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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 370 367
Rank change year-on-year +45 -3 -64
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 498 319 729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.75% 0.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.05% 7.71% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 300 189 554
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,375 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,625 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +15.20% +4.17%

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 4,133 4,137 9,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.59% 9.78% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,700 2,958 6,753
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,125 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,050 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.74% +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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +44 432 £75,000 -3.23% 205
UK excluding London +30 296 £67,500 -6.25% 139
Work from Home +49 170 £69,310 -0.99% 114
London -7 155 £83,375 -4.71% 71
North of England +9 117 £69,310 +3.39% 49
South East +17 76 £68,750 -9.84% 30
Yorkshire -4 75 £73,405 +4.86% 7
South West -61 42 £65,000 +4.00% 18
Scotland -15 35 £95,000 +11.76% 4
North West -24 28 £65,000 -3.04% 23
Midlands -34 19 £55,200 -21.14% 29
West Midlands -21 18 £56,350 -19.50% 18
North East -24 14 £65,576 +2.86% 19
East of England -27 7 £67,500 -12.90% 10
Wales -27 2 £55,200 +69.85% 1
Northern Ireland -39 1 £72,500 - 2
East Midlands -49 1 £55,200 -21.14% 11

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 24 (4.82%) Confluence
2 19 (3.82%) Apache
3 8 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.80%) IIS
5 4 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.80%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.60%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.60%) JBoss
7 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 303 (60.84%) AWS
2 190 (38.15%) Azure
3 139 (27.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 110 (22.09%) Serverless
5 98 (19.68%) GitHub
6 97 (19.48%) AWS Lambda
7 83 (16.67%) Amazon S3
8 76 (15.26%) GCP
9 61 (12.25%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (11.65%) Amazon ECS
11 58 (11.65%) AWS Step Functions
12 49 (9.84%) Amazon ECR
13 48 (9.64%) Apigee
13 48 (9.64%) OpenShift
14 45 (9.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
16 38 (7.63%) Datadog
17 35 (7.03%) Azure AKS
18 33 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 40 (8.03%) Broadband
2 30 (6.02%) DNS
3 28 (5.62%) Firewall
4 13 (2.61%) DSL
5 9 (1.81%) LAN
6 8 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
6 8 (1.61%) WAN
7 6 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (1.20%) DHCP
7 6 (1.20%) Network Security
8 5 (1.00%) BGP
8 5 (1.00%) TCP/IP
8 5 (1.00%) VPN
9 4 (0.80%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (0.80%) HTTP
9 4 (0.80%) IPv4
9 4 (0.80%) MPLS
9 4 (0.80%) MQTT
9 4 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.80%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (13.25%) DynamoDB
2 53 (10.64%) NoSQL
3 46 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (8.63%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (3.61%) MySQL
8 16 (3.21%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.81%) Pinecone
10 8 (1.61%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.20%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.00%) Big Data
12 5 (1.00%) CockroachDB
13 4 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.60%) Power BI
15 2 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
15 2 (0.40%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 252 (50.60%) Jenkins
2 124 (24.90%) Git
3 103 (20.68%) SonarQube
4 60 (12.05%) Cypress.io
5 50 (10.04%) Cucumber
6 49 (9.84%) JIRA
7 45 (9.04%) Maven
8 33 (6.63%) Selenium
9 28 (5.62%) CircleCI
10 26 (5.22%) Bitbucket
11 17 (3.41%) JUnit
12 15 (3.01%) Visual Studio Code
13 13 (2.61%) Postman
13 13 (2.61%) REST Assured
14 11 (2.21%) JMeter
15 10 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 10 (2.01%) Vite
16 8 (1.61%) Gatling
17 6 (1.20%) LoadRunner
17 6 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 112 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 96 (19.28%) Finance
3 44 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 41 (8.23%) Banking
6 39 (7.83%) Marketing
7 38 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 34 (6.83%) Games
9 23 (4.62%) Telecoms
10 16 (3.21%) Advertising
11 15 (3.01%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.21%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Electronics
14 6 (1.20%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.00%) Automotive
15 5 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 107 (21.49%) Senior
2 96 (19.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 84 (16.87%) Developer
4 67 (13.45%) Lead
5 51 (10.24%) Architect
5 51 (10.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 40 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 39 (7.83%) Java Developer
8 35 (7.03%) Software Engineer
9 33 (6.63%) Salesforce Architect
