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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 264 364
Rank change year-on-year -45 +100 -52
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 538 544 789
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.22% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.82% 13.17% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 329 161 563
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% +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 4,196 4,131 9,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 9.29% 8.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,782 2,616 6,497
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,218 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,313 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,501 £93,750
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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -45 477 £70,000 -9.68% 156
UK excluding London -97 320 £65,000 -3.04% 114
London +18 183 £85,000 - 58
Work from Home -116 149 £67,500 -5.59% 79
North of England -67 121 £65,576 -2.18% 29
South East +49 93 £67,500 +28.57% 31
Yorkshire +2 64 £69,310 -2.38% 7
South West -43 48 £65,000 +6.12% 22
North West -90 37 £65,000 -3.04% 13
Scotland -13 35 £95,000 +5.56% 6
North East -26 20 £55,000 - 9
Midlands -80 18 £50,000 -24.53% 11
West Midlands -40 14 £50,000 -29.82% 8
East of England -41 4 - - 14
East Midlands -64 4 - - 3
Wales -42 3 £51,250 +57.69% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 1

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 (4.65%) Apache
1 25 (4.65%) Confluence
2 15 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.86%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) IIS
5 3 (0.56%) JBoss
5 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Superset
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 340 (63.20%) AWS
2 198 (36.80%) Azure
3 142 (26.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 109 (20.26%) Serverless
5 98 (18.22%) GitHub
6 91 (16.91%) AWS Lambda
7 86 (15.99%) Amazon S3
8 72 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
8 72 (13.38%) GCP
9 59 (10.97%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (9.85%) Amazon ECS
11 52 (9.67%) Amazon ECR
11 52 (9.67%) AWS Step Functions
12 49 (9.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (7.43%) Apigee
15 39 (7.25%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (6.88%) Azure AKS
16 37 (6.88%) OpenShift
17 36 (6.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 42 (7.81%) Broadband
2 29 (5.39%) Firewall
3 17 (3.16%) DNS
4 13 (2.42%) DSL
5 12 (2.23%) LAN
5 12 (2.23%) MQTT
5 12 (2.23%) Software-Defined Networking
6 11 (2.04%) Network Security
7 10 (1.86%) WAN
8 9 (1.67%) HTTP
9 8 (1.49%) IPv4
10 7 (1.30%) BGP
10 7 (1.30%) VPN
11 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.93%) DHCP
12 5 (0.93%) MPLS
13 4 (0.74%) Asterisk PBX
13 4 (0.74%) Bluetooth
13 4 (0.74%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (12.27%) NoSQL
2 62 (11.52%) DynamoDB
3 52 (9.67%) MongoDB
4 42 (7.81%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (5.02%) MySQL
6 25 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (2.97%) Relational Database
9 12 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.04%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.86%) Big Data
12 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.93%) InfluxDB
13 5 (0.93%) Redis
14 4 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
16 2 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
16 2 (0.37%) BigQuery
16 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 256 (47.58%) Jenkins
2 140 (26.02%) Git
3 95 (17.66%) SonarQube
4 57 (10.59%) Cypress.io
5 47 (8.74%) JIRA
6 45 (8.36%) Cucumber
7 36 (6.69%) Maven
8 28 (5.20%) CircleCI
8 28 (5.20%) Selenium
9 17 (3.16%) Bitbucket
10 15 (2.79%) JUnit
10 15 (2.79%) Visual Studio Code
11 14 (2.60%) REST Assured
12 13 (2.42%) Postman
13 12 (2.23%) Vite
14 10 (1.86%) Gatling
14 10 (1.86%) JMeter
15 9 (1.67%) Robot Framework
16 7 (1.30%) Artifactory
17 6 (1.12%) Spock
General
1 115 (21.38%) Finance
2 110 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 56 (10.41%) Banking
4 52 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 49 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (6.88%) Marketing
8 34 (6.32%) Games
9 13 (2.42%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.42%) Telecoms
10 12 (2.23%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.86%) Advertising
12 8 (1.49%) Electronics
13 7 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Retail
15 4 (0.74%) Automotive
15 4 (0.74%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (22.49%) Senior
2 102 (18.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (16.73%) Developer
4 52 (9.67%) Architect
5 45 (8.36%) Cloud Engineer
5 45 (8.36%) Lead
6 44 (8.18%) Java Developer
6 44 (8.18%) Software Engineer
7 34 (6.32%) Salesforce Architect
8 33 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
9 31 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 28 (5.20%) Senior Developer
10 28 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
10 28 (5.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 27 (5.02%) Java Engineer
