GitLab Contract Job Trends in Manchester

GitLab
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 49 72
Rank change year-on-year -40 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing GitLab 37 35 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.89% 3.54% 1.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.16% 27.56% 16.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 11
10th Percentile - £358 £418
25th Percentile £400 £402 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.48% -15.42%
75th Percentile £638 £545 £563
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £575 £475 £504
% change year-on-year +21.05% -5.71% -16.04%

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 229 127 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.71% 12.84% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 86 88
10th Percentile £358 £329 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £550
90th Percentile £650 £656 £624
North West median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 1
10th Percentile £24.17 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £41.00 £71.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £74.25 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +57.89% -24.00%
75th Percentile £90.25 £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.25 -
North West median hourly rate £54.90 £73.75 £43.10
% change year-on-year -25.56% +71.10% -6.66%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

GitLab job vacancy trend in Manchester

GitLab
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GitLab

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Manchester

GitLab
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GitLab.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GitLab

GitLab
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.41%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (86.49%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) GitHub
3 9 (24.32%) Azure
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon S3
5 7 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (18.92%) OCI
5 7 (18.92%) Serverless
6 6 (16.22%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (16.22%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (13.51%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.41%) BrowserStack
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) BGP
1 3 (8.11%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (8.11%) Network Security
1 3 (8.11%) OSPF
1 3 (8.11%) SD-WAN
1 3 (8.11%) VPN
1 3 (8.11%) VXLAN
1 3 (8.11%) WAN
2 2 (5.41%) BIG-IP
2 2 (5.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.70%) DHCP
3 1 (2.70%) DNS
3 1 (2.70%) MPLS
3 1 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.70%) SMS
3 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Relational Database
2 7 (18.92%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle Database
4 4 (10.81%) DocumentDB
4 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.81%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.41%) MySQL
5 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata
6 1 (2.70%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.62%) Git
3 6 (16.22%) Selenium
4 5 (13.51%) REST Assured
5 4 (10.81%) Gatling
5 4 (10.81%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.41%) JUnit
7 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.70%) Mocha
7 1 (2.70%) Mockito
7 1 (2.70%) Postman
7 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.70%) TestNG
7 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (48.65%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.22%) Military
3 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (27.03%) Lead
2 10 (27.03%) Senior
3 8 (21.62%) Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (13.51%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) DBA
5 4 (10.81%) Lead Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Lead Test Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Principal Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) Kafka
2 7 (18.92%) Node.js
2 7 (18.92%) Spring
2 7 (18.92%) Spring Boot
3 4 (10.81%) JSON
3 4 (10.81%) Playwright
3 4 (10.81%) REST
3 4 (10.81%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 2 (5.41%) XML
5 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.70%) Hugging Face
5 1 (2.70%) Jest
5 1 (2.70%) PySpark
5 1 (2.70%) React
5 1 (2.70%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) vLLM
5 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) NHS
3 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Replication
6 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) AIX
2 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (89.19%) CI/CD
2 31 (83.78%) DevOps
3 23 (62.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (35.14%) Agile
5 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
6 9 (24.32%) Mentoring
6 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
7 8 (21.62%) Observability
8 7 (18.92%) Microservices
8 7 (18.92%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (13.51%) Cloud Security
10 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (13.51%) Migration
10 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (13.51%) Test Strategy
11 4 (10.81%) Architectural Patterns
11 4 (10.81%) Configuration Management
11 4 (10.81%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Java
2 8 (21.62%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) Bash
3 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (62.16%) Security Cleared
2 19 (51.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) CCIE
3 1 (2.70%) CCNP
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 17 (45.95%) Docker
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.70%) zsh
Systems Management
1 28 (75.68%) Terraform
2 20 (54.05%) Kubernetes
3 14 (37.84%) Ansible
4 7 (18.92%) Grafana
5 6 (16.22%) Prometheus
6 4 (10.81%) Argo
7 2 (5.41%) Data Guard
7 2 (5.41%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (2.70%) Packer
8 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) Palo Alto
2 4 (10.81%) Splunk
3 3 (8.11%) F5
4 2 (5.41%) Aruba
4 2 (5.41%) Cisco
4 2 (5.41%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.70%) Arista
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) Tanium
5 1 (2.70%) Tenable
5 1 (2.70%) VMware