GitLab Job Trends

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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 358 319
Rank change year-on-year +1 -39 -42
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 367 382 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.78% 0.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.34% 7.37% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 221 175 545
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £35,920
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £88,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +4.17%

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 3,931 5,182 7,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.76% 10.60% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,539 3,034 6,402
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,221 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.62% +4.04% -1.79%

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 19 February 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 16 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 19 February 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 -15 304 £80,000 +10.34% 219
UK excluding London +10 209 £67,500 -3.57% 165
Work from Home +16 135 £75,000 +15.38% 104
London -10 113 £87,000 -3.33% 78
North of England +17 83 £67,500 - 37
Yorkshire +3 50 £77,500 +50.54% 14
South East -15 44 £70,000 -6.67% 65
South West -23 30 £72,500 +18.37% 21
Scotland -6 27 - - 2
North West +2 26 £65,000 -5.45% 19
Midlands -14 16 £55,200 -21.14% 22
West Midlands +6 13 £56,350 -11.61% 19
East of England +11 8 £67,500 -6.90% 18
North East -3 7 £66,250 -5.36% 4
East Midlands -24 3 £55,200 -31.00% 3
Wales - 3 £55,200 - 4

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 22 (5.99%) Confluence
2 16 (4.36%) Apache
3 9 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.36%) IIS
4 5 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.36%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.82%) nginx
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 221 (60.22%) AWS
2 139 (37.87%) Azure
3 108 (29.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 84 (22.89%) Serverless
5 82 (22.34%) GitHub
6 73 (19.89%) AWS Lambda
7 66 (17.98%) GCP
8 56 (15.26%) Amazon S3
9 55 (14.99%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (13.08%) Amazon ECS
11 44 (11.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (10.35%) AWS Step Functions
13 35 (9.54%) OpenShift
14 34 (9.26%) Amazon ECR
15 32 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
16 31 (8.45%) Apigee
17 30 (8.17%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (8.17%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (6.81%) Datadog
19 15 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.90%) Broadband
2 27 (7.36%) DNS
3 17 (4.63%) Firewall
4 9 (2.45%) DSL
4 9 (2.45%) VPN
5 6 (1.63%) BGP
5 6 (1.63%) DHCP
5 6 (1.63%) WAN
6 5 (1.36%) MQTT
6 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.09%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.09%) LAN
7 4 (1.09%) MPLS
7 4 (1.09%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.09%) VoIP
7 4 (1.09%) VPLS
8 3 (0.82%) VLAN
9 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.72%) DynamoDB
2 39 (10.63%) NoSQL
3 29 (7.90%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (7.08%) SQL Server
5 25 (6.81%) MongoDB
6 22 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.72%) MySQL
9 7 (1.91%) Power BI
10 5 (1.36%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.36%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.36%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.09%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.82%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.82%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.82%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 205 (55.86%) Jenkins
2 86 (23.43%) Git
3 73 (19.89%) SonarQube
4 44 (11.99%) JIRA
5 36 (9.81%) Cypress.io
6 35 (9.54%) Cucumber
7 34 (9.26%) Maven
8 23 (6.27%) Bitbucket
8 23 (6.27%) Selenium
9 18 (4.90%) CircleCI
10 17 (4.63%) JUnit
11 12 (3.27%) Postman
12 10 (2.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (2.18%) Subversion
14 6 (1.63%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.36%) JMeter
15 5 (1.36%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.36%) TestNG
16 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
16 4 (1.09%) Vite
General
1 93 (25.34%) Social Skills
2 77 (20.98%) Finance
3 41 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.54%) Marketing
5 31 (8.45%) Games
6 30 (8.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (6.81%) Telecoms
8 21 (5.72%) Banking
9 17 (4.63%) Advertising
10 16 (4.36%) Public Sector
11 15 (4.09%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.45%) Aerospace
13 8 (2.18%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.09%) Electronics
15 4 (1.09%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.54%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (17.17%) Developer
2 61 (16.62%) Lead
3 59 (16.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 51 (13.90%) Senior
5 38 (10.35%) Architect
5 38 (10.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (7.08%) Salesforce Architect
