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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 44 61
Rank change year-on-year -10 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing GitLab 58 36 32
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.34% 4.07% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.01% 24.32% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 23 23
10th Percentile £400 £440 £450
25th Percentile £450 £457 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -10.02%
75th Percentile £538 £545 £694
90th Percentile £636 £710 -
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
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 - - +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 223 148 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.85% 16.74% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 100 131
10th Percentile £359 £348 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £517 £550
90th Percentile £638 £605 £694
North West median daily rate £450 £438 £495
% change year-on-year +2.86% -11.62% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 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% - +89.39%
75th Percentile £71.88 £77.81 £81.38
90th Percentile £91.20 £78.38 £82.05
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £52.94
% change year-on-year -26.67% +41.67% +1.55%

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 22 May 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 22 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in Manchester

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 1 (1.72%) Confluence
1 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.72%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 32 (55.17%) AWS
2 19 (32.76%) GitHub
3 11 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (17.24%) Amazon S3
5 9 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (15.52%) Azure
5 9 (15.52%) Serverless
6 8 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (12.07%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (6.90%) OCI
9 4 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (5.17%) GCP
11 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.45%) BrowserStack
12 1 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
12 1 (1.72%) AWS KMS
12 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) BGP
1 2 (3.45%) BIG-IP
1 2 (3.45%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (3.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (3.45%) Network Security
1 2 (3.45%) OSPF
1 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.45%) VPN
1 2 (3.45%) VXLAN
1 2 (3.45%) WAN
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) NGFW
2 1 (1.72%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.72%) SMS
2 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) MongoDB
1 8 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 6 (10.34%) DocumentDB
3 4 (6.90%) MySQL
3 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.90%) Oracle Database
3 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.17%) OLTP
4 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Metadata
5 1 (1.72%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) Git
2 12 (20.69%) Gradle
2 12 (20.69%) IntelliJ
3 11 (18.97%) Jenkins
4 8 (13.79%) CircleCI
4 8 (13.79%) JUnit
4 8 (13.79%) Mocha
5 7 (12.07%) Cypress.io
5 7 (12.07%) Selenium
6 4 (6.90%) Gatling
6 4 (6.90%) REST Assured
6 4 (6.90%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (3.45%) fastlane
7 2 (3.45%) JMeter
7 2 (3.45%) Postman
7 2 (3.45%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.45%) XCTest
8 1 (1.72%) JIRA
8 1 (1.72%) TestComplete
8 1 (1.72%) Xcode
General
1 27 (46.55%) Public Sector
2 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (5.17%) Military
2 3 (5.17%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.45%) Local Government
4 1 (1.72%) Banking
4 1 (1.72%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Developer
2 15 (25.86%) Software Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Java Engineer
3 12 (20.69%) Java Software Engineer
4 10 (17.24%) Lead
4 10 (17.24%) Senior
5 8 (13.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Lead Developer
6 5 (8.62%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) DBA
8 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Lead Test Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (51.72%) Spring
1 30 (51.72%) Spring Boot
2 16 (27.59%) Node.js
3 13 (22.41%) REST
4 12 (20.69%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (18.97%) Playwright
6 10 (17.24%) React
7 9 (15.52%) Jest
7 9 (15.52%) Kafka
8 5 (8.62%) GraphQL
9 4 (6.90%) JSON
9 4 (6.90%) RESTful
9 4 (6.90%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (3.45%) JSON Schema
10 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (3.45%) SwiftUI
10 2 (3.45%) UIKit
10 2 (3.45%) XML
11 1 (1.72%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.62%) NHS
2 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.17%) Legacy Code
4 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.72%) AIX
3 1 (1.72%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 33 (56.90%) DevOps
3 20 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (32.76%) Test Automation
5 18 (31.03%) Agile
5 18 (31.03%) Microservices
6 15 (25.86%) Software Engineering
7 14 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (22.41%) Containerisation
9 12 (20.69%) User Experience
10 10 (17.24%) Observability
11 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (13.79%) TDD
13 7 (12.07%) Event-Driven
13 7 (12.07%) Mentoring
13 7 (12.07%) Performance Testing
13 7 (12.07%) User Research
14 6 (10.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (10.34%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (56.90%) Java
2 16 (27.59%) TypeScript
3 12 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 12 (20.69%) Kotlin
4 5 (8.62%) Python
4 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.90%) Bash
6 3 (5.17%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.17%) ProC
6 3 (5.17%) SQL
7 2 (3.45%) Go
7 2 (3.45%) Objective-C
7 2 (3.45%) Swift
8 1 (1.72%) C#
8 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (31.03%) Security Cleared
2 13 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (29.31%) Accessibility
2 7 (12.07%) WCAG
3 3 (5.17%) QA
System Software
1 17 (29.31%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.72%) zsh
Systems Management
1 32 (55.17%) Kubernetes
2 23 (39.66%) Terraform
3 22 (37.93%) Grafana
4 10 (17.24%) Prometheus
5 7 (12.07%) Ansible
6 3 (5.17%) Argo
7 1 (1.72%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.72%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Oracle
2 4 (6.90%) Splunk
3 3 (5.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.45%) Aruba
4 2 (3.45%) F5
4 2 (3.45%) PagerDuty
4 2 (3.45%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.72%) Arista
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) Tanium
5 1 (1.72%) Tenable
5 1 (1.72%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.72%) Veracode