GitLab
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitLab skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitLab over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 328 262
Rank change year-on-year -38 -66 +20
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 750 1,055 2,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.06% 1.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.87% 7.43% 7.00%
Number of salaries quoted 561 620 815
10th Percentile £35,920 £43,146 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

GitLab is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,528 14,205 36,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 14.32% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,654 8,679 15,823
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitLab.

Salary trend for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitLab over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GitLab in the UK

GitLab
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -31 655 £65,000 -10.34% 181
UK excluding London -20 474 £62,500 +4.17% 102
Work from Home +19 391 £62,783 -6.99% 99
London +1 246 £85,000 +6.25% 84
North of England -8 144 £60,000 +4.35% 26
South East +60 115 £65,000 -7.14% 35
North West +35 90 £60,000 -14.29% 17
South West -25 56 £63,750 +6.25% 16
Midlands -51 49 £55,000 -13.73% 17
Scotland -31 46 £61,500 +2.50% 3
Yorkshire -16 39 £62,783 +47.72% 6
West Midlands -31 35 £40,000 -40.74% 12
East of England +17 33 £62,500 -3.85% 8
Wales +30 30 £62,500 +4.17%
North East -4 15 £62,783 +40.56% 3
East Midlands -10 14 £55,000 - 5
Northern Ireland +5 1 £75,000 +64.84% 1

