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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 155 260
Rank change year-on-year -109 +105 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 159 348 387
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 2.39% 1.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.27% 19.76% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 96 58 313
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,231 £35,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £53,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,750 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +12.69% -3.41%
75th Percentile £84,063 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £91,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £74,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.87% +19.23% -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 1,411 1,761 3,703
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.36% 12.08% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 910 1,131 2,926
10th Percentile £40,625 £41,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.94%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.69% +9.20% -8.42%

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 28 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 8 (5.03%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.77%) Apache
2 6 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.14%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.89%) Confluence
5 2 (1.26%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 82 (51.57%) AWS
2 63 (39.62%) Azure
3 20 (12.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (11.95%) Azure AKS
5 18 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.32%) GitHub
6 16 (10.06%) Amazon S3
6 16 (10.06%) GCP
7 14 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (8.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (8.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (7.55%) Serverless
10 11 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.92%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (6.92%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (5.66%) Apigee
12 7 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (3.77%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 41 (25.79%) Broadband
2 11 (6.92%) Firewall
3 9 (5.66%) DNS
4 6 (3.77%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.52%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.47%) MongoDB
2 17 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (5.03%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.40%) MySQL
4 7 (4.40%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.52%) Big Data
6 4 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.63%) Parquet
8 1 (0.63%) Presto
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (40.88%) Jenkins
2 42 (26.42%) Git
3 41 (25.79%) SonarQube
4 10 (6.29%) JIRA
5 8 (5.03%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.14%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.14%) Gatling
6 5 (3.14%) REST Assured
6 5 (3.14%) Selenium
7 4 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.52%) Maven
7 4 (2.52%) Postman
8 3 (1.89%) JMeter
8 3 (1.89%) JUnit
9 2 (1.26%) Subversion
10 1 (0.63%) Appium
10 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (25.16%) Public Sector
2 39 (24.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (21.38%) Games
3 34 (21.38%) Marketing
4 29 (18.24%) Social Skills
5 14 (8.81%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.03%) Finance
8 5 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.89%) Legal
10 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.26%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.63%) Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Billing
12 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (27.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (22.64%) Senior
3 34 (21.38%) Architect
4 33 (20.75%) Salesforce Architect
5 26 (16.35%) Lead
6 18 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (11.32%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 18 (11.32%) Senior DevOps
6 18 (11.32%) Technical Architect
7 16 (10.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 14 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Network Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Telecoms Engineer
10 10 (6.29%) Salesforce Solution Architect
10 10 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (6.29%) Test Engineer
11 9 (5.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.66%) Developer
11 9 (5.66%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (25.79%) REST
2 34 (21.38%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (21.38%) SOAP
2 34 (21.38%) Visualforce
3 20 (12.58%) Node.js
4 17 (10.69%) YAML
5 13 (8.18%) JSON
6 11 (6.92%) Jinja
6 11 (6.92%) React
7 9 (5.66%) Spring
8 8 (5.03%) Playwright
9 7 (4.40%) XML
10 6 (3.77%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.77%) YANG
11 5 (3.14%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.14%) Gherkin
11 5 (3.14%) HTML
11 5 (3.14%) Jest
11 5 (3.14%) OAuth
11 5 (3.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.93%) Product Ownership
2 30 (18.87%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.26%) Clustering
7 2 (1.26%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.26%) NHS
8 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.63%) GNSS
8 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.87%) Linux
2 20 (12.58%) Unix
3 17 (10.69%) Windows
4 3 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.63%) Android
6 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.63%) CentOS
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (88.68%) CI/CD
2 116 (72.96%) DevOps
3 107 (67.30%) Agile
4 61 (38.36%) Continuous Integration
5 57 (35.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 57 (35.85%) Scrum
6 46 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (28.93%) Roadmaps
7 44 (27.67%) Mentoring
8 42 (26.42%) Coaching
8 42 (26.42%) Community of Practice
8 42 (26.42%) Containerisation
8 42 (26.42%) Continuous Delivery
9 41 (25.79%) Design Patterns
10 40 (25.16%) Microservices
11 38 (23.90%) Test Automation
12 37 (23.27%) Event-Driven
13 35 (22.01%) Static Code Analysis
14 34 (21.38%) PLM
14 34 (21.38%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 53 (33.33%) Python
2 35 (22.01%) Java
3 34 (21.38%) Apex Code
3 34 (21.38%) SOQL
3 34 (21.38%) SOSL
4 21 (13.21%) Bash
5 14 (8.81%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.92%) SQL
6 11 (6.92%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.14%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.14%) Rust
8 4 (2.52%) Go
8 4 (2.52%) Groovy
8 4 (2.52%) Scala
9 3 (1.89%) Perl
10 1 (0.63%) Bicep
10 1 (0.63%) C#
10 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 31 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.77%) Degree
4 5 (3.14%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.26%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.26%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.26%) LPIC
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.84%) QA
2 8 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (35.22%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 70 (44.03%) Terraform
2 56 (35.22%) Kubernetes
3 24 (15.09%) Ansible
3 24 (15.09%) Grafana
3 24 (15.09%) Prometheus
4 19 (11.95%) Argo
5 4 (2.52%) Puppet
6 3 (1.89%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.26%) Kibana
7 2 (1.26%) Nagios
7 2 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.63%) Istio
8 1 (0.63%) linkerd
8 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (23.27%) Splunk
2 34 (21.38%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.92%) Cisco
3 11 (6.92%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.77%) F5
4 6 (3.77%) Juniper
4 6 (3.77%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.77%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.89%) VMware
6 2 (1.26%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.26%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.26%) Commvault
6 2 (1.26%) Google
6 2 (1.26%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.63%) Adobe
7 1 (0.63%) EMC
7 1 (0.63%) New Relic
7 1 (0.63%) Tenable
7 1 (0.63%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.63%) Veracode