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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 38 87
Rank change year-on-year -12 +49 -36
Contract jobs citing GitLab 41 45 19
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.62% 3.94% 1.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.40% 29.22% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 15
10th Percentile £363 £360 £488
25th Percentile £400 £378 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -18.75% -
75th Percentile £605 £550 £625
90th Percentile £661 £656 -
North West median daily rate £402 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -19.60% -16.67% -

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 168 154 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.84% 13.47% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 104 162
10th Percentile £333 £320 £363
25th Percentile £384 £363 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -11.98% -7.05%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £619
90th Percentile £638 £638 £668
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £49.25
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 - £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.78%
75th Percentile - - £77.81
90th Percentile - - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £47.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +33.22% +3.05% +2.62%

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 12 December 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 12 December 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 - 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 (17.07%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 29 (70.73%) AWS
2 10 (24.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (21.95%) GitHub
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (14.63%) Azure
5 6 (14.63%) GCP
5 6 (14.63%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
6 4 (9.76%) Datadog
6 4 (9.76%) Pulumi
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (7.32%) Serverless
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.88%) dbt
8 2 (4.88%) Kong
8 2 (4.88%) npm
8 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) DNS
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
1 1 (2.44%) Network Security
1 1 (2.44%) SSL
1 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Data Lake
2 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.88%) Data Vault
3 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.88%) Redis
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.20%) Git
3 3 (7.32%) JUnit
4 2 (4.88%) Android Studio
4 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 13 (31.71%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.63%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Banking
3 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Games
5 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Developer
2 10 (24.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (21.95%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (7.32%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Snowflake Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Android Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Python Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.88%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead
8 2 (4.88%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Python Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) Node.js
2 5 (12.20%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (9.76%) Spring
3 4 (9.76%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.32%) RESTful
5 2 (4.88%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (4.88%) Android SDK
5 2 (4.88%) AWS CDK
5 2 (4.88%) Express.js
5 2 (4.88%) Jest
5 2 (4.88%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (4.88%) Kafka
5 2 (4.88%) Middleware
5 2 (4.88%) Nunjucks
5 2 (4.88%) REST
5 2 (4.88%) YAML
6 1 (2.44%) HTML
6 1 (2.44%) Next.js
6 1 (2.44%) Playwright
6 1 (2.44%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
1 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
1 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
1 2 (4.88%) Synthetic Data
2 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Linux
2 2 (4.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) CI/CD
1 23 (56.10%) DevOps
2 15 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
4 8 (19.51%) Agile
5 7 (17.07%) Observability
5 7 (17.07%) Process Improvement
6 6 (14.63%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (14.63%) High Availability
7 5 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (12.20%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (12.20%) Cloud Security
7 5 (12.20%) DevSecOps
7 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.76%) SDLC
8 4 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Software Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) Java
3 10 (24.39%) SQL
4 9 (21.95%) Bash
5 7 (17.07%) Go
6 4 (9.76%) TypeScript
7 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
7 3 (7.32%) Perl
7 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.88%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 12 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.32%) WCAG
3 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (58.54%) Terraform
2 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
3 11 (26.83%) Grafana
4 10 (24.39%) Ansible
5 9 (21.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.32%) Packer
6 3 (7.32%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.20%) Splunk
2 2 (4.88%) Cribl.io
2 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.44%) F5
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle
3 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto