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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 284 236
Rank change year-on-year +41 -48 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 144 141 375
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.86% 0.96% 1.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.23% 6.62% 10.27%
Number of salaries quoted 88 84 335
10th Percentile £51,786 £44,475 £35,368
25th Percentile £57,188 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +7.51% -10.31%
75th Percentile £86,253 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,250 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £73,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.80% +12.69% -10.34%

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 1,282 2,130 3,650
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.65% 14.44% 12.48%
Number of salaries quoted 821 1,332 3,069
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% -4.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,593 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.35% +2.50% -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 7 March 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 5 (3.47%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.08%) Apache
3 3 (2.08%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.39%) AWS
2 64 (44.44%) Azure
3 41 (28.47%) GitHub
4 30 (20.83%) GCP
5 28 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (13.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (11.11%) OpenShift
8 15 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (8.33%) Serverless
10 11 (7.64%) Amazon S3
10 11 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (6.25%) Datadog
12 8 (5.56%) Apigee
12 8 (5.56%) Entra ID
13 6 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.78%) Kong
14 4 (2.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 34 (23.61%) Broadband
2 12 (8.33%) DNS
3 9 (6.25%) Firewall
4 4 (2.78%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.78%) MQTT
5 2 (1.39%) VPN
6 1 (0.69%) VLAN
6 1 (0.69%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.64%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.94%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.47%) DynamoDB
5 5 (3.47%) 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 68 (47.22%) Jenkins
2 42 (29.17%) 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 5 (3.47%) Maven
10 3 (2.08%) Postman
11 2 (1.39%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.69%) Deequ
12 1 (0.69%) Storybook
General
1 47 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 34 (23.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (22.92%) Games
3 33 (22.92%) Marketing
4 25 (17.36%) Telecoms
5 20 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.42%) Finance
7 13 (9.03%) Public Sector
8 9 (6.25%) Manufacturing
9 8 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.08%) Aerospace
11 3 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.39%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.69%) Automotive
13 1 (0.69%) Aviation
13 1 (0.69%) Law
13 1 (0.69%) Retail
13 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (23.61%) Architect
2 32 (22.22%) Lead
3 31 (21.53%) Salesforce Architect
4 23 (15.97%) Senior
5 21 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (11.11%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 16 (11.11%) 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%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.39%) REST
2 33 (22.92%) Lightning Web Components
2 33 (22.92%) SOAP
2 33 (22.92%) Visualforce
3 19 (13.19%) Spring
4 16 (11.11%) 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%) Kafka
8 8 (5.56%) Node.js
8 8 (5.56%) YAML
9 7 (4.86%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.86%) Gherkin
9 7 (4.86%) Jinja
9 7 (4.86%) JSON
10 6 (4.17%) RESTful
11 5 (3.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (27.08%) Product Ownership
2 20 (13.89%) Cloud Native
3 13 (9.03%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.39%) Clustering
6 2 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.39%) NHS
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.69%) GNSS
7 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.69%) IoT
7 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.69%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.28%) Linux
2 9 (6.25%) Unix
3 7 (4.86%) Windows
4 5 (3.47%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.78%) CentOS
5 4 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.69%) Fedora
7 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (82.64%) CI/CD
2 105 (72.92%) DevOps
3 80 (55.56%) Agile
4 52 (36.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (32.64%) Roadmaps
6 46 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (30.56%) Scrum
8 43 (29.86%) Containerisation
8 43 (29.86%) Event-Driven
9 41 (28.47%) Continuous Integration
10 38 (26.39%) Design Patterns
10 38 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (25.69%) Community of Practice
12 35 (24.31%) OO
13 34 (23.61%) Continuous Delivery
14 33 (22.92%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
14 33 (22.92%) PLM
14 33 (22.92%) Static Code Analysis
14 33 (22.92%) Technical Analysis
14 33 (22.92%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.42%) Python
2 33 (22.92%) Apex Code
2 33 (22.92%) SOQL
2 33 (22.92%) SOSL
3 26 (18.06%) Java
4 18 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 18 (12.50%) SQL
5 16 (11.11%) Bash
6 12 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.56%) Delphi
8 6 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.47%) Rust
10 3 (2.08%) C#
10 3 (2.08%) Go
10 3 (2.08%) Groovy
10 3 (2.08%) Perl
11 2 (1.39%) C++
11 2 (1.39%) Scala
12 1 (0.69%) Bicep
12 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.11%) Degree
4 8 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) LPIC
7 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
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 13 (9.03%) QA
2 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.39%) ECSS
System Software
1 60 (41.67%) 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 52 (36.11%) Kubernetes
3 40 (27.78%) Grafana
4 31 (21.53%) Prometheus
5 28 (19.44%) 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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (29.17%) Splunk
2 33 (22.92%) Salesforce
3 13 (9.03%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.56%) Cisco
4 8 (5.56%) Oracle
4 8 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.47%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.78%) F5
6 4 (2.78%) 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