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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 265 313
Rank change year-on-year -60 +48 +14
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 639 530 589
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.08% 0.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.30% 14.15% 9.63%
Number of salaries quoted 389 173 271
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +14.81% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £84,625
90th Percentile £110,500 £108,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,250 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.36% +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 4,803 3,745 6,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.04% 7.61% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,930 2,208 3,448
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,574
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 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -44 591 £70,000 -9.68% 663
UK excluding London -118 407 £66,250 -5.36% 386
London -5 189 £95,000 +5.56% 300
North of England -41 180 £67,500 -1.82% 127
Work from Home -181 129 £68,405 -14.49% 384
South West -20 84 £75,000 +7.14% 67
North East -2 73 £60,000 -9.43% 29
North West -74 71 £69,310 +10.90% 73
South East -5 70 £65,000 -14.75% 53
Yorkshire -4 45 £72,500 -3.33% 25
Midlands -78 42 £60,000 -14.29% 42
West Midlands -50 28 £63,750 -21.54% 34
East Midlands -58 14 £60,000 -1.64% 8
East of England -62 11 £53,000 -3.64% 40
Wales -59 10 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Scotland -48 9 £87,500 +17.45% 31
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 16

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 37 (5.79%) Apache
2 32 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (4.54%) Confluence
4 26 (4.07%) Apache Spark
5 22 (3.44%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.10%) nginx
7 6 (0.94%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.47%) IIS
9 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
1 1 (0.16%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 420 (65.73%) AWS
2 231 (36.15%) Azure
3 178 (27.86%) GitHub
4 114 (17.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 93 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
6 87 (13.62%) Amazon S3
7 83 (12.99%) GCP
8 82 (12.83%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (11.11%) Serverless
10 68 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 61 (9.55%) Amazon ECS
12 56 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (7.36%) Amazon ECR
14 46 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (5.95%) OpenShift
16 34 (5.32%) Azure AKS
17 33 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (4.07%) Amazon SQS
19 24 (3.76%) Datadog
20 23 (3.60%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.23%) DNS
2 19 (2.97%) Firewall
3 14 (2.19%) Network Security
4 13 (2.03%) Broadband
4 13 (2.03%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.88%) HTTP
6 11 (1.72%) MQTT
7 9 (1.41%) VPN
8 8 (1.25%) DHCP
9 6 (0.94%) BGP
9 6 (0.94%) IPv4
9 6 (0.94%) NX-OS
9 6 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
9 6 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.94%) Wireless
9 6 (0.94%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.78%) LAN
11 4 (0.63%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.63%) WAN
12 3 (0.47%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (13.77%) NoSQL
2 72 (11.27%) MongoDB
3 70 (10.95%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (6.42%) MySQL
5 37 (5.79%) DynamoDB
6 30 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 21 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (2.97%) Redis
10 18 (2.82%) Pinecone
11 14 (2.19%) Chroma
12 13 (2.03%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.88%) Big Data
14 9 (1.41%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.41%) Power BI
15 7 (1.10%) DocumentDB
15 7 (1.10%) SQL Server
16 6 (0.94%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 268 (41.94%) Jenkins
2 215 (33.65%) Git
3 77 (12.05%) Cucumber
4 70 (10.95%) JIRA
5 49 (7.67%) Cypress.io
6 43 (6.73%) SonarQube
7 39 (6.10%) Selenium
8 33 (5.16%) Postman
9 32 (5.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 29 (4.54%) JUnit
11 21 (3.29%) Maven
12 19 (2.97%) JMeter
13 17 (2.66%) Gatling
14 14 (2.19%) Spock
14 14 (2.19%) Vite
15 13 (2.03%) REST Assured
16 12 (1.88%) Robot Framework
16 12 (1.88%) Zephyr
17 11 (1.72%) Artifactory
18 10 (1.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 177 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 143 (22.38%) Finance
3 121 (18.94%) Public Sector
4 63 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (9.08%) Banking
6 50 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (3.29%) Financial Institution
8 19 (2.97%) Aerospace
9 15 (2.35%) Law
10 14 (2.19%) Marketing
11 11 (1.72%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.25%) Electronics
13 8 (1.25%) Legal
14 5 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Military
16 2 (0.31%) Automotive
17 1 (0.16%) Advertising
17 1 (0.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 158 (24.73%) Senior
2 152 (23.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 96 (15.02%) Developer
4 67 (10.49%) Software Engineer
5 62 (9.70%) Principal Engineer
6 60 (9.39%) Java Engineer
7 51 (7.98%) Lead
8 42 (6.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 36 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
9 36 (5.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 34 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (5.01%) Test Engineer
