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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 271 319
Rank change year-on-year -82 +48 +21
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 587 528 653
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.51% 1.07% 0.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.85% 14.01% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 351 172 299
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +14.81% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,625 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,576 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.32% +12.00% -3.85%

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 4,568 3,770 6,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.00% 7.64% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,889 2,245 3,865
10th Percentile £36,875 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,600 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +1.82% -5.17%

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 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 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 16 September 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 -53 542 £69,310 -10.57% 832
UK excluding London -107 373 £65,576 -6.32% 487
London +2 178 £90,000 +5.88% 411
North of England -63 152 £69,310 +2.68% 147
Work from Home -182 119 £67,500 -15.63% 384
South East 0 77 £65,000 -13.33% 77
South West -25 77 £72,500 +7.41% 101
North West -85 54 £69,310 +15.52% 79
North East -19 50 £55,000 -18.52% 31
Yorkshire -3 48 £77,500 +3.33% 38
Midlands -68 38 £60,000 -14.29% 44
West Midlands -47 25 £56,250 -30.77% 36
Scotland -40 14 £110,000 +26.07% 50
East Midlands -63 13 £60,000 -1.64% 8
Wales -70 9 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East of England -54 8 £60,000 -7.69% 49
Northern Ireland - 1 £72,500 - 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 30 (5.11%) Apache
2 25 (4.26%) Confluence
3 22 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (3.41%) Apache Spark
5 16 (2.73%) Jupyter
6 6 (1.02%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.51%) IIS
8 2 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.17%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
1 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 383 (65.25%) AWS
2 207 (35.26%) Azure
3 135 (23.00%) GitHub
4 113 (19.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 83 (14.14%) Amazon S3
6 79 (13.46%) Serverless
7 76 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (12.95%) GCP
8 73 (12.44%) GitHub Actions
9 63 (10.73%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 53 (9.03%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (8.35%) Amazon ECR
13 43 (7.33%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (6.81%) Azure AKS
16 34 (5.79%) OpenShift
17 28 (4.77%) AWS Step Functions
18 23 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
19 22 (3.75%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.58%) DNS
2 18 (3.07%) Broadband
2 18 (3.07%) Firewall
3 11 (1.87%) HTTP
3 11 (1.87%) MQTT
4 10 (1.70%) Network Security
4 10 (1.70%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.36%) DHCP
5 8 (1.36%) IPv4
5 8 (1.36%) LAN
5 8 (1.36%) Software-Defined Networking
6 7 (1.19%) WAN
7 6 (1.02%) BGP
7 6 (1.02%) NX-OS
7 6 (1.02%) VPN
7 6 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.02%) Wireless
7 6 (1.02%) ZigBee
8 4 (0.68%) Bluetooth
9 3 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (13.63%) NoSQL
2 62 (10.56%) MongoDB
3 60 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (8.18%) DynamoDB
5 41 (6.98%) MySQL
6 31 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (3.92%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.07%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (2.39%) Pinecone
9 14 (2.39%) Redis
10 12 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.87%) Big Data
12 9 (1.53%) Chroma
13 8 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.19%) SQL Server
15 6 (1.02%) InfluxDB
16 5 (0.85%) DocumentDB
17 4 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 257 (43.78%) Jenkins
2 197 (33.56%) Git
3 74 (12.61%) Cucumber
4 67 (11.41%) JIRA
5 61 (10.39%) SonarQube
6 58 (9.88%) Cypress.io
7 41 (6.98%) Selenium
8 34 (5.79%) Postman
9 29 (4.94%) JUnit
10 28 (4.77%) Maven
11 23 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 20 (3.41%) JMeter
13 15 (2.56%) Gatling
13 15 (2.56%) REST Assured
13 15 (2.56%) Vite
14 14 (2.39%) Spock
14 14 (2.39%) Visual Studio Code
15 13 (2.21%) Bitbucket
16 12 (2.04%) Robot Framework
17 10 (1.70%) Zephyr
General
1 152 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 132 (22.49%) Finance
3 96 (16.35%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.71%) Banking
5 46 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.73%) Aerospace
8 16 (2.73%) Marketing
9 14 (2.39%) Law
9 14 (2.39%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.70%) Electronics
11 8 (1.36%) Legal
12 7 (1.19%) Games
12 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.68%) Automotive
14 4 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.51%) Military
15 3 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 151 (25.72%) Senior
2 130 (22.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 88 (14.99%) Developer
4 65 (11.07%) Software Engineer
5 51 (8.69%) Java Engineer
6 50 (8.52%) Lead
6 50 (8.52%) Principal Engineer
7 38 (6.47%) Senior DevOps
7 38 (6.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 37 (6.30%) AWS Engineer
8 37 (6.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 31 (5.28%) Test Engineer
10 30 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
11 29 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
12 28 (4.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 28 (4.77%) Java Developer
13 27 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
14 25 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
15 24 (4.09%) Senior Developer
16 23 (3.92%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 284 (48.38%) Terraform
2 90 (15.33%) Spring
2 90 (15.33%) Spring Boot
3 85 (14.48%) Kafka
4 69 (11.75%) React
5 64 (10.90%) AngularJS
6 62 (10.56%) Node.js
6 62 (10.56%) RESTful
7 59 (10.05%) REST
8 44 (7.50%) Playwright
9 42 (7.16%) Elastic Stack
10 36 (6.13%) Jest
11 32 (5.45%) .NET
12 28 (4.77%) Gherkin
13 27 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
14 26 (4.43%) Vue
15 25 (4.26%) LangChain
16 22 (3.75%) FastAPI
16 22 (3.75%) Next.js
17 21 (3.58%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 186 (31.69%) Cloud Native
2 83 (14.14%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (9.20%) Product Ownership
4 47 (8.01%) Public Cloud
5 40 (6.81%) e-Learning
6 38 (6.47%) Enterprise Software
7 26 (4.43%) Private Cloud
8 21 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (3.07%) Data Centre
10 17 (2.90%) Algorithms
11 13 (2.21%) Virtual Team
12 12 (2.04%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.70%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.53%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.19%) Blockchain
15 7 (1.19%) IoT
15 7 (1.19%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 174 (29.64%) Linux
2 59 (10.05%) Windows
3 41 (6.98%) CentOS
4 33 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (4.09%) Unix
6 18 (3.07%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.70%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.85%) VMS
9 4 (0.68%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.51%) Debian
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Rocky
11 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (90.80%) CI/CD
2 389 (66.27%) DevOps
3 335 (57.07%) Agile
4 289 (49.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 235 (40.03%) Test Automation
6 190 (32.37%) Microservices
7 168 (28.62%) Containerisation
8 143 (24.36%) Software Engineering
9 142 (24.19%) Mentoring
10 117 (19.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 114 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (18.74%) AI
13 105 (17.89%) Observability
14 103 (17.55%) Scrum
15 102 (17.38%) SDLC
16 93 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
17 91 (15.50%) Coaching
18 77 (13.12%) Platform Engineering
19 76 (12.95%) Continuous Integration
19 76 (12.95%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 273 (46.51%) Python
2 208 (35.43%) Java
3 150 (25.55%) Bash
4 125 (21.29%) SQL
5 99 (16.87%) TypeScript
6 98 (16.70%) JavaScript
7 74 (12.61%) PowerShell
8 39 (6.64%) Go
9 37 (6.30%) Groovy
10 36 (6.13%) C++
11 34 (5.79%) C#
12 20 (3.41%) Rust
13 13 (2.21%) PHP
14 11 (1.87%) C
15 10 (1.70%) Apex Code
15 10 (1.70%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.53%) Perl
17 8 (1.36%) SOQL
17 8 (1.36%) SOSL
18 7 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 241 (41.06%) Security Cleared
2 157 (26.75%) SC Cleared
3 81 (13.80%) Degree
4 76 (12.95%) AWS Certification
5 54 (9.20%) DV Cleared
6 45 (7.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (3.92%) Master's Degree
9 17 (2.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (2.90%) ISTQB
10 15 (2.56%) CCNA
10 15 (2.56%) RHCSA
11 14 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.53%) OSCP
13 8 (1.36%) RHCE
14 7 (1.19%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (1.02%) Azure Certification
15 6 (1.02%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (16.01%) QA
2 31 (5.28%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.41%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.24%) WCAG
5 11 (1.87%) GDPR
6 9 (1.53%) SLA
7 8 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.36%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.02%) JTAG
9 4 (0.68%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.68%) NIST
10 3 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.17%) GRC
12 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 288 (49.06%) Docker
2 27 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (2.39%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.39%) vSphere
5 8 (1.36%) Squid
5 8 (1.36%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.85%) Firmware
7 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 255 (43.44%) Kubernetes
2 145 (24.70%) Ansible
3 85 (14.48%) Grafana
4 61 (10.39%) Prometheus
5 42 (7.16%) Argo
6 22 (3.75%) HP Fortify
6 22 (3.75%) Puppet
7 21 (3.58%) Nagios
8 20 (3.41%) Kibana
9 17 (2.90%) logstash
10 14 (2.39%) Packer
11 10 (1.70%) Progress Chef
12 9 (1.53%) Podman
13 8 (1.36%) ZABBIX
14 7 (1.19%) vCenter Server
15 6 (1.02%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
17 3 (0.51%) Istio
17 3 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 61 (10.39%) Splunk
2 51 (8.69%) Microsoft
3 40 (6.81%) Red Hat
4 37 (6.30%) VMware
5 21 (3.58%) Oracle
6 20 (3.41%) AppDynamics
7 18 (3.07%) Google
8 17 (2.90%) OpenAI
9 15 (2.56%) Mistral
10 14 (2.39%) Atlassian
10 14 (2.39%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.70%) Databricks
11 10 (1.70%) Rapid7
12 9 (1.53%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.53%) SAP
13 7 (1.19%) Cisco
13 7 (1.19%) NVIDIA
13 7 (1.19%) OneLogin
13 7 (1.19%) Pega
14 6 (1.02%) Veracode