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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 43 57
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing GitLab 57 46 43
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.49% 4.99% 2.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.01% 27.54% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 33
10th Percentile £400 £390 £450
25th Percentile £444 £456 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% -6.93%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £675
90th Percentile £573 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £475 £510 £606
% change year-on-year -6.84% -15.90% +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 211 167 199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.92% 18.11% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 118 160
10th Percentile £351 £324 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% -5.24%
75th Percentile £538 £529 £575
90th Percentile £633 £652 £694
North West median daily rate £447 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 4
10th Percentile - £71.63 £61.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £72.19 £65.31
Median hourly rate £57.50 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - +77.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.81 £81.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.38 £82.05
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £52.94
% change year-on-year -26.67% +41.67% +10.31%

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 April 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 14 April 2026.

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 14 April 2026. 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 - 1 - -
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 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.75%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 31 (54.39%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) GitHub
3 14 (24.56%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (15.79%) Amazon S3
4 9 (15.79%) Serverless
5 8 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (14.04%) Azure
6 6 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (8.77%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (7.02%) GCP
9 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.51%) Datadog
10 2 (3.51%) OCI
11 1 (1.75%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Network Security
1 1 (1.75%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (1.75%) SMS
1 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) DocumentDB
2 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.26%) OLTP
2 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.75%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.75%) Metadata
4 1 (1.75%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) Git
2 12 (21.05%) Gradle
2 12 (21.05%) IntelliJ
3 11 (19.30%) Jenkins
4 8 (14.04%) CircleCI
4 8 (14.04%) JUnit
4 8 (14.04%) Mocha
5 7 (12.28%) Cypress.io
6 4 (7.02%) Selenium
7 2 (3.51%) fastlane
7 2 (3.51%) JMeter
7 2 (3.51%) Postman
7 2 (3.51%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.51%) XCTest
8 1 (1.75%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.75%) Appium
8 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.75%) Gatling
8 1 (1.75%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.75%) Serenity BDD
General
1 24 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.26%) Finance
3 2 (3.51%) Banking
3 2 (3.51%) Local Government
3 2 (3.51%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Games
4 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Developer
2 14 (24.56%) Software Engineer
3 12 (21.05%) Java Engineer
3 12 (21.05%) Java Software Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Lead
6 6 (10.53%) Senior
7 5 (8.77%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (8.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.51%) AWS Data Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) iOS Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (50.88%) Spring
1 29 (50.88%) Spring Boot
2 14 (24.56%) Node.js
3 13 (22.81%) REST
4 12 (21.05%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (19.30%) React
6 9 (15.79%) Jest
7 8 (14.04%) Playwright
8 5 (8.77%) GraphQL
8 5 (8.77%) Kafka
9 4 (7.02%) RESTful
10 3 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (3.51%) JSON
11 2 (3.51%) JSON Schema
11 2 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (3.51%) SwiftUI
11 2 (3.51%) UIKit
12 1 (1.75%) Android Jetpack
12 1 (1.75%) OkHttp
12 1 (1.75%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.26%) Legacy Code
3 3 (5.26%) NHS
4 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.75%) AIX
3 1 (1.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (71.93%) CI/CD
2 27 (47.37%) DevOps
3 18 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (29.82%) Agile
4 17 (29.82%) Test Automation
5 16 (28.07%) Containerisation
5 16 (28.07%) Microservices
5 16 (28.07%) Software Engineering
6 13 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (21.05%) User Experience
8 11 (19.30%) Observability
9 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (15.79%) TDD
10 7 (12.28%) User Research
11 6 (10.53%) Migration
11 6 (10.53%) UX Design
12 5 (8.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 5 (8.77%) Event-Driven
12 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
12 5 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (57.89%) Java
2 14 (24.56%) TypeScript
3 12 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 12 (21.05%) Kotlin
4 8 (14.04%) Python
5 6 (10.53%) SQL
6 4 (7.02%) Bash
6 4 (7.02%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.26%) Go
7 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.26%) ProC
8 2 (3.51%) Objective-C
8 2 (3.51%) Swift
9 1 (1.75%) C#
9 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) Accessibility
2 7 (12.28%) WCAG
3 3 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 16 (28.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.75%) zsh
Systems Management
1 36 (63.16%) Kubernetes
2 25 (43.86%) Grafana
3 24 (42.11%) Terraform
4 13 (22.81%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.77%) Ansible
6 2 (3.51%) Argo
7 1 (1.75%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle
2 3 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.51%) PagerDuty
3 2 (3.51%) Splunk
4 1 (1.75%) Databricks
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.75%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.75%) Veracode