12 30 (4.69%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
13 29 (4.54%) Senior Developer
14 26 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
14 26 (4.07%) Principal Java Engineer
14 26 (4.07%) Senior Java Engineer
14 26 (4.07%) Software Developer
15 25 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (48.98%) Terraform
2 105 (16.43%) Kafka
3 103 (16.12%) Spring
4 97 (15.18%) Spring Boot
5 81 (12.68%) React
6 69 (10.80%) RESTful
7 66 (10.33%) Node.js
8 60 (9.39%) REST
9 56 (8.76%) AngularJS
10 43 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
10 43 (6.73%) Playwright
11 39 (6.10%) .NET
12 31 (4.85%) Jest
13 30 (4.69%) FastAPI
14 29 (4.54%) LangChain
15 25 (3.91%) Vue
16 24 (3.76%) CSS
16 24 (3.76%) Gherkin
16 24 (3.76%) PySpark
17 21 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 212 (33.18%) Cloud Native
2 91 (14.24%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (8.76%) Product Ownership
4 53 (8.29%) Public Cloud
5 47 (7.36%) e-Learning
6 41 (6.42%) Enterprise Software
7 28 (4.38%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.66%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.50%) Data Centre
10 15 (2.35%) Virtual Team
11 14 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (2.03%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
14 10 (1.56%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
16 7 (1.10%) IoT
16 7 (1.10%) Management Information System
16 7 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
17 6 (0.94%) Device Driver
17 6 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 184 (28.79%) Linux
2 56 (8.76%) Windows
3 50 (7.82%) CentOS
4 43 (6.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (4.23%) Unix
6 15 (2.35%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.10%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.78%) VMS
9 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.63%) Rocky
9 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.47%) Android
10 3 (0.47%) Debian
10 3 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.47%) Kali Linux
10 3 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (91.55%) CI/CD
2 412 (64.48%) DevOps
3 366 (57.28%) Agile
4 329 (51.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 271 (42.41%) Test Automation
6 210 (32.86%) Microservices
7 188 (29.42%) Containerisation
8 168 (26.29%) Mentoring
9 164 (25.67%) Software Engineering
10 144 (22.54%) AI
11 142 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
13 131 (20.50%) Observability
14 113 (17.68%) SDLC
15 106 (16.59%) Technical Leadership
16 105 (16.43%) Platform Engineering
17 98 (15.34%) Coaching
17 98 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
18 96 (15.02%) Scrum
19 83 (12.99%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 301 (47.10%) Python
2 214 (33.49%) Java
3 156 (24.41%) Bash
4 148 (23.16%) SQL
5 108 (16.90%) TypeScript
6 106 (16.59%) JavaScript
7 81 (12.68%) PowerShell
8 37 (5.79%) Go
9 35 (5.48%) C#
10 34 (5.32%) C++
11 26 (4.07%) Groovy
12 19 (2.97%) Rust
13 14 (2.19%) PHP
14 12 (1.88%) C
14 12 (1.88%) Shell Script
15 11 (1.72%) Kotlin
16 8 (1.25%) Scala
17 7 (1.10%) Bicep
17 7 (1.10%) Ruby
18 5 (0.78%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 272 (42.57%) Security Cleared
2 181 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 82 (12.83%) AWS Certification
4 79 (12.36%) Degree
5 67 (10.49%) DV Cleared
6 51 (7.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 37 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (2.97%) Master's Degree
9 18 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
10 16 (2.50%) ISTQB
11 13 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (2.03%) RHCSA
12 12 (1.88%) CCNA
12 12 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (1.10%) Azure Certification
14 7 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.94%) MCSE
15 6 (0.94%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (15.34%) QA
2 31 (4.85%) Accessibility
3 29 (4.54%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.82%) WCAG
5 11 (1.72%) GDPR
6 10 (1.56%) SLA
7 8 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (1.10%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.94%) JTAG
10 4 (0.63%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.47%) NIST
11 3 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 322 (50.39%) Docker
2 24 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.88%) vSphere
5 8 (1.25%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.10%) Firmware
7 6 (0.94%) Squid
7 6 (0.94%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 278 (43.51%) Kubernetes
2 147 (23.00%) Ansible
3 97 (15.18%) Grafana
4 67 (10.49%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.26%) Argo
6 24 (3.76%) Puppet
7 22 (3.44%) Kibana
8 19 (2.97%) Nagios
9 17 (2.66%) logstash
10 14 (2.19%) HP Fortify
11 10 (1.56%) Packer
11 10 (1.56%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.41%) Podman
13 7 (1.10%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.94%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.94%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
16 3 (0.47%) Istio
16 3 (0.47%) linkerd
16 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (8.61%) Splunk
2 51 (7.98%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.79%) Red Hat
4 32 (5.01%) VMware
5 23 (3.60%) Oracle
6 21 (3.29%) OpenAI
7 19 (2.97%) Mistral
8 18 (2.82%) Google
9 17 (2.66%) Databricks
10 16 (2.50%) AppDynamics
10 16 (2.50%) Atlassian
11 12 (1.88%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.41%) Rapid7
12 9 (1.41%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.41%) SAP
13 8 (1.25%) YouTube
14 7 (1.10%) Cisco
14 7 (1.10%) NVIDIA
14 7 (1.10%) OneLogin
14 7 (1.10%) Pega