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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 225 265
Rank change year-on-year -20 +40 +22
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 170 199 386
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.94% 1.43% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.74% 11.20% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 108 73 320
10th Percentile £50,500 £47,784 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +11.50% -6.99%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £96,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.14%

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 1,334 1,777 3,753
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.34% 12.78% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 867 1,296 3,012
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,083 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 4 May 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 7 (4.12%) Confluence
2 5 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.76%) Apache
3 3 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.76%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.18%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 91 (53.53%) AWS
2 74 (43.53%) Azure
3 33 (19.41%) GitHub
4 23 (13.53%) GCP
5 20 (11.76%) Azure AKS
6 19 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
6 19 (11.18%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (11.18%) OpenShift
7 18 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (9.41%) Amazon S3
9 14 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (8.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (8.24%) Serverless
10 13 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (6.47%) Apigee
12 8 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (3.53%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (3.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 40 (23.53%) Broadband
2 12 (7.06%) DNS
3 11 (6.47%) Firewall
4 6 (3.53%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.35%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (12.94%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.29%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.12%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.53%) MySQL
6 6 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.18%) Big Data
9 2 (1.18%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.59%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.59%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.59%) Parquet
10 1 (0.59%) Presto
Development Applications
1 72 (42.35%) Jenkins
2 47 (27.65%) Git
3 44 (25.88%) SonarQube
4 14 (8.24%) JIRA
5 12 (7.06%) Cucumber
5 12 (7.06%) Selenium
6 11 (6.47%) Cypress.io
7 8 (4.71%) Bitbucket
7 8 (4.71%) JUnit
8 6 (3.53%) Maven
8 6 (3.53%) Subversion
9 5 (2.94%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.76%) Gatling
10 3 (1.76%) JMeter
10 3 (1.76%) Postman
11 1 (0.59%) Appium
11 1 (0.59%) Storybook
11 1 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.94%) Public Sector
3 37 (21.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 34 (20.00%) Games
4 34 (20.00%) Marketing
5 21 (12.35%) Telecoms
6 13 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.88%) Finance
8 7 (4.12%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.18%) Legal
13 1 (0.59%) Billing
13 1 (0.59%) Retail
13 1 (0.59%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 44 (25.88%) Senior
2 42 (24.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (20.00%) Architect
4 33 (19.41%) Salesforce Architect
5 31 (18.24%) Lead
6 22 (12.94%) Senior DevOps
7 18 (10.59%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 18 (10.59%) Technical Architect
8 17 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (9.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (9.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 15 (8.82%) Developer
11 12 (7.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (7.06%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (7.06%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (6.47%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (6.47%) Network Engineer
12 11 (6.47%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (24.12%) REST
2 34 (20.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (20.00%) SOAP
2 34 (20.00%) Visualforce
3 21 (12.35%) Node.js
4 19 (11.18%) Spring
5 17 (10.00%) YAML
6 16 (9.41%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.65%) JSON
8 12 (7.06%) React
9 11 (6.47%) Jinja
10 10 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (5.29%) Django
12 8 (4.71%) AngularJS
12 8 (4.71%) Flask
12 8 (4.71%) Gherkin
12 8 (4.71%) pytest
13 7 (4.12%) XML
14 6 (3.53%) Jest
14 6 (3.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (26.47%) Product Ownership
2 24 (14.12%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (4.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.35%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.18%) Clustering
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.18%) NHS
8 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.59%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.59%) GNSS
8 1 (0.59%) IoT
8 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.59%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.41%) Linux
2 21 (12.35%) Unix
3 17 (10.00%) Windows
4 3 (1.76%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.18%) CentOS
5 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.59%) Android
6 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (85.88%) CI/CD
2 124 (72.94%) DevOps
3 108 (63.53%) Agile
4 61 (35.88%) Continuous Integration
5 57 (33.53%) Scrum
6 56 (32.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 51 (30.00%) Mentoring
8 49 (28.82%) Roadmaps
9 45 (26.47%) Microservices
10 43 (25.29%) Community of Practice
10 43 (25.29%) Event-Driven
11 42 (24.71%) Containerisation
11 42 (24.71%) Infrastructure as Code
11 42 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (24.12%) Design Patterns
13 40 (23.53%) Coaching
13 40 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
14 37 (21.76%) Test Automation
15 35 (20.59%) Static Code Analysis
16 34 (20.00%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 53 (31.18%) Python
2 44 (25.88%) Java
3 34 (20.00%) Apex Code
3 34 (20.00%) SOQL
3 34 (20.00%) SOSL
4 17 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.41%) Bash
6 13 (7.65%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.06%) SQL
8 8 (4.71%) Delphi
9 5 (2.94%) Groovy
9 5 (2.94%) Rust
10 4 (2.35%) Perl
10 4 (2.35%) Scala
11 3 (1.76%) Go
12 2 (1.18%) C#
13 1 (0.59%) Bicep
13 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.12%) Degree
4 4 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.76%) LPIC
6 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.18%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.18%) QA
2 7 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 57 (33.53%) Docker
2 6 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 72 (42.35%) Terraform
2 58 (34.12%) Kubernetes
3 33 (19.41%) Grafana
4 30 (17.65%) Ansible
5 25 (14.71%) Prometheus
6 14 (8.24%) Argo
7 6 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.94%) HP Fortify
9 4 (2.35%) Puppet
10 3 (1.76%) Nagios
11 2 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.18%) Kibana
12 1 (0.59%) Icinga
Vendors
1 39 (22.94%) Splunk
2 34 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.47%) Cisco
3 11 (6.47%) Red Hat
4 10 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.71%) Oracle
6 6 (3.53%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.53%) F5
6 6 (3.53%) Juniper
6 6 (3.53%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.76%) VMware
8 2 (1.18%) Commvault
8 2 (1.18%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.59%) Adobe
9 1 (0.59%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.59%) Mercator
9 1 (0.59%) Tenable
9 1 (0.59%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.59%) Veracode