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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +6
Contract jobs citing GitLab 53 38 43
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.15% 4.10% 2.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.42% 25.50% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 29 33
10th Percentile £400 £438 £450
25th Percentile £463 £458 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -14.89% -7.84%
75th Percentile £544 £550 £675
90th Percentile £644 £675 £694
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £606
% change year-on-year -1.50% -17.53% +1.04%
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 - - +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 217 149 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.89% 16.09% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 104 159
10th Percentile £358 £322 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £547 £538 £581
90th Percentile £638 £635 £694
North West median daily rate £447 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -1.28%
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% - +66.67%
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% +6.15%

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 1 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 1 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 (1.89%) Confluence
1 1 (1.89%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.89%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 28 (52.83%) AWS
2 14 (26.42%) GitHub
3 11 (20.75%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (16.98%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (16.98%) Azure
5 7 (13.21%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
5 7 (13.21%) Serverless
6 6 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (7.55%) OCI
9 3 (5.66%) GCP
9 3 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (1.89%) BrowserStack
11 1 (1.89%) Datadog
11 1 (1.89%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) BGP
1 2 (3.77%) BIG-IP
1 2 (3.77%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (3.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (3.77%) Network Security
1 2 (3.77%) OSPF
1 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.77%) VXLAN
1 2 (3.77%) WAN
2 1 (1.89%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) NGFW
2 1 (1.89%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.89%) SMS
2 1 (1.89%) VPN
2 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) DocumentDB
2 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.66%) OLTP
2 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.77%) MySQL
3 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.89%) Metadata
4 1 (1.89%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (26.42%) Git
2 12 (22.64%) Gradle
2 12 (22.64%) IntelliJ
3 8 (15.09%) CircleCI
3 8 (15.09%) Jenkins
3 8 (15.09%) JUnit
3 8 (15.09%) Mocha
4 7 (13.21%) Cypress.io
5 4 (7.55%) Selenium
6 2 (3.77%) fastlane
6 2 (3.77%) JMeter
6 2 (3.77%) Postman
6 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.77%) XCTest
7 1 (1.89%) Android Studio
7 1 (1.89%) Appium
7 1 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.89%) Gatling
7 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.89%) Serenity BDD
General
1 24 (45.28%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Local Government
3 2 (3.77%) Military
3 2 (3.77%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Banking
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Developer
2 14 (26.42%) Software Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Java Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Java Software Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (13.21%) Senior
6 6 (11.32%) Java Developer
7 5 (9.43%) Lead
8 4 (7.55%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (5.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.77%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (52.83%) Spring
1 28 (52.83%) Spring Boot
2 14 (26.42%) Node.js
3 13 (24.53%) REST
4 12 (22.64%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (18.87%) React
6 9 (16.98%) Jest
7 8 (15.09%) Playwright
8 5 (9.43%) GraphQL
9 4 (7.55%) Kafka
9 4 (7.55%) RESTful
10 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (3.77%) JSON
10 2 (3.77%) JSON Schema
10 2 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (3.77%) SwiftUI
10 2 (3.77%) UIKit
11 1 (1.89%) Android Jetpack
11 1 (1.89%) OkHttp
11 1 (1.89%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.66%) Legacy Code
2 3 (5.66%) NHS
2 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.89%) AIX
3 1 (1.89%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (69.81%) CI/CD
2 25 (47.17%) DevOps
3 17 (32.08%) Test Automation
4 16 (30.19%) Agile
4 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (28.30%) Microservices
5 15 (28.30%) Software Engineering
6 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
6 13 (24.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (22.64%) User Experience
8 9 (16.98%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (16.98%) TDD
9 8 (15.09%) Observability
10 7 (13.21%) User Research
11 6 (11.32%) Migration
11 6 (11.32%) UX Design
12 5 (9.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 5 (9.43%) Event-Driven
12 5 (9.43%) Mentoring
13 4 (7.55%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Java
2 14 (26.42%) TypeScript
3 12 (22.64%) JavaScript
3 12 (22.64%) Kotlin
4 5 (9.43%) Python
5 4 (7.55%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.66%) Bash
6 3 (5.66%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.66%) ProC
6 3 (5.66%) SQL
7 2 (3.77%) Go
7 2 (3.77%) Objective-C
7 2 (3.77%) Swift
8 1 (1.89%) C#
8 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.42%) Accessibility
2 7 (13.21%) WCAG
3 3 (5.66%) QA
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.89%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (60.38%) Kubernetes
2 21 (39.62%) Grafana
3 20 (37.74%) Terraform
4 9 (16.98%) Prometheus
5 6 (11.32%) Ansible
6 2 (3.77%) Argo
7 1 (1.89%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Oracle
2 3 (5.66%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.77%) Aruba
3 2 (3.77%) F5
3 2 (3.77%) PagerDuty
3 2 (3.77%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.89%) Arista
4 1 (1.89%) Databricks
4 1 (1.89%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.89%) Splunk
4 1 (1.89%) Veracode