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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 269 347
Rank change year-on-year -77 +78 -12
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 576 560 638
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 1.12% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.64% 14.07% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 355 194 344
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,375 £46,625
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 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £109,250 £109,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% -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 4,557 3,979 7,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.20% 7.95% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,953 2,450 4,464
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 24 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 24 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 -67 524 £69,310 -7.59% 189
UK excluding London -102 363 £65,000 -5.45% 157
London +1 180 £87,500 +9.38% 53
North of England -55 139 £68,076 +1.55% 57
Work from Home -165 135 £65,576 -14.00% 90
South East +29 83 £62,500 -13.79% 29
South West -34 73 £72,500 +13.73% 37
North East -10 48 £55,000 - 15
North West -91 46 £67,443 +0.61% 27
Yorkshire 0 45 £72,500 -3.33% 15
Midlands -82 36 £60,000 -14.29% 20
West Midlands -31 23 £56,250 -37.50% 15
Scotland -31 22 £110,000 +15.79% 3
East Midlands -53 13 £60,000 - 5
Wales -52 8 £55,000 +18.92% 1
East of England -53 4 £46,000 -29.23% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 -

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 29 (5.03%) Apache
2 25 (4.34%) Confluence
3 22 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.60%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.52%) IIS
6 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.35%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 374 (64.93%) AWS
2 216 (37.50%) Azure
3 127 (22.05%) GitHub
4 116 (20.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 83 (14.41%) Serverless
6 80 (13.89%) Amazon S3
7 79 (13.72%) GCP
8 78 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
9 66 (11.46%) GitHub Actions
10 64 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 54 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
13 46 (7.99%) Amazon EKS
14 44 (7.64%) OpenShift
15 40 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (6.25%) Azure AKS
17 31 (5.38%) AWS Step Functions
18 26 (4.51%) Datadog
19 24 (4.17%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.34%) Broadband
2 22 (3.82%) Firewall
3 13 (2.26%) DNS
4 12 (2.08%) MQTT
4 12 (2.08%) Network Security
5 9 (1.56%) HTTP
6 8 (1.39%) IPv4
6 8 (1.39%) LAN
6 8 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.22%) WAN
8 6 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.04%) Wireless
8 6 (1.04%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.87%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.69%) BGP
10 4 (0.69%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.69%) VPN
11 3 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.52%) DSL
11 3 (0.52%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (11.81%) NoSQL
2 56 (9.72%) MongoDB
3 55 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (8.16%) DynamoDB
5 37 (6.42%) MySQL
6 33 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.99%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (2.08%) Pinecone
11 11 (1.91%) Big Data
11 11 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.56%) Redis
13 8 (1.39%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.22%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.22%) SQL Server
15 6 (1.04%) InfluxDB
16 4 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.69%) Power BI
16 4 (0.69%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 252 (43.75%) Jenkins
2 188 (32.64%) Git
3 68 (11.81%) SonarQube
4 65 (11.28%) Cucumber
5 59 (10.24%) JIRA
6 51 (8.85%) Cypress.io
7 37 (6.42%) Selenium
8 28 (4.86%) JUnit
9 26 (4.51%) Postman
10 24 (4.17%) Maven
11 22 (3.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 15 (2.60%) Bitbucket
12 15 (2.60%) Gatling
12 15 (2.60%) JMeter
12 15 (2.60%) REST Assured
13 14 (2.43%) CircleCI
13 14 (2.43%) Visual Studio Code
14 12 (2.08%) Spock
15 11 (1.91%) Vite
16 10 (1.74%) Robot Framework
General
1 150 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 125 (21.70%) Finance
3 94 (16.32%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.90%) Banking
5 49 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.47%) Marketing
8 15 (2.60%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.43%) Games
9 14 (2.43%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.26%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.74%) Electronics
11 10 (1.74%) Law
11 10 (1.74%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.22%) Legal
14 6 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.69%) Automotive
15 4 (0.69%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 148 (25.69%) Senior
2 131 (22.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (14.06%) Developer
4 62 (10.76%) Software Engineer
5 46 (7.99%) Lead
6 45 (7.81%) Principal Engineer
7 41 (7.12%) Java Engineer
8 40 (6.94%) Senior DevOps
8 40 (6.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 37 (6.42%) Cloud Engineer
10 34 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 28 (4.86%) Architect
12 28 (4.86%) Full-Stack Developer
13 27 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
