GitLab Job Trends in the West Midlands

GitLab
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 134 167
Rank change year-on-year -51 +33 -1
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 28 33 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% 1.02% 0.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.34% 13.98% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14 4 18
10th Percentile £35,350 £55,125 £40,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £64,688 £52,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £81,250 £66,482
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +22.21% +15.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £101,250 £73,438
90th Percentile £85,000 - £90,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +3.70%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 247 236 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.76% 7.32% 5.94%
Number of salaries quoted 124 152 149
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,163 £35,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,250 - £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

GitLab
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the West Midlands

GitLab
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Shropshire -7 14 £44,500 - 17
Birmingham -28 8 £76,542 +24.97% 8
Coventry -14 4 £75,000 - 2
Worcestershire - 2 £63,750 -
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (17.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (50.00%) AWS
1 14 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) GitHub
3 7 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.71%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.57%) GCP
7 1 (3.57%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (60.71%) Git
2 15 (53.57%) Jenkins
3 14 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 14 (50.00%) Postman
3 14 (50.00%) Selenium
4 10 (35.71%) JIRA
5 9 (32.14%) Gatling
5 9 (32.14%) Zephyr
6 8 (28.57%) JMeter
7 6 (21.43%) JUnit
8 5 (17.86%) Cypress.io
8 5 (17.86%) SoapUI
9 3 (10.71%) Burp Suite
9 3 (10.71%) HP UFT
9 3 (10.71%) LoadRunner
9 3 (10.71%) REST Assured
9 3 (10.71%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
3 6 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) QA Manager
5 3 (10.71%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Test Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) React Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) Playwright
2 5 (17.86%) ADO
2 5 (17.86%) JSON
2 5 (17.86%) SOAP
2 5 (17.86%) XML
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
3 3 (10.71%) Terraform
4 2 (7.14%) CSS
4 2 (7.14%) CSS3
4 2 (7.14%) HTML
4 2 (7.14%) HTML5
4 2 (7.14%) Jest
4 2 (7.14%) React
4 2 (7.14%) Redux
4 2 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) Semantic HTML
4 2 (7.14%) Vitest
5 1 (3.57%) Node.js
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (3.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 4 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
4 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Kali Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (82.14%) Test Automation
3 20 (71.43%) Agile
3 20 (71.43%) Mentoring
4 16 (57.14%) DevOps
5 11 (39.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (39.29%) Test Strategy
5 11 (39.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (35.71%) Coaching
6 10 (35.71%) End-to-End Testing
6 10 (35.71%) Software Testing
7 9 (32.14%) BDD
7 9 (32.14%) OWASP
7 9 (32.14%) Test Management
8 8 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (28.57%) Scrum
8 8 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
8 8 (28.57%) Test Planning
9 7 (25.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Java
2 11 (39.29%) Python
3 10 (35.71%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) C
4 4 (14.29%) C++
5 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (35.71%) Degree
2 10 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 5 (17.86%) ISEB
4 5 (17.86%) ISTQB
5 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (53.57%) QA
2 8 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 8 (28.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Grafana
3 3 (10.71%) Argo
3 3 (10.71%) HP Fortify
4 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Pega
2 5 (17.86%) SAP
3 3 (10.71%) Veracode
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (7.14%) Talend