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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 267 352
Rank change year-on-year -70 +85 -17
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 587 566 622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.13% 0.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.77% 14.09% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 360 195 350
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £44,738
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,500 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -

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 4,597 4,016 7,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.31% 8.05% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 2,487 4,534
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £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 15 August 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 August 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 -54 529 £69,310 -7.59% 408
UK excluding London -98 368 £65,000 -3.04% 221
London -8 187 £87,500 +9.38% 215
Work from Home -157 142 £65,576 -12.57% 204
North of England -56 136 £67,500 +0.34% 56
South East +40 89 £62,500 -13.79% 45
South West -43 73 £72,500 +18.37% 48
Yorkshire +1 50 £72,500 -3.33% 11
North West -86 44 £65,288 -2.61% 32
North East -20 42 £55,000 - 13
Midlands -79 32 £60,000 -14.29% 22
Scotland -28 28 £110,000 +15.79% 21
West Midlands -42 21 £62,500 -30.56% 16
East Midlands -56 11 £60,000 +7.14% 6
Wales -50 8 £55,000 +18.92% 1
East of England -44 4 £46,000 -16.36% 21
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 9

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 29 (4.94%) Apache
2 24 (4.09%) Confluence
3 22 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (3.75%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.56%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.51%) IIS
5 3 (0.51%) JBoss
6 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 376 (64.05%) AWS
2 220 (37.48%) Azure
3 128 (21.81%) GitHub
4 124 (21.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 90 (15.33%) Serverless
6 83 (14.14%) Amazon S3
7 80 (13.63%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (13.63%) GCP
8 72 (12.27%) AWS Lambda
9 70 (11.93%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (10.05%) Amazon ECS
11 56 (9.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 52 (8.86%) Amazon ECR
13 47 (8.01%) OpenShift
14 45 (7.67%) Amazon EKS
15 41 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (6.30%) AWS Step Functions
17 36 (6.13%) Azure AKS
18 31 (5.28%) Datadog
19 29 (4.94%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.28%) Broadband
2 22 (3.75%) Firewall
3 13 (2.21%) MQTT
4 12 (2.04%) Network Security
5 11 (1.87%) DNS
6 10 (1.70%) HTTP
7 8 (1.36%) IPv4
7 8 (1.36%) LAN
7 8 (1.36%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (1.19%) WAN
9 6 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.02%) Wireless
9 6 (1.02%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.85%) DSL
10 5 (0.85%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.68%) BGP
11 4 (0.68%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.68%) VPN
12 3 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.75%) NoSQL
2 56 (9.54%) MongoDB
3 55 (9.37%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (9.03%) DynamoDB
5 37 (6.30%) MySQL
6 32 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.92%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.87%) Big Data
10 11 (1.87%) Pinecone
11 10 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.53%) Redis
13 8 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.19%) SQL Server
15 6 (1.02%) InfluxDB
16 4 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.68%) Power BI
16 4 (0.68%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 262 (44.63%) Jenkins
2 192 (32.71%) Git
3 74 (12.61%) SonarQube
4 62 (10.56%) Cucumber
5 58 (9.88%) JIRA
6 54 (9.20%) Cypress.io
7 38 (6.47%) Selenium
8 28 (4.77%) JUnit
9 27 (4.60%) Maven
10 25 (4.26%) Postman
11 20 (3.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 18 (3.07%) CircleCI
13 15 (2.56%) Bitbucket
14 14 (2.39%) Gatling
14 14 (2.39%) REST Assured
14 14 (2.39%) Visual Studio Code
15 13 (2.21%) JMeter
16 12 (2.04%) Spock
17 11 (1.87%) Vite
18 10 (1.70%) Robot Framework
General
1 150 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 128 (21.81%) Finance
3 90 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 59 (10.05%) Banking
5 57 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (9.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.43%) Marketing
8 20 (3.41%) Games
9 15 (2.56%) Aerospace
10 14 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.21%) Financial Institution
12 12 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.70%) Electronics
14 8 (1.36%) Law
15 7 (1.19%) Legal
16 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.68%) Advertising
17 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 148 (25.21%) Senior
2 129 (21.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (15.33%) Developer
4 62 (10.56%) Software Engineer
5 45 (7.67%) Lead
6 40 (6.81%) Principal Engineer
7 39 (6.64%) Java Engineer
8 38 (6.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 38 (6.47%) Senior DevOps
8 38 (6.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 36 (6.13%) Architect
10 35 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
11 33 (5.62%) Java Developer
12 31 (5.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 29 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
14 28 (4.77%) AWS DevOps
15 26 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
16 24 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (4.09%) Senior Developer
16 24 (4.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (14.31%) Spring Boot
2 81 (13.80%) Kafka
3 78 (13.29%) Spring
4 64 (10.90%) AngularJS
4 64 (10.90%) REST
5 60 (10.22%) Node.js
5 60 (10.22%) React
6 52 (8.86%) RESTful
7 42 (7.16%) Elastic Stack
8 36 (6.13%) Jest
9 33 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
10 32 (5.45%) Playwright
11 31 (5.28%) .NET
12 27 (4.60%) SOAP
13 26 (4.43%) Gherkin
14 24 (4.09%) JSON
15 23 (3.92%) Lightning Web Components
15 23 (3.92%) Vue
16 22 (3.75%) LangChain
17 21 (3.58%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 172 (29.30%) Cloud Native
2 72 (12.27%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (11.24%) Product Ownership
4 36 (6.13%) Public Cloud
5 34 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (5.11%) e-Learning
7 24 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (3.24%) Private Cloud
9 17 (2.90%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.21%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.04%) Data Centre
11 12 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.87%) Blockchain
12 11 (1.87%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.70%) Web3
14 9 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (1.36%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 162 (27.60%) Linux
2 59 (10.05%) Windows
3 41 (6.98%) CentOS
4 30 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (3.92%) Unix
6 20 (3.41%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.70%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.51%) VMS
10 2 (0.34%) Android
10 2 (0.34%) Rocky
10 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Debian
11 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (91.48%) CI/CD
2 403 (68.65%) DevOps
3 321 (54.68%) Agile
4 289 (49.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 201 (34.24%) Test Automation
6 187 (31.86%) Microservices
7 186 (31.69%) Containerisation
8 137 (23.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 128 (21.81%) Mentoring
9 128 (21.81%) Software Engineering
10 119 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
11 105 (17.89%) Observability
12 103 (17.55%) Scrum
13 92 (15.67%) AI
13 92 (15.67%) Continuous Integration
14 90 (15.33%) SDLC
15 82 (13.97%) Full-Stack Development
16 81 (13.80%) Coaching
17 80 (13.63%) Event-Driven
18 79 (13.46%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 272 (46.34%) Python
2 185 (31.52%) Java
3 149 (25.38%) Bash
4 109 (18.57%) SQL
5 90 (15.33%) JavaScript
6 82 (13.97%) TypeScript
7 68 (11.58%) PowerShell
8 42 (7.16%) Go
9 38 (6.47%) Groovy
10 34 (5.79%) C#
11 31 (5.28%) C++
12 24 (4.09%) Rust
13 23 (3.92%) Apex Code
14 21 (3.58%) SOQL
14 21 (3.58%) SOSL
15 10 (1.70%) C
15 10 (1.70%) PHP
16 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
16 8 (1.36%) Scala
17 7 (1.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 221 (37.65%) Security Cleared
2 142 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 79 (13.46%) Degree
4 70 (11.93%) AWS Certification
5 44 (7.50%) DV Cleared
6 38 (6.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (3.75%) ITIL Certification
8 21 (3.58%) Master's Degree
9 18 (3.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 17 (2.90%) ISTQB
11 15 (2.56%) OSCP
11 15 (2.56%) RHCSA
12 13 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (1.70%) CCNA
14 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.36%) RHCE
16 7 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
17 6 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (1.02%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (13.63%) QA
2 31 (5.28%) Accessibility
3 19 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.24%) GDPR
4 17 (2.90%) WCAG
5 13 (2.21%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.70%) NIST
7 9 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 6 (1.02%) JTAG
9 5 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.68%) SLA
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 282 (48.04%) Docker
2 22 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.53%) vSphere
6 8 (1.36%) Squid
6 8 (1.36%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.68%) Firmware
8 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 296 (50.43%) Terraform
2 263 (44.80%) Kubernetes
3 142 (24.19%) Ansible
4 92 (15.67%) Grafana
5 71 (12.10%) Prometheus
6 41 (6.98%) Argo
7 25 (4.26%) HP Fortify
8 24 (4.09%) Nagios
9 19 (3.24%) Kibana
10 16 (2.73%) logstash
10 16 (2.73%) Puppet
11 14 (2.39%) Packer
12 9 (1.53%) Podman
13 8 (1.36%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.19%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.02%) Progress Chef
16 5 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
17 4 (0.68%) Istio
18 3 (0.51%) linkerd
18 3 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 75 (12.78%) Splunk
2 53 (9.03%) Red Hat
3 42 (7.16%) Microsoft
4 31 (5.28%) VMware
5 27 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.24%) AppDynamics
7 17 (2.90%) Google
7 17 (2.90%) Oracle
8 16 (2.73%) Dynatrace
9 14 (2.39%) Atlassian
9 14 (2.39%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.87%) Rapid7
11 10 (1.70%) Cisco
11 10 (1.70%) Databricks
12 7 (1.19%) Intel
12 7 (1.19%) OneLogin
12 7 (1.19%) SAP
13 6 (1.02%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.02%) Tenable
14 5 (0.85%) SolarWinds