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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 237 285
Rank change year-on-year -39 +48 -48
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 106 249 238
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.69% 1.27% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.00% 10.81% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 69 131 175
10th Percentile £52,400 £50,000 £44,900
25th Percentile £62,500 £54,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -10.34%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -9.50%

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 1,178 2,303 3,257
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.70% 11.72% 15.30%
Number of salaries quoted 819 1,265 2,729
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +0.48%

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 20 November 2025.

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 6 (5.66%) Confluence
2 5 (4.72%) Apache
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.94%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 72 (67.92%) AWS
2 46 (43.40%) Azure
3 32 (30.19%) GitHub
4 25 (23.58%) GCP
5 22 (20.75%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (16.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (10.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (9.43%) OpenShift
9 7 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (6.60%) Serverless
10 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.72%) Datadog
12 4 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.77%) Entra ID
13 3 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.83%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.83%) Slack
14 2 (1.89%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.09%) Broadband
2 4 (3.77%) Firewall
3 2 (1.89%) VPN
4 1 (0.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.94%) Network Security
4 1 (0.94%) VLAN
4 1 (0.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.38%) MongoDB
2 11 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.43%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.83%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.89%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.94%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (50.94%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.58%) Git
3 21 (19.81%) SonarQube
4 12 (11.32%) JUnit
5 9 (8.49%) Cucumber
5 9 (8.49%) Selenium
6 7 (6.60%) JIRA
6 7 (6.60%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (6.60%) Subversion
7 6 (5.66%) Bitbucket
8 4 (3.77%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (3.77%) Maven
9 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.89%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.94%) Deequ
10 1 (0.94%) Postman
10 1 (0.94%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.94%) Testinfra
General
1 38 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Games
3 16 (15.09%) Finance
3 16 (15.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (14.15%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.15%) Marketing
5 13 (12.26%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.72%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.77%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.77%) Aviation
7 4 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.83%) Automotive
8 3 (2.83%) Retail
9 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.94%) Back Office
10 1 (0.94%) Electronics
10 1 (0.94%) iGaming
10 1 (0.94%) Law
10 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (24.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (18.87%) Senior
3 18 (16.98%) Architect
4 17 (16.04%) Lead
5 14 (13.21%) Salesforce Architect
6 12 (11.32%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) Developer
7 9 (8.49%) Lead DevOps
7 9 (8.49%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 8 (7.55%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.66%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Senior Software Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.72%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Consultant
11 4 (3.77%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.75%) REST
2 15 (14.15%) Lightning Web Components
2 15 (14.15%) SOAP
2 15 (14.15%) Spring
2 15 (14.15%) Spring Boot
2 15 (14.15%) Visualforce
3 14 (13.21%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (9.43%) React
5 9 (8.49%) pytest
6 8 (7.55%) Django
6 8 (7.55%) Flask
7 6 (5.66%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.72%) Node.js
9 4 (3.77%) Flutter
9 4 (3.77%) Kafka
9 4 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.83%) .NET
10 3 (2.83%) CSS
10 3 (2.83%) HTML
10 3 (2.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.64%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.15%) Product Ownership
3 10 (9.43%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.83%) Replication
5 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.89%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.94%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.94%) Infotainment
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.94%) Online Games
6 1 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.94%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.36%) Linux
2 11 (10.38%) Windows
3 6 (5.66%) CentOS
3 6 (5.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.72%) Unix
5 4 (3.77%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.94%) Android
7 1 (0.94%) Debian
7 1 (0.94%) Fedora
7 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (90.57%) CI/CD
2 79 (74.53%) DevOps
3 50 (47.17%) Agile
4 41 (38.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (31.13%) Containerisation
5 33 (31.13%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (25.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 26 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (23.58%) Event-Driven
9 23 (21.70%) Scrum
9 23 (21.70%) Software Engineering
10 21 (19.81%) Design Patterns
10 21 (19.81%) Observability
11 20 (18.87%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (17.92%) Mentoring
12 19 (17.92%) Microservices
13 18 (16.98%) Incident Response
14 17 (16.04%) Community of Practice
14 17 (16.04%) Continuous Delivery
14 17 (16.04%) OO
Programming Languages
1 46 (43.40%) Python
2 28 (26.42%) Java
3 22 (20.75%) Bash
4 17 (16.04%) SQL
5 15 (14.15%) Apex Code
5 15 (14.15%) SOQL
5 15 (14.15%) SOSL
6 14 (13.21%) PowerShell
7 12 (11.32%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.49%) TypeScript
9 8 (7.55%) Delphi
10 5 (4.72%) C#
10 5 (4.72%) Go
11 4 (3.77%) C++
11 4 (3.77%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.89%) Bicep
13 1 (0.94%) C
13 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.94%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (13.21%) Degree
1 14 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.66%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.72%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.83%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.94%) CCNA
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.49%) QA
2 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.89%) ECSS
4 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 46 (43.40%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.94%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (47.17%) Kubernetes
2 39 (36.79%) Terraform
3 36 (33.96%) Ansible
4 35 (33.02%) Grafana
5 30 (28.30%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.83%) Kibana
8 2 (1.89%) Argo
8 2 (1.89%) Nagios
9 1 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.94%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.94%) Icinga
9 1 (0.94%) Istio
9 1 (0.94%) Packer
9 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.94%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.94%) Puppet
9 1 (0.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (21.70%) Splunk
2 15 (14.15%) Salesforce
3 11 (10.38%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.43%) Oracle
5 7 (6.60%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.77%) VMware
7 3 (2.83%) Databricks
7 3 (2.83%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.94%) Cisco
8 1 (0.94%) Commvault
8 1 (0.94%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.94%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.94%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.94%) Perforce
8 1 (0.94%) QNX
8 1 (0.94%) UiPath