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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 44 71
Rank change year-on-year -43 +27 +8
Contract jobs citing GitLab 40 35 21
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.05% 3.57% 1.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.24% 27.56% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 11
10th Percentile £400 £358 £418
25th Percentile £401 £402 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.48% -15.42%
75th Percentile £634 £545 £563
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £550 £475 £504
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.71% -16.04%

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 232 127 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.88% 12.96% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 86 90
10th Percentile £358 £329 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £550
90th Percentile £650 £656 £616
North West median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -11.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
10th Percentile £24.17 £70.50 £48.38
25th Percentile £41.00 £71.25 £51.56
Median hourly rate £74.25 £75.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +27.66% -6.00%
75th Percentile £90.25 £77.50 £66.56
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.25 £70.13
North West median hourly rate £54.90 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.56% +60.75% -0.65%

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 23 July 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 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.00%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 34 (85.00%) AWS
2 15 (37.50%) GitHub
3 11 (27.50%) Azure
4 8 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (17.50%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (17.50%) OCI
5 7 (17.50%) Serverless
6 6 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (7.50%) GCP
10 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (5.00%) BrowserStack
11 1 (2.50%) Amazon ELB
11 1 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) BGP
1 3 (7.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (7.50%) Network Security
1 3 (7.50%) OSPF
1 3 (7.50%) SD-WAN
1 3 (7.50%) VPN
1 3 (7.50%) VXLAN
1 3 (7.50%) WAN
2 2 (5.00%) BIG-IP
2 2 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 2 (5.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) MPLS
3 1 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (2.50%) SMS
3 1 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) MongoDB
1 9 (22.50%) Relational Database
2 5 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 4 (10.00%) DocumentDB
3 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.50%) Metadata
5 1 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Jenkins
2 11 (27.50%) Git
3 8 (20.00%) Selenium
4 5 (12.50%) REST Assured
5 4 (10.00%) Gatling
5 4 (10.00%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (7.50%) JUnit
6 3 (7.50%) Postman
7 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
7 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (5.00%) JMeter
7 2 (5.00%) Mocha
8 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
8 1 (2.50%) Mockito
8 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.50%) TestNG
8 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Military
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Senior
2 11 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (25.00%) Lead
4 9 (22.50%) Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) DBA
6 4 (10.00%) Lead Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Network Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Principal Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Kafka
1 10 (25.00%) Spring
1 10 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (20.00%) Node.js
3 5 (12.50%) Playwright
3 5 (12.50%) REST
4 4 (10.00%) JSON
4 4 (10.00%) React
4 4 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (7.50%) RESTful
6 2 (5.00%) Jest
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.00%) XML
7 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.50%) Hugging Face
7 1 (2.50%) PySpark
7 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.50%) NHS
3 4 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Replication
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) AIX
2 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 32 (80.00%) DevOps
3 23 (57.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (40.00%) Agile
5 12 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 11 (27.50%) Containerisation
7 10 (25.00%) Microservices
7 10 (25.00%) Observability
8 9 (22.50%) Mentoring
9 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (15.00%) Configuration Management
11 6 (15.00%) DevSecOps
11 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
11 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (12.50%) Migration
12 5 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Java
2 8 (20.00%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (12.50%) Bash
3 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.00%) Go
4 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (47.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) CCIE
3 1 (2.50%) CCNP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.50%) zsh
Systems Management
1 28 (70.00%) Terraform
2 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
3 14 (35.00%) Ansible
4 9 (22.50%) Grafana
5 8 (20.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (10.00%) Argo
7 2 (5.00%) Data Guard
7 2 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (2.50%) Packer
8 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (10.00%) Splunk
3 3 (7.50%) F5
4 2 (5.00%) Aruba
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco
4 2 (5.00%) PagerDuty
4 2 (5.00%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.50%) Arista
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) Tanium
5 1 (2.50%) Tenable
5 1 (2.50%) VMware