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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 238 254
Rank change year-on-year -12 +16 -3
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 123 230 234
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.80% 1.31% 1.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.32% 9.84% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 86 119 184
10th Percentile £52,400 £50,000 £46,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £86,253 £91,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £108,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -10.00%

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 1,192 2,338 3,043
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.77% 13.28% 15.28%
Number of salaries quoted 812 1,349 2,597
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £47,500 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.66%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 16 December 2025.

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 (7.32%) Confluence
2 4 (3.25%) Apache
3 3 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 77 (62.60%) AWS
2 64 (52.03%) Azure
3 35 (28.46%) GitHub
4 31 (25.20%) GCP
5 24 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (10.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (8.94%) Serverless
9 9 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.32%) OpenShift
10 8 (6.50%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.50%) Datadog
10 8 (6.50%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (2.44%) Apigee
13 3 (2.44%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.01%) Broadband
2 13 (10.57%) DNS
3 4 (3.25%) Firewall
4 2 (1.63%) VPN
5 1 (0.81%) Network Security
5 1 (0.81%) VLAN
5 1 (0.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.13%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.13%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.07%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.44%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.63%) MySQL
8 1 (0.81%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.81%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 52 (42.28%) Jenkins
2 37 (30.08%) Git
3 22 (17.89%) SonarQube
4 13 (10.57%) Cucumber
4 13 (10.57%) JIRA
5 11 (8.94%) JUnit
5 11 (8.94%) Subversion
6 10 (8.13%) Bitbucket
6 10 (8.13%) Selenium
7 8 (6.50%) Cypress.io
8 7 (5.69%) Maven
9 4 (3.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (3.25%) Postman
9 4 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.44%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (1.63%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.81%) JMeter
12 1 (0.81%) Mockito
12 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
General
1 41 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (15.45%) Finance
3 17 (13.82%) Games
3 17 (13.82%) Telecoms
4 16 (13.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (12.20%) Marketing
6 9 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.50%) Manufacturing
7 8 (6.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (3.25%) Aviation
9 3 (2.44%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.44%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Back Office
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (27.64%) Lead
2 25 (20.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (17.07%) Senior
4 17 (13.82%) Architect
5 16 (13.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (12.20%) Software Engineer
7 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (11.38%) Salesforce Architect
8 13 (10.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (10.57%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 12 (9.76%) Lead DevOps
9 12 (9.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 12 (9.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (8.94%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (8.13%) Developer
12 8 (6.50%) Consultant
12 8 (6.50%) DevOps Consultant
12 8 (6.50%) Salesforce Technical Architect
12 8 (6.50%) Senior Consultant
12 8 (6.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.07%) REST
2 18 (14.63%) Spring
2 18 (14.63%) Spring Boot
3 15 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
3 15 (12.20%) Lightning Web Components
3 15 (12.20%) SOAP
3 15 (12.20%) Visualforce
4 10 (8.13%) AngularJS
4 10 (8.13%) React
5 9 (7.32%) Django
5 9 (7.32%) pytest
6 8 (6.50%) Flask
7 6 (4.88%) Gherkin
7 6 (4.88%) Node.js
8 4 (3.25%) Flutter
8 4 (3.25%) HTML
8 4 (3.25%) Jest
8 4 (3.25%) Kafka
8 4 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (3.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.01%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.13%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.44%) Replication
5 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) IoT
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.81%) Online Games
6 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.81%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Linux
2 9 (7.32%) Windows
3 5 (4.07%) CentOS
3 5 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.07%) Unix
4 4 (3.25%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.81%) Fedora
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (80.49%) CI/CD
2 87 (70.73%) DevOps
3 65 (52.85%) Agile
4 50 (40.65%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (32.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (25.20%) Mentoring
7 30 (24.39%) Containerisation
8 28 (22.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (21.95%) Roadmaps
9 27 (21.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 26 (21.14%) Observability
11 24 (19.51%) Scrum
11 24 (19.51%) Technical Leadership
12 23 (18.70%) Event-Driven
12 23 (18.70%) Software Engineering
13 21 (17.07%) Design Patterns
13 21 (17.07%) Incident Response
14 20 (16.26%) Continuous Integration
15 17 (13.82%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 40 (32.52%) Python
2 29 (23.58%) Java
3 22 (17.89%) Bash
4 17 (13.82%) SQL
5 15 (12.20%) Apex Code
5 15 (12.20%) SOQL
5 15 (12.20%) SOSL
6 14 (11.38%) PowerShell
7 13 (10.57%) JavaScript
7 13 (10.57%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.50%) Delphi
9 4 (3.25%) C#
9 4 (3.25%) Go
10 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.63%) Bicep
11 2 (1.63%) C++
11 2 (1.63%) Groovy
12 1 (0.81%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (12.20%) Degree
2 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CCNA
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.81%) LPIC
8 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.63%) ECSS
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
System Software
1 50 (40.65%) Docker
2 9 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (41.46%) Terraform
2 48 (39.02%) Kubernetes
3 39 (31.71%) Grafana
4 35 (28.46%) Ansible
5 30 (24.39%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.50%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.44%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.63%) Argo
9 1 (0.81%) Icinga
9 1 (0.81%) Istio
9 1 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) Nagios
9 1 (0.81%) Packer
9 1 (0.81%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (17.89%) Splunk
2 15 (12.20%) Salesforce
3 14 (11.38%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.32%) Atlassian
4 9 (7.32%) Oracle
5 3 (2.44%) Databricks
5 3 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.63%) VMware
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe
7 1 (0.81%) Cisco
7 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.81%) Mercator
7 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.81%) UiPath