GitLab Job Trends in Wales

GitLab
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 75 73
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +25
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 4 5 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.38% 0.56% 2.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.55% 4.13% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 13
10th Percentile £52,910 - -
25th Percentile £53,675 £66,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,600 £93,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.40% +107.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £61,375 £107,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,050 - £68,500
UK median annual salary £76,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.93% +7.69% -13.33%

All Development Application Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 53 121 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.02% 13.49% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 44 85 95
10th Percentile £31,500 £23,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,438 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £64,063 £65,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £71,750 £68,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

GitLab job vacancy trend in Wales

GitLab
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing GitLab

GitLab
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Wales region over the 6 months to 4 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
South Wales -5 3 £60,000 -35.83% 6
West Wales - 1 £55,200 -
GitLab
UK

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Django
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Flask
1 1 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Apex Code
3 1 (25.00%) Delphi
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce