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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 307 320
Rank change year-on-year -63 +13 -55
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 326 558 513
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 0.82% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.79% 9.38% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 185 256 373
10th Percentile £52,400 £48,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £54,688 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,438 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £101,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.80% +2.00% -3.85%

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 3,710 5,951 6,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.26% 8.80% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,329 3,299 5,658
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £42,439
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,350 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.73% -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 8 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 8 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 -59 286 £75,000 +7.14% 569
UK excluding London -9 189 £70,000 +9.80% 515
Work from Home -24 137 £78,750 +21.15% 350
London -42 112 £87,000 +2.35% 246
North of England +48 88 £67,500 +12.50% 91
North West +49 68 £62,500 +2.04% 59
South West -7 24 £73,750 +22.92% 58
Midlands +35 23 £57,600 -12.01% 39
Scotland +8 20 £100,000 +73.91% 49
South East -35 17 £77,500 +10.71% 223
East of England +26 15 £55,000 -18.52% 13
Yorkshire +7 15 £76,250 +31.55% 14
West Midlands +12 14 £60,000 - 20
East Midlands +24 9 £55,200 -21.14% 16
North East +15 5 £65,000 +5.32% 18
Wales +13 4 £57,600 -38.40% 15

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 21 (6.44%) Confluence
2 10 (3.07%) nginx
3 9 (2.76%) Apache
4 5 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.23%) Camunda
6 3 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.92%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.61%) IIS
7 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Simulink
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 217 (66.56%) AWS
2 144 (44.17%) Azure
3 57 (17.48%) GitHub
4 48 (14.72%) GCP
5 43 (13.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 36 (11.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 35 (10.74%) Serverless
8 33 (10.12%) OpenShift
9 30 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (8.59%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (7.06%) Amazon ECS
13 22 (6.75%) Amazon S3
14 17 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (5.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (4.60%) Datadog
16 9 (2.76%) Route 53
17 8 (2.45%) AWS CodeBuild
17 8 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.60%) Broadband
2 14 (4.29%) DNS
3 12 (3.68%) Firewall
4 9 (2.76%) Network Security
5 7 (2.15%) WAN
6 6 (1.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 6 (1.84%) VPN
7 4 (1.23%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (1.23%) VLAN
7 4 (1.23%) VSAN
8 3 (0.92%) OSPF
8 3 (0.92%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.92%) Skype
9 2 (0.61%) BGP
9 2 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.61%) HTTP
9 2 (0.61%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.61%) LAN
9 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.61%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (19.63%) SQL Server
2 35 (10.74%) MongoDB
3 32 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (7.36%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (2.45%) MySQL
6 8 (2.45%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.15%) DynamoDB
8 6 (1.84%) Power BI
9 4 (1.23%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.92%) Data Vault
10 3 (0.92%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.61%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.61%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.61%) Metadata
11 2 (0.61%) Redis
12 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 149 (45.71%) Jenkins
2 69 (21.17%) Cucumber
3 68 (20.86%) JIRA
3 68 (20.86%) SonarQube
4 64 (19.63%) Selenium
5 58 (17.79%) Git
6 57 (17.48%) Bitbucket
7 56 (17.18%) Sonatype Nexus
8 42 (12.88%) Maven
9 24 (7.36%) JUnit
10 15 (4.60%) CircleCI
11 10 (3.07%) TeamCity
12 9 (2.76%) JMeter
13 8 (2.45%) Postman
14 7 (2.15%) Artifactory
14 7 (2.15%) Gatling
14 7 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (1.84%) Cypress.io
15 6 (1.84%) Subversion
General
1 112 (34.36%) Finance
2 80 (24.54%) Social Skills
3 69 (21.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (17.48%) Banking
5 47 (14.42%) Retail
6 41 (12.58%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (12.58%) Investment Banking
7 36 (11.04%) Corporate Banking
8 22 (6.75%) Games
8 22 (6.75%) Marketing
9 14 (4.29%) Manufacturing
10 12 (3.68%) Telecoms
11 11 (3.37%) Aerospace
12 9 (2.76%) Public Sector
13 8 (2.45%) Electronics
14 7 (2.15%) Advertising
14 7 (2.15%) Automotive
15 6 (1.84%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.84%) Law
16 4 (1.23%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 59 (18.10%) Software Engineer
2 56 (17.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (12.58%) Developer
