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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 158 238
Rank change year-on-year -186 +80 +74
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 121 335 299
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.50% 2.07% 1.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.77% 23.02% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 86 59 139
10th Percentile £47,625 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,438 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £69,310 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +10.71% -

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 1,557 1,455 2,425
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.38% 8.98% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,021 882 1,445
10th Percentile £39,200 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £88,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 September 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 (8.26%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.44%) Apache
3 8 (6.61%) Jupyter
4 7 (5.79%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 80 (66.12%) AWS
2 52 (42.98%) Azure
3 24 (19.83%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (19.01%) GitHub
5 22 (18.18%) Azure AKS
6 18 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
7 17 (14.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (14.05%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (11.57%) Azure Service Bus
9 12 (9.92%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (9.92%) Amazon S3
10 11 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (9.09%) SaaS
11 10 (8.26%) GCP
12 8 (6.61%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (6.61%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (4.96%) Serverless
15 5 (4.13%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.05%) Broadband
2 4 (3.31%) Network Security
3 3 (2.48%) VPN
4 2 (1.65%) BGP
4 2 (1.65%) WAN
5 1 (0.83%) DHCP
5 1 (0.83%) DNS
5 1 (0.83%) Firewall
5 1 (0.83%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.83%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (23.14%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (19.83%) MongoDB
3 15 (12.40%) MySQL
4 9 (7.44%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (7.44%) DynamoDB
5 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.96%) Big Data
8 4 (3.31%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.31%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.48%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.65%) Redis
10 2 (1.65%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.83%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.83%) Metadata
11 1 (0.83%) Spatial Data
11 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (36.36%) Git
2 38 (31.40%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.09%) JIRA
3 11 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 9 (7.44%) JUnit
4 9 (7.44%) Postman
5 8 (6.61%) Selenium
6 6 (4.96%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.96%) Gatling
6 6 (4.96%) Storybook
7 5 (4.13%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.48%) Subversion
9 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.65%) ESLint
9 2 (1.65%) Maven
9 2 (1.65%) NUnit
9 2 (1.65%) Snyk
9 2 (1.65%) Vite
10 1 (0.83%) Appium
10 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
General
1 41 (33.88%) Public Sector
1 41 (33.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (8.26%) Marketing
4 9 (7.44%) Finance
5 6 (4.96%) Games
6 5 (4.13%) Law
7 4 (3.31%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.48%) Legal
9 2 (1.65%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.65%) Military
10 1 (0.83%) Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (32.23%) DevOps Engineer
1 39 (32.23%) Senior
2 17 (14.05%) Senior DevOps
2 17 (14.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 16 (13.22%) Lead
4 10 (8.26%) Developer
4 10 (8.26%) Test Engineer
5 8 (6.61%) Architect
5 8 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (6.61%) Salesforce Architect
5 8 (6.61%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (5.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Lead DevOps
7 6 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (4.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (47.11%) Terraform
2 27 (22.31%) Node.js
3 20 (16.53%) React
4 14 (11.57%) REST
5 9 (7.44%) PySpark
5 9 (7.44%) RESTful
6 8 (6.61%) .NET
6 8 (6.61%) Lightning Web Components
6 8 (6.61%) SOAP
7 7 (5.79%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.79%) Playwright
8 6 (4.96%) CSS
8 6 (4.96%) Next.js
8 6 (4.96%) Tailwind CSS
8 6 (4.96%) Visualforce
9 4 (3.31%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.31%) Jest
9 4 (3.31%) Pulumi
9 4 (3.31%) Vitest
10 3 (2.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.45%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.22%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.48%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.48%) Robotics
6 2 (1.65%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.83%) PropTech
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.31%) Linux
2 19 (15.70%) Windows
3 14 (11.57%) Unix
4 3 (2.48%) Debian
4 3 (2.48%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.48%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.83%) Android
6 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (97.52%) CI/CD
2 84 (69.42%) DevOps
3 81 (66.94%) Agile
4 54 (44.63%) Test Automation
5 47 (38.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (38.84%) Mentoring
6 40 (33.06%) Coaching
6 40 (33.06%) Continuous Integration
7 36 (29.75%) Containerisation
8 30 (24.79%) Microservices
8 30 (24.79%) Software Engineering
9 27 (22.31%) AI
9 27 (22.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (20.66%) Observability
11 24 (19.83%) Scrum
12 23 (19.01%) SDLC
13 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (14.05%) Design Patterns
15 16 (13.22%) End-to-End Testing
15 16 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (42.98%) Python
2 30 (24.79%) Java
3 28 (23.14%) Bash
4 22 (18.18%) SQL
5 18 (14.88%) TypeScript
6 14 (11.57%) JavaScript
7 12 (9.92%) Go
8 10 (8.26%) PowerShell
9 8 (6.61%) Apex Code
9 8 (6.61%) C#
10 6 (4.96%) SOQL
10 6 (4.96%) SOSL
11 4 (3.31%) Groovy
12 3 (2.48%) Bicep
13 2 (1.65%) PHP
14 1 (0.83%) Perl
14 1 (0.83%) R
14 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (31.40%) Security Cleared
2 34 (28.10%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.40%) Degree
4 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.65%) OCP
7 2 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.83%) CCNA
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.83%) MCSE
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.83%) QA
2 11 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.96%) WCAG
4 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.31%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.65%) NIST
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (51.24%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (37.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (15.70%) Argo
3 18 (14.88%) Prometheus
4 16 (13.22%) Grafana
5 10 (8.26%) Ansible
6 6 (4.96%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.48%) Istio
7 3 (2.48%) Kibana
7 3 (2.48%) linkerd
7 3 (2.48%) Puppet
8 2 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.65%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.65%) Nagios
9 1 (0.83%) Cilium
9 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.83%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.44%) Google
3 8 (6.61%) Salesforce
3 8 (6.61%) Splunk
4 4 (3.31%) Databricks
4 4 (3.31%) VMware
5 3 (2.48%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.65%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.65%) Commvault
6 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.65%) UiPath
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco
7 1 (0.83%) EMC
7 1 (0.83%) FIS
7 1 (0.83%) New Relic
7 1 (0.83%) Trend Micro