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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 43 61
Rank change year-on-year -19 +18 +11
Contract jobs citing GitLab 55 36 35
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.07% 3.92% 2.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.89% 25.71% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 24
10th Percentile £400 £366 £450
25th Percentile £445 £438 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £694
90th Percentile £640 £549 -
North West median daily rate £525 £492 £545
% change year-on-year +6.71% -9.72% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - £61.25
90th Percentile £58.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +51.52%

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 221 140 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.32% 15.25% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 95 128
10th Percentile £358 £335 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £520 £550
90th Percentile £638 £630 £679
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £495
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.14% -4.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 5
10th Percentile £47.25 £70.50 £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.25 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +76.77%
75th Percentile £75.44 £77.50 £81.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.25 £81.90
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £46.69
% change year-on-year -25.42% +57.96% -5.01%

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 10 June 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 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.64%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 34 (61.82%) AWS
2 18 (32.73%) GitHub
3 10 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 10 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (16.36%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (16.36%) Serverless
5 8 (14.55%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (14.55%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (14.55%) Azure
6 7 (12.73%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (10.91%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (9.09%) OCI
9 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.64%) BrowserStack
11 2 (3.64%) GCP
12 1 (1.82%) Amazon ELB
12 1 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) BGP
1 2 (3.64%) BIG-IP
1 2 (3.64%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (3.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (3.64%) Network Security
1 2 (3.64%) OSPF
1 2 (3.64%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.64%) VPN
1 2 (3.64%) VXLAN
1 2 (3.64%) WAN
2 1 (1.82%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) NGFW
2 1 (1.82%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.82%) SMS
2 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) Relational Database
2 8 (14.55%) MongoDB
3 6 (10.91%) DocumentDB
4 5 (9.09%) Oracle Database
5 4 (7.27%) MySQL
5 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.27%) RDBMS
6 3 (5.45%) OLTP
7 2 (3.64%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.82%) Metadata
8 1 (1.82%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Git
2 11 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (16.36%) Gradle
3 9 (16.36%) IntelliJ
4 8 (14.55%) Selenium
5 7 (12.73%) Mocha
6 6 (10.91%) CircleCI
6 6 (10.91%) Cypress.io
6 6 (10.91%) JUnit
7 4 (7.27%) Gatling
7 4 (7.27%) REST Assured
7 4 (7.27%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (3.64%) JMeter
8 2 (3.64%) Postman
8 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.64%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.82%) JIRA
9 1 (1.82%) Mockito
9 1 (1.82%) TestComplete
General
1 27 (49.09%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.09%) Military
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Local Government
5 1 (1.82%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Developer
2 13 (23.64%) Software Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Lead
4 10 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (16.36%) Senior
6 7 (12.73%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Lead Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 4 (7.27%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (7.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) DBA
8 4 (7.27%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Test Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Lead Software Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Lead Test Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (45.45%) Spring
1 25 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 14 (25.45%) Node.js
3 9 (16.36%) Kafka
3 9 (16.36%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (16.36%) Playwright
3 9 (16.36%) REST
4 8 (14.55%) React
5 7 (12.73%) Jest
6 4 (7.27%) RESTful
6 4 (7.27%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.64%) JSON
7 2 (3.64%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 2 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.64%) XML
8 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.82%) PySpark
8 1 (1.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.09%) NHS
3 4 (7.27%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.36%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) AIX
2 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 33 (60.00%) DevOps
3 23 (41.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (32.73%) Agile
5 17 (30.91%) Test Automation
6 16 (29.09%) Microservices
7 13 (23.64%) Containerisation
7 13 (23.64%) Software Engineering
8 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (14.55%) Full-Stack Development
9 8 (14.55%) Observability
10 7 (12.73%) Event-Driven
10 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
10 7 (12.73%) Performance Testing
11 6 (10.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (10.91%) Migration
11 6 (10.91%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.91%) User Experience
12 5 (9.09%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 29 (52.73%) Java
2 14 (25.45%) TypeScript
3 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.36%) Kotlin
5 7 (12.73%) Python
6 5 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 4 (7.27%) Bash
8 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.45%) ProC
8 3 (5.45%) SQL
9 2 (3.64%) Go
10 1 (1.82%) C#
10 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.82%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.09%) WCAG
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 17 (30.91%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.82%) zsh
Systems Management
1 30 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 26 (47.27%) Terraform
3 19 (34.55%) Grafana
4 10 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 8 (14.55%) Ansible
6 3 (5.45%) Argo
7 2 (3.64%) Data Guard
7 2 (3.64%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Oracle
2 4 (7.27%) Splunk
3 3 (5.45%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.64%) Aruba
4 2 (3.64%) F5
4 2 (3.64%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.64%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.64%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.82%) Arista
5 1 (1.82%) Databricks
5 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) Tanium
5 1 (1.82%) Tenable
5 1 (1.82%) Veracode