GitLab Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

GitLab
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 51 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -
Contract jobs citing GitLab 23 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 3.36% 1.35% 0.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.86% 9.09% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 3
10th Percentile £311 - £514
25th Percentile £343 £303 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £452 £550 £558
90th Percentile £486 £568 £562
North West median daily rate £400 £400 £550
% change year-on-year - -27.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Development Application Skills
Cheshire

GitLab falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 166 77 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.23% 14.86% 19.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 53 59
10th Percentile £313 £313 £265
25th Percentile £358 £373 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -4.04% +16.47%
75th Percentile £480 £576 £560
90th Percentile £625 £710 £598
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £510
% change year-on-year -5.56% -11.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.00 £82.50 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -51.76% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £87.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £54.43 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +17.86% - -38.43%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitLab relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

GitLab job vacancy trend in Cheshire

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing GitLab.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Cheshire over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Cheshire

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 23 October 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford +2 23 £395 +29.51% 5
GitLab
North West

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (34.78%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) GitHub
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (17.39%) Azure
5 4 (17.39%) GCP
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.70%) Datadog
6 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
6 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Big Data
2 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 15 (65.22%) Jenkins
2 9 (39.13%) Cucumber
2 9 (39.13%) JIRA
2 9 (39.13%) JUnit
3 7 (30.43%) Git
4 5 (21.74%) Bitbucket
4 5 (21.74%) MLflow
4 5 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (13.04%) Maven
5 3 (13.04%) Mockito
5 3 (13.04%) Selenium
5 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
6 2 (8.70%) CircleCI
General
1 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
1 9 (39.13%) Java Developer
2 5 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) RESTful
2 9 (39.13%) React
2 9 (39.13%) Spring Boot
3 8 (34.78%) HTML
4 6 (26.09%) Kafka
4 6 (26.09%) Spring
5 5 (21.74%) Flask
5 5 (21.74%) Node.js
5 5 (21.74%) PySpark
5 5 (21.74%) REST
6 3 (13.04%) CSS
6 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
6 3 (13.04%) Jest
6 3 (13.04%) JPA
6 3 (13.04%) Redux
7 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (8.70%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 11 (47.83%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) Microservices
3 10 (43.48%) AI
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps
4 9 (39.13%) TDD
5 8 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
7 6 (26.09%) Sprint Planning
8 5 (21.74%) Cloud Security
8 5 (21.74%) High Availability
8 5 (21.74%) Migration
8 5 (21.74%) MLOps
8 5 (21.74%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (21.74%) Release Management
8 5 (21.74%) Scrum
8 5 (21.74%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
9 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 12 (52.17%) SQL
3 11 (47.83%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) Perl
6 2 (8.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) CISM
2 2 (8.70%) CISSP
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.70%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Fluentd
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Veracode
3 2 (8.70%) Cribl.io
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Splunk