13 27 (4.69%) Java Developer
14 26 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (4.51%) Senior Software Engineer
15 25 (4.34%) Test Engineer
16 24 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (50.17%) Terraform
2 80 (13.89%) Spring Boot
3 78 (13.54%) Kafka
3 78 (13.54%) Spring
4 62 (10.76%) React
5 59 (10.24%) AngularJS
5 59 (10.24%) Node.js
6 57 (9.90%) REST
7 50 (8.68%) RESTful
8 40 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
9 34 (5.90%) Playwright
10 32 (5.56%) .NET
10 32 (5.56%) Jest
11 29 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
12 22 (3.82%) Gherkin
12 22 (3.82%) JSON
12 22 (3.82%) LangChain
12 22 (3.82%) SOAP
12 22 (3.82%) Vue
13 20 (3.47%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 173 (30.03%) Cloud Native
2 74 (12.85%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (9.72%) Product Ownership
4 38 (6.60%) Public Cloud
5 34 (5.90%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (5.56%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.99%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.95%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.60%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.26%) Data Structures
12 12 (2.08%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.56%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.56%) Blockchain
14 9 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
15 8 (1.39%) Web3
16 7 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (1.22%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 166 (28.82%) Linux
2 59 (10.24%) Windows
3 42 (7.29%) CentOS
4 32 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (3.82%) Unix
6 18 (3.13%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.56%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.87%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.52%) VMS
11 2 (0.35%) Android
11 2 (0.35%) Debian
11 2 (0.35%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.35%) Rocky
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (91.32%) CI/CD
2 390 (67.71%) DevOps
3 314 (54.51%) Agile
4 283 (49.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 204 (35.42%) Test Automation
6 184 (31.94%) Microservices
7 178 (30.90%) Containerisation
8 129 (22.40%) Mentoring
9 128 (22.22%) Software Engineering
10 125 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 112 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
12 99 (17.19%) Observability
13 97 (16.84%) Scrum
14 90 (15.63%) AI
14 90 (15.63%) SDLC
15 83 (14.41%) Continuous Integration
15 83 (14.41%) Full-Stack Development
16 81 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
17 80 (13.89%) Coaching
18 74 (12.85%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 267 (46.35%) Python
2 187 (32.47%) Java
3 144 (25.00%) Bash
4 109 (18.92%) SQL
5 89 (15.45%) JavaScript
6 81 (14.06%) TypeScript
7 67 (11.63%) PowerShell
8 37 (6.42%) Go
9 34 (5.90%) Groovy
10 33 (5.73%) C#
11 31 (5.38%) C++
12 21 (3.65%) Rust
13 17 (2.95%) Apex Code
14 15 (2.60%) SOQL
14 15 (2.60%) SOSL
15 11 (1.91%) PHP
16 10 (1.74%) C
17 9 (1.56%) Scala
18 8 (1.39%) Perl
19 6 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 227 (39.41%) Security Cleared
2 147 (25.52%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.72%) Degree
4 69 (11.98%) AWS Certification
5 47 (8.16%) DV Cleared
6 38 (6.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.82%) Master's Degree
9 21 (3.65%) ITIL Certification
10 17 (2.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (2.95%) ISTQB
11 15 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (2.60%) RHCSA
12 13 (2.26%) OSCP
13 12 (2.08%) CCNA
14 11 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.39%) RHCE
16 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (1.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (14.06%) QA
2 31 (5.38%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.95%) GDPR
4 17 (2.95%) WCAG
5 12 (2.08%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.39%) NIST
8 7 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.04%) JTAG
9 6 (1.04%) SLA
10 5 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.35%) 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
1 277 (48.09%) Docker
2 24 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.91%) vSphere
6 8 (1.39%) Squid
6 8 (1.39%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.69%) Firmware
8 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 260 (45.14%) Kubernetes
2 146 (25.35%) Ansible
3 88 (15.28%) Grafana
4 64 (11.11%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.94%) Argo
6 22 (3.82%) HP Fortify
6 22 (3.82%) Nagios
7 20 (3.47%) Puppet
8 19 (3.30%) Kibana
9 16 (2.78%) logstash
10 14 (2.43%) Packer
11 9 (1.56%) Podman
11 9 (1.56%) Progress Chef
12 8 (1.39%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.22%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.69%) Istio
15 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.52%) linkerd
15 3 (0.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 67 (11.63%) Splunk
2 50 (8.68%) Red Hat
3 45 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 33 (5.73%) VMware
5 21 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.30%) AppDynamics
6 19 (3.30%) Oracle
7 17 (2.95%) Google
8 15 (2.60%) OpenAI
9 14 (2.43%) Atlassian
10 13 (2.26%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.91%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.74%) Cisco
12 10 (1.74%) Databricks
13 8 (1.39%) SAP
14 7 (1.22%) Intel
14 7 (1.22%) OneLogin
14 7 (1.22%) Veracode
15 6 (1.04%) NVIDIA
15 6 (1.04%) Tenable