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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 39 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 +23 +9
Contract jobs citing GitLab 59 32 33
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.38% 3.58% 2.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.54% 23.02% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 24
10th Percentile £400 £402 £450
25th Percentile £445 £447 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £541 £545 £694
90th Percentile £637 £546 -
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £545
% change year-on-year - -8.26% -9.17%
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 231 139 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.25% 15.55% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 95 130
10th Percentile £359 £358 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £514 £550
90th Percentile £638 £565 £688
North West median daily rate £450 £430 £495
% change year-on-year +4.65% -13.13% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 4
10th Percentile - £70.50 £61.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.25 £65.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - +89.39%
75th Percentile £71.88 £77.50 £81.38
90th Percentile £91.20 £78.25 £82.05
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £47.44
% change year-on-year -26.67% +58.09% -3.49%

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 29 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 29 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 19 (32.20%) GitHub
3 11 (18.64%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (16.95%) Amazon S3
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (15.25%) Azure
5 9 (15.25%) Serverless
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (13.56%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (10.17%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (8.47%) OCI
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (5.08%) GCP
12 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.39%) BrowserStack
13 1 (1.69%) Amazon ELB
13 1 (1.69%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (1.69%) Datadog
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 9 (15.25%) Relational Database
2 8 (13.56%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.17%) DocumentDB
4 5 (8.47%) Oracle Database
5 4 (6.78%) MySQL
5 4 (6.78%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.78%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.08%) OLTP
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.69%) Metadata
8 1 (1.69%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) 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%) Cypress.io
4 8 (13.56%) Mocha
4 8 (13.56%) Selenium
5 7 (11.86%) JUnit
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%) WebDriver
7 2 (3.39%) XCTest
8 1 (1.69%) Mockito
8 1 (1.69%) TestComplete
General
1 28 (47.46%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.47%) Military
3 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Local Government
5 1 (1.69%) Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
2 15 (25.42%) Software Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Java Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Java Software Engineer
4 10 (16.95%) Lead
5 9 (15.25%) Senior
6 8 (13.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (13.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Lead Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (6.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) DBA
8 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Test Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead Software Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead Test Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (49.15%) Spring
1 29 (49.15%) Spring Boot
2 16 (27.12%) Node.js
3 14 (23.73%) REST
4 12 (20.34%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (18.64%) Playwright
6 10 (16.95%) React
7 9 (15.25%) Jest
7 9 (15.25%) Kafka
8 5 (8.47%) GraphQL
9 4 (6.78%) JSON
9 4 (6.78%) RESTful
9 4 (6.78%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (3.39%) JSON Schema
10 2 (3.39%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 2 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (3.39%) SwiftUI
10 2 (3.39%) UIKit
10 2 (3.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) 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
4 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.25%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) AIX
2 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (76.27%) CI/CD
2 33 (55.93%) DevOps
3 22 (37.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (33.90%) Agile
5 19 (32.20%) Test Automation
6 18 (30.51%) Microservices
7 15 (25.42%) Software Engineering
8 14 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
10 12 (20.34%) User Experience
11 10 (16.95%) Observability
12 9 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (13.56%) TDD
14 7 (11.86%) Event-Driven
14 7 (11.86%) Mentoring
14 7 (11.86%) Performance Testing
14 7 (11.86%) User Research
15 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 6 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (10.17%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.93%) 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 20 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 14 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (30.51%) Accessibility
2 7 (11.86%) WCAG
3 3 (5.08%) QA
System Software
1 17 (28.81%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.69%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (54.24%) Kubernetes
2 25 (42.37%) Terraform
3 22 (37.29%) Grafana
4 10 (16.95%) Prometheus
5 8 (13.56%) Ansible
6 3 (5.08%) Argo
7 2 (3.39%) Data Guard
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.69%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) 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