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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 316 323
Rank change year-on-year +43 +7 -59
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 526 586 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.07% 0.82% 0.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.10% 9.60% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 168 269 379
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £54,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,250 £107,500 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +12.00% -1.96% +2.00%

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 3,731 6,103 7,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.60% 8.55% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,195 3,437 5,955
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,574 £42,253
25th Percentile £46,448 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%

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 13 October 2025.

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 13 October 2025. 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 +30 442 £77,500 +10.71% 196
UK excluding London +121 399 £70,000 +12.00% 176
Work from Home +97 340 £80,000 +18.52% 237
North of England +96 168 £68,750 +18.61% 59
North West +79 148 £62,500 +8.23% 35
London -60 110 £92,500 +8.82% 70
Midlands +76 78 £70,000 +6.93% 17
Scotland +64 72 £74,500 +29.57% 19
East Midlands +56 45 £61,000 -4.31% 3
West Midlands +21 33 £81,250 +24.11% 13
South West +31 30 £73,750 +22.92% 27
East of England +21 29 £55,000 -18.52% 8
South East -33 22 £76,250 +17.31% 47
Yorkshire +16 14 £75,000 +29.39% 13
North East +22 6 £66,250 +7.35% 11
Wales +13 3 £60,000 -35.83% 4

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
1 175 (33.27%) Confluence
2 9 (1.71%) nginx
3 7 (1.33%) Apache
4 4 (0.76%) Camunda
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.57%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.57%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.38%) CICS
7 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Simulink
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.19%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 414 (78.71%) AWS
2 343 (65.21%) Azure
3 198 (37.64%) GCP
4 40 (7.60%) GitHub
5 36 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (6.46%) Serverless
7 29 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (4.56%) Amazon S3
10 23 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (4.18%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (4.18%) OpenShift
12 21 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (2.85%) Datadog
15 15 (2.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (1.71%) Route 53
17 8 (1.52%) AWS CodeBuild
17 8 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.85%) Broadband
2 14 (2.66%) DNS
3 12 (2.28%) Firewall
4 9 (1.71%) Network Security
4 9 (1.71%) WAN
5 6 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (0.95%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
7 4 (0.76%) VPN
8 3 (0.57%) HTTP
8 3 (0.57%) OSPF
8 3 (0.57%) Skype
8 3 (0.57%) VLAN
8 3 (0.57%) VSAN
9 2 (0.38%) BGP
9 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) LAN
9 2 (0.38%) MQTT
9 2 (0.38%) RTMP
9 2 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 269 (51.14%) SQL Server
2 37 (7.03%) MongoDB
3 29 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (3.04%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (1.90%) MySQL
7 7 (1.33%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.95%) Power BI
9 3 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.57%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.57%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.38%) DB2
10 2 (0.38%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.38%) Metadata
10 2 (0.38%) Redis
11 1 (0.19%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 280 (53.23%) SonarQube
2 274 (52.09%) JIRA
3 272 (51.71%) Cucumber
4 270 (51.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 265 (50.38%) Bitbucket
5 265 (50.38%) Selenium
6 256 (48.67%) Maven
7 141 (26.81%) Jenkins
8 55 (10.46%) Git
9 20 (3.80%) JUnit
10 16 (3.04%) CircleCI
11 12 (2.28%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (1.33%) Gatling
13 7 (1.33%) JMeter
13 7 (1.33%) Mockito
14 6 (1.14%) Artifactory
14 6 (1.14%) Postman
15 5 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.95%) Cypress.io
General
1 324 (61.60%) Finance
2 285 (54.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 269 (51.14%) Banking
4 103 (19.58%) Retail
5 95 (18.06%) Investment Banking
6 90 (17.11%) Corporate Banking
7 71 (13.50%) Social Skills
8 33 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (4.18%) Games
9 22 (4.18%) Marketing
10 11 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.90%) Aerospace
12 8 (1.52%) Electronics
13 7 (1.33%) Advertising
14 6 (1.14%) Automotive
14 6 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.14%) Law
14 6 (1.14%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.57%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 273 (51.90%) Software Engineer
2 53 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 42 (7.98%) Developer
4 34 (6.46%) Lead
5 32 (6.08%) Senior
6 26 (4.94%) Architect
7 20 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
8 18 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (2.66%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (2.66%) Salesforce Architect
10 14 (2.66%) Technical Architect
11 13 (2.47%) Java Engineer
12 12 (2.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (2.28%) Backend Developer
13 10 (1.90%) Java Developer
13 10 (1.90%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (1.71%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (53.23%) Spring
2 279 (53.04%) React
3 277 (52.66%) Spring Boot
4 270 (51.33%) Kafka
5 254 (48.29%) CSS
5 254 (48.29%) HTML
6 249 (47.34%) JPA
7 248 (47.15%) Redux
8 169 (32.13%) Hibernate
9 134 (25.48%) REST
10 104 (19.77%) RESTful
11 94 (17.87%) CSS3
11 94 (17.87%) HTML5
12 91 (17.30%) Jest
12 91 (17.30%) Sass
13 23 (4.37%) .NET
14 21 (3.99%) Node.js
15 20 (3.80%) SOAP
16 17 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
17 16 (3.04%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 273 (51.90%) Product Ownership
2 260 (49.43%) Enterprise Software
3 41 (7.79%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.04%) Public Cloud
5 13 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.28%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.14%) Wiki
10 5 (0.95%) PKI
11 4 (0.76%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.76%) Equities
11 4 (0.76%) FPGA
11 4 (0.76%) IoT
11 4 (0.76%) Verilog
11 4 (0.76%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.40%) Linux
2 20 (3.80%) Windows
3 11 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (1.90%) Debian
4 10 (1.90%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.76%) Android
7 3 (0.57%) CentOS
8 2 (0.38%) zOS
9 1 (0.19%) Fedora
9 1 (0.19%) Unix
9 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (86.31%) CI/CD
2 414 (78.71%) DevOps
3 366 (69.58%) Agile
4 338 (64.26%) Containerisation
5 308 (58.56%) Microservices
6 307 (58.37%) Software Engineering
7 298 (56.65%) Test Automation
8 272 (51.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 268 (50.95%) SDLC
10 264 (50.19%) Performance Optimisation
11 262 (49.81%) Front End Development
12 217 (41.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 178 (33.84%) TDD
14 167 (31.75%) Clean Code
15 124 (23.57%) Mentoring
16 116 (22.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 107 (20.34%) User Experience
18 95 (18.06%) Strategic Thinking
19 92 (17.49%) Migration
20 90 (17.11%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 326 (61.98%) Java
2 293 (55.70%) SQL
3 285 (54.18%) JavaScript
4 124 (23.57%) TypeScript
5 123 (23.38%) Python
6 52 (9.89%) Bash
7 39 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 21 (3.99%) C#
8 21 (3.99%) Go
9 19 (3.61%) C++
10 16 (3.04%) Apex Code
11 15 (2.85%) SOQL
11 15 (2.85%) SOSL
12 14 (2.66%) C
13 10 (1.90%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.95%) Bicep
15 4 (0.76%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.76%) Groovy
15 4 (0.76%) MATLAB
15 4 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 48 (9.13%) Security Cleared
2 25 (4.75%) DV Cleared
3 23 (4.37%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.61%) AWS Certification
5 12 (2.28%) Degree
6 10 (1.90%) CCNA
6 10 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.14%) CCNP
7 6 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.14%) ISTQB
8 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (53.42%) QA
2 91 (17.30%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.95%) GDPR
4 3 (0.57%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.19%) ECSS
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 351 (66.73%) Docker
2 12 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.71%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.76%) Firmware
4 4 (0.76%) vSphere
5 3 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.57%) vCloud
5 3 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.38%) NFS
6 2 (0.38%) Squid
6 2 (0.38%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 381 (72.43%) Kubernetes
2 103 (19.58%) Terraform
3 78 (14.83%) Ansible
4 55 (10.46%) Prometheus
5 53 (10.08%) Grafana
6 13 (2.47%) Kibana
7 6 (1.14%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.95%) Argo
9 4 (0.76%) Puppet
9 4 (0.76%) Rancher
9 4 (0.76%) vRealize
9 4 (0.76%) WSUS
10 3 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.57%) Rundeck
10 3 (0.57%) SCOM
11 2 (0.38%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.38%) logstash
11 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 247 (46.96%) Solace
2 34 (6.46%) Splunk
3 27 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 24 (4.56%) Oracle
5 20 (3.80%) VMware
6 16 (3.04%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.85%) Atlassian
8 7 (1.33%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.33%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 6 (1.14%) F5
9 6 (1.14%) IBM
10 5 (0.95%) Sonatype
11 4 (0.76%) SAP
12 3 (0.57%) Cisco
12 3 (0.57%) Cribl.io
12 3 (0.57%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.57%) HP
13 2 (0.38%) Starlink
13 2 (0.38%) Ubiquiti