GitLab Contract Job Trends in Manchester

GitLab
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester citing GitLab skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 2 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	88	48	48
Rank change year-on-year	-40	0	+43
Contract jobs citing GitLab	44	42	37
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester	2.14%	3.93%	3.18%
As % of the Development Applications category	17.46%	26.92%	26.62%
Number of daily rates quoted	25	30	16
10^th Percentile	£378	£357	£358
25^th Percentile	£429	-	£362
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£400	£395
Median % change year-on-year	+31.25%	+1.27%	-22.93%
75^th Percentile	£630	£600	£518
90^th Percentile	£723	£654	£598
North West median daily rate	£544	£402	£400
% change year-on-year	+35.20%	+0.50%	-27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£50.00	-	-
Median hourly rate	£65.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	-	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
North West median hourly rate	£65.00	-	£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 citing development application skills in Manchester.

	6 months to 2 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing development application skills	252	156	139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester	12.27%	14.58%	11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted	145	117	89
10^th Percentile	£378	£332	£323
25^th Percentile	£413	£381	£360
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£458	£438
Median % change year-on-year	+9.29%	+4.57%	-12.50%
75^th Percentile	£600	£588	£540
90^th Percentile	£673	£643	£603
North West median daily rate	£500	£425	£448
% change year-on-year	+17.65%	-5.03%	-11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted	25	2	1
10^th Percentile	£34.51	£71.50	-
25^th Percentile	£57.50	£73.75	£46.25
Median hourly rate	£65.00	£77.50	£47.50
Median % change year-on-year	-16.13%	+63.16%	-30.91%
75^th Percentile	£77.00	£81.25	£48.75
90^th Percentile	£78.05	£83.50	-
North West median hourly rate	£62.50	£63.40	£46.18
% change year-on-year	-1.42%	+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 Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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 2 November 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.

GitLab Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Manchester over the 6 months to 2 November 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 2 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Bolton	-	4	-	-	5
GitLab North West

GitLab Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 2 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitLab also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region citing GitLab.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	81.8%	36
2	DevOps	65.9%	29
3	AWS	59.1%	26
4	Terraform	56.8%	25
5	Security Cleared	54.5%	24
6	Infrastructure as Code	45.5%	20
6	SC Cleared	45.5%	20
8	Jenkins	38.6%	17
9	Agile	34.1%	15
9	Docker	34.1%	15
9	Kubernetes	34.1%	15
9	Test Automation	34.1%	15
13	GitHub	31.8%	14
13	Python	31.8%	14
15	Ansible	29.5%	13
15	Git	29.5%	13
17	Azure	25.0%	11
17	Containerisation	25.0%	11
19	Java	22.7%	10
20	MongoDB	20.5%	9
21	Kafka	18.2%	8
21	Observability	18.2%	8
23	Cloud Security	15.9%	7
23	Continuous Improvement	15.9%	7
23	Infrastructure Automation	15.9%	7
23	PowerShell	15.9%	7
23	Problem-Solving	15.9%	7
23	Software Testing	15.9%	7
23	Spring Boot	15.9%	7
30	Amazon ECS	13.6%	6

GitLab Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Jenkins	38.6%	17
2	Git	29.5%	13
3	Selenium	13.6%	6
4	JIRA	11.4%	5
4	REST Assured	11.4%	5
6	Cucumber	9.1%	4
6	Gatling	9.1%	4
6	Rational DOORS	9.1%	4
6	SonarQube	9.1%	4
10	Serenity BDD	6.8%	3
10	Sonatype Nexus	6.8%	3
12	JUnit	4.5%	2
12	Maven	4.5%	2
12	TestNG	4.5%	2
12	WebDriver	4.5%	2
16	Cypress.io	2.3%	1
16	git-flow	2.3%	1
16	Postman	2.3%	1