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (5.07%) Confluence
2 17 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (2.13%) CMS
4 14 (1.87%) nginx
5 7 (0.93%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) WordPress
7 2 (0.27%) Drupal
7 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Doxygen
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Simulink
4 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.87%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 412 (54.93%) AWS
2 333 (44.40%) Azure
3 134 (17.87%) GitHub
4 97 (12.93%) Serverless
5 73 (9.73%) GCP
6 72 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
7 60 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (5.47%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (5.47%) Snowflake
10 37 (4.93%) Datadog
10 37 (4.93%) SaaS
11 32 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 30 (4.00%) Matillion
13 28 (3.73%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (3.33%) Amazon S3
15 23 (3.07%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (2.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.60%) Firewall
2 19 (2.53%) DNS
2 19 (2.53%) TCP/IP
3 16 (2.13%) Modbus
4 12 (1.60%) BGP
4 12 (1.60%) VPN
5 11 (1.47%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (1.47%) MPLS
6 10 (1.33%) HTTP
7 7 (0.93%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.93%) WAN
8 5 (0.67%) Internet
8 5 (0.67%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.67%) SSL
9 4 (0.53%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.53%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.40%) IPv4
10 3 (0.40%) IPv6
10 3 (0.40%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.60%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (9.20%) SQL Server
3 62 (8.27%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (7.47%) Amazon RDS
5 49 (6.53%) DynamoDB
6 45 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
6 45 (6.00%) MySQL
7 39 (5.20%) Data Lake
8 36 (4.80%) NoSQL
9 32 (4.27%) MongoDB
10 30 (4.00%) Star Schema
11 22 (2.93%) Relational Database
12 21 (2.80%) BigQuery
13 15 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.60%) Looker
14 12 (1.60%) Tableau
15 10 (1.33%) Redis
16 9 (1.20%) Metadata
17 8 (1.07%) Ataccama
18 7 (0.93%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 233 (31.07%) Jenkins
2 221 (29.47%) Git
3 113 (15.07%) JIRA
4 38 (5.07%) Artifactory
5 34 (4.53%) CircleCI
6 27 (3.60%) Visual Studio
7 26 (3.47%) TeamCity
8 22 (2.93%) Bitbucket
9 19 (2.53%) SonarQube
10 18 (2.40%) Selenium
11 15 (2.00%) Cucumber
11 15 (2.00%) JUnit
12 14 (1.87%) Moq
12 14 (1.87%) NUnit
13 11 (1.47%) webpack
14 10 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
15 8 (1.07%) Cypress.io
15 8 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (1.07%) Postman
16 7 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
General
1 185 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 129 (17.20%) Finance
3 66 (8.80%) Public Sector
4 47 (6.27%) Law
4 47 (6.27%) Marketing
5 43 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 34 (4.53%) Retail
7 26 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
8 25 (3.33%) Banking
9 15 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.60%) Legal
12 9 (1.20%) Electronics
12 9 (1.20%) Front Office
12 9 (1.20%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.07%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.67%) Retail Finance
15 4 (0.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 163 (21.73%) Developer
2 131 (17.47%) Senior
3 122 (16.27%) Lead
4 118 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 99 (13.20%) Software Engineer
6 55 (7.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 55 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (7.07%) Technical Leader
8 51 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (6.40%) Data Engineer
10 37 (4.93%) Architect
11 36 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 36 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
12 34 (4.53%) Python Engineer
13 30 (4.00%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
14 28 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 26 (3.47%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (3.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (2.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (14.13%) React
2 92 (12.27%) RESTful
3 90 (12.00%) .NET
4 68 (9.07%) CSS
5 62 (8.27%) HTML
6 60 (8.00%) Django
7 56 (7.47%) REST
8 49 (6.53%) Node.js
8 49 (6.53%) Spring
9 44 (5.87%) GraphQL
10 40 (5.33%) Spring Boot
11 36 (4.80%) Kafka
12 34 (4.53%) SOAP
13 32 (4.27%) JSON
14 29 (3.87%) .NET Framework
15 27 (3.60%) Web Services
16 26 (3.47%) XML
17 25 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
18 21 (2.80%) YAML
19 17 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 117 (15.60%) Private Cloud
2 62 (8.27%) Self-Motivation
3 49 (6.53%) Public Cloud
4 48 (6.40%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 26 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (3.20%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.93%) Algorithms
9 19 (2.53%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.40%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.73%) Legacy Code
12 12 (1.60%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.07%) Equities
14 8 (1.07%) FPGA
14 8 (1.07%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
15 7 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 151 (20.13%) Linux
2 90 (12.00%) Windows
3 35 (4.67%) Unix
4 26 (3.47%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.60%) CentOS
7 9 (1.20%) VMS
8 6 (0.80%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.13%) Android
10 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (56.67%) CI/CD
2 361 (48.13%) Agile
3 337 (44.93%) DevOps
4 270 (36.00%) Software Engineering
5 203 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
6 186 (24.80%) Containerisation
7 185 (24.67%) Continuous Integration
7 185 (24.67%) Mentoring
8 166 (22.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 159 (21.20%) Full Stack Development
10 113 (15.07%) Scrum
11 106 (14.13%) Microservices
12 93 (12.40%) Open Source
13 88 (11.73%) Computer Science
14 86 (11.47%) TDD
15 84 (11.20%) Coaching
16 83 (11.07%) Code Quality
17 78 (10.40%) Analytics
18 72 (9.60%) Data Modelling
18 72 (9.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 304 (40.53%) Python
2 206 (27.47%) Java
3 188 (25.07%) SQL
4 134 (17.87%) JavaScript
5 123 (16.40%) TypeScript
6 85 (11.33%) C#
7 66 (8.80%) Bash
8 52 (6.93%) C++
8 52 (6.93%) PowerShell
9 35 (4.67%) C
9 35 (4.67%) PHP
10 29 (3.87%) Ruby
11 27 (3.60%) Shell Script
12 25 (3.33%) Go
13 15 (2.00%) Perl
14 14 (1.87%) Apex Code
14 14 (1.87%) Fortran
14 14 (1.87%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.47%) VB.NET
16 10 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 162 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 95 (12.67%) Degree
3 85 (11.33%) SC Cleared
4 54 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (5.20%) DBS Check
6 32 (4.27%) Master's Degree
7 28 (3.73%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 17 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.20%) PhD
11 6 (0.80%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CCNA
13 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.27%) MCSE
13 2 (0.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.87%) QA
3 15 (2.00%) NIST
4 11 (1.47%) GDPR
5 8 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.07%) PSD2
6 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA
8 1 (0.13%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.13%) SLA
8 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 237 (31.60%) Docker
2 27 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.80%) VirtualBox
6 5 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.53%) Firmware
7 4 (0.53%) vSphere
8 3 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.27%) Varnish
9 2 (0.27%) XenApp
9 2 (0.27%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 248 (33.07%) Kubernetes
2 244 (32.53%) Terraform
3 124 (16.53%) Ansible
4 60 (8.00%) Puppet
5 46 (6.13%) Grafana
6 43 (5.73%) Prometheus
7 33 (4.40%) Progress Chef
8 23 (3.07%) Kibana
9 19 (2.53%) Consul
10 11 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
12 8 (1.07%) logstash
12 8 (1.07%) Packer
13 7 (0.93%) Argo
14 5 (0.67%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.67%) Rancher
15 4 (0.53%) Podman
16 3 (0.40%) Nagios
16 3 (0.40%) vCenter Server
16 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.33%) Google
3 36 (4.80%) VMware
4 32 (4.27%) Splunk
5 26 (3.47%) Oracle
6 18 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.27%) Cisco
7 17 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.13%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.20%) TOWER Software
10 8 (1.07%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.07%) Duck Creek
11 7 (0.93%) ForgeRock
11 7 (0.93%) Sun
11 7 (0.93%) Zscaler
12 6 (0.80%) Databricks
13 5 (0.67%) McAfee
13 5 (0.67%) SAP
13 5 (0.67%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.67%) Teradata