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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 259 361
Rank change year-on-year -64 +102 -22
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 592 576 623
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.17% 0.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.38% 13.94% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 366 193 379
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,250 £44,572
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £112,500 £103,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,269 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.37% +7.63% -

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 4,424 4,133 7,431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.35% 8.38% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,940 2,609 4,924
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +9.32% -9.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,625 £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 29 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 29 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 -54 531 £69,310 -7.59% 215
UK excluding London -74 370 £65,000 -3.37% 146
London +7 189 £85,000 +6.25% 94
Work from Home -152 147 £67,500 -8.47% 99
North of England -62 131 £67,500 +0.69% 52
South East +43 98 £65,000 -13.33% 29
South West -36 69 £75,000 +22.45% 23
Yorkshire +10 56 £69,310 -7.59% 6
North West -96 41 £65,000 -3.04% 31
North East -20 34 £55,000 - 15
Scotland -22 31 £110,000 +18.92% 11
Midlands -85 31 £58,750 -17.54% 19
West Midlands -44 22 £57,500 -28.13% 14
East Midlands -61 9 £60,000 -9.43% 5
Wales -51 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -46 4 £60,000 -5.88% 14
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 (4.56%) Apache
2 26 (4.39%) Confluence
3 18 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.20%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) IIS
5 3 (0.51%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
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
1 376 (63.51%) AWS
2 221 (37.33%) Azure
3 132 (22.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 125 (21.11%) GitHub
5 96 (16.22%) Serverless
6 83 (14.02%) Amazon S3
7 82 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (13.18%) AWS Lambda
9 75 (12.67%) GCP
10 69 (11.66%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (9.63%) Amazon ECS
12 53 (8.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 51 (8.61%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (7.77%) OpenShift
15 45 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
16 42 (7.09%) AWS Step Functions
17 39 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
18 37 (6.25%) Azure AKS
19 34 (5.74%) Apigee
20 32 (5.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.25%) Broadband
2 27 (4.56%) Firewall
3 14 (2.36%) MQTT
4 13 (2.20%) DNS
4 13 (2.20%) Network Security
5 10 (1.69%) HTTP
5 10 (1.69%) LAN
5 10 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (1.35%) IPv4
6 8 (1.35%) WAN
7 7 (1.18%) 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 (0.68%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.51%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.66%) NoSQL
2 55 (9.29%) DynamoDB
3 53 (8.95%) MongoDB
4 50 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (5.91%) MySQL
6 29 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.72%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.69%) Big Data
9 10 (1.69%) Pinecone
10 9 (1.52%) Redis
11 8 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.68%) Metadata
14 4 (0.68%) Power BI
14 4 (0.68%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 270 (45.61%) Jenkins
2 187 (31.59%) Git
3 80 (13.51%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.30%) JIRA
5 59 (9.97%) Cucumber
6 54 (9.12%) Cypress.io
7 35 (5.91%) Selenium
8 28 (4.73%) Maven
9 22 (3.72%) JUnit
9 22 (3.72%) Postman
10 21 (3.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 21 (3.55%) CircleCI
11 15 (2.53%) Bitbucket
11 15 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (2.36%) REST Assured
13 13 (2.20%) Gatling
13 13 (2.20%) JMeter
14 11 (1.86%) Vite
15 10 (1.69%) Robot Framework
15 10 (1.69%) Spock
General
1 146 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 124 (20.95%) Finance
3 85 (14.36%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (9.63%) Banking
6 53 (8.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 30 (5.07%) Marketing
8 26 (4.39%) Games
9 15 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.20%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.86%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.69%) Electronics
14 7 (1.18%) Legal
15 6 (1.01%) Advertising
15 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.68%) Automotive
16 4 (0.68%) Law
16 4 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 143 (24.16%) Senior
2 124 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 88 (14.86%) Developer
4 60 (10.14%) Software Engineer
5 44 (7.43%) Architect
6 43 (7.26%) Lead
7 40 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (6.76%) Principal Engineer
8 37 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 37 (6.25%) Java Engineer
9 36 (6.08%) Java Developer
10 33 (5.57%) Senior DevOps
10 33 (5.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 29 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
