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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 273 363
Rank change year-on-year -44 +90 -42
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 548 548 775
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.21% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.83% 13.30% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 332 166 533
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,625 £35,920
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £114,375 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,269 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.37% +7.63% +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 4,270 4,120 9,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.51% 9.12% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 2,607 6,456
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £92,500
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 23 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 23 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 -37 483 £70,000 -9.68% 138
UK excluding London -93 329 £65,000 -3.37% 111
London +8 182 £84,250 -0.88% 46
Work from Home -108 153 £67,500 -5.59% 58
North of England -59 120 £65,576 -2.18% 33
South East +48 94 £65,000 -13.33% 24
Yorkshire +13 61 £69,310 -2.38% 6
South West -43 57 £65,000 +6.12% 19
North West -74 38 £65,000 -3.04% 17
Scotland -19 36 £102,500 +13.89% 6
North East -33 21 £55,000 - 10
Midlands -98 17 £53,750 -23.21% 14
West Midlands -46 12 £57,500 -17.86% 12
East Midlands -62 5 £39,194 -40.84% 2
East of England -37 4 - - 14
Wales -42 3 £51,250 +57.69% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 2

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 28 (5.11%) Apache
2 24 (4.38%) Confluence
3 16 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.01%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.55%) IIS
6 3 (0.55%) JBoss
6 3 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 343 (62.59%) AWS
2 201 (36.68%) Azure
3 136 (24.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 103 (18.80%) Serverless
5 97 (17.70%) GitHub
6 86 (15.69%) Amazon S3
7 85 (15.51%) AWS Lambda
8 74 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (13.32%) GCP
10 58 (10.58%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (9.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (9.12%) Amazon ECR
12 49 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
13 48 (8.76%) AWS Step Functions
14 45 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (7.12%) Azure AKS
16 39 (7.12%) OpenShift
17 38 (6.93%) Apigee
18 36 (6.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (8.21%) Broadband
2 30 (5.47%) Firewall
3 18 (3.28%) DNS
4 12 (2.19%) LAN
4 12 (2.19%) MQTT
4 12 (2.19%) Software-Defined Networking
5 11 (2.01%) DSL
5 11 (2.01%) Network Security
6 10 (1.82%) WAN
7 9 (1.64%) HTTP
8 8 (1.46%) IPv4
9 7 (1.28%) BGP
9 7 (1.28%) VPN
10 6 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (1.09%) DHCP
10 6 (1.09%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.91%) MPLS
12 4 (0.73%) Bluetooth
12 4 (0.73%) VoIP
12 4 (0.73%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (12.41%) NoSQL
2 62 (11.31%) DynamoDB
3 52 (9.49%) MongoDB
4 45 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
5 30 (5.47%) MySQL
6 28 (5.11%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (2.01%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.82%) Big Data
12 6 (1.09%) InfluxDB
12 6 (1.09%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.91%) Redis
14 4 (0.73%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 2 (0.36%) Apache Iceberg
16 2 (0.36%) DocumentDB
16 2 (0.36%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 259 (47.26%) Jenkins
2 146 (26.64%) Git
3 95 (17.34%) SonarQube
4 55 (10.04%) Cypress.io
5 51 (9.31%) JIRA
6 49 (8.94%) Cucumber
7 33 (6.02%) Maven
8 28 (5.11%) CircleCI
8 28 (5.11%) Selenium
9 18 (3.28%) Bitbucket
10 16 (2.92%) Visual Studio Code
11 14 (2.55%) JUnit
11 14 (2.55%) REST Assured
12 13 (2.37%) Postman
13 12 (2.19%) Vite
14 10 (1.82%) Gatling
14 10 (1.82%) JMeter
14 10 (1.82%) Robot Framework
15 7 (1.28%) Artifactory
15 7 (1.28%) TestRail
General
1 116 (21.17%) Finance
1 116 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.04%) Banking
2 55 (10.04%) Public Sector
3 54 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (9.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (6.75%) Marketing
6 34 (6.20%) Games
7 16 (2.92%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.37%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (2.37%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.46%) Electronics
10 7 (1.28%) Advertising
10 7 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.91%) Retail
12 4 (0.73%) Automotive
12 4 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (22.63%) Senior
2 102 (18.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (16.42%) Developer
4 52 (9.49%) Software Engineer
5 51 (9.31%) Architect
6 44 (8.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 43 (7.85%) Lead
8 42 (7.66%) Java Developer
9 35 (6.39%) AWS Engineer
9 35 (6.39%) Salesforce Architect
10 34 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (5.11%) Java Engineer
