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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 158 250
Rank change year-on-year -180 +92 +51
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 117 334 295
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 2.06% 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.73% 22.81% 12.08%
Number of salaries quoted 83 56 138
10th Percentile £45,450 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +16.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £85,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £97,500 £109,000
UK median annual salary £69,310 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.57% +14.81% -3.57%

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 1,513 1,464 2,443
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.31% 9.04% 10.54%
Number of salaries quoted 992 896 1,479
10th Percentile £38,984 £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 £100,000 £88,750 £87,750
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 15 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 9 (7.69%) Apache
1 9 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.84%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.84%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 78 (66.67%) AWS
2 49 (41.88%) Azure
3 23 (19.66%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (18.80%) Azure AKS
5 21 (17.95%) GitHub
6 17 (14.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (14.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (14.53%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.97%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 12 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (9.40%) SaaS
11 10 (8.55%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (6.84%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (6.84%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (6.84%) GCP
13 7 (5.98%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (5.13%) Serverless
15 5 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.38%) Broadband
2 4 (3.42%) Network Security
3 2 (1.71%) BGP
3 2 (1.71%) VPN
3 2 (1.71%) WAN
4 1 (0.85%) DHCP
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) Firewall
4 1 (0.85%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (20.51%) MongoDB
3 14 (11.97%) MySQL
4 9 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.98%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.13%) Big Data
6 6 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.42%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.56%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.71%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.85%) Parquet
10 1 (0.85%) Presto
10 1 (0.85%) Redis
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.85%) Trino
Development Applications
1 40 (34.19%) Git
2 37 (31.62%) Jenkins
3 12 (10.26%) SonarQube
4 11 (9.40%) JIRA
5 9 (7.69%) JUnit
5 9 (7.69%) Postman
6 8 (6.84%) Selenium
7 6 (5.13%) Cucumber
7 6 (5.13%) Gatling
8 5 (4.27%) Cypress.io
8 5 (4.27%) Storybook
9 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.71%) Maven
9 2 (1.71%) NUnit
9 2 (1.71%) Snyk
9 2 (1.71%) Subversion
10 1 (0.85%) Appium
10 1 (0.85%) ESLint
10 1 (0.85%) Karma Test Runner
10 1 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 40 (34.19%) Public Sector
2 39 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.55%) Marketing
5 8 (6.84%) Finance
6 7 (5.98%) Games
7 5 (4.27%) Law
8 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.56%) Legal
10 2 (1.71%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.71%) Military
11 1 (0.85%) Banking
11 1 (0.85%) Billing
11 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (32.48%) DevOps Engineer
1 38 (32.48%) Senior
2 17 (14.53%) Senior DevOps
2 17 (14.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 15 (12.82%) Lead
4 10 (8.55%) Developer
4 10 (8.55%) Test Engineer
5 9 (7.69%) Architect
5 9 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
6 8 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (5.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (5.98%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (47.86%) Terraform
2 27 (23.08%) Node.js
3 18 (15.38%) React
4 14 (11.97%) REST
5 9 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (7.69%) PySpark
5 9 (7.69%) SOAP
6 8 (6.84%) RESTful
7 7 (5.98%) .NET
7 7 (5.98%) AngularJS
7 7 (5.98%) Playwright
7 7 (5.98%) Visualforce
8 6 (5.13%) Next.js
9 5 (4.27%) CSS
9 5 (4.27%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (3.42%) ASP.NET
10 4 (3.42%) Jest
10 4 (3.42%) Pulumi
10 4 (3.42%) Vitest
11 3 (2.56%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.50%) Cloud Native
2 17 (14.53%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.42%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.56%) Robotics
6 2 (1.71%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) PropTech
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.22%) Linux
2 18 (15.38%) Windows
3 14 (11.97%) Unix
4 3 (2.56%) Debian
4 3 (2.56%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.56%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.85%) Android
6 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (97.44%) CI/CD
2 81 (69.23%) DevOps
3 78 (66.67%) Agile
4 51 (43.59%) Test Automation
5 46 (39.32%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (38.46%) Mentoring
7 40 (34.19%) Coaching
8 39 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (29.06%) Containerisation
10 28 (23.93%) Microservices
11 27 (23.08%) Software Engineering
12 26 (22.22%) AI
12 26 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (21.37%) Scrum
14 24 (20.51%) Observability
15 23 (19.66%) SDLC
16 21 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (14.53%) Continuous Delivery
17 17 (14.53%) Design Patterns
18 16 (13.68%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (41.88%) Python
2 29 (24.79%) Java
3 28 (23.93%) Bash
4 21 (17.95%) SQL
5 16 (13.68%) TypeScript
6 12 (10.26%) Go
7 11 (9.40%) JavaScript
8 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
9 9 (7.69%) Apex Code
10 7 (5.98%) SOQL
10 7 (5.98%) SOSL
11 6 (5.13%) C#
12 3 (2.56%) Bicep
12 3 (2.56%) Groovy
13 1 (0.85%) Perl
13 1 (0.85%) PHP
13 1 (0.85%) Scala
13 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.11%) Degree
4 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.27%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.71%) OCP
7 2 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.85%) CCNA
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.85%) MCSE
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.80%) QA
2 11 (9.40%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.13%) WCAG
4 5 (4.27%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.42%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.71%) NIST
7 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (51.28%) Docker
2 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (39.32%) Kubernetes
2 19 (16.24%) Argo
3 18 (15.38%) Prometheus
4 16 (13.68%) Grafana
5 10 (8.55%) Ansible
6 6 (5.13%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.56%) Istio
7 3 (2.56%) linkerd
7 3 (2.56%) Puppet
8 2 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.71%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.71%) Kibana
8 2 (1.71%) Nagios
9 1 (0.85%) Cilium
9 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 10 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 9 (7.69%) Splunk
3 8 (6.84%) Google
4 4 (3.42%) Databricks
4 4 (3.42%) VMware
5 3 (2.56%) NVIDIA
6 2 (1.71%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.71%) Commvault
6 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.71%) UiPath
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco
7 1 (0.85%) EMC
7 1 (0.85%) FIS
7 1 (0.85%) New Relic
7 1 (0.85%) Trend Micro