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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 265 315
Rank change year-on-year -74 +50 +11
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 626 533 611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.08% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.30% 13.95% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 387 177 277
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +14.81% -0.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +12.00% -3.85%

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 4,708 3,822 6,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.98% 7.71% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,892 2,213 3,554
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £37,750
25th Percentile £47,069 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -44 579 £69,310 -10.57% 845
UK excluding London -114 396 £65,576 -6.32% 577
London 0 186 £92,500 +2.78% 353
North of England -48 173 £67,500 - 147
Work from Home -174 128 £68,405 -14.49% 500
South West -27 81 £74,000 +5.71% 99
South East +6 73 £65,000 -13.33% 95
North East -5 71 £60,000 -9.43% 33
North West -82 65 £69,310 +10.90% 83
Yorkshire -6 46 £71,250 -5.00% 31
Midlands -91 40 £60,000 -14.29% 71
West Midlands -40 27 £62,500 -23.08% 50
East Midlands -62 13 £60,000 -1.64% 21
East of England -48 10 £60,000 +9.09% 64
Wales -59 10 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Scotland -58 8 £87,500 +17.45% 66
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 14

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 35 (5.59%) Apache
2 32 (5.11%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (4.63%) Confluence
4 25 (3.99%) Apache Spark
5 22 (3.51%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.80%) nginx
8 3 (0.48%) IIS
9 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 406 (64.86%) AWS
2 228 (36.42%) Azure
3 165 (26.36%) GitHub
4 112 (17.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 85 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
6 82 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (12.94%) Amazon S3
8 80 (12.78%) GCP
9 66 (10.54%) Serverless
10 64 (10.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 59 (9.42%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (7.51%) Amazon ECR
14 44 (7.03%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (6.55%) Azure AKS
16 37 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (5.59%) OpenShift
18 23 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
19 22 (3.51%) AWS Step Functions
19 22 (3.51%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.83%) DNS
2 19 (3.04%) Firewall
3 14 (2.24%) Network Security
4 13 (2.08%) Broadband
4 13 (2.08%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.76%) HTTP
5 11 (1.76%) MQTT
6 8 (1.28%) DHCP
6 8 (1.28%) VPN
7 7 (1.12%) IPv4
7 7 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (0.96%) BGP
8 6 (0.96%) LAN
8 6 (0.96%) NX-OS
8 6 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.96%) Wireless
8 6 (0.96%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.80%) WAN
10 4 (0.64%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (13.42%) NoSQL
2 73 (11.66%) MongoDB
3 72 (11.50%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (6.71%) MySQL
5 39 (6.23%) DynamoDB
6 29 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (3.83%) Relational Database
8 21 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (3.04%) Pinecone
10 18 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
10 18 (2.88%) Redis
11 16 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
12 15 (2.40%) Chroma
13 13 (2.08%) Big Data
13 13 (2.08%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.28%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.12%) DocumentDB
15 7 (1.12%) SQL Server
16 6 (0.96%) Power BI
17 5 (0.80%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 253 (40.42%) Jenkins
2 213 (34.03%) Git
3 71 (11.34%) Cucumber
4 68 (10.86%) JIRA
5 48 (7.67%) Cypress.io
6 40 (6.39%) SonarQube
7 38 (6.07%) Selenium
8 33 (5.27%) Postman
9 29 (4.63%) JUnit
10 27 (4.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 21 (3.35%) Maven
12 18 (2.88%) JMeter
13 16 (2.56%) Gatling
14 15 (2.40%) Vite
15 14 (2.24%) Spock
16 13 (2.08%) REST Assured
16 13 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
17 12 (1.92%) Bitbucket
18 11 (1.76%) Robot Framework
18 11 (1.76%) Zephyr
General
1 165 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 137 (21.88%) Finance
3 123 (19.65%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (8.95%) Banking
6 48 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (3.04%) Aerospace
7 19 (3.04%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.24%) Law
9 13 (2.08%) Marketing
10 12 (1.92%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.44%) Electronics
11 9 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.28%) Legal
13 5 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.48%) Automotive
15 3 (0.48%) Military
16 1 (0.16%) Advertising
16 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 161 (25.72%) Senior
2 146 (23.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 94 (15.02%) Developer
4 68 (10.86%) Software Engineer
5 56 (8.95%) Principal Engineer
6 54 (8.63%) Java Engineer
7 53 (8.47%) Lead
8 39 (6.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 39 (6.23%) Senior DevOps
8 39 (6.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 35 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (4.79%) Test Engineer
11 28 (4.47%) Senior Developer
