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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 275 309
Rank change year-on-year -68 +34 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 602 520 648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 1.06% 0.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.86% 14.00% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 360 170 297
10th Percentile £47,375 £51,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,563 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,625 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +12.00% -3.85%

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 4,682 3,714 6,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.59% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,923 2,204 3,777
10th Percentile £37,300 £36,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 22 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 22 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 -49 557 £69,310 -10.57% 630
UK excluding London -116 385 £65,576 -6.32% 403
London -7 179 £88,750 +2.01% 278
North of England -50 161 £69,310 +2.68% 119
Work from Home -182 122 £66,538 -16.83% 293
South East +11 79 £65,000 -13.33% 58
South West -32 77 £72,500 +3.57% 83
North East -13 58 £57,500 -13.21% 29
North West -96 56 £69,655 +13.72% 64
Yorkshire -12 50 £73,750 -1.67% 26
Midlands -82 39 £60,000 -14.29% 46
West Midlands -55 26 £50,000 -38.46% 39
East Midlands -60 13 £60,000 -1.64% 7
Scotland -42 12 £110,000 +47.65% 33
Wales -67 10 £55,000 -8.33% 5
East of England -48 9 £60,000 -7.69% 39
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 21

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 31 (5.15%) Apache
2 26 (4.32%) Confluence
3 24 (3.99%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (3.32%) Apache Spark
5 17 (2.82%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.50%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.33%) nginx
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 391 (64.95%) AWS
2 212 (35.22%) Azure
3 143 (23.75%) GitHub
4 111 (18.44%) AWS CloudFormation
5 83 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 80 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (12.79%) GCP
7 77 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
8 76 (12.62%) Serverless
9 61 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 53 (8.80%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (8.14%) Amazon ECR
13 44 (7.31%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (6.64%) Azure AKS
16 35 (5.81%) OpenShift
17 26 (4.32%) AWS Step Functions
18 24 (3.99%) Amazon SQS
19 21 (3.49%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.49%) DNS
2 19 (3.16%) Firewall
3 18 (2.99%) Broadband
4 12 (1.99%) Network Security
5 11 (1.83%) HTTP
5 11 (1.83%) MQTT
5 11 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.33%) DHCP
6 8 (1.33%) IPv4
6 8 (1.33%) LAN
6 8 (1.33%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.16%) VPN
7 7 (1.16%) WAN
8 6 (1.00%) BGP
8 6 (1.00%) NX-OS
8 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.00%) Wireless
8 6 (1.00%) ZigBee
9 4 (0.66%) Bluetooth
10 3 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.96%) NoSQL
2 64 (10.63%) MongoDB
3 62 (10.30%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (7.64%) DynamoDB
5 40 (6.64%) MySQL
6 29 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (3.99%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (2.49%) Redis
10 14 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.33%) Pinecone
11 11 (1.83%) Big Data
12 10 (1.66%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.50%) Chroma
14 8 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 7 (1.16%) SQL Server
16 6 (1.00%) DocumentDB
16 6 (1.00%) InfluxDB
17 5 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 263 (43.69%) Jenkins
2 203 (33.72%) Git
3 74 (12.29%) Cucumber
4 69 (11.46%) JIRA
5 60 (9.97%) SonarQube
6 56 (9.30%) Cypress.io
7 41 (6.81%) Selenium
8 34 (5.65%) Postman
9 29 (4.82%) JUnit
10 27 (4.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 27 (4.49%) Maven
11 19 (3.16%) JMeter
12 15 (2.49%) Gatling
12 15 (2.49%) Vite
13 14 (2.33%) REST Assured
13 14 (2.33%) Spock
13 14 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
14 13 (2.16%) Bitbucket
15 12 (1.99%) Robot Framework
16 11 (1.83%) Artifactory
General
1 158 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 131 (21.76%) Finance
3 106 (17.61%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.97%) Banking
5 51 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (2.99%) Aerospace
8 17 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 17 (2.82%) Marketing
9 14 (2.33%) Law
10 13 (2.16%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.66%) Electronics
12 8 (1.33%) Legal
12 8 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.00%) Games
14 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (0.66%) Automotive
15 4 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.50%) Military
16 3 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (25.08%) Senior
2 137 (22.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (14.78%) Developer
4 65 (10.80%) Software Engineer
5 54 (8.97%) Principal Engineer
6 52 (8.64%) Java Engineer
7 50 (8.31%) Lead
8 37 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 37 (6.15%) Senior DevOps
8 37 (6.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 35 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (4.98%) Test Engineer
