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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 261 370
Rank change year-on-year -54 +109 -21
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 590 573 641
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.17% 0.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.53% 13.72% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 360 188 410
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,875 £44,974
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,655 £77,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +18.38% -3.02%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,125 £112,875 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -

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 4,361 4,176 7,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.34% 8.51% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,923 2,646 5,309
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £93,750
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 24 July 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 July 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 -50 523 £69,310 -10.57% 215
UK excluding London -75 370 £65,000 -7.14% 156
London +1 186 £85,000 +6.25% 90
Work from Home -144 152 £66,538 -8.22% 99
North of England -67 127 £67,500 +0.69% 55
South East +60 99 £65,000 -13.33% 27
South West -37 67 £73,750 +22.92% 22
Yorkshire +4 55 £69,310 -7.59% 7
North West -91 41 £65,000 -3.04% 33
Scotland -14 37 £102,500 +10.81% 16
North East -19 31 £55,000 - 15
Midlands -82 31 £58,750 -17.54% 24
West Midlands -48 22 £57,500 -28.13% 16
East Midlands -59 9 £60,000 -9.43% 8
Wales -50 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East of England -35 3 - - 13
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 1

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 27 (4.58%) Apache
2 26 (4.41%) Confluence
3 17 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 13 (2.20%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) IIS
5 3 (0.51%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
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
1 371 (62.88%) AWS
2 218 (36.95%) Azure
3 130 (22.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 119 (20.17%) GitHub
5 98 (16.61%) Serverless
6 84 (14.24%) Amazon S3
7 81 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
8 80 (13.56%) AWS Lambda
9 76 (12.88%) GCP
10 67 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (9.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (8.81%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (7.63%) OpenShift
15 43 (7.29%) AWS Step Functions
16 39 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (6.44%) Azure AKS
18 35 (5.93%) Apigee
19 32 (5.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.63%) Broadband
2 28 (4.75%) Firewall
3 14 (2.37%) MQTT
4 13 (2.20%) DNS
4 13 (2.20%) Network Security
5 10 (1.69%) HTTP
5 10 (1.69%) LAN
5 10 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (1.36%) IPv4
6 8 (1.36%) WAN
7 7 (1.19%) DSL
8 6 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.02%) Wireless
8 6 (1.02%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.85%) BGP
9 5 (0.85%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.85%) VPN
10 4 (0.68%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.51%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.69%) NoSQL
2 57 (9.66%) DynamoDB
3 53 (8.98%) MongoDB
4 50 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (5.93%) MySQL
6 29 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.73%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.69%) Big Data
9 10 (1.69%) Pinecone
10 9 (1.53%) Redis
11 7 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.19%) SQL Server
12 6 (1.02%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.02%) InfluxDB
13 4 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.51%) Flink
14 3 (0.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 273 (46.27%) Jenkins
2 184 (31.19%) Git
3 87 (14.75%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.34%) JIRA
5 57 (9.66%) Cucumber
6 54 (9.15%) Cypress.io
7 34 (5.76%) Selenium
8 29 (4.92%) Maven
9 24 (4.07%) CircleCI
10 21 (3.56%) JUnit
10 21 (3.56%) Postman
11 19 (3.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 16 (2.71%) Bitbucket
12 16 (2.71%) Visual Studio Code
13 14 (2.37%) REST Assured
14 13 (2.20%) Gatling
14 13 (2.20%) JMeter
15 11 (1.86%) Vite
16 10 (1.69%) Robot Framework
16 10 (1.69%) Spock
General
1 143 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 121 (20.51%) Finance
3 81 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 60 (10.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (9.66%) Banking
7 36 (6.10%) Marketing
8 34 (5.76%) Games
9 15 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 15 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (2.03%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.69%) Electronics
12 10 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.02%) Advertising
13 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.85%) Legal
15 4 (0.68%) Automotive
15 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 141 (23.90%) Senior
2 121 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (15.08%) Developer
4 60 (10.17%) Software Engineer
5 49 (8.31%) Architect
6 44 (7.46%) Lead
7 42 (7.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 37 (6.27%) Java Developer
9 36 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (6.10%) Principal Engineer
10 35 (5.93%) Java Engineer
10 35 (5.93%) Salesforce Architect
11 31 (5.25%) Senior DevOps
11 31 (5.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 30 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (4.75%) AWS DevOps
13 28 (4.75%) Full-Stack Developer
14 27 (4.58%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (4.41%) Senior Developer
15 26 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.56%) Spring Boot
2 78 (13.22%) Kafka
3 73 (12.37%) REST
4 70 (11.86%) Spring
5 60 (10.17%) AngularJS
6 53 (8.98%) Node.js
7 50 (8.47%) React
8 48 (8.14%) RESTful
9 40 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
9 40 (6.78%) SOAP
10 37 (6.27%) Jest
11 36 (6.10%) Lightning Web Components
12 35 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (5.93%) Visualforce
13 31 (5.25%) Playwright
14 30 (5.08%) Gherkin
15 27 (4.58%) JSON
16 22 (3.73%) .NET
16 22 (3.73%) Vue
17 21 (3.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 150 (25.42%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.56%) Product Ownership
3 67 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (5.59%) Enterprise Software
4 33 (5.59%) Public Cloud
5 27 (4.58%) e-Learning
6 24 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.88%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.71%) Algorithms
9 14 (2.37%) Private Cloud
10 13 (2.20%) Blockchain
11 12 (2.03%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.03%) Web3
12 9 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.53%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
12 9 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 161 (27.29%) Linux
2 65 (11.02%) Windows
3 37 (6.27%) CentOS
4 26 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.24%) Unix
6 24 (4.07%) Windows Server
7 12 (2.03%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Debian
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (90.85%) CI/CD
2 411 (69.66%) DevOps
3 321 (54.41%) Agile
4 284 (48.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 187 (31.69%) Containerisation
6 185 (31.36%) Microservices
7 181 (30.68%) Test Automation
8 145 (24.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 122 (20.68%) Scrum
10 121 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
11 120 (20.34%) Software Engineering
12 119 (20.17%) Mentoring
13 109 (18.47%) Continuous Integration
14 104 (17.63%) Observability
15 90 (15.25%) Event-Driven
16 89 (15.08%) SDLC
17 83 (14.07%) AI
17 83 (14.07%) DevSecOps
18 77 (13.05%) Coaching
18 77 (13.05%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 276 (46.78%) Python
2 177 (30.00%) Java
3 151 (25.59%) Bash
4 103 (17.46%) SQL
5 83 (14.07%) JavaScript
6 79 (13.39%) TypeScript
7 68 (11.53%) PowerShell
8 48 (8.14%) Go
9 41 (6.95%) Groovy
10 36 (6.10%) Apex Code
11 35 (5.93%) C#
11 35 (5.93%) SOQL
11 35 (5.93%) SOSL
12 32 (5.42%) C++
13 27 (4.58%) Rust
14 10 (1.69%) C
14 10 (1.69%) PHP
15 7 (1.19%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.19%) Perl
15 7 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 208 (35.25%) Security Cleared
2 126 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.39%) Degree
4 69 (11.69%) AWS Certification
5 45 (7.63%) DV Cleared
6 32 (5.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (3.90%) Master's Degree
8 21 (3.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (3.56%) ITIL Certification
9 18 (3.05%) OSCP
10 17 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.88%) ISTQB
11 16 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.54%) RHCSA
13 12 (2.03%) CCNA
14 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.36%) RHCE
16 6 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.85%) Azure Certification
18 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.05%) QA
2 28 (4.75%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.73%) GDPR
4 15 (2.54%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.54%) SOC 2
4 15 (2.54%) WCAG
5 12 (2.03%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.86%) NIST
7 8 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.02%) JTAG
9 5 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 270 (45.76%) Docker
2 26 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.22%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.86%) vSphere
5 10 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.69%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.36%) Squid
7 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.68%) Firmware
8 4 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 290 (49.15%) Terraform
2 260 (44.07%) Kubernetes
3 145 (24.58%) Ansible
4 89 (15.08%) Grafana
5 74 (12.54%) Prometheus
6 36 (6.10%) Argo
7 29 (4.92%) HP Fortify
8 25 (4.24%) Nagios
9 20 (3.39%) Kibana
10 16 (2.71%) logstash
10 16 (2.71%) Puppet
11 13 (2.20%) Packer
12 9 (1.53%) Podman
13 8 (1.36%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.36%) ZABBIX
14 6 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.85%) Progress Chef
15 5 (0.85%) VxRail
16 4 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 87 (14.75%) Splunk
2 52 (8.81%) Red Hat
3 40 (6.78%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.78%) Salesforce
4 37 (6.27%) VMware
5 17 (2.88%) AppDynamics
6 16 (2.71%) Oracle
7 14 (2.37%) Atlassian
7 14 (2.37%) Google
8 13 (2.20%) Cisco
8 13 (2.20%) Dynatrace
8 13 (2.20%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.69%) Rapid7
10 8 (1.36%) Databricks
10 8 (1.36%) Intel
10 8 (1.36%) Tenable
11 7 (1.19%) SAP
12 6 (1.02%) IBM
12 6 (1.02%) Juniper
12 6 (1.02%) Palo Alto