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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 -16
Contract jobs citing GitLab 68 45 36
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.89% 4.42% 2.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.50% 28.13% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 29 29
10th Percentile - £363 £446
25th Percentile £400 £400 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -19.15% -6.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £694
90th Percentile £625 £656 -
North West median daily rate £445 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -6.32% -20.83% -1.64%
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 £85.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -35.29% +41.67% +33.33%

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 203 160 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.58% 15.73% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 112 178
10th Percentile £350 £320 £375
25th Percentile £400 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £550 £507 £575
90th Percentile £638 £634 £694
North West median daily rate £431 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -4.22% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% - +61.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £81.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £63.88 £46.18
% change year-on-year -13.89% +38.32% -5.15%

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 27 February 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 27 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitLab in Manchester

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 27 February 2026. 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 - 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 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.00%) AWS
2 19 (27.94%) GitHub
3 14 (20.59%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (16.18%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (14.71%) Amazon S3
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (11.76%) Serverless
7 6 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (8.82%) Azure
8 5 (7.35%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (7.35%) GCP
9 4 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (4.41%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (4.41%) Datadog
10 3 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (2.94%) npm
11 2 (2.94%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.94%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) Network Security
1 2 (2.94%) VPN
2 1 (1.47%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.47%) SSL
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 4 (5.88%) DocumentDB
1 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (4.41%) MySQL
2 3 (4.41%) OLTP
3 2 (2.94%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.94%) Redis
3 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Git
2 13 (19.12%) Jenkins
3 12 (17.65%) Gradle
3 12 (17.65%) IntelliJ
4 9 (13.24%) Cypress.io
5 8 (11.76%) CircleCI
5 8 (11.76%) JUnit
5 8 (11.76%) Mocha
6 4 (5.88%) Selenium
7 2 (2.94%) fastlane
7 2 (2.94%) JIRA
7 2 (2.94%) JMeter
7 2 (2.94%) Postman
7 2 (2.94%) XCTest
8 1 (1.47%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.47%) Appium
8 1 (1.47%) Gatling
8 1 (1.47%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.47%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.47%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.82%) Finance
3 4 (5.88%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Games
5 2 (2.94%) Local Government
6 1 (1.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (41.18%) Developer
2 15 (22.06%) Software Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Java Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Java Software Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (16.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (10.29%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.82%) Senior
7 5 (7.35%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Lead
8 4 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Snowflake Developer
9 3 (4.41%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.94%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (42.65%) Spring
1 29 (42.65%) Spring Boot
2 19 (27.94%) Node.js
3 15 (22.06%) REST
4 12 (17.65%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (16.18%) Jest
6 10 (14.71%) React
7 9 (13.24%) Playwright
8 5 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (7.35%) GraphQL
8 5 (7.35%) Kafka
8 5 (7.35%) RESTful
9 3 (4.41%) YAML
10 2 (2.94%) Express.js
10 2 (2.94%) JSON
10 2 (2.94%) JSON Schema
10 2 (2.94%) Middleware
10 2 (2.94%) Nunjucks
10 2 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.94%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.41%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.94%) NHS
4 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Linux
2 2 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.47%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 32 (47.06%) DevOps
3 18 (26.47%) Agile
4 17 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 16 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 16 (23.53%) Microservices
5 16 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 12 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (17.65%) User Experience
7 10 (14.71%) Observability
8 9 (13.24%) TDD
9 8 (11.76%) User Research
10 6 (8.82%) DevSecOps
10 6 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (8.82%) UX Design
11 5 (7.35%) Analytics
11 5 (7.35%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 5 (7.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (50.00%) Java
2 15 (22.06%) TypeScript
3 14 (20.59%) Python
4 13 (19.12%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.65%) Kotlin
5 12 (17.65%) SQL
6 8 (11.76%) Bash
7 5 (7.35%) Go
7 5 (7.35%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.41%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.41%) ProC
9 2 (2.94%) Objective-C
9 2 (2.94%) Swift
10 1 (1.47%) C#
10 1 (1.47%) Perl
10 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.47%) Accessibility
2 10 (14.71%) WCAG
3 2 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 21 (30.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (54.41%) Kubernetes
2 27 (39.71%) Grafana
3 26 (38.24%) Terraform
4 13 (19.12%) Prometheus
5 8 (11.76%) Ansible
6 3 (4.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.47%) Packer
7 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 4 (5.88%) Oracle
1 4 (5.88%) Splunk
2 3 (4.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.94%) Cribl.io
3 2 (2.94%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.47%) F5
4 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.47%) Veracode