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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 158 243
Rank change year-on-year -181 +85 +72
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 116 333 293
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 2.05% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.68% 22.68% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 82 56 140
10th Percentile £44,725 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +16.36% +5.77%
75th Percentile £86,563 £85,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £97,500 £111,375
UK median annual salary £69,310 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.57% +14.81% -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 1,510 1,468 2,453
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.32% 9.02% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 989 900 1,496
10th Percentile £38,942 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,875 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +5.02% -10.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 14 September 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 (7.76%) Apache
1 9 (7.76%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.90%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 77 (66.38%) AWS
2 49 (42.24%) Azure
3 23 (19.83%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (18.97%) Azure AKS
5 20 (17.24%) GitHub
6 17 (14.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (12.07%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (10.34%) Amazon S3
10 11 (9.48%) SaaS
11 9 (7.76%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (6.90%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (6.90%) GCP
13 7 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (4.31%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (4.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.52%) Broadband
2 4 (3.45%) Network Security
3 2 (1.72%) BGP
3 2 (1.72%) VPN
3 2 (1.72%) WAN
4 1 (0.86%) DHCP
4 1 (0.86%) DNS
4 1 (0.86%) Firewall
4 1 (0.86%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.41%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (20.69%) MongoDB
3 14 (12.07%) MySQL
4 9 (7.76%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (7.76%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.03%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.17%) Big Data
6 6 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.45%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.59%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.72%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.86%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.86%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.86%) Parquet
10 1 (0.86%) Presto
10 1 (0.86%) Redis
10 1 (0.86%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.86%) Trino
Development Applications
1 40 (34.48%) Git
2 36 (31.03%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.34%) SonarQube
4 10 (8.62%) JIRA
5 9 (7.76%) JUnit
6 8 (6.90%) Postman
6 8 (6.90%) Selenium
7 6 (5.17%) Cucumber
7 6 (5.17%) Gatling
8 5 (4.31%) Storybook
9 4 (3.45%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.72%) Maven
10 2 (1.72%) NUnit
10 2 (1.72%) Snyk
10 2 (1.72%) Subversion
11 1 (0.86%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.86%) ESLint
11 1 (0.86%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.86%) Vite
General
1 40 (34.48%) Public Sector
2 39 (33.62%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.62%) Marketing
5 8 (6.90%) Finance
6 7 (6.03%) Games
7 5 (4.31%) Law
8 4 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.59%) Legal
10 2 (1.72%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.72%) Military
11 1 (0.86%) Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Billing
11 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (32.76%) DevOps Engineer
1 38 (32.76%) Senior
2 17 (14.66%) Senior DevOps
2 17 (14.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.93%) Lead
4 10 (8.62%) Developer
5 9 (7.76%) Architect
5 9 (7.76%) Salesforce Architect
5 9 (7.76%) Test Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (6.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (48.28%) Terraform
2 27 (23.28%) Node.js
3 18 (15.52%) React
4 14 (12.07%) REST
5 9 (7.76%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (7.76%) PySpark
5 9 (7.76%) SOAP
6 7 (6.03%) .NET
6 7 (6.03%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.03%) RESTful
6 7 (6.03%) Visualforce
7 6 (5.17%) Next.js
7 6 (5.17%) Playwright
8 5 (4.31%) CSS
8 5 (4.31%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (3.45%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.45%) Jest
9 4 (3.45%) Pulumi
9 4 (3.45%) Vitest
10 3 (2.59%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.72%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.79%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.45%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.59%) Robotics
6 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.86%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) PropTech
7 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.41%) Linux
2 18 (15.52%) Windows
3 14 (12.07%) Unix
4 3 (2.59%) Debian
4 3 (2.59%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.59%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.86%) Android
6 1 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (97.41%) CI/CD
2 81 (69.83%) DevOps
3 77 (66.38%) Agile
4 50 (43.10%) Test Automation
5 46 (39.66%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (38.79%) Mentoring
7 40 (34.48%) Coaching
8 39 (33.62%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (29.31%) Containerisation
10 28 (24.14%) Microservices
11 27 (23.28%) Software Engineering
12 26 (22.41%) AI
12 26 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (20.69%) Observability
13 24 (20.69%) Scrum
14 22 (18.97%) SDLC
15 21 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (14.66%) Continuous Delivery
16 17 (14.66%) Design Patterns
17 16 (13.79%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (42.24%) Python
2 29 (25.00%) Java
3 28 (24.14%) Bash
4 20 (17.24%) SQL
5 15 (12.93%) TypeScript
6 12 (10.34%) Go
7 10 (8.62%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.62%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.76%) Apex Code
9 7 (6.03%) SOQL
9 7 (6.03%) SOSL
10 6 (5.17%) C#
11 3 (2.59%) Bicep
11 3 (2.59%) Groovy
12 1 (0.86%) Perl
12 1 (0.86%) PHP
12 1 (0.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (30.17%) Security Cleared
2 32 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.21%) Degree
4 6 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.72%) OCP
7 2 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.86%) CCNA
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.86%) MCSE
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.10%) QA
2 11 (9.48%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.17%) WCAG
4 5 (4.31%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.45%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.72%) NIST
7 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (51.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (39.66%) Kubernetes
2 19 (16.38%) Argo
3 18 (15.52%) Prometheus
4 16 (13.79%) Grafana
5 10 (8.62%) Ansible
6 6 (5.17%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.59%) Istio
7 3 (2.59%) linkerd
7 3 (2.59%) Puppet
8 2 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.72%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.72%) Kibana
8 2 (1.72%) Nagios
9 1 (0.86%) Cilium
9 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.86%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.76%) Salesforce
2 9 (7.76%) Splunk
3 8 (6.90%) Google
4 4 (3.45%) Databricks
4 4 (3.45%) VMware
5 3 (2.59%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.72%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.72%) Commvault
6 2 (1.72%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.72%) UiPath
7 1 (0.86%) Cisco
7 1 (0.86%) EMC
7 1 (0.86%) FIS
7 1 (0.86%) New Relic
7 1 (0.86%) Trend Micro