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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 345 364
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -77
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 437 318 708
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.78% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.47% 7.48% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 260 199 557
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,819 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,375 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £72,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.92% +15.20% +8.70%

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 4,173 4,251 9,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.01% 10.39% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,765 3,023 6,766
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £75,900 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -3 367 £75,000 -3.23% 210
UK excluding London -15 255 £65,576 -8.92% 163
Work from Home +41 158 £69,310 -0.99% 99
London -8 135 £82,500 -8.33% 56
North of England -18 97 £67,500 +0.69% 49
Yorkshire -6 67 £77,500 +10.71% 14
South East +1 66 £67,500 -15.63% 39
Scotland +2 35 £95,000 +8.57% 6
South West -56 35 £70,000 +12.00% 36
North West -34 22 £65,000 -3.04% 16
Midlands -50 17 £56,350 -13.31% 19
West Midlands -11 16 £57,500 -4.17% 12
North East -25 8 £68,076 -2.75% 19
East of England -43 6 £67,500 -12.90% 12
Wales -29 2 £55,200 +69.85% 4
East Midlands -58 1 £55,200 -31.00% 7

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 (5.03%) Confluence
2 17 (3.89%) Apache
3 8 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.14%) IIS
5 5 (1.14%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.69%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.69%) JBoss
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.23%) nginx
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 265 (60.64%) AWS
2 170 (38.90%) Azure
3 136 (31.12%) AWS CloudFormation
4 110 (25.17%) Serverless
5 96 (21.97%) AWS Lambda
5 96 (21.97%) GitHub
6 80 (18.31%) Amazon S3
7 75 (17.16%) GCP
8 65 (14.87%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (12.81%) AWS Step Functions
10 55 (12.59%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (10.98%) OpenShift
12 46 (10.53%) Amazon ECR
12 46 (10.53%) Apigee
13 44 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 43 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
15 39 (8.92%) Datadog
16 33 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (5.49%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.01%) Broadband
2 27 (6.18%) DNS
3 25 (5.72%) Firewall
4 13 (2.97%) DSL
5 6 (1.37%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.37%) DHCP
5 6 (1.37%) LAN
5 6 (1.37%) VPN
5 6 (1.37%) WAN
6 5 (1.14%) Network Security
6 5 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.92%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (0.92%) BGP
7 4 (0.92%) MPLS
7 4 (0.92%) MQTT
7 4 (0.92%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.92%) VoIP
7 4 (0.92%) VPLS
8 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (13.73%) DynamoDB
2 50 (11.44%) NoSQL
3 29 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
5 20 (4.58%) MongoDB
6 17 (3.89%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.52%) MySQL
8 5 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.14%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.14%) CockroachDB
8 5 (1.14%) InfluxDB
8 5 (1.14%) Pinecone
9 4 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.92%) Power BI
10 3 (0.69%) Big Data
10 3 (0.69%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.46%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.46%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 234 (53.55%) Jenkins
2 105 (24.03%) Git
3 98 (22.43%) SonarQube
4 56 (12.81%) Cypress.io
5 50 (11.44%) JIRA
6 44 (10.07%) Cucumber
6 44 (10.07%) Maven
7 32 (7.32%) Selenium
8 26 (5.95%) Bitbucket
9 25 (5.72%) CircleCI
10 18 (4.12%) JUnit
11 13 (2.97%) Postman
12 12 (2.75%) REST Assured
13 11 (2.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (2.52%) JMeter
14 8 (1.83%) Subversion
15 7 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
16 6 (1.37%) Gatling
17 5 (1.14%) Artifactory
17 5 (1.14%) TestRail
General
1 114 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 80 (18.31%) Finance
3 50 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.92%) Marketing
5 35 (8.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (7.78%) Games
7 31 (7.09%) Banking
8 30 (6.86%) Telecoms
9 29 (6.64%) Public Sector
10 15 (3.43%) Advertising
11 14 (3.20%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.60%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.14%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.92%) Retail
17 3 (0.69%) Automotive
17 3 (0.69%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 79 (18.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (17.16%) Developer
2 75 (17.16%) Senior
3 62 (14.19%) Lead
4 51 (11.67%) Architect
5 49 (11.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (8.24%) Java Developer
