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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 155 249
Rank change year-on-year -97 +94 +34
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 162 349 391
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 2.40% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.64% 19.84% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 101 60 317
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £35,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £71,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +13.89% -3.41%
75th Percentile £86,253 £80,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £95,375 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -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 1,392 1,759 3,714
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.35% 12.09% 11.30%
Number of salaries quoted 904 1,132 2,940
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £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 £83,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 26 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 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.70%) Apache
2 6 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.09%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.47%) Confluence
5 2 (1.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 82 (50.62%) AWS
2 66 (40.74%) Azure
3 20 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (11.73%) Azure AKS
4 19 (11.73%) GitHub
5 18 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.11%) GCP
6 16 (9.88%) Amazon S3
7 14 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (8.64%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (7.41%) Serverless
10 11 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.79%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (5.56%) Apigee
12 7 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (3.70%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 41 (25.31%) Broadband
2 12 (7.41%) DNS
3 11 (6.79%) Firewall
4 6 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.47%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.20%) MongoDB
2 17 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.94%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.32%) MySQL
4 7 (4.32%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.47%) Big Data
6 4 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.23%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.62%) Parquet
8 1 (0.62%) Presto
8 1 (0.62%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (40.12%) Jenkins
2 43 (26.54%) Git
3 41 (25.31%) SonarQube
4 11 (6.79%) JIRA
5 8 (4.94%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.09%) REST Assured
8 4 (2.47%) Maven
9 3 (1.85%) Gatling
9 3 (1.85%) JMeter
9 3 (1.85%) Selenium
9 3 (1.85%) Subversion
10 2 (1.23%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.23%) Postman
11 1 (0.62%) Appium
11 1 (0.62%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.62%) JUnit
11 1 (0.62%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.62%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (25.31%) Public Sector
2 39 (24.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (20.99%) Games
3 34 (20.99%) Marketing
4 28 (17.28%) Social Skills
5 15 (9.26%) Telecoms
6 12 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.32%) Finance
8 5 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.85%) Legal
10 3 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.23%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.62%) Banking
12 1 (0.62%) Billing
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (27.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (22.22%) Senior
3 34 (20.99%) Architect
4 33 (20.37%) Salesforce Architect
5 30 (18.52%) Lead
6 21 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (11.73%) Senior DevOps
8 18 (11.11%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 18 (11.11%) Technical Architect
9 17 (10.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (9.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (7.41%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (7.41%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (6.79%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (6.79%) Network Engineer
12 11 (6.79%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (6.17%) Salesforce Solution Architect
13 10 (6.17%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (6.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (25.31%) REST
2 34 (20.99%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (20.99%) SOAP
2 34 (20.99%) Visualforce
3 20 (12.35%) Node.js
4 17 (10.49%) YAML
5 13 (8.02%) JSON
6 11 (6.79%) Jinja
6 11 (6.79%) React
7 9 (5.56%) Spring
8 7 (4.32%) XML
9 6 (3.70%) Playwright
9 6 (3.70%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.70%) YANG
10 5 (3.09%) Gherkin
10 5 (3.09%) HTML
10 5 (3.09%) Jest
10 5 (3.09%) Kafka
10 5 (3.09%) OAuth
10 5 (3.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.40%) Product Ownership
2 31 (19.14%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.47%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Clustering
7 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.23%) NHS
8 1 (0.62%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.62%) GNSS
8 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (18.52%) Linux
2 20 (12.35%) Unix
3 17 (10.49%) Windows
4 3 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.62%) Android
6 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.62%) CentOS
6 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (87.04%) CI/CD
2 117 (72.22%) DevOps
3 109 (67.28%) Agile
4 59 (36.42%) Continuous Integration
5 57 (35.19%) Scrum
6 56 (34.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (30.25%) Roadmaps
8 47 (29.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (27.78%) Mentoring
10 43 (26.54%) Coaching
11 42 (25.93%) Community of Practice
11 42 (25.93%) Containerisation
11 42 (25.93%) Continuous Delivery
12 41 (25.31%) Design Patterns
13 40 (24.69%) Microservices
14 37 (22.84%) Event-Driven
15 36 (22.22%) Test Automation
16 35 (21.60%) Static Code Analysis
17 34 (20.99%) PLM
17 34 (20.99%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 53 (32.72%) Python
2 35 (21.60%) Java
3 34 (20.99%) Apex Code
3 34 (20.99%) SOQL
3 34 (20.99%) SOSL
4 21 (12.96%) Bash
5 14 (8.64%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.79%) SQL
6 11 (6.79%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.09%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.09%) Rust
8 4 (2.47%) Go
8 4 (2.47%) Groovy
8 4 (2.47%) Scala
9 3 (1.85%) Perl
10 1 (0.62%) Bicep
10 1 (0.62%) C#
10 1 (0.62%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.70%) Degree
4 5 (3.09%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.23%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.23%) LPIC
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.58%) QA
2 6 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (33.95%) Docker
2 3 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (45.68%) Terraform
2 55 (33.95%) Kubernetes
3 25 (15.43%) Ansible
3 25 (15.43%) Grafana
3 25 (15.43%) Prometheus
4 19 (11.73%) Argo
5 4 (2.47%) Puppet
6 3 (1.85%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.23%) Kibana
7 2 (1.23%) Nagios
8 1 (0.62%) Istio
8 1 (0.62%) linkerd
8 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (22.84%) Splunk
2 34 (20.99%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.79%) Cisco
3 11 (6.79%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.32%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.70%) F5
5 6 (3.70%) Juniper
5 6 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.85%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.85%) VMware
7 2 (1.23%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.23%) Commvault
7 2 (1.23%) Google
7 2 (1.23%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.62%) Adobe
8 1 (0.62%) EMC
8 1 (0.62%) New Relic
8 1 (0.62%) Tenable
8 1 (0.62%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.62%) Veracode