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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 340 309
Rank change year-on-year -19 -31 -26
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 335 413 653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.79% 0.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.84% 7.65% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 206 181 541
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,813 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +13.82% -1.60%

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 3,791 5,400 7,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.97% 10.34% 11.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,436 3,056 6,255
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,546 £60,781
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -0.39% -6.49%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -

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 30 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 30 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 -20 278 £80,000 +10.34% 250
UK excluding London -4 189 £72,500 +3.57% 222
Work from Home +23 126 £77,500 +10.71% 171
London -17 102 £88,750 +1.43% 73
North of England +39 80 £75,000 +13.21% 44
Yorkshire +9 45 £78,750 +52.97% 14
North West +24 28 £65,000 -3.70% 27
South West -15 28 £74,500 +19.20% 31
South East -27 28 £80,250 +10.69% 81
Scotland -7 23 - - 20
Midlands +7 18 £55,200 -21.14% 17
West Midlands +6 12 £60,000 -12.73% 12
East of England +26 11 £67,500 -6.90% 20
North East +4 7 £66,250 -5.36% 3
East Midlands -7 6 £53,600 -28.53% 5
Wales +5 3 £55,200 -18.22% 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 22 (6.57%) Confluence
2 17 (5.07%) Apache
3 9 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.49%) IIS
4 5 (1.49%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.90%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.90%) nginx
7 2 (0.60%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.30%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 205 (61.19%) AWS
2 128 (38.21%) Azure
3 90 (26.87%) AWS CloudFormation
4 76 (22.69%) GitHub
5 72 (21.49%) Serverless
6 64 (19.10%) AWS Lambda
7 62 (18.51%) GCP
8 50 (14.93%) Amazon S3
9 47 (14.03%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (13.13%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (9.55%) OpenShift
13 30 (8.96%) AWS Step Functions
13 30 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (8.66%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (8.66%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (8.36%) Amazon ECR
16 24 (7.16%) Apigee
17 19 (5.67%) Datadog
18 13 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.76%) DNS
2 24 (7.16%) Broadband
3 13 (3.88%) Firewall
4 7 (2.09%) VPN
5 6 (1.79%) DSL
6 5 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.19%) BGP
7 4 (1.19%) DHCP
7 4 (1.19%) WAN
8 3 (0.90%) VLAN
8 3 (0.90%) VSAN
9 2 (0.60%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.60%) MQTT
9 2 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.60%) RTMP
9 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.60%) Skype
9 2 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.60%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.75%) DynamoDB
2 35 (10.45%) NoSQL
3 33 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (9.25%) SQL Server
5 30 (8.96%) MongoDB
6 21 (6.27%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (3.58%) MySQL
9 8 (2.39%) Power BI
10 6 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.49%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.49%) CockroachDB
11 5 (1.49%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.19%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.19%) Data Vault
12 4 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.90%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.90%) InfluxDB
14 2 (0.60%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 194 (57.91%) Jenkins
2 78 (23.28%) Git
3 62 (18.51%) SonarQube
4 43 (12.84%) JIRA
5 34 (10.15%) Cypress.io
6 33 (9.85%) Cucumber
7 29 (8.66%) Maven
8 25 (7.46%) Bitbucket
9 24 (7.16%) Selenium
10 21 (6.27%) JUnit
11 14 (4.18%) CircleCI
12 13 (3.88%) Postman
13 9 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (2.39%) Subversion
15 7 (2.09%) JMeter
15 7 (2.09%) REST Assured
16 5 (1.49%) SoapUI
16 5 (1.49%) TestNG
16 5 (1.49%) Vite
17 4 (1.19%) Gradle
General
1 83 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 70 (20.90%) Finance
3 35 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (8.96%) Marketing
5 28 (8.36%) Games
6 25 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (6.57%) Banking
7 22 (6.57%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.78%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.78%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.48%) Advertising
10 9 (2.69%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.49%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.49%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.19%) Electronics
14 2 (0.60%) Agriculture
14 2 (0.60%) Automotive
14 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (18.51%) Lead
2 58 (17.31%) Developer
3 53 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 45 (13.43%) Senior
5 33 (9.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (9.25%) Architect
7 24 (7.16%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (6.87%) Software Engineer
9 22 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (6.27%) Salesforce Architect
11 19 (5.67%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (4.18%) Senior Developer
13 14 (4.18%) Software Developer
14 13 (3.88%) Lead DevOps
15 12 (3.58%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 12 (3.58%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 12 (3.58%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.58%) Salesforce Technical Architect
15 12 (3.58%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.52%) Spring Boot
2 41 (12.24%) Elastic Stack
3 40 (11.94%) Spring
4 39 (11.64%) REST
5 34 (10.15%) AngularJS
6 27 (8.06%) Gherkin
7 26 (7.76%) Jest
7 26 (7.76%) Kafka
7 26 (7.76%) SOAP
8 23 (6.87%) Lightning Web Components
8 23 (6.87%) React
8 23 (6.87%) Visualforce
9 22 (6.57%) RESTful
10 17 (5.07%) Node.js
11 14 (4.18%) FastAPI
11 14 (4.18%) pytest
12 13 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (3.28%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (3.28%) HTML
14 10 (2.99%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (16.12%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.85%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.58%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.28%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.09%) Blockchain
6 7 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.09%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.09%) Web3
7 6 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.49%) e-Learning
8 5 (1.49%) PKI
9 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) IoT
10 3 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 89 (26.57%) Linux
2 29 (8.66%) Windows
3 13 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.69%) Ubuntu
4 9 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.39%) Unix
6 7 (2.09%) CentOS
7 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.19%) Debian
9 1 (0.30%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (80.30%) CI/CD
2 228 (68.06%) DevOps
3 159 (47.46%) Agile
4 133 (39.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 95 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
6 94 (28.06%) Containerisation
7 69 (20.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (19.70%) Continuous Integration
9 60 (17.91%) Test Automation
10 59 (17.61%) Software Engineering
11 57 (17.01%) Scrum
12 55 (16.42%) Microservices
13 53 (15.82%) Observability
14 52 (15.52%) Mentoring
15 45 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 43 (12.84%) Event-Driven
17 41 (12.24%) Roadmaps
17 41 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 40 (11.94%) DevSecOps
19 38 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 163 (48.66%) Python
2 102 (30.45%) Java
3 93 (27.76%) Bash
4 66 (19.70%) TypeScript
5 59 (17.61%) SQL
6 47 (14.03%) JavaScript
7 36 (10.75%) PowerShell
8 31 (9.25%) Go
9 23 (6.87%) Apex Code
9 23 (6.87%) Groovy
9 23 (6.87%) SOQL
9 23 (6.87%) SOSL
10 15 (4.48%) C#
11 8 (2.39%) ANSI SQL
11 8 (2.39%) Delphi
11 8 (2.39%) Rust
12 7 (2.09%) Bicep
13 6 (1.79%) C++
14 5 (1.49%) C
15 3 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.15%) AWS Certification
3 33 (9.85%) DV Cleared
4 31 (9.25%) SC Cleared
5 29 (8.66%) Degree
6 14 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (3.58%) ITIL Certification
9 10 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.69%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
12 7 (2.09%) OSCP
13 5 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
14 4 (1.19%) CCNA
14 4 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.60%) CISSP
15 2 (0.60%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.60%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.54%) QA
2 9 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.39%) NIST
4 5 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.49%) GDPR
5 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.60%) ECSS
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 138 (41.19%) Docker
2 20 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.67%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.49%) vSphere
5 4 (1.19%) Firmware
5 4 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.90%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.60%) NFS
7 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.30%) Squid
Systems Management
1 143 (42.69%) Terraform
2 140 (41.79%) Kubernetes
3 88 (26.27%) Ansible
4 79 (23.58%) Grafana
5 67 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 24 (7.16%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.69%) Kibana
8 8 (2.39%) Puppet
8 8 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.09%) Rancher
10 6 (1.79%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.49%) Argo
12 4 (1.19%) logstash
12 4 (1.19%) Nagios
12 4 (1.19%) vRealize
12 4 (1.19%) WSUS
13 3 (0.90%) Istio
13 3 (0.90%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.60%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 51 (15.22%) Splunk
2 42 (12.54%) Oracle
3 29 (8.66%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.16%) Atlassian
4 24 (7.16%) Salesforce
5 22 (6.57%) VMware
6 13 (3.88%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.39%) Google
8 6 (1.79%) SAP
9 5 (1.49%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.49%) Cisco
9 5 (1.49%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.19%) HP
11 3 (0.90%) Dell
12 2 (0.60%) Adobe
12 2 (0.60%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.60%) IBM
12 2 (0.60%) Juniper
12 2 (0.60%) NETGEAR
12 2 (0.60%) Veeam