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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 312 316
Rank change year-on-year -70 +4 -42
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 287 539 503
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.80% 0.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.88% 8.78% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 185 252 368
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,063 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -10.71%

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 3,643 6,136 6,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.83% 9.13% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,350 3,491 5,418
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £42,780 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -64 246 £75,000 +7.14% 184
UK excluding London -29 150 £67,500 +3.85% 167
London -40 107 £85,000 - 57
Work from Home -17 104 £76,250 +17.31% 97
North of England +49 58 £67,500 +8.00% 34
North West +56 36 £65,000 - 24
South West -3 24 £70,000 +16.67% 27
South East -33 18 £77,750 +11.07% 66
Yorkshire +21 17 £76,250 +31.55% 6
Scotland +11 17 - - 9
Midlands +22 16 £60,000 -5.88% 21
East of England +25 15 £61,250 +6.52% 8
West Midlands +19 9 £65,000 +8.33% 19
East Midlands +31 7 £55,200 -21.14% 2
North East +19 5 £65,000 +12.14% 4
Wales +13 4 £57,600 -38.40% 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 17 (5.92%) Confluence
2 10 (3.48%) Apache
3 8 (2.79%) nginx
4 6 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.39%) Camunda
5 4 (1.39%) IIS
5 4 (1.39%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (1.05%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.05%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Simulink
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.35%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 173 (60.28%) AWS
2 110 (38.33%) Azure
3 60 (20.91%) GitHub
4 47 (16.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (16.03%) GCP
6 37 (12.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 37 (12.89%) Serverless
7 36 (12.54%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (10.80%) OpenShift
9 30 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (10.10%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
12 25 (8.71%) Amazon ECS
13 23 (8.01%) Amazon S3
14 18 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (5.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (4.53%) Datadog
17 9 (3.14%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (3.14%) Power Platform
18 8 (2.79%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.57%) Broadband
2 13 (4.53%) DNS
3 11 (3.83%) Firewall
4 7 (2.44%) Network Security
5 6 (2.09%) VPN
5 6 (2.09%) WAN
6 4 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (1.39%) Software-Defined Radio
6 4 (1.39%) VLAN
6 4 (1.39%) VSAN
7 3 (1.05%) OSPF
7 3 (1.05%) Skype
8 2 (0.70%) BGP
8 2 (0.70%) HTTP
8 2 (0.70%) LAN
8 2 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.70%) RTMP
8 2 (0.70%) SAN
8 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.15%) SQL Server
2 30 (10.45%) MongoDB
3 27 (9.41%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (7.32%) NoSQL
5 17 (5.92%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.14%) MySQL
7 9 (3.14%) Power BI
8 8 (2.79%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.79%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.74%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.39%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.05%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.70%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.70%) Metadata
12 2 (0.70%) Redis
12 2 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
13 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 156 (54.36%) Jenkins
2 58 (20.21%) Git
3 35 (12.20%) SonarQube
4 33 (11.50%) JIRA
5 27 (9.41%) Cucumber
6 25 (8.71%) Bitbucket
7 24 (8.36%) Selenium
8 19 (6.62%) JUnit
8 19 (6.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (4.53%) CircleCI
10 10 (3.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (3.48%) JMeter
11 9 (3.14%) Postman
12 8 (2.79%) Cypress.io
12 8 (2.79%) Subversion
12 8 (2.79%) TeamCity
13 7 (2.44%) Artifactory
13 7 (2.44%) Gatling
13 7 (2.44%) Maven
14 5 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 76 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 71 (24.74%) Finance
3 44 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (7.67%) Banking
5 22 (7.67%) Games
6 20 (6.97%) Marketing
7 17 (5.92%) Telecoms
8 16 (5.57%) Manufacturing
9 12 (4.18%) Aerospace
10 11 (3.83%) Public Sector
11 9 (3.14%) Advertising
11 9 (3.14%) Retail
12 8 (2.79%) Electronics
13 6 (2.09%) Automotive
13 6 (2.09%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.09%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (1.39%) Aviation
15 4 (1.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (19.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (14.98%) Developer
3 38 (13.24%) Senior
4 37 (12.89%) Lead
5 28 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (8.01%) Architect
7 20 (6.97%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.23%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (4.88%) Salesforce Architect
11 13 (4.53%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (4.18%) Backend Developer
12 12 (4.18%) Technical Architect
13 11 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
13 11 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (3.48%) Java Engineer
14 10 (3.48%) Lead DevOps
14 10 (3.48%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.89%) REST
2 34 (11.85%) Elastic Stack
3 32 (11.15%) Spring
4 31 (10.80%) Spring Boot
5 26 (9.06%) React
6 22 (7.67%) Node.js
7 18 (6.27%) SOAP
8 17 (5.92%) Kafka
9 16 (5.57%) Lightning Web Components
9 16 (5.57%) Visualforce
10 15 (5.23%) .NET
11 14 (4.88%) AngularJS
12 11 (3.83%) FastAPI
12 11 (3.83%) Playwright
13 10 (3.48%) Django
13 10 (3.48%) pytest
14 9 (3.14%) Hibernate
15 8 (2.79%) CSS
15 8 (2.79%) HTML
15 8 (2.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.10%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (4.53%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.18%) Private Cloud
5 10 (3.48%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.74%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.74%) PKI
9 4 (1.39%) FPGA
9 4 (1.39%) IoT
9 4 (1.39%) Verilog
9 4 (1.39%) VHDL
10 3 (1.05%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 88 (30.66%) Linux
2 27 (9.41%) Windows
3 17 (5.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (4.53%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.48%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.79%) Debian
7 7 (2.44%) Unix
8 5 (1.74%) CentOS
9 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.70%) Android
11 1 (0.35%) Fedora
11 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (77.00%) CI/CD
2 185 (64.46%) DevOps
3 124 (43.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 122 (42.51%) Agile
5 92 (32.06%) Containerisation
6 65 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (17.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 49 (17.07%) Scrum
9 49 (17.07%) Test Automation
10 48 (16.72%) Continuous Integration
11 46 (16.03%) Microservices
11 46 (16.03%) Software Engineering
12 45 (15.68%) Observability
13 39 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (13.24%) Mentoring
15 32 (11.15%) Event-Driven
16 31 (10.80%) Configuration Management
17 29 (10.10%) Incident Response
18 24 (8.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 147 (51.22%) Python
2 76 (26.48%) Java
3 66 (23.00%) Bash
4 51 (17.77%) SQL
5 45 (15.68%) PowerShell
6 40 (13.94%) JavaScript
6 40 (13.94%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.62%) C#
8 16 (5.57%) Apex Code
8 16 (5.57%) Go
9 15 (5.23%) SOQL
9 15 (5.23%) SOSL
10 14 (4.88%) C++
11 11 (3.83%) C
12 8 (2.79%) Delphi
12 8 (2.79%) Shell Script
13 7 (2.44%) Bicep
14 6 (2.09%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (1.39%) Groovy
16 3 (1.05%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 58 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.10%) DV Cleared
3 24 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.01%) AWS Certification
5 20 (6.97%) Degree
6 13 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.79%) CCNA
8 8 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.79%) ISTQB
9 7 (2.44%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.39%) CCNP
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.35%) CISM
13 1 (0.35%) GAWN
13 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (12.54%) QA
2 5 (1.74%) GDPR
3 4 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) ECSS
5 2 (0.70%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 109 (37.98%) Docker
2 18 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.57%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.74%) vSphere
5 4 (1.39%) Firmware
6 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.05%) vCloud
6 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.70%) NFS
7 2 (0.70%) Squid
7 2 (0.70%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 132 (45.99%) Kubernetes
2 108 (37.63%) Terraform
3 77 (26.83%) Ansible
4 74 (25.78%) Grafana
5 65 (22.65%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.53%) Kibana
7 6 (2.09%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.09%) Puppet
8 5 (1.74%) Argo
8 5 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.39%) Rancher
9 4 (1.39%) vRealize
9 4 (1.39%) WSUS
10 3 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.05%) logstash
10 3 (1.05%) Nessus
10 3 (1.05%) Rundeck
10 3 (1.05%) SCOM
11 2 (0.70%) Istio
11 2 (0.70%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 38 (13.24%) Oracle
2 37 (12.89%) Splunk
3 26 (9.06%) Microsoft
4 24 (8.36%) Atlassian
4 24 (8.36%) VMware
5 16 (5.57%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.18%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.44%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.09%) SAP
9 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.74%) Sonatype
10 4 (1.39%) Cisco
10 4 (1.39%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.39%) F5
11 3 (1.05%) Databricks
11 3 (1.05%) Google
11 3 (1.05%) HP
12 2 (0.70%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.70%) Ubiquiti
12 2 (0.70%) YouTube