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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 258 359
Rank change year-on-year -73 +101 -19
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 596 578 616
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.17% 0.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.15% 14.02% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 362 196 358
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £43,911
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £75,000 £68,250
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +9.89% +1.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £112,500 £105,925
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -

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 4,533 4,124 7,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.38% 8.31% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 2,590 4,624
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £63,075 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +5.13% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -47 535 £69,310 -7.59% 268
UK excluding London -81 376 £65,000 -3.04% 164
London -9 189 £87,500 +9.38% 130
Work from Home -152 144 £67,500 -10.00% 150
North of England -62 134 £67,500 +0.69% 45
South East +44 95 £62,500 -16.67% 34
South West -27 75 £72,500 +20.83% 37
Yorkshire +1 53 £70,905 -5.46% 6
North West -92 43 £65,000 -3.04% 30
North East -17 38 £55,000 - 9
Scotland -22 32 £110,000 +15.79% 12
Midlands -90 30 £60,000 -15.79% 21
West Midlands -49 21 £62,500 -30.56% 14
East Midlands -53 9 £60,000 - 7
Wales -46 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -47 4 £60,000 -5.88% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 6

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 (4.70%) Apache
2 26 (4.36%) Confluence
3 20 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.35%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.50%) IIS
5 3 (0.50%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) 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
1 377 (63.26%) AWS
2 223 (37.42%) Azure
3 129 (21.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 127 (21.31%) GitHub
5 93 (15.60%) Serverless
6 83 (13.93%) Amazon S3
7 82 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (12.92%) GCP
9 75 (12.58%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (11.74%) GitHub Actions
11 59 (9.90%) Amazon ECS
12 56 (9.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 53 (8.89%) Amazon ECR
14 49 (8.22%) OpenShift
15 44 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
16 40 (6.71%) AWS Step Functions
17 39 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
18 37 (6.21%) Azure AKS
19 32 (5.37%) Apigee
19 32 (5.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 37 (6.21%) Broadband
2 26 (4.36%) Firewall
3 14 (2.35%) MQTT
3 14 (2.35%) Network Security
4 12 (2.01%) DNS
5 10 (1.68%) HTTP
6 9 (1.51%) LAN
6 9 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (1.34%) IPv4
8 7 (1.17%) WAN
9 6 (1.01%) DSL
9 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.01%) Wireless
9 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.67%) BGP
11 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.67%) VPN
12 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.74%) NoSQL
2 55 (9.23%) DynamoDB
2 55 (9.23%) MongoDB
3 51 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (6.21%) MySQL
5 30 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (3.69%) Relational Database
7 18 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.68%) Big Data
9 10 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.68%) Pinecone
10 9 (1.51%) Redis
11 8 (1.34%) Delta Lake
12 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.67%) DocumentDB
14 4 (0.67%) Metadata
14 4 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 269 (45.13%) Jenkins
2 191 (32.05%) Git
3 81 (13.59%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.23%) Cucumber
5 60 (10.07%) JIRA
6 55 (9.23%) Cypress.io
7 38 (6.38%) Selenium
8 28 (4.70%) Maven
9 27 (4.53%) JUnit
10 25 (4.19%) Postman
11 20 (3.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 20 (3.36%) CircleCI
12 15 (2.52%) Bitbucket
12 15 (2.52%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (2.35%) Gatling
13 14 (2.35%) REST Assured
14 13 (2.18%) JMeter
15 12 (2.01%) Spock
16 11 (1.85%) Vite
17 10 (1.68%) Robot Framework
General
1 148 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 132 (22.15%) Finance
3 88 (14.77%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.90%) Banking
5 58 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (9.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 31 (5.20%) Marketing
8 26 (4.36%) Games
9 14 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.18%) Aerospace
11 12 (2.01%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.68%) Electronics
13 7 (1.17%) Legal
14 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.01%) Law
15 5 (0.84%) Advertising
16 4 (0.67%) Automotive
16 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 147 (24.66%) Senior
2 126 (21.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 91 (15.27%) Developer
4 62 (10.40%) Software Engineer
5 43 (7.21%) Architect
6 42 (7.05%) Lead
7 40 (6.71%) Principal Engineer
8 39 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (6.54%) Java Engineer
9 35 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
