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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 154 275
Rank change year-on-year -152 +121 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 147 353 284
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 2.14% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.14% 21.25% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 90 70 190
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,723 £49,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £73,750 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £105,250
UK median annual salary £69,655 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.13% +11.11% -3.57%

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 1,449 1,661 2,743
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.62% 10.09% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 988 1,082 1,976
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,743 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +9.32% -9.23%

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 29 July 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 (6.80%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.44%) Apache
2 8 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.76%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.36%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 84 (57.14%) AWS
2 53 (36.05%) Azure
3 21 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.93%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (12.93%) Azure AKS
5 15 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (10.20%) Amazon S3
5 15 (10.20%) GitHub
6 14 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 12 (8.16%) OpenShift
8 10 (6.80%) GCP
8 10 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (6.12%) Serverless
10 8 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (5.44%) Apigee
10 8 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.44%) SaaS
11 7 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 37 (25.17%) Broadband
2 11 (7.48%) Firewall
3 6 (4.08%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.72%) MQTT
5 3 (2.04%) Network Security
6 1 (0.68%) BGP
6 1 (0.68%) VPN
6 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.33%) MongoDB
1 24 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.84%) MySQL
3 8 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (5.44%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.40%) Big Data
5 5 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.72%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.04%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.36%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.68%) Parquet
9 1 (0.68%) Presto
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.68%) Trino
9 1 (0.68%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 61 (41.50%) Jenkins
2 41 (27.89%) Git
3 31 (21.09%) SonarQube
4 9 (6.12%) JIRA
4 9 (6.12%) Selenium
5 8 (5.44%) Gatling
6 7 (4.76%) JUnit
7 6 (4.08%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.08%) Postman
8 5 (3.40%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.04%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.04%) JMeter
9 3 (2.04%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.36%) Maven
10 2 (1.36%) Storybook
11 1 (0.68%) Appium
11 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (29.25%) Social Skills
2 40 (27.21%) Public Sector
3 31 (21.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (19.05%) Marketing
5 26 (17.69%) Games
6 15 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.20%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.08%) Finance
8 5 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Legal
9 3 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.36%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.36%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (27.89%) Senior
2 39 (26.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (19.05%) Architect
3 28 (19.05%) Salesforce Architect
4 17 (11.56%) Senior DevOps
4 17 (11.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.52%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 14 (9.52%) Technical Architect
6 11 (7.48%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) Network Engineer
6 11 (7.48%) Telecoms Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Lead
7 10 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 10 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.80%) Test Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Developer
9 8 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.17%) REST
2 28 (19.05%) Lightning Web Components
2 28 (19.05%) SOAP
3 26 (17.69%) Visualforce
4 25 (17.01%) Node.js
5 16 (10.88%) YAML
6 14 (9.52%) React
7 13 (8.84%) JSON
8 11 (7.48%) Jinja
9 8 (5.44%) Playwright
9 8 (5.44%) PySpark
10 6 (4.08%) XML
10 6 (4.08%) YANG
11 5 (3.40%) .NET
11 5 (3.40%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.40%) Kafka
11 5 (3.40%) RESTful
12 4 (2.72%) ASP.NET
12 4 (2.72%) Next.js
12 4 (2.72%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 39 (26.53%) Product Ownership
2 30 (20.41%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.72%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.72%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.36%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.36%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.36%) NHS
10 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.68%) Clustering
10 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.68%) PropTech
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (21.77%) Linux
2 20 (13.61%) Unix
3 18 (12.24%) Windows
4 4 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.68%) Android
6 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (97.28%) CI/CD
2 104 (70.75%) DevOps
3 100 (68.03%) Agile
4 57 (38.78%) Continuous Integration
5 51 (34.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 48 (32.65%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (31.97%) Scrum
8 45 (30.61%) Containerisation
8 45 (30.61%) Test Automation
9 41 (27.89%) Mentoring
10 39 (26.53%) Microservices
11 38 (25.85%) Coaching
12 36 (24.49%) Continuous Delivery
13 34 (23.13%) Design Patterns
14 33 (22.45%) Roadmaps
15 32 (21.77%) Community of Practice
16 29 (19.73%) Event-Driven
17 28 (19.05%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
17 28 (19.05%) Static Code Analysis
18 26 (17.69%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 64 (43.54%) Python
2 30 (20.41%) Java
3 28 (19.05%) Apex Code
4 26 (17.69%) SOQL
4 26 (17.69%) SOSL
5 22 (14.97%) Bash
6 19 (12.93%) SQL
7 15 (10.20%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.80%) Go
8 10 (6.80%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.08%) C#
9 6 (4.08%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.40%) Rust
11 4 (2.72%) Scala
12 3 (2.04%) Groovy
13 2 (1.36%) Perl
14 1 (0.68%) Bicep
14 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 36 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.48%) Degree
4 6 (4.08%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.68%) LPIC
7 1 (0.68%) OCP
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.61%) QA
2 11 (7.48%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.40%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.40%) WCAG
4 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.36%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 58 (39.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (39.46%) Terraform
2 54 (36.73%) Kubernetes
3 22 (14.97%) Prometheus
4 19 (12.93%) Argo
4 19 (12.93%) Grafana
5 18 (12.24%) Ansible
6 5 (3.40%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.40%) Puppet
7 3 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.04%) Istio
7 3 (2.04%) Kibana
7 3 (2.04%) linkerd
7 3 (2.04%) Nagios
8 2 (1.36%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 29 (19.73%) Splunk
2 28 (19.05%) Salesforce
3 12 (8.16%) Red Hat
4 11 (7.48%) Cisco
5 7 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.08%) F5
6 6 (4.08%) Juniper
6 6 (4.08%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.72%) Databricks
7 4 (2.72%) Google
7 4 (2.72%) VMware
8 3 (2.04%) Commvault
9 2 (1.36%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.36%) UiPath
10 1 (0.68%) EMC
10 1 (0.68%) New Relic
10 1 (0.68%) Tenable
10 1 (0.68%) Trend Micro