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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 64 91
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 -24
Contract jobs citing GitLab 43 22 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.23% 1.87% 1.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.38% 19.13% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 9 11
10th Percentile £357 £353 £375
25th Percentile £400 £360 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £588 £511 £581
90th Percentile £690 £545 £600
North West median daily rate £469 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -3.79% -11.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £39.60
North West median hourly rate - - £39.60

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 163 115 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.03% 9.76% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 77 148
10th Percentile £336 £324 £361
25th Percentile £400 £375 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £514
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -15.82% -2.14%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £620
90th Percentile £650 £575 £684
North West median daily rate £430 £465 £525
% change year-on-year -7.63% -11.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £70.75 - £50.43
25th Percentile £71.88 £46.25 £62.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -30.91% -5.17%
75th Percentile £77.81 £48.75 £76.56
90th Percentile £78.38 - £80.00
North West median hourly rate £72.58 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +57.17% - -36.30%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 - 2 - -
GitLab
North West

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.65%) WebSphere
1 2 (4.65%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) Documentum
2 1 (2.33%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) AWS
2 12 (27.91%) GCP
3 8 (18.60%) Azure
4 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (11.63%) Apigee
5 5 (11.63%) GitHub
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.98%) Kong
7 3 (6.98%) Serverless
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.65%) Datadog
8 2 (4.65%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (4.65%) npm
8 2 (4.65%) Pulumi
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
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 7 (16.28%) MongoDB
1 7 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.65%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.26%) Git
3 6 (13.95%) JIRA
3 6 (13.95%) JUnit
4 5 (11.63%) CircleCI
5 4 (9.30%) Gradle
5 4 (9.30%) Liquibase
5 4 (9.30%) Mockito
6 3 (6.98%) Cypress.io
6 3 (6.98%) Maven
7 2 (4.65%) Android Studio
7 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.33%) gulp
8 1 (2.33%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (32.56%) Public Sector
2 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Banking
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Electronics
4 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
4 4 (9.30%) Marketing
4 4 (9.30%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.65%) Games
6 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Senior
3 6 (13.95%) Software Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Java Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Kafka Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) React Developer
5 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Angular Developer
7 2 (4.65%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) Node.js
2 9 (20.93%) React
3 8 (18.60%) Kafka
3 8 (18.60%) RESTful
4 6 (13.95%) OpenAPI
4 6 (13.95%) Playwright
4 6 (13.95%) Swagger
5 5 (11.63%) Spring
5 5 (11.63%) Spring Boot
6 4 (9.30%) OAuth
7 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.98%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (6.98%) GraphQL
7 3 (6.98%) Puppeteer
7 3 (6.98%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.65%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (4.65%) Android SDK
8 2 (4.65%) AWS CDK
8 2 (4.65%) CSS
8 2 (4.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Android
3 2 (4.65%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
2 24 (55.81%) DevOps
3 15 (34.88%) Agile
4 14 (32.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (30.23%) Containerisation
6 12 (27.91%) Microservices
7 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
8 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
9 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
10 7 (16.28%) Clean Code
10 7 (16.28%) DevSecOps
10 7 (16.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 6 (13.95%) Migration
11 6 (13.95%) Observability
12 5 (11.63%) API Development
12 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 5 (11.63%) SDLC
12 5 (11.63%) Task Automation
12 5 (11.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) Java
2 16 (37.21%) Python
3 14 (32.56%) TypeScript
4 10 (23.26%) Bash
4 10 (23.26%) SQL
5 5 (11.63%) Go
5 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.98%) Perl
7 2 (4.65%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.65%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
2 13 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Degree
4 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.98%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 15 (34.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Terraform
2 15 (34.88%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.91%) Ansible
4 10 (23.26%) Grafana
5 5 (11.63%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.98%) Packer
7 2 (4.65%) Istio
8 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Google
2 4 (9.30%) SAP
3 3 (6.98%) IBM
3 3 (6.98%) PagerDuty
4 2 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (4.65%) Splunk
5 1 (2.33%) BMC
5 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.33%) F5
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.33%) Remedy
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow