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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 348 349
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -60
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 418 324 678
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.76% 0.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.22% 7.06% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 248 193 564
10th Percentile £47,275 £47,231 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -9.41%
75th Percentile £86,656 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,875 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +8.70%

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 4,090 4,589 8,698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.47% 10.73% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,665 3,060 6,689
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +14 340 £75,000 -3.23% 217
UK excluding London +13 241 £65,000 -7.14% 155
Work from Home +37 154 £72,500 +7.41% 109
London 0 130 £82,500 -2.94% 73
North of England +1 87 £67,500 - 50
South East +11 57 £65,000 -18.75% 40
Yorkshire 0 56 £77,500 +3.33% 13
Scotland +4 42 £95,000 +33.33% 7
South West -44 31 £67,500 +8.00% 29
North West -16 25 £65,000 -3.04% 17
Midlands -24 16 £56,350 -13.31% 15
West Midlands -1 15 £57,500 -4.17% 10
North East -17 6 £68,076 -2.75% 20
East of England -20 6 £67,500 -14.29% 14
Wales -17 2 £55,200 +69.85% 4
East Midlands -40 1 £55,200 -31.00% 5

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 23 (5.50%) Confluence
2 16 (3.83%) Apache
3 7 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.20%) IIS
5 5 (1.20%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.96%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.48%) JBoss
8 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.24%) nginx
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 249 (59.57%) AWS
2 160 (38.28%) Azure
3 125 (29.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 106 (25.36%) Serverless
5 98 (23.44%) GitHub
6 90 (21.53%) AWS Lambda
7 73 (17.46%) GCP
8 71 (16.99%) Amazon S3
9 69 (16.51%) GitHub Actions
10 50 (11.96%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (11.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 46 (11.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 46 (11.00%) OpenShift
13 39 (9.33%) Amazon ECR
13 39 (9.33%) Apigee
14 38 (9.09%) Datadog
15 36 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
16 34 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
17 31 (7.42%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (10.05%) Broadband
2 27 (6.46%) DNS
3 23 (5.50%) Firewall
4 13 (3.11%) DSL
5 6 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.44%) DHCP
5 6 (1.44%) VPN
6 5 (1.20%) Network Security
7 4 (0.96%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (0.96%) BGP
7 4 (0.96%) LAN
7 4 (0.96%) MPLS
7 4 (0.96%) MQTT
7 4 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.96%) VoIP
7 4 (0.96%) VPLS
7 4 (0.96%) WAN
8 3 (0.72%) HTTP
8 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.96%) DynamoDB
2 48 (11.48%) NoSQL
3 30 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
5 21 (5.02%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.02%) SQL Server
6 18 (4.31%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (2.15%) MySQL
8 7 (1.67%) Power BI
9 5 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.20%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.20%) CockroachDB
10 4 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.96%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.96%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.72%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.48%) Apache Iceberg
12 2 (0.48%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 230 (55.02%) Jenkins
2 95 (22.73%) Git
3 89 (21.29%) SonarQube
4 46 (11.00%) Cypress.io
4 46 (11.00%) JIRA
5 37 (8.85%) Maven
6 35 (8.37%) Cucumber
7 30 (7.18%) Selenium
8 25 (5.98%) Bitbucket
9 23 (5.50%) CircleCI
10 19 (4.55%) JUnit
11 14 (3.35%) Postman
12 11 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (2.63%) REST Assured
13 9 (2.15%) JMeter
14 8 (1.91%) Subversion
15 5 (1.20%) Gatling
15 5 (1.20%) SoapUI
15 5 (1.20%) TestNG
16 4 (0.96%) TestRail
General
1 108 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 84 (20.10%) Finance
3 50 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.48%) Marketing
5 43 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (9.81%) Games
7 32 (7.66%) Banking
7 32 (7.66%) Telecoms
8 22 (5.26%) Public Sector
9 18 (4.31%) Advertising
10 14 (3.35%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.44%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.44%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.96%) Electronics
15 4 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.48%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 72 (17.22%) Developer
2 70 (16.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (15.55%) Senior
4 59 (14.11%) Lead
5 56 (13.40%) Architect
6 44 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (9.33%) Salesforce Architect
8 29 (6.94%) Java Developer
9 28 (6.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.50%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.50%) Software Engineer
11 21 (5.02%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 21 (5.02%) Technical Architect
12 18 (4.31%) Security Engineer
13 17 (4.07%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.83%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (3.59%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 14 (3.35%) AWS Architect
16 14 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (15.07%) Spring Boot
2 61 (14.59%) REST
3 46 (11.00%) Elastic Stack
4 44 (10.53%) Kafka
5 43 (10.29%) SOAP
5 43 (10.29%) Spring
6 42 (10.05%) AngularJS
7 41 (9.81%) Lightning Web Components
7 41 (9.81%) Visualforce
8 36 (8.61%) Gherkin
9 35 (8.37%) Jest
10 26 (6.22%) RESTful
11 25 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (5.02%) React
13 18 (4.31%) Node.js
14 17 (4.07%) YAML
15 16 (3.83%) AWS CDK
16 15 (3.59%) pytest
17 14 (3.35%) JSON
17 14 (3.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 69 (16.51%) Cloud Native
2 60 (14.35%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.59%) Security Posture
5 13 (3.11%) Blockchain
5 13 (3.11%) Cloud Security Posture
6 12 (2.87%) Web3
7 11 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.91%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.67%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.67%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.20%) PKI
13 4 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
14 3 (0.72%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 95 (22.73%) Linux
2 37 (8.85%) Windows
3 14 (3.35%) Unix
4 13 (3.11%) CentOS
4 13 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.63%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.72%) Debian
10 1 (0.24%) Fedora
10 1 (0.24%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 291 (69.62%) DevOps
3 203 (48.56%) Agile
4 180 (43.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (31.34%) Containerisation
6 117 (27.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 114 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 94 (22.49%) Continuous Integration
9 82 (19.62%) Microservices
10 81 (19.38%) Scrum
11 77 (18.42%) Observability
12 73 (17.46%) Test Automation
13 71 (16.99%) Event-Driven
14 66 (15.79%) Continuous Delivery
14 66 (15.79%) Software Engineering
15 64 (15.31%) Roadmaps
16 63 (15.07%) Mentoring
17 59 (14.11%) DevSecOps
18 48 (11.48%) Community of Practice
19 47 (11.24%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 199 (47.61%) Python
2 113 (27.03%) Bash
3 111 (26.56%) Java
4 65 (15.55%) SQL
5 64 (15.31%) TypeScript
6 52 (12.44%) JavaScript
7 42 (10.05%) PowerShell
8 41 (9.81%) Apex Code
8 41 (9.81%) Go
8 41 (9.81%) SOQL
8 41 (9.81%) SOSL
9 32 (7.66%) Groovy
10 20 (4.78%) Rust
11 14 (3.35%) C#
12 8 (1.91%) Delphi
13 7 (1.67%) ANSI SQL
13 7 (1.67%) Bicep
13 7 (1.67%) C++
14 4 (0.96%) Perl
15 3 (0.72%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 90 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.05%) AWS Certification
3 41 (9.81%) Degree
4 36 (8.61%) SC Cleared
5 34 (8.13%) DV Cleared
6 19 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 18 (4.31%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (3.83%) OSCP
9 13 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (2.39%) ISTQB
12 8 (1.91%) AWS Certified Developer
13 7 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 6 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.96%) CCNA
15 4 (0.96%) CISSP
16 3 (0.72%) CISM
16 3 (0.72%) GCIH
16 3 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (11.24%) QA
2 17 (4.07%) NIST
3 15 (3.59%) GDPR
4 12 (2.87%) PCI DSS
5 11 (2.63%) SOC 2
6 9 (2.15%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.91%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.48%) ECSS
9 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (41.63%) Docker
2 22 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.20%) vSphere
6 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.24%) Firmware
7 1 (0.24%) Squid
Systems Management
1 192 (45.93%) Terraform
2 172 (41.15%) Kubernetes
3 94 (22.49%) Ansible
4 93 (22.25%) Grafana
5 85 (20.33%) Prometheus
6 34 (8.13%) HP Fortify
7 10 (2.39%) Kibana
7 10 (2.39%) Nagios
8 9 (2.15%) Puppet
9 8 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.67%) Argo
11 5 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (1.20%) logstash
11 5 (1.20%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.20%) vCenter Server
12 4 (0.96%) WSUS
13 3 (0.72%) Istio
13 3 (0.72%) Rancher
13 3 (0.72%) VxRail
14 2 (0.48%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 77 (18.42%) Splunk
2 42 (10.05%) Salesforce
3 37 (8.85%) Oracle
4 33 (7.89%) Red Hat
5 32 (7.66%) Microsoft
6 22 (5.26%) Atlassian
7 21 (5.02%) VMware
8 14 (3.35%) Cisco
9 10 (2.39%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.91%) Google
10 8 (1.91%) Juniper
11 7 (1.67%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.44%) F5
13 5 (1.20%) SAP
14 4 (0.96%) Dell
14 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.96%) Rapid7
15 3 (0.72%) AppDynamics
15 3 (0.72%) BeyondTrust
15 3 (0.72%) Tenable