12 26 (4.83%) Security Engineer
13 25 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
14 24 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
15 22 (4.09%) Principal Engineer
16 21 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (13.75%) Spring Boot
2 71 (13.20%) REST
3 67 (12.45%) Kafka
4 57 (10.59%) AngularJS
4 57 (10.59%) Spring
5 41 (7.62%) Node.js
6 40 (7.43%) React
7 39 (7.25%) Jest
8 37 (6.88%) Elastic Stack
9 36 (6.69%) SOAP
10 35 (6.51%) Gherkin
10 35 (6.51%) Lightning Web Components
10 35 (6.51%) RabbitMQ
10 35 (6.51%) Visualforce
11 34 (6.32%) RESTful
12 24 (4.46%) Playwright
13 23 (4.28%) JSON
14 22 (4.09%) YAML
15 21 (3.90%) LangChain
16 20 (3.72%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 124 (23.05%) Cloud Native
2 66 (12.27%) Product Ownership
3 51 (9.48%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.83%) Public Cloud
5 25 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (3.90%) e-Learning
7 20 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (3.35%) Data Centre
9 17 (3.16%) Blockchain
9 17 (3.16%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.97%) Algorithms
10 16 (2.97%) Web3
11 13 (2.42%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.67%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 6 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 139 (25.84%) Linux
2 60 (11.15%) Windows
3 25 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.46%) CentOS
4 24 (4.46%) Unix
5 15 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.42%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.74%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.37%) Android
10 2 (0.37%) Debian
10 2 (0.37%) Rocky
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (88.85%) CI/CD
2 375 (69.70%) DevOps
3 279 (51.86%) Agile
4 266 (49.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 168 (31.23%) Containerisation
6 153 (28.44%) Microservices
7 146 (27.14%) Test Automation
8 132 (24.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 108 (20.07%) Continuous Integration
10 105 (19.52%) Scrum
11 103 (19.14%) Observability
12 101 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
13 100 (18.59%) Software Engineering
14 97 (18.03%) Mentoring
15 89 (16.54%) DevSecOps
16 81 (15.06%) Event-Driven
17 80 (14.87%) SDLC
18 76 (14.13%) Continuous Delivery
19 63 (11.71%) AI
20 60 (11.15%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 259 (48.14%) Python
2 163 (30.30%) Java
3 151 (28.07%) Bash
4 83 (15.43%) SQL
5 78 (14.50%) TypeScript
6 72 (13.38%) JavaScript
7 61 (11.34%) PowerShell
8 51 (9.48%) Go
9 45 (8.36%) Groovy
10 35 (6.51%) Apex Code
10 35 (6.51%) SOQL
10 35 (6.51%) SOSL
11 32 (5.95%) Rust
12 31 (5.76%) C#
13 25 (4.65%) C++
14 8 (1.49%) Perl
15 7 (1.30%) PHP
16 6 (1.12%) Bicep
16 6 (1.12%) C
16 6 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 177 (32.90%) Security Cleared
2 100 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 72 (13.38%) Degree
4 68 (12.64%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.58%) DV Cleared
6 26 (4.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.46%) OSCP
8 23 (4.28%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (3.72%) Master's Degree
10 17 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.97%) ISTQB
12 14 (2.60%) RHCSA
13 13 (2.42%) CCNA
14 12 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.49%) RHCE
16 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.93%) Azure Certification
16 5 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.71%) QA
2 19 (3.53%) GDPR
3 17 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.16%) NIST
4 13 (2.42%) PCI DSS
5 12 (2.23%) SOC 2
6 11 (2.04%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.93%) WCAG
9 4 (0.74%) JTAG
10 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 241 (44.80%) Docker
2 29 (5.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.90%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.23%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.23%) vSphere
5 8 (1.49%) Squid
5 8 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.30%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 275 (51.12%) Terraform
2 238 (44.24%) Kubernetes
3 131 (24.35%) Ansible
4 88 (16.36%) Grafana
5 80 (14.87%) Prometheus
6 34 (6.32%) Argo
6 34 (6.32%) HP Fortify
7 24 (4.46%) Nagios
8 16 (2.97%) Kibana
9 13 (2.42%) Packer
9 13 (2.42%) Puppet
10 12 (2.23%) logstash
11 9 (1.67%) Podman
12 8 (1.49%) vCenter Server
12 8 (1.49%) ZABBIX
13 7 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (1.12%) VxRail
15 4 (0.74%) WSUS
16 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 88 (16.36%) Splunk
2 50 (9.29%) Red Hat
3 40 (7.43%) VMware
4 37 (6.88%) Microsoft
5 35 (6.51%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.97%) Oracle
7 14 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 13 (2.42%) AppDynamics
8 13 (2.42%) Cisco
9 12 (2.23%) Dynatrace
10 11 (2.04%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.86%) Google
12 9 (1.67%) Rapid7
13 8 (1.49%) Tenable
14 7 (1.30%) IBM
14 7 (1.30%) Juniper
15 6 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
15 6 (1.12%) F5
15 6 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow