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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 240 222
Rank change year-on-year 0 -18 +37
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 123 227 264
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.31% 1.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.23% 9.69% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 87 117 218
10th Percentile £52,400 £49,500 £39,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% +8.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £86,253 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,100 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -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 1,202 2,342 3,015
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.85% 13.55% 15.08%
Number of salaries quoted 806 1,352 2,577
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,298 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,339 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% -5.63% +3.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £100,000
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 25 December 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 9 (7.32%) Confluence
2 4 (3.25%) Apache
3 3 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 77 (62.60%) AWS
2 66 (53.66%) Azure
3 35 (28.46%) GitHub
4 34 (27.64%) GCP
5 24 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (13.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (11.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (8.13%) Serverless
10 9 (7.32%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.32%) OpenShift
11 8 (6.50%) Datadog
11 8 (6.50%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.07%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECR
13 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.25%) Apigee
13 4 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.01%) Broadband
2 13 (10.57%) DNS
3 4 (3.25%) Firewall
4 2 (1.63%) VPN
5 1 (0.81%) Network Security
5 1 (0.81%) VLAN
5 1 (0.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.13%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.13%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.88%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.44%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.63%) MySQL
9 1 (0.81%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.81%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 50 (40.65%) Jenkins
2 37 (30.08%) Git
3 23 (18.70%) SonarQube
4 13 (10.57%) Cucumber
4 13 (10.57%) JIRA
5 11 (8.94%) JUnit
5 11 (8.94%) Subversion
6 10 (8.13%) Bitbucket
6 10 (8.13%) Selenium
7 9 (7.32%) Cypress.io
8 8 (6.50%) Maven
9 4 (3.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (3.25%) Postman
10 3 (2.44%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (1.63%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.63%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.81%) Storybook
12 1 (0.81%) Testinfra
General
1 40 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (13.82%) Finance
3 17 (13.82%) Games
3 17 (13.82%) Telecoms
4 16 (13.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (12.20%) Marketing
6 9 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.50%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.25%) Aviation
9 3 (2.44%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Back Office
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 38 (30.89%) Lead
2 24 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (17.07%) Senior
4 17 (13.82%) Architect
5 16 (13.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (12.20%) Software Engineer
7 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (11.38%) Lead DevOps
7 14 (11.38%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 14 (11.38%) Salesforce Architect
8 13 (10.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (10.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 12 (9.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (8.94%) Developer
10 11 (8.94%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (6.50%) Consultant
11 8 (6.50%) DevOps Consultant
11 8 (6.50%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 8 (6.50%) Senior Consultant
11 8 (6.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.07%) REST
2 19 (15.45%) Spring
2 19 (15.45%) Spring Boot
3 15 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (12.20%) Lightning Web Components
3 15 (12.20%) SOAP
3 15 (12.20%) Visualforce
4 11 (8.94%) AngularJS
5 10 (8.13%) React
6 9 (7.32%) Django
6 9 (7.32%) pytest
7 8 (6.50%) Flask
8 7 (5.69%) Gherkin
9 6 (4.88%) Node.js
10 5 (4.07%) Jest
10 5 (4.07%) RESTful
11 4 (3.25%) Flutter
11 4 (3.25%) HTML
11 4 (3.25%) Kafka
11 4 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.01%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.13%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.44%) Replication
5 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) IoT
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.81%) Online Games
6 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.81%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Linux
2 9 (7.32%) Windows
3 5 (4.07%) CentOS
3 5 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.07%) Unix
4 4 (3.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.81%) Fedora
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (79.67%) CI/CD
2 87 (70.73%) DevOps
3 65 (52.85%) Agile
4 49 (39.84%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (25.20%) Mentoring
7 29 (23.58%) Containerisation
7 29 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (23.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (21.95%) Roadmaps
9 26 (21.14%) Observability
9 26 (21.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 25 (20.33%) Technical Leadership
11 24 (19.51%) Scrum
11 24 (19.51%) Software Engineering
12 23 (18.70%) Event-Driven
12 23 (18.70%) Incident Response
13 21 (17.07%) Design Patterns
14 20 (16.26%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (14.63%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.27%) Python
2 30 (24.39%) Java
3 19 (15.45%) Bash
4 17 (13.82%) SQL
5 15 (12.20%) Apex Code
5 15 (12.20%) SOQL
5 15 (12.20%) SOSL
6 14 (11.38%) TypeScript
7 13 (10.57%) JavaScript
8 10 (8.13%) PowerShell
9 8 (6.50%) Delphi
10 4 (3.25%) C#
11 3 (2.44%) Groovy
11 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.63%) C++
12 2 (1.63%) Go
13 1 (0.81%) Bicep
13 1 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (12.20%) Degree
2 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.81%) CCNA
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.81%) LPIC
7 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.13%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.63%) ECSS
System Software
1 51 (41.46%) Docker
2 9 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 53 (43.09%) Terraform
2 47 (38.21%) Kubernetes
3 39 (31.71%) Grafana
4 36 (29.27%) Ansible
5 29 (23.58%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.50%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.25%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.63%) Argo
9 1 (0.81%) Icinga
9 1 (0.81%) Istio
9 1 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) Nagios
9 1 (0.81%) Packer
9 1 (0.81%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (17.89%) Splunk
2 15 (12.20%) Salesforce
3 14 (11.38%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.32%) Atlassian
4 9 (7.32%) Oracle
5 3 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.63%) Databricks
6 2 (1.63%) VMware
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco
7 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.81%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.81%) Mercator
7 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.81%) UiPath