9 33 (6.63%) Senior DevOps
10 27 (5.42%) Senior Developer
10 27 (5.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 24 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
11 24 (4.82%) Security Engineer
12 20 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (3.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (3.61%) Salesforce Technical Architect
14 18 (3.61%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (14.86%) Spring Boot
2 60 (12.05%) REST
3 53 (10.64%) AngularJS
4 52 (10.44%) Kafka
5 47 (9.44%) Spring
6 46 (9.24%) Elastic Stack
6 46 (9.24%) Gherkin
7 44 (8.84%) Jest
8 35 (7.03%) Node.js
8 35 (7.03%) SOAP
9 34 (6.83%) Lightning Web Components
9 34 (6.83%) RabbitMQ
9 34 (6.83%) Visualforce
10 30 (6.02%) RESTful
11 28 (5.62%) React
12 22 (4.42%) YAML
13 20 (4.02%) JSON
14 16 (3.21%) AWS CDK
14 16 (3.21%) gRPC
14 16 (3.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 90 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 63 (12.65%) Product Ownership
3 30 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (3.41%) Blockchain
4 17 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (3.21%) Algorithms
5 16 (3.21%) Public Cloud
5 16 (3.21%) Security Posture
5 16 (3.21%) Web3
6 14 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.61%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (2.61%) Data Centre
8 11 (2.21%) e-Learning
9 10 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.41%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 126 (25.30%) Linux
2 53 (10.64%) Windows
3 25 (5.02%) Unix
4 17 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 16 (3.21%) CentOS
6 11 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.80%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.40%) Android
10 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.40%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (86.55%) CI/CD
2 350 (70.28%) DevOps
3 252 (50.60%) Agile
4 215 (43.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 143 (28.71%) Containerisation
6 124 (24.90%) Microservices
7 121 (24.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 119 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
9 113 (22.69%) Continuous Integration
10 111 (22.29%) Test Automation
11 98 (19.68%) Scrum
12 92 (18.47%) Mentoring
13 88 (17.67%) Software Engineering
14 85 (17.07%) Observability
15 73 (14.66%) Continuous Delivery
16 72 (14.46%) Event-Driven
17 71 (14.26%) DevSecOps
18 66 (13.25%) SDLC
19 60 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 60 (12.05%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 234 (46.99%) Python
2 149 (29.92%) Java
3 138 (27.71%) Bash
4 77 (15.46%) TypeScript
5 67 (13.45%) SQL
6 54 (10.84%) JavaScript
7 50 (10.04%) Go
8 48 (9.64%) PowerShell
9 47 (9.44%) Groovy
10 34 (6.83%) Apex Code
10 34 (6.83%) SOQL
10 34 (6.83%) SOSL
11 25 (5.02%) Rust
12 22 (4.42%) C#
13 21 (4.22%) C++
14 8 (1.61%) Delphi
14 8 (1.61%) Perl
15 6 (1.20%) Bicep
16 5 (1.00%) ANSI SQL
17 4 (0.80%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 135 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 58 (11.65%) Degree
4 55 (11.04%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.02%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 25 (5.02%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (4.22%) OSCP
9 16 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (2.81%) Master's Degree
11 13 (2.61%) ISTQB
12 12 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.81%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (1.81%) CCNA
15 6 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 6 (1.20%) RHCSA
16 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.80%) CISSP
16 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (11.65%) QA
2 17 (3.41%) GDPR
2 17 (3.41%) NIST
3 13 (2.61%) SOC 2
4 12 (2.41%) PCI DSS
5 10 (2.01%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.41%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 206 (41.37%) Docker
2 27 (5.42%) Active Directory
2 27 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.61%) VMware NSX
3 8 (1.61%) vSphere
4 7 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.80%) Squid
7 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 247 (49.60%) Terraform
2 210 (42.17%) Kubernetes
3 121 (24.30%) Ansible
4 94 (18.88%) Grafana
5 78 (15.66%) Prometheus
6 45 (9.04%) HP Fortify
7 27 (5.42%) Argo
8 16 (3.21%) Nagios
9 15 (3.01%) Kibana
10 11 (2.21%) logstash
10 11 (2.21%) Puppet
11 9 (1.81%) Packer
12 8 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (1.41%) vCenter Server
14 6 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.80%) Rancher
15 4 (0.80%) VxRail
15 4 (0.80%) WSUS
15 4 (0.80%) ZABBIX
16 3 (0.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 72 (14.46%) Splunk
2 44 (8.84%) Red Hat
3 37 (7.43%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.03%) Salesforce
5 33 (6.63%) VMware
6 30 (6.02%) Oracle
7 17 (3.41%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.61%) Cisco
9 12 (2.41%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.81%) Google
11 8 (1.61%) Juniper
12 7 (1.41%) IBM
12 7 (1.41%) Rapid7
13 6 (1.20%) AppDynamics
13 6 (1.20%) F5
13 6 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.00%) Veracode
15 4 (0.80%) BeyondTrust
15 4 (0.80%) Dell