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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 269 324
Rank change year-on-year -86 +55 +23
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 572 526 652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.06% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.75% 14.02% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 344 172 305
10th Percentile £46,625 £51,250 £48,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,625 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 4,485 3,752 6,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.95% 7.59% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 2,232 3,922
10th Percentile £36,825 £36,825 £38,525
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,900 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,643 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.51% +2.99% -5.98%

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 14 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 14 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 -48 528 £69,310 -10.57% 663
UK excluding London -110 361 £65,000 -7.14% 377
London +1 175 £90,000 +5.88% 353
North of England -60 147 £69,310 +2.68% 111
Work from Home -181 116 £67,500 -15.63% 1,162
South East +15 77 £65,000 -13.33% 66
South West -36 72 £72,500 +7.41% 70
North West -83 52 £69,310 +15.52% 56
North East -16 49 £55,000 -18.52% 22
Yorkshire -2 46 £75,000 - 34
Midlands -85 38 £60,000 -14.29% 34
West Midlands -43 25 £56,250 -30.77% 29
Scotland -41 14 £110,000 +26.07% 42
East Midlands -63 13 £60,000 -1.64% 5
Wales -67 8 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East of England -49 7 £60,000 -7.69% 38
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 10

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 30 (5.24%) Apache
2 25 (4.37%) Confluence
3 22 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (3.50%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.80%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.05%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.52%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 372 (65.03%) AWS
2 205 (35.84%) Azure
3 133 (23.25%) GitHub
4 108 (18.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 79 (13.81%) Amazon S3
6 77 (13.46%) Serverless
7 76 (13.29%) Azure DevOps
8 74 (12.94%) GCP
9 71 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
10 61 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 52 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
13 48 (8.39%) Amazon ECR
14 42 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
16 39 (6.82%) Azure AKS
17 34 (5.94%) OpenShift
18 27 (4.72%) AWS Step Functions
19 23 (4.02%) Amazon SQS
20 21 (3.67%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.50%) DNS
2 18 (3.15%) Broadband
2 18 (3.15%) Firewall
3 12 (2.10%) HTTP
4 11 (1.92%) MQTT
4 11 (1.92%) Network Security
5 9 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.40%) IPv4
6 8 (1.40%) LAN
6 8 (1.40%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (1.22%) DHCP
7 7 (1.22%) WAN
8 6 (1.05%) NX-OS
8 6 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.05%) Wireless
8 6 (1.05%) ZigBee
9 5 (0.87%) BGP
9 5 (0.87%) VPN
10 4 (0.70%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.52%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (13.11%) NoSQL
2 60 (10.49%) MongoDB
3 58 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (8.04%) DynamoDB
5 39 (6.82%) MySQL
6 30 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (4.02%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.45%) Redis
10 13 (2.27%) Pinecone
11 12 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.92%) Big Data
13 8 (1.40%) Chroma
13 8 (1.40%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.22%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.22%) SQL Server
15 6 (1.05%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.87%) DocumentDB
17 4 (0.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 250 (43.71%) Jenkins
2 193 (33.74%) Git
3 72 (12.59%) Cucumber
4 67 (11.71%) JIRA
5 60 (10.49%) SonarQube
6 56 (9.79%) Cypress.io
7 41 (7.17%) Selenium
8 34 (5.94%) Postman
9 30 (5.24%) JUnit
10 27 (4.72%) Maven
11 23 (4.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 19 (3.32%) JMeter
13 15 (2.62%) Gatling
13 15 (2.62%) REST Assured
14 14 (2.45%) Spock
14 14 (2.45%) Visual Studio Code
15 13 (2.27%) Vite
16 12 (2.10%) Bitbucket
17 11 (1.92%) Robot Framework
18 10 (1.75%) CircleCI
General
1 146 (25.52%) Social Skills
2 130 (22.73%) Finance
3 96 (16.78%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.62%) Banking
5 45 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.80%) Aerospace
7 16 (2.80%) Financial Institution
8 15 (2.62%) Marketing
9 14 (2.45%) Law
9 14 (2.45%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.75%) Electronics
11 8 (1.40%) Legal
12 7 (1.22%) Games
12 7 (1.22%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.70%) Automotive
14 4 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.52%) Military
15 3 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (26.40%) Senior
2 128 (22.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 87 (15.21%) Developer
4 63 (11.01%) Software Engineer
5 49 (8.57%) Principal Engineer
6 48 (8.39%) Java Engineer
6 48 (8.39%) Lead
7 38 (6.64%) Senior DevOps
7 38 (6.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 35 (6.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 32 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 29 (5.07%) Test Engineer
12 28 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 28 (4.90%) Java Developer
