GitLab Job Trends

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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 343 307
Rank change year-on-year -15 -36 -27
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 337 418 652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.80% 0.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.87% 7.75% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 207 185 540
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £63,125 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -11.86%
75th Percentile £88,000 £90,000 £84,063
90th Percentile £107,500 £101,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +13.82% -1.60%

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 3,799 5,394 7,839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.96% 10.38% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 3,050 6,290
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,313 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,796 £60,781
Median % change year-on-year -1.31% +0.02% -6.49%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -

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 31 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 16 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 31 January 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 -38 279 £80,000 +10.34% 218
UK excluding London -6 190 £73,500 +5.00% 186
Work from Home +5 127 £77,500 +10.71% 137
London -17 102 £88,750 +1.43% 74
North of England +32 81 £75,000 +13.21% 45
Yorkshire +20 46 £77,500 +50.54% 14
South East -23 29 £82,500 +13.79% 66
North West +20 28 £65,000 -3.70% 29
South West -22 28 £74,500 +19.20% 23
Scotland -4 23 - - 18
Midlands +1 17 £57,600 -17.71% 14
West Midlands +11 12 £60,000 -12.73% 10
East of England +25 11 £67,500 -6.90% 15
North East +4 7 £66,250 -5.36% 2
East Midlands -5 5 £55,200 -26.40% 4
Wales +5 3 £55,200 -18.22% 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 22 (6.53%) Confluence
2 17 (5.04%) Apache
3 9 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.48%) IIS
4 5 (1.48%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.89%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.89%) nginx
7 2 (0.59%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 207 (61.42%) AWS
2 128 (37.98%) Azure
3 92 (27.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 75 (22.26%) GitHub
5 73 (21.66%) Serverless
6 65 (19.29%) AWS Lambda
7 62 (18.40%) GCP
8 51 (15.13%) Amazon S3
9 47 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (13.06%) Amazon ECS
11 41 (12.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (9.50%) OpenShift
13 30 (8.90%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (8.90%) Amazon EKS
13 30 (8.90%) AWS Step Functions
13 30 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (8.31%) Amazon ECR
15 24 (7.12%) Apigee
16 19 (5.64%) Datadog
17 13 (3.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 27 (8.01%) DNS
2 24 (7.12%) Broadband
3 13 (3.86%) Firewall
4 8 (2.37%) VPN
5 6 (1.78%) DSL
6 5 (1.48%) BGP
6 5 (1.48%) DHCP
6 5 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 5 (1.48%) WAN
7 3 (0.89%) Asterisk PBX
7 3 (0.89%) LAN
7 3 (0.89%) MPLS
7 3 (0.89%) MQTT
7 3 (0.89%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.89%) VLAN
7 3 (0.89%) VoIP
7 3 (0.89%) VPLS
7 3 (0.89%) VSAN
8 2 (0.59%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.68%) DynamoDB
1 36 (10.68%) NoSQL
2 33 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (8.90%) MongoDB
3 30 (8.90%) SQL Server
4 21 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (3.26%) MySQL
7 8 (2.37%) Power BI
8 6 (1.78%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.48%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.48%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.48%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.19%) Data Vault
10 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.89%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.89%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.59%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 194 (57.57%) Jenkins
2 79 (23.44%) Git
3 62 (18.40%) SonarQube
4 42 (12.46%) JIRA
5 33 (9.79%) Cucumber
5 33 (9.79%) Cypress.io
6 29 (8.61%) Maven
7 25 (7.42%) Bitbucket
8 23 (6.82%) Selenium
9 20 (5.93%) JUnit
10 14 (4.15%) CircleCI
11 12 (3.56%) Postman
12 9 (2.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (2.37%) Subversion
14 6 (1.78%) JMeter
14 6 (1.78%) REST Assured
15 5 (1.48%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.48%) TestNG
15 5 (1.48%) Vite
16 4 (1.19%) Gradle
General
1 82 (24.33%) Social Skills
2 70 (20.77%) Finance
3 35 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.90%) Marketing
5 28 (8.31%) Games
6 25 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (6.53%) Banking
7 22 (6.53%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.75%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.75%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.45%) Advertising
10 9 (2.67%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.48%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.48%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.19%) Electronics
14 2 (0.59%) Automotive
14 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (18.40%) Lead
2 57 (16.91%) Developer
3 54 (16.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 44 (13.06%) Senior
5 33 (9.79%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (9.20%) Architect
7 25 (7.42%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (6.82%) Software Engineer
