Hybrid/Remote GitLab Job Trends

GitLab
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring GitLab skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 161 239
Rank change year-on-year -185 +78 +61
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 123 340 291
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 2.05% 1.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.76% 23.55% 12.20%
Number of salaries quoted 90 57 134
10th Percentile £50,525 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £86,563 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +10.71% -

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

GitLab falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,585 1,444 2,386
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.38% 8.72% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,029 859 1,360
10th Percentile £38,988 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,732
Median % change year-on-year - +3.93% -11.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £87,625
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitLab and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

GitLab job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

GitLab
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitLab over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

GitLab salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 11 (8.94%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.32%) Apache
3 8 (6.50%) Jupyter
4 7 (5.69%) Apache Spark
5 3 (2.44%) Confluence
6 2 (1.63%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 85 (69.11%) AWS
2 54 (43.90%) Azure
3 29 (23.58%) GitHub
4 24 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (17.89%) Azure AKS
6 21 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (13.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (11.38%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (10.57%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (9.76%) Amazon S3
11 12 (9.76%) GCP
12 11 (8.94%) SaaS
13 9 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (6.50%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (6.50%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (4.88%) Serverless
16 5 (4.07%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.94%) Broadband
2 4 (3.25%) Network Security
2 4 (3.25%) VPN
3 2 (1.63%) BGP
3 2 (1.63%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.63%) WAN
4 1 (0.81%) DHCP
4 1 (0.81%) DNS
4 1 (0.81%) Firewall
4 1 (0.81%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (24.39%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (20.33%) MongoDB
3 15 (12.20%) MySQL
4 9 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (7.32%) DynamoDB
5 8 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.50%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.88%) Big Data
7 5 (4.07%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.25%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.44%) Redis
10 2 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.63%) Spatial Data
10 2 (1.63%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.81%) Parquet
11 1 (0.81%) Presto
Development Applications
1 46 (37.40%) Git
2 33 (26.83%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.76%) JIRA
4 9 (7.32%) JUnit
4 9 (7.32%) Postman
5 8 (6.50%) Selenium
6 6 (4.88%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.88%) Gatling
6 6 (4.88%) Storybook
7 5 (4.07%) Cypress.io
7 5 (4.07%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.44%) Subversion
9 2 (1.63%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.63%) ESLint
9 2 (1.63%) Maven
9 2 (1.63%) NUnit
9 2 (1.63%) Snyk
9 2 (1.63%) Vite
10 1 (0.81%) Claude Code
General
1 44 (35.77%) Public Sector
2 43 (34.96%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.32%) Finance
5 5 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.07%) Law
6 4 (3.25%) Marketing
6 4 (3.25%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.44%) Legal
8 2 (1.63%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.63%) Military
9 1 (0.81%) Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Billing
Job Titles
1 42 (34.15%) Senior
2 41 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (14.63%) Senior DevOps
3 18 (14.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 17 (13.82%) Lead
5 11 (8.94%) Developer
5 11 (8.94%) Test Engineer
6 9 (7.32%) Software Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (6.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (48.78%) Terraform
2 28 (22.76%) Node.js
3 21 (17.07%) React
4 11 (8.94%) REST
5 10 (8.13%) .NET
5 10 (8.13%) RESTful
6 9 (7.32%) PySpark
7 8 (6.50%) Playwright
8 7 (5.69%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.88%) CSS
9 6 (4.88%) Next.js
9 6 (4.88%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (3.25%) ASP.NET
10 4 (3.25%) Jest
10 4 (3.25%) Pulumi
10 4 (3.25%) Spring Boot
10 4 (3.25%) Vitest
11 3 (2.44%) Gherkin
11 3 (2.44%) Kafka
11 3 (2.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.64%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.94%) Product Ownership
4 9 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.25%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.44%) Robotics
7 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.63%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.81%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) PropTech
8 1 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.76%) Linux
2 19 (15.45%) Windows
3 15 (12.20%) Unix
4 3 (2.44%) Debian
4 3 (2.44%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.44%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.81%) Android
6 1 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (96.75%) CI/CD
2 80 (65.04%) DevOps
3 79 (64.23%) Agile
4 59 (47.97%) Test Automation
5 51 (41.46%) Mentoring
6 50 (40.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (34.96%) Coaching
8 42 (34.15%) Containerisation
9 35 (28.46%) Continuous Integration
10 32 (26.02%) AI
10 32 (26.02%) Microservices
11 31 (25.20%) Software Engineering
12 29 (23.58%) Observability
13 24 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (18.70%) SDLC
15 19 (15.45%) Scrum
15 19 (15.45%) Technical Leadership
16 16 (13.01%) End-to-End Testing
17 15 (12.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 57 (46.34%) Python
2 30 (24.39%) Java
3 29 (23.58%) Bash
4 25 (20.33%) SQL
5 18 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 15 (12.20%) JavaScript
7 12 (9.76%) PowerShell
8 11 (8.94%) Go
9 10 (8.13%) C#
10 5 (4.07%) Groovy
11 3 (2.44%) Bicep
12 2 (1.63%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.63%) PHP
13 1 (0.81%) Perl
13 1 (0.81%) R
13 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (30.89%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.64%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.20%) Degree
4 8 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.88%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.63%) OCP
7 2 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.81%) CCNA
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.81%) MCSE
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (20.33%) QA
2 11 (8.94%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.88%) WCAG
4 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.25%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.81%) GDPR
6 1 (0.81%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (53.66%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (36.59%) Kubernetes
2 19 (15.45%) Argo
2 19 (15.45%) Grafana
3 18 (14.63%) Prometheus
4 10 (8.13%) Ansible
5 6 (4.88%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.44%) Istio
6 3 (2.44%) Kibana
6 3 (2.44%) linkerd
6 3 (2.44%) Puppet
7 2 (1.63%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.63%) Packer
8 1 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.81%) Cilium
8 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.81%) Nagios
8 1 (0.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (7.32%) Google
1 9 (7.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.25%) Databricks
3 3 (2.44%) NVIDIA
3 3 (2.44%) VMware
4 2 (1.63%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.63%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.63%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.63%) UiPath
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco
5 1 (0.81%) Commvault
5 1 (0.81%) EMC
5 1 (0.81%) FIS
5 1 (0.81%) New Relic
5 1 (0.81%) Splunk
5 1 (0.81%) Trend Micro
5 1 (0.81%) YouTube