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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 45 57
Rank change year-on-year -47 +12 +32
Contract jobs citing GitLab 36 41 28
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.77% 4.04% 2.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.00% 26.62% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 29 10
10th Percentile £370 £351 £354
25th Percentile £430 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £402 £395
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% +1.77% -23.86%
75th Percentile £645 £600 £490
90th Percentile £730 £658 £541
North West median daily rate £569 £402 £400
% change year-on-year +41.54% +0.50% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £50.00 - £85.00

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 225 154 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.03% 15.17% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 116 82
10th Percentile £376 £339 £324
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £550
90th Percentile £674 £645 £599
North West median daily rate £500 £425 £448
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.03% -12.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 1
10th Percentile £24.15 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +47.37% -30.91%
75th Percentile £77.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile £81.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £63.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.36% +37.29% -

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 14 October 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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.78%) nginx
2 1 (2.78%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 28 (77.78%) AWS
2 14 (38.89%) GitHub
3 9 (25.00%) Azure
4 6 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (13.89%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.89%) OCI
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (11.11%) Serverless
7 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) SaaS
8 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (5.56%) Google Sheets
8 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
8 2 (5.56%) npm
8 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
1 4 (11.11%) Network Security
2 3 (8.33%) BGP
2 3 (8.33%) DNS
2 3 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (8.33%) OSPF
2 3 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 3 (8.33%) VXLAN
2 3 (8.33%) WAN
3 2 (5.56%) BIG-IP
3 2 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.56%) VPN
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.78%) DHCP
4 1 (2.78%) HTTP
4 1 (2.78%) Internet
4 1 (2.78%) MPLS
4 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 3 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.56%) DocumentDB
4 2 (5.56%) MySQL
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.00%) Git
3 6 (16.67%) Selenium
4 5 (13.89%) REST Assured
5 4 (11.11%) Cucumber
5 4 (11.11%) Gatling
6 3 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (5.56%) JUnit
7 2 (5.56%) Maven
7 2 (5.56%) TestNG
7 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
8 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.78%) git-flow
8 1 (2.78%) JIRA
8 1 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 13 (36.11%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.22%) Military
3 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (33.33%) Senior
3 10 (27.78%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (19.44%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (19.44%) Lead
6 6 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (13.89%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (13.89%) Test Engineer
8 4 (11.11%) Developer
9 3 (8.33%) DBA
9 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
10 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
10 2 (5.56%) SIEM Engineer
10 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
10 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
10 2 (5.56%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (61.11%) Terraform
2 8 (22.22%) Kafka
3 5 (13.89%) JSON
3 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
4 4 (11.11%) Playwright
4 4 (11.11%) REST
4 4 (11.11%) Spring
5 3 (8.33%) Node.js
5 3 (8.33%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (8.33%) XML
6 1 (2.78%) cloud-init
6 1 (2.78%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.78%) HTML
6 1 (2.78%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (2.78%) Keycloak
6 1 (2.78%) MACH
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (2.78%) Semantic HTML
6 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) NHS
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) PKI
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) AIX
3 1 (2.78%) CentOS
3 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 27 (75.00%) DevOps
3 19 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (36.11%) Agile
5 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
6 9 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (22.22%) Observability
8 7 (19.44%) Cloud Security
9 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 5 (13.89%) API Testing
10 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.89%) Load Balancing
10 5 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (11.11%) AI
11 4 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
11 4 (11.11%) Incident Response
11 4 (11.11%) Kanban
11 4 (11.11%) Performance Testing
11 4 (11.11%) Scrum
11 4 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) Java
3 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
3 5 (13.89%) SQL
4 4 (11.11%) Bash
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (5.56%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
7 1 (2.78%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) Go
7 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (52.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) CISSP
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) GCFA
3 2 (5.56%) GCIH
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) CCIE
4 1 (2.78%) CCNP
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
2 2 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.78%) NCSC
3 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (41.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Ansible
1 13 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.67%) Grafana
2 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.56%) Argo
4 2 (5.56%) CASB
4 2 (5.56%) Packer
5 1 (2.78%) Consul
5 1 (2.78%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.78%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.78%) Istio
5 1 (2.78%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.78%) linkerd
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.78%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) Rancher
5 1 (2.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Splunk
2 4 (11.11%) Oracle
2 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 3 (8.33%) F5
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) Aruba
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Cribl.io
4 2 (5.56%) Google
4 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.56%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.78%) Apple
5 1 (2.78%) Arista
5 1 (2.78%) ESET
5 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.78%) Okta
5 1 (2.78%) Tanium
5 1 (2.78%) Tenable
5 1 (2.78%) VMware
61 GitLab jobs in Manchester