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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 38 83
Rank change year-on-year +1 +45 -35
Contract jobs citing GitLab 59 46 26
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.86% 4.31% 1.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.10% 30.26% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 27 19
10th Percentile £376 £360 £470
25th Percentile £400 £380 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £625
90th Percentile £663 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £413 £500 £606
% change year-on-year -17.50% -17.53% +1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £60.31 - £61.25
90th Percentile £64.15 - -
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 196 152 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.13% 14.25% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 104 169
10th Percentile £344 £324 £367
25th Percentile £400 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £619
90th Percentile £638 £626 £694
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £520
% change year-on-year -5.56% -13.46% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - £79.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +12.24% +6.11% +1.38%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 2025. 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 (11.86%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 34 (57.63%) AWS
2 13 (22.03%) GitHub
3 10 (16.95%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (16.95%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (13.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (11.86%) Azure
5 7 (11.86%) GCP
6 6 (10.17%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.47%) Datadog
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.78%) Pulumi
9 3 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.08%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (5.08%) Serverless
10 2 (3.39%) dbt
10 2 (3.39%) Kong
10 2 (3.39%) npm
10 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DNS
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
1 1 (1.69%) SSL
1 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.08%) OLTP
3 2 (3.39%) Data Vault
3 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.39%) Redis
4 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.69%) MySQL
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.95%) Gradle
2 10 (16.95%) IntelliJ
3 9 (15.25%) Git
4 6 (10.17%) Cypress.io
5 4 (6.78%) CircleCI
5 4 (6.78%) JUnit
6 3 (5.08%) Mocha
7 2 (3.39%) fastlane
7 2 (3.39%) XCTest
8 1 (1.69%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.69%) JIRA
8 1 (1.69%) Xcode
General
1 19 (32.20%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 5 (8.47%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
4 4 (6.78%) Games
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Local Government
7 1 (1.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Developer
2 13 (22.03%) Software Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) Java Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) Java Software Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (10.17%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (10.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Backend Developer
9 3 (5.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Snowflake Developer
10 2 (3.39%) AWS Data Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.51%) Spring
1 18 (30.51%) Spring Boot
2 13 (22.03%) Node.js
3 10 (16.95%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (16.95%) REST
4 6 (10.17%) Jest
5 5 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (8.47%) Playwright
5 5 (8.47%) React
6 3 (5.08%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.39%) AWS CDK
7 2 (3.39%) Express.js
7 2 (3.39%) JSON
7 2 (3.39%) JSON Schema
7 2 (3.39%) Kafka
7 2 (3.39%) Middleware
7 2 (3.39%) Nunjucks
7 2 (3.39%) SwiftUI
7 2 (3.39%) UIKit
7 2 (3.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.08%) Legacy Code
1 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.39%) Synthetic Data
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) CI/CD
2 28 (47.46%) DevOps
3 16 (27.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (23.73%) Software Engineering
5 13 (22.03%) Containerisation
6 10 (16.95%) Agile
7 9 (15.25%) Observability
7 9 (15.25%) User Experience
8 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
9 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (11.86%) Microservices
9 7 (11.86%) Process Improvement
10 6 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (10.17%) High Availability
11 5 (8.47%) Analytics
11 5 (8.47%) Capacity Planning
11 5 (8.47%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (8.47%) TDD
11 5 (8.47%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) Java
2 17 (28.81%) Python
3 13 (22.03%) SQL
4 10 (16.95%) Kotlin
5 9 (15.25%) Bash
6 8 (13.56%) TypeScript
7 7 (11.86%) Go
7 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
8 6 (10.17%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.08%) Perl
9 3 (5.08%) PL/SQL
9 3 (5.08%) ProC
10 2 (3.39%) Objective-C
10 2 (3.39%) Swift
11 1 (1.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.03%) Accessibility
2 7 (11.86%) WCAG
3 4 (6.78%) QA
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (47.46%) Kubernetes
2 26 (44.07%) Terraform
3 22 (37.29%) Grafana
4 12 (20.34%) Prometheus
5 10 (16.95%) Ansible
6 3 (5.08%) Packer
6 3 (5.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Dynatrace
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.47%) Splunk
2 4 (6.78%) Oracle
3 2 (3.39%) Cribl.io
4 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.69%) F5
4 1 (1.69%) Palo Alto