7 25 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (6.81%) Java Developer
8 23 (6.27%) Software Engineer
9 17 (4.63%) Senior Developer
10 16 (4.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.81%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 14 (3.81%) Security Engineer
11 14 (3.81%) Technical Architect
12 13 (3.54%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.27%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.27%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (16.08%) Spring Boot
2 43 (11.72%) REST
2 43 (11.72%) Spring
3 42 (11.44%) Elastic Stack
4 39 (10.63%) Kafka
5 38 (10.35%) AngularJS
6 32 (8.72%) Gherkin
7 31 (8.45%) Jest
7 31 (8.45%) SOAP
8 28 (7.63%) Lightning Web Components
8 28 (7.63%) Visualforce
9 22 (5.99%) React
9 22 (5.99%) RESTful
10 18 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (4.63%) Node.js
12 14 (3.81%) pytest
13 12 (3.27%) Apache NiFi
13 12 (3.27%) AWS CDK
14 11 (3.00%) FastAPI
15 10 (2.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.35%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.44%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.81%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.00%) Security Posture
7 9 (2.45%) Blockchain
7 9 (2.45%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (2.45%) Private Cloud
7 9 (2.45%) Web3
8 8 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.18%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.36%) PKI
12 4 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 95 (25.89%) Linux
2 33 (8.99%) Windows
3 12 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (3.27%) Ubuntu
3 12 (3.27%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.72%) CentOS
4 10 (2.72%) Unix
5 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.36%) Debian
6 5 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.27%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (82.56%) CI/CD
2 254 (69.21%) DevOps
3 174 (47.41%) Agile
4 152 (41.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 104 (28.34%) Containerisation
6 100 (27.25%) Problem-Solving
7 87 (23.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 78 (21.25%) Continuous Integration
9 69 (18.80%) Microservices
10 66 (17.98%) Observability
10 66 (17.98%) Scrum
11 65 (17.71%) Test Automation
12 63 (17.17%) Software Engineering
13 57 (15.53%) Mentoring
14 54 (14.71%) Event-Driven
15 47 (12.81%) DevSecOps
16 46 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 46 (12.53%) Roadmaps
17 45 (12.26%) Continuous Delivery
18 42 (11.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 178 (48.50%) Python
2 107 (29.16%) Java
3 101 (27.52%) Bash
4 64 (17.44%) TypeScript
5 60 (16.35%) SQL
6 47 (12.81%) JavaScript
7 37 (10.08%) Go
8 36 (9.81%) PowerShell
9 28 (7.63%) Apex Code
9 28 (7.63%) Groovy
9 28 (7.63%) SOQL
9 28 (7.63%) SOSL
10 15 (4.09%) Rust
11 13 (3.54%) C#
12 8 (2.18%) Delphi
13 7 (1.91%) ANSI SQL
13 7 (1.91%) C++
14 6 (1.63%) Bicep
15 4 (1.09%) Perl
16 3 (0.82%) C
Qualifications
1 82 (22.34%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.90%) AWS Certification
3 35 (9.54%) Degree
3 35 (9.54%) DV Cleared
4 33 (8.99%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (4.09%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.00%) OSCP
10 9 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.18%) ISTQB
12 7 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.36%) CCNA
14 5 (1.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
16 3 (0.82%) CISSP
16 3 (0.82%) LPIC
16 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (12.26%) QA
2 12 (3.27%) NIST
3 9 (2.45%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.91%) GDPR
5 6 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.63%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.36%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.54%) ECSS
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 154 (41.96%) Docker
2 22 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.72%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.36%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.36%) vSphere
6 2 (0.54%) Firmware
6 2 (0.54%) NFS
6 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 165 (44.96%) Terraform
2 156 (42.51%) Kubernetes
3 96 (26.16%) Ansible
4 85 (23.16%) Grafana
5 77 (20.98%) Prometheus
6 29 (7.90%) HP Fortify
7 10 (2.72%) Puppet
8 9 (2.45%) Kibana
9 8 (2.18%) Nagios
9 8 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.91%) Argo
11 6 (1.63%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.63%) Rancher
12 5 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.09%) logstash
13 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
13 4 (1.09%) WSUS
14 3 (0.82%) Istio
14 3 (0.82%) vRealize
14 3 (0.82%) VxRail
Vendors
1 62 (16.89%) Splunk
2 36 (9.81%) Oracle
3 33 (8.99%) Microsoft
4 29 (7.90%) Salesforce
5 24 (6.54%) VMware
6 21 (5.72%) Atlassian
7 17 (4.63%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.18%) Cisco
8 8 (2.18%) Google
9 6 (1.63%) SAP
10 5 (1.36%) AppDynamics
11 4 (1.09%) Dell
11 4 (1.09%) Juniper
11 4 (1.09%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.82%) IBM
12 3 (0.82%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.82%) Rapid7
13 2 (0.54%) Sonatype