GitLab
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 363 328
Rank change year-on-year +53 -35 -77
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 538 764 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.98% 0.75% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.19% 8.05% 7.37%
Number of salaries quoted 161 560 605
10th Percentile £51,250 £35,920 £43,162
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +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 5,852 9,493 13,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.70% 9.29% 14.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,454 6,594 8,538
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £59,263 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -8.83% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitLab.

Salary trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 +33 461 £77,500 +19.23% 555
UK excluding London +113 397 £70,000 +12.00% 365
Work from Home +83 348 £70,750 +12.69% 351
North of England +48 159 £67,037 +11.73% 106
North West +22 139 £67,037 +16.08% 65
London +19 134 £87,500 +2.94% 231
Midlands +88 79 £70,000 +40.00% 53
Scotland +151 72 £87,500 +42.28% 28
East Midlands +69 44 £70,000 +27.27% 24
South West +103 39 £62,500 -3.85% 85
West Midlands +63 35 £71,250 +97.22% 28
South East 0 25 £63,750 -1.92% 46
East of England +32 24 £80,000 +28.00% 35
Yorkshire +39 17 £71,000 +13.09% 32
North East +37 3 - - 9
Wales +19 2 £32,500 -48.00% 7

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 184 (34.20%) Confluence
2 6 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.93%) nginx
4 4 (0.74%) Apache
5 2 (0.37%) CICS
5 2 (0.37%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.19%) Camunda
6 1 (0.19%) CMS
6 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) Strapi
6 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 441 (81.97%) AWS
2 341 (63.38%) Azure
3 200 (37.17%) GCP
4 47 (8.74%) Amazon EC2
5 45 (8.36%) Serverless
6 43 (7.99%) Amazon S3
6 43 (7.99%) GitHub
7 41 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
8 33 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (5.39%) Datadog
10 28 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.86%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (1.49%) OpenShift
18 6 (1.12%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.67%) DNS
1 9 (1.67%) Firewall
2 4 (0.74%) Network Security
2 4 (0.74%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.74%) VPN
2 4 (0.74%) WAN
3 3 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (0.37%) Internet
4 2 (0.37%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.19%) BGP
5 1 (0.19%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.19%) DHCP
5 1 (0.19%) GSM
5 1 (0.19%) HTTP
5 1 (0.19%) MPLS
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.19%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (48.14%) SQL Server
2 47 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (7.43%) MongoDB
4 39 (7.25%) NoSQL
5 25 (4.65%) MySQL
6 18 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (3.16%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 14 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.93%) Tableau
10 4 (0.74%) Power BI
11 3 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.56%) Couchbase
11 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.56%) Parquet
11 3 (0.56%) Redis
11 3 (0.56%) Spark SQL
12 2 (0.37%) Big Data
12 2 (0.37%) Endeca
Development Applications
1 278 (51.67%) JIRA
2 272 (50.56%) Cucumber
3 270 (50.19%) Sonatype Nexus
4 266 (49.44%) Maven
4 266 (49.44%) SonarQube
5 262 (48.70%) Selenium
6 256 (47.58%) Bitbucket
7 111 (20.63%) Jenkins
8 70 (13.01%) Git
9 28 (5.20%) JUnit
10 19 (3.53%) Mockito
11 16 (2.97%) IntelliJ
12 15 (2.79%) CircleCI
12 15 (2.79%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.86%) Postman
14 8 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (1.12%) Visual Studio
16 5 (0.93%) Artifactory
16 5 (0.93%) Fiddler
16 5 (0.93%) JMeter
General
1 333 (61.90%) Finance
2 292 (54.28%) Banking
3 268 (49.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (19.33%) Retail
5 95 (17.66%) Investment Banking
6 90 (16.73%) Corporate Banking
7 88 (16.36%) Social Skills
8 17 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (2.42%) Marketing
10 12 (2.23%) Public Sector
11 10 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.67%) Front Office
13 8 (1.49%) Automotive
14 6 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.93%) Private Banking
15 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.74%) Law
17 3 (0.56%) Electronics
17 3 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 297 (55.20%) Software Engineer
2 63 (11.71%) Developer
3 57 (10.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 47 (8.74%) Senior
5 31 (5.76%) Lead
6 29 (5.39%) Java Developer
7 28 (5.20%) AWS DevOps
8 26 (4.83%) Senior Developer
9 23 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
10 22 (4.09%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (3.72%) Python Engineer
11 20 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
12 19 (3.53%) AWS Developer
13 18 (3.35%) Architect
13 18 (3.35%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (2.97%) Cloud Engineer
14 16 (2.97%) DevOps Developer
14 16 (2.97%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (2.60%) Java Pricing Developer
15 14 (2.60%) Pricing Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (54.28%) React
2 290 (53.90%) Kafka
3 286 (53.16%) Spring
3 286 (53.16%) Spring Boot
4 260 (48.33%) CSS
4 260 (48.33%) HTML
5 249 (46.28%) JPA
6 248 (46.10%) Redux
7 170 (31.60%) Hibernate
8 132 (24.54%) REST
8 132 (24.54%) RESTful
9 99 (18.40%) HTML5
10 96 (17.84%) CSS3
11 92 (17.10%) Jest
12 90 (16.73%) Sass
13 27 (5.02%) .NET
14 21 (3.90%) AngularJS
15 18 (3.35%) .NET Core
16 17 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
17 16 (2.97%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 265 (49.26%) Enterprise Software
2 257 (47.77%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.60%) Credit Derivative
6 10 (1.86%) Mobile App
6 10 (1.86%) Private Cloud
7 9 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
8 8 (1.49%) Blockchain
8 8 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.49%) Web3
9 6 (1.12%) Wiki
10 5 (0.93%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.74%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.56%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 64 (11.90%) Linux
2 13 (2.42%) Windows
3 11 (2.04%) Android
4 9 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.93%) CentOS
6 5 (0.93%) Debian
7 4 (0.74%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.56%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.56%) VMS
9 2 (0.37%) Rocky
9 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.37%) zOS
10 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (87.55%) CI/CD
2 425 (79.00%) DevOps
3 362 (67.29%) Containerisation
4 361 (67.10%) Agile
5 346 (64.31%) Software Engineering
6 329 (61.15%) Microservices
7 301 (55.95%) Test Automation
8 281 (52.23%) Full-Stack Development
9 273 (50.74%) SDLC
10 268 (49.81%) Performance Optimisation
11 258 (47.96%) Front End Development
12 195 (36.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 175 (32.53%) TDD
14 168 (31.23%) Clean Code
15 135 (25.09%) Mentoring
16 116 (21.56%) User Experience
17 104 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
18 96 (17.84%) Migration
19 90 (16.73%) Responsive Web Design
19 90 (16.73%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 344 (63.94%) Java
2 307 (57.06%) SQL
3 292 (54.28%) JavaScript
4 127 (23.61%) TypeScript
5 118 (21.93%) Python
6 53 (9.85%) Bash
7 27 (5.02%) C#
8 26 (4.83%) C++
9 24 (4.46%) Go
10 16 (2.97%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.12%) Bicep
11 6 (1.12%) Swift
12 5 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.93%) Scala
13 4 (0.74%) C
13 4 (0.74%) Rust
14 3 (0.56%) Groovy
14 3 (0.56%) PHP
15 2 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (9.11%) Security Cleared
2 27 (5.02%) SC Cleared
3 18 (3.35%) DV Cleared
4 15 (2.79%) Degree
5 11 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.74%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.56%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.37%) CCNA
10 2 (0.37%) CCNP
10 2 (0.37%) PhD
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.19%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (52.04%) QA
2 97 (18.03%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.30%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.19%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.19%) ECSS
7 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.19%) NCSC
7 1 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 384 (71.38%) Docker
2 7 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.56%) LXC
3 3 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) Squid
5 1 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 404 (75.09%) Kubernetes
2 128 (23.79%) Terraform
3 93 (17.29%) Ansible
4 40 (7.43%) Prometheus
5 34 (6.32%) Grafana
6 14 (2.60%) Progress Chef
7 13 (2.42%) Kibana
8 10 (1.86%) Nagios
9 9 (1.67%) Argo
9 9 (1.67%) Puppet
10 3 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.56%) Graylog
10 3 (0.56%) Packer
10 3 (0.56%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.37%) CA Endevor
11 2 (0.37%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.37%) Rancher
11 2 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.19%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.19%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 247 (45.91%) Solace
2 17 (3.16%) IBM
2 17 (3.16%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.42%) Oracle
3 13 (2.42%) Splunk
4 12 (2.23%) Atlassian
5 8 (1.49%) Google
6 7 (1.30%) F5
6 7 (1.30%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.30%) VMware
7 5 (0.93%) Cisco
7 5 (0.93%) New Relic
8 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
8 4 (0.74%) Juniper
8 4 (0.74%) Rapid7
9 3 (0.56%) Citrix
9 3 (0.56%) Commvault
9 3 (0.56%) Databricks
9 3 (0.56%) NetApp
9 3 (0.56%) PagerDuty