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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 160 263
Rank change year-on-year -152 +103 +43
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 143 344 277
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.62% 2.09% 1.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.43% 21.97% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 90 65 168
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,297 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.39% +3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £82,813
90th Percentile £88,833 £92,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £69,310 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.59% +7.14% -

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 1,517 1,566 2,609
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.63% 9.50% 10.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 995 1,765
10th Percentile £39,564 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.47% -9.69%
75th Percentile £74,987 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £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 19 August 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.29%) Apache
2 9 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (5.59%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 83 (58.04%) AWS
2 51 (35.66%) Azure
3 21 (14.69%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (13.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 19 (13.29%) Azure AKS
4 19 (13.29%) GitHub
5 16 (11.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (10.49%) Amazon S3
7 14 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (9.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.69%) SaaS
10 10 (6.99%) OpenShift
11 9 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (6.29%) GCP
12 8 (5.59%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (5.59%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (21.68%) Broadband
2 9 (6.29%) Firewall
3 4 (2.80%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (2.80%) Network Security
4 2 (1.40%) BGP
4 2 (1.40%) VPN
4 2 (1.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.70%) DHCP
5 1 (0.70%) DNS
5 1 (0.70%) MQTT
5 1 (0.70%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.88%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (17.48%) MongoDB
3 14 (9.79%) MySQL
4 9 (6.29%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (6.29%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.90%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.20%) Big Data
6 6 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.80%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (2.80%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.40%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.70%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.70%) Parquet
10 1 (0.70%) Presto
10 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.70%) Trino
Development Applications
1 55 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 44 (30.77%) Git
3 25 (17.48%) SonarQube
4 11 (7.69%) Selenium
5 10 (6.99%) JIRA
6 9 (6.29%) Gatling
6 9 (6.29%) JUnit
7 8 (5.59%) Postman
8 7 (4.90%) Cypress.io
9 6 (4.20%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.80%) Storybook
11 3 (2.10%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.10%) JMeter
11 3 (2.10%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.40%) Maven
12 2 (1.40%) NUnit
12 2 (1.40%) Snyk
12 2 (1.40%) Subversion
13 1 (0.70%) Claude Code
13 1 (0.70%) IntelliJ
General
1 47 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 43 (30.07%) Public Sector
3 25 (17.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (15.38%) Marketing
5 20 (13.99%) Games
6 14 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (8.39%) Telecoms
8 7 (4.90%) Finance
9 5 (3.50%) Law
10 4 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.10%) Legal
12 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.40%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.40%) Military
13 1 (0.70%) Banking
13 1 (0.70%) Billing
13 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (30.07%) Senior
2 37 (25.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (15.38%) Architect
3 22 (15.38%) Salesforce Architect
4 17 (11.89%) Senior DevOps
4 17 (11.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.39%) Developer
5 12 (8.39%) Test Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Lead
6 11 (7.69%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 11 (7.69%) Technical Architect
7 10 (6.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.59%) Network Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 8 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.59%) Telecoms Engineer
9 7 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.68%) REST
2 27 (18.88%) Node.js
3 22 (15.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 22 (15.38%) SOAP
4 20 (13.99%) Visualforce
5 18 (12.59%) React
6 13 (9.09%) YAML
7 10 (6.99%) JSON
8 9 (6.29%) Playwright
8 9 (6.29%) PySpark
9 8 (5.59%) Jinja
10 7 (4.90%) .NET
10 7 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.90%) RESTful
11 6 (4.20%) Next.js
12 5 (3.50%) CSS
12 5 (3.50%) OAuth
13 4 (2.80%) ASP.NET
13 4 (2.80%) OpenID
13 4 (2.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 30 (20.98%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.80%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.40%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.40%) NHS
10 1 (0.70%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.70%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.70%) PropTech
10 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.28%) Linux
2 18 (12.59%) Unix
2 18 (12.59%) Windows
3 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.70%) Debian
5 1 (0.70%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (97.20%) CI/CD
2 99 (69.23%) DevOps
3 98 (68.53%) Agile
4 52 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
4 52 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 50 (34.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (31.47%) Mentoring
7 43 (30.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (29.37%) Containerisation
9 40 (27.97%) Coaching
10 38 (26.57%) Scrum
11 34 (23.78%) Microservices
12 30 (20.98%) Continuous Delivery
12 30 (20.98%) Design Patterns
13 27 (18.88%) Roadmaps
14 26 (18.18%) AI
14 26 (18.18%) Community of Practice
15 25 (17.48%) SDLC
15 25 (17.48%) Software Engineering
16 24 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 59 (41.26%) Python
2 33 (23.08%) Java
3 23 (16.08%) Bash
3 23 (16.08%) SQL
4 22 (15.38%) Apex Code
5 20 (13.99%) SOQL
5 20 (13.99%) SOSL
6 16 (11.19%) JavaScript
7 14 (9.79%) TypeScript
8 11 (7.69%) Go
9 7 (4.90%) C#
9 7 (4.90%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.80%) Scala
11 3 (2.10%) Groovy
12 1 (0.70%) Bicep
12 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.70%) Perl
12 1 (0.70%) Rust
12 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.48%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.39%) Degree
4 5 (3.50%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.40%) OCP
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.70%) CCNA
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.70%) MCSE
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.99%) QA
2 14 (9.79%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.20%) WCAG
4 5 (3.50%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.80%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (41.26%) Docker
2 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (39.86%) Terraform
2 50 (34.97%) Kubernetes
3 19 (13.29%) Argo
3 19 (13.29%) Prometheus
4 17 (11.89%) Grafana
5 12 (8.39%) Ansible
6 5 (3.50%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.10%) Istio
7 3 (2.10%) linkerd
7 3 (2.10%) Puppet
8 2 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.40%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.40%) Kibana
8 2 (1.40%) Nagios
9 1 (0.70%) Cilium
9 1 (0.70%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (15.38%) Salesforce
1 22 (15.38%) Splunk
2 10 (6.99%) Red Hat
3 9 (6.29%) Cisco
4 7 (4.90%) Google
4 7 (4.90%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.80%) Databricks
5 4 (2.80%) F5
5 4 (2.80%) Juniper
5 4 (2.80%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.80%) VMware
6 2 (1.40%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.40%) Commvault
6 2 (1.40%) UiPath
7 1 (0.70%) EMC
7 1 (0.70%) FIS
7 1 (0.70%) New Relic
7 1 (0.70%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.70%) Trend Micro