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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 339 305
Rank change year-on-year -9 -34 -25
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 334 431 643
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.82% 0.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.82% 7.92% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 204 185 530
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -10.34%
75th Percentile £87,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £101,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 3,786 5,442 7,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.98% 10.38% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,429 3,085 6,097
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -2.42% -4.62%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.79% +1.82%

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 29 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 29 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 -20 277 £79,000 +8.97% 295
UK excluding London -15 190 £72,500 +3.57% 268
Work from Home +1 126 £77,500 +9.15% 171
London -26 100 £90,000 +2.86% 71
North of England +47 81 £75,000 +13.21% 54
Yorkshire +14 45 £78,750 +52.97% 19
North West +26 29 £65,000 -3.70% 31
South West -18 29 £73,500 +17.60% 39
South East -33 28 £80,250 +10.69% 94
Scotland 0 23 - - 21
Midlands -5 18 £55,200 -21.14% 27
West Midlands +17 12 £60,000 -12.73% 15
East of England +22 10 £67,500 -6.90% 25
North East +2 7 £66,250 -5.36% 4
East Midlands -11 6 £53,600 -28.53% 11
Wales +11 3 £55,200 -18.22% 9

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 (6.59%) Confluence
2 17 (5.09%) Apache
3 9 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.50%) IIS
4 5 (1.50%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.20%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.90%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.90%) nginx
7 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.60%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.30%) Camunda
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 204 (61.08%) AWS
2 126 (37.72%) Azure
3 88 (26.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 75 (22.46%) GitHub
5 71 (21.26%) Serverless
6 64 (19.16%) AWS Lambda
7 61 (18.26%) GCP
8 50 (14.97%) Amazon S3
9 46 (13.77%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (13.17%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (11.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (9.58%) OpenShift
13 30 (8.98%) AWS Step Functions
13 30 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (8.68%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (8.38%) Amazon ECR
15 28 (8.38%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (7.19%) Apigee
17 18 (5.39%) Datadog
18 13 (3.89%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.78%) DNS
2 24 (7.19%) Broadband
3 12 (3.59%) Firewall
4 7 (2.10%) VPN
5 6 (1.80%) DSL
6 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.20%) BGP
7 4 (1.20%) DHCP
7 4 (1.20%) WAN
8 3 (0.90%) VLAN
8 3 (0.90%) VSAN
9 2 (0.60%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.60%) MQTT
9 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.60%) RTMP
9 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.60%) Skype
9 2 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.60%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.78%) DynamoDB
2 34 (10.18%) NoSQL
3 33 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (9.28%) SQL Server
5 30 (8.98%) MongoDB
6 21 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (3.59%) MySQL
9 8 (2.40%) Power BI
10 6 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.50%) CockroachDB
11 5 (1.50%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.20%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.90%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.90%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.60%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 195 (58.38%) Jenkins
2 78 (23.35%) Git
3 64 (19.16%) SonarQube
4 42 (12.57%) JIRA
5 34 (10.18%) Cypress.io
6 33 (9.88%) Cucumber
7 29 (8.68%) Maven
8 27 (8.08%) Bitbucket
9 24 (7.19%) Selenium
10 21 (6.29%) JUnit
11 13 (3.89%) CircleCI
11 13 (3.89%) Postman
12 9 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (2.40%) Subversion
14 7 (2.10%) JMeter
14 7 (2.10%) REST Assured
15 6 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
16 5 (1.50%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.50%) TestNG
16 5 (1.50%) Vite
General
1 83 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 70 (20.96%) Finance
3 37 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.98%) Marketing
5 28 (8.38%) Games
6 25 (7.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (6.59%) Banking
7 22 (6.59%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.79%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.79%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.49%) Advertising
10 9 (2.69%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.50%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.50%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.20%) Electronics
14 2 (0.60%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.60%) Automotive
14 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (18.56%) Lead
2 60 (17.96%) Developer
3 52 (15.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (13.47%) Senior
5 31 (9.28%) Architect
6 30 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (6.89%) Software Engineer
9 21 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (6.29%) Salesforce Architect
10 19 (5.69%) Java Developer
11 16 (4.79%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.19%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.19%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.89%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (3.59%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.59%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 12 (3.59%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.57%) Spring Boot
2 40 (11.98%) Elastic Stack
2 40 (11.98%) REST
2 40 (11.98%) Spring
3 34 (10.18%) AngularJS
4 27 (8.08%) Gherkin
5 26 (7.78%) Jest
5 26 (7.78%) SOAP
6 25 (7.49%) Kafka
7 23 (6.89%) Lightning Web Components
7 23 (6.89%) React
7 23 (6.89%) Visualforce
8 22 (6.59%) RESTful
9 17 (5.09%) Node.js
10 14 (4.19%) FastAPI
10 14 (4.19%) pytest
11 13 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (3.29%) Apache NiFi
12 11 (3.29%) HTML
13 10 (2.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.88%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.59%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.29%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.10%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.10%) Web3
7 6 (1.80%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.50%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.50%) PKI
9 4 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) IoT
10 3 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 89 (26.65%) Linux
2 30 (8.98%) Windows
3 13 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.69%) Ubuntu
6 8 (2.40%) Unix
7 7 (2.10%) CentOS
8 5 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.20%) Debian
10 1 (0.30%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (79.94%) CI/CD
2 228 (68.26%) DevOps
3 159 (47.60%) Agile
4 131 (39.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 96 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (27.54%) Containerisation
7 70 (20.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 65 (19.46%) Continuous Integration
9 60 (17.96%) Test Automation
10 58 (17.37%) Software Engineering
11 57 (17.07%) Scrum
12 54 (16.17%) Microservices
13 53 (15.87%) Observability
14 51 (15.27%) Mentoring
15 44 (13.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 43 (12.87%) Event-Driven
17 41 (12.28%) Roadmaps
17 41 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 39 (11.68%) DevSecOps
19 37 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 161 (48.20%) Python
2 103 (30.84%) Java
3 92 (27.54%) Bash
4 66 (19.76%) TypeScript
5 60 (17.96%) SQL
6 47 (14.07%) JavaScript
7 36 (10.78%) PowerShell
8 30 (8.98%) Go
9 23 (6.89%) Apex Code
9 23 (6.89%) Groovy
9 23 (6.89%) SOQL
9 23 (6.89%) SOSL
10 15 (4.49%) C#
11 8 (2.40%) ANSI SQL
11 8 (2.40%) Delphi
11 8 (2.40%) Rust
12 7 (2.10%) Bicep
13 6 (1.80%) C++
14 5 (1.50%) C
15 3 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.18%) AWS Certification
2 34 (10.18%) DV Cleared
3 31 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.68%) Degree
5 14 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (3.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (3.59%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (2.69%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (2.10%) OSCP
12 5 (1.50%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.20%) CCNA
13 4 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.60%) CISSP
14 2 (0.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.60%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.57%) QA
2 9 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.10%) NIST
4 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.20%) GDPR
5 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.60%) ECSS
7 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 137 (41.02%) Docker
2 20 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.69%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.50%) vSphere
5 4 (1.20%) Firmware
6 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.90%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.60%) NFS
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 141 (42.22%) Terraform
2 139 (41.62%) Kubernetes
3 86 (25.75%) Ansible
4 78 (23.35%) Grafana
5 66 (19.76%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.19%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.69%) Kibana
8 8 (2.40%) Puppet
8 8 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.10%) Rancher
10 6 (1.80%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.50%) Argo
12 4 (1.20%) logstash
12 4 (1.20%) Nagios
12 4 (1.20%) vRealize
12 4 (1.20%) WSUS
13 3 (0.90%) Istio
13 3 (0.90%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.60%) Nessus
14 2 (0.60%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 51 (15.27%) Splunk
2 42 (12.57%) Oracle
3 28 (8.38%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.19%) Atlassian
4 24 (7.19%) Salesforce
5 22 (6.59%) VMware
6 14 (4.19%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.40%) Google
8 6 (1.80%) SAP
9 5 (1.50%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.50%) Cisco
9 5 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.20%) HP
11 3 (0.90%) Dell
12 2 (0.60%) Adobe
12 2 (0.60%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.60%) Juniper
12 2 (0.60%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.60%) Sonatype
12 2 (0.60%) Veeam