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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 359 345
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 -52
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 385 339 677
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.77% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.77% 7.09% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 227 198 567
10th Percentile £47,200 £47,231 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,163 £56,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +14.23% -9.41%
75th Percentile £86,938 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +8.70%

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 3,939 4,780 8,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.46% 10.85% 10.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,539 3,095 6,711
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,687 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,200 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -3 315 £77,750 +3.67% 248
UK excluding London +16 223 £67,500 -3.57% 228
Work from Home +43 144 £72,500 +7.41% 165
London -1 117 £82,500 -5.71% 73
North of England +17 83 £67,500 - 59
Yorkshire +1 53 £77,500 +3.33% 18
South East -14 51 £70,000 -12.50% 65
Scotland +5 35 £95,000 +65.22% 31
South West -39 31 £70,000 +12.00% 29
North West -10 24 £65,000 -3.04% 27
Midlands -21 16 £55,200 -18.22% 15
West Midlands +1 13 £56,350 -6.08% 10
East of England -1 7 £67,500 -14.29% 22
North East -14 6 £65,000 -7.14% 14
East Midlands -28 3 £55,200 -26.40% 5
Wales -6 2 £55,200 +69.85% 12

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 23 (5.97%) Confluence
2 17 (4.42%) Apache
3 9 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.30%) IIS
5 5 (1.30%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.04%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.78%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.52%) JBoss
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.52%) nginx
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 233 (60.52%) AWS
2 144 (37.40%) Azure
3 115 (29.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 98 (25.45%) Serverless
5 89 (23.12%) GitHub
6 84 (21.82%) AWS Lambda
7 68 (17.66%) GCP
8 65 (16.88%) Amazon S3
9 63 (16.36%) GitHub Actions
10 50 (12.99%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 45 (11.69%) AWS Step Functions
12 39 (10.13%) OpenShift
13 37 (9.61%) Amazon ECR
14 36 (9.35%) Apigee
15 31 (8.05%) Datadog
16 30 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
18 28 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (9.35%) Broadband
2 27 (7.01%) DNS
3 19 (4.94%) Firewall
4 12 (3.12%) DSL
5 7 (1.82%) VPN
6 6 (1.56%) DHCP
7 5 (1.30%) BGP
7 5 (1.30%) MQTT
7 5 (1.30%) WAN
8 4 (1.04%) Asterisk PBX
8 4 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (1.04%) LAN
8 4 (1.04%) MPLS
8 4 (1.04%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.04%) VoIP
8 4 (1.04%) VPLS
9 2 (0.52%) HTTP
9 2 (0.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (12.21%) DynamoDB
2 43 (11.17%) NoSQL
3 30 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
5 23 (5.97%) MongoDB
5 23 (5.97%) SQL Server
6 17 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.08%) MySQL
8 7 (1.82%) Power BI
9 5 (1.30%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.30%) CockroachDB
10 4 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.04%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.78%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.78%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.78%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.52%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 213 (55.32%) Jenkins
2 88 (22.86%) Git
3 82 (21.30%) SonarQube
4 46 (11.95%) JIRA
5 39 (10.13%) Cypress.io
6 36 (9.35%) Maven
7 35 (9.09%) Cucumber
8 24 (6.23%) Selenium
9 22 (5.71%) Bitbucket
10 19 (4.94%) CircleCI
11 18 (4.68%) JUnit
12 12 (3.12%) Postman
13 11 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (2.08%) Subversion
15 6 (1.56%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.30%) JMeter
16 5 (1.30%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.30%) TestNG
17 4 (1.04%) Vite
18 3 (0.78%) Robot Framework
General
1 100 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 76 (19.74%) Finance
3 46 (11.95%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (10.91%) Marketing
5 37 (9.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (9.09%) Games
7 29 (7.53%) Telecoms
8 24 (6.23%) Banking
9 19 (4.94%) Public Sector
10 16 (4.16%) Advertising
11 14 (3.64%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.34%) Aerospace
13 8 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.56%) Financial Institution
15 4 (1.04%) Electronics
15 4 (1.04%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 2 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (17.66%) Developer
2 64 (16.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 58 (15.06%) Lead
4 54 (14.03%) Senior
5 47 (12.21%) Architect
6 40 (10.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 33 (8.57%) Salesforce Architect
8 28 (7.27%) Java Developer
9 25 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (5.97%) Software Engineer
11 22 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (5.45%) Senior Developer
13 18 (4.68%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 18 (4.68%) Technical Architect
14 17 (4.42%) Security Engineer
15 16 (4.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.38%) Software Developer
17 12 (3.12%) Automation Engineer
17 12 (3.12%) AWS Security Architect
17 12 (3.12%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (16.10%) Spring Boot
2 52 (13.51%) REST
3 43 (11.17%) Elastic Stack
3 43 (11.17%) Spring
4 42 (10.91%) Kafka
5 40 (10.39%) AngularJS
6 37 (9.61%) SOAP
7 35 (9.09%) Gherkin
7 35 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
7 35 (9.09%) Visualforce
8 34 (8.83%) Jest
9 23 (5.97%) React
9 23 (5.97%) RESTful
10 20 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
11 18 (4.68%) Node.js
12 15 (3.90%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.64%) pytest
14 12 (3.12%) Apache NiFi
14 12 (3.12%) Vue
15 10 (2.60%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 51 (13.25%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.16%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.64%) Security Posture
6 12 (3.12%) Cloud Security Posture
7 11 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.60%) Blockchain
8 10 (2.60%) Web3
9 8 (2.08%) e-Learning
10 7 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.82%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.82%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.56%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.30%) PKI
13 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.78%) Clustering
14 3 (0.78%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 89 (23.12%) Linux
2 33 (8.57%) Windows
3 13 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (3.12%) Unix
5 11 (2.86%) CentOS
5 11 (2.86%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.78%) Debian
9 1 (0.26%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (84.94%) CI/CD
2 266 (69.09%) DevOps
3 189 (49.09%) Agile
4 161 (41.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 114 (29.61%) Containerisation
6 110 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (26.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (22.34%) Continuous Integration
9 75 (19.48%) Microservices
10 74 (19.22%) Scrum
11 71 (18.44%) Observability
12 66 (17.14%) Test Automation
13 64 (16.62%) Event-Driven
13 64 (16.62%) Software Engineering
14 58 (15.06%) Mentoring
15 56 (14.55%) Roadmaps
16 55 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
17 54 (14.03%) DevSecOps
18 42 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 41 (10.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 187 (48.57%) Python
2 107 (27.79%) Java
3 103 (26.75%) Bash
4 64 (16.62%) TypeScript
5 62 (16.10%) SQL
6 48 (12.47%) JavaScript
7 38 (9.87%) Go
8 35 (9.09%) Apex Code
8 35 (9.09%) PowerShell
8 35 (9.09%) SOQL
8 35 (9.09%) SOSL
9 31 (8.05%) Groovy
10 19 (4.94%) Rust
11 14 (3.64%) C#
12 8 (2.08%) Delphi
13 7 (1.82%) ANSI SQL
13 7 (1.82%) C++
14 5 (1.30%) Bicep
15 4 (1.04%) Perl
16 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 84 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.39%) AWS Certification
2 40 (10.39%) Degree
3 34 (8.83%) DV Cleared
3 34 (8.83%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 17 (4.42%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (3.64%) OSCP
7 12 (3.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.34%) ISTQB
9 8 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
10 6 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.04%) CCNA
13 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.78%) CISSP
13 3 (0.78%) LPIC
13 3 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.17%) QA
2 15 (3.90%) NIST
3 9 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.34%) GDPR
4 8 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.08%) SOC 2
5 6 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) ECSS
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 165 (42.86%) Docker
2 21 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 18 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.30%) vSphere
6 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) NFS
7 1 (0.26%) Squid
Systems Management
1 174 (45.19%) Terraform
2 159 (41.30%) Kubernetes
3 87 (22.60%) Ansible
4 86 (22.34%) Grafana
5 79 (20.52%) Prometheus
6 32 (8.31%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.34%) Kibana
7 9 (2.34%) Nagios
7 9 (2.34%) Puppet
8 8 (2.08%) Argo
8 8 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (1.30%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.04%) Istio
10 4 (1.04%) logstash
10 4 (1.04%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.04%) WSUS
11 3 (0.78%) Rancher
11 3 (0.78%) VxRail
12 2 (0.52%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 67 (17.40%) Splunk
2 37 (9.61%) Oracle
3 36 (9.35%) Salesforce
4 30 (7.79%) Microsoft
5 24 (6.23%) Red Hat
6 21 (5.45%) Atlassian
7 20 (5.19%) VMware
8 11 (2.86%) Cisco
9 8 (2.08%) Google
10 6 (1.56%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.56%) Juniper
10 6 (1.56%) SAP
11 5 (1.30%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.04%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.04%) Dell
12 4 (1.04%) F5
12 4 (1.04%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.78%) BeyondTrust
13 3 (0.78%) IBM
13 3 (0.78%) Rapid7