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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 243 250
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 -8
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 112 244 248
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.73% 1.24% 1.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.56% 10.19% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 77 126 182
10th Percentile £52,400 £50,000 £47,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% +1.92% -12.86%
75th Percentile £86,253 £89,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 1,172 2,394 3,183
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.67% 12.18% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 804 1,345 2,694
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £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 29 November 2025.

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 7 (6.25%) Confluence
2 4 (3.57%) Apache
3 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 74 (66.07%) AWS
2 53 (47.32%) Azure
3 35 (31.25%) GitHub
4 27 (24.11%) GCP
5 24 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (16.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (8.93%) OpenShift
8 10 (8.93%) Serverless
9 8 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (6.25%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.36%) Datadog
11 6 (5.36%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (2.68%) AWS Step Functions
14 3 (2.68%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.68%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.29%) Broadband
2 6 (5.36%) DNS
3 4 (3.57%) Firewall
4 2 (1.79%) VPN
5 1 (0.89%) Network Security
5 1 (0.89%) VLAN
5 1 (0.89%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.93%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.93%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.57%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.68%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.79%) MySQL
8 1 (0.89%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.89%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.89%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 54 (48.21%) Jenkins
2 29 (25.89%) Git
3 22 (19.64%) SonarQube
4 11 (9.82%) Cucumber
4 11 (9.82%) JUnit
5 10 (8.93%) Selenium
6 9 (8.04%) JIRA
6 9 (8.04%) Subversion
7 8 (7.14%) Bitbucket
8 6 (5.36%) Maven
8 6 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (4.46%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.57%) Artifactory
10 4 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (1.79%) Postman
11 2 (1.79%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.89%) Deequ
12 1 (0.89%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.89%) Testinfra
General
1 39 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (15.18%) Finance
2 17 (15.18%) Games
3 16 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (13.39%) Marketing
4 15 (13.39%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.36%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.57%) Aviation
8 3 (2.68%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.68%) Retail
9 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Automotive
10 1 (0.89%) Back Office
10 1 (0.89%) Law
10 1 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (23.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (21.43%) Lead
3 21 (18.75%) Senior
4 17 (15.18%) Architect
5 14 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
6 13 (11.61%) Software Engineer
7 11 (9.82%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (8.93%) Lead DevOps
8 10 (8.93%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 9 (8.04%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (8.04%) Developer
10 8 (7.14%) Salesforce Technical Architect
10 8 (7.14%) Technical Architect
11 7 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (5.36%) Consultant
12 6 (5.36%) DevOps Consultant
12 6 (5.36%) Senior Consultant
12 6 (5.36%) Senior Software Developer
12 6 (5.36%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.64%) REST
2 17 (15.18%) Spring
2 17 (15.18%) Spring Boot
3 15 (13.39%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (13.39%) Lightning Web Components
3 15 (13.39%) SOAP
3 15 (13.39%) Visualforce
4 9 (8.04%) AngularJS
4 9 (8.04%) Django
4 9 (8.04%) pytest
4 9 (8.04%) React
5 8 (7.14%) Flask
6 6 (5.36%) Node.js
7 4 (3.57%) Flutter
7 4 (3.57%) Kafka
7 4 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.68%) CSS
8 3 (2.68%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.68%) Ionic Framework
8 3 (2.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.32%) Cloud Native
2 16 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.68%) Replication
5 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.79%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.89%) IoT
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.89%) Online Games
6 1 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.89%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (24.11%) Linux
2 9 (8.04%) Windows
3 5 (4.46%) CentOS
3 5 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.46%) Unix
4 4 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.89%) Fedora
5 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (86.61%) CI/CD
2 83 (74.11%) DevOps
3 57 (50.89%) Agile
4 41 (36.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (36.61%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (29.46%) Containerisation
6 28 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (23.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 24 (21.43%) Event-Driven
8 24 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 24 (21.43%) Observability
9 23 (20.54%) Scrum
9 23 (20.54%) Software Engineering
10 21 (18.75%) Design Patterns
11 20 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (17.86%) Roadmaps
12 19 (16.96%) Incident Response
12 19 (16.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (16.07%) Microservices
14 17 (15.18%) OO
Programming Languages
1 43 (38.39%) Python
2 28 (25.00%) Java
3 22 (19.64%) Bash
4 17 (15.18%) SQL
5 15 (13.39%) Apex Code
5 15 (13.39%) SOQL
5 15 (13.39%) SOSL
6 14 (12.50%) PowerShell
7 11 (9.82%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.82%) TypeScript
8 8 (7.14%) Delphi
9 4 (3.57%) C#
9 4 (3.57%) Go
9 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.79%) Bicep
10 2 (1.79%) C++
11 1 (0.89%) Groovy
11 1 (0.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (13.39%) Degree
2 12 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.89%) CCNA
8 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.89%) LPIC
8 1 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.93%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) ECSS
4 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (43.75%) Docker
2 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (44.64%) Kubernetes
2 45 (40.18%) Terraform
3 37 (33.04%) Grafana
4 36 (32.14%) Ansible
5 30 (26.79%) Prometheus
6 6 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.79%) Argo
7 2 (1.79%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.89%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.89%) Icinga
8 1 (0.89%) Istio
8 1 (0.89%) Kibana
8 1 (0.89%) Nagios
8 1 (0.89%) Packer
8 1 (0.89%) Puppet
8 1 (0.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (19.64%) Splunk
2 15 (13.39%) Salesforce
3 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.04%) Oracle
5 7 (6.25%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.68%) Databricks
6 3 (2.68%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.79%) VMware
8 1 (0.89%) Cisco
8 1 (0.89%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.89%) Mercator
8 1 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.89%) UiPath