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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 317 261
Rank change year-on-year -47 -56 +22
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 744 1,103 2,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.09% 1.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.80% 7.63% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 555 640 807
10th Percentile £35,920 £42,950 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%

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 9,537 14,458 35,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.62% 14.27% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,706 8,868 15,755
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% +9.65%
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 9 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 9 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 -34 641 £65,000 -10.34% 164
UK excluding London -9 480 £62,500 +4.17% 78
Work from Home +22 381 £62,783 -6.99% 88
London -24 232 £88,625 +10.78% 74
North of England -13 147 £60,000 +4.35% 21
South East +55 112 £65,000 -7.14% 24
North West +44 91 £60,000 -14.29% 12
South West -22 57 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Midlands -56 51 £55,000 -18.52% 15
Scotland -31 50 £61,500 +2.50%
Yorkshire -18 41 £62,783 +47.72% 6
West Midlands -34 35 £40,000 -40.74% 9
Wales +31 31 £62,500 +4.17% 1
East of England +28 30 £62,500 -3.85% 6
East Midlands -18 16 £55,000 - 6
North East -2 15 £62,783 +40.56% 3
Northern Ireland +11 2 £75,000 +63.04% 2

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 (5.11%) Confluence
2 17 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.02%) CMS
3 15 (2.02%) nginx
4 7 (0.94%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) WordPress
6 2 (0.27%) Drupal
6 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Doxygen
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.75%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 402 (54.03%) AWS
2 344 (46.24%) Azure
3 134 (18.01%) GitHub
4 88 (11.83%) Serverless
5 70 (9.41%) GCP
6 63 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
7 62 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (7.93%) Amazon ECS
9 44 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
11 41 (5.51%) Snowflake
12 37 (4.97%) Datadog
12 37 (4.97%) SaaS
13 31 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (4.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 30 (4.03%) Matillion
15 29 (3.90%) Cloud Computing
16 25 (3.36%) Amazon S3
17 23 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (2.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.63%) Firewall
2 20 (2.69%) DNS
2 20 (2.69%) TCP/IP
3 16 (2.15%) Modbus
4 12 (1.61%) BGP
4 12 (1.61%) VPN
5 11 (1.48%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (1.48%) MPLS
6 9 (1.21%) HTTP
7 7 (0.94%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.94%) WAN
8 5 (0.67%) SSL
9 4 (0.54%) Internet
9 4 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.40%) IPv4
10 3 (0.40%) IPv6
10 3 (0.40%) NAS
10 3 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (9.01%) SQL Server
3 62 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.18%) Amazon RDS
5 44 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
6 43 (5.78%) MySQL
7 39 (5.24%) Data Lake
7 39 (5.24%) DynamoDB
8 35 (4.70%) NoSQL
9 32 (4.30%) MongoDB
10 30 (4.03%) Star Schema
11 22 (2.96%) Relational Database
12 21 (2.82%) BigQuery
13 15 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (1.75%) InfluxDB
15 12 (1.61%) Looker
15 12 (1.61%) Tableau
16 9 (1.21%) Metadata
16 9 (1.21%) Redis
17 8 (1.08%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 238 (31.99%) Jenkins
2 212 (28.49%) Git
3 113 (15.19%) JIRA
4 39 (5.24%) Artifactory
5 35 (4.70%) CircleCI
6 32 (4.30%) SonarQube
7 25 (3.36%) Visual Studio
8 24 (3.23%) TeamCity
9 20 (2.69%) Bitbucket
10 17 (2.28%) Selenium
11 15 (2.02%) Cucumber
12 14 (1.88%) JUnit
13 13 (1.75%) Moq
13 13 (1.75%) NUnit
14 11 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (1.48%) webpack
15 8 (1.08%) Cypress.io
15 8 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (1.08%) Postman
16 7 (0.94%) Katalon Studio
General
1 170 (22.85%) Social Skills
2 130 (17.47%) Finance
3 67 (9.01%) Public Sector
4 47 (6.32%) Law
5 46 (6.18%) Marketing
6 45 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (4.70%) Retail
8 25 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (3.23%) Banking
10 15 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.61%) Legal
13 10 (1.34%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.21%) Front Office
15 8 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (1.08%) Health Technology
15 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.94%) Electronics
17 5 (0.67%) Retail Finance
18 3 (0.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 157 (21.10%) Developer
2 133 (17.88%) Senior
3 128 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (16.67%) Lead
5 93 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 55 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 54 (7.26%) Full Stack Developer
8 53 (7.12%) Technical Leader
