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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 266 234
Rank change year-on-year +19 -32 +38
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 137 166 365
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.08% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.60% 7.63% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 88 77 323
10th Percentile £52,285 £44,050 £35,184
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £65,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +3.53% -10.31%
75th Percentile £86,253 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £99,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% +11.54% -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 1,293 2,175 3,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.89% 14.19% 12.84%
Number of salaries quoted 812 1,291 3,026
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 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -2.12%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +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 22 February 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 (6.57%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) Apache
2 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.19%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 72 (52.55%) AWS
2 63 (45.99%) Azure
3 39 (28.47%) GitHub
4 30 (21.90%) GCP
5 27 (19.71%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (13.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (11.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (10.22%) OpenShift
9 11 (8.03%) Serverless
10 10 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (6.57%) Amazon S3
11 9 (6.57%) Datadog
12 8 (5.84%) Entra ID
13 7 (5.11%) Apigee
14 6 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (2.92%) Amazon ECR
16 4 (2.92%) AWS Step Functions
16 4 (2.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (21.17%) Broadband
2 12 (8.76%) DNS
3 7 (5.11%) Firewall
4 3 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (2.19%) MQTT
5 2 (1.46%) VPN
6 1 (0.73%) VLAN
6 1 (0.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.76%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.03%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.57%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.38%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.65%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.19%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.46%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.73%) Apache Hudi
9 1 (0.73%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.73%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.73%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 65 (47.45%) Jenkins
2 38 (27.74%) Git
2 38 (27.74%) SonarQube
3 17 (12.41%) JIRA
4 12 (8.76%) Cucumber
5 9 (6.57%) Selenium
6 8 (5.84%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.84%) JUnit
6 8 (5.84%) Subversion
7 7 (5.11%) Cypress.io
8 6 (4.38%) Maven
9 3 (2.19%) Postman
10 2 (1.46%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.73%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.73%) Deequ
11 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.73%) Storybook
11 1 (0.73%) Testinfra
General
1 46 (33.58%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (20.44%) Games
3 28 (20.44%) Marketing
4 23 (16.79%) Telecoms
5 19 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (11.68%) Finance
7 11 (8.03%) Public Sector
8 9 (6.57%) Manufacturing
9 8 (5.84%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (2.19%) Aerospace
10 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Automotive
11 1 (0.73%) Aviation
11 1 (0.73%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.73%) Law
11 1 (0.73%) Retail
11 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (24.09%) Lead
2 29 (21.17%) Architect
3 26 (18.98%) Salesforce Architect
4 23 (16.79%) Senior
5 21 (15.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Developer
6 14 (10.22%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 14 (10.22%) Technical Architect
7 13 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) Software Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Lead DevOps
9 9 (6.57%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (6.57%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.84%) Consultant
10 8 (5.84%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (23.36%) REST
2 28 (20.44%) Lightning Web Components
2 28 (20.44%) SOAP
2 28 (20.44%) Visualforce
3 19 (13.87%) Spring
4 16 (11.68%) Spring Boot
5 14 (10.22%) Elastic Stack
6 11 (8.03%) React
7 9 (6.57%) Django
7 9 (6.57%) pytest
8 8 (5.84%) Flask
9 7 (5.11%) AngularJS
9 7 (5.11%) Gherkin
9 7 (5.11%) Kafka
9 7 (5.11%) Node.js
10 6 (4.38%) JSON
10 6 (4.38%) RESTful
10 6 (4.38%) YAML
11 5 (3.65%) HTML
11 5 (3.65%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 33 (24.09%) Product Ownership
2 19 (13.87%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.19%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.46%) Clustering
5 2 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.73%) GNSS
6 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.73%) IoT
6 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.73%) NHS
6 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.73%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.73%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.79%) Linux
2 8 (5.84%) Unix
2 8 (5.84%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.92%) CentOS
4 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.73%) Fedora
6 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (81.02%) CI/CD
2 100 (72.99%) DevOps
3 74 (54.01%) Agile
4 47 (34.31%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (33.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (29.93%) Roadmaps
7 38 (27.74%) Containerisation
7 38 (27.74%) Scrum
8 37 (27.01%) Event-Driven
8 37 (27.01%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (26.28%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (24.82%) Design Patterns
11 32 (23.36%) Community of Practice
11 32 (23.36%) Mentoring
12 30 (21.90%) OO
13 29 (21.17%) Continuous Delivery
14 28 (20.44%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
14 28 (20.44%) PLM
14 28 (20.44%) Static Code Analysis
14 28 (20.44%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (34.31%) Python
2 28 (20.44%) Apex Code
2 28 (20.44%) SOQL
2 28 (20.44%) SOSL
3 27 (19.71%) Java
4 18 (13.14%) SQL
5 17 (12.41%) Bash
5 17 (12.41%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.76%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.84%) Delphi
8 7 (5.11%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.92%) Rust
10 3 (2.19%) Go
10 3 (2.19%) Groovy
10 3 (2.19%) Perl
11 2 (1.46%) C#
11 2 (1.46%) C++
12 1 (0.73%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.95%) Degree
4 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.19%) LPIC
7 2 (1.46%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.46%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.73%) CCNA
8 1 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.22%) QA
2 3 (2.19%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.46%) ECSS
System Software
1 56 (40.88%) Docker
2 9 (6.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.73%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.73%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (40.15%) Terraform
2 51 (37.23%) Kubernetes
3 40 (29.20%) Grafana
4 31 (22.63%) Prometheus
5 30 (21.90%) Ansible
6 8 (5.84%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.92%) HP Fortify
7 4 (2.92%) Puppet
8 2 (1.46%) Nagios
9 1 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.73%) Icinga
9 1 (0.73%) Istio
9 1 (0.73%) Kibana
9 1 (0.73%) Packer
9 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (27.01%) Splunk
2 28 (20.44%) Salesforce
3 15 (10.95%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.84%) Atlassian
4 8 (5.84%) Oracle
5 6 (4.38%) Cisco
5 6 (4.38%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.92%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.19%) F5
7 3 (2.19%) Juniper
7 3 (2.19%) VMware
8 2 (1.46%) Databricks
8 2 (1.46%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.73%) Adobe
9 1 (0.73%) Commvault
9 1 (0.73%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.73%) Mercator
9 1 (0.73%) Tenable
9 1 (0.73%) Veracode