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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 264 371
Rank change year-on-year -51 +107 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 584 561 713
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.14% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.55% 13.35% 8.01%
Number of salaries quoted 353 179 474
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £114,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,783
% change year-on-year -3.04% +6.78% +0.45%

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 4,309 4,201 8,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.36% 8.55% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,874 2,659 6,084
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,459 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £92,500
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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -43 515 £70,000 -8.20% 303
UK excluding London -74 362 £65,000 -3.04% 279
London -6 186 £85,000 - 93
Work from Home -137 148 £67,500 -5.59% 271
North of England -58 127 £66,538 -0.74% 77
South East +59 101 £65,000 -13.33% 42
South West -45 64 £68,750 +14.58% 38
Yorkshire +10 58 £69,310 -3.74% 17
North West -85 42 £65,000 -3.04% 45
Scotland -14 37 £102,500 +13.89% 40
North East -33 27 £55,000 - 15
Midlands -83 24 £57,500 -17.86% 33
West Midlands -46 17 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Wales -48 7 £51,250 +57.69% 9
East Midlands -60 7 £39,194 -40.84% 16
East of England -42 4 - - 35
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 9

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 (4.79%) Apache
2 24 (4.11%) Confluence
3 17 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (2.05%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.51%) IIS
6 3 (0.51%) JBoss
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 368 (63.01%) AWS
2 211 (36.13%) Azure
3 139 (23.80%) AWS CloudFormation
4 116 (19.86%) GitHub
5 104 (17.81%) Serverless
6 87 (14.90%) Amazon S3
7 85 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
8 80 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
9 76 (13.01%) GCP
10 70 (11.99%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (8.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 52 (8.90%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (8.73%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
13 46 (7.88%) AWS Step Functions
14 43 (7.36%) OpenShift
15 40 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (6.68%) Azure AKS
17 37 (6.34%) Apigee
18 35 (5.99%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.71%) Broadband
2 28 (4.79%) Firewall
3 15 (2.57%) DNS
4 14 (2.40%) MQTT
5 12 (2.05%) Network Security
6 11 (1.88%) LAN
6 11 (1.88%) Software-Defined Networking
7 10 (1.71%) HTTP
8 9 (1.54%) DSL
8 9 (1.54%) WAN
9 8 (1.37%) IPv4
10 6 (1.03%) BGP
10 6 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.03%) VPN
10 6 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (1.03%) Wireless
10 6 (1.03%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.86%) DHCP
12 4 (0.68%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.82%) NoSQL
2 60 (10.27%) DynamoDB
3 50 (8.56%) MongoDB
4 46 (7.88%) PostgreSQL
5 33 (5.65%) MySQL
6 29 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.71%) Big Data
11 9 (1.54%) Pinecone
12 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
13 7 (1.20%) InfluxDB
13 7 (1.20%) Redis
14 5 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.68%) Delta Lake
16 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
17 2 (0.34%) DocumentDB
17 2 (0.34%) GIS
17 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 277 (47.43%) Jenkins
2 169 (28.94%) Git
3 93 (15.92%) SonarQube
4 59 (10.10%) JIRA
5 57 (9.76%) Cypress.io
6 54 (9.25%) Cucumber
7 32 (5.48%) Maven
8 31 (5.31%) Selenium
9 26 (4.45%) CircleCI
10 18 (3.08%) Bitbucket
10 18 (3.08%) JUnit
11 17 (2.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 17 (2.91%) Visual Studio Code
12 16 (2.74%) Postman
13 14 (2.40%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.88%) JMeter
14 11 (1.88%) Robot Framework
15 10 (1.71%) Gatling
15 10 (1.71%) TestRail
15 10 (1.71%) Vite
General
1 139 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 122 (20.89%) Finance
3 75 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (9.59%) Banking
7 36 (6.16%) Marketing
8 34 (5.82%) Games
9 15 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.57%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.05%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.71%) Electronics
13 9 (1.54%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.03%) Advertising
14 6 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.86%) Retail
16 4 (0.68%) Automotive
16 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
17 3 (0.51%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 135 (23.12%) Senior
2 117 (20.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (15.24%) Developer
4 62 (10.62%) Software Engineer
5 49 (8.39%) Architect
6 44 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 42 (7.19%) Lead
8 41 (7.02%) Java Developer
9 37 (6.34%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (6.16%) Principal Engineer
11 35 (5.99%) Java Engineer
11 35 (5.99%) Salesforce Architect
12 34 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (5.14%) Senior DevOps
13 30 (5.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 28 (4.79%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
15 27 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
16 26 (4.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.87%) Spring Boot
2 74 (12.67%) Kafka
3 71 (12.16%) REST
4 70 (11.99%) Spring
5 60 (10.27%) AngularJS
6 49 (8.39%) Node.js
7 46 (7.88%) React
7 46 (7.88%) RESTful
8 43 (7.36%) Elastic Stack
9 39 (6.68%) Jest
9 39 (6.68%) SOAP
10 36 (6.16%) Lightning Web Components
11 35 (5.99%) Visualforce
12 34 (5.82%) RabbitMQ
13 32 (5.48%) Gherkin
14 28 (4.79%) Playwright
15 25 (4.28%) JSON
16 23 (3.94%) .NET
16 23 (3.94%) Vue
17 22 (3.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 147 (25.17%) Cloud Native
2 78 (13.36%) Product Ownership
3 65 (11.13%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.82%) Public Cloud
5 32 (5.48%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (4.62%) e-Learning
7 22 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.91%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.91%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.40%) Blockchain
9 14 (2.40%) Security Posture
10 13 (2.23%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.23%) Web3
11 10 (1.71%) Cloud Security Posture
11 10 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 161 (27.57%) Linux
2 67 (11.47%) Windows
3 36 (6.16%) CentOS
4 25 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (4.28%) Unix
4 25 (4.28%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Debian
9 2 (0.34%) Rocky
9 2 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (89.73%) CI/CD
2 411 (70.38%) DevOps
3 313 (53.60%) Agile
4 286 (48.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 183 (31.34%) Containerisation
5 183 (31.34%) Microservices
6 174 (29.79%) Test Automation
7 144 (24.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 124 (21.23%) Software Engineering
9 119 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
9 119 (20.38%) Scrum
10 108 (18.49%) Mentoring
11 107 (18.32%) Continuous Integration
12 103 (17.64%) Observability
13 90 (15.41%) Event-Driven
14 87 (14.90%) SDLC
15 86 (14.73%) DevSecOps
16 78 (13.36%) Continuous Delivery
17 76 (13.01%) AI
18 72 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 281 (48.12%) Python
2 181 (30.99%) Java
3 155 (26.54%) Bash
4 95 (16.27%) SQL
5 79 (13.53%) JavaScript
6 75 (12.84%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.82%) PowerShell
8 51 (8.73%) Go
9 43 (7.36%) Groovy
10 36 (6.16%) Apex Code
11 35 (5.99%) C#
11 35 (5.99%) SOQL
11 35 (5.99%) SOSL
12 34 (5.82%) C++
13 31 (5.31%) Rust
14 10 (1.71%) C
14 10 (1.71%) PHP
15 7 (1.20%) Perl
15 7 (1.20%) Ruby
15 7 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 205 (35.10%) Security Cleared
2 119 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.70%) Degree
4 72 (12.33%) AWS Certification
5 44 (7.53%) DV Cleared
6 32 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.11%) Master's Degree
8 23 (3.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 23 (3.94%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (3.42%) OSCP
10 17 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 15 (2.57%) ISTQB
12 15 (2.57%) RHCSA
13 13 (2.23%) CCNA
14 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.37%) RHCE
16 7 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.86%) Azure Certification
18 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (12.33%) QA
2 22 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 22 (3.77%) GDPR
3 13 (2.23%) NIST
3 13 (2.23%) PCI DSS
3 13 (2.23%) SOC 2
4 12 (2.05%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.05%) WCAG
5 6 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.03%) JTAG
6 5 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 260 (44.52%) Docker
2 30 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.42%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.05%) vSphere
5 11 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.88%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.37%) Squid
7 7 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.68%) Firmware
10 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 290 (49.66%) Terraform
2 257 (44.01%) Kubernetes
3 145 (24.83%) Ansible
4 91 (15.58%) Grafana
5 75 (12.84%) Prometheus
6 36 (6.16%) Argo
7 31 (5.31%) HP Fortify
8 24 (4.11%) Nagios
9 21 (3.60%) Kibana
10 17 (2.91%) logstash
11 15 (2.57%) Puppet
12 13 (2.23%) Packer
13 9 (1.54%) Podman
13 9 (1.54%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.37%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.03%) VxRail
16 3 (0.51%) Istio
16 3 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 88 (15.07%) Splunk
2 52 (8.90%) Red Hat
3 41 (7.02%) VMware
4 39 (6.68%) Salesforce
5 38 (6.51%) Microsoft
6 16 (2.74%) AppDynamics
6 16 (2.74%) Oracle
7 14 (2.40%) Atlassian
7 14 (2.40%) Cisco
8 13 (2.23%) Google
9 12 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 12 (2.05%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.54%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.37%) Tenable
12 7 (1.20%) IBM
12 7 (1.20%) Intel
12 7 (1.20%) Juniper
13 6 (1.03%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.03%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.03%) Veracode