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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 156 264
Rank change year-on-year -167 +108 +36
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 138 355 277
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.61% 2.16% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.20% 21.90% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 86 73 173
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,250 £49,600
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £91,574 £93,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +7.14% -

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 1,500 1,621 2,617
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.61% 9.86% 10.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 1,046 1,803
10th Percentile £39,881 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £62,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +7.76% -10.77%
75th Percentile £74,987 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,625 £91,250
UK median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.40% +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 11 August 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 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.80%) Apache
2 8 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (5.07%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 82 (59.42%) AWS
2 52 (37.68%) Azure
3 21 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (13.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (13.77%) Azure AKS
5 17 (12.32%) GitHub
6 15 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (10.14%) Amazon S3
7 14 (10.14%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (8.70%) OpenShift
9 11 (7.97%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.52%) GCP
10 9 (6.52%) SaaS
11 8 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (5.07%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (5.07%) Apigee
12 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.07%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (22.46%) Broadband
2 10 (7.25%) Firewall
3 5 (3.62%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.90%) Network Security
5 2 (1.45%) BGP
5 2 (1.45%) MQTT
5 2 (1.45%) VPN
5 2 (1.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.12%) MongoDB
1 25 (18.12%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.14%) MySQL
3 8 (5.80%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (5.80%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.07%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.62%) Big Data
7 4 (2.90%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.45%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.45%) ZAP BI
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.72%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.72%) Parquet
9 1 (0.72%) Presto
9 1 (0.72%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.72%) Trino
Development Applications
1 53 (38.41%) Jenkins
2 42 (30.43%) Git
3 25 (18.12%) SonarQube
4 11 (7.97%) Selenium
5 9 (6.52%) Gatling
5 9 (6.52%) JIRA
5 9 (6.52%) JUnit
6 8 (5.80%) Postman
7 7 (5.07%) Cypress.io
8 6 (4.35%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.17%) JMeter
9 3 (2.17%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.45%) Maven
10 2 (1.45%) NUnit
10 2 (1.45%) Snyk
10 2 (1.45%) Storybook
11 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 45 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 41 (29.71%) Public Sector
3 25 (18.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (15.94%) Marketing
5 20 (14.49%) Games
6 14 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (10.14%) Telecoms
7 7 (5.07%) Finance
8 5 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.90%) Law
10 3 (2.17%) Legal
11 2 (1.45%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.45%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.45%) Military
12 1 (0.72%) Banking
12 1 (0.72%) Billing
12 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (30.43%) Senior
2 37 (26.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (15.94%) Architect
3 22 (15.94%) Salesforce Architect
4 17 (12.32%) Senior DevOps
4 17 (12.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 11 (7.97%) Technical Architect
5 11 (7.97%) Test Engineer
6 10 (7.25%) Automation Engineer
6 10 (7.25%) Developer
6 10 (7.25%) Network Engineer
6 10 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.25%) Telecoms Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Lead
8 8 (5.80%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 8 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.07%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.74%) REST
2 26 (18.84%) Node.js
3 22 (15.94%) Lightning Web Components
3 22 (15.94%) SOAP
4 20 (14.49%) Visualforce
5 15 (10.87%) YAML
6 14 (10.14%) React
7 12 (8.70%) JSON
8 10 (7.25%) Jinja
9 9 (6.52%) Playwright
10 8 (5.80%) PySpark
11 7 (5.07%) .NET
11 7 (5.07%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.07%) RESTful
12 5 (3.62%) OAuth
12 5 (3.62%) XML
12 5 (3.62%) YANG
13 4 (2.90%) Jest
13 4 (2.90%) Next.js
13 4 (2.90%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (22.46%) Cloud Native
1 31 (22.46%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.90%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.45%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.45%) NHS
8 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.72%) PropTech
8 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.29%) Linux
2 19 (13.77%) Unix
3 17 (12.32%) Windows
4 3 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.72%) Android
6 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (97.10%) CI/CD
2 97 (70.29%) DevOps
3 95 (68.84%) Agile
4 51 (36.96%) Continuous Integration
5 48 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (34.78%) Test Automation
6 43 (31.16%) Containerisation
6 43 (31.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (30.43%) Mentoring
8 39 (28.26%) Scrum
9 38 (27.54%) Coaching
10 36 (26.09%) Microservices
11 30 (21.74%) Continuous Delivery
12 29 (21.01%) Design Patterns
13 27 (19.57%) Roadmaps
14 26 (18.84%) Community of Practice
15 25 (18.12%) AI
16 23 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (16.67%) Software Engineering
16 23 (16.67%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.30%) Python
2 31 (22.46%) Java
3 22 (15.94%) Apex Code
4 20 (14.49%) Bash
4 20 (14.49%) SOQL
4 20 (14.49%) SOSL
4 20 (14.49%) SQL
5 15 (10.87%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.97%) TypeScript
7 10 (7.25%) Go
8 6 (4.35%) C#
8 6 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.90%) Scala
10 3 (2.17%) Groovy
11 2 (1.45%) Rust
12 1 (0.72%) Bicep
12 1 (0.72%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.72%) Perl
12 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.25%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.45%) OCP
6 2 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.04%) QA
2 12 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.35%) WCAG
4 5 (3.62%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.45%) NIST
5 2 (1.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 55 (39.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (39.86%) Terraform
2 50 (36.23%) Kubernetes
3 19 (13.77%) Argo
3 19 (13.77%) Prometheus
4 17 (12.32%) Grafana
5 13 (9.42%) Ansible
6 5 (3.62%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.17%) Istio
7 3 (2.17%) linkerd
7 3 (2.17%) Puppet
8 2 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.45%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.45%) Kibana
8 2 (1.45%) Nagios
9 1 (0.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (15.94%) Salesforce
1 22 (15.94%) Splunk
2 12 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 10 (7.25%) Cisco
4 6 (4.35%) Google
4 6 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.62%) F5
5 5 (3.62%) Juniper
5 5 (3.62%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.90%) Databricks
7 3 (2.17%) VMware
8 2 (1.45%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.45%) Commvault
8 2 (1.45%) UiPath
9 1 (0.72%) EMC
9 1 (0.72%) New Relic
9 1 (0.72%) Trend Micro