9 35 (5.87%) Java Developer
9 35 (5.87%) Senior DevOps
9 35 (5.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 29 (4.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 29 (4.87%) Salesforce Architect
11 28 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
11 28 (4.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (4.53%) Full-Stack Developer
13 26 (4.36%) Senior Developer
13 26 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (14.09%) Spring Boot
2 82 (13.76%) Kafka
3 77 (12.92%) Spring
4 68 (11.41%) REST
5 67 (11.24%) AngularJS
6 59 (9.90%) Node.js
7 56 (9.40%) React
8 53 (8.89%) RESTful
9 42 (7.05%) Elastic Stack
10 37 (6.21%) Jest
11 35 (5.87%) RabbitMQ
12 33 (5.54%) SOAP
13 32 (5.37%) Playwright
14 29 (4.87%) .NET
14 29 (4.87%) Lightning Web Components
15 28 (4.70%) Gherkin
16 27 (4.53%) Visualforce
17 26 (4.36%) JSON
18 23 (3.86%) Vue
19 21 (3.52%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 168 (28.19%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
2 73 (12.25%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.04%) Public Cloud
4 35 (5.87%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (5.03%) e-Learning
6 24 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (3.02%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.85%) Algorithms
9 13 (2.18%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.01%) Blockchain
10 12 (2.01%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.85%) Web3
12 10 (1.68%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
13 9 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 162 (27.18%) Linux
2 64 (10.74%) Windows
3 41 (6.88%) CentOS
4 29 (4.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.03%) Unix
6 23 (3.86%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.85%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) VMS
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (90.94%) CI/CD
2 413 (69.30%) DevOps
3 326 (54.70%) Agile
4 290 (48.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 195 (32.72%) Test Automation
6 191 (32.05%) Microservices
7 188 (31.54%) Containerisation
8 144 (24.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 128 (21.48%) Software Engineering
10 126 (21.14%) Mentoring
11 123 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
12 111 (18.62%) Scrum
13 107 (17.95%) Observability
14 99 (16.61%) Continuous Integration
15 91 (15.27%) AI
16 90 (15.10%) SDLC
17 86 (14.43%) Event-Driven
18 81 (13.59%) Coaching
18 81 (13.59%) DevSecOps
19 78 (13.09%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 274 (45.97%) Python
2 186 (31.21%) Java
3 148 (24.83%) Bash
4 106 (17.79%) SQL
5 91 (15.27%) JavaScript
6 81 (13.59%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.58%) PowerShell
8 46 (7.72%) Go
9 40 (6.71%) Groovy
10 34 (5.70%) C#
11 32 (5.37%) C++
12 29 (4.87%) Apex Code
13 27 (4.53%) SOQL
13 27 (4.53%) SOSL
14 25 (4.19%) Rust
15 11 (1.85%) PHP
16 10 (1.68%) C
17 7 (1.17%) Kotlin
17 7 (1.17%) Ruby
17 7 (1.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 219 (36.74%) Security Cleared
2 135 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.42%) Degree
4 71 (11.91%) AWS Certification
5 47 (7.89%) DV Cleared
6 37 (6.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (3.69%) ITIL Certification
7 22 (3.69%) Master's Degree
8 19 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 19 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (2.85%) ISTQB
9 17 (2.85%) OSCP
10 15 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (2.52%) RHCSA
11 11 (1.85%) CCNA
12 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.34%) RHCE
14 7 (1.17%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (12.92%) QA
2 29 (4.87%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.36%) GDPR
4 18 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.85%) WCAG
6 13 (2.18%) SOC 2
7 12 (2.01%) NIST
8 10 (1.68%) PCI DSS
9 9 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (1.01%) JTAG
11 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.67%) SLA
13 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.17%) GRC
14 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 279 (46.81%) Docker
2 25 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.68%) vSphere
5 9 (1.51%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.34%) Squid
7 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.67%) Firmware
9 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 297 (49.83%) Terraform
2 265 (44.46%) Kubernetes
3 146 (24.50%) Ansible
4 92 (15.44%) Grafana
5 73 (12.25%) Prometheus
6 39 (6.54%) Argo
7 27 (4.53%) HP Fortify
8 25 (4.19%) Nagios
9 19 (3.19%) Kibana
10 16 (2.68%) logstash
11 15 (2.52%) Puppet
12 13 (2.18%) Packer
13 10 (1.68%) Podman
14 8 (1.34%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.01%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.84%) VxRail
17 4 (0.67%) Istio
18 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 82 (13.76%) Splunk
2 55 (9.23%) Red Hat
3 46 (7.72%) Microsoft
4 35 (5.87%) VMware
5 33 (5.54%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.19%) AppDynamics
7 16 (2.68%) Dynatrace
7 16 (2.68%) Oracle
8 14 (2.35%) Atlassian
8 14 (2.35%) Google
9 13 (2.18%) OpenAI
10 12 (2.01%) Cisco
11 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.68%) Databricks
13 8 (1.34%) Intel
14 7 (1.17%) OneLogin
14 7 (1.17%) SAP
14 7 (1.17%) Tenable
15 6 (1.01%) ServiceNow
16 5 (0.84%) F5