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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 43 67
Rank change year-on-year -27 +24 +7
Contract jobs citing GitLab 43 35 29
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.32% 3.83% 1.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.82% 25.93% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 20
10th Percentile £400 £362 £447
25th Percentile £402 £438 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £478 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -6.83% -14.58%
75th Percentile £550 £545 £680
90th Percentile £638 £550 £694
North West median daily rate £500 £470 £513
% change year-on-year +6.50% -8.39% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 217 135 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.73% 14.77% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 91 117
10th Percentile £356 £325 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -7.69% -2.55%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £425 £489
% change year-on-year +5.88% -13.09% -6.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 4
10th Percentile £26.35 £70.50 £52.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.25 £62.19
Median hourly rate £63.00 £75.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +89.39%
75th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £81.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.25 £82.05
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £73.75 £45.88
% change year-on-year -25.42% +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 24 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 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.65%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.33%) Apache
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 31 (72.09%) AWS
2 16 (37.21%) GitHub
3 10 (23.26%) Amazon S3
4 9 (20.93%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (20.93%) Azure
4 9 (20.93%) Serverless
5 8 (18.60%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (18.60%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (16.28%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (13.95%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (11.63%) OCI
9 4 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (6.98%) GCP
11 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (4.65%) BrowserStack
12 1 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
12 1 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) BGP
1 2 (4.65%) BIG-IP
1 2 (4.65%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (4.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (4.65%) Network Security
1 2 (4.65%) OSPF
1 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
1 2 (4.65%) VPN
1 2 (4.65%) VXLAN
1 2 (4.65%) WAN
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) NGFW
2 1 (2.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.33%) SMS
2 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Relational Database
2 8 (18.60%) MongoDB
3 6 (13.95%) DocumentDB
4 5 (11.63%) Oracle Database
5 4 (9.30%) MySQL
5 4 (9.30%) NoSQL
5 4 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (9.30%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.33%) Metadata
7 1 (2.33%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) Git
1 12 (27.91%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.93%) Selenium
3 5 (11.63%) JUnit
3 5 (11.63%) Mocha
3 5 (11.63%) REST Assured
4 4 (9.30%) CircleCI
4 4 (9.30%) Cypress.io
4 4 (9.30%) Gatling
4 4 (9.30%) Serenity BDD
5 3 (6.98%) Gradle
5 3 (6.98%) IntelliJ
5 3 (6.98%) Postman
6 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.65%) JMeter
6 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.65%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.33%) JIRA
7 1 (2.33%) Mockito
7 1 (2.33%) TestNG
General
1 24 (55.81%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.63%) Military
3 3 (6.98%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Banking
4 1 (2.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Developer
2 11 (25.58%) Lead
3 9 (20.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (20.93%) Senior
4 6 (13.95%) Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Lead Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Software Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Test Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (9.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) DBA
6 4 (9.30%) Java Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Software Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead Test Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) Spring
1 16 (37.21%) Spring Boot
2 12 (27.91%) Node.js
3 9 (20.93%) Kafka
4 7 (16.28%) Playwright
4 7 (16.28%) REST
5 6 (13.95%) React
6 5 (11.63%) Jest
7 4 (9.30%) RESTful
7 4 (9.30%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (6.98%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (4.65%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.65%) JSON
9 2 (4.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 2 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (4.65%) XML
10 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
10 1 (2.33%) PySpark
10 1 (2.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.63%) NHS
3 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) AIX
2 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (93.02%) CI/CD
2 30 (69.77%) DevOps
3 23 (53.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (39.53%) Agile
5 15 (34.88%) Test Automation
6 14 (32.56%) Microservices
7 10 (23.26%) Containerisation
8 8 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (18.60%) Observability
9 7 (16.28%) Event-Driven
9 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
10 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (13.95%) Migration
10 6 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.95%) Software Engineering
11 5 (11.63%) BDD
11 5 (11.63%) DevSecOps
11 5 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) Java
2 12 (27.91%) TypeScript
3 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
4 7 (16.28%) Python
5 4 (9.30%) Bash
6 3 (6.98%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.65%) Go
7 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.33%) C#
8 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.98%) WCAG
3 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 17 (39.53%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Terraform
2 22 (51.16%) Kubernetes
3 12 (27.91%) Grafana
4 8 (18.60%) Ansible
5 7 (16.28%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.98%) Argo
7 2 (4.65%) Data Guard
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (2.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) Splunk
3 2 (4.65%) Aruba
3 2 (4.65%) F5
3 2 (4.65%) PagerDuty
3 2 (4.65%) Palo Alto
3 2 (4.65%) Trend Micro
4 1 (2.33%) Arista
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.33%) Tanium
4 1 (2.33%) Tenable
4 1 (2.33%) Veracode