9 22 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (6.23%) Salesforce Architect
11 19 (5.64%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.86%) Lead DevOps
13 13 (3.86%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.86%) Software Developer
14 12 (3.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.56%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.56%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 12 (3.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (15.73%) Spring Boot
2 41 (12.17%) Elastic Stack
2 41 (12.17%) Spring
3 37 (10.98%) REST
4 33 (9.79%) AngularJS
5 28 (8.31%) Kafka
6 27 (8.01%) Gherkin
7 26 (7.72%) Jest
7 26 (7.72%) SOAP
8 23 (6.82%) Lightning Web Components
8 23 (6.82%) React
8 23 (6.82%) Visualforce
9 21 (6.23%) RESTful
10 17 (5.04%) Node.js
11 14 (4.15%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.15%) pytest
12 13 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.26%) Apache NiFi
14 10 (2.97%) HTML
14 10 (2.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.62%) Cloud Native
2 34 (10.09%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.86%) Public Cloud
5 12 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.26%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.08%) Blockchain
7 7 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.08%) Web3
8 6 (1.78%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (1.78%) e-Learning
8 6 (1.78%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.78%) PKI
9 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) IoT
10 3 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 90 (26.71%) Linux
2 30 (8.90%) Windows
3 13 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.67%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.37%) Unix
6 7 (2.08%) CentOS
7 5 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.19%) Debian
9 1 (0.30%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (80.12%) CI/CD
2 229 (67.95%) DevOps
3 161 (47.77%) Agile
4 135 (40.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (28.19%) Containerisation
6 94 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (21.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (19.58%) Continuous Integration
9 60 (17.80%) Software Engineering
9 60 (17.80%) Test Automation
10 58 (17.21%) Scrum
11 57 (16.91%) Microservices
12 56 (16.62%) Observability
13 53 (15.73%) Mentoring
14 45 (13.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 44 (13.06%) Event-Driven
16 42 (12.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 41 (12.17%) DevSecOps
17 41 (12.17%) Roadmaps
18 38 (11.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 165 (48.96%) Python
2 102 (30.27%) Java
3 93 (27.60%) Bash
4 65 (19.29%) TypeScript
5 59 (17.51%) SQL
6 46 (13.65%) JavaScript
7 37 (10.98%) PowerShell
8 31 (9.20%) Go
9 23 (6.82%) Apex Code
9 23 (6.82%) Groovy
9 23 (6.82%) SOQL
9 23 (6.82%) SOSL
10 14 (4.15%) C#
11 9 (2.67%) Rust
12 8 (2.37%) ANSI SQL
12 8 (2.37%) Delphi
13 7 (2.08%) Bicep
14 6 (1.78%) C++
15 5 (1.48%) C
16 3 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 76 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 36 (10.68%) AWS Certification
3 34 (10.09%) DV Cleared
4 32 (9.50%) SC Cleared
5 28 (8.31%) Degree
6 13 (3.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.56%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.67%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (2.08%) OSCP
12 5 (1.48%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.48%) CCNA
12 5 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.59%) CISSP
14 2 (0.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.46%) QA
2 9 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.37%) NIST
4 5 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.48%) GDPR
5 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.89%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.59%) ECSS
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 140 (41.54%) Docker
2 21 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.93%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.78%) vSphere
5 5 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.19%) Firmware
6 4 (1.19%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.59%) NFS
8 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 145 (43.03%) Terraform
2 142 (42.14%) Kubernetes
3 90 (26.71%) Ansible
4 81 (24.04%) Grafana
5 69 (20.47%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.12%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.67%) Kibana
8 8 (2.37%) Puppet
8 8 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.08%) Rancher
10 6 (1.78%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.48%) Argo
11 5 (1.48%) WSUS
12 4 (1.19%) logstash
12 4 (1.19%) Nagios
12 4 (1.19%) vRealize
13 3 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.89%) Istio
13 3 (0.89%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.59%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 52 (15.43%) Splunk
2 41 (12.17%) Oracle
3 29 (8.61%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.12%) Atlassian
4 24 (7.12%) Salesforce
5 23 (6.82%) VMware
6 13 (3.86%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.37%) Google
8 6 (1.78%) SAP
9 5 (1.48%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.48%) Cisco
9 5 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.19%) HP
11 3 (0.89%) Dell
12 2 (0.59%) Adobe
12 2 (0.59%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.59%) IBM
12 2 (0.59%) Juniper
12 2 (0.59%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.59%) Veeam