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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 260 329
Rank change year-on-year -88 +69 +17
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 592 556 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.11% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.92% 14.11% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 360 194 331
10th Percentile £47,375 £50,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -

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 4,581 3,940 6,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.17% 7.88% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,967 2,418 4,275
10th Percentile £35,150 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,743 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,300 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.58%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -60 540 £69,310 -7.59% 541
UK excluding London -99 370 £65,000 -7.14% 326
London 0 185 £90,000 +12.50% 281
North of England -61 142 £68,076 +0.85% 97
Work from Home -158 135 £65,576 -15.39% 267
South East +18 82 £62,500 -16.67% 59
South West -36 74 £72,500 +13.73% 62
North West -89 51 £69,310 +10.90% 53
North East -16 48 £55,000 -18.52% 20
Yorkshire -15 43 £73,750 -1.67% 24
Midlands -84 39 £60,000 -14.29% 34
West Midlands -33 26 £62,500 -30.56% 23
Scotland -41 21 £110,000 +26.07% 36
East Midlands -51 13 £60,000 - 11
Wales -61 8 £55,000 +18.92% 4
East of England -44 6 £60,000 -7.69% 24
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 12

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 (4.73%) Apache
2 25 (4.22%) Confluence
3 22 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (3.55%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.70%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.51%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 379 (64.02%) AWS
2 220 (37.16%) Azure
3 134 (22.64%) GitHub
4 114 (19.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 81 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (13.51%) GCP
7 76 (12.84%) Amazon S3
7 76 (12.84%) Serverless
8 70 (11.82%) GitHub Actions
9 58 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (8.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (8.61%) Amazon ECS
12 47 (7.94%) Amazon ECR
13 44 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
13 44 (7.43%) OpenShift
14 40 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (6.42%) Azure AKS
16 27 (4.56%) AWS Step Functions
17 24 (4.05%) Datadog
18 23 (3.89%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.22%) Broadband
2 22 (3.72%) Firewall
3 15 (2.53%) DNS
4 12 (2.03%) Network Security
5 11 (1.86%) MQTT
6 10 (1.69%) HTTP
7 8 (1.35%) IPv4
7 8 (1.35%) LAN
7 8 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (1.18%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.18%) WAN
9 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.01%) Wireless
9 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.84%) BGP
10 5 (0.84%) VPN
11 4 (0.68%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.68%) DHCP
12 3 (0.51%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 59 (9.97%) MongoDB
3 58 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (7.77%) DynamoDB
5 38 (6.42%) MySQL
6 32 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.89%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.20%) Pinecone
11 12 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.86%) Big Data
13 10 (1.69%) Redis
14 8 (1.35%) Chroma
14 8 (1.35%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.18%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.18%) InfluxDB
15 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
16 4 (0.68%) Power BI
16 4 (0.68%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 261 (44.09%) Jenkins
2 195 (32.94%) Git
3 70 (11.82%) Cucumber
4 67 (11.32%) SonarQube
5 60 (10.14%) JIRA
6 56 (9.46%) Cypress.io
7 45 (7.60%) Selenium
8 32 (5.41%) Postman
9 30 (5.07%) JUnit
10 25 (4.22%) Maven
11 23 (3.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 20 (3.38%) JMeter
12 20 (3.38%) REST Assured
13 19 (3.21%) Gatling
14 15 (2.53%) Bitbucket
15 14 (2.36%) Spock
15 14 (2.36%) Visual Studio Code
16 13 (2.20%) CircleCI
17 12 (2.03%) Robot Framework
17 12 (2.03%) Vite
General
1 155 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 133 (22.47%) Finance
3 96 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 62 (10.47%) Banking
5 48 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (3.38%) Marketing
7 15 (2.53%) Aerospace
7 15 (2.53%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.36%) Games
8 14 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.69%) Electronics
10 10 (1.69%) Law
11 9 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.18%) Legal
13 5 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Automotive
14 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 153 (25.84%) Senior
2 134 (22.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 82 (13.85%) Developer
4 62 (10.47%) Software Engineer
5 50 (8.45%) Lead
6 48 (8.11%) Principal Engineer
7 46 (7.77%) Java Engineer
8 41 (6.93%) Senior DevOps
8 41 (6.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 36 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (5.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 32 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.90%) Test Engineer
13 28 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
15 26 (4.39%) Architect
15 26 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
15 26 (4.39%) Java Developer
15 26 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (48.99%) Terraform
2 85 (14.36%) Spring
3 84 (14.19%) Spring Boot
4 81 (13.68%) Kafka
5 65 (10.98%) React
6 64 (10.81%) REST
7 61 (10.30%) AngularJS
8 60 (10.14%) Node.js
9 53 (8.95%) RESTful
10 42 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
10 42 (7.09%) Playwright
11 32 (5.41%) .NET
11 32 (5.41%) Jest
12 29 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (4.05%) LangChain
14 23 (3.89%) JSON
14 23 (3.89%) SOAP
15 22 (3.72%) Vue
16 21 (3.55%) Gherkin
16 21 (3.55%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 179 (30.24%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.51%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (9.46%) Product Ownership
4 42 (7.09%) Public Cloud
5 37 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (6.08%) e-Learning
7 25 (4.22%) Private Cloud
8 24 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.87%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.53%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.20%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.20%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.69%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.52%) Blockchain
13 9 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
13 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
14 8 (1.35%) Web3
15 7 (1.18%) IoT
16 6 (1.01%) ARM Cortex
Operating Systems
1 171 (28.89%) Linux
2 60 (10.14%) Windows
3 43 (7.26%) CentOS
4 33 (5.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.05%) Unix
6 18 (3.04%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Kali Linux
8 5 (0.84%) VMS
9 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Debian
11 2 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (91.39%) CI/CD
2 396 (66.89%) DevOps
3 324 (54.73%) Agile
4 290 (48.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 224 (37.84%) Test Automation
6 190 (32.09%) Microservices
7 179 (30.24%) Containerisation
8 140 (23.65%) Mentoring
9 134 (22.64%) Software Engineering
10 127 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 112 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
12 105 (17.74%) Observability
13 102 (17.23%) AI
13 102 (17.23%) Scrum
14 91 (15.37%) SDLC
15 87 (14.70%) Full-Stack Development
16 86 (14.53%) Coaching
17 83 (14.02%) Continuous Integration
18 80 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
19 78 (13.18%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 271 (45.78%) Python
2 202 (34.12%) Java
3 148 (25.00%) Bash
4 116 (19.59%) SQL
5 94 (15.88%) JavaScript
6 85 (14.36%) TypeScript
7 71 (11.99%) PowerShell
8 40 (6.76%) Go
9 35 (5.91%) Groovy
10 34 (5.74%) C#
11 32 (5.41%) C++
12 19 (3.21%) Rust
13 17 (2.87%) Apex Code
14 15 (2.53%) SOQL
14 15 (2.53%) SOSL
15 11 (1.86%) C
15 11 (1.86%) PHP
16 9 (1.52%) Perl
17 8 (1.35%) Scala
18 7 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 231 (39.02%) Security Cleared
2 148 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 78 (13.18%) Degree
4 72 (12.16%) AWS Certification
5 48 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 42 (7.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.89%) Master's Degree
9 21 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (3.04%) ISTQB
11 16 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.53%) RHCSA
13 12 (2.03%) CCNA
14 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (1.86%) OSCP
15 8 (1.35%) RHCE
16 7 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (1.01%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (15.03%) QA
2 33 (5.57%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.04%) WCAG
5 16 (2.70%) GDPR
6 11 (1.86%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.01%) JTAG
8 6 (1.01%) NIST
8 6 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.01%) SLA
9 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
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
1 283 (47.80%) Docker
2 25 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.86%) vSphere
6 8 (1.35%) Squid
6 8 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.84%) Firmware
8 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 263 (44.43%) Kubernetes
2 149 (25.17%) Ansible
3 88 (14.86%) Grafana
4 63 (10.64%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.76%) Argo
6 22 (3.72%) Nagios
6 22 (3.72%) Puppet
7 21 (3.55%) HP Fortify
8 20 (3.38%) Kibana
9 17 (2.87%) logstash
10 14 (2.36%) Packer
11 10 (1.69%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.52%) Podman
13 8 (1.35%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.68%) Istio
15 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.51%) linkerd
15 3 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (11.82%) Splunk
2 51 (8.61%) Red Hat
3 48 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 34 (5.74%) VMware
5 21 (3.55%) AppDynamics
5 21 (3.55%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.38%) Oracle
7 17 (2.87%) Google
8 16 (2.70%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.53%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.36%) Mistral
11 12 (2.03%) Dynatrace
12 11 (1.86%) Rapid7
13 10 (1.69%) Cisco
13 10 (1.69%) Databricks
14 9 (1.52%) SAP
15 7 (1.18%) Intel
15 7 (1.18%) OneLogin
15 7 (1.18%) Veracode
16 6 (1.01%) Tenable