13 25 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
13 25 (4.37%) Senior Software Engineer
14 24 (4.20%) Senior Developer
15 22 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (48.43%) Terraform
2 88 (15.38%) Spring
3 87 (15.21%) Spring Boot
4 83 (14.51%) Kafka
5 67 (11.71%) React
6 62 (10.84%) AngularJS
7 61 (10.66%) Node.js
8 59 (10.31%) REST
8 59 (10.31%) RESTful
9 43 (7.52%) Playwright
10 42 (7.34%) Elastic Stack
11 35 (6.12%) Jest
12 32 (5.59%) .NET
13 28 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (4.55%) Gherkin
15 24 (4.20%) LangChain
15 24 (4.20%) Vue
16 21 (3.67%) CSS
16 21 (3.67%) FastAPI
16 21 (3.67%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 180 (31.47%) Cloud Native
2 80 (13.99%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (9.27%) Product Ownership
4 44 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 38 (6.64%) e-Learning
5 38 (6.64%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (4.55%) Private Cloud
7 21 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (3.15%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.97%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.27%) Virtual Team
11 12 (2.10%) Data Structures
12 10 (1.75%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
13 9 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.57%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.22%) Blockchain
14 7 (1.22%) IoT
14 7 (1.22%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 169 (29.55%) Linux
2 59 (10.31%) Windows
3 41 (7.17%) CentOS
4 33 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (3.85%) Unix
6 18 (3.15%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.75%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.87%) VMS
9 4 (0.70%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.52%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.52%) Debian
10 3 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.52%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.35%) Android
11 2 (0.35%) Rocky
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (91.08%) CI/CD
2 380 (66.43%) DevOps
3 323 (56.47%) Agile
4 279 (48.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 228 (39.86%) Test Automation
6 185 (32.34%) Microservices
7 166 (29.02%) Containerisation
8 139 (24.30%) Software Engineering
9 138 (24.13%) Mentoring
10 115 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 108 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
12 105 (18.36%) AI
13 102 (17.83%) Observability
14 101 (17.66%) Scrum
15 98 (17.13%) SDLC
16 91 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
17 87 (15.21%) Coaching
18 76 (13.29%) Platform Engineering
19 74 (12.94%) Continuous Integration
19 74 (12.94%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 263 (45.98%) Python
2 202 (35.31%) Java
3 148 (25.87%) Bash
4 120 (20.98%) SQL
5 96 (16.78%) JavaScript
6 95 (16.61%) TypeScript
7 72 (12.59%) PowerShell
8 38 (6.64%) Go
9 36 (6.29%) Groovy
10 35 (6.12%) C++
11 33 (5.77%) C#
12 19 (3.32%) Rust
13 12 (2.10%) PHP
14 11 (1.92%) C
15 10 (1.75%) Apex Code
16 9 (1.57%) Perl
16 9 (1.57%) Shell Script
17 8 (1.40%) SOQL
17 8 (1.40%) SOSL
18 7 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 229 (40.03%) Security Cleared
2 147 (25.70%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.99%) Degree
4 73 (12.76%) AWS Certification
5 51 (8.92%) DV Cleared
6 43 (7.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (4.02%) Master's Degree
9 22 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
10 18 (3.15%) ISTQB
11 17 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (2.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (2.62%) CCNA
13 15 (2.62%) RHCSA
14 14 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (1.57%) OSCP
16 8 (1.40%) RHCE
17 7 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
18 6 (1.05%) Azure Certification
18 6 (1.05%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (16.08%) QA
2 31 (5.42%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.32%) WCAG
5 11 (1.92%) GDPR
6 9 (1.57%) SLA
7 8 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.40%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.05%) JTAG
9 4 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.70%) NIST
10 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 282 (49.30%) Docker
2 27 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.45%) vSphere
5 8 (1.40%) Squid
5 8 (1.40%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.87%) Firmware
7 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 250 (43.71%) Kubernetes
2 143 (25.00%) Ansible
3 84 (14.69%) Grafana
4 60 (10.49%) Prometheus
5 40 (6.99%) Argo
6 22 (3.85%) Puppet
7 21 (3.67%) HP Fortify
7 21 (3.67%) Nagios
8 20 (3.50%) Kibana
9 17 (2.97%) logstash
10 14 (2.45%) Packer
11 10 (1.75%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.57%) Podman
13 8 (1.40%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.22%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.05%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
17 3 (0.52%) linkerd
17 3 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.52%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (10.49%) Splunk
2 51 (8.92%) Microsoft
3 41 (7.17%) Red Hat
4 36 (6.29%) VMware
5 21 (3.67%) Oracle
6 20 (3.50%) AppDynamics
7 18 (3.15%) Google
8 16 (2.80%) OpenAI
9 14 (2.45%) Atlassian
9 14 (2.45%) Mistral
9 14 (2.45%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.75%) Databricks
10 10 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 10 (1.75%) Rapid7
11 9 (1.57%) SAP
12 7 (1.22%) Cisco
12 7 (1.22%) NVIDIA
12 7 (1.22%) OneLogin
12 7 (1.22%) Pega
13 6 (1.05%) Veracode