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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 38 53
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing GitLab 59 37 43
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.42% 4.15% 3.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.22% 24.83% 22.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 33
10th Percentile £400 £444 £450
25th Percentile £456 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.89% -6.00%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £675
90th Percentile £642 £703 £694
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% -
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 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +51.52%

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 225 149 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.05% 16.72% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 102 146
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% -9.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £529 £575
90th Percentile £638 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £450 £447 £500
% change year-on-year +0.67% -10.60% -3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 4
10th Percentile - £71.63 £61.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £72.19 £65.31
Median hourly rate £59.25 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% - +89.39%
75th Percentile £72.81 £77.81 £81.38
90th Percentile £93.10 £78.38 £82.05
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £52.94
% change year-on-year -26.67% +41.67% +3.80%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in Manchester

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 1 (1.69%) Confluence
1 1 (1.69%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.69%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 33 (55.93%) AWS
2 18 (30.51%) GitHub
3 11 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon S3
5 9 (15.25%) Azure
5 9 (15.25%) Serverless
6 8 (13.56%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.86%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (6.78%) OCI
9 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (5.08%) GCP
11 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.39%) BrowserStack
12 1 (1.69%) Amazon Bedrock
12 1 (1.69%) AWS KMS
12 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) BGP
1 2 (3.39%) BIG-IP
1 2 (3.39%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (3.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (3.39%) Network Security
1 2 (3.39%) OSPF
1 2 (3.39%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.39%) VPN
1 2 (3.39%) VXLAN
1 2 (3.39%) WAN
2 1 (1.69%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) NGFW
2 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.69%) SMS
2 1 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) MongoDB
1 7 (11.86%) Relational Database
2 6 (10.17%) DocumentDB
3 3 (5.08%) MySQL
3 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.08%) OLTP
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.69%) Metadata
5 1 (1.69%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 15 (25.42%) Git
2 12 (20.34%) Gradle
2 12 (20.34%) IntelliJ
3 11 (18.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (13.56%) CircleCI
4 8 (13.56%) JUnit
4 8 (13.56%) Mocha
5 7 (11.86%) Cypress.io
5 7 (11.86%) Selenium
6 4 (6.78%) Gatling
6 4 (6.78%) REST Assured
6 4 (6.78%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (3.39%) fastlane
7 2 (3.39%) JMeter
7 2 (3.39%) Postman
7 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.39%) XCTest
8 1 (1.69%) JIRA
8 1 (1.69%) TestComplete
8 1 (1.69%) Xcode
General
1 28 (47.46%) Public Sector
2 4 (6.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Military
4 2 (3.39%) Local Government
5 1 (1.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Developer
2 15 (25.42%) Software Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Java Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Java Software Engineer
4 10 (16.95%) Senior
5 9 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) Lead
6 8 (13.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.17%) Java Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Lead Developer
8 5 (8.47%) Software Developer
9 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Lead Test Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Oracle Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
10 3 (5.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (52.54%) Spring
1 31 (52.54%) Spring Boot
2 16 (27.12%) Node.js
3 13 (22.03%) REST
4 12 (20.34%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (18.64%) Playwright
6 10 (16.95%) React
7 9 (15.25%) Jest
8 8 (13.56%) Kafka
9 5 (8.47%) GraphQL
10 4 (6.78%) RESTful
10 4 (6.78%) Spring Cloud
11 3 (5.08%) JSON
12 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (3.39%) JSON Schema
12 2 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (3.39%) SwiftUI
12 2 (3.39%) UIKit
13 1 (1.69%) Hugging Face
13 1 (1.69%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) NHS
2 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.08%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.69%) AIX
3 1 (1.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (74.58%) CI/CD
2 32 (54.24%) DevOps
3 20 (33.90%) Test Automation
4 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (30.51%) Microservices
6 17 (28.81%) Agile
7 15 (25.42%) Software Engineering
8 14 (23.73%) Containerisation
8 14 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (20.34%) User Experience
10 11 (18.64%) Observability
11 9 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (15.25%) TDD
12 7 (11.86%) Mentoring
12 7 (11.86%) Performance Testing
12 7 (11.86%) User Research
13 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven
13 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (10.17%) UX Design
14 5 (8.47%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (57.63%) Java
2 16 (27.12%) TypeScript
3 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
3 12 (20.34%) Kotlin
4 5 (8.47%) Python
4 5 (8.47%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.78%) Bash
6 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.08%) ProC
6 3 (5.08%) SQL
7 2 (3.39%) Go
7 2 (3.39%) Objective-C
7 2 (3.39%) Swift
8 1 (1.69%) C#
8 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (28.81%) Accessibility
2 7 (11.86%) WCAG
3 3 (5.08%) QA
System Software
1 18 (30.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.69%) zsh
Systems Management
1 34 (57.63%) Kubernetes
2 24 (40.68%) Grafana
3 23 (38.98%) Terraform
4 12 (20.34%) Prometheus
5 7 (11.86%) Ansible
6 3 (5.08%) Argo
7 1 (1.69%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) Oracle
2 4 (6.78%) Splunk
3 3 (5.08%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.39%) Aruba
4 2 (3.39%) F5
4 2 (3.39%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.69%) Arista
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) Tanium
5 1 (1.69%) Tenable
5 1 (1.69%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.69%) Veracode