GitLab Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

GitLab
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing GitLab 2 3 21
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.95% 2.08% 9.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% 14.29% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 20
10th Percentile - £429 £546
25th Percentile - £459 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -17.88% -10.71%
75th Percentile - £572 £645
90th Percentile - £605 -
North West median daily rate £420 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £42.69 - -
75th Percentile £45.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -35.29% - -

All Development Application Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 8 21 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.81% 14.58% 26.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 28
10th Percentile - £301 -
25th Percentile - £341 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £392 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -37.28% +11.61%
75th Percentile - £463 £645
90th Percentile - £561 £647
North West median daily rate £430 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -4.44% -12.62% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 28
10th Percentile - £33.65 £45.88
25th Percentile £39.53 - -
Median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% - -3.77%
75th Percentile £74.26 - £47.14
90th Percentile £78.60 £49.07 £75.46
North West median hourly rate £57.50 £47.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.82% +3.05% +2.62%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Lancashire

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing GitLab

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Preston - 2 - - 5
GitLab
North West

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform