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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 269 346
Rank change year-on-year -69 +77 -12
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 588 566 628
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.13% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.84% 14.14% 8.84%
Number of salaries quoted 360 197 346
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,500 £108,750
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 4,581 4,003 7,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.26% 8.02% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,963 2,474 4,489
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £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 £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -67 530 £69,310 -7.59% 232
UK excluding London -98 371 £65,000 -7.14% 192
London -9 184 £87,500 +9.38% 78
Work from Home -154 141 £65,576 -15.39% 118
North of England -53 140 £67,788 +0.77% 49
South East +27 84 £62,250 -14.14% 33
South West -37 73 £72,500 +11.54% 40
Yorkshire -5 47 £72,500 -3.33% 10
North East -15 47 £55,000 - 14
North West -91 46 £67,443 +0.61% 25
Midlands -69 36 £60,000 -14.29% 28
Scotland -32 28 £110,000 +15.79% 27
West Midlands -41 23 £56,250 -37.50% 21
East Midlands -57 13 £60,000 - 7
Wales -57 8 £55,000 +18.92% 2
East of England -46 4 £46,000 -29.23% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 -

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 29 (4.93%) Apache
2 25 (4.25%) Confluence
3 22 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.74%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.55%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) IIS
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 378 (64.29%) AWS
2 221 (37.59%) Azure
3 128 (21.77%) GitHub
4 121 (20.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 85 (14.46%) Serverless
6 81 (13.78%) Amazon S3
7 80 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (13.61%) GCP
8 67 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
10 55 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 55 (9.35%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
12 46 (7.82%) OpenShift
13 45 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (6.12%) Azure AKS
16 33 (5.61%) AWS Step Functions
17 28 (4.76%) Datadog
18 25 (4.25%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.27%) Broadband
2 22 (3.74%) Firewall
3 13 (2.21%) DNS
4 12 (2.04%) MQTT
4 12 (2.04%) Network Security
5 10 (1.70%) HTTP
6 8 (1.36%) IPv4
6 8 (1.36%) LAN
6 8 (1.36%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.19%) WAN
8 6 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.02%) Wireless
8 6 (1.02%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.85%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.68%) BGP
10 4 (0.68%) Bluetooth
10 4 (0.68%) DSL
10 4 (0.68%) VPN
11 3 (0.51%) DHCP
11 3 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.73%) NoSQL
2 56 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 55 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 37 (6.29%) MySQL
6 32 (5.44%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.91%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.87%) Big Data
10 11 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.87%) Pinecone
11 9 (1.53%) Redis
12 8 (1.36%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.19%) SQL Server
14 6 (1.02%) InfluxDB
15 4 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.68%) Power BI
15 4 (0.68%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 263 (44.73%) Jenkins
2 191 (32.48%) Git
3 75 (12.76%) SonarQube
4 65 (11.05%) Cucumber
5 60 (10.20%) JIRA
6 52 (8.84%) Cypress.io
7 39 (6.63%) Selenium
8 28 (4.76%) JUnit
9 27 (4.59%) Postman
10 24 (4.08%) Maven
11 22 (3.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 16 (2.72%) CircleCI
13 15 (2.55%) Bitbucket
13 15 (2.55%) Gatling
13 15 (2.55%) JMeter
13 15 (2.55%) REST Assured
14 14 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
15 12 (2.04%) Spock
16 11 (1.87%) Vite
17 10 (1.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 151 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 127 (21.60%) Finance
3 95 (16.16%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.03%) Banking
5 53 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (9.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (4.42%) Marketing
7 20 (3.40%) Games
8 15 (2.55%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.21%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.70%) Electronics
11 10 (1.70%) Law
11 10 (1.70%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.19%) Legal
13 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Automotive
14 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 149 (25.34%) Senior
2 133 (22.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 82 (13.95%) Developer
4 62 (10.54%) Software Engineer
5 46 (7.82%) Lead
6 45 (7.65%) Principal Engineer
7 42 (7.14%) Java Engineer
8 40 (6.80%) Senior DevOps
8 40 (6.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 38 (6.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (5.95%) Architect
11 34 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (5.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 28 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 28 (4.76%) Java Developer
14 27 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
