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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 287 236
Rank change year-on-year +46 -51 +27
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 155 122 383
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.91% 0.91% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.90% 6.11% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 91 81 345
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +7.51% -6.99%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% -7.47%

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 1,302 1,997 3,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.64% 14.93% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 825 1,313 3,091
10th Percentile £40,625 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.94%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 21 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 (5.81%) Confluence
2 6 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.94%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 77 (49.68%) AWS
2 66 (42.58%) Azure
3 40 (25.81%) GitHub
4 30 (19.35%) GCP
5 27 (17.42%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (12.90%) OpenShift
7 19 (12.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (10.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (8.39%) Amazon S3
10 12 (7.74%) Serverless
11 11 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (6.45%) Apigee
13 9 (5.81%) Datadog
14 8 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (5.16%) Entra ID
15 7 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (3.87%) Kong
17 4 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
17 4 (2.58%) Amazon ECR
17 4 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 42 (27.10%) Broadband
2 12 (7.74%) DNS
2 12 (7.74%) Firewall
3 6 (3.87%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.58%) MQTT
5 1 (0.65%) VLAN
5 1 (0.65%) VPN
5 1 (0.65%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.81%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.29%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (0.65%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.65%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.65%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.65%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 79 (50.97%) Jenkins
2 50 (32.26%) SonarQube
3 39 (25.16%) Git
4 17 (10.97%) JIRA
5 12 (7.74%) Cucumber
5 12 (7.74%) Selenium
6 10 (6.45%) Cypress.io
7 9 (5.81%) Bitbucket
8 8 (5.16%) JUnit
8 8 (5.16%) Subversion
9 5 (3.23%) Maven
9 5 (3.23%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.94%) Gatling
10 3 (1.94%) JMeter
10 3 (1.94%) Postman
11 1 (0.65%) Deequ
11 1 (0.65%) Storybook
General
1 45 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 42 (27.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 41 (26.45%) Games
3 41 (26.45%) Marketing
4 28 (18.06%) Telecoms
5 19 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (10.32%) Public Sector
7 13 (8.39%) Finance
8 9 (5.81%) Manufacturing
9 8 (5.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.29%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.65%) Automotive
13 1 (0.65%) Aviation
13 1 (0.65%) Retail
13 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (26.45%) Architect
2 39 (25.16%) Salesforce Architect
3 30 (19.35%) Lead
4 27 (17.42%) Senior
5 23 (14.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (13.55%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 21 (13.55%) Technical Architect
7 14 (9.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (9.03%) Developer
8 13 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 12 (7.74%) Software Engineer
9 12 (7.74%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (7.10%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Network Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (7.10%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (30.97%) REST
2 41 (26.45%) Lightning Web Components
2 41 (26.45%) SOAP
2 41 (26.45%) Visualforce
3 18 (11.61%) Spring
4 15 (9.68%) Spring Boot
4 15 (9.68%) YAML
5 14 (9.03%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (7.74%) JSON
7 11 (7.10%) Jinja
8 10 (6.45%) React
9 9 (5.81%) Django
9 9 (5.81%) pytest
10 8 (5.16%) Flask
10 8 (5.16%) Node.js
11 7 (4.52%) Gherkin
11 7 (4.52%) XML
12 6 (3.87%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.87%) Kafka
12 6 (3.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (30.32%) Product Ownership
2 18 (11.61%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.39%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.29%) Clustering
6 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.29%) NHS
7 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.65%) GNSS
7 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.65%) IoT
7 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.65%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Video on Demand
7 1 (0.65%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.48%) Linux
2 11 (7.10%) Unix
3 7 (4.52%) Windows
4 5 (3.23%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.58%) CentOS
5 4 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.65%) Fedora
7 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (85.16%) CI/CD
2 112 (72.26%) DevOps
3 92 (59.35%) Agile
4 60 (38.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (35.48%) Roadmaps
6 51 (32.90%) Scrum
7 50 (32.26%) Event-Driven
8 49 (31.61%) Continuous Integration
9 48 (30.97%) Community of Practice
9 48 (30.97%) Containerisation
10 44 (28.39%) Design Patterns
10 44 (28.39%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (27.74%) OO
12 42 (27.10%) Continuous Delivery
13 41 (26.45%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
13 41 (26.45%) PLM
13 41 (26.45%) Static Code Analysis
13 41 (26.45%) Technical Analysis
13 41 (26.45%) Technology Roadmap
13 41 (26.45%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 54 (34.84%) Python
2 41 (26.45%) Apex Code
2 41 (26.45%) SOQL
2 41 (26.45%) SOSL
3 29 (18.71%) Java
4 17 (10.97%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.97%) SQL
5 15 (9.68%) Bash
6 11 (7.10%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.16%) Delphi
8 6 (3.87%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.23%) Rust
10 4 (2.58%) Scala
11 3 (1.94%) C#
11 3 (1.94%) Groovy
11 3 (1.94%) Perl
12 2 (1.29%) C++
12 2 (1.29%) Go
13 1 (0.65%) Bicep
13 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (12.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.39%) Degree
4 8 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.58%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.94%) LPIC
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.29%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.29%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.74%) QA
2 6 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.29%) ECSS
System Software
1 59 (38.06%) Docker
2 9 (5.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (36.13%) Terraform
2 54 (34.84%) Kubernetes
3 39 (25.16%) Grafana
4 30 (19.35%) Prometheus
5 29 (18.71%) Ansible
6 8 (5.16%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.58%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.58%) Puppet
8 2 (1.29%) Nagios
9 1 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.65%) Icinga
9 1 (0.65%) Kibana
9 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (32.26%) Splunk
2 41 (26.45%) Salesforce
3 12 (7.74%) Cisco
3 12 (7.74%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.74%) Red Hat
4 8 (5.16%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.16%) Oracle
5 7 (4.52%) Palo Alto
6 6 (3.87%) F5
6 6 (3.87%) Juniper
7 3 (1.94%) VMware
8 2 (1.29%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.65%) Adobe
9 1 (0.65%) Commvault
9 1 (0.65%) Databricks
9 1 (0.65%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.65%) Mercator
9 1 (0.65%) Tenable
9 1 (0.65%) Veracode