GitLab
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitLab skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitLab over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 310 272
Rank change year-on-year -54 -38 +13
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 734 1,186 2,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.13% 1.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.69% 7.78% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 550 682 817
10th Percentile £35,828 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,250 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,375 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +9.09%

All Development Application Skills
UK

GitLab is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitLab.

Salary trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -51 625 £65,000 -10.34% 139
UK excluding London -21 475 £62,500 +4.17% 75
Work from Home +23 383 £62,783 -6.99% 74
London -32 224 £89,750 +12.19% 61
North of England -29 143 £60,000 +9.09% 17
South East +75 110 £67,500 -10.00% 22
North West +39 88 £60,000 -14.29% 9
South West -7 57 £63,750 +6.25% 14
Scotland -26 52 £61,500 +2.50% 1
Midlands -43 50 £55,000 -18.52% 10
Yorkshire -29 40 £62,783 +47.72% 5
West Midlands -24 34 £38,064 -43.61% 6
Wales +40 31 £62,500 +4.17% 1
East of England +19 30 £62,500 -3.85% 11
East Midlands -17 16 £55,000 - 4
North East 0 15 £62,783 +40.56% 3
Northern Ireland +14 2 £75,000 +63.04% 2

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (5.45%) Confluence
2 18 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.18%) CMS
3 16 (2.18%) nginx
4 7 (0.95%) Apache
5 4 (0.54%) WordPress
6 3 (0.41%) Drupal
6 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Doxygen
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.77%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 393 (53.54%) AWS
2 343 (46.73%) Azure
3 137 (18.66%) GitHub
4 88 (11.99%) Serverless
5 67 (9.13%) GCP
6 66 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
8 46 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (5.59%) Snowflake
10 35 (4.77%) SaaS
11 33 (4.50%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (4.36%) Cloud Computing
12 32 (4.36%) Datadog
13 30 (4.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 30 (4.09%) Matillion
14 29 (3.95%) Amazon S3
15 28 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (2.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.54%) Firewall
2 21 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 17 (2.32%) DNS
4 16 (2.18%) Modbus
5 13 (1.77%) VPN
6 12 (1.63%) BGP
7 11 (1.50%) Ethernet VPN
7 11 (1.50%) MPLS
8 9 (1.23%) HTTP
9 6 (0.82%) WAN
10 5 (0.68%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.68%) SSL
11 4 (0.54%) Internet
11 4 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.41%) NAS
12 3 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
13 2 (0.27%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.81%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (9.26%) SQL Server
3 62 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
5 44 (5.99%) MySQL
6 42 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
7 39 (5.31%) Data Lake
7 39 (5.31%) DynamoDB
8 33 (4.50%) NoSQL
9 30 (4.09%) MongoDB
9 30 (4.09%) Star Schema
10 21 (2.86%) Relational Database
11 19 (2.59%) BigQuery
12 15 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (1.77%) InfluxDB
14 12 (1.63%) Looker
14 12 (1.63%) Tableau
15 10 (1.36%) Metadata
16 9 (1.23%) Redis
17 8 (1.09%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 244 (33.24%) Jenkins
2 217 (29.56%) Git
3 117 (15.94%) JIRA
4 41 (5.59%) Artifactory
5 37 (5.04%) CircleCI
6 32 (4.36%) SonarQube
7 25 (3.41%) TeamCity
8 23 (3.13%) Visual Studio
9 21 (2.86%) Bitbucket
10 18 (2.45%) Selenium
11 17 (2.32%) Cucumber
12 13 (1.77%) JUnit
12 13 (1.77%) Moq
12 13 (1.77%) NUnit
13 12 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (1.50%) webpack
15 9 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
15 9 (1.23%) Postman
16 8 (1.09%) Cypress.io
16 8 (1.09%) git-flow
General
1 168 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 130 (17.71%) Finance
3 64 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 46 (6.27%) Law
5 45 (6.13%) Marketing
6 43 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (4.77%) Retail
8 28 (3.81%) Banking
9 24 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
10 15 (2.04%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 13 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.50%) Legal
13 8 (1.09%) Front Office
13 8 (1.09%) Health Technology
14 7 (0.95%) Electronics
15 6 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.68%) Retail Finance
17 4 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 154 (20.98%) Developer
2 124 (16.89%) Senior
3 123 (16.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 120 (16.35%) Lead
5 90 (12.26%) Software Engineer
6 58 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (7.22%) Full Stack Developer
7 53 (7.22%) Technical Leader
8 46 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
9 44 (5.99%) Data Engineer
10 38 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 37 (5.04%) Senior Software Engineer
12 34 (4.63%) Architect
13 31 (4.22%) Python Engineer
14 28 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (3.81%) Java Developer
15 27 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
17 25 (3.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
18 24 (3.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (14.58%) React
2 92 (12.53%) .NET
3 80 (10.90%) RESTful
4 66 (8.99%) CSS
5 60 (8.17%) HTML
6 55 (7.49%) REST
7 50 (6.81%) Django
8 47 (6.40%) Node.js
8 47 (6.40%) Spring
9 43 (5.86%) Elastic Stack
10 39 (5.31%) Spring Boot
11 33 (4.50%) GraphQL
11 33 (4.50%) JSON
11 33 (4.50%) Kafka
12 31 (4.22%) SOAP
13 30 (4.09%) .NET Framework
14 25 (3.41%) XML
15 21 (2.86%) Web Services
16 19 (2.59%) YAML
17 18 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 119 (16.21%) Private Cloud
2 59 (8.04%) Public Cloud
3 58 (7.90%) Self-Motivation
4 47 (6.40%) Data Structures
5 26 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.54%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.41%) Cloud Native
7 22 (3.00%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.59%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.04%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (1.63%) Legacy Code
12 9 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.09%) Reference Data
13 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.95%) Equities
14 7 (0.95%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 173 (23.57%) Linux
2 105 (14.31%) Windows
3 28 (3.81%) Unix
4 27 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 19 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.63%) CentOS
7 10 (1.36%) VMS
8 6 (0.82%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.27%) Debian
10 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Android
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (56.40%) CI/CD
2 352 (47.96%) Agile
3 342 (46.59%) DevOps
4 267 (36.38%) Software Engineering
5 201 (27.38%) Containerisation
6 189 (25.75%) Continuous Integration
7 182 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
8 170 (23.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 170 (23.16%) Mentoring
9 145 (19.75%) Full Stack Development
10 127 (17.30%) Scrum
11 108 (14.71%) Microservices
12 94 (12.81%) Open Source
13 86 (11.72%) Analytics
14 80 (10.90%) Code Quality
15 79 (10.76%) Kanban
16 78 (10.63%) Coaching
17 77 (10.49%) Computer Science
18 75 (10.22%) TDD
18 75 (10.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 285 (38.83%) Python
2 203 (27.66%) Java
3 181 (24.66%) SQL
4 131 (17.85%) JavaScript
5 124 (16.89%) TypeScript
6 85 (11.58%) C#
7 81 (11.04%) Bash
8 62 (8.45%) PowerShell
9 47 (6.40%) C++
10 37 (5.04%) Ruby
11 34 (4.63%) PHP
12 33 (4.50%) C
13 30 (4.09%) Go
13 30 (4.09%) Shell Script
14 20 (2.72%) Perl
15 14 (1.91%) Apex Code
16 13 (1.77%) Korn
16 13 (1.77%) T-SQL
17 12 (1.63%) Rust
18 11 (1.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 163 (22.21%) Security Cleared
2 88 (11.99%) SC Cleared
3 85 (11.58%) Degree
4 51 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (4.63%) Master's Degree
6 29 (3.95%) DBS Check
7 26 (3.54%) AWS Certification
8 22 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.23%) PhD
11 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CCNA
13 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.27%) MCSE
13 2 (0.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 30 (4.09%) QA
3 15 (2.04%) NIST
4 12 (1.63%) GDPR
5 9 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.09%) PSD2
7 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 246 (33.51%) Docker
2 33 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.82%) VirtualBox
6 5 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.54%) vSphere
8 3 (0.41%) Firmware
8 3 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.27%) Varnish
10 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 260 (35.42%) Kubernetes
2 247 (33.65%) Terraform
3 139 (18.94%) Ansible
4 56 (7.63%) Puppet
5 53 (7.22%) Grafana
6 49 (6.68%) Prometheus
7 30 (4.09%) Progress Chef
8 24 (3.27%) Kibana
9 17 (2.32%) Consul
10 13 (1.77%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (1.09%) logstash
12 8 (1.09%) Packer
13 7 (0.95%) Rancher
14 6 (0.82%) Argo
15 5 (0.68%) Kubeflow
16 3 (0.41%) Nagios
16 3 (0.41%) Podman
16 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
16 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.04%) Google
3 35 (4.77%) VMware
4 32 (4.36%) Splunk
5 25 (3.41%) Oracle
6 20 (2.72%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.32%) Cisco
7 17 (2.32%) Dynatrace
8 16 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.77%) Sun
9 13 (1.77%) TOWER Software
10 11 (1.50%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.09%) Duck Creek
11 8 (1.09%) McAfee
12 6 (0.82%) Databricks
12 6 (0.82%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.82%) ServiceNow
12 6 (0.82%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.68%) SAP
13 5 (0.68%) Teradata