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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 41 86
Rank change year-on-year -11 +45 -35
Contract jobs citing GitLab 42 46 20
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.71% 3.90% 1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.45% 30.26% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 16
10th Percentile £363 £360 £491
25th Percentile £400 £375 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £594
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -20.00% +0.64%
75th Percentile £620 £550 £625
90th Percentile £661 £656 -
North West median daily rate £402 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -19.60% -16.67% +0.84%

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 165 152 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.56% 12.88% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 98 162
10th Percentile £333 £318 £363
25th Percentile £381 £361 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £616
90th Percentile £638 £638 £662
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £49.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +78.95% -30.91% +52.78%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £47.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +33.47% +2.86% +2.62%

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 28 November 2025.

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
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 28 November 2025. 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 - 4 - -
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 7 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 30 (71.43%) AWS
2 11 (26.19%) GitHub
3 10 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (16.67%) Azure
4 7 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (14.29%) GCP
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
7 4 (9.52%) Datadog
7 4 (9.52%) Pulumi
8 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (7.14%) Serverless
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.76%) dbt
9 2 (4.76%) Kong
9 2 (4.76%) npm
9 2 (4.76%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) Firewall
1 1 (2.38%) Network Security
1 1 (2.38%) SSL
1 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Data Lake
2 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.76%) Data Vault
3 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.76%) Redis
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (11.90%) Git
3 2 (4.76%) Android Studio
3 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 12 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.29%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Games
5 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Developer
2 10 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) Lead
8 3 (7.14%) Snowflake Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Developer
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Backend Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) Node.js
2 5 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (7.14%) RESTful
3 3 (7.14%) Spring
3 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.76%) Android Jetpack
4 2 (4.76%) Android SDK
4 2 (4.76%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.76%) Express.js
4 2 (4.76%) Jest
4 2 (4.76%) Jetpack Compose
4 2 (4.76%) Kafka
4 2 (4.76%) Middleware
4 2 (4.76%) Nunjucks
4 2 (4.76%) REST
4 2 (4.76%) YAML
5 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.38%) React
5 1 (2.38%) Sass
5 1 (2.38%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
1 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
1 2 (4.76%) Synthetic Data
2 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) DevOps
2 23 (54.76%) CI/CD
3 15 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 8 (19.05%) Agile
6 7 (16.67%) Observability
6 7 (16.67%) Process Improvement
7 6 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 6 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (14.29%) High Availability
8 5 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (11.90%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (11.90%) DevSecOps
8 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (9.52%) SDLC
9 4 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) Software Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) Java
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 9 (21.43%) Bash
4 7 (16.67%) Go
5 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.14%) Perl
6 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.76%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.14%) WCAG
3 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (59.52%) Terraform
2 17 (40.48%) Kubernetes
3 11 (26.19%) Grafana
4 10 (23.81%) Ansible
5 9 (21.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.14%) Packer
6 3 (7.14%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
1 5 (11.90%) Splunk
2 2 (4.76%) Cribl.io
2 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.38%) F5
3 1 (2.38%) IBM
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Palo Alto