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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 159 258
Rank change year-on-year -85 +99 +31
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 158 354 389
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 2.36% 1.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.42% 19.01% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 96 63 315
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,784 £35,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +11.50% -6.99%
75th Percentile £84,063 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £96,000 £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 1,384 1,862 3,741
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.37% 12.42% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 887 1,212 2,961
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% -7.47%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £91,934
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 21 May 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 6 (3.80%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.53%) Apache
2 4 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.53%) Confluence
3 3 (1.90%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.90%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 77 (48.73%) AWS
2 65 (41.14%) Azure
3 19 (12.03%) Azure AKS
3 19 (12.03%) GitHub
4 18 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (10.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (10.13%) Amazon S3
6 16 (10.13%) GCP
7 14 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (8.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (8.23%) Serverless
9 12 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (6.96%) Apigee
10 11 (6.96%) OpenShift
11 9 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (3.80%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (3.80%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 41 (25.95%) Broadband
2 12 (7.59%) DNS
3 11 (6.96%) Firewall
4 6 (3.80%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.56%) MongoDB
2 17 (10.76%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.70%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.06%) MySQL
5 7 (4.43%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.90%) Big Data
8 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.63%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.63%) Parquet
9 1 (0.63%) Presto
Development Applications
1 61 (38.61%) Jenkins
2 43 (27.22%) SonarQube
3 42 (26.58%) Git
4 11 (6.96%) Cypress.io
4 11 (6.96%) JIRA
5 6 (3.80%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.80%) Maven
6 5 (3.16%) REST Assured
7 4 (2.53%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.53%) Selenium
8 3 (1.90%) Gatling
8 3 (1.90%) JMeter
8 3 (1.90%) Postman
8 3 (1.90%) Subversion
9 1 (0.63%) Appium
9 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.63%) Storybook
9 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (24.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 39 (24.68%) Public Sector
2 34 (21.52%) Games
2 34 (21.52%) Marketing
3 28 (17.72%) Social Skills
4 15 (9.49%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.43%) Finance
7 5 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.90%) Legal
9 3 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.27%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.63%) Billing
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (25.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (23.42%) Senior
3 34 (21.52%) Architect
4 33 (20.89%) Salesforce Architect
5 31 (19.62%) Lead
6 19 (12.03%) Senior DevOps
7 18 (11.39%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 18 (11.39%) Technical Architect
8 17 (10.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (10.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (10.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (7.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (7.59%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 12 (7.59%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (6.96%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (6.96%) Network Engineer
11 11 (6.96%) Telecoms Engineer
12 10 (6.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 10 (6.33%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (5.70%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (25.95%) REST
2 34 (21.52%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (21.52%) SOAP
2 34 (21.52%) Visualforce
3 21 (13.29%) Node.js
4 17 (10.76%) YAML
5 13 (8.23%) JSON
6 11 (6.96%) Jinja
7 10 (6.33%) React
7 10 (6.33%) Spring
8 8 (5.06%) Gherkin
9 7 (4.43%) AngularJS
9 7 (4.43%) Spring Boot
9 7 (4.43%) XML
10 6 (3.80%) Jest
10 6 (3.80%) Playwright
10 6 (3.80%) YANG
11 5 (3.16%) OAuth
11 5 (3.16%) RESTful
12 4 (2.53%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 47 (29.75%) Product Ownership
2 22 (13.92%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Clustering
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.27%) NHS
8 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.63%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.63%) GNSS
8 1 (0.63%) IoT
8 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.62%) Linux
2 20 (12.66%) Unix
3 17 (10.76%) Windows
4 3 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.63%) Android
6 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.63%) CentOS
6 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (85.44%) CI/CD
2 113 (71.52%) DevOps
3 104 (65.82%) Agile
4 59 (37.34%) Continuous Integration
5 57 (36.08%) Scrum
6 55 (34.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (31.01%) Roadmaps
8 44 (27.85%) Mentoring
9 42 (26.58%) Coaching
9 42 (26.58%) Community of Practice
9 42 (26.58%) Continuous Delivery
10 41 (25.95%) Design Patterns
11 39 (24.68%) Infrastructure as Code
11 39 (24.68%) Microservices
12 37 (23.42%) Event-Driven
13 35 (22.15%) Containerisation
13 35 (22.15%) Static Code Analysis
14 34 (21.52%) OO
14 34 (21.52%) Technical Analysis
14 34 (21.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (29.75%) Python
2 35 (22.15%) Java
3 34 (21.52%) Apex Code
3 34 (21.52%) SOQL
3 34 (21.52%) SOSL
4 16 (10.13%) Bash
5 15 (9.49%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.23%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.70%) SQL
8 5 (3.16%) Groovy
8 5 (3.16%) Rust
9 4 (2.53%) Perl
9 4 (2.53%) Scala
10 2 (1.27%) Go
11 1 (0.63%) Bicep
11 1 (0.63%) C#
11 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (15.19%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.43%) Degree
4 5 (3.16%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.53%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.90%) LPIC
7 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.92%) QA
2 6 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (31.01%) Docker
2 3 (1.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (42.41%) Terraform
2 50 (31.65%) Kubernetes
3 26 (16.46%) Ansible
4 20 (12.66%) Grafana
5 19 (12.03%) Prometheus
6 15 (9.49%) Argo
7 5 (3.16%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.53%) Puppet
9 3 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.27%) Kibana
10 2 (1.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 37 (23.42%) Splunk
2 34 (21.52%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.96%) Cisco
3 11 (6.96%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.43%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.80%) F5
5 6 (3.80%) Juniper
5 6 (3.80%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.90%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.90%) VMware
7 2 (1.27%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.27%) Commvault
7 2 (1.27%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.63%) Adobe
8 1 (0.63%) EMC
8 1 (0.63%) Mercator
8 1 (0.63%) New Relic
8 1 (0.63%) Tenable
8 1 (0.63%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.63%) Veracode