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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 268 238
Rank change year-on-year +16 -30 +33
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 128 170 364
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.07% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.16% 7.68% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 83 76 321
10th Percentile £52,400 £44,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £86,253 £93,778 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,700 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -13.33%

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 1,260 2,214 3,684
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.87% 13.94% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 803 1,272 3,133
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.24% +3.33% -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 8 February 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 10 (7.81%) Confluence
2 4 (3.13%) Apache
3 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.34%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 69 (53.91%) AWS
2 61 (47.66%) Azure
3 38 (29.69%) GitHub
4 28 (21.88%) GCP
5 26 (20.31%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (14.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (8.59%) Serverless
9 10 (7.81%) Amazon S3
9 10 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (7.81%) OpenShift
10 9 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (7.03%) Datadog
11 8 (6.25%) Entra ID
12 6 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (3.91%) Apigee
14 4 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (3.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.53%) Broadband
2 12 (9.38%) DNS
3 4 (3.13%) Firewall
4 2 (1.56%) VPN
5 1 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.78%) MQTT
5 1 (0.78%) VLAN
5 1 (0.78%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.03%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.47%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.91%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.34%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.78%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 60 (46.88%) Jenkins
2 35 (27.34%) Git
3 34 (26.56%) SonarQube
4 18 (14.06%) JIRA
5 12 (9.38%) Cucumber
6 10 (7.81%) Bitbucket
7 9 (7.03%) JUnit
7 9 (7.03%) Selenium
8 8 (6.25%) Subversion
9 7 (5.47%) Cypress.io
10 6 (4.69%) Maven
11 3 (2.34%) Postman
12 2 (1.56%) Artifactory
12 2 (1.56%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.78%) Deequ
13 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.78%) Storybook
13 1 (0.78%) Testinfra
General
1 41 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.53%) Games
2 25 (19.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (18.75%) Marketing
4 19 (14.84%) Telecoms
5 17 (13.28%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (12.50%) Finance
7 10 (7.81%) Public Sector
8 9 (7.03%) Manufacturing
9 8 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.34%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Automotive
11 1 (0.78%) Aviation
11 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.78%) Law
11 1 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (25.78%) Lead
2 25 (19.53%) Architect
3 23 (17.97%) Senior
4 22 (17.19%) Salesforce Architect
5 20 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (10.94%) Software Engineer
7 13 (10.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (10.16%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (10.16%) Developer
7 13 (10.16%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 13 (10.16%) Technical Architect
8 12 (9.38%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 12 (9.38%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (7.81%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (7.03%) Lead DevOps
10 9 (7.03%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 8 (6.25%) DevOps Consultant
11 8 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.31%) REST
2 24 (18.75%) Lightning Web Components
2 24 (18.75%) SOAP
2 24 (18.75%) Visualforce
3 18 (14.06%) Spring
4 16 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 14 (10.94%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (7.81%) React
7 9 (7.03%) Django
7 9 (7.03%) pytest
8 8 (6.25%) Flask
9 7 (5.47%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.47%) Gherkin
9 7 (5.47%) Node.js
10 6 (4.69%) RESTful
11 5 (3.91%) HTML
11 5 (3.91%) Jest
11 5 (3.91%) Kafka
12 4 (3.13%) CSS
12 4 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.09%) Product Ownership
2 19 (14.84%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.59%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.56%) Clustering
5 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.78%) GNSS
6 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.78%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.97%) Linux
2 8 (6.25%) Windows
3 6 (4.69%) Unix
4 5 (3.91%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.13%) CentOS
5 4 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.78%) Fedora
7 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (79.69%) CI/CD
2 93 (72.66%) DevOps
3 68 (53.13%) Agile
4 45 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (28.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (28.13%) Roadmaps
8 32 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (25.00%) Event-Driven
8 32 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 32 (25.00%) Scrum
9 31 (24.22%) Containerisation
10 30 (23.44%) Design Patterns
11 28 (21.88%) Community of Practice
12 27 (21.09%) Software Engineering
12 27 (21.09%) Technical Leadership
13 26 (20.31%) OO
14 25 (19.53%) Continuous Delivery
15 24 (18.75%) Static Code Analysis
15 24 (18.75%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.03%) Python
2 28 (21.88%) Java
3 24 (18.75%) Apex Code
3 24 (18.75%) SOQL
3 24 (18.75%) SOSL
4 18 (14.06%) Bash
4 18 (14.06%) SQL
5 14 (10.94%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.16%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.25%) Delphi
7 8 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.34%) Go
8 3 (2.34%) Groovy
8 3 (2.34%) Perl
9 2 (1.56%) C#
9 2 (1.56%) C++
9 2 (1.56%) Rust
10 1 (0.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.16%) Degree
4 8 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.34%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.34%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.34%) LPIC
7 2 (1.56%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.56%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.78%) CCNA
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.38%) QA
2 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.56%) ECSS
System Software
1 53 (41.41%) Docker
2 9 (7.03%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (41.41%) Terraform
2 48 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 38 (29.69%) Grafana
4 29 (22.66%) Prometheus
5 27 (21.09%) Ansible
6 8 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.13%) HP Fortify
7 4 (3.13%) Puppet
8 2 (1.56%) Kibana
8 2 (1.56%) Nagios
9 1 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.78%) Icinga
9 1 (0.78%) Istio
9 1 (0.78%) Packer
9 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (25.78%) Splunk
2 24 (18.75%) Salesforce
3 15 (11.72%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.03%) Atlassian
4 9 (7.03%) Oracle
5 3 (2.34%) VMware
6 2 (1.56%) Cisco
6 2 (1.56%) Databricks
6 2 (1.56%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.56%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe
7 1 (0.78%) Commvault
7 1 (0.78%) F5
7 1 (0.78%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.78%) Juniper
7 1 (0.78%) Mercator
7 1 (0.78%) Tenable
7 1 (0.78%) Veracode