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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 338 298
Rank change year-on-year -27 -40 -17
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 324 431 629
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.52% 0.81% 0.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.61% 7.89% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 206 187 512
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,500 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -11.86%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% +16.67% -4.00%

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 3,762 5,465 7,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.02% 10.29% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,411 3,111 5,939
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £79,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -4.35% +4.55%

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 24 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 24 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 -17 275 £77,500 +6.90% 294
UK excluding London -22 180 £68,750 -1.79% 273
Work from Home -3 117 £77,500 +7.27% 182
London -15 101 £87,250 -3.06% 64
North of England +49 81 £75,000 +15.38% 56
Yorkshire +8 43 £78,750 +52.97% 18
North West +25 31 £65,000 -3.70% 34
South West -18 29 £73,500 +17.60% 41
South East -27 25 £80,250 +10.69% 89
Midlands +3 18 £55,200 -21.14% 23
Scotland -14 15 - - 22
West Midlands +23 12 £60,000 -12.73% 8
East of England +24 11 £67,500 -6.90% 31
North East +5 7 £66,250 -5.36% 4
East Midlands -2 6 £53,600 -28.53% 14
Wales +8 3 £55,200 -32.06% 11

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 (6.79%) Confluence
2 17 (5.25%) Apache
3 9 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.54%) IIS
4 5 (1.54%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.23%) nginx
5 4 (1.23%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Superset
6 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.93%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.93%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 200 (61.73%) AWS
2 124 (38.27%) Azure
3 86 (26.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 72 (22.22%) GitHub
5 68 (20.99%) Serverless
6 61 (18.83%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (18.52%) GCP
8 47 (14.51%) Amazon S3
9 44 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (12.96%) Amazon ECS
11 40 (12.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (9.88%) OpenShift
13 30 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
14 29 (8.95%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (8.64%) AWS Step Functions
16 26 (8.02%) Amazon ECR
17 22 (6.79%) Apigee
18 17 (5.25%) Datadog
19 13 (4.01%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 26 (8.02%) DNS
2 16 (4.94%) Broadband
3 12 (3.70%) Firewall
4 7 (2.16%) VPN
5 6 (1.85%) DSL
6 5 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.23%) BGP
7 4 (1.23%) DHCP
7 4 (1.23%) VSAN
7 4 (1.23%) WAN
8 3 (0.93%) Skype
8 3 (0.93%) VLAN
9 2 (0.62%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.62%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.62%) MQTT
9 2 (0.62%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.62%) RTMP
9 2 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.62%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.62%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.19%) DynamoDB
1 33 (10.19%) NoSQL
1 33 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (9.88%) SQL Server
3 30 (9.26%) MongoDB
4 20 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (3.70%) MySQL
7 9 (2.78%) Power BI
8 6 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.54%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.54%) CockroachDB
9 5 (1.54%) Data Vault
9 5 (1.54%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.23%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.93%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.93%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 183 (56.48%) Jenkins
2 75 (23.15%) Git
3 54 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 41 (12.65%) JIRA
5 34 (10.49%) Cucumber
5 34 (10.49%) Cypress.io
6 27 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 27 (8.33%) Maven
7 25 (7.72%) Selenium
8 22 (6.79%) JUnit
9 14 (4.32%) Postman
10 12 (3.70%) CircleCI
11 8 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (2.47%) JMeter
11 8 (2.47%) Subversion
12 7 (2.16%) REST Assured
13 6 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.85%) Vite
14 5 (1.54%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.54%) TestNG
General
1 84 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 71 (21.91%) Finance
3 37 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.10%) Banking
5 22 (6.79%) Marketing
5 22 (6.79%) Telecoms
6 20 (6.17%) Games
7 17 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (4.94%) Advertising
8 16 (4.94%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.63%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.78%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.85%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.54%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.23%) Electronics
15 3 (0.93%) Retail
16 2 (0.62%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.62%) Automotive
16 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (18.83%) Lead
2 59 (18.21%) Developer
3 50 (15.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (12.96%) Senior
5 30 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.72%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (7.10%) Architect
7 23 (7.10%) Software Engineer
8 21 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.25%) Java Developer
10 16 (4.94%) Software Developer
11 14 (4.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.32%) Salesforce Architect
12 13 (4.01%) Lead DevOps
12 13 (4.01%) Senior Developer
13 12 (3.70%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 12 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.70%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.09%) Consultant
15 9 (2.78%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.43%) Spring Boot
2 41 (12.65%) Elastic Stack
3 40 (12.35%) Spring
4 33 (10.19%) REST
5 32 (9.88%) AngularJS
6 25 (7.72%) Gherkin
7 24 (7.41%) Jest
7 24 (7.41%) Kafka
7 24 (7.41%) React
8 20 (6.17%) RESTful
9 18 (5.56%) SOAP
10 17 (5.25%) Node.js
11 15 (4.63%) FastAPI
11 15 (4.63%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (4.63%) Visualforce
12 14 (4.32%) pytest
13 12 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
14 11 (3.40%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (3.40%) HTML
14 11 (3.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.72%) Product Ownership
3 17 (5.25%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.40%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.85%) Blockchain
7 6 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.85%) PKI
7 6 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.85%) Web3
8 5 (1.54%) Cloud Security Posture
8 5 (1.54%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.93%) IoT
10 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 90 (27.78%) Linux
2 32 (9.88%) Windows
3 15 (4.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.09%) Ubuntu
6 9 (2.78%) Unix
7 7 (2.16%) CentOS
8 5 (1.54%) Debian
8 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.31%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (78.70%) CI/CD
2 217 (66.98%) DevOps
3 145 (44.75%) Agile
4 127 (39.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 94 (29.01%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (28.70%) Containerisation
7 61 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (18.83%) Test Automation
8 55 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
8 55 (16.98%) Software Engineering
9 52 (16.05%) Microservices
10 51 (15.74%) Mentoring
10 51 (15.74%) Observability
11 45 (13.89%) Scrum
12 43 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 41 (12.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 39 (12.04%) DevSecOps
15 38 (11.73%) Incident Response
16 37 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
17 36 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 161 (49.69%) Python
2 101 (31.17%) Java
3 91 (28.09%) Bash
4 66 (20.37%) TypeScript
5 61 (18.83%) SQL
6 48 (14.81%) JavaScript
7 37 (11.42%) PowerShell
8 28 (8.64%) Go
9 21 (6.48%) Groovy
10 15 (4.63%) Apex Code
10 15 (4.63%) SOQL
10 15 (4.63%) SOSL
11 13 (4.01%) C#
12 9 (2.78%) ANSI SQL
12 9 (2.78%) Rust
13 8 (2.47%) Delphi
14 7 (2.16%) Bicep
15 5 (1.54%) C
15 5 (1.54%) C++
16 3 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.49%) DV Cleared
3 32 (9.88%) AWS Certification
4 30 (9.26%) SC Cleared
5 26 (8.02%) Degree
6 14 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.09%) ISTQB
8 10 (3.09%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (2.16%) OSCP
11 5 (1.54%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.23%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.23%) CCNA
12 4 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.62%) CISSP
13 2 (0.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.62%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.96%) QA
2 9 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.16%) NIST
4 5 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.23%) GDPR
5 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.62%) ECSS
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 135 (41.67%) Docker
2 21 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.17%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.85%) vSphere
5 5 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.23%) Firmware
7 3 (0.93%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.62%) NFS
8 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.31%) Squid
Systems Management
1 139 (42.90%) Kubernetes
2 138 (42.59%) Terraform
3 86 (26.54%) Ansible
4 79 (24.38%) Grafana
5 67 (20.68%) Prometheus
6 22 (6.79%) HP Fortify
7 9 (2.78%) Kibana
8 8 (2.47%) Puppet
8 8 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (2.16%) Rancher
10 6 (1.85%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.54%) Argo
11 5 (1.54%) WSUS
12 4 (1.23%) logstash
12 4 (1.23%) Nagios
12 4 (1.23%) vRealize
13 3 (0.93%) Istio
13 3 (0.93%) SCOM
13 3 (0.93%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.62%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 44 (13.58%) Splunk
2 42 (12.96%) Oracle
3 29 (8.95%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.41%) Atlassian
4 24 (7.41%) VMware
5 16 (4.94%) Salesforce
6 15 (4.63%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.16%) Google
8 6 (1.85%) SAP
9 5 (1.54%) AppDynamics
9 5 (1.54%) Cisco
9 5 (1.54%) HP
9 5 (1.54%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.93%) Dell
11 2 (0.62%) Adobe
11 2 (0.62%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.62%) Juniper
11 2 (0.62%) NETGEAR
11 2 (0.62%) Sonatype
11 2 (0.62%) Veeam