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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 158 294
Rank change year-on-year -136 +136 +1
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 148 347 349
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.71% 2.17% 1.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.64% 20.17% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 85 62 262
10th Percentile £48,250 £50,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.68% +0.45%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,259 £94,250 £99,625
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -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 1,391 1,720 3,540
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.68% 10.77% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 916 1,120 2,686
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £65,000 £57,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +12.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%

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 2 July 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 10 (6.76%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.41%) Apache
2 8 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (4.73%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 79 (53.38%) AWS
2 47 (31.76%) Azure
3 20 (13.51%) Azure AKS
3 20 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (12.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (10.81%) Amazon S3
6 16 (10.81%) GitHub
7 15 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (9.46%) Azure Service Bus
9 11 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.43%) OpenShift
10 10 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (6.76%) Serverless
11 9 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (6.08%) GCP
12 8 (5.41%) Apigee
13 7 (4.73%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (4.73%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (4.05%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 45 (30.41%) Broadband
2 11 (7.43%) Firewall
3 6 (4.05%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (2.70%) MQTT
5 1 (0.68%) BGP
5 1 (0.68%) Network Security
5 1 (0.68%) VPN
5 1 (0.68%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.86%) MongoDB
2 20 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.43%) MySQL
4 8 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (5.41%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.73%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.38%) Big Data
7 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.70%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.68%) Parquet
9 1 (0.68%) Presto
9 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.68%) Trino
Development Applications
1 67 (45.27%) Jenkins
2 40 (27.03%) SonarQube
3 36 (24.32%) Git
4 10 (6.76%) JIRA
5 5 (3.38%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.38%) Gatling
5 5 (3.38%) Selenium
6 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.03%) JMeter
6 3 (2.03%) JUnit
6 3 (2.03%) Maven
6 3 (2.03%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.35%) Postman
8 1 (0.68%) Appium
8 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (26.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 39 (26.35%) Public Sector
2 35 (23.65%) Marketing
3 34 (22.97%) Games
3 34 (22.97%) Social Skills
4 16 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 15 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.38%) Finance
7 4 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Legal
9 2 (1.35%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.68%) Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (26.35%) DevOps Engineer
1 39 (26.35%) Senior
2 35 (23.65%) Architect
3 34 (22.97%) Salesforce Architect
4 18 (12.16%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 18 (12.16%) Technical Architect
5 16 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
5 16 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.43%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.43%) Network Engineer
6 11 (7.43%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 11 (7.43%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (7.43%) Telecoms Engineer
7 10 (6.76%) Lead
7 10 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (6.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.38%) REST
2 35 (23.65%) Lightning Web Components
2 35 (23.65%) SOAP
3 34 (22.97%) Visualforce
4 20 (13.51%) Node.js
5 17 (11.49%) YAML
6 13 (8.78%) JSON
7 11 (7.43%) Jinja
8 10 (6.76%) React
9 8 (5.41%) PySpark
10 7 (4.73%) XML
11 6 (4.05%) Playwright
11 6 (4.05%) RESTful
11 6 (4.05%) Spring
11 6 (4.05%) YANG
12 5 (3.38%) Kafka
13 4 (2.70%) AngularJS
13 4 (2.70%) OAuth
13 4 (2.70%) OpenID
13 4 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 47 (31.76%) Product Ownership
2 28 (18.92%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.38%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.70%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.35%) Clustering
9 2 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.35%) NHS
10 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.68%) GNSS
10 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.68%) PropTech
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.97%) Linux
2 20 (13.51%) Unix
3 18 (12.16%) Windows
4 4 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.68%) Android
6 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (95.95%) CI/CD
2 111 (75.00%) DevOps
3 100 (67.57%) Agile
4 61 (41.22%) Continuous Integration
5 58 (39.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (37.16%) Scrum
7 47 (31.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (29.73%) Containerisation
9 42 (28.38%) Continuous Delivery
10 41 (27.70%) Design Patterns
10 41 (27.70%) Microservices
10 41 (27.70%) Roadmaps
11 40 (27.03%) Community of Practice
12 37 (25.00%) Event-Driven
12 37 (25.00%) Mentoring
12 37 (25.00%) Test Automation
13 35 (23.65%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
13 35 (23.65%) Static Code Analysis
14 34 (22.97%) PLM
14 34 (22.97%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 61 (41.22%) Python
2 35 (23.65%) Apex Code
3 34 (22.97%) SOQL
3 34 (22.97%) SOSL
4 32 (21.62%) Java
5 23 (15.54%) Bash
6 16 (10.81%) SQL
7 12 (8.11%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.05%) Go
8 6 (4.05%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.05%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.38%) C#
9 5 (3.38%) Rust
10 4 (2.70%) Scala
11 3 (2.03%) Groovy
11 3 (2.03%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) Bicep
12 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (23.65%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.76%) Degree
4 7 (4.73%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.35%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.35%) Linux+ Certification
6 2 (1.35%) LPIC
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.51%) QA
2 6 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (37.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (39.19%) Terraform
2 55 (37.16%) Kubernetes
3 21 (14.19%) Prometheus
4 19 (12.84%) Argo
5 18 (12.16%) Ansible
5 18 (12.16%) Grafana
6 5 (3.38%) Puppet
7 3 (2.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.03%) Kibana
7 3 (2.03%) Nagios
8 2 (1.35%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.35%) Istio
8 2 (1.35%) linkerd
8 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (25.68%) Splunk
2 35 (23.65%) Salesforce
3 11 (7.43%) Cisco
3 11 (7.43%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.05%) F5
4 6 (4.05%) Juniper
4 6 (4.05%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.38%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.70%) Databricks
6 4 (2.70%) VMware
7 3 (2.03%) Commvault
7 3 (2.03%) Google
8 2 (1.35%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.68%) EMC
9 1 (0.68%) New Relic
9 1 (0.68%) Tenable
9 1 (0.68%) Trend Micro
9 1 (0.68%) Veracode