GitLab Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

GitLab
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford 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 30 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing GitLab 23 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 8.21% 2.87% -
As % of the Development Applications category 18.11% 8.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 23 3 0
10th Percentile £311 - -
25th Percentile £343 £303 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £305 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.51% - -
75th Percentile £452 £429 -
90th Percentile £486 £502 -
Cheshire median daily rate £395 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -16.84% -13.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Development Application Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 127 60 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 45.36% 34.48% 39.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 43 26
10th Percentile £310 £308 £454
25th Percentile £350 £364 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £465 £505
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% -7.92% +35.03%
75th Percentile £468 £572 £581
90th Percentile £500 £715 £606
Cheshire median daily rate £420 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -11.58% -4.04% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £41.00 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -51.76% - -

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Knutsford

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

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

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Knutsford

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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