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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 267 358
Rank change year-on-year -48 +91 -42
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 535 542 771
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 1.25% 0.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.74% 13.22% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 326 164 564
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,375 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £88,148 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,538 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.74% +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 4,200 4,101 9,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.51% 9.42% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 2,664 6,573
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 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.73% -9.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £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 3 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 3 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 -42 476 £72,500 -6.45% 209
UK excluding London -78 321 £66,538 -0.74% 157
London +22 177 £84,250 -0.88% 63
Work from Home -104 157 £69,310 -3.06% 126
North of England -59 122 £68,076 +1.55% 52
South East +49 91 £66,250 +26.19% 35
Yorkshire +4 69 £69,310 -2.38% 11
South West -55 47 £65,000 +4.00% 25
Scotland -30 35 £95,000 +8.57% 6
North West -89 34 £65,000 -3.04% 24
Midlands -88 20 £53,750 -23.21% 15
North East -30 19 £56,250 - 17
West Midlands -56 16 £53,750 -24.56% 9
East of England -37 6 £56,250 -27.42% 15
East Midlands -55 4 - - 6
Wales -41 2 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 25 (4.67%) Apache
1 25 (4.67%) Confluence
2 14 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.68%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) Apache Superset
5 3 (0.56%) IIS
5 3 (0.56%) JBoss
5 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 329 (61.50%) AWS
2 203 (37.94%) Azure
3 141 (26.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 109 (20.37%) Serverless
5 92 (17.20%) AWS Lambda
6 91 (17.01%) GitHub
7 86 (16.07%) Amazon S3
8 75 (14.02%) GCP
9 72 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
10 55 (10.28%) AWS Step Functions
10 55 (10.28%) GitHub Actions
11 53 (9.91%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (9.53%) Amazon ECR
13 44 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 43 (8.04%) Apigee
15 40 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (7.29%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (6.73%) Azure AKS
18 35 (6.54%) Datadog
18 35 (6.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.66%) Broadband
2 29 (5.42%) Firewall
3 24 (4.49%) DNS
4 13 (2.43%) DSL
5 12 (2.24%) LAN
5 12 (2.24%) MQTT
5 12 (2.24%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (1.87%) Network Security
7 9 (1.68%) HTTP
7 9 (1.68%) WAN
8 8 (1.50%) IPv4
8 8 (1.50%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.12%) BGP
9 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.12%) DHCP
9 6 (1.12%) VPN
10 5 (0.93%) MPLS
11 4 (0.75%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (0.75%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (12.15%) DynamoDB
2 61 (11.40%) NoSQL
3 47 (8.79%) MongoDB
4 37 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (4.11%) MySQL
7 21 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (3.18%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.68%) Big Data
10 9 (1.68%) Pinecone
11 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.93%) CockroachDB
13 4 (0.75%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.75%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.37%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 257 (48.04%) Jenkins
2 141 (26.36%) Git
3 98 (18.32%) SonarQube
4 58 (10.84%) Cypress.io
5 48 (8.97%) Cucumber
6 47 (8.79%) JIRA
7 40 (7.48%) Maven
8 28 (5.23%) CircleCI
9 25 (4.67%) Selenium
10 21 (3.93%) Bitbucket
11 15 (2.80%) JUnit
11 15 (2.80%) REST Assured
11 15 (2.80%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (2.62%) Postman
13 11 (2.06%) JMeter
14 10 (1.87%) Gatling
14 10 (1.87%) Vite
15 8 (1.50%) Robot Framework
16 7 (1.31%) Artifactory
17 6 (1.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 111 (20.75%) Finance
2 109 (20.37%) Social Skills
3 54 (10.09%) Banking
4 51 (9.53%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (7.10%) Marketing
8 34 (6.36%) Games
9 16 (2.99%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.43%) Advertising
11 13 (2.43%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.87%) Electronics
13 7 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.93%) Automotive
14 5 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.93%) Retail
15 4 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (21.87%) Senior
2 95 (17.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 91 (17.01%) Developer
4 52 (9.72%) Lead
5 51 (9.53%) Architect
6 48 (8.97%) Cloud Engineer
7 46 (8.60%) Java Developer
8 38 (7.10%) Software Engineer
9 36 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 33 (6.17%) Salesforce Architect
11 30 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (5.42%) Senior DevOps
13 28 (5.23%) Senior Developer
14 27 (5.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 26 (4.86%) Security Engineer
16 23 (4.30%) Java Engineer
17 21 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
18 20 (3.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
18 20 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
18 20 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 69 (12.90%) REST
3 63 (11.78%) Kafka
4 55 (10.28%) AngularJS
5 53 (9.91%) Spring
6 39 (7.29%) Gherkin
6 39 (7.29%) Jest
7 35 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
7 35 (6.54%) Node.js
7 35 (6.54%) RabbitMQ
7 35 (6.54%) React
7 35 (6.54%) SOAP
8 34 (6.36%) Lightning Web Components
8 34 (6.36%) RESTful
8 34 (6.36%) Visualforce
9 23 (4.30%) JSON
10 22 (4.11%) Playwright
10 22 (4.11%) YAML
11 20 (3.74%) gRPC
12 19 (3.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 113 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 63 (11.78%) Product Ownership
3 46 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.49%) Public Cloud
5 22 (4.11%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (3.55%) e-Learning
6 19 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (3.18%) Blockchain
7 17 (3.18%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.18%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.99%) Web3
9 13 (2.43%) Cloud Security Posture
10 9 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.31%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 137 (25.61%) Linux
2 58 (10.84%) Windows
3 24 (4.49%) Unix
4 23 (4.30%) Windows Server
5 21 (3.93%) CentOS
6 15 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (2.43%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.37%) Android
11 2 (0.37%) Debian
11 2 (0.37%) Rocky
11 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (87.10%) CI/CD
2 366 (68.41%) DevOps
3 273 (51.03%) Agile
4 253 (47.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 158 (29.53%) Containerisation
6 143 (26.73%) Microservices
7 140 (26.17%) Test Automation
8 127 (23.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 106 (19.81%) Continuous Integration
9 106 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (19.25%) Scrum
11 99 (18.50%) Mentoring
12 94 (17.57%) Observability
13 90 (16.82%) DevSecOps
14 88 (16.45%) Software Engineering
15 80 (14.95%) SDLC
16 79 (14.77%) Event-Driven
17 75 (14.02%) Continuous Delivery
18 62 (11.59%) Coaching
19 58 (10.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 250 (46.73%) Python
2 162 (30.28%) Java
3 150 (28.04%) Bash
4 81 (15.14%) SQL
5 78 (14.58%) TypeScript
6 67 (12.52%) JavaScript
7 59 (11.03%) PowerShell
8 51 (9.53%) Go
9 48 (8.97%) Groovy
10 34 (6.36%) Apex Code
10 34 (6.36%) SOQL
10 34 (6.36%) SOSL
11 32 (5.98%) C#
12 31 (5.79%) Rust
13 25 (4.67%) C++
14 8 (1.50%) Perl
15 7 (1.31%) PHP
16 6 (1.12%) Bicep
16 6 (1.12%) C
17 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 164 (30.65%) Security Cleared
2 90 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 70 (13.08%) Degree
4 65 (12.15%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.61%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.49%) ITIL Certification
7 24 (4.49%) OSCP
8 23 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (3.36%) Master's Degree
10 17 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.99%) ISTQB
12 13 (2.43%) CCNA
12 13 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (2.43%) RHCSA
13 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.50%) RHCE
14 5 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (12.34%) QA
2 20 (3.74%) GDPR
3 17 (3.18%) NIST
4 13 (2.43%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.43%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.24%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.75%) JTAG
9 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 230 (42.99%) Docker
2 29 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.30%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.24%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.24%) vSphere
5 8 (1.50%) Squid
6 7 (1.31%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 272 (50.84%) Terraform
2 226 (42.24%) Kubernetes
3 133 (24.86%) Ansible
4 85 (15.89%) Grafana
5 78 (14.58%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.92%) HP Fortify
7 32 (5.98%) Argo
8 21 (3.93%) Nagios
9 14 (2.62%) Kibana
10 13 (2.43%) Packer
10 13 (2.43%) Puppet
11 11 (2.06%) logstash
12 9 (1.68%) Podman
13 8 (1.50%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.31%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.93%) VxRail
17 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
17 4 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 85 (15.89%) Splunk
2 47 (8.79%) Red Hat
3 38 (7.10%) VMware
4 37 (6.92%) Microsoft
5 35 (6.54%) Salesforce
6 20 (3.74%) Oracle
7 14 (2.62%) Cisco
8 12 (2.24%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.24%) OpenAI
9 11 (2.06%) AppDynamics
9 11 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.87%) Google
11 8 (1.50%) Juniper
11 8 (1.50%) Tenable
12 7 (1.31%) IBM
12 7 (1.31%) Rapid7
13 6 (1.12%) F5
13 6 (1.12%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.93%) BeyondTrust