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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 258 359
Rank change year-on-year -54 +101 -46
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 523 556 741
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.27% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.51% 13.11% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 316 178 557
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +17.31% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,375 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,788 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.16% +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 4,179 4,242 9,299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.58% 9.69% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 2,852 6,660
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -42 461 £75,000 -3.23% 244
UK excluding London -89 312 £67,788 -3.16% 168
London +20 169 £83,375 -1.91% 76
Work from Home -87 158 £69,310 -0.99% 345
North of England -52 122 £69,310 +3.39% 69
South East +35 88 £67,500 -10.00% 37
Yorkshire +7 76 £72,155 +1.63% 20
South West -47 44 £65,000 +8.33% 19
Scotland -36 35 £95,000 +11.76% 1
North West -82 32 £65,000 -3.04% 29
Midlands -84 18 £60,000 -7.69% 29
West Midlands -57 16 £60,000 -4.00% 18
North East -30 14 £65,576 +2.86% 20
East of England -32 6 £56,250 -27.42% 10
East Midlands -70 2 - - 11
Wales -27 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 25 (4.78%) Confluence
2 20 (3.82%) Apache
3 8 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.34%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.76%) IIS
5 4 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.57%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.57%) JBoss
6 3 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) SAP CX
1 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 316 (60.42%) AWS
2 199 (38.05%) Azure
3 143 (27.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 117 (22.37%) Serverless
5 99 (18.93%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (17.40%) GitHub
7 87 (16.63%) Amazon S3
8 77 (14.72%) GCP
9 66 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
10 60 (11.47%) Amazon ECS
10 60 (11.47%) AWS Step Functions
11 57 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
12 51 (9.75%) Amazon ECR
13 49 (9.37%) Apigee
14 41 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
15 39 (7.46%) Datadog
15 39 (7.46%) OpenShift
16 38 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (6.69%) Azure AKS
18 34 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.84%) Broadband
2 31 (5.93%) DNS
3 29 (5.54%) Firewall
4 13 (2.49%) DSL
5 12 (2.29%) LAN
6 10 (1.91%) MQTT
6 10 (1.91%) Network Security
6 10 (1.91%) Software-Defined Networking
7 9 (1.72%) WAN
8 8 (1.53%) TCP/IP
9 7 (1.34%) HTTP
10 6 (1.15%) BGP
10 6 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.15%) DHCP
10 6 (1.15%) IPv4
10 6 (1.15%) VPN
11 5 (0.96%) MPLS
12 4 (0.76%) Asterisk PBX
12 4 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.76%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (13.19%) DynamoDB
2 60 (11.47%) NoSQL
3 49 (9.37%) MongoDB
4 38 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (4.97%) Elasticsearch
6 23 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (4.21%) MySQL
8 14 (2.68%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.72%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.15%) Big Data
10 6 (1.15%) InfluxDB
10 6 (1.15%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.96%) CockroachDB
12 4 (0.76%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.38%) Apache Iceberg
13 2 (0.38%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 251 (47.99%) Jenkins
2 135 (25.81%) Git
3 106 (20.27%) SonarQube
4 62 (11.85%) Cypress.io
5 48 (9.18%) JIRA
5 48 (9.18%) Maven
6 46 (8.80%) Cucumber
7 29 (5.54%) CircleCI
8 25 (4.78%) Bitbucket
9 24 (4.59%) Selenium
10 15 (2.87%) Visual Studio Code
11 13 (2.49%) JUnit
11 13 (2.49%) Postman
11 13 (2.49%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.10%) JMeter
13 10 (1.91%) Vite
14 8 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (1.53%) Gatling
15 6 (1.15%) LoadRunner
15 6 (1.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 108 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 104 (19.89%) Finance
3 48 (9.18%) Banking
4 47 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (8.60%) Public Sector
6 40 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (7.46%) Marketing
8 34 (6.50%) Games
9 19 (3.63%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.87%) Manufacturing
11 14 (2.68%) Advertising
12 12 (2.29%) Aerospace
13 11 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.53%) Electronics
15 5 (0.96%) Automotive
15 5 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.96%) Retail
16 4 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (21.61%) Senior
2 91 (17.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (17.02%) Developer
4 68 (13.00%) Lead
5 51 (9.75%) Architect
6 50 (9.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 45 (8.60%) Java Developer
8 42 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 38 (7.27%) Software Engineer
10 33 (6.31%) Salesforce Architect
11 31 (5.93%) Senior DevOps
12 27 (5.16%) Senior Developer
