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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 46 84
Rank change year-on-year +4 +38 -23
Contract jobs citing GitLab 43 36 15
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.03% 3.16% 0.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.56% 26.47% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 11
10th Percentile £351 £358 £388
25th Percentile - £361 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -21.95% -10.87%
75th Percentile £600 £524 £581
90th Percentile £658 £610 £600
North West median daily rate £400 £400 £550
% change year-on-year - -27.27% -4.35%

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 156 136 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.63% 11.92% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 86 154
10th Percentile £335 £321 £363
25th Percentile £383 £361 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £444 £511
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -13.20% -7.05%
75th Percentile £594 £550 £600
90th Percentile £646 £606 £659
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £510
% change year-on-year -5.56% -11.76% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £71.50 - £49.25
25th Percentile £73.75 £46.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £77.50 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +63.16% -30.91% -1.79%
75th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £77.81
90th Percentile £83.50 - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.29% - -36.30%

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 October 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 October 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 - - 2
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 6 (13.95%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.65%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.65%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 30 (69.77%) AWS
2 10 (23.26%) GitHub
3 9 (20.93%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (20.93%) Azure
3 9 (20.93%) GCP
4 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.30%) Datadog
6 4 (9.30%) npm
6 4 (9.30%) Pulumi
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.65%) dbt
7 2 (4.65%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (4.65%) Kong
7 2 (4.65%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.65%) Serverless
7 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Calico
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) Network Security
2 1 (2.33%) SSL
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Redis
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.33%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.33%) MySQL
4 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (32.56%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.93%) Git
3 3 (6.98%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.65%) Android Studio
4 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) JUnit
4 2 (4.65%) Maven
5 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
General
1 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 9 (20.93%) Banking
3 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.28%) Finance
5 4 (9.30%) Games
6 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Developer
2 8 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
6 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Angular Developer
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Backend Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) Node.js
2 5 (11.63%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (11.63%) Playwright
3 4 (9.30%) RESTful
4 3 (6.98%) CSS
4 3 (6.98%) HTML
5 2 (4.65%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (4.65%) Android SDK
5 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.65%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.65%) Express.js
5 2 (4.65%) Jest
5 2 (4.65%) Kafka
5 2 (4.65%) Middleware
5 2 (4.65%) Nunjucks
5 2 (4.65%) React
5 2 (4.65%) REST
5 2 (4.65%) Spring
5 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Android
3 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (53.49%) DevOps
2 21 (48.84%) CI/CD
3 15 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (27.91%) Agile
5 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (13.95%) DevSecOps
6 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (13.95%) Observability
6 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (13.95%) Process Improvement
7 5 (11.63%) Cloud Security
7 5 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (11.63%) High Availability
7 5 (11.63%) SDLC
7 5 (11.63%) Software Engineering
7 5 (11.63%) Task Automation
7 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
8 4 (9.30%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (9.30%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) Python
2 12 (27.91%) Java
3 10 (23.26%) Bash
4 9 (20.93%) SQL
5 7 (16.28%) Go
5 7 (16.28%) TypeScript
6 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
7 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 3 (6.98%) Perl
9 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.98%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.98%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (53.49%) Terraform
2 16 (37.21%) Kubernetes
3 11 (25.58%) Grafana
4 10 (23.26%) Ansible
5 6 (13.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.98%) Packer
6 3 (6.98%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.65%) Istio
8 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) Splunk
3 3 (6.98%) IBM
4 2 (4.65%) Cribl.io
4 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.33%) F5
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle
5 1 (2.33%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto