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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 157 257
Rank change year-on-year -157 +100 +45
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 142 348 275
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 2.10% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.37% 21.93% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 90 67 169
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,750 £49,350
25th Percentile £55,000 £59,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +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 1,515 1,587 2,594
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.64% 9.58% 10.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 1,010 1,775
10th Percentile £39,761 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% -10.00%
75th Percentile £74,987 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,750
UK median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 15 August 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 (7.75%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.34%) Apache
2 9 (6.34%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (5.63%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 83 (58.45%) AWS
2 51 (35.92%) Azure
3 21 (14.79%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (13.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (13.38%) Azure AKS
4 19 (13.38%) GitHub
5 16 (11.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (10.56%) Amazon S3
7 14 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (9.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (9.15%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.75%) SaaS
10 10 (7.04%) GCP
10 10 (7.04%) OpenShift
11 9 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.63%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (5.63%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (21.83%) Broadband
2 8 (5.63%) Firewall
3 4 (2.82%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.82%) Network Security
4 2 (1.41%) BGP
4 2 (1.41%) MQTT
4 2 (1.41%) VPN
4 2 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.01%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.61%) MongoDB
3 14 (9.86%) MySQL
4 9 (6.34%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (6.34%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.93%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.23%) Big Data
6 6 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.82%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.41%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.70%) Parquet
10 1 (0.70%) Presto
10 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.70%) Trino
Development Applications
1 55 (38.73%) Jenkins
2 45 (31.69%) Git
3 25 (17.61%) SonarQube
4 11 (7.75%) Selenium
5 9 (6.34%) Gatling
5 9 (6.34%) JIRA
5 9 (6.34%) JUnit
6 8 (5.63%) Postman
7 7 (4.93%) Cypress.io
8 6 (4.23%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.82%) Storybook
10 3 (2.11%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.11%) JMeter
10 3 (2.11%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.41%) Maven
11 2 (1.41%) NUnit
11 2 (1.41%) Snyk
11 2 (1.41%) Subversion
12 1 (0.70%) Karma Test Runner
12 1 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 46 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 42 (29.58%) Public Sector
3 25 (17.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (15.49%) Marketing
5 20 (14.08%) Games
6 14 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (8.45%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.93%) Finance
9 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.82%) Law
10 3 (2.11%) Legal
11 2 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.41%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.41%) Military
12 1 (0.70%) Banking
12 1 (0.70%) Billing
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (29.58%) Senior
2 37 (26.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (15.49%) Architect
3 22 (15.49%) Salesforce Architect
4 17 (11.97%) Senior DevOps
4 17 (11.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.45%) Developer
5 12 (8.45%) Test Engineer
6 11 (7.75%) Lead
6 11 (7.75%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 11 (7.75%) Technical Architect
7 10 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.63%) Network Engineer
8 8 (5.63%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 8 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.63%) Telecoms Engineer
9 7 (4.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.83%) REST
2 27 (19.01%) Node.js
3 22 (15.49%) Lightning Web Components
3 22 (15.49%) SOAP
4 20 (14.08%) Visualforce
5 17 (11.97%) React
6 13 (9.15%) YAML
7 10 (7.04%) JSON
8 9 (6.34%) Playwright
8 9 (6.34%) PySpark
9 8 (5.63%) Jinja
10 7 (4.93%) .NET
10 7 (4.93%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.93%) RESTful
11 6 (4.23%) Next.js
12 5 (3.52%) CSS
12 5 (3.52%) Kafka
12 5 (3.52%) OAuth
13 4 (2.82%) ASP.NET
13 4 (2.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.24%) Cloud Native
2 31 (21.83%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.82%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.41%) NHS
10 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.70%) PropTech
10 1 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.42%) Linux
2 18 (12.68%) Unix
3 17 (11.97%) Windows
4 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.70%) Android
6 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.70%) Debian
6 1 (0.70%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (97.18%) CI/CD
2 98 (69.01%) Agile
2 98 (69.01%) DevOps
3 52 (36.62%) Continuous Integration
3 52 (36.62%) Test Automation
4 49 (34.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (30.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 44 (30.99%) Mentoring
6 43 (30.28%) Containerisation
7 39 (27.46%) Coaching
7 39 (27.46%) Scrum
8 35 (24.65%) Microservices
9 30 (21.13%) Continuous Delivery
9 30 (21.13%) Design Patterns
10 27 (19.01%) Roadmaps
11 26 (18.31%) AI
11 26 (18.31%) Community of Practice
12 24 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (16.90%) SDLC
12 24 (16.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 59 (41.55%) Python
2 32 (22.54%) Java
3 23 (16.20%) Bash
3 23 (16.20%) SQL
4 22 (15.49%) Apex Code
5 20 (14.08%) SOQL
5 20 (14.08%) SOSL
6 15 (10.56%) JavaScript
7 13 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.75%) Go
9 7 (4.93%) C#
10 6 (4.23%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.82%) Scala
12 3 (2.11%) Groovy
13 2 (1.41%) Rust
14 1 (0.70%) Bicep
14 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.70%) Perl
14 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 36 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.45%) Degree
4 5 (3.52%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.41%) OCP
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.79%) QA
2 14 (9.86%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.23%) WCAG
4 5 (3.52%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.82%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (42.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (40.14%) Terraform
2 51 (35.92%) Kubernetes
3 20 (14.08%) Prometheus
4 19 (13.38%) Argo
5 18 (12.68%) Grafana
6 13 (9.15%) Ansible
7 5 (3.52%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.11%) Istio
8 3 (2.11%) linkerd
8 3 (2.11%) Puppet
9 2 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.41%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.41%) Kibana
9 2 (1.41%) Nagios
10 1 (0.70%) Cilium
10 1 (0.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (15.49%) Salesforce
1 22 (15.49%) Splunk
2 10 (7.04%) Red Hat
3 8 (5.63%) Cisco
4 7 (4.93%) Google
5 6 (4.23%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.82%) Databricks
6 4 (2.82%) F5
6 4 (2.82%) Juniper
6 4 (2.82%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.11%) VMware
8 2 (1.41%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.41%) Commvault
8 2 (1.41%) UiPath
9 1 (0.70%) EMC
9 1 (0.70%) New Relic
9 1 (0.70%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.70%) Trend Micro