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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 159 235
Rank change year-on-year -181 +76 +65
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 126 338 293
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.51% 2.01% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.91% 23.29% 12.22%
Number of salaries quoted 90 57 137
10th Percentile £50,525 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,405 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.49% +18.52% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £69,310 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -10.57% +14.81% -0.74%

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 1,593 1,451 2,398
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.40% 8.62% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,025 859 1,374
10th Percentile £39,074 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,982
Median % change year-on-year - +3.48% -10.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £88,750
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 3 October 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 11 (8.73%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (7.14%) Apache
3 8 (6.35%) Jupyter
4 7 (5.56%) Apache Spark
5 5 (3.97%) Confluence
6 2 (1.59%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 85 (67.46%) AWS
2 58 (46.03%) Azure
3 32 (25.40%) GitHub
4 25 (19.84%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
6 22 (17.46%) Azure AKS
7 18 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (10.32%) GCP
11 12 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (8.73%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (8.73%) Amazon S3
12 11 (8.73%) SaaS
13 10 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (6.35%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (6.35%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (3.97%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (3.97%) Datadog
15 5 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.73%) Broadband
2 4 (3.17%) Network Security
2 4 (3.17%) VPN
3 2 (1.59%) BGP
3 2 (1.59%) DNS
3 2 (1.59%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.59%) WAN
4 1 (0.79%) DHCP
4 1 (0.79%) Firewall
4 1 (0.79%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (19.84%) MongoDB
3 15 (11.90%) MySQL
4 9 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 8 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.76%) Big Data
7 5 (3.97%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.17%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.38%) Redis
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.59%) Spatial Data
10 2 (1.59%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.79%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.79%) Metadata
11 1 (0.79%) Trino
Development Applications
1 45 (35.71%) Git
2 33 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 14 (11.11%) JIRA
4 9 (7.14%) JUnit
4 9 (7.14%) Postman
5 8 (6.35%) Selenium
6 6 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.76%) Gatling
6 6 (4.76%) Storybook
7 5 (3.97%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.17%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.38%) Artifactory
9 3 (2.38%) Subversion
10 2 (1.59%) Appium
10 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.59%) ESLint
10 2 (1.59%) Maven
10 2 (1.59%) Snyk
10 2 (1.59%) Vite
10 2 (1.59%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 42 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 13 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.14%) Finance
5 5 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.97%) Law
6 4 (3.17%) Marketing
6 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.38%) Legal
8 2 (1.59%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.59%) Military
9 1 (0.79%) Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Billing
Job Titles
1 43 (34.13%) Senior
2 41 (32.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 19 (15.08%) Senior DevOps
3 19 (15.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 18 (14.29%) Lead
5 12 (9.52%) Developer
6 11 (8.73%) Test Engineer
7 10 (7.94%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (6.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
9 7 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (46.83%) Terraform
2 28 (22.22%) Node.js
3 20 (15.87%) React
4 13 (10.32%) REST
5 11 (8.73%) .NET
6 10 (7.94%) RESTful
7 9 (7.14%) PySpark
8 8 (6.35%) Playwright
9 6 (4.76%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.76%) CSS
9 6 (4.76%) Next.js
9 6 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (3.97%) GraphQL
11 4 (3.17%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.17%) Jest
11 4 (3.17%) Pulumi
11 4 (3.17%) Spring Boot
11 4 (3.17%) Vitest
12 3 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (2.38%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 34 (26.98%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.17%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.38%) Robotics
7 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.59%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.79%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.79%) PropTech
8 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (22.22%) Linux
2 19 (15.08%) Windows
3 15 (11.90%) Unix
4 3 (2.38%) Debian
4 3 (2.38%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.59%) Android
5 2 (1.59%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (97.62%) CI/CD
2 82 (65.08%) DevOps
3 78 (61.90%) Agile
4 62 (49.21%) Test Automation
5 54 (42.86%) Mentoring
6 49 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 46 (36.51%) Coaching
8 43 (34.13%) Containerisation
9 36 (28.57%) AI
10 34 (26.98%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (26.19%) Software Engineering
12 32 (25.40%) Observability
13 31 (24.60%) Microservices
14 25 (19.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (19.84%) SDLC
15 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (18.25%) Technical Leadership
16 18 (14.29%) Scrum
17 17 (13.49%) End-to-End Testing
17 17 (13.49%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 60 (47.62%) Python
2 31 (24.60%) Bash
3 30 (23.81%) Java
4 27 (21.43%) SQL
5 19 (15.08%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.70%) JavaScript
7 13 (10.32%) Go
8 12 (9.52%) PowerShell
9 11 (8.73%) C#
10 4 (3.17%) Groovy
11 3 (2.38%) Bicep
12 2 (1.59%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.59%) PHP
13 1 (0.79%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (30.16%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.90%) Degree
4 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.59%) OCP
7 2 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.79%) CCNA
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) MCSE
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.63%) QA
2 12 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.76%) WCAG
4 4 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.17%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.59%) NIST
6 1 (0.79%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (53.17%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (34.13%) Kubernetes
2 21 (16.67%) Grafana
3 19 (15.08%) Argo
4 18 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.35%) Ansible
6 6 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.38%) Istio
7 3 (2.38%) Kibana
7 3 (2.38%) linkerd
7 3 (2.38%) Puppet
8 2 (1.59%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.59%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.79%) Cilium
9 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.79%) Nagios
9 1 (0.79%) Opsview
9 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (7.14%) Google
1 9 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.17%) Databricks
3 3 (2.38%) NVIDIA
3 3 (2.38%) VMware
3 3 (2.38%) YouTube
4 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.59%) UiPath
5 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.79%) Cisco
5 1 (0.79%) Commvault
5 1 (0.79%) EMC
5 1 (0.79%) FIS
5 1 (0.79%) New Relic
5 1 (0.79%) Splunk
5 1 (0.79%) Trend Micro