9 48 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (6.45%) Data Engineer
10 37 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 37 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
11 35 (4.70%) Architect
12 30 (4.03%) Python Engineer
13 28 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
13 28 (3.76%) Java Developer
14 27 (3.63%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (14.52%) React
2 92 (12.37%) .NET
3 81 (10.89%) RESTful
4 68 (9.14%) CSS
5 62 (8.33%) HTML
6 53 (7.12%) REST
7 50 (6.72%) Django
7 50 (6.72%) Node.js
8 49 (6.59%) Spring
9 40 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
9 40 (5.38%) Spring Boot
10 36 (4.84%) Kafka
11 32 (4.30%) GraphQL
11 32 (4.30%) JSON
11 32 (4.30%) SOAP
12 30 (4.03%) .NET Framework
13 25 (3.36%) XML
14 23 (3.09%) Web Services
15 21 (2.82%) YAML
16 16 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 118 (15.86%) Private Cloud
2 60 (8.06%) Public Cloud
3 59 (7.93%) Self-Motivation
4 48 (6.45%) Data Structures
5 28 (3.76%) Cloud Native
6 26 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 25 (3.36%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.96%) Algorithms
9 19 (2.55%) Product Ownership
10 18 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.42%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.75%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.61%) Legacy Code
13 9 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.08%) Equities
14 8 (1.08%) FPGA
14 8 (1.08%) Reference Data
15 7 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 167 (22.45%) Linux
2 103 (13.84%) Windows
3 34 (4.57%) Unix
4 27 (3.63%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.61%) CentOS
7 9 (1.21%) VMS
8 6 (0.81%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.13%) Android
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.13%) Rocky
11 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (57.12%) CI/CD
2 358 (48.12%) Agile
3 347 (46.64%) DevOps
4 271 (36.42%) Software Engineering
5 201 (27.02%) Containerisation
6 188 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
7 184 (24.73%) Continuous Integration
8 182 (24.46%) Mentoring
9 179 (24.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (19.62%) Full Stack Development
11 124 (16.67%) Scrum
12 119 (15.99%) Microservices
13 93 (12.50%) Open Source
14 90 (12.10%) Analytics
15 84 (11.29%) Coaching
16 81 (10.89%) Code Quality
17 79 (10.62%) Computer Science
18 76 (10.22%) TDD
19 75 (10.08%) Kanban
20 72 (9.68%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 290 (38.98%) Python
2 205 (27.55%) Java
3 184 (24.73%) SQL
4 131 (17.61%) JavaScript
5 125 (16.80%) TypeScript
6 84 (11.29%) C#
7 78 (10.48%) Bash
8 63 (8.47%) PowerShell
9 49 (6.59%) C++
10 34 (4.57%) PHP
11 33 (4.44%) C
12 31 (4.17%) Ruby
13 27 (3.63%) Shell Script
14 26 (3.49%) Go
15 16 (2.15%) Perl
16 14 (1.88%) Apex Code
17 13 (1.75%) T-SQL
18 11 (1.48%) Fortran
18 11 (1.48%) Rust
18 11 (1.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 160 (21.51%) Security Cleared
2 87 (11.69%) Degree
3 86 (11.56%) SC Cleared
4 50 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.30%) Master's Degree
6 29 (3.90%) DBS Check
7 27 (3.63%) AWS Certification
8 18 (2.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.21%) PhD
10 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.27%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.27%) CCNA
12 2 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.27%) MCSE
12 2 (0.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.76%) QA
3 15 (2.02%) NIST
4 11 (1.48%) GDPR
5 8 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.08%) 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%) SLA
System Software
1 246 (33.06%) Docker
2 30 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.81%) VirtualBox
6 5 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.54%) vSphere
8 3 (0.40%) Firmware
8 3 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.27%) Varnish
10 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 264 (35.48%) Kubernetes
2 258 (34.68%) Terraform
3 138 (18.55%) Ansible
4 59 (7.93%) Grafana
5 58 (7.80%) Puppet
6 55 (7.39%) Prometheus
7 30 (4.03%) Progress Chef
8 24 (3.23%) Kibana
9 19 (2.55%) Consul
10 10 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
10 10 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.08%) logstash
11 8 (1.08%) Packer
12 7 (0.94%) Argo
13 6 (0.81%) Rancher
14 5 (0.67%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.54%) Podman
16 3 (0.40%) Nagios
16 3 (0.40%) vCenter Server
16 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 104 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.53%) Google
3 35 (4.70%) VMware
4 33 (4.44%) Splunk
5 25 (3.36%) Oracle
6 18 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.28%) Cisco
7 17 (2.28%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.34%) Sun
9 10 (1.34%) TOWER Software
10 8 (1.08%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.08%) Duck Creek
11 6 (0.81%) Databricks
11 6 (0.81%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.81%) McAfee
11 6 (0.81%) Zscaler
12 5 (0.67%) SAP
12 5 (0.67%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.67%) Teradata