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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 356 346
Rank change year-on-year +24 -10 -60
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 426 317 674
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 0.77% 0.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.31% 7.23% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 252 192 554
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,875 £35,920
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £103,625 £109,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £72,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.03% +15.60% +8.70%

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 4,133 4,387 8,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.37% 10.66% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,688 3,039 6,724
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £79,313
90th Percentile £91,075 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +3 347 £77,500 - 209
UK excluding London +6 247 £65,000 -10.03% 162
Work from Home +45 155 £72,500 +3.57% 99
London -9 131 £82,500 -8.33% 58
North of England -1 91 £67,500 - 51
Yorkshire +6 59 £77,500 +3.33% 18
South East -8 57 £65,000 -18.75% 38
Scotland +1 42 £95,000 +11.76% 6
South West -57 32 £67,500 +5.88% 35
North West -25 25 £65,000 -3.04% 15
Midlands -35 17 £57,500 -11.54% 17
West Midlands +3 16 £58,750 -2.08% 10
North East -21 7 £68,076 -2.75% 18
East of England -20 6 £67,500 -14.29% 14
Wales -18 2 £55,200 +69.85% 4
East Midlands -47 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 22 (5.16%) Confluence
2 16 (3.76%) Apache
3 7 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.17%) IIS
4 5 (1.17%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.70%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.47%) JBoss
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 258 (60.56%) AWS
2 163 (38.26%) Azure
3 130 (30.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 109 (25.59%) Serverless
5 101 (23.71%) GitHub
6 93 (21.83%) AWS Lambda
7 76 (17.84%) GCP
8 75 (17.61%) Amazon S3
9 69 (16.20%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (12.91%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (11.97%) AWS Step Functions
12 47 (11.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (10.80%) OpenShift
14 43 (10.09%) Amazon ECR
15 42 (9.86%) Apigee
16 39 (9.15%) Datadog
17 36 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
17 36 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
18 31 (7.28%) Amazon EC2
19 22 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (9.86%) Broadband
2 27 (6.34%) DNS
3 23 (5.40%) Firewall
4 13 (3.05%) DSL
5 6 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.41%) DHCP
5 6 (1.41%) VPN
6 5 (1.17%) Network Security
7 4 (0.94%) Asterisk PBX
7 4 (0.94%) BGP
7 4 (0.94%) LAN
7 4 (0.94%) MPLS
7 4 (0.94%) MQTT
7 4 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (0.94%) VoIP
7 4 (0.94%) VPLS
7 4 (0.94%) WAN
8 3 (0.70%) HTTP
8 3 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (12.44%) DynamoDB
2 48 (11.27%) NoSQL
3 29 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (4.69%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 10 (2.35%) MySQL
9 5 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.17%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.17%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.17%) Power BI
10 4 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.94%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.94%) Pinecone
10 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.47%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.47%) Big Data
11 2 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 236 (55.40%) Jenkins
2 97 (22.77%) Git
3 92 (21.60%) SonarQube
4 50 (11.74%) Cypress.io
5 46 (10.80%) JIRA
6 40 (9.39%) Maven
7 36 (8.45%) Cucumber
8 30 (7.04%) Selenium
9 25 (5.87%) Bitbucket
9 25 (5.87%) CircleCI
10 19 (4.46%) JUnit
11 14 (3.29%) Postman
12 12 (2.82%) REST Assured
13 11 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (2.35%) JMeter
15 8 (1.88%) Subversion
16 6 (1.41%) Gatling
17 5 (1.17%) SoapUI
17 5 (1.17%) TestNG
18 4 (0.94%) LoadRunner
General
1 109 (25.59%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.72%) Finance
3 49 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (11.27%) Marketing
5 43 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (9.62%) Games
7 32 (7.51%) Banking
7 32 (7.51%) Telecoms
8 23 (5.40%) Public Sector
9 16 (3.76%) Advertising
10 15 (3.52%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.41%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.17%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.94%) Electronics
15 4 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.47%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 74 (17.37%) Developer
1 74 (17.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 66 (15.49%) Senior
3 59 (13.85%) Lead
4 57 (13.38%) Architect
5 46 (10.80%) Cloud Engineer
6 39 (9.15%) Salesforce Architect
7 32 (7.51%) Java Developer
8 29 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.40%) Senior Developer
10 23 (5.40%) Software Engineer
11 21 (4.93%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 21 (4.93%) Technical Architect
12 18 (4.23%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (4.23%) Security Engineer
13 16 (3.76%) Automation Engineer
14 15 (3.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 15 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
14 15 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.49%) Spring Boot
2 62 (14.55%) REST
3 47 (11.03%) Elastic Stack
4 45 (10.56%) AngularJS
4 45 (10.56%) Kafka
5 43 (10.09%) SOAP
5 43 (10.09%) Spring
6 41 (9.62%) Lightning Web Components
6 41 (9.62%) Visualforce
7 40 (9.39%) Gherkin
8 38 (8.92%) Jest
9 26 (6.10%) RESTful
10 24 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (4.93%) React
12 18 (4.23%) Node.js
12 18 (4.23%) YAML
13 16 (3.76%) AWS CDK
14 15 (3.52%) OAuth
14 15 (3.52%) pytest
15 14 (3.29%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 69 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 60 (14.08%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.52%) Security Posture
5 13 (3.05%) Blockchain
5 13 (3.05%) Cloud Security Posture
6 12 (2.82%) Web3
7 11 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.58%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.88%) e-Learning
9 8 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (1.64%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.64%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.41%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.17%) PKI
13 3 (0.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 96 (22.54%) Linux
2 37 (8.69%) Windows
3 14 (3.29%) CentOS
3 14 (3.29%) Unix
4 13 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.58%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.70%) Debian
10 1 (0.23%) Fedora
10 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (87.09%) CI/CD
2 299 (70.19%) DevOps
3 208 (48.83%) Agile
4 186 (43.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 135 (31.69%) Containerisation
6 118 (27.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 115 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (22.30%) Continuous Integration
9 82 (19.25%) Microservices
9 82 (19.25%) Scrum
10 77 (18.08%) Observability
11 75 (17.61%) Test Automation
12 71 (16.67%) Event-Driven
13 67 (15.73%) Continuous Delivery
13 67 (15.73%) Software Engineering
14 64 (15.02%) Roadmaps
15 63 (14.79%) Mentoring
16 60 (14.08%) DevSecOps
17 48 (11.27%) Community of Practice
18 47 (11.03%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 202 (47.42%) Python
2 120 (28.17%) Bash
3 114 (26.76%) Java
4 67 (15.73%) TypeScript
5 64 (15.02%) SQL
6 51 (11.97%) JavaScript
7 42 (9.86%) Go
7 42 (9.86%) PowerShell
8 41 (9.62%) Apex Code
8 41 (9.62%) SOQL
8 41 (9.62%) SOSL
9 35 (8.22%) Groovy
10 20 (4.69%) Rust
11 14 (3.29%) C#
12 8 (1.88%) Delphi
13 7 (1.64%) Bicep
13 7 (1.64%) C++
14 6 (1.41%) ANSI SQL
15 4 (0.94%) Perl
15 4 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (22.07%) Security Cleared
2 46 (10.80%) AWS Certification
3 41 (9.62%) Degree
4 40 (9.39%) SC Cleared
5 34 (7.98%) DV Cleared
6 23 (5.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 21 (4.93%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (3.76%) OSCP
9 13 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (2.58%) ISTQB
12 8 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
12 8 (1.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.94%) CCNA
14 4 (0.94%) CISSP
15 3 (0.70%) CISM
15 3 (0.70%) GCIH
15 3 (0.70%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.27%) QA
2 17 (3.99%) GDPR
2 17 (3.99%) NIST
3 13 (3.05%) PCI DSS
4 12 (2.82%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.88%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.47%) ECSS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 181 (42.49%) Docker
2 22 (5.16%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.17%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.17%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.17%) vSphere
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.23%) Squid
Systems Management
1 196 (46.01%) Terraform
2 177 (41.55%) Kubernetes
3 97 (22.77%) Ansible
4 96 (22.54%) Grafana
5 86 (20.19%) Prometheus
6 37 (8.69%) HP Fortify
7 11 (2.58%) Nagios
8 10 (2.35%) Kibana
9 9 (2.11%) Puppet
10 8 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (1.64%) Argo
12 5 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (1.17%) logstash
12 5 (1.17%) Progress Chef
12 5 (1.17%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.94%) WSUS
14 3 (0.70%) Istio
14 3 (0.70%) Rancher
14 3 (0.70%) VxRail
15 2 (0.47%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 78 (18.31%) Splunk
2 42 (9.86%) Salesforce
3 35 (8.22%) Oracle
4 34 (7.98%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.04%) Microsoft
6 22 (5.16%) Atlassian
7 21 (4.93%) VMware
8 14 (3.29%) Cisco
9 10 (2.35%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.88%) Google
10 8 (1.88%) Juniper
11 7 (1.64%) Palo Alto
12 6 (1.41%) F5
13 5 (1.17%) Rapid7
13 5 (1.17%) SAP
14 4 (0.94%) Dell
14 4 (0.94%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.70%) AppDynamics
15 3 (0.70%) BeyondTrust
15 3 (0.70%) Tenable