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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 45 70
Rank change year-on-year -49 +25 +16
Contract jobs citing GitLab 31 34 20
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.58% 3.44% 1.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.22% 26.36% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 9
10th Percentile £396 £362 £497
25th Percentile £402 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £643 £549 £575
90th Percentile £704 £684 £655
North West median daily rate £575 £480 £516
% change year-on-year +19.79% -7.02% -13.96%

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 218 129 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.09% 13.04% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 89 82
10th Percentile £358 £331 £353
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £579 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £668 £609
North West median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £24.13 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £32.30 £71.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.75 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +57.89% -25.49%
75th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.70 £78.25 -
North West median hourly rate £43.15 £73.75 £43.10
% change year-on-year -41.49% +71.10% -6.66%

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 31 July 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
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 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.45%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (90.32%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) GitHub
3 9 (29.03%) Azure
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon S3
4 6 (19.35%) OCI
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (12.90%) Serverless
6 4 (12.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.23%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (3.23%) AWS KMS
9 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) BGP
1 3 (9.68%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (9.68%) OSPF
1 3 (9.68%) SD-WAN
1 3 (9.68%) VXLAN
1 3 (9.68%) WAN
2 2 (6.45%) BIG-IP
2 2 (6.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) Network Security
2 2 (6.45%) VPN
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.23%) DHCP
3 1 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (3.23%) MPLS
3 1 (3.23%) SMS
3 1 (3.23%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
2 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle Database
3 4 (12.90%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.45%) DocumentDB
5 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.23%) Metadata
6 1 (3.23%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 6 (19.35%) Git
3 5 (16.13%) Selenium
4 4 (12.90%) REST Assured
5 3 (9.68%) Gatling
5 3 (9.68%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.45%) JUnit
7 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.23%) Mockito
7 1 (3.23%) Postman
7 1 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.23%) TestNG
7 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (45.16%) Public Sector
2 6 (19.35%) Military
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Lead
2 8 (25.81%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) DBA
4 4 (12.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Test Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (9.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior DBA
6 2 (6.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Kafka
2 5 (16.13%) Spring
2 5 (16.13%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.90%) JSON
3 4 (12.90%) Node.js
4 3 (9.68%) Playwright
4 3 (9.68%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (6.45%) XML
6 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.23%) PySpark
6 1 (3.23%) React
6 1 (3.23%) RESTful
6 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.68%) NHS
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) AIX
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (87.10%) CI/CD
2 25 (80.65%) DevOps
3 19 (61.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (38.71%) Agile
5 9 (29.03%) Containerisation
6 7 (22.58%) Mentoring
6 7 (22.58%) Observability
6 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
7 6 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (16.13%) Microservices
8 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (12.90%) Cloud Security
9 4 (12.90%) Coaching
9 4 (12.90%) Configuration Management
9 4 (12.90%) Event-Driven
9 4 (12.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 4 (12.90%) Load Balancing
9 4 (12.90%) Migration
9 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) Bash
4 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (61.29%) Security Cleared
2 17 (54.84%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) CCIE
3 1 (3.23%) CCNP
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.23%) zsh
Systems Management
1 24 (77.42%) Terraform
2 16 (51.61%) Kubernetes
3 14 (45.16%) Ansible
4 5 (16.13%) Grafana
4 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
5 4 (12.90%) Argo
6 2 (6.45%) Data Guard
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (3.23%) Packer
7 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Palo Alto
3 3 (9.68%) F5
3 3 (9.68%) Splunk
4 2 (6.45%) Aruba
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.23%) Arista
5 1 (3.23%) Databricks
5 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) Tanium
5 1 (3.23%) Tenable
5 1 (3.23%) VMware