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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 43 63
Rank change year-on-year -19 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing GitLab 54 36 34
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.98% 3.95% 2.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.43% 26.28% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 23 23
10th Percentile £400 £366 £450
25th Percentile £440 £438 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £694
90th Percentile £640 £549 -
North West median daily rate £525 £492 £540
% change year-on-year +6.71% -8.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - £61.25
90th Percentile £58.25 - -
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 221 137 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 12.21% 15.02% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 92 127
10th Percentile £357 £328 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £550
90th Percentile £638 £645 £680
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £495
% change year-on-year +5.88% -14.14% -4.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 5
10th Percentile £47.25 £70.50 £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.25 £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +76.77%
75th Percentile £75.44 £77.50 £81.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.25 £81.90
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £46.69
% change year-on-year -25.42% +57.96% -5.01%

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 12 June 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 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.70%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 33 (61.11%) AWS
2 18 (33.33%) GitHub
3 10 (18.52%) Amazon S3
3 10 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (16.67%) Serverless
5 8 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (14.81%) Azure
6 7 (12.96%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (12.96%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (9.26%) OCI
9 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.70%) BrowserStack
11 2 (3.70%) GCP
12 1 (1.85%) Amazon ELB
12 1 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) BGP
1 2 (3.70%) BIG-IP
1 2 (3.70%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (3.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (3.70%) Network Security
1 2 (3.70%) OSPF
1 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
1 2 (3.70%) VPN
1 2 (3.70%) VXLAN
1 2 (3.70%) WAN
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) NGFW
2 1 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.85%) SMS
2 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 8 (14.81%) MongoDB
3 6 (11.11%) DocumentDB
4 5 (9.26%) Oracle Database
5 4 (7.41%) MySQL
5 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.41%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.70%) OLTP
6 2 (3.70%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.85%) Metadata
7 1 (1.85%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Git
2 11 (20.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (16.67%) Gradle
3 9 (16.67%) IntelliJ
4 8 (14.81%) Selenium
5 7 (12.96%) Mocha
6 6 (11.11%) CircleCI
6 6 (11.11%) Cypress.io
6 6 (11.11%) JUnit
7 4 (7.41%) Gatling
7 4 (7.41%) REST Assured
7 4 (7.41%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (3.70%) JMeter
8 2 (3.70%) Postman
8 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.70%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.85%) JIRA
9 1 (1.85%) Mockito
9 1 (1.85%) TestComplete
General
1 26 (48.15%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.26%) Military
3 3 (5.56%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Developer
2 13 (24.07%) Software Engineer
3 11 (20.37%) Lead
4 10 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) Java Engineer
4 10 (18.52%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) Senior
6 7 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Lead Developer
7 5 (9.26%) Software Developer
8 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (7.41%) DBA
8 4 (7.41%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Test Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Lead Software Developer
9 3 (5.56%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (46.30%) Spring
1 25 (46.30%) Spring Boot
2 14 (25.93%) Node.js
3 9 (16.67%) Kafka
3 9 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (16.67%) Playwright
3 9 (16.67%) REST
4 8 (14.81%) React
5 7 (12.96%) Jest
6 4 (7.41%) RESTful
6 4 (7.41%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.70%) JSON
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 2 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.70%) XML
8 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.85%) PySpark
8 1 (1.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.26%) NHS
3 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) Legacy Code
5 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (3.70%) AIX
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (79.63%) CI/CD
2 33 (61.11%) DevOps
3 23 (42.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (33.33%) Agile
5 17 (31.48%) Test Automation
6 16 (29.63%) Microservices
7 13 (24.07%) Software Engineering
8 12 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 11 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (14.81%) Observability
11 7 (12.96%) Event-Driven
11 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
12 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 6 (11.11%) Migration
12 6 (11.11%) Performance Testing
12 6 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (11.11%) User Experience
13 5 (9.26%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) Java
2 14 (25.93%) TypeScript
3 10 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.67%) Kotlin
5 7 (12.96%) Python
6 4 (7.41%) Bash
6 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.70%) Go
7 2 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.70%) ProC
7 2 (3.70%) SQL
8 1 (1.85%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) Accessibility
2 5 (9.26%) WCAG
3 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.85%) zsh
Systems Management
1 30 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 26 (48.15%) Terraform
3 19 (35.19%) Grafana
4 9 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 8 (14.81%) Ansible
6 3 (5.56%) Argo
7 2 (3.70%) Data Guard
7 2 (3.70%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Oracle
2 4 (7.41%) Splunk
3 2 (3.70%) Aruba
3 2 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.70%) F5
3 2 (3.70%) PagerDuty
3 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 2 (3.70%) Trend Micro
4 1 (1.85%) Arista
4 1 (1.85%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) Tanium
4 1 (1.85%) Tenable
4 1 (1.85%) Veracode