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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 159 275
Rank change year-on-year -138 +116 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 153 353 303
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 2.14% 1.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.75% 20.86% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 89 69 222
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,446 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £72,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +15.48% +0.45%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £89,518 £89,000 £102,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £76,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.20% +17.31% -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 1,423 1,692 3,008
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.57% 10.26% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,105 2,219
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +12.07% -7.20%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%

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 23 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 (6.54%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.23%) Apache
2 8 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.58%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 84 (54.90%) AWS
2 51 (33.33%) Azure
3 20 (13.07%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.42%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (12.42%) Azure AKS
5 16 (10.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (10.46%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (10.46%) Amazon S3
5 16 (10.46%) GitHub
6 14 (9.15%) Azure Service Bus
7 11 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.19%) OpenShift
8 10 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (6.54%) GCP
8 10 (6.54%) Serverless
9 9 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (5.23%) Apigee
10 8 (5.23%) SaaS
11 7 (4.58%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 45 (29.41%) Broadband
2 11 (7.19%) Firewall
3 6 (3.92%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.61%) MQTT
5 3 (1.96%) Network Security
6 1 (0.65%) BGP
6 1 (0.65%) VPN
6 1 (0.65%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.69%) MongoDB
1 24 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.50%) MySQL
3 8 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (5.23%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.58%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.27%) Big Data
6 4 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.61%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.96%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.65%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.65%) Parquet
9 1 (0.65%) Presto
9 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.65%) Trino
Development Applications
1 69 (45.10%) Jenkins
2 41 (26.80%) Git
3 38 (24.84%) SonarQube
4 9 (5.88%) JIRA
5 7 (4.58%) Gatling
5 7 (4.58%) Selenium
6 5 (3.27%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.27%) JUnit
7 4 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.61%) Postman
8 3 (1.96%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.96%) JMeter
8 3 (1.96%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.31%) Maven
9 2 (1.31%) Storybook
10 1 (0.65%) Appium
10 1 (0.65%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.65%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 40 (26.14%) Public Sector
2 39 (25.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 38 (24.84%) Social Skills
4 35 (22.88%) Marketing
5 34 (22.22%) Games
6 15 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (9.80%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.92%) Finance
8 5 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.96%) Legal
9 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.65%) Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Billing
11 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (26.14%) DevOps Engineer
1 40 (26.14%) Senior
2 35 (22.88%) Architect
3 34 (22.22%) Salesforce Architect
4 18 (11.76%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 18 (11.76%) Technical Architect
5 17 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 17 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Network Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 11 (7.19%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (7.19%) Telecoms Engineer
7 10 (6.54%) Lead
8 9 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (28.76%) REST
2 35 (22.88%) Lightning Web Components
2 35 (22.88%) SOAP
3 34 (22.22%) Visualforce
4 23 (15.03%) Node.js
5 16 (10.46%) YAML
6 13 (8.50%) JSON
6 13 (8.50%) React
7 11 (7.19%) Jinja
8 8 (5.23%) PySpark
9 7 (4.58%) Playwright
10 6 (3.92%) XML
10 6 (3.92%) YANG
11 5 (3.27%) Kafka
11 5 (3.27%) RESTful
12 4 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.61%) Next.js
12 4 (2.61%) OpenID
12 4 (2.61%) Spring
12 4 (2.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 47 (30.72%) Product Ownership
2 31 (20.26%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.61%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.31%) NHS
9 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.65%) Clustering
9 1 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.65%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 32 (20.92%) Linux
2 20 (13.07%) Unix
3 18 (11.76%) Windows
4 4 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.65%) Android
6 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (97.39%) CI/CD
2 112 (73.20%) DevOps
3 104 (67.97%) Agile
4 65 (42.48%) Continuous Integration
5 59 (38.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (36.60%) Scrum
7 49 (32.03%) Infrastructure as Code
8 45 (29.41%) Containerisation
9 44 (28.76%) Continuous Delivery
10 43 (28.10%) Test Automation
11 42 (27.45%) Design Patterns
12 41 (26.80%) Roadmaps
13 40 (26.14%) Community of Practice
13 40 (26.14%) Mentoring
13 40 (26.14%) Microservices
14 37 (24.18%) Coaching
14 37 (24.18%) Event-Driven
15 35 (22.88%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
15 35 (22.88%) Static Code Analysis
16 34 (22.22%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 63 (41.18%) Python
2 35 (22.88%) Apex Code
3 34 (22.22%) SOQL
3 34 (22.22%) SOSL
4 29 (18.95%) Java
5 23 (15.03%) Bash
6 19 (12.42%) SQL
7 14 (9.15%) JavaScript
8 10 (6.54%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.23%) Go
10 6 (3.92%) C#
10 6 (3.92%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.27%) Rust
12 4 (2.61%) Scala
13 3 (1.96%) Groovy
14 2 (1.31%) Perl
15 1 (0.65%) Bicep
15 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (22.88%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.19%) Degree
4 7 (4.58%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.65%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.65%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.07%) QA
2 10 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.61%) WCAG
5 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (38.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 59 (38.56%) Terraform
2 55 (35.95%) Kubernetes
3 22 (14.38%) Prometheus
4 19 (12.42%) Argo
4 19 (12.42%) Grafana
5 18 (11.76%) Ansible
6 5 (3.27%) Puppet
7 4 (2.61%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.96%) Istio
8 3 (1.96%) Kibana
8 3 (1.96%) linkerd
8 3 (1.96%) Nagios
9 2 (1.31%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 37 (24.18%) Splunk
2 35 (22.88%) Salesforce
3 11 (7.19%) Cisco
3 11 (7.19%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.92%) F5
4 6 (3.92%) Juniper
4 6 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.92%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.61%) Databricks
5 4 (2.61%) Google
5 4 (2.61%) VMware
6 3 (1.96%) Commvault
7 2 (1.31%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.31%) UiPath
8 1 (0.65%) EMC
8 1 (0.65%) New Relic
8 1 (0.65%) Tenable
8 1 (0.65%) Trend Micro