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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 159 274
Rank change year-on-year -110 +115 +20
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 152 343 394
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.76% 2.23% 1.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.10% 19.68% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 90 57 309
10th Percentile £50,750 £48,892 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +13.89% +0.45%
75th Percentile £82,188 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £86,750 £93,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -3.70%

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 1,369 1,743 3,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.86% 11.35% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 884 1,128 2,804
10th Percentile £40,625 £40,700 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +10.73% -6.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £90,875
UK median annual salary £61,018 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.13% +13.04% -11.54%

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 17 June 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 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.26%) Apache
2 8 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.61%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 84 (55.26%) AWS
2 52 (34.21%) Azure
3 20 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (13.16%) Azure AKS
4 19 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (11.18%) Amazon S3
5 17 (11.18%) GitHub
6 16 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (9.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (9.21%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (9.21%) GCP
9 11 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.24%) OpenShift
9 11 (7.24%) Serverless
10 10 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.92%) Apigee
12 8 (5.26%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.61%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 44 (28.95%) Broadband
2 11 (7.24%) Firewall
3 6 (3.95%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.63%) MQTT
5 1 (0.66%) BGP
5 1 (0.66%) Network Security
5 1 (0.66%) VPN
5 1 (0.66%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.13%) MongoDB
2 20 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.58%) MySQL
4 9 (5.92%) DynamoDB
5 8 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (4.61%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.29%) Big Data
8 4 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.66%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.66%) Parquet
11 1 (0.66%) Presto
11 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.66%) Trino
Development Applications
1 68 (44.74%) Jenkins
2 41 (26.97%) SonarQube
3 36 (23.68%) Git
4 9 (5.92%) JIRA
5 6 (3.95%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.29%) Gatling
6 5 (3.29%) REST Assured
6 5 (3.29%) Selenium
7 4 (2.63%) Maven
8 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.97%) JMeter
8 3 (1.97%) JUnit
9 2 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.32%) Postman
10 1 (0.66%) Appium
10 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.66%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.66%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.66%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (25.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 39 (25.66%) Public Sector
2 34 (22.37%) Games
2 34 (22.37%) Marketing
3 32 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.87%) Telecoms
5 14 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Finance
7 4 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Legal
9 2 (1.32%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.66%) Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Billing
10 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (27.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (25.00%) Senior
3 34 (22.37%) Architect
4 33 (21.71%) Salesforce Architect
5 18 (11.84%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 18 (11.84%) Technical Architect
6 16 (10.53%) Senior DevOps
6 16 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 15 (9.87%) Lead
8 11 (7.24%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (7.24%) Network Engineer
8 11 (7.24%) Telecoms Engineer
8 11 (7.24%) Test Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 10 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.92%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (5.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (26.97%) REST
2 34 (22.37%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (22.37%) SOAP
2 34 (22.37%) Visualforce
3 20 (13.16%) Node.js
4 17 (11.18%) YAML
5 13 (8.55%) JSON
6 11 (7.24%) Jinja
6 11 (7.24%) React
7 8 (5.26%) Playwright
7 8 (5.26%) Spring
8 7 (4.61%) PySpark
8 7 (4.61%) RESTful
8 7 (4.61%) XML
9 6 (3.95%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.95%) YANG
10 5 (3.29%) AngularJS
10 5 (3.29%) Kafka
11 4 (2.63%) Jest
11 4 (2.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 46 (30.26%) Product Ownership
2 31 (20.39%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.29%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.97%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.32%) Clustering
9 2 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.32%) NHS
10 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.66%) GNSS
10 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.66%) PropTech
10 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (21.71%) Linux
2 20 (13.16%) Unix
3 18 (11.84%) Windows
4 4 (2.63%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.66%) Android
6 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.66%) CentOS
6 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (95.39%) CI/CD
2 115 (75.66%) DevOps
3 102 (67.11%) Agile
4 61 (40.13%) Continuous Integration
5 59 (38.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (36.18%) Scrum
7 50 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (30.26%) Containerisation
9 43 (28.29%) Microservices
10 42 (27.63%) Community of Practice
10 42 (27.63%) Continuous Delivery
11 41 (26.97%) Design Patterns
12 40 (26.32%) Roadmaps
13 39 (25.66%) Test Automation
14 37 (24.34%) Event-Driven
14 37 (24.34%) Mentoring
15 35 (23.03%) Static Code Analysis
16 34 (22.37%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
16 34 (22.37%) PLM
16 34 (22.37%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 59 (38.82%) Python
2 36 (23.68%) Java
3 34 (22.37%) Apex Code
3 34 (22.37%) SOQL
3 34 (22.37%) SOSL
4 24 (15.79%) Bash
5 16 (10.53%) SQL
6 12 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.58%) TypeScript
8 6 (3.95%) Go
9 5 (3.29%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.29%) Rust
10 4 (2.63%) C#
10 4 (2.63%) Groovy
10 4 (2.63%) Scala
11 3 (1.97%) Perl
12 1 (0.66%) Bicep
12 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.66%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.03%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) Degree
4 7 (4.61%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.32%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.32%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.32%) LPIC
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.82%) QA
2 8 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.29%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (40.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (41.45%) Terraform
2 59 (38.82%) Kubernetes
3 24 (15.79%) Prometheus
4 21 (13.82%) Ansible
4 21 (13.82%) Grafana
5 19 (12.50%) Argo
6 5 (3.29%) Puppet
7 3 (1.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.97%) HP Fortify
7 3 (1.97%) Kibana
7 3 (1.97%) Nagios
8 2 (1.32%) Istio
8 2 (1.32%) linkerd
8 2 (1.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (25.00%) Splunk
2 34 (22.37%) Salesforce
3 11 (7.24%) Cisco
3 11 (7.24%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.95%) F5
4 6 (3.95%) Juniper
4 6 (3.95%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.29%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.63%) VMware
7 3 (1.97%) Commvault
7 3 (1.97%) Databricks
7 3 (1.97%) Google
8 2 (1.32%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.32%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.66%) EMC
9 1 (0.66%) New Relic
9 1 (0.66%) Tenable
9 1 (0.66%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.66%) Veracode