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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 271 231
Rank change year-on-year +26 -40 +45
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 144 161 359
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 1.07% 1.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.03% 7.49% 10.15%
Number of salaries quoted 89 75 319
10th Percentile £52,323 £44,550 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +3.53% -10.31%
75th Percentile £86,253 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £98,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -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 1,306 2,150 3,536
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.94% 14.32% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 821 1,286 2,998
10th Percentile £39,750 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -3.95%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,438 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% -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 25 February 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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (2.08%) Apache
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.08%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 73 (50.69%) AWS
2 64 (44.44%) Azure
3 40 (27.78%) GitHub
4 30 (20.83%) GCP
5 27 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (13.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (9.72%) OpenShift
9 11 (7.64%) Serverless
10 10 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (6.25%) Amazon S3
11 9 (6.25%) Datadog
12 8 (5.56%) Entra ID
13 7 (4.86%) Apigee
14 6 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
16 4 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
16 4 (2.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 35 (24.31%) Broadband
2 12 (8.33%) DNS
3 7 (4.86%) Firewall
4 3 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (2.08%) MQTT
5 2 (1.39%) VPN
6 1 (0.69%) VLAN
6 1 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.94%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.86%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.47%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.08%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.69%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.69%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.69%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.69%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 72 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 44 (30.56%) SonarQube
3 39 (27.08%) Git
4 17 (11.81%) JIRA
5 12 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 9 (6.25%) Selenium
7 8 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 8 (5.56%) JUnit
7 8 (5.56%) Subversion
8 7 (4.86%) Cypress.io
9 6 (4.17%) Maven
10 3 (2.08%) Postman
11 2 (1.39%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.69%) Deequ
12 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.69%) Storybook
12 1 (0.69%) Testinfra
General
1 47 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 35 (24.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (23.61%) Games
3 34 (23.61%) Marketing
4 23 (15.97%) Telecoms
5 19 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (11.11%) Finance
7 12 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 9 (6.25%) Manufacturing
9 8 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.08%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Automotive
11 1 (0.69%) Aviation
11 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.69%) Law
11 1 (0.69%) Retail
11 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (24.31%) Architect
2 33 (22.92%) Lead
3 32 (22.22%) Salesforce Architect
4 23 (15.97%) Senior
5 21 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (11.81%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 17 (11.81%) Technical Architect
7 14 (9.72%) Developer
8 13 (9.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (9.03%) Software Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 12 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (7.64%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (6.94%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 9 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
13 8 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.39%) REST
2 34 (23.61%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (23.61%) SOAP
2 34 (23.61%) Visualforce
3 20 (13.89%) Spring
4 17 (11.81%) Spring Boot
5 14 (9.72%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (8.33%) React
7 9 (6.25%) Django
7 9 (6.25%) pytest
8 8 (5.56%) Flask
8 8 (5.56%) Node.js
9 7 (4.86%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.86%) Gherkin
9 7 (4.86%) Kafka
10 6 (4.17%) HTML
10 6 (4.17%) JSON
10 6 (4.17%) RESTful
10 6 (4.17%) YAML
11 5 (3.47%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.08%) Product Ownership
2 20 (13.89%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.39%) Clustering
5 2 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.69%) GNSS
6 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.69%) IoT
6 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.69%) NHS
6 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.69%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.97%) Linux
2 8 (5.56%) Unix
2 8 (5.56%) Windows
3 5 (3.47%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.78%) CentOS
4 4 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.69%) Fedora
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (81.94%) CI/CD
2 107 (74.31%) DevOps
3 81 (56.25%) Agile
4 53 (36.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (32.64%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (32.64%) Roadmaps
6 44 (30.56%) Scrum
7 43 (29.86%) Event-Driven
8 42 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
9 40 (27.78%) Design Patterns
10 39 (27.08%) Containerisation
11 38 (26.39%) Community of Practice
11 38 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (25.00%) OO
13 35 (24.31%) Continuous Delivery
14 34 (23.61%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
14 34 (23.61%) PLM
14 34 (23.61%) Static Code Analysis
14 34 (23.61%) Technology Roadmap
14 34 (23.61%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 47 (32.64%) Python
2 34 (23.61%) Apex Code
2 34 (23.61%) SOQL
2 34 (23.61%) SOSL
3 28 (19.44%) Java
4 19 (13.19%) SQL
5 18 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 17 (11.81%) Bash
7 13 (9.03%) TypeScript
8 8 (5.56%) Delphi
9 7 (4.86%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.78%) Rust
11 3 (2.08%) C#
11 3 (2.08%) Go
11 3 (2.08%) Groovy
11 3 (2.08%) Perl
12 2 (1.39%) C++
13 1 (0.69%) Bicep
13 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.42%) Degree
4 8 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.08%) LPIC
7 2 (1.39%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.39%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.69%) CCNA
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.72%) QA
2 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.39%) ECSS
System Software
1 57 (39.58%) Docker
2 9 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (38.89%) Terraform
2 51 (35.42%) Kubernetes
3 40 (27.78%) Grafana
4 31 (21.53%) Prometheus
5 30 (20.83%) Ansible
6 8 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.78%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.78%) Puppet
8 2 (1.39%) Nagios
9 1 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.69%) Icinga
9 1 (0.69%) Istio
9 1 (0.69%) Kibana
9 1 (0.69%) Packer
9 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (29.86%) Splunk
2 34 (23.61%) Salesforce
3 15 (10.42%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.56%) Oracle
5 6 (4.17%) Cisco
5 6 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.78%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.08%) F5
7 3 (2.08%) Juniper
7 3 (2.08%) VMware
8 2 (1.39%) Databricks
8 2 (1.39%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.69%) Adobe
9 1 (0.69%) Commvault
9 1 (0.69%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.69%) Mercator
9 1 (0.69%) Tenable
9 1 (0.69%) Veracode