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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 242 309
Rank change year-on-year +86 +67 -88
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 337 298 226
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.07% 1.27% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.80% 12.11% 6.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60 138 157
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £64,375 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 1,478 2,461 3,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.07% 10.50% 15.16%
Number of salaries quoted 902 1,475 3,141
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,965 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -10.82% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

GitLab
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitLab trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GitLab
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing GitLab.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing GitLab

GitLab
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GitLab over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

GitLab salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 160 (47.48%) Confluence
2 3 (0.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.30%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 313 (92.88%) AWS
2 278 (82.49%) Azure
3 173 (51.34%) GCP
4 12 (3.56%) Serverless
5 9 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (2.37%) Amazon S3
6 8 (2.37%) GitHub
7 7 (2.08%) Datadog
7 7 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.89%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.59%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 2 (0.59%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.59%) IaaS
11 2 (0.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.89%) Firewall
2 2 (0.59%) Broadband
3 1 (0.30%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.30%) 4G
3 1 (0.30%) 5G
3 1 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.30%) DNS
3 1 (0.30%) GSM
3 1 (0.30%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) SCTP
3 1 (0.30%) SpaceWire
3 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (75.37%) SQL Server
2 13 (3.86%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.89%) MySQL
5 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.59%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.30%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 261 (77.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 259 (76.85%) SonarQube
3 256 (75.96%) Maven
4 253 (75.07%) Cucumber
5 250 (74.18%) Bitbucket
5 250 (74.18%) JIRA
6 248 (73.59%) Selenium
7 37 (10.98%) Jenkins
8 24 (7.12%) Git
9 13 (3.86%) JUnit
10 9 (2.67%) Mockito
11 5 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.48%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.19%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.89%) Subversion
14 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
15 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.30%) Zephyr
General
1 265 (78.64%) Finance
2 252 (74.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 248 (73.59%) Banking
4 93 (27.60%) Retail
5 90 (26.71%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (26.71%) Investment Banking
6 24 (7.12%) Social Skills
7 9 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.48%) Games
9 4 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.89%) Aviation
10 3 (0.89%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.59%) Automotive
11 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Marketing
11 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.30%) iGaming
12 1 (0.30%) Law
12 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 258 (76.56%) Software Engineer
2 30 (8.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (5.04%) Lead
4 15 (4.45%) Developer
4 15 (4.45%) Senior
5 13 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
6 10 (2.97%) Java Developer
6 10 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (2.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (2.37%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 8 (2.37%) Python Engineer
9 7 (2.08%) DevOps Developer
9 7 (2.08%) Lead DevOps
9 7 (2.08%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.78%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (1.78%) Senior Developer
11 5 (1.48%) Architect
11 5 (1.48%) AWS Developer
11 5 (1.48%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 262 (77.74%) Spring
1 262 (77.74%) Spring Boot
2 261 (77.45%) React
3 253 (75.07%) Kafka
4 251 (74.48%) CSS
4 251 (74.48%) HTML
5 247 (73.29%) JPA
5 247 (73.29%) Redux
6 162 (48.07%) Hibernate
7 112 (33.23%) REST
8 96 (28.49%) RESTful
9 92 (27.30%) CSS3
9 92 (27.30%) HTML5
10 91 (27.00%) Sass
11 90 (26.71%) Jest
12 8 (2.37%) AngularJS
13 7 (2.08%) Node.js
14 6 (1.78%) .NET Core
14 6 (1.78%) OAuth2
14 6 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 252 (74.78%) Enterprise Software
2 249 (73.89%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.64%) Cloud Native
4 5 (1.48%) Credit Derivative
4 5 (1.48%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 3 (0.89%) Public Cloud
6 3 (0.89%) Replication
7 2 (0.59%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.30%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.30%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.30%) Infotainment
8 1 (0.30%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.30%) Online Games
8 1 (0.30%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.30%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.61%) Linux
2 6 (1.78%) Windows
3 3 (0.89%) CentOS
3 3 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (0.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.59%) Debian
5 1 (0.30%) Android
5 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (97.03%) CI/CD
2 311 (92.28%) DevOps
3 282 (83.68%) Agile
4 272 (80.71%) Containerisation
5 271 (80.42%) Software Engineering
6 265 (78.64%) Microservices
7 258 (76.56%) SDLC
8 256 (75.96%) Test Automation
9 254 (75.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 254 (75.37%) Performance Optimisation
10 250 (74.18%) Front End Development
11 169 (50.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 162 (48.07%) Clean Code
12 162 (48.07%) TDD
13 102 (30.27%) Mentoring
14 92 (27.30%) User Experience
15 90 (26.71%) Migration
15 90 (26.71%) Responsive Web Design
15 90 (26.71%) Strategic Thinking
16 38 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 274 (81.31%) Java
2 259 (76.85%) JavaScript
2 259 (76.85%) SQL
3 102 (30.27%) TypeScript
4 39 (11.57%) Python
5 17 (5.04%) Bash
6 10 (2.97%) C++
7 9 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.78%) Go
9 5 (1.48%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.89%) C
10 3 (0.89%) C#
11 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.59%) Bicep
11 2 (0.59%) SOQL
11 2 (0.59%) SOSL
12 1 (0.30%) Groovy
12 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 15 (4.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (3.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.37%) DV Cleared
4 7 (2.08%) Degree
5 6 (1.78%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.30%) CCNA
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (76.56%) QA
2 90 (26.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.30%) ECSS
System Software
1 288 (85.46%) Docker
2 3 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 291 (86.35%) Kubernetes
2 41 (12.17%) Ansible
3 40 (11.87%) Terraform
4 22 (6.53%) Prometheus
5 19 (5.64%) Grafana
6 5 (1.48%) Kibana
7 2 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.59%) Argo
7 2 (0.59%) Nagios
8 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.30%) Istio
8 1 (0.30%) Packer
8 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (73.29%) Solace
2 11 (3.26%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.78%) IBM
4 5 (1.48%) Splunk
5 3 (0.89%) Atlassian
5 3 (0.89%) Oracle
5 3 (0.89%) VMware
6 2 (0.59%) Commvault
6 2 (0.59%) Databricks
6 2 (0.59%) QNX
6 2 (0.59%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.30%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.30%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.30%) Perforce
7 1 (0.30%) UiPath