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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 261 363
Rank change year-on-year -58 +102 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 594 569 666
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.59% 1.16% 0.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.81% 13.66% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 364 185 433
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,938 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £114,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,269 £62,641
% change year-on-year -3.37% +7.39% +0.23%

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 4,301 4,166 8,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.30% 8.47% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,897 2,635 5,496
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £57,982
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +12.10% -10.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £99,250 £100,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -39 525 £70,000 -9.68% 203
UK excluding London -80 366 £65,000 -3.37% 136
London +23 192 £85,000 - 88
Work from Home -149 149 £67,500 -6.90% 97
North of England -47 127 £66,538 -0.74% 43
South East +44 100 £65,000 -13.33% 28
South West -37 66 £75,000 +25.00% 23
Yorkshire +4 57 £69,310 -5.70% 8
North West -87 41 £65,000 -3.04% 23
Scotland -15 37 £102,500 +10.81% 11
North East -21 29 £55,000 - 12
Midlands -86 26 £53,750 -24.56% 20
West Midlands -38 19 £57,500 -28.13% 10
Wales -51 8 £55,000 +18.92%
East Midlands -58 7 £39,194 -40.84% 10
East of England -32 4 - - 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 1

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 28 (4.71%) Apache
2 26 (4.38%) Confluence
3 17 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 16 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (2.02%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.51%) IIS
6 3 (0.51%) JBoss
7 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 375 (63.13%) AWS
2 218 (36.70%) Azure
3 137 (23.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 124 (20.88%) GitHub
5 102 (17.17%) Serverless
6 84 (14.14%) Amazon S3
7 83 (13.97%) AWS Lambda
8 81 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
9 77 (12.96%) GCP
10 72 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
12 53 (8.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 51 (8.59%) Amazon ECR
14 45 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (7.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 45 (7.58%) OpenShift
15 39 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (6.40%) Azure AKS
17 35 (5.89%) Apigee
18 34 (5.72%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 45 (7.58%) Broadband
2 28 (4.71%) Firewall
3 14 (2.36%) DNS
3 14 (2.36%) MQTT
4 12 (2.02%) Network Security
5 11 (1.85%) LAN
5 11 (1.85%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (1.68%) HTTP
7 9 (1.52%) DSL
7 9 (1.52%) WAN
8 8 (1.35%) IPv4
9 6 (1.01%) BGP
9 6 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.01%) VPN
9 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.01%) Wireless
9 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.84%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.67%) DHCP
11 4 (0.67%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.95%) NoSQL
2 56 (9.43%) DynamoDB
3 52 (8.75%) MongoDB
4 48 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (6.06%) MySQL
6 30 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (3.70%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.68%) Big Data
10 10 (1.68%) Pinecone
11 9 (1.52%) Redis
12 7 (1.18%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.01%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.51%) Flink
15 3 (0.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 278 (46.80%) Jenkins
2 178 (29.97%) Git
3 89 (14.98%) SonarQube
4 61 (10.27%) JIRA
5 56 (9.43%) Cucumber
6 54 (9.09%) Cypress.io
7 31 (5.22%) Selenium
8 30 (5.05%) Maven
9 25 (4.21%) CircleCI
10 19 (3.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 18 (3.03%) JUnit
11 18 (3.03%) Postman
12 17 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
13 16 (2.69%) Bitbucket
14 14 (2.36%) REST Assured
15 12 (2.02%) JMeter
16 11 (1.85%) Gatling
16 11 (1.85%) Vite
17 10 (1.68%) Robot Framework
18 9 (1.52%) Spock
General
1 142 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 124 (20.88%) Finance
3 79 (13.30%) Public Sector
4 58 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.76%) Banking
5 57 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (6.06%) Marketing
7 34 (5.72%) Games
8 15 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.53%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (2.02%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.68%) Electronics
11 10 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.01%) Advertising
12 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Legal
14 4 (0.67%) Automotive
14 4 (0.67%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 139 (23.40%) Senior
2 123 (20.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 87 (14.65%) Developer
4 63 (10.61%) Software Engineer
5 51 (8.59%) Architect
6 45 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 43 (7.24%) Lead
8 38 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
8 38 (6.40%) Java Developer
8 38 (6.40%) Principal Engineer
9 37 (6.23%) Java Engineer
10 35 (5.89%) Salesforce Architect