15 26 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 26 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
16 25 (4.25%) Test Engineer
17 24 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 297 (50.51%) Terraform
2 81 (13.78%) Spring Boot
3 78 (13.27%) Kafka
3 78 (13.27%) Spring
4 62 (10.54%) React
4 62 (10.54%) REST
5 60 (10.20%) AngularJS
5 60 (10.20%) Node.js
6 51 (8.67%) RESTful
7 41 (6.97%) Elastic Stack
8 34 (5.78%) Playwright
9 33 (5.61%) Jest
10 31 (5.27%) .NET
10 31 (5.27%) RabbitMQ
11 28 (4.76%) SOAP
12 23 (3.91%) Gherkin
12 23 (3.91%) Lightning Web Components
13 22 (3.74%) JSON
13 22 (3.74%) LangChain
13 22 (3.74%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 176 (29.93%) Cloud Native
2 74 (12.59%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 38 (6.46%) Public Cloud
5 35 (5.95%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (5.44%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 23 (3.91%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.89%) Algorithms
10 15 (2.55%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.21%) Data Structures
12 12 (2.04%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.70%) Blockchain
13 10 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.53%) Web3
15 8 (1.36%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
16 7 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 165 (28.06%) Linux
2 60 (10.20%) Windows
3 43 (7.31%) CentOS
4 32 (5.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (3.74%) Unix
6 19 (3.23%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.53%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.85%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.51%) VMS
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
12 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 539 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 403 (68.54%) DevOps
3 324 (55.10%) Agile
4 291 (49.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 206 (35.03%) Test Automation
6 186 (31.63%) Microservices
7 181 (30.78%) Containerisation
8 136 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 132 (22.45%) Mentoring
10 128 (21.77%) Software Engineering
11 117 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
12 102 (17.35%) Observability
12 102 (17.35%) Scrum
13 91 (15.48%) Continuous Integration
14 90 (15.31%) SDLC
15 89 (15.14%) AI
16 84 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
17 82 (13.95%) Coaching
17 82 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
18 80 (13.61%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 269 (45.75%) Python
2 187 (31.80%) Java
3 147 (25.00%) Bash
4 110 (18.71%) SQL
5 90 (15.31%) JavaScript
6 83 (14.12%) TypeScript
7 71 (12.07%) PowerShell
8 39 (6.63%) Go
9 35 (5.95%) Groovy
10 34 (5.78%) C#
11 31 (5.27%) C++
12 23 (3.91%) Apex Code
13 22 (3.74%) Rust
14 21 (3.57%) SOQL
14 21 (3.57%) SOSL
15 11 (1.87%) PHP
16 10 (1.70%) C
17 8 (1.36%) Scala
18 7 (1.19%) Kotlin
18 7 (1.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 228 (38.78%) Security Cleared
2 147 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.61%) Degree
4 70 (11.90%) AWS Certification
5 47 (7.99%) DV Cleared
6 39 (6.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (3.74%) Master's Degree
9 20 (3.40%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (3.06%) ISTQB
11 17 (2.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.55%) RHCSA
13 14 (2.38%) OSCP
14 12 (2.04%) CCNA
15 11 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
16 8 (1.36%) RHCE
17 7 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
18 6 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 6 (1.02%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (13.78%) QA
2 31 (5.27%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.06%) GDPR
5 17 (2.89%) WCAG
6 12 (2.04%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (1.53%) NIST
9 8 (1.36%) PCI DSS
10 6 (1.02%) JTAG
10 6 (1.02%) SLA
11 5 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.17%) GRC
13 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 280 (47.62%) Docker
2 24 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.55%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.87%) vSphere
6 8 (1.36%) Squid
6 8 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.68%) Firmware
8 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 264 (44.90%) Kubernetes
2 147 (25.00%) Ansible
3 90 (15.31%) Grafana
4 67 (11.39%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.97%) Argo
6 23 (3.91%) HP Fortify
6 23 (3.91%) Nagios
7 19 (3.23%) Kibana
7 19 (3.23%) Puppet
8 16 (2.72%) logstash
9 14 (2.38%) Packer
10 9 (1.53%) Podman
10 9 (1.53%) Progress Chef
11 8 (1.36%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.19%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.68%) Istio
15 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.51%) linkerd
15 3 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 74 (12.59%) Splunk
2 51 (8.67%) Red Hat
3 45 (7.65%) Microsoft
4 33 (5.61%) VMware
5 27 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.23%) AppDynamics
7 18 (3.06%) Oracle
8 17 (2.89%) Google
9 15 (2.55%) Dynatrace
10 14 (2.38%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.38%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.87%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.70%) Cisco
12 10 (1.70%) Databricks
13 8 (1.36%) SAP
14 7 (1.19%) Intel
14 7 (1.19%) OneLogin
15 6 (1.02%) ServiceNow
15 6 (1.02%) Tenable
15 6 (1.02%) Veracode