Cypress.io
5 46 (8.60%) JIRA
6 45 (8.41%) Cucumber
7 42 (7.85%) Maven
8 29 (5.42%) CircleCI
9 22 (4.11%) Bitbucket
9 22 (4.11%) Selenium
10 15 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
11 14 (2.62%) REST Assured
12 13 (2.43%) JUnit
13 12 (2.24%) Postman
14 10 (1.87%) JMeter
14 10 (1.87%) Vite
15 8 (1.50%) Gatling
15 8 (1.50%) Robot Framework
16 6 (1.12%) Artifactory
16 6 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 110 (20.56%) Social Skills
2 107 (20.00%) Finance
3 53 (9.91%) Banking
4 49 (9.16%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (7.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (7.10%) Marketing
8 34 (6.36%) Games
9 17 (3.18%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.43%) Advertising
12 12 (2.24%) Aerospace
12 12 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.87%) Electronics
14 6 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.93%) Automotive
15 5 (0.93%) Retail
16 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.75%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 115 (21.50%) Senior
2 96 (17.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 93 (17.38%) Developer
4 58 (10.84%) Lead
5 55 (10.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 51 (9.53%) Architect
7 46 (8.60%) Java Developer
8 42 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 39 (7.29%) Software Engineer
10 33 (6.17%) Salesforce Architect
11 30 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (5.61%) Senior DevOps
12 28 (5.23%) Senior Developer
13 27 (5.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 25 (4.67%) Security Engineer
15 21 (3.93%) Java Engineer
16 20 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
16 20 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (3.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
17 19 (3.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 69 (12.90%) REST
3 61 (11.40%) Kafka
4 57 (10.65%) AngularJS
5 52 (9.72%) Spring
6 42 (7.85%) Gherkin
7 41 (7.66%) Jest
8 37 (6.92%) RESTful
9 36 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
9 36 (6.73%) Node.js
9 36 (6.73%) RabbitMQ
10 35 (6.54%) React
10 35 (6.54%) SOAP
11 34 (6.36%) Lightning Web Components
11 34 (6.36%) Visualforce
12 23 (4.30%) JSON
13 22 (4.11%) YAML
14 21 (3.93%) gRPC
15 19 (3.55%) LangChain
15 19 (3.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 111 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.78%) Product Ownership
3 43 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (4.30%) Public Cloud
5 21 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.36%) Blockchain
7 17 (3.18%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.18%) e-Learning
7 17 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.18%) Security Posture
7 17 (3.18%) Web3
8 16 (2.99%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 9 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 139 (25.98%) Linux
2 56 (10.47%) Windows
3 25 (4.67%) Unix
4 21 (3.93%) Windows Server
5 20 (3.74%) CentOS
6 14 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (2.24%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.37%) Android
10 2 (0.37%) Debian
10 2 (0.37%) Rocky
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (86.17%) CI/CD
2 367 (68.60%) DevOps
3 273 (51.03%) Agile
4 246 (45.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 155 (28.97%) Containerisation
6 143 (26.73%) Microservices
7 135 (25.23%) Test Automation
8 124 (23.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 115 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
10 106 (19.81%) Continuous Integration
11 103 (19.25%) Scrum
12 100 (18.69%) Mentoring
13 96 (17.94%) Observability
14 90 (16.82%) Software Engineering
15 88 (16.45%) DevSecOps
16 78 (14.58%) SDLC
17 77 (14.39%) Event-Driven
18 76 (14.21%) Continuous Delivery
19 63 (11.78%) Coaching
20 61 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 249 (46.54%) Python
2 161 (30.09%) Java
3 150 (28.04%) Bash
4 81 (15.14%) TypeScript
5 76 (14.21%) SQL
6 67 (12.52%) JavaScript
7 57 (10.65%) PowerShell
8 53 (9.91%) Go
9 50 (9.35%) Groovy
10 34 (6.36%) Apex Code
10 34 (6.36%) SOQL
10 34 (6.36%) SOSL
11 32 (5.98%) C#
12 31 (5.79%) Rust
13 26 (4.86%) C++
14 8 (1.50%) Perl
15 7 (1.31%) C
16 6 (1.12%) Bicep
16 6 (1.12%) PHP
17 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 155 (28.97%) Security Cleared
2 83 (15.51%) SC Cleared
3 69 (12.90%) Degree
4 63 (11.78%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.61%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.49%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (4.30%) OSCP
9 21 (3.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (3.36%) Master's Degree
11 16 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.80%) ISTQB
13 14 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (2.24%) CCNA
14 12 (2.24%) RHCSA
15 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (1.31%) RHCE
16 6 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.96%) QA
2 19 (3.55%) GDPR
3 17 (3.18%) NIST
4 13 (2.43%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.43%) SOC 2
5 10 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.68%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.75%) JTAG
8 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 227 (42.43%) Docker
2 28 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.30%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.06%) VMware NSX
4 11 (2.06%) vSphere
5 7 (1.31%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.31%) Squid
5 7 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 274 (51.21%) Terraform
2 224 (41.87%) Kubernetes
3 133 (24.86%) Ansible
4 88 (16.45%) Grafana
5 82 (15.33%) Prometheus
6 39 (7.29%) HP Fortify
7 32 (5.98%) Argo
8 21 (3.93%) Nagios
9 14 (2.62%) Kibana
10 13 (2.43%) Puppet
11 12 (2.24%) Packer
12 11 (2.06%) logstash
13 8 (1.50%) Podman
14 7 (1.31%) vCenter Server
14 7 (1.31%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.93%) VxRail
17 4 (0.75%) Rancher
Vendors
1 83 (15.51%) Splunk
2 47 (8.79%) Red Hat
3 37 (6.92%) Microsoft
3 37 (6.92%) VMware
4 35 (6.54%) Salesforce
5 19 (3.55%) Oracle
6 14 (2.62%) Cisco
7 12 (2.24%) Atlassian
7 12 (2.24%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.06%) AppDynamics
9 10 (1.87%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.87%) Google
10 8 (1.50%) Juniper
10 8 (1.50%) Tenable
11 7 (1.31%) IBM
11 7 (1.31%) Rapid7
12 6 (1.12%) F5
12 6 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.93%) BeyondTrust
13 5 (0.93%) Veracode