11 32 (5.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 31 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
12 31 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 28 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
14 27 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
15 26 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
15 26 (4.38%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.64%) Spring Boot
2 78 (13.13%) Kafka
3 71 (11.95%) Spring
4 70 (11.78%) REST
5 58 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 52 (8.75%) Node.js
7 49 (8.25%) React
8 48 (8.08%) RESTful
9 42 (7.07%) Elastic Stack
10 39 (6.57%) SOAP
11 36 (6.06%) Jest
11 36 (6.06%) Lightning Web Components
12 35 (5.89%) RabbitMQ
12 35 (5.89%) Visualforce
13 30 (5.05%) Gherkin
14 29 (4.88%) Playwright
15 26 (4.38%) JSON
16 23 (3.87%) Vue
17 22 (3.70%) .NET
17 22 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 78 (13.13%) Product Ownership
3 67 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (5.72%) Public Cloud
5 32 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
6 28 (4.71%) e-Learning
7 23 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 17 (2.86%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.19%) Blockchain
9 13 (2.19%) Private Cloud
9 13 (2.19%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.02%) Web3
11 9 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 9 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
11 9 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 165 (27.78%) Linux
2 67 (11.28%) Windows
3 38 (6.40%) CentOS
4 26 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (4.21%) Unix
5 25 (4.21%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.02%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.34%) Android
10 2 (0.34%) Debian
10 2 (0.34%) Rocky
10 2 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (90.24%) CI/CD
2 413 (69.53%) DevOps
3 317 (53.37%) Agile
4 290 (48.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 187 (31.48%) Microservices
6 186 (31.31%) Containerisation
7 176 (29.63%) Test Automation
8 149 (25.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 126 (21.21%) Software Engineering
10 120 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
10 120 (20.20%) Scrum
11 117 (19.70%) Mentoring
12 107 (18.01%) Continuous Integration
13 104 (17.51%) Observability
14 91 (15.32%) Event-Driven
15 87 (14.65%) DevSecOps
16 86 (14.48%) SDLC
17 81 (13.64%) AI
18 78 (13.13%) Continuous Delivery
19 74 (12.46%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 284 (47.81%) Python
2 179 (30.13%) Java
3 154 (25.93%) Bash
4 101 (17.00%) SQL
5 81 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 75 (12.63%) TypeScript
7 69 (11.62%) PowerShell
8 49 (8.25%) Go
9 41 (6.90%) Groovy
10 36 (6.06%) Apex Code
11 35 (5.89%) C#
11 35 (5.89%) SOQL
11 35 (5.89%) SOSL
12 33 (5.56%) C++
13 30 (5.05%) Rust
14 10 (1.68%) C
14 10 (1.68%) PHP
15 8 (1.35%) Ruby
16 7 (1.18%) Perl
16 7 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 206 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 121 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.47%) Degree
4 71 (11.95%) AWS Certification
5 48 (8.08%) DV Cleared
6 33 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.04%) Master's Degree
8 21 (3.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (3.54%) ITIL Certification
9 20 (3.37%) OSCP
10 17 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (2.69%) ISTQB
12 15 (2.53%) RHCSA
13 13 (2.19%) CCNA
14 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.35%) RHCE
16 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 5 (0.84%) Azure Certification
18 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (12.63%) QA
2 24 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.70%) GDPR
4 15 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 14 (2.36%) SOC 2
6 13 (2.19%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.19%) WCAG
7 12 (2.02%) NIST
8 6 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.01%) JTAG
9 5 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 267 (44.95%) Docker
2 28 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.37%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.02%) vSphere
5 11 (1.85%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.35%) Squid
8 6 (1.01%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.67%) Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 294 (49.49%) Terraform
2 264 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 149 (25.08%) Ansible
4 91 (15.32%) Grafana
5 74 (12.46%) Prometheus
6 36 (6.06%) Argo
7 29 (4.88%) HP Fortify
8 26 (4.38%) Nagios
9 20 (3.37%) Kibana
10 16 (2.69%) logstash
11 15 (2.53%) Puppet
12 13 (2.19%) Packer
13 9 (1.52%) Podman
14 8 (1.35%) vCenter Server
14 8 (1.35%) ZABBIX
15 6 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (1.01%) VxRail
16 4 (0.67%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 88 (14.81%) Splunk
2 53 (8.92%) Red Hat
3 41 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 39 (6.57%) Salesforce
4 39 (6.57%) VMware
5 16 (2.69%) AppDynamics
6 15 (2.53%) Oracle
7 14 (2.36%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.19%) Cisco
8 13 (2.19%) Google
8 13 (2.19%) OpenAI
9 12 (2.02%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.85%) Rapid7
11 8 (1.35%) Databricks
11 8 (1.35%) Intel
11 8 (1.35%) Tenable
12 7 (1.18%) IBM
13 6 (1.01%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (1.01%) Juniper
13 6 (1.01%) Palo Alto