GitLab Job Trends

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 333 300
Rank change year-on-year -24 -33 -21
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 321 431 611
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.81% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.58% 7.88% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 204 188 494
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,375 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,000
90th Percentile £106,750 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -4.00%

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 3,742 5,469 7,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.01% 10.29% 11.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,403 3,111 5,806
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.35% +4.55%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -16 273 £77,500 +6.90% 334
UK excluding London -14 181 £72,500 +3.57% 314
Work from Home -3 117 £77,500 +7.27% 187
London -31 98 £87,000 -3.33% 66
North of England +48 82 £75,000 +15.38% 62
Yorkshire +12 43 £78,750 +52.97% 22
North West +22 32 £65,000 -3.70% 35
South West -18 29 £73,500 +17.60% 51
South East -36 24 £82,500 +13.79% 98
Midlands +12 19 £55,200 -21.14% 30
Scotland -11 15 - - 23
West Midlands +11 13 £60,000 -12.73% 10
East of England +22 11 £67,500 -6.90% 37
North East +3 7 £66,250 -5.36% 5
East Midlands -3 6 £53,600 -28.53% 18
Wales +8 3 £55,200 -32.06% 13

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 (6.85%) Confluence
2 16 (4.98%) Apache
3 9 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.56%) IIS
4 5 (1.56%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.25%) nginx
5 4 (1.25%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.93%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.62%) Camunda
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 197 (61.37%) AWS
2 124 (38.63%) Azure
3 82 (25.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 70 (21.81%) GitHub
5 66 (20.56%) Serverless
6 60 (18.69%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (18.38%) GCP
8 47 (14.64%) Amazon S3
9 43 (13.40%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (12.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (9.97%) OpenShift
13 30 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (9.03%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
15 27 (8.41%) AWS Step Functions
16 26 (8.10%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (6.85%) Apigee
18 15 (4.67%) Datadog
19 13 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.10%) DNS
2 16 (4.98%) Broadband
3 12 (3.74%) Firewall
4 7 (2.18%) VPN
5 5 (1.56%) DSL
5 5 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.25%) BGP
6 4 (1.25%) DHCP
6 4 (1.25%) VSAN
6 4 (1.25%) WAN
7 3 (0.93%) Skype
7 3 (0.93%) VLAN
8 2 (0.62%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.62%) RTMP
8 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.62%) VPLS
8 2 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.28%) DynamoDB
1 33 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (9.97%) SQL Server
3 31 (9.66%) MongoDB
3 31 (9.66%) NoSQL
4 22 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (3.74%) MySQL
7 9 (2.80%) Power BI
8 6 (1.87%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.56%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.56%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.56%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.56%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.93%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 181 (56.39%) Jenkins
2 74 (23.05%) Git
3 54 (16.82%) SonarQube
4 41 (12.77%) JIRA
5 34 (10.59%) Cypress.io
6 32 (9.97%) Cucumber
7 28 (8.72%) Bitbucket
8 27 (8.41%) Maven
9 25 (7.79%) Selenium
10 22 (6.85%) JUnit
11 14 (4.36%) Postman
12 11 (3.43%) CircleCI
13 8 (2.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (2.49%) JMeter
13 8 (2.49%) Subversion
14 7 (2.18%) REST Assured
14 7 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (1.87%) Vite
16 5 (1.56%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.56%) TestNG
General
1 84 (26.17%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.50%) Finance
3 38 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.17%) Banking
5 22 (6.85%) Marketing
5 22 (6.85%) Telecoms
6 20 (6.23%) Games
7 17 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.98%) Advertising
8 16 (4.98%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.67%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.80%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.87%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.25%) Electronics
15 3 (0.93%) Retail
16 2 (0.62%) Automotive
16 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (19.31%) Lead
2 60 (18.69%) Developer
3 49 (15.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 41 (12.77%) Senior
5 29 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (7.48%) Platform Engineer
7 22 (6.85%) Architect
8 21 (6.54%) Software Engineer
9 20 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (5.30%) Java Developer
10 17 (5.30%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.36%) Salesforce Architect
12 13 (4.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.05%) Lead DevOps
