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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 36 70
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 -15
Contract jobs citing GitLab 63 49 34
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 5.23% 4.64% 2.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.16% 29.70% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 27
10th Percentile £383 £360 £450
25th Percentile £400 £388 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -22.45% +2.08%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £694
90th Percentile £646 £656 -
North West median daily rate £420 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -16.00% -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 190 165 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.77% 15.63% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 114 184
10th Percentile £344 £324 £375
25th Percentile £400 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £559 £522 £600
90th Percentile £638 £600 £694
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 10
10th Percentile - - £55.00
25th Percentile £52.50 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £73.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.89%
75th Percentile £66.75 - £80.44
90th Percentile £70.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +12.24% +6.11% -2.78%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 33 (52.38%) AWS
2 16 (25.40%) GitHub
3 13 (20.63%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (12.70%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (9.52%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.94%) Azure
7 5 (7.94%) Datadog
7 5 (7.94%) GCP
7 5 (7.94%) Serverless
8 4 (6.35%) Pulumi
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.17%) dbt
10 2 (3.17%) npm
10 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) DNS
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) Network Security
1 1 (1.59%) SSL
1 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.94%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.76%) OLTP
3 2 (3.17%) Data Vault
3 2 (3.17%) DocumentDB
3 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.17%) Redis
4 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.59%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) Git
1 12 (19.05%) Gradle
1 12 (19.05%) IntelliJ
2 11 (17.46%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.70%) Cypress.io
4 7 (11.11%) CircleCI
5 6 (9.52%) JUnit
5 6 (9.52%) Mocha
6 2 (3.17%) fastlane
6 2 (3.17%) XCTest
7 1 (1.59%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.59%) Appium
7 1 (1.59%) JIRA
7 1 (1.59%) Selenium
7 1 (1.59%) TestComplete
7 1 (1.59%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.59%) Xcode
General
1 22 (34.92%) Public Sector
2 6 (9.52%) Finance
3 4 (6.35%) Banking
3 4 (6.35%) Games
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Local Government
6 1 (1.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) Developer
2 15 (23.81%) Software Engineer
3 13 (20.63%) Java Engineer
3 13 (20.63%) Java Software Engineer
4 12 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Lead
9 3 (4.76%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Snowflake Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 2 (3.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (36.51%) Spring
1 23 (36.51%) Spring Boot
2 16 (25.40%) Node.js
3 13 (20.63%) REST
4 12 (19.05%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (14.29%) Jest
6 7 (11.11%) Playwright
6 7 (11.11%) React
7 6 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (6.35%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.17%) Express.js
9 2 (3.17%) JSON
9 2 (3.17%) JSON Schema
9 2 (3.17%) Kafka
9 2 (3.17%) Middleware
9 2 (3.17%) Nunjucks
9 2 (3.17%) SwiftUI
9 2 (3.17%) UIKit
9 2 (3.17%) YAML
10 1 (1.59%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.76%) Legacy Code
2 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (52.38%) CI/CD
2 29 (46.03%) DevOps
3 16 (25.40%) Software Engineering
4 15 (23.81%) Containerisation
4 15 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (19.05%) Agile
5 12 (19.05%) Test Automation
6 11 (17.46%) Microservices
6 11 (17.46%) User Experience
7 10 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (14.29%) Observability
9 7 (11.11%) User Research
10 6 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (9.52%) High Availability
11 5 (7.94%) Analytics
11 5 (7.94%) Capacity Planning
11 5 (7.94%) Process Improvement
11 5 (7.94%) TDD
11 5 (7.94%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (46.03%) Java
2 17 (26.98%) Python
3 13 (20.63%) SQL
4 12 (19.05%) Kotlin
5 11 (17.46%) TypeScript
6 10 (15.87%) Bash
6 10 (15.87%) JavaScript
7 6 (9.52%) Go
8 5 (7.94%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.76%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.76%) ProC
10 2 (3.17%) Objective-C
10 2 (3.17%) Perl
10 2 (3.17%) Swift
11 1 (1.59%) C#
11 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.59%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.81%) Accessibility
2 9 (14.29%) WCAG
3 2 (3.17%) QA
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (50.79%) Kubernetes
2 25 (39.68%) Grafana
2 25 (39.68%) Terraform
3 12 (19.05%) Prometheus
4 7 (11.11%) Ansible
5 3 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.17%) Packer
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (7.94%) Dynatrace
1 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.94%) Splunk
2 4 (6.35%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) Cribl.io
4 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.59%) F5
4 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto