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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 288 247
Rank change year-on-year +44 -41 +25
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 157 117 397
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.88% 0.88% 1.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.66% 6.61% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 99 76 328
10th Percentile £48,250 £46,115 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,750 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +12.69% -6.99%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £96,875 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +19.23% -7.14%

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 1,346 1,770 3,808
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.55% 13.29% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 867 1,314 3,079
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.45%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 20 April 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 (5.73%) Confluence
2 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.91%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 83 (52.87%) AWS
2 70 (44.59%) Azure
3 38 (24.20%) GitHub
4 28 (17.83%) GCP
5 24 (15.29%) GitHub Actions
6 21 (13.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (12.10%) OpenShift
8 17 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (8.28%) Amazon S3
10 13 (8.28%) Serverless
11 12 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (7.64%) Azure AKS
12 10 (6.37%) Apigee
13 8 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (5.10%) Entra ID
14 7 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (4.46%) Datadog
15 6 (3.82%) Kong
16 5 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 35 (22.29%) Broadband
2 12 (7.64%) DNS
3 11 (7.01%) Firewall
4 6 (3.82%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.83%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.10%) MongoDB
2 8 (5.10%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.10%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.82%) DynamoDB
4 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.64%) Big Data
6 1 (0.64%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.64%) MySQL
6 1 (0.64%) Parquet
6 1 (0.64%) Presto
Development Applications
1 70 (44.59%) Jenkins
2 44 (28.03%) SonarQube
3 42 (26.75%) Git
4 16 (10.19%) JIRA
5 12 (7.64%) Cucumber
5 12 (7.64%) Selenium
6 10 (6.37%) Bitbucket
6 10 (6.37%) Cypress.io
7 8 (5.10%) JUnit
7 8 (5.10%) Subversion
8 5 (3.18%) Maven
8 5 (3.18%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.91%) Gatling
9 3 (1.91%) JMeter
9 3 (1.91%) Postman
10 1 (0.64%) Storybook
General
1 45 (28.66%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.66%) Games
2 34 (21.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (21.66%) Marketing
3 27 (17.20%) Public Sector
4 26 (16.56%) Telecoms
5 17 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (7.64%) Finance
7 9 (5.73%) Manufacturing
8 8 (5.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.64%) Automotive
12 1 (0.64%) Aviation
12 1 (0.64%) Billing
12 1 (0.64%) Retail
12 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (23.57%) Senior
2 34 (21.66%) Architect
3 33 (21.02%) Salesforce Architect
4 32 (20.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (18.47%) Lead
6 18 (11.46%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 18 (11.46%) Technical Architect
7 17 (10.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (9.55%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (8.92%) Developer
11 12 (7.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (7.64%) Lead Cloud Engineer
11 12 (7.64%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (7.01%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (7.01%) Network Engineer
12 11 (7.01%) Software Engineer
12 11 (7.01%) Telecoms Engineer
13 10 (6.37%) Salesforce Solution Architect
13 10 (6.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (26.11%) REST
2 34 (21.66%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (21.66%) SOAP
2 34 (21.66%) Visualforce
3 19 (12.10%) Spring
4 17 (10.83%) YAML
5 15 (9.55%) Spring Boot
6 13 (8.28%) JSON
7 12 (7.64%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (7.64%) Node.js
8 11 (7.01%) Jinja
8 11 (7.01%) React
9 9 (5.73%) Django
10 8 (5.10%) Flask
10 8 (5.10%) pytest
11 7 (4.46%) AngularJS
11 7 (4.46%) Gherkin
11 7 (4.46%) XML
12 6 (3.82%) Playwright
12 6 (3.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (25.48%) Product Ownership
2 18 (11.46%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.28%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Clustering
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
8 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.64%) GNSS
8 1 (0.64%) IoT
8 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.64%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.64%) Video on Demand
8 1 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.20%) Linux
2 14 (8.92%) Unix
3 10 (6.37%) Windows
4 4 (2.55%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.91%) CentOS
5 3 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (84.08%) CI/CD
2 111 (70.70%) DevOps
3 96 (61.15%) Agile
4 56 (35.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (31.85%) Scrum
6 49 (31.21%) Roadmaps
7 48 (30.57%) Continuous Integration
8 45 (28.66%) Containerisation
8 45 (28.66%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (27.39%) Event-Driven
9 43 (27.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 41 (26.11%) Community of Practice
11 38 (24.20%) Mentoring
12 36 (22.93%) Design Patterns
12 36 (22.93%) OO
13 35 (22.29%) Continuous Delivery
13 35 (22.29%) Static Code Analysis
14 34 (21.66%) PLM
14 34 (21.66%) Technical Analysis
14 34 (21.66%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 53 (33.76%) Python
2 34 (21.66%) Apex Code
2 34 (21.66%) Java
2 34 (21.66%) SOQL
2 34 (21.66%) SOSL
3 16 (10.19%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.92%) SQL
5 13 (8.28%) Bash
6 11 (7.01%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.10%) Delphi
8 5 (3.18%) Rust
9 4 (2.55%) Groovy
9 4 (2.55%) Perl
9 4 (2.55%) Scala
10 3 (1.91%) Go
10 3 (1.91%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.27%) C#
11 2 (1.27%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.01%) Degree
4 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.91%) LPIC
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.01%) QA
2 6 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) ECSS
System Software
1 57 (36.31%) Docker
2 8 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (42.04%) Terraform
2 59 (37.58%) Kubernetes
3 37 (23.57%) Grafana
4 33 (21.02%) Ansible
5 29 (18.47%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.10%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.18%) Argo
8 4 (2.55%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.55%) Puppet
9 3 (1.91%) Nagios
10 2 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.27%) Kibana
11 1 (0.64%) Icinga
Vendors
1 42 (26.75%) Splunk
2 34 (21.66%) Salesforce
3 12 (7.64%) Microsoft
4 11 (7.01%) Cisco
4 11 (7.01%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.10%) Atlassian
5 8 (5.10%) Oracle
6 6 (3.82%) F5
6 6 (3.82%) Juniper
6 6 (3.82%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.91%) VMware
8 2 (1.27%) Commvault
8 2 (1.27%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.64%) Adobe
9 1 (0.64%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.64%) Mercator
9 1 (0.64%) Tenable
9 1 (0.64%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.64%) Veracode