12 27 (5.16%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 26 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
14 25 (4.78%) Security Engineer
15 20 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
16 19 (3.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (3.63%) Java Engineer
16 19 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
17 18 (3.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (14.15%) Spring Boot
2 67 (12.81%) REST
3 62 (11.85%) AngularJS
4 59 (11.28%) Kafka
5 51 (9.75%) Spring
6 47 (8.99%) Gherkin
7 45 (8.60%) Jest
8 37 (7.07%) Elastic Stack
9 36 (6.88%) Node.js
9 36 (6.88%) RabbitMQ
10 35 (6.69%) SOAP
11 34 (6.50%) Lightning Web Components
11 34 (6.50%) RESTful
11 34 (6.50%) Visualforce
12 31 (5.93%) React
13 22 (4.21%) JSON
13 22 (4.21%) YAML
14 21 (4.02%) gRPC
15 19 (3.63%) LangChain
16 18 (3.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 99 (18.93%) Cloud Native
2 63 (12.05%) Product Ownership
3 40 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.82%) Public Cloud
5 19 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (3.44%) Blockchain
7 17 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.25%) Web3
8 16 (3.06%) Algorithms
8 16 (3.06%) Security Posture
9 15 (2.87%) e-Learning
9 15 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (2.49%) Cloud Security Posture
11 9 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.34%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 138 (26.39%) Linux
2 56 (10.71%) Windows
3 26 (4.97%) Unix
4 20 (3.82%) Windows Server
5 17 (3.25%) CentOS
6 13 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (2.10%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.76%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.38%) Android
10 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.38%) Debian
10 2 (0.38%) Rocky
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (86.23%) CI/CD
2 362 (69.22%) DevOps
3 267 (51.05%) Agile
4 232 (44.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 145 (27.72%) Containerisation
6 138 (26.39%) Microservices
7 125 (23.90%) Test Automation
8 122 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 117 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (20.84%) Continuous Integration
11 106 (20.27%) Scrum
12 95 (18.16%) Mentoring
13 89 (17.02%) Observability
13 89 (17.02%) Software Engineering
14 82 (15.68%) DevSecOps
15 75 (14.34%) Continuous Delivery
15 75 (14.34%) Event-Driven
16 74 (14.15%) SDLC
17 62 (11.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 61 (11.66%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 242 (46.27%) Python
2 159 (30.40%) Java
3 148 (28.30%) Bash
4 82 (15.68%) TypeScript
5 72 (13.77%) SQL
6 65 (12.43%) JavaScript
7 53 (10.13%) Groovy
7 53 (10.13%) PowerShell
8 51 (9.75%) Go
9 34 (6.50%) Apex Code
9 34 (6.50%) SOQL
9 34 (6.50%) SOSL
10 31 (5.93%) Rust
11 29 (5.54%) C#
12 24 (4.59%) C++
13 10 (1.91%) Perl
14 6 (1.15%) Bicep
14 6 (1.15%) C
15 5 (0.96%) PHP
15 5 (0.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 144 (27.53%) Security Cleared
2 72 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 63 (12.05%) Degree
4 61 (11.66%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.74%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (4.78%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (4.21%) OSCP
8 19 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.06%) Master's Degree
10 15 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (2.68%) ISTQB
12 12 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (2.10%) CCNA
13 11 (2.10%) RHCSA
14 9 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
15 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (1.15%) RHCE
16 5 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (11.85%) QA
2 17 (3.25%) GDPR
2 17 (3.25%) NIST
3 13 (2.49%) SOC 2
4 12 (2.29%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.53%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.38%) JTAG
9 2 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 218 (41.68%) Docker
2 29 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.78%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.91%) VMware NSX
4 10 (1.91%) vSphere
5 7 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 7 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.15%) Squid
6 6 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 261 (49.90%) Terraform
2 214 (40.92%) Kubernetes
3 132 (25.24%) Ansible
4 85 (16.25%) Grafana
5 77 (14.72%) Prometheus
6 45 (8.60%) HP Fortify
7 27 (5.16%) Argo
8 20 (3.82%) Nagios
9 15 (2.87%) Kibana
10 14 (2.68%) Puppet
11 11 (2.10%) logstash
11 11 (2.10%) Packer
12 7 (1.34%) Podman
12 7 (1.34%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (1.15%) ZABBIX
14 5 (0.96%) VxRail
15 4 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 81 (15.49%) Splunk
2 48 (9.18%) Red Hat
3 39 (7.46%) Microsoft
4 37 (7.07%) VMware
5 35 (6.69%) Salesforce
6 21 (4.02%) Oracle
7 14 (2.68%) Atlassian
7 14 (2.68%) Cisco
8 12 (2.29%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.91%) AppDynamics
10 9 (1.72%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.72%) Google
11 8 (1.53%) Juniper
11 8 (1.53%) Tenable
12 7 (1.34%) IBM
12 7 (1.34%) Rapid7
13 6 (1.15%) F5
13 6 (1.15%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.96%) SolarWinds
14 5 (0.96%) Veracode