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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 155 248
Rank change year-on-year -167 +93 +61
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 135 333 293
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.57% 2.06% 1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.81% 22.76% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 92 55 150
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,274 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,538 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +10.34% +13.73%
75th Percentile £82,813 £85,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £88,148 £95,000 £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 1,532 1,463 2,507
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.52% 9.07% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,020 902 1,580
10th Percentile £39,179 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,982
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.79% -10.80%
75th Percentile £74,990 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +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 5 September 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 9 (6.67%) Apache
1 9 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (6.67%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.93%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 83 (61.48%) AWS
2 53 (39.26%) Azure
3 24 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (16.30%) Azure AKS
4 22 (16.30%) GitHub
5 20 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (12.59%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (11.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (10.37%) Amazon EKS
8 14 (10.37%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (9.63%) Amazon S3
10 11 (8.15%) SaaS
11 9 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (5.93%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (5.93%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (5.93%) GCP
13 7 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (4.44%) OpenShift
15 5 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.52%) Broadband
2 5 (3.70%) Firewall
3 4 (2.96%) Network Security
4 2 (1.48%) BGP
4 2 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (1.48%) VPN
4 2 (1.48%) WAN
5 1 (0.74%) DHCP
5 1 (0.74%) DNS
5 1 (0.74%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.26%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (17.78%) MongoDB
3 14 (10.37%) MySQL
4 9 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.44%) Big Data
6 6 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.96%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.22%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.48%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.74%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.74%) Parquet
10 1 (0.74%) Presto
10 1 (0.74%) Redis
10 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.74%) Trino
Development Applications
1 47 (34.81%) Jenkins
2 43 (31.85%) Git
3 19 (14.07%) SonarQube
4 11 (8.15%) Selenium
5 10 (7.41%) JIRA
6 9 (6.67%) Gatling
6 9 (6.67%) JUnit
7 8 (5.93%) Postman
8 7 (5.19%) Cypress.io
9 6 (4.44%) Cucumber
10 5 (3.70%) Storybook
11 3 (2.22%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.22%) JMeter
11 3 (2.22%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.48%) Maven
12 2 (1.48%) NUnit
12 2 (1.48%) Snyk
12 2 (1.48%) Subversion
13 1 (0.74%) ESLint
13 1 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 43 (31.85%) Public Sector
1 43 (31.85%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (12.59%) Marketing
4 14 (10.37%) Games
5 12 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.93%) Finance
6 8 (5.93%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.70%) Law
8 3 (2.22%) Legal
9 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Military
10 1 (0.74%) Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Billing
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (31.11%) Senior
2 41 (30.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
3 18 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 16 (11.85%) Architect
4 16 (11.85%) Salesforce Architect
5 15 (11.11%) Lead
6 12 (8.89%) Test Engineer
7 10 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.41%) Developer
8 8 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 8 (5.93%) Technical Architect
9 7 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (5.19%) Lead DevOps
9 7 (5.19%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.44%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (43.70%) Terraform
2 28 (20.74%) Node.js
3 23 (17.04%) REST
4 18 (13.33%) React
5 16 (11.85%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (11.85%) SOAP
6 14 (10.37%) Visualforce
7 9 (6.67%) Playwright
7 9 (6.67%) PySpark
7 9 (6.67%) YAML
8 7 (5.19%) .NET
8 7 (5.19%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.19%) RESTful
9 6 (4.44%) JSON
9 6 (4.44%) Next.js
10 5 (3.70%) CSS
10 5 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
11 4 (2.96%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.96%) Jest
11 4 (2.96%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.70%) Cloud Native
2 23 (17.04%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.96%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.22%) Robotics
6 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.48%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.74%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.74%) PropTech
8 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.48%) Linux
2 18 (13.33%) Windows
3 16 (11.85%) Unix
4 3 (2.22%) Debian
4 3 (2.22%) Robot Operating System
4 3 (2.22%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.74%) Android
6 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (97.04%) CI/CD
2 93 (68.89%) DevOps
3 89 (65.93%) Agile
4 54 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 51 (37.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (36.30%) Mentoring
7 46 (34.07%) Continuous Integration
8 43 (31.85%) Coaching
9 39 (28.89%) Containerisation
10 35 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (22.96%) Scrum
12 30 (22.22%) Microservices
13 28 (20.74%) Software Engineering
14 27 (20.00%) AI
15 25 (18.52%) Observability
16 24 (17.78%) Continuous Delivery
16 24 (17.78%) Design Patterns
17 23 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
17 23 (17.04%) SDLC
18 20 (14.81%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 56 (41.48%) Python
2 33 (24.44%) Java
3 28 (20.74%) Bash
4 22 (16.30%) SQL
5 16 (11.85%) Apex Code
6 15 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 14 (10.37%) SOQL
7 14 (10.37%) SOSL
8 12 (8.89%) Go
8 12 (8.89%) JavaScript
9 10 (7.41%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.44%) C#
11 4 (2.96%) Bicep
12 3 (2.22%) Groovy
13 2 (1.48%) Scala
14 1 (0.74%) Perl
14 1 (0.74%) PHP
14 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (28.15%) Security Cleared
2 34 (25.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.63%) Degree
4 6 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.48%) OCP
7 2 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.74%) CCNA
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.74%) MCSE
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.30%) QA
2 14 (10.37%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.44%) WCAG
4 5 (3.70%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.96%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.48%) NIST
7 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (45.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.07%) Argo
3 18 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 16 (11.85%) Grafana
5 12 (8.89%) Ansible
6 6 (4.44%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.22%) Istio
7 3 (2.22%) linkerd
7 3 (2.22%) Puppet
8 2 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.48%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.48%) Kibana
8 2 (1.48%) Nagios
9 1 (0.74%) Cilium
9 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (11.85%) Salesforce
1 16 (11.85%) Splunk
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.93%) Google
4 6 (4.44%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.70%) Cisco
6 4 (2.96%) Databricks
6 4 (2.96%) VMware
7 3 (2.22%) NVIDIA
8 2 (1.48%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.48%) Commvault
8 2 (1.48%) F5
8 2 (1.48%) Juniper
8 2 (1.48%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.48%) UiPath
9 1 (0.74%) EMC
9 1 (0.74%) FIS
9 1 (0.74%) New Relic
9 1 (0.74%) Trend Micro