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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 36 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 -8
Contract jobs citing GitLab 67 47 36
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 5.46% 4.56% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.01% 28.14% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 30 29
10th Percentile £387 £360 £446
25th Percentile £400 £386 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -21.88% -
75th Percentile £547 £550 £694
90th Percentile £642 £656 -
North West median daily rate £431 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -13.80% -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 £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 197 167 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.04% 16.20% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 116 184
10th Percentile £344 £322 £375
25th Percentile £400 £372 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £517 £589
90th Percentile £631 £619 £694
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £81.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +5.52% +12.87% -5.15%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 - 4 - -
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 7 (10.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 35 (52.24%) AWS
2 20 (29.85%) GitHub
3 14 (20.90%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (13.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (11.94%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (10.45%) Azure
6 7 (10.45%) GCP
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (7.46%) Datadog
8 5 (7.46%) Serverless
9 4 (5.97%) Pulumi
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.99%) dbt
11 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) DNS
1 1 (1.49%) Firewall
1 1 (1.49%) Network Security
1 1 (1.49%) SSL
1 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Data Lake
1 5 (7.46%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.48%) MySQL
2 3 (4.48%) OLTP
3 2 (2.99%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.99%) DocumentDB
3 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.99%) Redis
4 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) Git
2 12 (17.91%) Gradle
2 12 (17.91%) IntelliJ
2 12 (17.91%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.43%) Cypress.io
4 8 (11.94%) CircleCI
5 7 (10.45%) JUnit
5 7 (10.45%) Mocha
6 4 (5.97%) Selenium
7 2 (2.99%) fastlane
7 2 (2.99%) JIRA
7 2 (2.99%) JMeter
7 2 (2.99%) Postman
7 2 (2.99%) XCTest
8 1 (1.49%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.49%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.49%) TestComplete
8 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.49%) Xcode
General
1 24 (35.82%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.45%) Finance
3 5 (7.46%) Banking
4 4 (5.97%) Games
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Local Government
7 1 (1.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Developer
2 17 (25.37%) Software Engineer
3 13 (19.40%) Java Engineer
3 13 (19.40%) Java Software Engineer
4 11 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (14.93%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (13.43%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (10.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.97%) Lead
9 4 (5.97%) Senior
10 3 (4.48%) Backend Developer
10 3 (4.48%) Node.js Developer
10 3 (4.48%) Oracle Developer
10 3 (4.48%) Snowflake Developer
11 2 (2.99%) AWS Data Engineer
11 2 (2.99%) AWS Developer
11 2 (2.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (40.30%) Spring
1 27 (40.30%) Spring Boot
2 17 (25.37%) Node.js
3 14 (20.90%) REST
4 12 (17.91%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (14.93%) Jest
5 10 (14.93%) React
6 9 (13.43%) Playwright
7 6 (8.96%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (7.46%) Kafka
9 4 (5.97%) GraphQL
9 4 (5.97%) RESTful
10 3 (4.48%) YAML
11 2 (2.99%) Express.js
11 2 (2.99%) JSON
11 2 (2.99%) JSON Schema
11 2 (2.99%) Middleware
11 2 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (2.99%) SwiftUI
11 2 (2.99%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.48%) Legacy Code
2 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (56.72%) CI/CD
2 30 (44.78%) DevOps
3 18 (26.87%) Software Engineering
4 16 (23.88%) Agile
4 16 (23.88%) Test Automation
5 15 (22.39%) Containerisation
5 15 (22.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (22.39%) Microservices
6 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (17.91%) Observability
6 12 (17.91%) User Experience
7 11 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (11.94%) TDD
8 8 (11.94%) User Research
9 6 (8.96%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (8.96%) DevSecOps
9 6 (8.96%) High Availability
9 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (8.96%) UX Design
10 5 (7.46%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.75%) Java
2 17 (25.37%) Python
3 14 (20.90%) TypeScript
4 13 (19.40%) JavaScript
4 13 (19.40%) SQL
5 12 (17.91%) Kotlin
6 10 (14.93%) Bash
7 8 (11.94%) Go
8 5 (7.46%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.48%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.48%) ProC
10 2 (2.99%) Objective-C
10 2 (2.99%) Perl
10 2 (2.99%) Swift
11 1 (1.49%) C#
11 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.37%) Accessibility
2 10 (14.93%) WCAG
3 2 (2.99%) QA
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (49.25%) Kubernetes
2 28 (41.79%) Grafana
3 24 (35.82%) Terraform
4 15 (22.39%) Prometheus
5 7 (10.45%) Ansible
6 3 (4.48%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.99%) Packer
8 1 (1.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.46%) Splunk
2 4 (5.97%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle
3 2 (2.99%) Cribl.io
3 2 (2.99%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.49%) F5
4 1 (1.49%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.49%) Veracode