11 28 (5.11%) Senior DevOps
11 28 (5.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 27 (4.93%) AWS DevOps
12 27 (4.93%) Senior Developer
13 26 (4.74%) Platform Engineer
14 24 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
14 24 (4.38%) Security Engineer
14 24 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (13.32%) Spring Boot
2 71 (12.96%) REST
3 70 (12.77%) Kafka
4 58 (10.58%) Spring
5 57 (10.40%) AngularJS
6 42 (7.66%) Node.js
6 42 (7.66%) React
6 42 (7.66%) RESTful
7 41 (7.48%) Elastic Stack
8 37 (6.75%) Jest
8 37 (6.75%) SOAP
9 36 (6.57%) Lightning Web Components
10 35 (6.39%) RabbitMQ
10 35 (6.39%) Visualforce
11 33 (6.02%) Gherkin
12 25 (4.56%) Playwright
13 24 (4.38%) JSON
14 22 (4.01%) YAML
15 21 (3.83%) LangChain
15 21 (3.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 126 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 68 (12.41%) Product Ownership
3 55 (10.04%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (5.11%) Public Cloud
5 26 (4.74%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (4.01%) e-Learning
6 22 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (3.47%) Data Centre
8 17 (3.10%) Algorithms
8 17 (3.10%) Blockchain
9 16 (2.92%) Web3
10 15 (2.74%) Security Posture
11 11 (2.01%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.46%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 144 (26.28%) Linux
2 64 (11.68%) Windows
3 25 (4.56%) Unix
3 25 (4.56%) Windows Server
4 24 (4.38%) CentOS
5 15 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.73%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.36%) Android
10 2 (0.36%) Debian
10 2 (0.36%) Rocky
11 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (89.05%) CI/CD
2 383 (69.89%) DevOps
3 290 (52.92%) Agile
4 269 (49.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 171 (31.20%) Containerisation
6 161 (29.38%) Microservices
7 152 (27.74%) Test Automation
8 133 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 109 (19.89%) Software Engineering
10 108 (19.71%) Continuous Integration
11 106 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
12 105 (19.16%) Scrum
13 102 (18.61%) Observability
14 99 (18.07%) Mentoring
15 84 (15.33%) DevSecOps
16 83 (15.15%) Event-Driven
17 81 (14.78%) SDLC
18 77 (14.05%) Continuous Delivery
19 69 (12.59%) AI
20 62 (11.31%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 268 (48.91%) Python
2 166 (30.29%) Java
3 153 (27.92%) Bash
4 88 (16.06%) SQL
5 75 (13.69%) TypeScript
6 74 (13.50%) JavaScript
7 64 (11.68%) PowerShell
8 53 (9.67%) Go
9 43 (7.85%) Groovy
10 36 (6.57%) Apex Code
11 35 (6.39%) C#
11 35 (6.39%) SOQL
11 35 (6.39%) SOSL
12 32 (5.84%) Rust
13 28 (5.11%) C++
14 8 (1.46%) Perl
15 7 (1.28%) PHP
16 6 (1.09%) Bicep
16 6 (1.09%) C
16 6 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 186 (33.94%) Security Cleared
2 104 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 75 (13.69%) Degree
4 67 (12.23%) AWS Certification
5 30 (5.47%) DV Cleared
6 27 (4.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 24 (4.38%) ITIL Certification
8 22 (4.01%) OSCP
9 21 (3.83%) Master's Degree
10 18 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.92%) ISTQB
12 14 (2.55%) CCNA
12 14 (2.55%) RHCSA
13 12 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.46%) RHCE
16 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
17 5 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.50%) QA
2 19 (3.47%) Accessibility
2 19 (3.47%) GDPR
3 14 (2.55%) NIST
4 13 (2.37%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.37%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.28%) WCAG
7 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.73%) JTAG
10 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.18%) GRC
11 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 246 (44.89%) Docker
2 31 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.01%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.37%) vSphere
5 12 (2.19%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.46%) Squid
8 7 (1.28%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 283 (51.64%) Terraform
2 242 (44.16%) Kubernetes
3 137 (25.00%) Ansible
4 92 (16.79%) Grafana
5 81 (14.78%) Prometheus
6 33 (6.02%) Argo
7 32 (5.84%) HP Fortify
8 23 (4.20%) Nagios
9 20 (3.65%) Kibana
10 16 (2.92%) logstash
11 15 (2.74%) Puppet
12 13 (2.37%) Packer
13 9 (1.64%) Podman
13 9 (1.64%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.46%) ZABBIX
15 7 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (1.09%) VxRail
17 4 (0.73%) WSUS
18 3 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 87 (15.88%) Splunk
2 50 (9.12%) Red Hat
3 42 (7.66%) VMware
4 39 (7.12%) Microsoft
5 36 (6.57%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.55%) Cisco
6 14 (2.55%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.55%) Oracle
7 13 (2.37%) AppDynamics
8 12 (2.19%) Atlassian
8 12 (2.19%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.82%) Google
10 8 (1.46%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.46%) Tenable
11 7 (1.28%) IBM
11 7 (1.28%) Juniper
12 6 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
12 6 (1.09%) F5
12 6 (1.09%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.09%) ServiceNow