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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 245 273
Rank change year-on-year -31 +28 -40
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 102 251 242
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 1.24% 1.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.73% 10.45% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 67 132 179
10th Percentile £52,400 £50,000 £45,800
25th Percentile £63,125 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -12.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £92,000
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 1,168 2,403 3,249
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.68% 11.86% 15.21%
Number of salaries quoted 803 1,343 2,735
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,100 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 23 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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) Apache
3 3 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 70 (68.63%) AWS
2 45 (44.12%) Azure
3 33 (32.35%) GitHub
4 25 (24.51%) GCP
5 23 (22.55%) GitHub Actions
6 17 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (10.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (9.80%) OpenShift
9 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (6.86%) Serverless
10 5 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.90%) Datadog
10 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.92%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.94%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.94%) Slack
13 2 (1.96%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.69%) Broadband
2 4 (3.92%) Firewall
3 2 (1.96%) VPN
4 1 (0.98%) DNS
4 1 (0.98%) Network Security
4 1 (0.98%) VLAN
4 1 (0.98%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.78%) MongoDB
2 11 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.80%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.94%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.98%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (0.98%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.98%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (50.98%) Jenkins
2 24 (23.53%) Git
3 21 (20.59%) SonarQube
4 12 (11.76%) JUnit
5 9 (8.82%) Cucumber
5 9 (8.82%) Selenium
6 8 (7.84%) JIRA
6 8 (7.84%) Subversion
7 7 (6.86%) Bitbucket
7 7 (6.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (3.92%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (3.92%) Maven
9 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.96%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.98%) JMeter
10 1 (0.98%) Mockito
10 1 (0.98%) Testinfra
10 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (36.27%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Games
3 16 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (15.69%) Finance
3 16 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (14.71%) Marketing
5 14 (13.73%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.88%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.92%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.92%) Aviation
9 3 (2.94%) Retail
10 2 (1.96%) Automotive
10 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Back Office
11 1 (0.98%) Electronics
11 1 (0.98%) iGaming
11 1 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (24.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (18.63%) Senior
3 17 (16.67%) Architect
3 17 (16.67%) Lead
4 14 (13.73%) Salesforce Architect
5 12 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (8.82%) Developer
7 9 (8.82%) Lead DevOps
7 9 (8.82%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 8 (7.84%) Technical Architect
9 7 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.90%) Consultant
11 5 (4.90%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.57%) REST
2 15 (14.71%) Lightning Web Components
2 15 (14.71%) SOAP
2 15 (14.71%) Spring
2 15 (14.71%) Spring Boot
2 15 (14.71%) Visualforce
3 14 (13.73%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (9.80%) React
5 9 (8.82%) pytest
6 8 (7.84%) Django
6 8 (7.84%) Flask
7 6 (5.88%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.90%) Node.js
9 4 (3.92%) Flutter
9 4 (3.92%) Kafka
9 4 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.94%) .NET
10 3 (2.94%) HTML
10 3 (2.94%) Ionic Framework
10 3 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.71%) Product Ownership
3 10 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.94%) Replication
5 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.98%) Online Games
6 1 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.98%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.98%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.49%) Linux
2 9 (8.82%) Windows
3 5 (4.90%) CentOS
3 5 (4.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.90%) Unix
4 4 (3.92%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.98%) Fedora
5 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (92.16%) CI/CD
2 78 (76.47%) DevOps
3 49 (48.04%) Agile
4 41 (40.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (32.35%) Containerisation
5 33 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (25.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (24.51%) Event-Driven
7 25 (24.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 23 (22.55%) Scrum
8 23 (22.55%) Software Engineering
9 21 (20.59%) Design Patterns
9 21 (20.59%) Observability
10 20 (19.61%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (18.63%) Mentoring
12 18 (17.65%) Incident Response
12 18 (17.65%) Microservices
13 17 (16.67%) Community of Practice
13 17 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
13 17 (16.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 42 (41.18%) Python
2 27 (26.47%) Java
3 20 (19.61%) Bash
4 17 (16.67%) SQL
5 15 (14.71%) Apex Code
5 15 (14.71%) SOQL
5 15 (14.71%) SOSL
6 14 (13.73%) PowerShell
7 11 (10.78%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.82%) TypeScript
9 8 (7.84%) Delphi
10 5 (4.90%) C#
11 4 (3.92%) Go
11 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.94%) C++
13 2 (1.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) Degree
2 12 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.98%) CCNA
7 1 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.82%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.96%) ECSS
4 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (44.12%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 38 (37.25%) Terraform
3 34 (33.33%) Ansible
3 34 (33.33%) Grafana
4 28 (27.45%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.96%) Argo
6 2 (1.96%) Kibana
7 1 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.98%) Icinga
7 1 (0.98%) Istio
7 1 (0.98%) Nagios
7 1 (0.98%) Packer
7 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (21.57%) Splunk
2 15 (14.71%) Salesforce
3 11 (10.78%) Microsoft
4 10 (9.80%) Oracle
5 7 (6.86%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.94%) Databricks
6 3 (2.94%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.96%) VMware
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco
8 1 (0.98%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.98%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.98%) UiPath