11 29 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 29 (4.90%) Salesforce Architect
12 28 (4.73%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 26 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (13.85%) Spring Boot
2 79 (13.34%) Kafka
3 73 (12.33%) Spring
4 67 (11.32%) REST
5 61 (10.30%) AngularJS
6 55 (9.29%) Node.js
7 53 (8.95%) React
8 47 (7.94%) RESTful
9 41 (6.93%) Elastic Stack
10 36 (6.08%) Jest
11 34 (5.74%) RabbitMQ
12 33 (5.57%) SOAP
13 31 (5.24%) Playwright
14 29 (4.90%) Gherkin
14 29 (4.90%) Lightning Web Components
15 27 (4.56%) JSON
15 27 (4.56%) Visualforce
16 24 (4.05%) .NET
17 22 (3.72%) Vue
18 21 (3.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 162 (27.36%) Cloud Native
2 72 (12.16%) Product Ownership
3 69 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (5.91%) Public Cloud
5 34 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
6 29 (4.90%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.70%) Algorithms
8 16 (2.70%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.53%) Private Cloud
10 12 (2.03%) Blockchain
11 11 (1.86%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.86%) Web3
12 10 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
14 8 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 165 (27.87%) Linux
2 66 (11.15%) Windows
3 40 (6.76%) CentOS
4 29 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.22%) Unix
6 24 (4.05%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.86%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) VMS
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (91.05%) CI/CD
2 408 (68.92%) DevOps
3 317 (53.55%) Agile
4 288 (48.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (31.76%) Microservices
6 186 (31.42%) Containerisation
6 186 (31.42%) Test Automation
7 143 (24.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 123 (20.78%) Mentoring
9 121 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (20.44%) Software Engineering
10 111 (18.75%) Scrum
11 105 (17.74%) Observability
12 100 (16.89%) Continuous Integration
13 90 (15.20%) SDLC
14 86 (14.53%) AI
15 84 (14.19%) Event-Driven
16 83 (14.02%) DevSecOps
17 80 (13.51%) Coaching
18 79 (13.34%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 276 (46.62%) Python
2 178 (30.07%) Java
3 151 (25.51%) Bash
4 104 (17.57%) SQL
5 84 (14.19%) JavaScript
6 79 (13.34%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.66%) PowerShell
8 47 (7.94%) Go
9 40 (6.76%) Groovy
10 34 (5.74%) C#
11 31 (5.24%) C++
12 29 (4.90%) Apex Code
13 27 (4.56%) Rust
13 27 (4.56%) SOQL
13 27 (4.56%) SOSL
14 11 (1.86%) PHP
15 10 (1.69%) C
16 7 (1.18%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.18%) Perl
16 7 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 215 (36.32%) Security Cleared
2 131 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 78 (13.18%) Degree
4 71 (11.99%) AWS Certification
5 48 (8.11%) DV Cleared
6 35 (5.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (3.72%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (3.72%) Master's Degree
8 20 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 18 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (3.04%) OSCP
10 17 (2.87%) ISTQB
11 16 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.53%) RHCSA
13 12 (2.03%) CCNA
14 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.35%) RHCE
16 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
17 5 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.01%) QA
2 28 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.55%) GDPR
4 17 (2.87%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.53%) WCAG
6 14 (2.36%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.86%) NIST
7 11 (1.86%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.01%) JTAG
10 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.51%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 274 (46.28%) Docker
2 26 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.21%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.86%) vSphere
5 10 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.69%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.35%) Squid
7 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.68%) Firmware
8 4 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 295 (49.83%) Terraform
2 264 (44.59%) Kubernetes
3 148 (25.00%) Ansible
4 91 (15.37%) Grafana
5 74 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 38 (6.42%) Argo
7 28 (4.73%) HP Fortify
8 25 (4.22%) Nagios
9 20 (3.38%) Kibana
10 16 (2.70%) logstash
10 16 (2.70%) Puppet
11 13 (2.20%) Packer
12 9 (1.52%) Podman
13 8 (1.35%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.84%) VxRail
16 4 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 80 (13.51%) Splunk
2 53 (8.95%) Red Hat
3 45 (7.60%) Microsoft
4 37 (6.25%) VMware
5 33 (5.57%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.87%) AppDynamics
7 15 (2.53%) Oracle
8 14 (2.36%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.36%) Dynatrace
9 13 (2.20%) Cisco
9 13 (2.20%) Google
9 13 (2.20%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.69%) Databricks
10 10 (1.69%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.35%) Intel
11 8 (1.35%) Tenable
12 7 (1.18%) SAP
13 6 (1.01%) Juniper
13 6 (1.01%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.01%) ServiceNow