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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 262 362
Rank change year-on-year -62 +100 -22
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 596 575 629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.17% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.49% 13.79% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 364 192 398
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £44,738
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +12.96% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £101,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -

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 4,418 4,171 7,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.37% 8.46% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,946 2,642 5,133
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -44 528 £69,655 -10.12% 208
UK excluding London -78 375 £65,000 -3.70% 149
London -3 188 £85,000 +6.25% 82
Work from Home -146 153 £67,500 -6.90% 104
North of England -61 130 £67,500 +0.69% 56
South East +47 99 £65,000 -13.33% 29
South West -43 68 £73,750 +22.92% 19
Yorkshire 0 55 £69,310 -7.59% 8
North West -87 42 £65,000 -3.04% 31
Scotland -8 38 £110,000 +18.92% 9
North East -19 33 £55,000 - 17
Midlands -82 31 £58,750 -17.54% 24
West Midlands -35 22 £57,500 -28.13% 19
East Midlands -66 9 £60,000 -9.43% 5
Wales -51 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -40 3 - - 13
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 27 (4.53%) Apache
2 26 (4.36%) Confluence
3 17 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.85%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.18%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.50%) IIS
5 3 (0.50%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 374 (62.75%) AWS
2 220 (36.91%) Azure
3 132 (22.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 122 (20.47%) GitHub
5 99 (16.61%) Serverless
6 85 (14.26%) Amazon S3
7 83 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (13.42%) AWS Lambda
9 76 (12.75%) GCP
10 68 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
11 56 (9.40%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (9.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (8.72%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (7.72%) OpenShift
15 43 (7.21%) AWS Step Functions
16 40 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (6.38%) Azure AKS
18 35 (5.87%) Apigee
19 33 (5.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.55%) Broadband
2 28 (4.70%) Firewall
3 14 (2.35%) MQTT
4 13 (2.18%) DNS
4 13 (2.18%) Network Security
5 10 (1.68%) HTTP
5 10 (1.68%) LAN
5 10 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (1.34%) IPv4
6 8 (1.34%) WAN
7 7 (1.17%) DSL
8 6 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.01%) Wireless
8 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.84%) BGP
9 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.84%) VPN
10 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.58%) NoSQL
2 57 (9.56%) DynamoDB
3 53 (8.89%) MongoDB
4 51 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (5.87%) MySQL
6 29 (4.87%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.69%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (2.85%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.68%) Big Data
10 10 (1.68%) Pinecone
11 9 (1.51%) Redis
12 8 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.34%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.50%) Flink
15 3 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 278 (46.64%) Jenkins
2 186 (31.21%) Git
3 89 (14.93%) SonarQube
4 60 (10.07%) JIRA
5 57 (9.56%) Cucumber
6 55 (9.23%) Cypress.io
7 35 (5.87%) Selenium
8 29 (4.87%) Maven
9 24 (4.03%) CircleCI
10 22 (3.69%) JUnit
10 22 (3.69%) Postman
11 20 (3.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 16 (2.68%) Bitbucket
12 16 (2.68%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (2.35%) REST Assured
14 13 (2.18%) Gatling
14 13 (2.18%) JMeter
15 11 (1.85%) Vite
16 10 (1.68%) Robot Framework
16 10 (1.68%) Spock
General
1 146 (24.50%) Social Skills
2 122 (20.47%) Finance
3 82 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (9.56%) Banking
7 37 (6.21%) Marketing
8 34 (5.70%) Games
9 15 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.52%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.01%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.68%) Electronics
12 10 (1.68%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.01%) Advertising
13 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.84%) Legal
15 4 (0.67%) Automotive
15 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 141 (23.66%) Senior
2 123 (20.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (15.10%) Developer
4 60 (10.07%) Software Engineer
5 50 (8.39%) Architect
6 44 (7.38%) Lead
7 42 (7.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (6.21%) AWS Engineer
8 37 (6.21%) Java Developer
8 37 (6.21%) Principal Engineer
9 36 (6.04%) Salesforce Architect
10 35 (5.87%) Java Engineer
11 31 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
11 31 (5.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 30 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (4.87%) AWS DevOps
13 29 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
