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

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 326 256
Rank change year-on-year -44 -70 +30
Permanent jobs citing GitLab 732 1,089 2,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 1.08% 1.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.68% 7.57% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 555 636 811
10th Percentile £35,920 £42,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,500 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £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 14,392 35,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.61% 14.25% 22.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,714 8,847 15,794
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 10 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 10 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 -39 634 £65,000 -10.34% 157
UK excluding London -20 471 £62,500 +4.17% 76
Work from Home +11 380 £62,783 -6.99% 78
London -16 230 £87,500 +9.38% 70
North of England -21 144 £60,000 +4.35% 19
South East +67 112 £66,250 -5.36% 25
North West +32 89 £60,000 -14.29% 12
South West -19 56 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Midlands -63 49 £55,000 -18.52% 14
Scotland -26 48 £61,500 +2.50% 1
Yorkshire -16 40 £62,783 +47.72% 5
West Midlands -46 35 £40,000 -40.74% 9
East of England +28 31 £62,500 -3.85% 6
Wales +33 30 £62,500 +4.17% 1
North East -4 15 £62,783 +40.56% 2
East Midlands -18 14 £55,000 - 5
Northern Ireland +5 1 £75,000 +63.04% 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 (5.19%) Confluence
2 17 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (2.05%) CMS
3 15 (2.05%) nginx
4 7 (0.96%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) WordPress
6 2 (0.27%) Drupal
6 2 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Doxygen
2 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.78%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 401 (54.78%) AWS
2 333 (45.49%) Azure
3 133 (18.17%) GitHub
4 88 (12.02%) Serverless
5 71 (9.70%) GCP
6 63 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
7 59 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
8 51 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (5.87%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (5.60%) Snowflake
11 37 (5.05%) Datadog
11 37 (5.05%) SaaS
12 31 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 30 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (4.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 30 (4.10%) Matillion
14 29 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
15 25 (3.42%) Amazon S3
16 23 (3.14%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (2.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.69%) Firewall
2 20 (2.73%) DNS
2 20 (2.73%) TCP/IP
3 16 (2.19%) Modbus
4 12 (1.64%) BGP
4 12 (1.64%) VPN
5 11 (1.50%) Ethernet VPN
5 11 (1.50%) MPLS
6 9 (1.23%) HTTP
7 7 (0.96%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.96%) WAN
8 5 (0.68%) SSL
9 4 (0.55%) Internet
9 4 (0.55%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
10 3 (0.41%) IPv4
10 3 (0.41%) IPv6
10 3 (0.41%) NAS
10 3 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (9.15%) SQL Server
3 62 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
5 44 (6.01%) Elasticsearch
6 43 (5.87%) MySQL
7 39 (5.33%) Data Lake
7 39 (5.33%) DynamoDB
8 35 (4.78%) NoSQL
9 32 (4.37%) MongoDB
10 30 (4.10%) Star Schema
11 22 (3.01%) Relational Database
12 21 (2.87%) BigQuery
13 15 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (1.64%) Looker
14 12 (1.64%) Tableau
15 9 (1.23%) Metadata
15 9 (1.23%) Redis
16 8 (1.09%) Ataccama
17 7 (0.96%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 226 (30.87%) Jenkins
2 211 (28.83%) Git
3 113 (15.44%) JIRA
4 39 (5.33%) Artifactory
5 34 (4.64%) CircleCI
6 26 (3.55%) Visual Studio
7 24 (3.28%) TeamCity
8 20 (2.73%) Bitbucket
8 20 (2.73%) SonarQube
9 17 (2.32%) Selenium
10 15 (2.05%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.91%) JUnit
12 13 (1.78%) Moq
12 13 (1.78%) NUnit
13 11 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (1.50%) webpack
14 8 (1.09%) Cypress.io
14 8 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (1.09%) Postman
15 7 (0.96%) Katalon Studio
General
1 171 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 129 (17.62%) Finance
3 67 (9.15%) Public Sector
4 47 (6.42%) Law
5 46 (6.28%) Marketing
6 45 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (4.78%) Retail
8 25 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
9 23 (3.14%) Banking
10 15 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.64%) Legal
13 9 (1.23%) Front Office
13 9 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.09%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.96%) Electronics
16 5 (0.68%) Retail Finance
17 3 (0.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 157 (21.45%) Developer
2 133 (18.17%) Senior
3 123 (16.80%) Lead
4 117 (15.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 93 (12.70%) Software Engineer
6 54 (7.38%) Full Stack Developer
6 54 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 53 (7.24%) Technical Leader
8 48 (6.56%) Data Engineer