12 27 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 27 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (4.15%) Software Developer
14 25 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (3.99%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.99%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (49.20%) Terraform
2 99 (15.81%) Kafka
3 97 (15.50%) Spring
4 91 (14.54%) Spring Boot
5 78 (12.46%) React
6 67 (10.70%) RESTful
7 64 (10.22%) Node.js
8 57 (9.11%) AngularJS
9 54 (8.63%) REST
10 42 (6.71%) Playwright
11 38 (6.07%) Elastic Stack
12 37 (5.91%) .NET
13 31 (4.95%) Jest
14 30 (4.79%) LangChain
15 29 (4.63%) FastAPI
16 24 (3.83%) Vue
17 23 (3.67%) Gherkin
17 23 (3.67%) PySpark
18 22 (3.51%) LangGraph
18 22 (3.51%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 199 (31.79%) Cloud Native
2 87 (13.90%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (8.31%) Product Ownership
3 52 (8.31%) Public Cloud
4 44 (7.03%) e-Learning
5 39 (6.23%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (4.47%) Private Cloud
7 18 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.72%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.56%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.40%) Data Centre
11 14 (2.24%) Virtual Team
12 13 (2.08%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (1.28%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
16 7 (1.12%) IoT
17 6 (0.96%) Device Driver
17 6 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 183 (29.23%) Linux
2 60 (9.58%) Windows
3 45 (7.19%) CentOS
4 37 (5.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (4.63%) Unix
6 16 (2.56%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.28%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.80%) VMS
9 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.64%) Rocky
9 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.48%) Android
10 3 (0.48%) Debian
10 3 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.48%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.48%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (90.89%) CI/CD
2 403 (64.38%) DevOps
3 364 (58.15%) Agile
4 316 (50.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 257 (41.05%) Test Automation
6 204 (32.59%) Microservices
7 184 (29.39%) Containerisation
8 163 (26.04%) Mentoring
9 159 (25.40%) Software Engineering
10 133 (21.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 133 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
11 132 (21.09%) AI
12 124 (19.81%) Observability
13 108 (17.25%) SDLC
14 102 (16.29%) Scrum
15 98 (15.65%) Coaching
16 95 (15.18%) Full-Stack Development
17 93 (14.86%) Platform Engineering
18 90 (14.38%) Technical Leadership
19 79 (12.62%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 294 (46.96%) Python
2 210 (33.55%) Java
3 149 (23.80%) Bash
4 139 (22.20%) SQL
5 103 (16.45%) TypeScript
6 101 (16.13%) JavaScript
7 78 (12.46%) PowerShell
8 37 (5.91%) C#
8 37 (5.91%) C++
9 36 (5.75%) Go
10 26 (4.15%) Groovy
11 18 (2.88%) Rust
12 14 (2.24%) PHP
13 11 (1.76%) C
14 9 (1.44%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.28%) Kotlin
15 8 (1.28%) Scala
16 7 (1.12%) Ruby
17 5 (0.80%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 264 (42.17%) Security Cleared
2 178 (28.43%) SC Cleared
3 84 (13.42%) Degree
4 78 (12.46%) AWS Certification
5 62 (9.90%) DV Cleared
6 48 (7.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.51%) Master's Degree
9 17 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
10 15 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.40%) ISTQB
11 14 (2.24%) RHCSA
12 13 (2.08%) CCNA
12 13 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (1.28%) OSCP
15 7 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (1.12%) RHCE
16 6 (0.96%) Azure Certification
16 6 (0.96%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (15.34%) QA
2 31 (4.95%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.15%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.88%) WCAG
5 11 (1.76%) GDPR
6 9 (1.44%) SLA
7 8 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.12%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.96%) JTAG
10 4 (0.64%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.64%) NIST
11 3 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 311 (49.68%) Docker
2 25 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (2.08%) vSphere
5 11 (1.76%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.12%) Squid
6 7 (1.12%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.96%) Firmware
8 3 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 269 (42.97%) Kubernetes
2 146 (23.32%) Ansible
3 89 (14.22%) Grafana
4 64 (10.22%) Prometheus
5 43 (6.87%) Argo
6 23 (3.67%) Puppet
7 19 (3.04%) Nagios
8 18 (2.88%) Kibana
9 14 (2.24%) HP Fortify
9 14 (2.24%) logstash
10 11 (1.76%) Packer
11 10 (1.60%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.44%) Podman
13 7 (1.12%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.96%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.96%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.48%) linkerd
16 3 (0.48%) Rancher
16 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (8.47%) Splunk
2 51 (8.15%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.91%) Red Hat
4 33 (5.27%) VMware
5 24 (3.83%) Oracle
6 22 (3.51%) OpenAI
7 20 (3.19%) Mistral
8 18 (2.88%) Google
9 15 (2.40%) AppDynamics
9 15 (2.40%) Atlassian
9 15 (2.40%) Databricks
10 11 (1.76%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.44%) Rapid7
11 9 (1.44%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.44%) SAP
12 7 (1.12%) Cisco
12 7 (1.12%) NVIDIA
12 7 (1.12%) OneLogin
12 7 (1.12%) Pega
13 6 (0.96%) YouTube