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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 358 325
Rank change year-on-year +17 -33 -49
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 372 382 649
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.78% 0.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.46% 7.38% 8.10%
Number of salaries quoted 224 173 549
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £35,920
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -11.86%
75th Percentile £88,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +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 3,931 5,179 8,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.73% 10.59% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,538 3,026 6,439
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -1.79%

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 February 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 20 February 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 +6 309 £80,000 +10.34% 247
UK excluding London +6 213 £67,500 -3.57% 174
Work from Home +22 137 £74,750 +15.00% 115
London -7 114 £85,000 -5.56% 98
North of England +37 85 £67,500 - 41
Yorkshire +3 52 £77,500 +50.54% 14
South East -31 46 £72,500 -3.33% 65
South West -33 30 £72,500 +18.37% 22
Scotland -3 27 - - 3
North West +6 26 £65,000 -5.45% 21
Midlands -12 16 £55,200 -19.71% 22
West Midlands +5 13 £56,350 -6.08% 18
East of England +11 8 £67,500 -6.90% 18
North East -6 7 £66,250 -5.36% 6
East Midlands -18 3 £55,200 -31.00% 4
Wales - 3 £55,200 - 3

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 (5.91%) Confluence
2 16 (4.30%) Apache
3 9 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.34%) IIS
4 5 (1.34%) OpenStack
4 5 (1.34%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.81%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.81%) nginx
7 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 226 (60.75%) AWS
2 141 (37.90%) Azure
3 110 (29.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 88 (23.66%) Serverless
5 84 (22.58%) GitHub
6 75 (20.16%) AWS Lambda
7 67 (18.01%) GCP
8 57 (15.32%) Amazon S3
8 57 (15.32%) GitHub Actions
9 50 (13.44%) Amazon ECS
10 44 (11.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (10.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 37 (9.95%) OpenShift
13 35 (9.41%) Amazon ECR
14 33 (8.87%) Apigee
15 32 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
16 30 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (6.99%) Datadog
18 16 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.80%) Broadband
2 27 (7.26%) DNS
3 19 (5.11%) Firewall
4 9 (2.42%) DSL
4 9 (2.42%) VPN
5 6 (1.61%) BGP
5 6 (1.61%) DHCP
5 6 (1.61%) WAN
6 5 (1.34%) MQTT
6 5 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.08%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (1.08%) LAN
7 4 (1.08%) MPLS
7 4 (1.08%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (1.08%) VoIP
7 4 (1.08%) VPLS
8 3 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.81%) VLAN
9 2 (0.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.83%) DynamoDB
2 40 (10.75%) NoSQL
3 29 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (6.99%) SQL Server
5 25 (6.72%) MongoDB
6 22 (5.91%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.69%) MySQL
9 7 (1.88%) Power BI
10 5 (1.34%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.34%) CockroachDB
10 5 (1.34%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.08%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.81%) Data Vault
12 3 (0.81%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.81%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 209 (56.18%) Jenkins
2 87 (23.39%) Git
3 74 (19.89%) SonarQube
4 44 (11.83%) JIRA
5 37 (9.95%) Cypress.io
6 35 (9.41%) Cucumber
6 35 (9.41%) Maven
7 23 (6.18%) Bitbucket
7 23 (6.18%) Selenium
8 19 (5.11%) CircleCI
9 17 (4.57%) JUnit
10 12 (3.23%) Postman
11 11 (2.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (2.15%) Subversion
13 6 (1.61%) REST Assured
14 5 (1.34%) JMeter
14 5 (1.34%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.34%) TestNG
15 4 (1.08%) Vite
16 3 (0.81%) TestRail
General
1 96 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 76 (20.43%) Finance
3 42 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.41%) Marketing
5 31 (8.33%) Games
6 30 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (7.26%) Telecoms
8 20 (5.38%) Banking
9 17 (4.57%) Advertising
9 17 (4.57%) Public Sector
10 15 (4.03%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.42%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.61%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.08%) Electronics
15 4 (1.08%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.54%) Automotive
16 2 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 66 (17.74%) Developer
2 61 (16.40%) Lead
3 60 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (13.98%) Senior
5 38 (10.22%) Architect
5 38 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 26 (6.99%) Java Developer
6 26 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
6 26 (6.99%) Salesforce Architect
7 25 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (6.18%) Software Engineer
9 19 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 16 (4.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.76%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 14 (3.76%) Security Engineer
11 14 (3.76%) Technical Architect
12 13 (3.49%) Software Developer
13 12 (3.23%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.23%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.96%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (16.13%) Spring Boot
2 45 (12.10%) REST
3 43 (11.56%) Elastic Stack
3 43 (11.56%) Spring
4 40 (10.75%) Kafka
5 39 (10.48%) AngularJS
6 33 (8.87%) Gherkin
7 32 (8.60%) Jest
8 31 (8.33%) SOAP
9 28 (7.53%) Lightning Web Components
9 28 (7.53%) Visualforce
10 23 (6.18%) React
11 22 (5.91%) RESTful
12 18 (4.84%) Node.js
12 18 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
13 14 (3.76%) pytest
14 12 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
14 12 (3.23%) AWS CDK
15 11 (2.96%) FastAPI
15 11 (2.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.29%) Product Ownership
3 20 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (3.76%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 9 (2.42%) Blockchain
6 9 (2.42%) Cloud Security Posture
6 9 (2.42%) Private Cloud
6 9 (2.42%) Web3
7 8 (2.15%) e-Learning
8 7 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.88%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.61%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.34%) PKI
10 5 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.81%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 95 (25.54%) Linux
2 33 (8.87%) Windows
3 12 (3.23%) Ubuntu
3 12 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.96%) Unix
5 10 (2.69%) CentOS
6 6 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.34%) Debian
7 5 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.27%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (83.06%) CI/CD
2 257 (69.09%) DevOps
3 177 (47.58%) Agile
4 154 (41.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 107 (28.76%) Containerisation
6 102 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (21.77%) Continuous Integration
9 71 (19.09%) Microservices
10 67 (18.01%) Scrum
11 66 (17.74%) Observability
11 66 (17.74%) Test Automation
12 65 (17.47%) Software Engineering
13 58 (15.59%) Mentoring
14 55 (14.78%) Event-Driven
15 47 (12.63%) DevSecOps
15 47 (12.63%) Roadmaps
16 46 (12.37%) Continuous Delivery
16 46 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 42 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 182 (48.92%) Python
2 108 (29.03%) Java
3 103 (27.69%) Bash
4 66 (17.74%) TypeScript
5 61 (16.40%) SQL
6 49 (13.17%) JavaScript
7 38 (10.22%) Go
8 36 (9.68%) PowerShell
9 29 (7.80%) Groovy
10 28 (7.53%) Apex Code
10 28 (7.53%) SOQL
10 28 (7.53%) SOSL
11 15 (4.03%) Rust
12 13 (3.49%) C#
13 8 (2.15%) Delphi
14 7 (1.88%) ANSI SQL
14 7 (1.88%) C++
15 6 (1.61%) Bicep
16 4 (1.08%) Perl
17 3 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 83 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 41 (11.02%) AWS Certification
3 36 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 35 (9.41%) Degree
5 33 (8.87%) SC Cleared
6 17 (4.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 16 (4.30%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (2.96%) OSCP
11 9 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (2.15%) ISTQB
13 7 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (1.34%) CCNA
15 5 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
16 3 (0.81%) CISSP
16 3 (0.81%) LPIC
16 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (11.83%) QA
2 12 (3.23%) NIST
3 9 (2.42%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.15%) GDPR
5 7 (1.88%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.61%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.54%) ECSS
9 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 156 (41.94%) Docker
2 21 (5.65%) Active Directory
2 21 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.34%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.34%) vSphere
5 2 (0.54%) Firmware
5 2 (0.54%) NFS
5 2 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.27%) Squid
Systems Management
1 165 (44.35%) Terraform
2 157 (42.20%) Kubernetes
3 97 (26.08%) Ansible
4 86 (23.12%) Grafana
5 78 (20.97%) Prometheus
6 30 (8.06%) HP Fortify
7 10 (2.69%) Puppet
8 9 (2.42%) Kibana
9 8 (2.15%) Nagios
9 8 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.88%) Argo
11 6 (1.61%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.61%) Rancher
12 5 (1.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (1.08%) logstash
13 4 (1.08%) vCenter Server
13 4 (1.08%) WSUS
14 3 (0.81%) Istio
14 3 (0.81%) vRealize
14 3 (0.81%) VxRail
Vendors
1 62 (16.67%) Splunk
2 36 (9.68%) Oracle
3 33 (8.87%) Microsoft
4 29 (7.80%) Salesforce
5 23 (6.18%) VMware
6 21 (5.65%) Atlassian
7 19 (5.11%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.69%) Cisco
9 8 (2.15%) Google
10 6 (1.61%) SAP
11 5 (1.34%) AppDynamics
11 5 (1.34%) Juniper
12 4 (1.08%) Dell
12 4 (1.08%) OpenAI
12 4 (1.08%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.81%) BeyondTrust
13 3 (0.81%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.81%) F5
13 3 (0.81%) IBM
13 3 (0.81%) Rapid7