9 47 (6.42%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 36 (4.92%) Architect
11 36 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (4.10%) Python Engineer
13 28 (3.83%) Java Developer
14 27 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.42%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (3.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (2.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (14.75%) React
2 92 (12.57%) .NET
3 81 (11.07%) RESTful
4 68 (9.29%) CSS
5 62 (8.47%) HTML
6 53 (7.24%) REST
7 50 (6.83%) Django
7 50 (6.83%) Node.js
8 49 (6.69%) Spring
9 40 (5.46%) Spring Boot
10 36 (4.92%) Kafka
11 32 (4.37%) GraphQL
11 32 (4.37%) JSON
11 32 (4.37%) SOAP
12 30 (4.10%) .NET Framework
13 27 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
14 25 (3.42%) XML
15 23 (3.14%) Web Services
16 21 (2.87%) YAML
17 16 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 118 (16.12%) Private Cloud
2 59 (8.06%) Self-Motivation
3 48 (6.56%) Data Structures
3 48 (6.56%) Public Cloud
4 28 (3.83%) Cloud Native
5 26 (3.55%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (3.42%) Management Information System
7 22 (3.01%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 18 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (2.46%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.78%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.64%) Legacy Code
12 9 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.09%) Equities
13 8 (1.09%) FPGA
13 8 (1.09%) Reference Data
14 7 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
14 7 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 153 (20.90%) Linux
2 90 (12.30%) Windows
3 34 (4.64%) Unix
4 26 (3.55%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (1.64%) CentOS
7 9 (1.23%) VMS
8 6 (0.82%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.14%) Android
11 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) Rocky
11 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (56.28%) CI/CD
2 347 (47.40%) Agile
3 334 (45.63%) DevOps
4 259 (35.38%) Software Engineering
5 189 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
6 188 (25.68%) Containerisation
7 183 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 182 (24.86%) Mentoring
9 166 (22.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 146 (19.95%) Full Stack Development
11 112 (15.30%) Scrum
12 107 (14.62%) Microservices
13 93 (12.70%) Open Source
14 84 (11.48%) Coaching
15 81 (11.07%) Code Quality
15 81 (11.07%) Computer Science
16 78 (10.66%) Analytics
17 76 (10.38%) TDD
18 72 (9.84%) Data Modelling
19 71 (9.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 290 (39.62%) Python
2 205 (28.01%) Java
3 185 (25.27%) SQL
4 131 (17.90%) JavaScript
5 125 (17.08%) TypeScript
6 85 (11.61%) C#
7 65 (8.88%) Bash
8 51 (6.97%) PowerShell
9 50 (6.83%) C++
10 34 (4.64%) PHP
11 33 (4.51%) C
12 30 (4.10%) Ruby
13 27 (3.69%) Shell Script
14 26 (3.55%) Go
15 15 (2.05%) Perl
16 14 (1.91%) Apex Code
17 13 (1.78%) T-SQL
18 12 (1.64%) Fortran
19 11 (1.50%) Rust
19 11 (1.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 161 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 89 (12.16%) Degree
3 86 (11.75%) SC Cleared
4 51 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (4.37%) Master's Degree
6 29 (3.96%) DBS Check
7 27 (3.69%) AWS Certification
8 18 (2.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.23%) PhD
10 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.55%) 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 (5.74%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.83%) QA
3 15 (2.05%) NIST
4 11 (1.50%) GDPR
5 8 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.09%) PSD2
6 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
8 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 233 (31.83%) Docker
2 30 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.82%) VirtualBox
6 5 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.55%) vSphere
8 3 (0.41%) Firmware
8 3 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.27%) Varnish
10 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 252 (34.43%) Kubernetes
2 245 (33.47%) Terraform
3 125 (17.08%) Ansible
4 58 (7.92%) Puppet
5 46 (6.28%) Grafana
6 42 (5.74%) Prometheus
7 31 (4.23%) Progress Chef
8 24 (3.28%) Kibana
9 19 (2.60%) Consul
10 10 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
12 8 (1.09%) logstash
12 8 (1.09%) Packer
13 7 (0.96%) Argo
14 6 (0.82%) Rancher
15 5 (0.68%) Kubeflow
16 4 (0.55%) Podman
17 3 (0.41%) Nagios
17 3 (0.41%) vCenter Server
17 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 105 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.65%) Google
3 35 (4.78%) VMware
4 32 (4.37%) Splunk
5 25 (3.42%) Oracle
6 18 (2.46%) Dynatrace
7 17 (2.32%) Cisco
8 16 (2.19%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.23%) Sun
9 9 (1.23%) TOWER Software
10 8 (1.09%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.09%) Duck Creek
11 6 (0.82%) Databricks
11 6 (0.82%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.82%) McAfee
11 6 (0.82%) Zscaler
12 5 (0.68%) SAP
12 5 (0.68%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.68%) Teradata