11 29 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 28 (4.65%) Java Developer
13 25 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
13 25 (4.15%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 25 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (3.82%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (49.17%) Terraform
2 91 (15.12%) Spring
3 90 (14.95%) Spring Boot
4 87 (14.45%) Kafka
5 71 (11.79%) React
6 64 (10.63%) AngularJS
7 63 (10.47%) Node.js
7 63 (10.47%) RESTful
8 59 (9.80%) REST
9 43 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
9 43 (7.14%) Playwright
10 36 (5.98%) Jest
11 34 (5.65%) .NET
12 27 (4.49%) Gherkin
13 26 (4.32%) RabbitMQ
13 26 (4.32%) Vue
14 25 (4.15%) LangChain
15 23 (3.82%) FastAPI
16 22 (3.65%) Next.js
17 21 (3.49%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 192 (31.89%) Cloud Native
2 83 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (9.14%) Product Ownership
4 47 (7.81%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.64%) e-Learning
6 39 (6.48%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (4.32%) Private Cloud
8 20 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.99%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.82%) Algorithms
11 14 (2.33%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.99%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.83%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.50%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.16%) IoT
16 6 (1.00%) ARM Cortex
16 6 (1.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 183 (30.40%) Linux
2 61 (10.13%) Windows
3 44 (7.31%) CentOS
4 37 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (4.32%) Unix
6 18 (2.99%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.66%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.83%) VMS
9 4 (0.66%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.50%) Debian
10 3 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.50%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.33%) Android
11 2 (0.33%) Rocky
11 2 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (90.53%) CI/CD
2 398 (66.11%) DevOps
3 345 (57.31%) Agile
4 298 (49.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 239 (39.70%) Test Automation
6 194 (32.23%) Microservices
7 169 (28.07%) Containerisation
8 145 (24.09%) Mentoring
8 145 (24.09%) Software Engineering
9 125 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
11 114 (18.94%) AI
12 108 (17.94%) Observability
13 105 (17.44%) SDLC
14 103 (17.11%) Scrum
15 95 (15.78%) Full-Stack Development
16 92 (15.28%) Coaching
17 84 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
18 80 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
19 78 (12.96%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 280 (46.51%) Python
2 210 (34.88%) Java
3 152 (25.25%) Bash
4 125 (20.76%) SQL
5 102 (16.94%) JavaScript
6 101 (16.78%) TypeScript
7 78 (12.96%) PowerShell
8 37 (6.15%) Go
8 37 (6.15%) Groovy
9 36 (5.98%) C++
10 35 (5.81%) C#
11 20 (3.32%) Rust
12 14 (2.33%) PHP
13 11 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.66%) Apex Code
14 10 (1.66%) C
15 9 (1.50%) Perl
16 8 (1.33%) SOQL
16 8 (1.33%) SOSL
17 7 (1.16%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 255 (42.36%) Security Cleared
2 166 (27.57%) SC Cleared
3 82 (13.62%) Degree
4 75 (12.46%) AWS Certification
5 60 (9.97%) DV Cleared
6 45 (7.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.82%) Master's Degree
9 22 (3.65%) ITIL Certification
10 17 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.66%) ISTQB
12 15 (2.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 15 (2.49%) CCNA
12 15 (2.49%) RHCSA
13 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.50%) OSCP
15 8 (1.33%) RHCE
16 7 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (15.61%) QA
2 30 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 21 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.99%) WCAG
5 10 (1.66%) GDPR
6 9 (1.50%) SLA
7 8 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.00%) JTAG
10 4 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.66%) NIST
11 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 295 (49.00%) Docker
2 27 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.33%) vSphere
5 8 (1.33%) Squid
5 8 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) Firmware
7 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 262 (43.52%) Kubernetes
2 151 (25.08%) Ansible
3 86 (14.29%) Grafana
4 63 (10.47%) Prometheus
5 42 (6.98%) Argo
6 23 (3.82%) Puppet
7 21 (3.49%) HP Fortify
7 21 (3.49%) Kibana
8 20 (3.32%) Nagios
9 17 (2.82%) logstash
10 14 (2.33%) Packer
11 10 (1.66%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.50%) Podman
13 8 (1.33%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.16%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.00%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.50%) Istio
17 3 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 61 (10.13%) Splunk
2 53 (8.80%) Microsoft
3 39 (6.48%) Red Hat
4 37 (6.15%) VMware
5 22 (3.65%) Oracle
6 20 (3.32%) AppDynamics
7 19 (3.16%) Google
8 17 (2.82%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.49%) Mistral
10 14 (2.33%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.33%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.83%) Databricks
12 10 (1.66%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.50%) Rapid7
13 9 (1.50%) SAP
14 7 (1.16%) Cisco
14 7 (1.16%) NVIDIA
14 7 (1.16%) OneLogin
14 7 (1.16%) Pega
14 7 (1.16%) Veracode