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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 157 285
Rank change year-on-year -145 +128 +30
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 149 353 317
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.70% 2.14% 1.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.67% 20.67% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 86 68 233
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,169 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.68% +0.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -3.70%

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 1,397 1,708 3,235
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.52% 10.36% 10.51%
Number of salaries quoted 940 1,118 2,393
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +12.14% -7.26%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.38% +13.04% -11.54%

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 17 July 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 3 (2.01%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 82 (55.03%) AWS
2 49 (32.89%) Azure
3 20 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (12.75%) Azure AKS
5 16 (10.74%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (10.74%) Amazon S3
5 16 (10.74%) GitHub
6 15 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (9.40%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (7.38%) OpenShift
9 10 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.71%) Serverless
10 9 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (6.04%) GCP
11 8 (5.37%) Apigee
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 45 (30.20%) Broadband
2 11 (7.38%) Firewall
3 6 (4.03%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.68%) MQTT
5 2 (1.34%) Network Security
6 1 (0.67%) BGP
6 1 (0.67%) VPN
6 1 (0.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.11%) MongoDB
2 22 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.72%) MySQL
4 8 (5.37%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (5.37%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.36%) Big Data
7 4 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.68%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.01%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.67%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.67%) Parquet
10 1 (0.67%) Presto
10 1 (0.67%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.67%) Trino
Development Applications
1 67 (44.97%) Jenkins
2 39 (26.17%) SonarQube
3 36 (24.16%) Git
4 10 (6.71%) JIRA
5 6 (4.03%) Gatling
5 6 (4.03%) Selenium
6 5 (3.36%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.68%) JUnit
8 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.01%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.01%) JMeter
8 3 (2.01%) Maven
8 3 (2.01%) Postman
8 3 (2.01%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.67%) Appium
9 1 (0.67%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.67%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.67%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (27.52%) Public Sector
2 39 (26.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 36 (24.16%) Social Skills
4 35 (23.49%) Marketing
5 34 (22.82%) Games
6 15 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (10.07%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.03%) Finance
8 5 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.01%) Legal
9 3 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.67%) Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Billing
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (26.17%) DevOps Engineer
1 39 (26.17%) Senior
2 35 (23.49%) Architect
3 34 (22.82%) Salesforce Architect
4 18 (12.08%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 18 (12.08%) Technical Architect
5 17 (11.41%) Senior DevOps
5 17 (11.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Network Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 11 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (7.38%) Telecoms Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (6.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Lead
8 9 (6.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.19%) REST
2 35 (23.49%) Lightning Web Components
2 35 (23.49%) SOAP
3 34 (22.82%) Visualforce
4 23 (15.44%) Node.js
5 17 (11.41%) YAML
6 13 (8.72%) JSON
7 12 (8.05%) React
8 11 (7.38%) Jinja
9 8 (5.37%) PySpark
10 7 (4.70%) Playwright
10 7 (4.70%) XML
11 6 (4.03%) RESTful
11 6 (4.03%) YANG
12 5 (3.36%) Kafka
12 5 (3.36%) Spring
13 4 (2.68%) .NET
13 4 (2.68%) AngularJS
13 4 (2.68%) ASP.NET
13 4 (2.68%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 47 (31.54%) Product Ownership
2 30 (20.13%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.68%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.01%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.34%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.34%) NHS
9 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.67%) Clustering
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.67%) PropTech
9 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
1 144 (96.64%) CI/CD
2 111 (74.50%) DevOps
3 102 (68.46%) Agile
4 63 (42.28%) Continuous Integration
5 59 (39.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (37.58%) Scrum
7 47 (31.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (29.53%) Continuous Delivery
9 43 (28.86%) Containerisation
10 41 (27.52%) Design Patterns
10 41 (27.52%) Microservices
10 41 (27.52%) Roadmaps
11 40 (26.85%) Community of Practice
11 40 (26.85%) Test Automation
12 39 (26.17%) Mentoring
13 37 (24.83%) Event-Driven
14 36 (24.16%) Coaching
15 35 (23.49%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
15 35 (23.49%) Static Code Analysis
16 34 (22.82%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.94%) Python
2 35 (23.49%) Apex Code
3 34 (22.82%) SOQL
3 34 (22.82%) SOSL
4 31 (20.81%) Java
5 22 (14.77%) Bash
6 18 (12.08%) SQL
7 14 (9.40%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.37%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.70%) Go
10 6 (4.03%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.36%) C#
11 5 (3.36%) Rust
12 4 (2.68%) Scala
13 3 (2.01%) Groovy
14 2 (1.34%) Perl
15 1 (0.67%) Bicep
15 1 (0.67%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (22.82%) Security Cleared
2 33 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.71%) Degree
4 7 (4.70%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.34%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.67%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.42%) QA
2 7 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (36.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (38.26%) Terraform
2 54 (36.24%) Kubernetes
3 20 (13.42%) Prometheus
4 19 (12.75%) Argo
5 18 (12.08%) Ansible
6 17 (11.41%) Grafana
7 4 (2.68%) Puppet
8 3 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (2.01%) Kibana
8 3 (2.01%) Nagios
8 3 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.34%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.34%) Istio
9 2 (1.34%) linkerd
Vendors
1 37 (24.83%) Splunk
2 35 (23.49%) Salesforce
3 11 (7.38%) Cisco
3 11 (7.38%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.03%) F5
4 6 (4.03%) Juniper
4 6 (4.03%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.03%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.68%) Databricks
5 4 (2.68%) VMware
6 3 (2.01%) Commvault
6 3 (2.01%) Google
7 2 (1.34%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.34%) UiPath
8 1 (0.67%) EMC
8 1 (0.67%) New Relic
8 1 (0.67%) Tenable
8 1 (0.67%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.67%) Veracode