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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 263 356
Rank change year-on-year -60 +93 -40
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 534 546 776
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.23% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.72% 13.10% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 326 166 560
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,813 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £89,537 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.18% +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 4,198 4,167 9,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.57% 9.42% 8.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2,770 2,653 6,488
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 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,750
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 9 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 9 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 -46 473 £72,500 -6.45% 175
UK excluding London -98 320 £65,576 -2.18% 132
London -2 179 £84,625 -0.44% 52
Work from Home -110 155 £68,076 -4.79% 98
North of England -59 122 £67,788 +1.12% 37
South East +56 94 £67,500 +28.57% 38
Yorkshire +6 68 £69,310 -2.38% 9
South West -42 43 £65,000 +4.00% 19
Scotland -24 35 £95,000 +5.56% 4
North West -80 34 £65,000 -3.04% 17
North East -26 20 £57,500 - 11
Midlands -80 20 £53,750 -23.21% 16
West Midlands -40 16 £53,750 -24.56% 11
East of England -28 4 - - 16
Wales -37 4 £51,250 +57.69% 2
East Midlands -64 4 - - 5
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 26 (4.87%) Confluence
2 24 (4.49%) Apache
3 13 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.69%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.56%) IIS
5 3 (0.56%) JBoss
5 3 (0.56%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Superset
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
1 335 (62.73%) AWS
2 204 (38.20%) Azure
3 142 (26.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 112 (20.97%) Serverless
5 93 (17.42%) AWS Lambda
5 93 (17.42%) GitHub
6 86 (16.10%) Amazon S3
7 75 (14.04%) Azure DevOps
7 75 (14.04%) GCP
8 57 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (10.11%) Amazon ECS
9 54 (10.11%) AWS Step Functions
10 52 (9.74%) Amazon ECR
11 46 (8.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 42 (7.87%) Apigee
13 41 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (7.12%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (6.93%) Azure AKS
16 36 (6.74%) Datadog
16 36 (6.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 41 (7.68%) Broadband
2 29 (5.43%) Firewall
3 23 (4.31%) DNS
4 13 (2.43%) DSL
5 12 (2.25%) LAN
5 12 (2.25%) MQTT
5 12 (2.25%) Software-Defined Networking
6 11 (2.06%) Network Security
7 10 (1.87%) WAN
8 9 (1.69%) HTTP
9 8 (1.50%) IPv4
10 7 (1.31%) BGP
10 7 (1.31%) VPN
11 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (1.12%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.94%) DHCP
12 5 (0.94%) MPLS
13 4 (0.75%) Bluetooth
13 4 (0.75%) VoIP
13 4 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.99%) DynamoDB
1 64 (11.99%) NoSQL
2 50 (9.36%) MongoDB
3 39 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
4 25 (4.68%) MySQL
5 21 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (1.69%) Big Data
8 9 (1.69%) Pinecone
9 6 (1.12%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.75%) InfluxDB
11 3 (0.56%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.56%) Redis
12 2 (0.37%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.37%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.37%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 255 (47.75%) Jenkins
2 139 (26.03%) Git
3 97 (18.16%) SonarQube
4 58 (10.86%) Cypress.io
5 48 (8.99%) JIRA
6 47 (8.80%) Cucumber
7 38 (7.12%) Maven
8 28 (5.24%) CircleCI
9 27 (5.06%) Selenium
10 19 (3.56%) Bitbucket
11 15 (2.81%) Visual Studio Code
12 14 (2.62%) REST Assured
13 13 (2.43%) JUnit
13 13 (2.43%) Postman
14 11 (2.06%) JMeter
15 10 (1.87%) Gatling
15 10 (1.87%) Vite
16 8 (1.50%) Robot Framework
17 7 (1.31%) Artifactory
18 6 (1.12%) LoadRunner
General
1 110 (20.60%) Social Skills
2 109 (20.41%) Finance
3 55 (10.30%) Banking
4 52 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 50 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (6.74%) Marketing
8 34 (6.37%) Games
9 13 (2.43%) Aerospace
9 13 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.43%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.43%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.87%) Advertising
11 8 (1.50%) Electronics
12 7 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.94%) Automotive
13 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.94%) Retail
14 4 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (21.91%) Senior
2 97 (18.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (16.85%) Developer
4 51 (9.55%) Architect
4 51 (9.55%) Lead
5 49 (9.18%) Cloud Engineer
6 45 (8.43%) Java Developer
7 38 (7.12%) Software Engineer
8 35 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 33 (6.18%) Salesforce Architect
10 30 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
11 28 (5.24%) Senior Developer
11 28 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
12 27 (5.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 26 (4.87%) Java Engineer
13 26 (4.87%) Security Engineer
14 23 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
15 21 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
15 21 (3.93%) Principal Engineer
16 20 (3.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.67%) Spring Boot
2 69 (12.92%) REST
3 64 (11.99%) Kafka
4 55 (10.30%) AngularJS
5 53 (9.93%) Spring
6 41 (7.68%) Jest
7 39 (7.30%) Node.js
8 38 (7.12%) Gherkin
9 35 (6.55%) React
9 35 (6.55%) SOAP
10 34 (6.37%) Elastic Stack
10 34 (6.37%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (6.37%) RabbitMQ
10 34 (6.37%) Visualforce
11 33 (6.18%) RESTful
12 23 (4.31%) JSON
12 23 (4.31%) Playwright
13 22 (4.12%) YAML
14 20 (3.75%) gRPC
15 19 (3.56%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 116 (21.72%) Cloud Native
2 64 (11.99%) Product Ownership
3 47 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.68%) Public Cloud
5 24 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (3.75%) e-Learning
6 20 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.37%) Data Centre
8 17 (3.18%) Blockchain
8 17 (3.18%) Security Posture
9 16 (3.00%) Algorithms
9 16 (3.00%) Web3
10 13 (2.43%) Cloud Security Posture
11 9 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.12%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
15 5 (0.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 137 (25.66%) Linux
2 58 (10.86%) Windows
3 24 (4.49%) Unix
3 24 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.12%) CentOS
5 15 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.43%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.75%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.37%) Android
10 2 (0.37%) Debian
10 2 (0.37%) Rocky
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 469 (87.83%) CI/CD
2 366 (68.54%) DevOps
3 276 (51.69%) Agile
4 256 (47.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 163 (30.52%) Containerisation
6 147 (27.53%) Microservices
7 141 (26.40%) Test Automation
8 131 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 106 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (19.66%) Continuous Integration
11 103 (19.29%) Scrum
12 101 (18.91%) Mentoring
13 96 (17.98%) Observability
14 90 (16.85%) DevSecOps
15 89 (16.67%) Software Engineering
16 81 (15.17%) SDLC
17 79 (14.79%) Event-Driven
18 74 (13.86%) Continuous Delivery
19 62 (11.61%) Coaching
20 58 (10.86%) AI
Programming Languages
1 251 (47.00%) Python
2 162 (30.34%) Java
3 150 (28.09%) Bash
4 80 (14.98%) SQL
5 77 (14.42%) TypeScript
6 68 (12.73%) JavaScript
7 59 (11.05%) PowerShell
8 52 (9.74%) Go
9 47 (8.80%) Groovy
10 34 (6.37%) Apex Code
10 34 (6.37%) SOQL
10 34 (6.37%) SOSL
11 31 (5.81%) Rust
12 30 (5.62%) C#
13 25 (4.68%) C++
14 8 (1.50%) Perl
15 7 (1.31%) Bicep
15 7 (1.31%) PHP
16 6 (1.12%) C
17 5 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 166 (31.09%) Security Cleared
2 93 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 71 (13.30%) Degree
4 68 (12.73%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.62%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (4.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.49%) ITIL Certification
7 24 (4.49%) OSCP
8 20 (3.75%) Master's Degree
9 17 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (3.18%) ISTQB
10 13 (2.43%) CCNA
10 13 (2.43%) RHCSA
11 12 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.50%) RHCE
13 5 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 5 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (12.36%) QA
2 20 (3.75%) GDPR
3 17 (3.18%) NIST
4 16 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 13 (2.43%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.43%) SOC 2
6 11 (2.06%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.75%) JTAG
9 4 (0.75%) WCAG
10 3 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 233 (43.63%) Docker
2 28 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.12%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.25%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.25%) vSphere
5 8 (1.50%) Squid
6 7 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 276 (51.69%) Terraform
2 231 (43.26%) Kubernetes
3 132 (24.72%) Ansible
4 86 (16.10%) Grafana
5 79 (14.79%) Prometheus
6 36 (6.74%) HP Fortify
7 32 (5.99%) Argo
8 23 (4.31%) Nagios
9 15 (2.81%) Kibana
10 13 (2.43%) Packer
10 13 (2.43%) Puppet
11 11 (2.06%) logstash
12 9 (1.69%) Podman
13 8 (1.50%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (1.31%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.94%) VxRail
17 4 (0.75%) WSUS
18 3 (0.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 85 (15.92%) Splunk
2 48 (8.99%) Red Hat
3 38 (7.12%) Microsoft
3 38 (7.12%) VMware
4 35 (6.55%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.18%) Oracle
6 13 (2.43%) Cisco
7 12 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 12 (2.25%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.06%) AppDynamics
8 11 (2.06%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.87%) Google
10 8 (1.50%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.50%) Tenable
11 7 (1.31%) IBM
11 7 (1.31%) Juniper
12 6 (1.12%) F5
12 6 (1.12%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.12%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.94%) SolarWinds