7 35 (8.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (7.55%) Salesforce Architect
9 27 (6.18%) Software Engineer
10 25 (5.72%) Platform Engineer
11 24 (5.49%) Senior Developer
12 19 (4.35%) Security Engineer
12 19 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (4.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.12%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 18 (4.12%) Technical Architect
14 17 (3.89%) Automation Engineer
14 17 (3.89%) AWS Engineer
15 15 (3.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.10%) Spring Boot
2 60 (13.73%) REST
3 50 (11.44%) AngularJS
4 48 (10.98%) Elastic Stack
5 47 (10.76%) Kafka
6 44 (10.07%) Gherkin
7 42 (9.61%) Jest
8 40 (9.15%) Spring
9 35 (8.01%) SOAP
10 34 (7.78%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (7.78%) Visualforce
11 30 (6.86%) RabbitMQ
12 27 (6.18%) RESTful
13 23 (5.26%) YAML
14 21 (4.81%) React
15 20 (4.58%) JSON
16 17 (3.89%) Node.js
17 16 (3.66%) AWS CDK
18 15 (3.43%) OAuth
19 14 (3.20%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 69 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 55 (12.59%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.43%) Security Posture
5 14 (3.20%) Blockchain
6 13 (2.97%) Cloud Security Posture
6 13 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.97%) Public Cloud
6 13 (2.97%) Web3
7 11 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 8 (1.83%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.37%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (24.03%) Linux
2 42 (9.61%) Windows
3 17 (3.89%) Unix
4 15 (3.43%) CentOS
4 15 (3.43%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.97%) Ubuntu
6 12 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.69%) Debian
11 2 (0.46%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (86.96%) CI/CD
2 310 (70.94%) DevOps
3 217 (49.66%) Agile
4 199 (45.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (29.98%) Containerisation
6 118 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
7 112 (25.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 96 (21.97%) Continuous Integration
9 90 (20.59%) Microservices
10 85 (19.45%) Test Automation
11 78 (17.85%) Observability
11 78 (17.85%) Scrum
12 71 (16.25%) Mentoring
12 71 (16.25%) Software Engineering
13 65 (14.87%) Event-Driven
14 61 (13.96%) Continuous Delivery
15 60 (13.73%) Roadmaps
16 59 (13.50%) DevSecOps
17 52 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 51 (11.67%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 207 (47.37%) Python
2 124 (28.38%) Bash
3 122 (27.92%) Java
4 67 (15.33%) TypeScript
5 66 (15.10%) SQL
6 50 (11.44%) JavaScript
7 46 (10.53%) Go
8 45 (10.30%) Groovy
8 45 (10.30%) PowerShell
9 34 (7.78%) Apex Code
9 34 (7.78%) SOQL
9 34 (7.78%) SOSL
10 22 (5.03%) Rust
11 15 (3.43%) C#
12 13 (2.97%) C++
13 8 (1.83%) Bicep
13 8 (1.83%) Delphi
13 8 (1.83%) Perl
14 5 (1.14%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.92%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 106 (24.26%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.44%) AWS Certification
2 50 (11.44%) SC Cleared
3 48 (10.98%) Degree
4 30 (6.86%) DV Cleared
5 26 (5.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 24 (5.49%) ITIL Certification
7 17 (3.89%) OSCP
8 14 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (2.75%) ISTQB
11 9 (2.06%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (1.83%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.37%) CCNA
14 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.92%) Azure Certification
15 4 (0.92%) CISSP
16 3 (0.69%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.76%) QA
2 17 (3.89%) NIST
3 16 (3.66%) GDPR
4 12 (2.75%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.75%) SOC 2
5 9 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.37%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.46%) ECSS
8 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 187 (42.79%) Docker
2 25 (5.72%) Active Directory
3 21 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.37%) VMware NSX
5 6 (1.37%) vSphere
6 5 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.23%) Firmware
8 1 (0.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 217 (49.66%) Terraform
2 187 (42.79%) Kubernetes
3 113 (25.86%) Ansible
4 93 (21.28%) Grafana
5 82 (18.76%) Prometheus
6 42 (9.61%) HP Fortify
7 12 (2.75%) Kibana
7 12 (2.75%) Nagios
8 11 (2.52%) Argo
9 10 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (2.06%) Puppet
11 8 (1.83%) logstash
12 6 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (1.37%) vCenter Server
13 5 (1.14%) Packer
14 4 (0.92%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.92%) Rancher
14 4 (0.92%) WSUS
15 3 (0.69%) Istio
15 3 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 72 (16.48%) Splunk
2 37 (8.47%) Red Hat
3 35 (8.01%) Salesforce
4 34 (7.78%) Microsoft
5 29 (6.64%) Oracle
6 26 (5.95%) VMware
7 19 (4.35%) Atlassian
8 14 (3.20%) Cisco
9 10 (2.29%) Dynatrace
10 9 (2.06%) Google
11 8 (1.83%) Juniper
12 7 (1.60%) AppDynamics
12 7 (1.60%) IBM
12 7 (1.60%) Palo Alto
13 6 (1.37%) F5
14 5 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 5 (1.14%) Rapid7
15 4 (0.92%) Dell
16 3 (0.69%) SAP
16 3 (0.69%) Veracode