14 27 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (4.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 26 (4.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.42%) Spring Boot
2 78 (13.09%) Kafka
3 75 (12.58%) REST
4 70 (11.74%) Spring
5 62 (10.40%) AngularJS
6 54 (9.06%) Node.js
7 52 (8.72%) React
8 48 (8.05%) RESTful
9 42 (7.05%) Elastic Stack
10 41 (6.88%) SOAP
11 37 (6.21%) Jest
11 37 (6.21%) Lightning Web Components
12 35 (5.87%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (5.87%) Visualforce
13 31 (5.20%) Playwright
14 30 (5.03%) Gherkin
15 27 (4.53%) JSON
16 24 (4.03%) .NET
17 22 (3.69%) Vue
18 21 (3.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 155 (26.01%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.42%) Product Ownership
3 67 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (5.54%) Public Cloud
5 27 (4.53%) e-Learning
6 24 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.85%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.68%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.52%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.18%) Blockchain
11 12 (2.01%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.01%) Web3
12 10 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.51%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 164 (27.52%) Linux
2 65 (10.91%) Windows
3 38 (6.38%) CentOS
4 27 (4.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.19%) Unix
6 24 (4.03%) Windows Server
7 12 (2.01%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Debian
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (90.94%) CI/CD
2 417 (69.97%) DevOps
3 324 (54.36%) Agile
4 288 (48.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (31.54%) Containerisation
6 186 (31.21%) Microservices
7 184 (30.87%) Test Automation
8 148 (24.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 122 (20.47%) Software Engineering
10 121 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (20.30%) Scrum
11 120 (20.13%) Mentoring
12 110 (18.46%) Continuous Integration
13 106 (17.79%) Observability
14 90 (15.10%) Event-Driven
14 90 (15.10%) SDLC
15 84 (14.09%) DevSecOps
16 83 (13.93%) AI
17 78 (13.09%) Continuous Delivery
18 77 (12.92%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 277 (46.48%) Python
2 178 (29.87%) Java
3 151 (25.34%) Bash
4 103 (17.28%) SQL
5 84 (14.09%) JavaScript
6 79 (13.26%) TypeScript
7 68 (11.41%) PowerShell
8 49 (8.22%) Go
9 41 (6.88%) Groovy
10 37 (6.21%) Apex Code
11 36 (6.04%) C#
12 35 (5.87%) SOQL
12 35 (5.87%) SOSL
13 32 (5.37%) C++
14 27 (4.53%) Rust
15 10 (1.68%) C
15 10 (1.68%) PHP
16 7 (1.17%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.17%) Perl
16 7 (1.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 212 (35.57%) Security Cleared
2 129 (21.64%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.26%) Degree
4 69 (11.58%) AWS Certification
5 46 (7.72%) DV Cleared
6 32 (5.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (3.86%) Master's Degree
8 22 (3.69%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (3.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 18 (3.02%) OSCP
11 17 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (2.85%) ISTQB
12 16 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (2.52%) RHCSA
14 12 (2.01%) CCNA
15 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.34%) RHCE
17 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
18 5 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (12.92%) QA
2 28 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.69%) GDPR
4 15 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.52%) SOC 2
4 15 (2.52%) WCAG
5 12 (2.01%) NIST
5 12 (2.01%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.01%) JTAG
8 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.34%) SLA
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 273 (45.81%) Docker
2 26 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.19%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.85%) vSphere
5 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.68%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.34%) Squid
7 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Firmware
8 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 294 (49.33%) Terraform
2 262 (43.96%) Kubernetes
3 145 (24.33%) Ansible
4 91 (15.27%) Grafana
5 75 (12.58%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.21%) Argo
7 29 (4.87%) HP Fortify
8 25 (4.19%) Nagios
9 20 (3.36%) Kibana
10 16 (2.68%) logstash
10 16 (2.68%) Puppet
11 13 (2.18%) Packer
12 9 (1.51%) Podman
13 8 (1.34%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.84%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.84%) VxRail
16 4 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 87 (14.60%) Splunk
2 53 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 42 (7.05%) Microsoft
4 41 (6.88%) Salesforce
5 37 (6.21%) VMware
6 17 (2.85%) AppDynamics
7 16 (2.68%) Oracle
8 14 (2.35%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.35%) Google
9 13 (2.18%) Cisco
9 13 (2.18%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.18%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.68%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.34%) Databricks
11 8 (1.34%) Intel
11 8 (1.34%) Tenable
12 7 (1.17%) SAP
13 6 (1.01%) IBM
13 6 (1.01%) Juniper
13 6 (1.01%) Palo Alto