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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 248 232
Rank change year-on-year -8 -16 +36
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 118 210 305
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 1.28% 1.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.72% 9.35% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 84 98 259
10th Percentile £53,180 £48,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £65,938 £55,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,250 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +17.48% -14.29%
75th Percentile £86,253 £93,458 £76,875
90th Percentile £88,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £71,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% +9.23% -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 1,214 2,246 3,090
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.08% 13.72% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 789 1,262 2,627
10th Percentile £39,550 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +1.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 13 January 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 9 (7.63%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Apache
3 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 70 (59.32%) AWS
2 65 (55.08%) Azure
3 36 (30.51%) GitHub
4 33 (27.97%) GCP
5 24 (20.34%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (7.63%) Amazon S3
9 9 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.63%) OpenShift
9 9 (7.63%) Serverless
10 8 (6.78%) Datadog
10 8 (6.78%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.39%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (3.39%) Apigee
12 4 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.39%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.56%) Broadband
2 12 (10.17%) DNS
3 3 (2.54%) Firewall
4 2 (1.69%) VPN
5 1 (0.85%) Network Security
5 1 (0.85%) VLAN
5 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.32%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.78%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.24%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.54%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.69%) MySQL
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 52 (44.07%) Jenkins
2 33 (27.97%) Git
3 23 (19.49%) SonarQube
4 14 (11.86%) JIRA
5 13 (11.02%) Cucumber
6 11 (9.32%) JUnit
7 10 (8.47%) Bitbucket
7 10 (8.47%) Selenium
8 9 (7.63%) Cypress.io
9 8 (6.78%) Subversion
10 5 (4.24%) Maven
11 4 (3.39%) Postman
12 3 (2.54%) Artifactory
12 3 (2.54%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.85%) JMeter
14 1 (0.85%) Mockito
14 1 (0.85%) Storybook
14 1 (0.85%) Testinfra
General
1 40 (33.90%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.25%) Telecoms
3 17 (14.41%) Games
4 16 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (12.71%) Finance
5 15 (12.71%) Marketing
6 9 (7.63%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.78%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.85%) Automotive
9 1 (0.85%) Aviation
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (33.05%) Lead
2 23 (19.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (18.64%) Senior
4 16 (13.56%) Architect
5 14 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (11.86%) Lead DevOps
5 14 (11.86%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.86%) Salesforce Architect
6 13 (11.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (11.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (10.17%) Developer
7 12 (10.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 12 (10.17%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (10.17%) Software Engineer
8 11 (9.32%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (6.78%) DevOps Consultant
9 8 (6.78%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 8 (6.78%) Senior Consultant
9 8 (6.78%) Senior DevOps Consultant
9 8 (6.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.25%) REST
2 17 (14.41%) Spring
2 17 (14.41%) Spring Boot
3 15 (12.71%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (12.71%) Lightning Web Components
3 15 (12.71%) SOAP
3 15 (12.71%) Visualforce
4 9 (7.63%) Django
4 9 (7.63%) pytest
4 9 (7.63%) React
5 8 (6.78%) AngularJS
5 8 (6.78%) Flask
6 7 (5.93%) Gherkin
7 6 (5.08%) Node.js
7 6 (5.08%) RESTful
8 5 (4.24%) HTML
8 5 (4.24%) Jest
9 4 (3.39%) CSS
9 4 (3.39%) Flutter
9 4 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.56%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.47%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Clustering
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.85%) Online Games
6 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.85%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.64%) Linux
2 9 (7.63%) Windows
3 5 (4.24%) Unix
4 4 (3.39%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.54%) CentOS
5 3 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.85%) Fedora
6 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (79.66%) CI/CD
2 87 (73.73%) DevOps
3 61 (51.69%) Agile
4 45 (38.14%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (33.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (27.12%) Mentoring
7 29 (24.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (23.73%) Containerisation
8 28 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (22.88%) Roadmaps
10 26 (22.03%) Observability
10 26 (22.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 26 (22.03%) Technical Leadership
11 24 (20.34%) Incident Response
12 22 (18.64%) Event-Driven
12 22 (18.64%) Software Engineering
13 21 (17.80%) Design Patterns
13 21 (17.80%) Scrum
14 20 (16.95%) Collaborative Culture
14 20 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.66%) Python
2 29 (24.58%) Java
3 18 (15.25%) Bash
3 18 (15.25%) SQL
4 15 (12.71%) Apex Code
4 15 (12.71%) SOQL
4 15 (12.71%) SOSL
4 15 (12.71%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.02%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.47%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.78%) Delphi
8 3 (2.54%) Groovy
9 2 (1.69%) C#
9 2 (1.69%) C++
9 2 (1.69%) Go
9 2 (1.69%) Perl
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.17%) Degree
3 9 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.69%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.69%) LPIC
7 1 (0.85%) CCNA
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.85%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.69%) ECSS
System Software
1 52 (44.07%) Docker
2 9 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (45.76%) Terraform
2 49 (41.53%) Kubernetes
3 40 (33.90%) Grafana
4 32 (27.12%) Ansible
5 30 (25.42%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.78%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.39%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.69%) Argo
8 2 (1.69%) Puppet
9 1 (0.85%) Icinga
9 1 (0.85%) Istio
9 1 (0.85%) Kibana
9 1 (0.85%) Nagios
9 1 (0.85%) Packer
9 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (18.64%) Splunk
2 15 (12.71%) Salesforce
3 14 (11.86%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.63%) Atlassian
4 9 (7.63%) Oracle
5 2 (1.69%) Databricks
5 2 (1.69%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.69%) VMware
6 1 (0.85%) Adobe
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco
6 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.85%) Mercator
6 1 (0.85%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.85%) UiPath