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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 356 366
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 -70
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 463 321 725
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.77% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.10% 7.57% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 279 196 554
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,425 £51,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,314 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £66,538 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.22% +16.00% +4.17%

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 4,171 4,243 9,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.75% 10.12% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,768 3,012 6,741
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,350 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +10 396 £75,000 -3.23% 222
UK excluding London +1 274 £66,538 -8.22% 162
Work from Home +46 159 £69,310 -3.06% 104
London +10 144 £82,500 -5.71% 80
North of England +4 103 £68,076 +1.55% 55
South East -6 72 £67,500 -15.63% 38
Yorkshire -6 71 £77,500 +10.71% 8
South West -59 40 £65,000 +4.00% 26
Scotland -4 35 £95,000 +11.76% 5
North West -30 23 £65,000 -3.04% 25
Midlands -44 19 £56,350 -24.87% 18
West Midlands -17 18 £57,500 -17.86% 11
North East -35 9 £66,826 +4.82% 22
East of England -33 6 £67,500 -12.90% 14
Wales -19 2 £55,200 +69.85% 1
East Midlands -52 1 £55,200 -31.00% 7

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 25 (5.40%) Confluence
2 17 (3.67%) Apache
3 7 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.08%) IIS
5 5 (1.08%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.65%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.65%) JBoss
8 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 276 (59.61%) AWS
2 178 (38.44%) Azure
3 133 (28.73%) AWS CloudFormation
4 108 (23.33%) Serverless
5 96 (20.73%) GitHub
6 95 (20.52%) AWS Lambda
7 79 (17.06%) Amazon S3
8 75 (16.20%) GCP
9 63 (13.61%) GitHub Actions
10 57 (12.31%) AWS Step Functions
11 55 (11.88%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
13 49 (10.58%) OpenShift
14 47 (10.15%) Apigee
15 46 (9.94%) Amazon ECR
16 41 (8.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 40 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
18 38 (8.21%) Datadog
19 30 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
20 28 (6.05%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.56%) Broadband
2 30 (6.48%) DNS
3 28 (6.05%) Firewall
4 13 (2.81%) DSL
5 9 (1.94%) LAN
6 8 (1.73%) WAN
7 7 (1.51%) Software-Defined Networking
8 6 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.30%) DHCP
8 6 (1.30%) Network Security
8 6 (1.30%) VPN
9 5 (1.08%) BGP
9 5 (1.08%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.86%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (0.86%) HTTP
10 4 (0.86%) MPLS
10 4 (0.86%) MQTT
10 4 (0.86%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.86%) VoIP
10 4 (0.86%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (13.39%) DynamoDB
2 51 (11.02%) NoSQL
3 38 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (6.26%) MongoDB
5 23 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (4.54%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (3.67%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.38%) MySQL
9 8 (1.73%) Pinecone
10 6 (1.30%) InfluxDB
11 5 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.08%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.08%) CockroachDB
12 4 (0.86%) Big Data
12 4 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.86%) Power BI
13 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
14 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.43%) Apache Iceberg
14 2 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 242 (52.27%) Jenkins
2 114 (24.62%) Git
3 102 (22.03%) SonarQube
4 59 (12.74%) Cypress.io
5 52 (11.23%) JIRA
6 47 (10.15%) Cucumber
7 45 (9.72%) Maven
8 33 (7.13%) Selenium
9 28 (6.05%) Bitbucket
10 26 (5.62%) CircleCI
11 17 (3.67%) JUnit
12 14 (3.02%) Postman
13 13 (2.81%) REST Assured
14 12 (2.59%) JMeter
14 12 (2.59%) Visual Studio Code
15 11 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (1.73%) Subversion
17 7 (1.51%) Gatling
18 6 (1.30%) LoadRunner
18 6 (1.30%) Vite
General
1 114 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 86 (18.57%) Finance
3 49 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.42%) Marketing
5 35 (7.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 34 (7.34%) Games
7 33 (7.13%) Banking
8 28 (6.05%) Telecoms
9 16 (3.46%) Manufacturing
10 15 (3.24%) Advertising
11 9 (1.94%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.08%) Automotive
13 5 (1.08%) Electronics
13 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 93 (20.09%) Senior
2 82 (17.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 79 (17.06%) Developer
4 65 (14.04%) Lead
5 51 (11.02%) Architect
6 49 (10.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (8.42%) Java Developer
8 38 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 33 (7.13%) Salesforce Architect
9 33 (7.13%) Software Engineer
10 26 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
11 25 (5.40%) Senior Developer
12 23 (4.97%) Platform Engineer
13 21 (4.54%) Security Engineer
14 19 (4.10%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.89%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (3.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (3.89%) Salesforce Technical Architect
15 18 (3.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (14.90%) Spring Boot
2 61 (13.17%) REST
3 53 (11.45%) AngularJS
4 48 (10.37%) Kafka
5 47 (10.15%) Elastic Stack
6 45 (9.72%) Gherkin
7 43 (9.29%) Jest
8 42 (9.07%) Spring
9 35 (7.56%) SOAP
10 34 (7.34%) Lightning Web Components
10 34 (7.34%) Visualforce
11 32 (6.91%) RabbitMQ
12 29 (6.26%) RESTful
13 24 (5.18%) React
14 23 (4.97%) Node.js
14 23 (4.97%) YAML
15 20 (4.32%) JSON
16 16 (3.46%) AWS CDK
16 16 (3.46%) Playwright
16 16 (3.46%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 73 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 58 (12.53%) Product Ownership
3 25 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (3.46%) Security Posture
5 15 (3.24%) Blockchain
5 15 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (3.02%) Web3
7 13 (2.81%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.81%) Cloud Security Posture
7 13 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 13 (2.81%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.73%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.51%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (25.05%) Linux
2 49 (10.58%) Windows
3 21 (4.54%) Unix
4 16 (3.46%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.02%) CentOS
6 12 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (2.38%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.51%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.65%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.43%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (86.61%) CI/CD
2 327 (70.63%) DevOps
3 232 (50.11%) Agile
4 202 (43.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 133 (28.73%) Containerisation
6 120 (25.92%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (24.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 102 (22.03%) Continuous Integration
9 101 (21.81%) Microservices
10 95 (20.52%) Test Automation
11 89 (19.22%) Scrum
12 80 (17.28%) Observability
13 79 (17.06%) Mentoring
14 78 (16.85%) Software Engineering
15 66 (14.25%) DevSecOps
15 66 (14.25%) Event-Driven
16 63 (13.61%) Continuous Delivery
17 60 (12.96%) Roadmaps
18 57 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 55 (11.88%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 219 (47.30%) Python
2 136 (29.37%) Java
3 129 (27.86%) Bash
4 71 (15.33%) TypeScript
5 68 (14.69%) SQL
6 55 (11.88%) JavaScript
7 48 (10.37%) Go
7 48 (10.37%) PowerShell
8 46 (9.94%) Groovy
9 34 (7.34%) Apex Code
9 34 (7.34%) SOQL
9 34 (7.34%) SOSL
10 24 (5.18%) Rust
11 20 (4.32%) C#
11 20 (4.32%) C++
12 8 (1.73%) Bicep
12 8 (1.73%) Delphi
12 8 (1.73%) Perl
13 5 (1.08%) ANSI SQL
14 4 (0.86%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 118 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.88%) Degree
2 55 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.02%) AWS Certification
4 29 (6.26%) DV Cleared
5 26 (5.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 25 (5.40%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (4.32%) OSCP
8 13 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.81%) ISTQB
9 11 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (2.38%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (1.73%) CCNA
12 7 (1.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (1.08%) CISSP
13 5 (1.08%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.86%) CISM
14 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (10.58%) QA
2 18 (3.89%) NIST
3 16 (3.46%) GDPR
4 13 (2.81%) SOC 2
5 12 (2.59%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.43%) ECSS
10 2 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 191 (41.25%) Docker
2 29 (6.26%) Active Directory
3 27 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.51%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.51%) vSphere
5 6 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.65%) Squid
8 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 229 (49.46%) Terraform
2 192 (41.47%) Kubernetes
3 119 (25.70%) Ansible
4 91 (19.65%) Grafana
5 77 (16.63%) Prometheus
6 44 (9.50%) HP Fortify
7 19 (4.10%) Argo
8 14 (3.02%) Kibana
8 14 (3.02%) Nagios
9 11 (2.38%) logstash
10 10 (2.16%) Puppet
10 10 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.73%) Packer
12 7 (1.51%) vCenter Server
13 6 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.86%) Progress Chef
14 4 (0.86%) Rancher
14 4 (0.86%) WSUS
15 3 (0.65%) VxRail
15 3 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 72 (15.55%) Splunk
2 42 (9.07%) Red Hat
3 39 (8.42%) Microsoft
4 35 (7.56%) Salesforce
5 32 (6.91%) VMware
6 30 (6.48%) Oracle
7 19 (4.10%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.81%) Cisco
9 10 (2.16%) Dynatrace
9 10 (2.16%) Google
10 8 (1.73%) Juniper
10 8 (1.73%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.51%) AppDynamics
11 7 (1.51%) IBM
12 6 (1.30%) F5
12 6 (1.30%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.08%) Rapid7
14 4 (0.86%) Dell
14 4 (0.86%) Tenable
14 4 (0.86%) Veracode