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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 251 235
Rank change year-on-year +3 -16 +32
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 123 199 349
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.79% 1.23% 1.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.72% 8.88% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 83 87 303
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +17.07% -12.14%
75th Percentile £86,253 £93,778 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -10.34%

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 1,265 2,242 3,533
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.09% 13.81% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 811 1,256 2,996
10th Percentile £39,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -1.77%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 27 January 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 (8.13%) Confluence
2 4 (3.25%) Apache
3 3 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.63%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 69 (56.10%) AWS
2 62 (50.41%) Azure
3 38 (30.89%) GitHub
4 30 (24.39%) GCP
5 26 (21.14%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (13.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (8.13%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (7.32%) Amazon S3
9 9 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.32%) Datadog
9 9 (7.32%) OpenShift
9 9 (7.32%) Serverless
10 8 (6.50%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.25%) Amazon ECR
12 4 (3.25%) Apigee
12 4 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (3.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (17.07%) Broadband
2 12 (9.76%) DNS
3 3 (2.44%) Firewall
4 2 (1.63%) VPN
5 1 (0.81%) VLAN
5 1 (0.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.94%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.50%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.07%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.44%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.63%) MySQL
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (0.81%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.81%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 58 (47.15%) Jenkins
2 35 (28.46%) Git
3 29 (23.58%) SonarQube
4 17 (13.82%) JIRA
5 13 (10.57%) Cucumber
6 11 (8.94%) JUnit
7 10 (8.13%) Bitbucket
7 10 (8.13%) Selenium
8 9 (7.32%) Cypress.io
9 8 (6.50%) Subversion
10 6 (4.88%) Maven
11 4 (3.25%) Postman
12 3 (2.44%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.63%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.81%) Deequ
14 1 (0.81%) JMeter
14 1 (0.81%) Mockito
14 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.81%) Storybook
General
1 39 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.07%) Games
2 21 (17.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (16.26%) Marketing
4 18 (14.63%) Telecoms
5 17 (13.82%) Finance
6 16 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (8.13%) Public Sector
8 8 (6.50%) Manufacturing
8 8 (6.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.44%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Aviation
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (28.46%) Lead
2 22 (17.89%) Senior
3 21 (17.07%) Architect
3 21 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (15.45%) Salesforce Architect
5 14 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (11.38%) Software Engineer
6 13 (10.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (10.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (10.57%) Developer
7 12 (9.76%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 12 (9.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (8.94%) Lead DevOps
8 11 (8.94%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 11 (8.94%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 11 (8.94%) Technical Architect
9 10 (8.13%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (6.50%) DevOps Consultant
10 8 (6.50%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (6.50%) Senior DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.70%) REST
2 20 (16.26%) Lightning Web Components
2 20 (16.26%) SOAP
2 20 (16.26%) Visualforce
3 19 (15.45%) Spring
4 17 (13.82%) Spring Boot
5 14 (11.38%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (8.13%) React
7 9 (7.32%) Django
7 9 (7.32%) pytest
8 8 (6.50%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.50%) Flask
8 8 (6.50%) RESTful
9 7 (5.69%) Gherkin
10 6 (4.88%) HTML
10 6 (4.88%) Node.js
11 5 (4.07%) CSS
11 5 (4.07%) Jest
12 4 (3.25%) Flutter
12 4 (3.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.89%) Product Ownership
2 21 (17.07%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.94%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) Clustering
5 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.81%) GNSS
5 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.81%) IoT
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.81%) Video on Demand
5 1 (0.81%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.07%) Linux
2 9 (7.32%) Windows
3 5 (4.07%) Ubuntu
3 5 (4.07%) Unix
4 4 (3.25%) CentOS
4 4 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.81%) Fedora
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (78.86%) CI/CD
2 90 (73.17%) DevOps
3 65 (52.85%) Agile
4 46 (37.40%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (30.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (28.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (26.83%) Mentoring
8 32 (26.02%) Roadmaps
9 29 (23.58%) Containerisation
10 28 (22.76%) Scrum
11 27 (21.95%) Continuous Integration
11 27 (21.95%) Event-Driven
11 27 (21.95%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (21.14%) Design Patterns
12 26 (21.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (21.14%) Software Engineering
13 24 (19.51%) Community of Practice
14 22 (17.89%) Observability
14 22 (17.89%) OO
15 21 (17.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.27%) Python
2 31 (25.20%) Java
3 20 (16.26%) Apex Code
3 20 (16.26%) SOQL
3 20 (16.26%) SOSL
4 19 (15.45%) SQL
5 18 (14.63%) Bash
6 14 (11.38%) JavaScript
6 14 (11.38%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.32%) PowerShell
8 8 (6.50%) Delphi
9 3 (2.44%) Groovy
10 2 (1.63%) C#
10 2 (1.63%) C++
10 2 (1.63%) Go
10 2 (1.63%) Perl
11 1 (0.81%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (11.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.57%) Degree
3 11 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.63%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.63%) LPIC
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CCNA
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.81%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.76%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.63%) ECSS
System Software
1 52 (42.28%) Docker
2 9 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (42.28%) Terraform
2 48 (39.02%) Kubernetes
3 37 (30.08%) Grafana
4 28 (22.76%) Ansible
5 27 (21.95%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.50%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.25%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.63%) Puppet
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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (22.76%) Splunk
2 20 (16.26%) Salesforce
3 14 (11.38%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.32%) Atlassian
4 9 (7.32%) Oracle
5 2 (1.63%) Databricks
5 2 (1.63%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.63%) VMware
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe
6 1 (0.81%) Cisco
6 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.81%) Mercator
6 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.81%) UiPath
6 1 (0.81%) Veracode