12 13 (4.05%) Senior Developer
13 12 (3.74%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.74%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.74%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.12%) Consultant
15 9 (2.80%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.58%) Spring Boot
2 40 (12.46%) Spring
3 39 (12.15%) Elastic Stack
4 34 (10.59%) REST
5 32 (9.97%) AngularJS
6 25 (7.79%) Gherkin
7 24 (7.48%) Jest
7 24 (7.48%) React
8 23 (7.17%) Kafka
9 20 (6.23%) RESTful
10 18 (5.61%) SOAP
11 17 (5.30%) Node.js
12 15 (4.67%) FastAPI
12 15 (4.67%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (4.67%) Visualforce
13 14 (4.36%) pytest
14 12 (3.74%) Playwright
14 12 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
15 11 (3.43%) HTML
16 10 (3.12%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (3.43%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.43%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.87%) Blockchain
6 6 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.87%) PKI
6 6 (1.87%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.87%) Web3
7 5 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.25%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.93%) IoT
9 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 89 (27.73%) Linux
2 32 (9.97%) Windows
3 15 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.43%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.12%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.80%) Unix
7 7 (2.18%) CentOS
8 5 (1.56%) Debian
8 5 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.31%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (78.19%) CI/CD
2 215 (66.98%) DevOps
3 144 (44.86%) Agile
4 122 (38.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (29.28%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (28.97%) Containerisation
7 61 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 59 (18.38%) Test Automation
9 54 (16.82%) Continuous Integration
10 51 (15.89%) Microservices
10 51 (15.89%) Observability
11 50 (15.58%) Software Engineering
12 49 (15.26%) Mentoring
13 44 (13.71%) Scrum
14 42 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 42 (13.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (11.53%) DevSecOps
15 37 (11.53%) Incident Response
15 37 (11.53%) Technical Leadership
16 36 (11.21%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 156 (48.60%) Python
2 102 (31.78%) Java
3 89 (27.73%) Bash
4 67 (20.87%) TypeScript
5 61 (19.00%) SQL
6 48 (14.95%) JavaScript
7 38 (11.84%) PowerShell
8 27 (8.41%) Go
9 21 (6.54%) Groovy
10 15 (4.67%) Apex Code
10 15 (4.67%) SOQL
10 15 (4.67%) SOSL
11 12 (3.74%) C#
12 9 (2.80%) ANSI SQL
13 8 (2.49%) Delphi
14 7 (2.18%) Bicep
14 7 (2.18%) Rust
15 5 (1.56%) C
16 4 (1.25%) C++
17 3 (0.93%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 73 (22.74%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.59%) DV Cleared
3 31 (9.66%) AWS Certification
4 29 (9.03%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.48%) Degree
6 14 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.12%) ISTQB
8 10 (3.12%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.87%) OSCP
12 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.25%) CCNA
13 4 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.62%) CISSP
14 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.62%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.40%) QA
2 9 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.18%) NIST
4 5 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) ECSS
7 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 132 (41.12%) Docker
2 21 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.23%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.87%) vSphere
5 5 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.25%) Firmware
7 3 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.62%) NFS
8 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 138 (42.99%) Kubernetes
2 134 (41.74%) Terraform
3 85 (26.48%) Ansible
4 78 (24.30%) Grafana
5 66 (20.56%) Prometheus
6 22 (6.85%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.80%) Kibana
8 8 (2.49%) Puppet
8 8 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.18%) Rancher
10 6 (1.87%) Argo
10 6 (1.87%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.56%) WSUS
12 4 (1.25%) logstash
12 4 (1.25%) Nagios
12 4 (1.25%) vRealize
13 3 (0.93%) Istio
13 3 (0.93%) SCOM
13 3 (0.93%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.62%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 45 (14.02%) Splunk
2 43 (13.40%) Oracle
3 29 (9.03%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.48%) Atlassian
4 24 (7.48%) VMware
5 16 (4.98%) Salesforce
6 15 (4.67%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.18%) Google
8 6 (1.87%) SAP
9 5 (1.56%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.56%) Cisco
9 5 (1.56%) HP
9 5 (1.56%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.93%) Dell
11 2 (0.62%) Adobe
11 2 (0.62%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.62%) Juniper
11 2 (0.62%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.62%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.62%) Veeam