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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 38 60
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 -8
Contract jobs citing GitLab 72 48 36
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 5.63% 4.61% 2.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.55% 28.40% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 30 29
10th Percentile £393 £360 £446
25th Percentile £400 £386 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £469 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% -21.88% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £694
90th Percentile £623 £656 -
North West median daily rate £431 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -13.80% -16.67% -
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 197 169 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.41% 16.23% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 118 187
10th Percentile £344 £324 £375
25th Percentile £396 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £514 £588
90th Percentile £622 £611 £694
North West median daily rate £420 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £81.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £55.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -0.45% +19.64% -7.41%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 - 4 - -
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 7 (9.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 38 (52.78%) AWS
2 22 (30.56%) GitHub
3 16 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (15.28%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 8 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (11.11%) Azure
6 8 (11.11%) Serverless
7 7 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (9.72%) GCP
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (6.94%) Datadog
9 4 (5.56%) Pulumi
10 3 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.78%) npm
11 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Network Security
1 2 (2.78%) VPN
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.39%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.39%) SSL
2 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.56%) DocumentDB
2 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.17%) MySQL
3 3 (4.17%) OLTP
4 2 (2.78%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.78%) Redis
4 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (22.22%) Git
2 14 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 12 (16.67%) Gradle
3 12 (16.67%) IntelliJ
4 9 (12.50%) Cypress.io
5 8 (11.11%) CircleCI
5 8 (11.11%) JUnit
5 8 (11.11%) Mocha
6 4 (5.56%) Selenium
7 2 (2.78%) fastlane
7 2 (2.78%) JIRA
7 2 (2.78%) JMeter
7 2 (2.78%) Postman
7 2 (2.78%) XCTest
8 1 (1.39%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.39%) Appium
8 1 (1.39%) Gatling
8 1 (1.39%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.39%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 7 (9.72%) Finance
3 5 (6.94%) Banking
4 4 (5.56%) Games
4 4 (5.56%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Local Government
7 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Developer
2 16 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 13 (18.06%) Java Engineer
3 13 (18.06%) Java Software Engineer
4 12 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (15.28%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (9.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (8.33%) Senior
9 5 (6.94%) Java Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Lead
10 4 (5.56%) Node.js Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Backend Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Lead Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Oracle Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Snowflake Developer
11 3 (4.17%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (40.28%) Spring
1 29 (40.28%) Spring Boot
2 19 (26.39%) Node.js
3 15 (20.83%) REST
4 12 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (15.28%) Jest
6 10 (13.89%) React
7 9 (12.50%) Playwright
8 7 (9.72%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (6.94%) GraphQL
9 5 (6.94%) Kafka
9 5 (6.94%) RESTful
10 3 (4.17%) YAML
11 2 (2.78%) Express.js
11 2 (2.78%) JSON
11 2 (2.78%) JSON Schema
11 2 (2.78%) Middleware
11 2 (2.78%) Nunjucks
11 2 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (2.78%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.17%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.78%) NHS
4 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.28%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.39%) Android
3 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 35 (48.61%) DevOps
3 19 (26.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (25.00%) Agile
4 18 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 17 (23.61%) Software Engineering
5 17 (23.61%) Test Automation
6 16 (22.22%) Microservices
7 12 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (16.67%) Observability
7 12 (16.67%) User Experience
8 9 (12.50%) TDD
9 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (11.11%) User Research
10 7 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (8.33%) Cloud Security
11 6 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (8.33%) DevSecOps
11 6 (8.33%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) Java
2 17 (23.61%) Python
3 15 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 13 (18.06%) JavaScript
4 13 (18.06%) SQL
5 12 (16.67%) Kotlin
6 11 (15.28%) Bash
7 7 (9.72%) Go
8 5 (6.94%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.17%) ProC
10 2 (2.78%) Objective-C
10 2 (2.78%) Swift
11 1 (1.39%) C#
11 1 (1.39%) Perl
11 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.44%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 10 (13.89%) WCAG
3 2 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 23 (31.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (54.17%) Kubernetes
2 29 (40.28%) Grafana
3 28 (38.89%) Terraform
4 15 (20.83%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.72%) Ansible
6 3 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.39%) Packer
7 1 (1.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
1 5 (6.94%) Oracle
1 5 (6.94%) Splunk
2 4 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.78%) Cribl.io
3 2 (2.78%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.39%) F5
4 1 (1.39%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.39%) Veracode