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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 153 258
Rank change year-on-year -109 +105 +31
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 159 351 390
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.83% 2.37% 1.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.32% 19.41% 10.52%
Number of salaries quoted 96 60 317
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £35,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,750 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +12.69% -3.41%
75th Percentile £82,813 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £90,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +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 1,404 1,808 3,708
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.32% 12.21% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 915 1,170 2,912
10th Percentile £41,250 £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% -6.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.73% -9.69%

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 30 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 10 (6.29%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.03%) Apache
2 8 (5.03%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.40%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.89%) Confluence
5 2 (1.26%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 84 (52.83%) AWS
2 61 (38.36%) Azure
3 20 (12.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (11.95%) Azure AKS
5 18 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.32%) GitHub
6 17 (10.69%) Amazon S3
7 16 (10.06%) GCP
8 14 (8.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (8.81%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (8.18%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (6.92%) OpenShift
11 11 (6.92%) Serverless
12 10 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (5.66%) Apigee
14 8 (5.03%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (3.77%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 41 (25.79%) Broadband
2 11 (6.92%) Firewall
3 7 (4.40%) DNS
4 6 (3.77%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (2.52%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.47%) MongoDB
2 17 (10.69%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.66%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.03%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (4.40%) MySQL
5 7 (4.40%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.14%) Big Data
7 4 (2.52%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.26%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.63%) Parquet
9 1 (0.63%) Presto
9 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 66 (41.51%) Jenkins
2 41 (25.79%) SonarQube
3 40 (25.16%) Git
4 10 (6.29%) JIRA
5 8 (5.03%) Cypress.io
6 5 (3.14%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.14%) Gatling
6 5 (3.14%) REST Assured
6 5 (3.14%) Selenium
7 4 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.52%) Maven
7 4 (2.52%) Postman
8 3 (1.89%) JMeter
8 3 (1.89%) JUnit
9 2 (1.26%) Subversion
10 1 (0.63%) Appium
10 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.63%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (25.79%) Public Sector
2 39 (24.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (21.38%) Games
3 34 (21.38%) Marketing
4 30 (18.87%) Social Skills
5 14 (8.81%) Telecoms
6 13 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.03%) Finance
8 5 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.89%) Legal
10 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.26%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.63%) Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Billing
12 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (26.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (22.64%) Senior
3 34 (21.38%) Architect
4 33 (20.75%) Salesforce Architect
5 25 (15.72%) Lead
6 18 (11.32%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 18 (11.32%) Senior DevOps
6 18 (11.32%) Technical Architect
7 16 (10.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (10.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 12 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Network Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Telecoms Engineer
9 11 (6.92%) Test Engineer
10 10 (6.29%) Salesforce Solution Architect
10 10 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.66%) Developer
12 8 (5.03%) Lead DevOps
12 8 (5.03%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (25.79%) REST
2 34 (21.38%) Lightning Web Components
2 34 (21.38%) SOAP
2 34 (21.38%) Visualforce
3 20 (12.58%) Node.js
4 17 (10.69%) YAML
5 13 (8.18%) JSON
6 11 (6.92%) Jinja
6 11 (6.92%) React
7 9 (5.66%) Spring
8 8 (5.03%) Playwright
9 7 (4.40%) XML
10 6 (3.77%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.77%) YANG
11 5 (3.14%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.14%) Gherkin
11 5 (3.14%) Jest
11 5 (3.14%) Kafka
11 5 (3.14%) OAuth
11 5 (3.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.93%) Product Ownership
2 32 (20.13%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.66%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.52%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.89%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.26%) Clustering
8 2 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.26%) NHS
9 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.63%) GNSS
9 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.24%) Linux
2 20 (12.58%) Unix
3 17 (10.69%) Windows
4 3 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.26%) 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
1 143 (89.94%) CI/CD
2 117 (73.58%) DevOps
3 106 (66.67%) Agile
4 61 (38.36%) Continuous Integration
5 58 (36.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (35.22%) Scrum
7 49 (30.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (27.67%) Containerisation
8 44 (27.67%) Roadmaps
9 43 (27.04%) Mentoring
10 42 (26.42%) Community of Practice
10 42 (26.42%) Continuous Delivery
11 41 (25.79%) Coaching
11 41 (25.79%) Design Patterns
12 40 (25.16%) Microservices
13 39 (24.53%) Test Automation
14 37 (23.27%) Event-Driven
15 35 (22.01%) Static Code Analysis
16 34 (21.38%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
16 34 (21.38%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (33.96%) Python
2 36 (22.64%) Java
3 34 (21.38%) Apex Code
3 34 (21.38%) SOQL
3 34 (21.38%) SOSL
4 22 (13.84%) Bash
5 14 (8.81%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.18%) SQL
7 11 (6.92%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.14%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.14%) Rust
9 4 (2.52%) Go
9 4 (2.52%) Groovy
9 4 (2.52%) Scala
10 3 (1.89%) Perl
11 1 (0.63%) Bicep
11 1 (0.63%) C#
11 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.77%) Degree
4 5 (3.14%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.26%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.26%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.26%) LPIC
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.47%) QA
2 8 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (35.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 69 (43.40%) Terraform
2 55 (34.59%) Kubernetes
3 23 (14.47%) Ansible
3 23 (14.47%) Grafana
3 23 (14.47%) Prometheus
4 19 (11.95%) Argo
5 4 (2.52%) Puppet
6 3 (1.89%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.26%) Kibana
7 2 (1.26%) Nagios
7 2 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.63%) Istio
8 1 (0.63%) linkerd
8 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 37 (23.27%) Splunk
2 34 (21.38%) Salesforce
3 11 (6.92%) Cisco
3 11 (6.92%) Red Hat
4 6 (3.77%) F5
4 6 (3.77%) Juniper
4 6 (3.77%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.14%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.89%) VMware
7 2 (1.26%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.26%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.26%) Commvault
7 2 (1.26%) Google
7 2 (1.26%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.63%) Adobe
8 1 (0.63%) EMC
8 1 (0.63%) New Relic
8 1 (0.63%) Tenable
8 1 (0.63%) Trend Micro
8 1 (0.63%) Veracode