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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 153 242
Rank change year-on-year -181 +89 +44
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 131 343 261
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 2.09% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.10% 24.17% 11.27%
Number of salaries quoted 92 57 131
10th Percentile £44,600 £55,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £66,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,405 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.49% +18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% +3.70%

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 1,617 1,419 2,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.42% 8.64% 11.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,018 828 1,265
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £90,000
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 16 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 (8.40%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (7.63%) Jupyter
3 9 (6.87%) Apache
3 9 (6.87%) Apache Spark
4 6 (4.58%) Confluence
5 3 (2.29%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 89 (67.94%) AWS
2 57 (43.51%) Azure
3 37 (28.24%) GitHub
4 27 (20.61%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (16.79%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (15.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (12.21%) Azure AKS
7 16 (12.21%) GCP
8 15 (11.45%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
9 13 (9.92%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (9.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (8.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (8.40%) SaaS
12 9 (6.87%) Amazon ECR
12 9 (6.87%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (6.11%) Serverless
14 7 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (5.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.40%) Broadband
2 5 (3.82%) VPN
3 4 (3.05%) Network Security
4 3 (2.29%) OpenVPN
5 2 (1.53%) BGP
5 2 (1.53%) DNS
5 2 (1.53%) WAN
6 1 (0.76%) DHCP
6 1 (0.76%) Firewall
6 1 (0.76%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (21.37%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (16.79%) MongoDB
3 15 (11.45%) MySQL
4 9 (6.87%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (6.11%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (6.11%) DynamoDB
5 8 (6.11%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.58%) Big Data
7 5 (3.82%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.82%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.29%) Redis
9 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.53%) Metadata
9 2 (1.53%) Power BI
9 2 (1.53%) Spatial Data
9 2 (1.53%) ThoughtSpot
9 2 (1.53%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 45 (34.35%) Git
2 36 (27.48%) Jenkins
3 16 (12.21%) JIRA
4 9 (6.87%) JUnit
4 9 (6.87%) Postman
5 8 (6.11%) Selenium
6 6 (4.58%) Cucumber
6 6 (4.58%) Gatling
6 6 (4.58%) Storybook
7 5 (3.82%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.82%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.29%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.29%) Snyk
8 3 (2.29%) Subversion
9 2 (1.53%) Appium
9 2 (1.53%) ESLint
9 2 (1.53%) Maven
9 2 (1.53%) NUnit
9 2 (1.53%) Vite
9 2 (1.53%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (35.88%) Social Skills
2 37 (28.24%) Public Sector
3 18 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.63%) Finance
5 6 (4.58%) Law
6 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.82%) Marketing
7 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.29%) Legal
9 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.53%) Military
10 1 (0.76%) Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (31.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (29.01%) Senior
3 19 (14.50%) Lead
4 16 (12.21%) Senior DevOps
4 16 (12.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Developer
6 12 (9.16%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Test Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Data Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (6.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (5.34%) Lead DevOps
10 7 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Quality Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (46.56%) Terraform
2 25 (19.08%) Node.js
3 21 (16.03%) React
4 15 (11.45%) REST
5 13 (9.92%) .NET
6 12 (9.16%) PySpark
7 10 (7.63%) RESTful
8 8 (6.11%) Playwright
9 7 (5.34%) GraphQL
10 6 (4.58%) AngularJS
10 6 (4.58%) CSS
10 6 (4.58%) Next.js
10 6 (4.58%) Tailwind CSS
11 4 (3.05%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.05%) Jest
11 4 (3.05%) Pulumi
11 4 (3.05%) Spring Boot
11 4 (3.05%) Vitest
11 4 (3.05%) Vue
12 3 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.48%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.45%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.16%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.05%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.29%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.29%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.29%) Robotics
6 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.53%) PKI
7 1 (0.76%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.14%) Linux
2 17 (12.98%) Windows
3 12 (9.16%) Unix
4 3 (2.29%) Debian
4 3 (2.29%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.53%) Android
5 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (98.47%) CI/CD
2 85 (64.89%) DevOps
3 76 (58.02%) Agile
4 64 (48.85%) Test Automation
5 54 (41.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 53 (40.46%) Mentoring
7 48 (36.64%) Containerisation
8 44 (33.59%) AI
8 44 (33.59%) Coaching
9 36 (27.48%) Observability
9 36 (27.48%) Software Engineering
10 31 (23.66%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (22.14%) Microservices
11 29 (22.14%) Technical Leadership
12 27 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (19.85%) SDLC
14 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (17.56%) Validation
16 18 (13.74%) End-to-End Testing
17 17 (12.98%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 68 (51.91%) Python
2 33 (25.19%) Bash
2 33 (25.19%) SQL
3 27 (20.61%) Java
4 19 (14.50%) TypeScript
5 17 (12.98%) JavaScript
6 14 (10.69%) Go
7 13 (9.92%) C#
7 13 (9.92%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.05%) Groovy
9 3 (2.29%) Bicep
10 2 (1.53%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.53%) PHP
11 1 (0.76%) R
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 36 (27.48%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.45%) Degree
4 8 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.34%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.29%) OCP
7 3 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.76%) CCNA
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.76%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.76%) ISACA
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.76%) MCSE
9 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.85%) QA
2 13 (9.92%) Accessibility
3 10 (7.63%) Data Quality
4 6 (4.58%) WCAG
5 5 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.82%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.53%) NIST
7 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.76%) GDPR
7 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (54.20%) Docker
2 2 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.76%) vSphere
3 1 (0.76%) zsh
Systems Management
1 41 (31.30%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.56%) Grafana
3 19 (14.50%) Prometheus
4 17 (12.98%) Argo
5 6 (4.58%) Ansible
5 6 (4.58%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.05%) Kibana
7 3 (2.29%) Istio
7 3 (2.29%) linkerd
7 3 (2.29%) Packer
7 3 (2.29%) Puppet
8 2 (1.53%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.76%) Cilium
9 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.76%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.76%) Nagios
9 1 (0.76%) Opsview
9 1 (0.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (8.40%) Google
2 10 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.82%) Databricks
4 4 (3.05%) YouTube
5 3 (2.29%) NVIDIA
5 3 (2.29%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.29%) VMware
6 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.53%) UiPath
7 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.76%) Axway
7 1 (0.76%) Cisco
7 1 (0.76%) Commvault
7 1 (0.76%) EMC
7 1 (0.76%) FIS
7 1 (0.76%) HP
7 1 (0.76%) IBM
7 1 (0.76%) New Relic
7 1 (0.76%) Qualys
7 1 (0.76%) Splunk