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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 -14
Contract jobs citing GitLab 66 43 41
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.45% 4.39% 2.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.20% 25.75% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 29 32
10th Percentile - £373 £450
25th Percentile £400 £400 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £680
90th Percentile £621 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £447 £500 £613
% change year-on-year -10.60% -18.37% -1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £58.44 - £61.25
90th Percentile £63.28 - -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.29% +41.67% +33.33%

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 205 167 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.83% 17.04% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 118 171
10th Percentile £353 £318 £400
25th Percentile £400 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £511 £575
90th Percentile £638 £641 £694
North West median daily rate £447 £450 £495
% change year-on-year -0.67% -9.09% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 7
10th Percentile - - £43.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +3.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £79.88
90th Percentile £88.00 - £81.60
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -25.42% +59.70% -7.41%

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 16 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitLab in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in Manchester

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. 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
Oldham - 2 - -
GitLab
North West

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 6 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 33 (50.00%) AWS
2 19 (28.79%) GitHub
3 14 (21.21%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (12.12%) Amazon S3
5 8 (12.12%) Azure
6 7 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (10.61%) Serverless
7 6 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (7.58%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (7.58%) GCP
9 4 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.55%) Datadog
10 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
11 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (3.03%) npm
11 2 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Network Security
1 1 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
1 4 (6.06%) DocumentDB
1 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.55%) OLTP
2 3 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.03%) Data Vault
3 2 (3.03%) MySQL
3 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.03%) Redis
4 1 (1.52%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Git
2 12 (18.18%) Gradle
2 12 (18.18%) IntelliJ
3 11 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (13.64%) Cypress.io
5 8 (12.12%) CircleCI
5 8 (12.12%) JUnit
5 8 (12.12%) Mocha
6 4 (6.06%) Selenium
7 2 (3.03%) fastlane
7 2 (3.03%) JMeter
7 2 (3.03%) Postman
7 2 (3.03%) XCTest
8 1 (1.52%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.52%) Appium
8 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.52%) Gatling
8 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.52%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.52%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 6 (9.09%) Finance
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Banking
3 3 (4.55%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Games
4 2 (3.03%) Local Government
4 2 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (39.39%) Developer
2 15 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 12 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 9 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (10.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Senior
8 5 (7.58%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Lead
9 4 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.55%) Backend Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Lead Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Snowflake Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Software Developer
11 2 (3.03%) AWS Data Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (43.94%) Spring
1 29 (43.94%) Spring Boot
2 16 (24.24%) Node.js
3 15 (22.73%) REST
4 12 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (16.67%) Jest
6 10 (15.15%) React
7 9 (13.64%) Playwright
8 5 (7.58%) GraphQL
8 5 (7.58%) Kafka
8 5 (7.58%) RESTful
9 4 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (4.55%) YAML
11 2 (3.03%) Express.js
11 2 (3.03%) JSON
11 2 (3.03%) JSON Schema
11 2 (3.03%) Middleware
11 2 (3.03%) Nunjucks
11 2 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (3.03%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.55%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.03%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.03%) NHS
4 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.52%) AIX
3 1 (1.52%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (65.15%) CI/CD
2 31 (46.97%) DevOps
3 18 (27.27%) Agile
3 18 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (25.76%) Containerisation
4 17 (25.76%) Test Automation
5 16 (24.24%) Microservices
5 16 (24.24%) Software Engineering
6 12 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (18.18%) User Experience
7 11 (16.67%) Observability
8 10 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (13.64%) TDD
10 7 (10.61%) User Research
11 6 (9.09%) Cloud Security
11 6 (9.09%) Migration
11 6 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.09%) UX Design
12 5 (7.58%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 5 (7.58%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 34 (51.52%) Java
2 14 (21.21%) TypeScript
3 12 (18.18%) Kotlin
3 12 (18.18%) SQL
4 11 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 9 (13.64%) Python
6 5 (7.58%) Bash
7 4 (6.06%) Go
7 4 (6.06%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.55%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.55%) ProC
9 2 (3.03%) Objective-C
9 2 (3.03%) Swift
10 1 (1.52%) C#
10 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.76%) Accessibility
2 10 (15.15%) WCAG
3 2 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 19 (28.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.52%) zsh
Systems Management
1 39 (59.09%) Kubernetes
2 26 (39.39%) Grafana
3 24 (36.36%) Terraform
4 14 (21.21%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.58%) Ansible
6 2 (3.03%) Argo
6 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.52%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) Oracle
2 4 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Splunk
3 3 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.03%) Cribl.io
4 2 (3.03%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) Veracode