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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 50 65
Rank change year-on-year -44 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing GitLab 32 34 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.63% 3.42% 1.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.55% 26.36% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 9
10th Percentile £400 £362 £497
25th Percentile £403 £414 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £549 £575
90th Percentile £738 £684 £655
North West median daily rate £575 £480 £516
% change year-on-year +19.79% -7.02% -13.96%

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 220 129 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.18% 12.96% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 88 80
10th Percentile £358 £330 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £670 £616
North West median daily rate £479 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +12.71% -10.53% -10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £24.13 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £32.30 £71.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.75 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +57.89% -25.49%
75th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.70 £78.25 -
North West median hourly rate £43.15 £73.75 £43.10
% change year-on-year -41.49% +71.10% -6.66%

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 1 August 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 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.25%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (90.63%) AWS
2 10 (31.25%) GitHub
3 9 (28.13%) Azure
4 6 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 6 (18.75%) OCI
5 5 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) Serverless
6 4 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (3.13%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
9 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (3.13%) BrowserStack
9 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) BGP
1 3 (9.38%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (9.38%) OSPF
1 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
1 3 (9.38%) VXLAN
1 3 (9.38%) WAN
2 2 (6.25%) BIG-IP
2 2 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) MPLS
3 1 (3.13%) SMS
3 1 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Relational Database
2 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.25%) DocumentDB
5 2 (6.25%) MySQL
5 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata
6 1 (3.13%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) Git
3 5 (15.63%) Selenium
4 4 (12.50%) REST Assured
5 3 (9.38%) Gatling
5 3 (9.38%) Serenity BDD
6 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 2 (6.25%) JUnit
7 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.13%) Mockito
7 1 (3.13%) Postman
7 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.13%) TestNG
7 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Military
3 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (28.13%) Lead
3 8 (25.00%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) DBA
5 4 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Network Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior DBA
7 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) Kafka
2 6 (18.75%) Spring
2 6 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 4 (12.50%) JSON
3 4 (12.50%) Node.js
4 3 (9.38%) Playwright
4 3 (9.38%) REST
4 3 (9.38%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (6.25%) XML
6 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.13%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (3.13%) Java EE
6 1 (3.13%) PySpark
6 1 (3.13%) React
6 1 (3.13%) RESTful
6 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.38%) NHS
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) AIX
2 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 25 (78.13%) DevOps
3 19 (59.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (40.63%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
6 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (21.88%) Observability
7 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
8 6 (18.75%) Microservices
8 6 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (15.63%) Coaching
9 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (12.50%) API Testing
10 4 (12.50%) Cloud Security
10 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven
10 4 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (12.50%) Load Balancing
10 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Bash
4 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (59.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (53.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) CCIE
3 1 (3.13%) CCNP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.13%) zsh
Systems Management
1 24 (75.00%) Terraform
2 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (43.75%) Ansible
4 5 (15.63%) Grafana
4 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
5 4 (12.50%) Argo
6 2 (6.25%) Data Guard
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (3.13%) Packer
7 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 3 (9.38%) F5
3 3 (9.38%) Splunk
4 2 (6.25%) Aruba
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.13%) Arista
5 1 (3.13%) Databricks
5 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.13%) Tanium
5 1 (3.13%) Tenable
5 1 (3.13%) VMware