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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 265 317
Rank change year-on-year -75 +52 +23
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 597 551 662
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.11% 0.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.03% 14.06% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 362 190 331
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
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 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,000 £107,500
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 4,583 3,920 6,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.17% 7.87% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,968 2,404 4,275
10th Percentile £35,175 £37,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,748 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -5.17%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -39 545 £69,310 -7.59% 561
UK excluding London -96 375 £65,000 -7.14% 322
London -3 185 £90,000 +12.50% 300
North of England -58 146 £68,693 +1.77% 93
Work from Home -163 136 £66,538 -14.14% 268
South East +21 82 £62,500 -16.67% 56
South West -32 75 £72,500 +13.73% 65
North West -79 54 £69,310 +13.16% 51
North East -13 49 £55,000 -18.52% 17
Yorkshire -22 43 £73,750 -1.67% 25
Midlands -80 39 £60,000 -14.29% 30
West Midlands -36 26 £62,500 -30.56% 19
Scotland -37 21 £110,000 +26.07% 35
East Midlands -59 13 £60,000 - 11
Wales -63 8 £55,000 +18.92% 4
East of England -45 6 £60,000 -7.69% 30
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 10

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 (4.86%) Apache
2 25 (4.19%) Confluence
3 22 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 16 (2.68%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
7 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.17%) JBoss
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 381 (63.82%) AWS
2 221 (37.02%) Azure
3 135 (22.61%) GitHub
4 114 (19.10%) AWS CloudFormation
5 82 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (13.40%) GCP
7 78 (13.07%) Amazon S3
8 76 (12.73%) Serverless
9 71 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
11 52 (8.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 51 (8.54%) Amazon ECS
13 47 (7.87%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
15 44 (7.37%) OpenShift
16 40 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
17 39 (6.53%) Azure AKS
18 27 (4.52%) AWS Step Functions
19 24 (4.02%) Datadog
20 23 (3.85%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.19%) Broadband
2 23 (3.85%) Firewall
3 16 (2.68%) DNS
4 12 (2.01%) Network Security
5 11 (1.84%) MQTT
6 10 (1.68%) HTTP
7 8 (1.34%) IPv4
7 8 (1.34%) LAN
7 8 (1.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (1.17%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.17%) WAN
9 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.01%) Wireless
9 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.84%) BGP
10 5 (0.84%) DHCP
10 5 (0.84%) VPN
11 4 (0.67%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.67%) NX-OS
12 3 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.40%) NoSQL
2 59 (9.88%) MongoDB
3 58 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (7.71%) DynamoDB
5 39 (6.53%) MySQL
6 32 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.85%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (2.18%) Pinecone
11 12 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.84%) Big Data
12 11 (1.84%) Redis
13 8 (1.34%) Chroma
13 8 (1.34%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.17%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.17%) InfluxDB
14 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
15 4 (0.67%) Power BI
15 4 (0.67%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 262 (43.89%) Jenkins
2 196 (32.83%) Git
3 70 (11.73%) Cucumber
4 67 (11.22%) SonarQube
5 61 (10.22%) JIRA
6 56 (9.38%) Cypress.io
7 45 (7.54%) Selenium
8 32 (5.36%) Postman
9 30 (5.03%) JUnit
10 26 (4.36%) Maven
11 23 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 20 (3.35%) JMeter
12 20 (3.35%) REST Assured
13 19 (3.18%) Gatling
14 15 (2.51%) Bitbucket
15 14 (2.35%) Spock
15 14 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
16 13 (2.18%) CircleCI
17 12 (2.01%) Robot Framework
17 12 (2.01%) Vite
General
1 155 (25.96%) Social Skills
2 133 (22.28%) Finance
3 98 (16.42%) Public Sector
4 62 (10.39%) Banking
5 50 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (3.35%) Marketing
8 15 (2.51%) Aerospace
8 15 (2.51%) Financial Institution
9 14 (2.35%) Games
9 14 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.84%) Law
10 11 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.68%) Electronics
12 9 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.17%) Legal
14 5 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.67%) Automotive
15 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 155 (25.96%) Senior
2 136 (22.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 83 (13.90%) Developer
4 62 (10.39%) Software Engineer
5 51 (8.54%) Lead
6 48 (8.04%) Principal Engineer
7 46 (7.71%) Java Engineer
8 42 (7.04%) Senior DevOps
8 42 (7.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 36 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (5.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 32 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 29 (4.86%) Test Engineer
13 27 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
13 27 (4.52%) Java Developer
14 26 (4.36%) Architect
14 26 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
14 26 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
15 23 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (48.91%) Terraform
2 86 (14.41%) Spring
3 85 (14.24%) Spring Boot
4 82 (13.74%) Kafka
5 66 (11.06%) React
6 65 (10.89%) REST
7 61 (10.22%) AngularJS
8 60 (10.05%) Node.js
9 53 (8.88%) RESTful
10 42 (7.04%) Elastic Stack
10 42 (7.04%) Playwright
11 32 (5.36%) .NET
11 32 (5.36%) Jest
12 30 (5.03%) RabbitMQ
13 24 (4.02%) LangChain
14 23 (3.85%) JSON
14 23 (3.85%) SOAP
15 22 (3.69%) Vue
16 21 (3.52%) Gherkin
16 21 (3.52%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 180 (30.15%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.40%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (9.55%) Product Ownership
4 42 (7.04%) Public Cloud
5 37 (6.20%) Enterprise Software
6 36 (6.03%) e-Learning
7 25 (4.19%) Private Cloud
8 24 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (2.85%) Algorithms
10 16 (2.68%) Data Centre
11 13 (2.18%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.18%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.68%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.51%) Blockchain
13 9 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
13 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
14 8 (1.34%) Web3
15 7 (1.17%) IoT
15 7 (1.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 172 (28.81%) Linux
2 61 (10.22%) Windows
3 43 (7.20%) CentOS
4 33 (5.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.19%) Unix
6 18 (3.02%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.51%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.84%) Kali Linux
8 5 (0.84%) VMS
9 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Debian
11 2 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (91.29%) CI/CD
2 400 (67.00%) DevOps
3 325 (54.44%) Agile
4 293 (49.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 225 (37.69%) Test Automation
6 191 (31.99%) Microservices
7 181 (30.32%) Containerisation
8 142 (23.79%) Mentoring
9 135 (22.61%) Software Engineering
10 128 (21.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 113 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
12 106 (17.76%) Observability
13 103 (17.25%) AI
14 102 (17.09%) Scrum
15 92 (15.41%) SDLC
16 88 (14.74%) Coaching
16 88 (14.74%) Full-Stack Development
17 83 (13.90%) Continuous Integration
18 81 (13.57%) Platform Engineering
19 78 (13.07%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 274 (45.90%) Python
2 203 (34.00%) Java
3 149 (24.96%) Bash
4 117 (19.60%) SQL
5 95 (15.91%) JavaScript
6 86 (14.41%) TypeScript
7 73 (12.23%) PowerShell
8 40 (6.70%) Go
9 35 (5.86%) Groovy
10 34 (5.70%) C#
11 32 (5.36%) C++
12 19 (3.18%) Rust
13 17 (2.85%) Apex Code
14 15 (2.51%) SOQL
14 15 (2.51%) SOSL
15 11 (1.84%) C
15 11 (1.84%) PHP
16 9 (1.51%) Perl
16 9 (1.51%) Scala
17 7 (1.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 233 (39.03%) Security Cleared
2 149 (24.96%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.23%) Degree
4 72 (12.06%) AWS Certification
5 50 (8.38%) DV Cleared
6 42 (7.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 26 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.85%) Master's Degree
9 21 (3.52%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (3.02%) ISTQB
11 16 (2.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 16 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (2.51%) RHCSA
13 13 (2.18%) CCNA
14 12 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (1.84%) OSCP
16 8 (1.34%) RHCE
17 7 (1.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 7 (1.17%) Oracle Certification
18 6 (1.01%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (14.91%) QA
2 33 (5.53%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.35%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.02%) WCAG
5 16 (2.68%) GDPR
6 11 (1.84%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.17%) SLA
9 6 (1.01%) JTAG
9 6 (1.01%) NIST
9 6 (1.01%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.67%) ISO 20022
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
1 286 (47.91%) Docker
2 26 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.01%) vSphere
5 8 (1.34%) Squid
5 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Firmware
7 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 266 (44.56%) Kubernetes
2 149 (24.96%) Ansible
3 88 (14.74%) Grafana
4 63 (10.55%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.70%) Argo
6 22 (3.69%) Nagios
6 22 (3.69%) Puppet
7 21 (3.52%) HP Fortify
8 20 (3.35%) Kibana
9 17 (2.85%) logstash
10 14 (2.35%) Packer
11 10 (1.68%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.51%) Podman
13 8 (1.34%) vCenter Server
13 8 (1.34%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
14 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.67%) Istio
15 3 (0.50%) linkerd
15 3 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (11.73%) Splunk
2 51 (8.54%) Red Hat
3 50 (8.38%) Microsoft
4 35 (5.86%) VMware
5 21 (3.52%) AppDynamics
5 21 (3.52%) Oracle
5 21 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.85%) Google
7 16 (2.68%) OpenAI
8 15 (2.51%) Atlassian
9 14 (2.35%) Mistral
10 12 (2.01%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.84%) Cisco
11 11 (1.84%) Rapid7
12 10 (1.68%) Databricks
13 9 (1.51%) SAP
14 7 (1.17%) Intel
14 7 (1.17%) OneLogin
14 7 (1.17%) Veracode
15 6 (1.01%) NVIDIA