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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 246 268
Rank change year-on-year -39 +22 -38
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 104 258 241
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.66% 1.30% 1.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.84% 11.18% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67 130 180
10th Percentile £52,400 £49,950 £46,025
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -10.34%
75th Percentile £86,250 £92,188 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £87,650
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -6.90%

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 1,176 2,307 3,357
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.50% 11.66% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 817 1,250 2,799
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £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 £91,324 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +2.36%

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 13 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 6 (5.77%) Confluence
2 5 (4.81%) Apache
3 3 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 71 (68.27%) AWS
2 42 (40.38%) Azure
3 28 (26.92%) GitHub
4 24 (23.08%) GCP
5 19 (18.27%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (9.62%) OpenShift
8 8 (7.69%) Serverless
9 7 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.81%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.81%) Datadog
12 4 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.85%) Entra ID
13 3 (2.88%) Azure AKS
14 2 (1.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 2 (1.92%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.38%) Broadband
2 4 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (1.92%) VPN
4 1 (0.96%) DNS
4 1 (0.96%) Network Security
4 1 (0.96%) VLAN
4 1 (0.96%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.62%) MongoDB
2 10 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.88%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.96%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (0.96%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (49.04%) Jenkins
2 25 (24.04%) Git
3 22 (21.15%) SonarQube
4 13 (12.50%) JUnit
5 10 (9.62%) Cucumber
6 9 (8.65%) Selenium
7 8 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (6.73%) JIRA
8 7 (6.73%) Subversion
9 6 (5.77%) Bitbucket
10 5 (4.81%) Maven
11 4 (3.85%) Artifactory
11 4 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (1.92%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.92%) Mockito
12 2 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (1.92%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.96%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.96%) JMeter
13 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.31%) Games
3 17 (16.35%) Finance
4 16 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (14.42%) Marketing
6 14 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (9.62%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.85%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.85%) Aviation
9 4 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.88%) Automotive
10 3 (2.88%) Retail
11 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.96%) Back Office
12 1 (0.96%) Electronics
12 1 (0.96%) iGaming
12 1 (0.96%) Law
12 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (20.19%) Senior
3 18 (17.31%) Architect
4 17 (16.35%) Lead
5 14 (13.46%) Salesforce Architect
6 12 (11.54%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Developer
7 10 (9.62%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (8.65%) Lead DevOps
8 9 (8.65%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.69%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 8 (7.69%) Technical Architect
10 7 (6.73%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Senior Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Software Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
13 4 (3.85%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.12%) REST
2 15 (14.42%) Lightning Web Components
2 15 (14.42%) SOAP
2 15 (14.42%) Spring
2 15 (14.42%) Spring Boot
2 15 (14.42%) Visualforce
3 13 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (8.65%) pytest
4 9 (8.65%) React
5 8 (7.69%) Django
5 8 (7.69%) Flask
6 6 (5.77%) AngularJS
7 5 (4.81%) Node.js
8 4 (3.85%) Flutter
8 4 (3.85%) Kafka
8 4 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.88%) .NET
9 3 (2.88%) Ionic Framework
9 3 (2.88%) RESTful
10 2 (1.92%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.42%) Product Ownership
3 10 (9.62%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.88%) Replication
5 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.96%) Infotainment
6 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.96%) Online Games
6 1 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.96%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.88%) Linux
2 10 (9.62%) Windows
3 6 (5.77%) CentOS
3 6 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 4 (3.85%) Unix
5 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.96%) Android
6 1 (0.96%) Debian
6 1 (0.96%) Fedora
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (90.38%) CI/CD
2 77 (74.04%) DevOps
3 49 (47.12%) Agile
4 39 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (30.77%) Containerisation
5 32 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 26 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 24 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 23 (22.12%) Scrum
9 21 (20.19%) Design Patterns
10 20 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (18.27%) Observability
12 18 (17.31%) Mentoring
12 18 (17.31%) Microservices
13 17 (16.35%) Community of Practice
13 17 (16.35%) Continuous Delivery
13 17 (16.35%) OO
14 15 (14.42%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
Programming Languages
1 46 (44.23%) Python
2 28 (26.92%) Java
3 21 (20.19%) Bash
4 15 (14.42%) Apex Code
4 15 (14.42%) SOQL
4 15 (14.42%) SOSL
4 15 (14.42%) SQL
5 13 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
7 8 (7.69%) Delphi
7 8 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.81%) C++
8 5 (4.81%) Go
9 4 (3.85%) C#
9 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.92%) Bicep
11 1 (0.96%) C
11 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.96%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 13 (12.50%) Degree
1 13 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.65%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.81%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.96%) CCNA
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.65%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.92%) ECSS
System Software
1 45 (43.27%) Docker
2 5 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (48.08%) Kubernetes
2 37 (35.58%) Ansible
2 37 (35.58%) Terraform
3 32 (30.77%) Grafana
4 27 (25.96%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.88%) Kibana
7 2 (1.92%) Argo
7 2 (1.92%) Nagios
8 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.96%) Icinga
8 1 (0.96%) Istio
8 1 (0.96%) Packer
8 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.96%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.96%) Puppet
8 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (21.15%) Splunk
2 15 (14.42%) Salesforce
3 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.62%) Oracle
5 7 (6.73%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.85%) VMware
7 3 (2.88%) Databricks
7 3 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.96%) Cisco
8 1 (0.96%) Commvault
8 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.96%) IBM
8 1 (0.96%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.96%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.96%) Perforce
8 1 (0.96%) QNX
8 1 (0.96%) UiPath