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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 270 311
Rank change year-on-year -88 +41 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 604 528 651
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.07% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.81% 14.08% 10.02%
Number of salaries quoted 367 172 298
10th Percentile £47,000 £51,250 £48,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +12.00% -3.85%

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 4,716 3,750 6,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.61% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,942 2,227 3,743
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -60 563 £69,310 -10.57% 702
UK excluding London -114 381 £65,576 -6.32% 418
London +4 183 £90,000 +3.15% 336
North of England -60 160 £69,310 +2.68% 119
Work from Home -192 119 £67,500 -15.63% 317
South West -29 80 £72,500 +3.57% 85
South East 0 79 £65,000 -13.33% 63
North East -14 58 £57,500 -13.21% 27
North West -87 56 £69,655 +11.45% 73
Yorkshire -8 49 £73,750 -1.67% 19
Midlands -87 39 £60,000 -14.29% 51
West Midlands -52 26 £50,000 -38.46% 43
East Midlands -57 13 £60,000 -1.64% 8
Wales -69 10 £55,000 -8.33% 8
East of England -54 9 £60,000 -7.69% 36
Scotland -52 6 £110,000 +47.65% 38
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 19

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 31 (5.13%) Apache
2 27 (4.47%) Confluence
3 24 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (3.31%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.81%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.33%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 395 (65.40%) AWS
2 217 (35.93%) Azure
3 146 (24.17%) GitHub
4 113 (18.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 83 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
6 82 (13.58%) Amazon S3
7 79 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
8 78 (12.91%) GCP
9 75 (12.42%) Serverless
10 60 (9.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 60 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (7.95%) Amazon ECR
13 45 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (6.62%) Azure AKS
16 35 (5.79%) OpenShift
17 25 (4.14%) AWS Step Functions
18 23 (3.81%) Amazon SQS
19 21 (3.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.48%) DNS
2 19 (3.15%) Firewall
3 12 (1.99%) Broadband
3 12 (1.99%) Network Security
4 11 (1.82%) HTTP
4 11 (1.82%) MQTT
4 11 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.32%) DHCP
5 8 (1.32%) IPv4
5 8 (1.32%) LAN
5 8 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (1.16%) VPN
6 7 (1.16%) WAN
7 6 (0.99%) BGP
7 6 (0.99%) NX-OS
7 6 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.99%) Wireless
7 6 (0.99%) ZigBee
8 4 (0.66%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (13.58%) NoSQL
2 64 (10.60%) MongoDB
3 62 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (7.45%) DynamoDB
5 40 (6.62%) MySQL
6 29 (4.80%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (3.97%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.98%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (2.48%) Redis
10 14 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.32%) Pinecone
11 11 (1.82%) Big Data
12 10 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.49%) Chroma
14 8 (1.32%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.16%) SQL Server
16 6 (0.99%) DocumentDB
16 6 (0.99%) InfluxDB
17 5 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 259 (42.88%) Jenkins
2 205 (33.94%) Git
3 76 (12.58%) Cucumber
4 70 (11.59%) JIRA
5 55 (9.11%) Cypress.io
6 53 (8.77%) SonarQube
7 41 (6.79%) Selenium
8 34 (5.63%) Postman
9 29 (4.80%) JUnit
10 27 (4.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 26 (4.30%) Maven
12 19 (3.15%) JMeter
13 15 (2.48%) Gatling
13 15 (2.48%) Vite
14 14 (2.32%) REST Assured
14 14 (2.32%) Spock
14 14 (2.32%) Visual Studio Code
15 13 (2.15%) Bitbucket
16 12 (1.99%) Artifactory
16 12 (1.99%) Robot Framework
General
1 162 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 133 (22.02%) Finance
3 107 (17.72%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.11%) Banking
5 51 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.98%) Aerospace
7 18 (2.98%) Financial Institution
8 14 (2.32%) Law
9 13 (2.15%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.82%) Marketing
11 10 (1.66%) Electronics
12 8 (1.32%) Legal
12 8 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.66%) Automotive
14 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.50%) Military
15 3 (0.50%) Retail
16 1 (0.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 154 (25.50%) Senior
2 139 (23.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (14.90%) Developer
4 68 (11.26%) Software Engineer
5 55 (9.11%) Principal Engineer
6 54 (8.94%) Java Engineer
7 51 (8.44%) Lead
8 37 (6.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 37 (6.13%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (6.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 35 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (4.97%) Test Engineer
11 29 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 27 (4.47%) Java Developer
14 25 (4.14%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (4.14%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 25 (4.14%) Senior Developer
14 25 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 298 (49.34%) Terraform
2 93 (15.40%) Spring
3 91 (15.07%) Spring Boot
4 89 (14.74%) Kafka
5 72 (11.92%) React
6 65 (10.76%) RESTful
7 63 (10.43%) AngularJS
7 63 (10.43%) Node.js
8 55 (9.11%) REST
9 44 (7.28%) Elastic Stack
10 43 (7.12%) Playwright
11 35 (5.79%) .NET
11 35 (5.79%) Jest
12 26 (4.30%) Gherkin
12 26 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
12 26 (4.30%) Vue
13 25 (4.14%) LangChain
14 23 (3.81%) FastAPI
15 22 (3.64%) Next.js
16 21 (3.48%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 195 (32.28%) Cloud Native
2 88 (14.57%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 49 (8.11%) Public Cloud
4 42 (6.95%) e-Learning
5 40 (6.62%) Enterprise Software
6 27 (4.47%) Private Cloud
7 20 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.98%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.81%) Algorithms
10 14 (2.32%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.99%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.82%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
13 9 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.49%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.16%) IoT
15 6 (0.99%) ARM Cortex
15 6 (0.99%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 186 (30.79%) Linux
2 61 (10.10%) Windows
3 44 (7.28%) CentOS
4 37 (6.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (4.47%) Unix
6 18 (2.98%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.66%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.83%) VMS
9 4 (0.66%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Debian
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.33%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (90.40%) CI/CD
2 395 (65.40%) DevOps
3 344 (56.95%) Agile
4 302 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 244 (40.40%) Test Automation
6 198 (32.78%) Microservices
7 175 (28.97%) Containerisation
8 150 (24.83%) Mentoring
8 150 (24.83%) Software Engineering
9 121 (20.03%) Problem-Solving
10 119 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (19.37%) AI
12 111 (18.38%) Observability
13 107 (17.72%) SDLC
14 97 (16.06%) Scrum
15 96 (15.89%) Full-Stack Development
16 95 (15.73%) Coaching
17 84 (13.91%) Platform Engineering
18 83 (13.74%) Technical Leadership
19 74 (12.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 282 (46.69%) Python
2 214 (35.43%) Java
3 152 (25.17%) Bash
4 129 (21.36%) SQL
5 103 (17.05%) JavaScript
6 101 (16.72%) TypeScript
7 79 (13.08%) PowerShell
8 38 (6.29%) C++
9 37 (6.13%) Go
10 36 (5.96%) C#
10 36 (5.96%) Groovy
11 20 (3.31%) Rust
12 14 (2.32%) PHP
13 11 (1.82%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.66%) C
15 9 (1.49%) Perl
16 7 (1.16%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.16%) Ruby
17 6 (0.99%) Bicep
17 6 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 258 (42.72%) Security Cleared
2 168 (27.81%) SC Cleared
3 84 (13.91%) Degree
4 76 (12.58%) AWS Certification
5 60 (9.93%) DV Cleared
6 47 (7.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 33 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.81%) Master's Degree
9 21 (3.48%) ITIL Certification
10 17 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.65%) ISTQB
12 15 (2.48%) CCNA
12 15 (2.48%) RHCSA
13 14 (2.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 14 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.49%) OSCP
15 8 (1.32%) RHCE
16 7 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (0.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (15.56%) QA
2 30 (4.97%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.48%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.98%) WCAG
5 11 (1.82%) GDPR
6 9 (1.49%) SLA
7 8 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.99%) JTAG
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.66%) NIST
11 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 299 (49.50%) Docker
2 27 (4.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.32%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.32%) vSphere
5 8 (1.32%) Squid
5 8 (1.32%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) Firmware
7 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 263 (43.54%) Kubernetes
2 152 (25.17%) Ansible
3 89 (14.74%) Grafana
4 64 (10.60%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.95%) Argo
6 23 (3.81%) Puppet
7 21 (3.48%) Kibana
8 20 (3.31%) HP Fortify
8 20 (3.31%) Nagios
9 17 (2.81%) logstash
10 15 (2.48%) Packer
11 10 (1.66%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.49%) Podman
13 8 (1.32%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.16%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.99%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.50%) linkerd
17 3 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (9.11%) Splunk
2 53 (8.77%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.46%) Red Hat
4 37 (6.13%) VMware
5 22 (3.64%) Oracle
6 20 (3.31%) AppDynamics
7 19 (3.15%) Google
8 17 (2.81%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.48%) Mistral
10 14 (2.32%) Atlassian
11 11 (1.82%) Databricks
12 10 (1.66%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.49%) Rapid7
13 9 (1.49%) SAP
14 8 (1.32%) Salesforce
15 7 (1.16%) Cisco
15 7 (1.16%) NVIDIA
15 7 (1.16%) OneLogin
15 7 (1.16%) Pega
15 7 (1.16%) Veracode