4 38 (11.66%) Senior
5 35 (10.74%) Lead
6 26 (7.98%) Architect
6 26 (7.98%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (4.91%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (4.60%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (4.29%) Java Engineer
10 14 (4.29%) Salesforce Architect
10 14 (4.29%) Software Developer
10 14 (4.29%) Technical Architect
11 13 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (3.68%) Backend Developer
13 11 (3.37%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (3.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (22.39%) REST
2 72 (22.09%) Spring
3 70 (21.47%) Spring Boot
4 64 (19.63%) React
5 59 (18.10%) Kafka
6 45 (13.80%) RESTful
7 43 (13.19%) CSS
7 43 (13.19%) HTML
8 40 (12.27%) CSS3
8 40 (12.27%) HTML5
9 37 (11.35%) Jest
9 37 (11.35%) JPA
9 37 (11.35%) Redux
9 37 (11.35%) Sass
10 32 (9.82%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (6.44%) Node.js
12 18 (5.52%) SOAP
13 17 (5.21%) .NET
14 16 (4.91%) Lightning Web Components
14 16 (4.91%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 62 (19.02%) Product Ownership
2 47 (14.42%) Enterprise Software
3 46 (14.11%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.99%) Private Cloud
6 12 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.37%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.84%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.84%) Wiki
9 5 (1.53%) PKI
10 4 (1.23%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.23%) FPGA
10 4 (1.23%) IoT
10 4 (1.23%) Verilog
10 4 (1.23%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 88 (26.99%) Linux
2 26 (7.98%) Windows
3 15 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (3.68%) Ubuntu
5 10 (3.07%) Debian
5 10 (3.07%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.84%) Unix
7 5 (1.53%) CentOS
8 4 (1.23%) Android
9 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.31%) Fedora
11 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (78.53%) CI/CD
2 221 (67.79%) DevOps
3 156 (47.85%) Agile
4 137 (42.02%) Containerisation
5 123 (37.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 92 (28.22%) Software Engineering
7 91 (27.91%) Test Automation
8 90 (27.61%) Microservices
9 74 (22.70%) Mentoring
10 60 (18.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (17.79%) Full-Stack Development
12 56 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (17.18%) SDLC
13 54 (16.56%) Performance Optimisation
14 52 (15.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 52 (15.95%) User Experience
15 49 (15.03%) Front End Development
16 47 (14.42%) Scrum
17 46 (14.11%) Observability
18 45 (13.80%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 144 (44.17%) Python
2 116 (35.58%) Java
3 84 (25.77%) SQL
4 75 (23.01%) JavaScript
5 70 (21.47%) TypeScript
6 60 (18.40%) Bash
7 43 (13.19%) PowerShell
8 20 (6.13%) C#
9 18 (5.52%) Go
10 16 (4.91%) Apex Code
10 16 (4.91%) C++
11 15 (4.60%) SOQL
11 15 (4.60%) SOSL
12 12 (3.68%) C
13 9 (2.76%) Shell Script
14 8 (2.45%) Delphi
15 7 (2.15%) Bicep
16 4 (1.23%) ANSI SQL
16 4 (1.23%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (15.95%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.98%) DV Cleared
3 23 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 18 (5.52%) Degree
6 12 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.07%) CCNA
7 10 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.45%) ISTQB
9 7 (2.15%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.84%) CCNP
11 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.31%) CISM
13 1 (0.31%) CISSP
13 1 (0.31%) ISEB
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (21.78%) QA
2 37 (11.35%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.53%) GDPR
4 4 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.61%) ECSS
6 2 (0.61%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.31%) NIST
7 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (46.32%) Docker
2 15 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.99%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.53%) vSphere
5 4 (1.23%) Firmware
6 3 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.92%) vCloud
6 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.61%) NFS
7 2 (0.61%) Squid
7 2 (0.61%) Terminal Server
7 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 181 (55.52%) Kubernetes
2 107 (32.82%) Terraform
3 79 (24.23%) Ansible
4 72 (22.09%) Grafana
5 65 (19.94%) Prometheus
6 13 (3.99%) Kibana
7 6 (1.84%) Progress Chef
7 6 (1.84%) Puppet
8 4 (1.23%) Argo
8 4 (1.23%) Rancher
8 4 (1.23%) vRealize
8 4 (1.23%) WSUS
9 3 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.92%) Rundeck
9 3 (0.92%) SCOM
9 3 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.61%) logstash
10 2 (0.61%) Nessus
10 2 (0.61%) Sysdig
11 1 (0.31%) Salt
Vendors
1 38 (11.66%) Splunk
2 36 (11.04%) Solace
3 34 (10.43%) Oracle
4 26 (7.98%) Microsoft
5 23 (7.06%) VMware
6 21 (6.44%) Atlassian
7 16 (4.91%) Salesforce
8 10 (3.07%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.15%) AppDynamics
10 6 (1.84%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.84%) F5
11 5 (1.53%) SAP
11 5 (1.53%) Sonatype
12 4 (1.23%) Cisco
12 4 (1.23%) Cribl.io
13 3 (0.92%) Databricks
13 3 (0.92%) Google
13 3 (0.92%) HP
14 2 (0.61%) NETGEAR
14 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow