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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 265 355
Rank change year-on-year -69 +90 -18
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 594 574 618
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.16% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.90% 14.08% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 360 196 357
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £44,407
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £110,000 £107,500
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 4,603 4,078 7,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.37% 8.21% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,998 2,544 4,595
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 8 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 8 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 -68 532 £69,310 -7.59% 327
UK excluding London -92 378 £65,000 -3.04% 174
London -3 184 £87,500 +9.38% 169
Work from Home -157 144 £67,500 -10.00% 145
North of England -60 136 £67,500 - 53
South East +36 95 £62,500 -16.67% 37
South West -38 75 £72,500 +20.83% 38
Yorkshire -3 53 £70,905 -5.46% 9
North West -86 44 £65,000 -3.04% 32
North East -15 39 £55,000 - 12
Scotland -16 32 £110,000 +29.79% 12
Midlands -76 30 £60,000 -15.79% 19
West Midlands -39 21 £62,500 -30.56% 14
East Midlands -57 9 £60,000 - 5
Wales -53 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -49 4 £46,000 -14.42% 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 (4.71%) Apache
2 26 (4.38%) Confluence
3 21 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.36%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) IIS
5 3 (0.51%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 374 (62.96%) AWS
2 223 (37.54%) Azure
3 127 (21.38%) GitHub
4 126 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
5 91 (15.32%) Serverless
6 83 (13.97%) Amazon S3
7 82 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (13.13%) GCP
9 73 (12.29%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (11.62%) GitHub Actions
11 61 (10.27%) Amazon ECS
12 55 (9.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 53 (8.92%) Amazon ECR
14 49 (8.25%) OpenShift
15 45 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (6.57%) AWS Step Functions
17 37 (6.23%) Azure AKS
18 33 (5.56%) Datadog
19 32 (5.39%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 36 (6.06%) Broadband
2 25 (4.21%) Firewall
3 14 (2.36%) MQTT
4 13 (2.19%) Network Security
5 12 (2.02%) DNS
6 10 (1.68%) HTTP
7 9 (1.52%) LAN
7 9 (1.52%) Software-Defined Networking
8 8 (1.35%) IPv4
9 7 (1.18%) WAN
10 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.01%) Wireless
10 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.84%) DSL
11 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
12 4 (0.67%) BGP
12 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
12 4 (0.67%) VPN
13 3 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (11.45%) NoSQL
2 55 (9.26%) MongoDB
3 54 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 51 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (6.23%) MySQL
6 30 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.70%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.68%) Big Data
10 10 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (1.68%) Pinecone
11 9 (1.52%) Redis
12 8 (1.35%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
14 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
14 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
15 4 (0.67%) DocumentDB
15 4 (0.67%) Metadata
15 4 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 266 (44.78%) Jenkins
2 192 (32.32%) Git
3 80 (13.47%) SonarQube
4 60 (10.10%) Cucumber
4 60 (10.10%) JIRA
5 55 (9.26%) Cypress.io
6 38 (6.40%) Selenium
7 28 (4.71%) Maven
8 27 (4.55%) JUnit
9 25 (4.21%) Postman
10 20 (3.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 19 (3.20%) CircleCI
12 15 (2.53%) Bitbucket
12 15 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (2.36%) Gatling
13 14 (2.36%) REST Assured
14 13 (2.19%) JMeter
15 12 (2.02%) Spock
16 11 (1.85%) Vite
17 10 (1.68%) Robot Framework
General
1 148 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 131 (22.05%) Finance
3 88 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.76%) Banking
5 57 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (5.22%) Marketing
7 25 (4.21%) Games
8 14 (2.36%) Aerospace
8 14 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 12 (2.02%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.68%) Electronics
11 8 (1.35%) Law
12 7 (1.18%) Legal
13 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Advertising
14 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 146 (24.58%) Senior
2 129 (21.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (15.15%) Developer
4 62 (10.44%) Software Engineer
5 43 (7.24%) Lead
6 41 (6.90%) Architect
7 39 (6.57%) Principal Engineer
8 38 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (6.40%) Java Engineer
9 36 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
9 36 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 35 (5.89%) Java Developer
11 30 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 29 (4.88%) AWS DevOps
13 28 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (4.71%) Salesforce Architect
14 27 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
15 26 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (4.21%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (14.14%) Spring Boot
2 81 (13.64%) Kafka
3 77 (12.96%) Spring
4 67 (11.28%) AngularJS
4 67 (11.28%) REST
5 59 (9.93%) Node.js
6 57 (9.60%) React
7 52 (8.75%) RESTful
8 43 (7.24%) Elastic Stack
9 37 (6.23%) Jest
10 34 (5.72%) RabbitMQ
11 32 (5.39%) Playwright
11 32 (5.39%) SOAP
12 31 (5.22%) .NET
13 28 (4.71%) Gherkin
13 28 (4.71%) Lightning Web Components
14 26 (4.38%) JSON
14 26 (4.38%) Visualforce
15 23 (3.87%) Vue
16 21 (3.54%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 167 (28.11%) Cloud Native
2 72 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 71 (11.95%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (5.89%) Public Cloud
5 34 (5.72%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (4.88%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (3.03%) Algorithms
8 18 (3.03%) Private Cloud
9 13 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.19%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.85%) Blockchain
11 11 (1.85%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.68%) Web3
13 9 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 162 (27.27%) Linux
2 63 (10.61%) Windows
3 41 (6.90%) CentOS
4 29 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.04%) Unix
6 23 (3.87%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.85%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.51%) VMS
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 412 (69.36%) DevOps
3 326 (54.88%) Agile
4 288 (48.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 195 (32.83%) Test Automation
6 189 (31.82%) Microservices
7 188 (31.65%) Containerisation
8 143 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 127 (21.38%) Software Engineering
10 125 (21.04%) Mentoring
11 123 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (18.52%) Scrum
13 108 (18.18%) Observability
14 98 (16.50%) Continuous Integration
15 90 (15.15%) AI
15 90 (15.15%) SDLC
16 83 (13.97%) Event-Driven
17 80 (13.47%) Coaching
17 80 (13.47%) DevSecOps
18 79 (13.30%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 273 (45.96%) Python
2 186 (31.31%) Java
3 148 (24.92%) Bash
4 105 (17.68%) SQL
5 92 (15.49%) JavaScript
6 81 (13.64%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.62%) PowerShell
8 44 (7.41%) Go
9 40 (6.73%) Groovy
10 34 (5.72%) C#
11 32 (5.39%) C++
12 28 (4.71%) Apex Code
13 26 (4.38%) SOQL
13 26 (4.38%) SOSL
14 25 (4.21%) Rust
15 11 (1.85%) PHP
16 10 (1.68%) C
17 7 (1.18%) Kotlin
17 7 (1.18%) Ruby
17 7 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 221 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 136 (22.90%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.30%) Degree
4 71 (11.95%) AWS Certification
5 47 (7.91%) DV Cleared
6 37 (6.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (3.70%) Master's Degree
8 19 (3.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.86%) ISTQB
10 15 (2.53%) OSCP
10 15 (2.53%) RHCSA
11 14 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.85%) CCNA
13 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.35%) RHCE
15 7 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (12.96%) QA
2 29 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.37%) GDPR
4 18 (3.03%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.86%) WCAG
6 12 (2.02%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.68%) NIST
7 10 (1.68%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.01%) JTAG
10 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.67%) SLA
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 280 (47.14%) Docker
2 25 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.68%) vSphere
5 9 (1.52%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.35%) Squid
7 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Firmware
9 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 296 (49.83%) Terraform
2 266 (44.78%) Kubernetes
3 146 (24.58%) Ansible
4 94 (15.82%) Grafana
5 73 (12.29%) Prometheus
6 41 (6.90%) Argo
7 27 (4.55%) HP Fortify
8 25 (4.21%) Nagios
9 19 (3.20%) Kibana
10 16 (2.69%) logstash
11 15 (2.53%) Puppet
12 13 (2.19%) Packer
13 10 (1.68%) Podman
14 8 (1.35%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.84%) VxRail
17 4 (0.67%) Istio
18 3 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 82 (13.80%) Splunk
2 55 (9.26%) Red Hat
3 45 (7.58%) Microsoft
4 35 (5.89%) VMware
5 32 (5.39%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.20%) AppDynamics
7 17 (2.86%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.69%) Oracle
9 14 (2.36%) Atlassian
9 14 (2.36%) Google
10 13 (2.19%) OpenAI
11 12 (2.02%) Cisco
12 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
13 10 (1.68%) Databricks
14 7 (1.18%) Intel
14 7 (1.18%) OneLogin
14 7 (1.18%) SAP
15 6 (1.01%) ServiceNow
15 6 (1.01%) Tenable
16 5 (0.84%) F5