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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 159 281
Rank change year-on-year -144 +122 +23
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 149 356 270
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 2.14% 1.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.04% 21.33% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 90 72 174
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,125 £48,975
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £75,000 £73,950
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% +1.42% +13.77%
75th Percentile £82,188 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,250 £110,125
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £68,250
% change year-on-year -7.59% +9.89% -2.50%

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 1,484 1,669 2,598
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.65% 10.05% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,000 1,087 1,840
10th Percentile £39,221 £40,000 £39,225
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +7.82% -8.93%
75th Percentile £74,987 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,125 £93,778 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 3 August 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 10 (6.71%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.37%) Apache
2 8 (5.37%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.70%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.34%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 86 (57.72%) AWS
2 55 (36.91%) Azure
3 22 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (12.75%) Azure AKS
5 16 (10.74%) GitHub
6 15 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (9.40%) Amazon S3
7 14 (9.40%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (8.72%) OpenShift
9 10 (6.71%) GCP
9 10 (6.71%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.04%) SaaS
11 8 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (5.37%) Apigee
11 8 (5.37%) Serverless
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (4.70%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 37 (24.83%) Broadband
2 11 (7.38%) Firewall
3 6 (4.03%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.68%) Network Security
5 3 (2.01%) MQTT
6 1 (0.67%) BGP
6 1 (0.67%) VPN
6 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.78%) MongoDB
1 25 (16.78%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (9.40%) MySQL
3 8 (5.37%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (5.37%) DynamoDB
4 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.36%) Big Data
7 4 (2.68%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.34%) ZAP BI
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.67%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.67%) Parquet
9 1 (0.67%) Presto
9 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.67%) Trino
Development Applications
1 61 (40.94%) Jenkins
2 42 (28.19%) Git
3 32 (21.48%) SonarQube
4 11 (7.38%) Selenium
5 9 (6.04%) Gatling
5 9 (6.04%) JIRA
5 9 (6.04%) JUnit
6 8 (5.37%) Postman
7 7 (4.70%) Cypress.io
8 6 (4.03%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.01%) JMeter
9 3 (2.01%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.34%) Maven
10 2 (1.34%) NUnit
10 2 (1.34%) Snyk
10 2 (1.34%) Storybook
11 1 (0.67%) Appium
11 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 46 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.52%) Public Sector
3 31 (20.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (18.79%) Marketing
5 26 (17.45%) Games
6 15 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.07%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.70%) Finance
8 5 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Law
9 3 (2.01%) Legal
9 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.34%) Military
11 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.67%) Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Billing
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (28.19%) Senior
2 39 (26.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (18.79%) Architect
3 28 (18.79%) Salesforce Architect
4 17 (11.41%) Senior DevOps
4 17 (11.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 14 (9.40%) Technical Architect
6 11 (7.38%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Developer
6 11 (7.38%) Network Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Telecoms Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Lead
7 10 (6.71%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 10 (6.71%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.71%) Test Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (4.70%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (24.83%) REST
2 28 (18.79%) Lightning Web Components
2 28 (18.79%) SOAP
3 27 (18.12%) Node.js
4 26 (17.45%) Visualforce
5 16 (10.74%) React
5 16 (10.74%) YAML
6 13 (8.72%) JSON
7 11 (7.38%) Jinja
8 9 (6.04%) Playwright
9 8 (5.37%) PySpark
10 7 (4.70%) .NET
10 7 (4.70%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.70%) RESTful
11 6 (4.03%) XML
11 6 (4.03%) YANG
12 5 (3.36%) Kafka
12 5 (3.36%) OAuth
13 4 (2.68%) ASP.NET
13 4 (2.68%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 38 (25.50%) Product Ownership
2 30 (20.13%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.68%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.34%) NHS
10 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.67%) Clustering
10 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.67%) PropTech
10 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (21.48%) Linux
2 20 (13.42%) Unix
3 18 (12.08%) Windows
4 4 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.67%) Android
6 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (97.32%) CI/CD
2 106 (71.14%) DevOps
3 102 (68.46%) Agile
4 58 (38.93%) Continuous Integration
5 51 (34.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 47 (31.54%) Containerisation
7 47 (31.54%) Test Automation
8 46 (30.87%) Scrum
9 42 (28.19%) Mentoring
10 39 (26.17%) Coaching
10 39 (26.17%) Microservices
11 37 (24.83%) Continuous Delivery
12 35 (23.49%) Design Patterns
13 33 (22.15%) Roadmaps
14 32 (21.48%) Community of Practice
15 30 (20.13%) Event-Driven
16 29 (19.46%) Static Code Analysis
17 28 (18.79%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
18 26 (17.45%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 63 (42.28%) Python
2 32 (21.48%) Java
3 28 (18.79%) Apex Code
4 26 (17.45%) SOQL
4 26 (17.45%) SOSL
5 22 (14.77%) Bash
6 20 (13.42%) SQL
7 17 (11.41%) JavaScript
8 11 (7.38%) Go
8 11 (7.38%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.03%) C#
9 6 (4.03%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.68%) Rust
10 4 (2.68%) Scala
11 3 (2.01%) Groovy
12 2 (1.34%) Perl
13 1 (0.67%) Bicep
13 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (26.17%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.83%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.38%) Degree
4 5 (3.36%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.34%) OCP
5 2 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.67%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.67%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.75%) QA
2 12 (8.05%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.03%) WCAG
4 5 (3.36%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.34%) NIST
5 2 (1.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (40.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (38.93%) Terraform
2 54 (36.24%) Kubernetes
3 22 (14.77%) Prometheus
4 19 (12.75%) Argo
4 19 (12.75%) Grafana
5 17 (11.41%) Ansible
6 5 (3.36%) Progress Chef
6 5 (3.36%) Puppet
7 3 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.01%) Istio
7 3 (2.01%) Kibana
7 3 (2.01%) linkerd
7 3 (2.01%) Nagios
8 2 (1.34%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 29 (19.46%) Splunk
2 28 (18.79%) Salesforce
3 13 (8.72%) Red Hat
4 11 (7.38%) Cisco
5 7 (4.70%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.03%) F5
6 6 (4.03%) Juniper
6 6 (4.03%) Palo Alto
7 5 (3.36%) Google
8 4 (2.68%) Databricks
8 4 (2.68%) VMware
9 3 (2.01%) Commvault
10 2 (1.34%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.34%) UiPath
11 1 (0.67%) EMC
11 1 (0.67%) New Relic
11 1 (0.67%) Tenable
11 1 (0.67%) Trend Micro