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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 38 63
Rank change year-on-year +5 +25 -11
Contract jobs citing GitLab 71 49 36
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 5.65% 4.70% 2.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.80% 28.82% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 30 29
10th Percentile £393 £360 £446
25th Percentile £400 £386 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -21.88% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £694
90th Percentile £627 £656 -
North West median daily rate £433 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -13.40% -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 204 170 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.24% 16.30% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 117 184
10th Percentile £344 £324 £375
25th Percentile £400 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £515 £589
90th Percentile £623 £615 £694
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -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 £52.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +5.52% +12.87% -5.15%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 (9.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 37 (52.11%) AWS
2 21 (29.58%) GitHub
3 15 (21.13%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (14.08%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (12.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (11.27%) Amazon S3
6 8 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (11.27%) Serverless
7 7 (9.86%) Azure
7 7 (9.86%) GCP
8 6 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (7.04%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (7.04%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (7.04%) Datadog
10 4 (5.63%) Pulumi
11 3 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (2.82%) dbt
12 2 (2.82%) npm
12 2 (2.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Network Security
1 2 (2.82%) VPN
2 1 (1.41%) DNS
2 1 (1.41%) Firewall
2 1 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.41%) SSL
2 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.63%) DocumentDB
2 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.23%) MySQL
3 3 (4.23%) OLTP
4 2 (2.82%) Data Vault
4 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.82%) Redis
4 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (23.94%) Git
2 12 (16.90%) Gradle
2 12 (16.90%) IntelliJ
2 12 (16.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.68%) Cypress.io
4 8 (11.27%) CircleCI
4 8 (11.27%) Mocha
5 7 (9.86%) JUnit
6 4 (5.63%) Selenium
7 2 (2.82%) fastlane
7 2 (2.82%) JIRA
7 2 (2.82%) JMeter
7 2 (2.82%) Postman
7 2 (2.82%) XCTest
8 1 (1.41%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.41%) Appium
8 1 (1.41%) Gatling
8 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.41%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (38.03%) Public Sector
2 7 (9.86%) Finance
3 5 (7.04%) Banking
4 4 (5.63%) Games
4 4 (5.63%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Local Government
7 1 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (38.03%) Developer
2 16 (22.54%) Software Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) Java Engineer
3 13 (18.31%) Java Software Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (12.68%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (9.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Senior
8 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Lead
8 4 (5.63%) Node.js Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Snowflake Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (39.44%) Spring
1 28 (39.44%) Spring Boot
2 20 (28.17%) Node.js
3 15 (21.13%) REST
4 12 (16.90%) OpenTelemetry
5 11 (15.49%) Jest
6 10 (14.08%) React
7 9 (12.68%) Playwright
8 7 (9.86%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (7.04%) GraphQL
10 4 (5.63%) Kafka
10 4 (5.63%) RESTful
11 3 (4.23%) YAML
12 2 (2.82%) Express.js
12 2 (2.82%) JSON
12 2 (2.82%) JSON Schema
12 2 (2.82%) Middleware
12 2 (2.82%) Nunjucks
12 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (2.82%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.23%) Legacy Code
4 2 (2.82%) NHS
4 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (60.56%) CI/CD
2 34 (47.89%) DevOps
3 19 (26.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (23.94%) Agile
4 17 (23.94%) Containerisation
4 17 (23.94%) Software Engineering
4 17 (23.94%) Test Automation
5 15 (21.13%) Microservices
6 12 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (16.90%) Observability
6 12 (16.90%) User Experience
7 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.27%) TDD
7 8 (11.27%) User Research
8 7 (9.86%) DevSecOps
8 7 (9.86%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (8.45%) Cloud Security
9 6 (8.45%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (8.45%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.89%) Java
2 18 (25.35%) Python
3 16 (22.54%) TypeScript
4 13 (18.31%) JavaScript
4 13 (18.31%) SQL
5 12 (16.90%) Kotlin
6 11 (15.49%) Bash
7 8 (11.27%) Go
8 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.23%) ProC
10 2 (2.82%) Objective-C
10 2 (2.82%) Perl
10 2 (2.82%) Swift
11 1 (1.41%) C#
11 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.94%) Accessibility
2 10 (14.08%) WCAG
3 2 (2.82%) QA
System Software
1 22 (30.99%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (52.11%) Kubernetes
2 29 (40.85%) Grafana
3 27 (38.03%) Terraform
4 15 (21.13%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.86%) Ansible
6 3 (4.23%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.82%) Packer
8 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
1 5 (7.04%) Oracle
1 5 (7.04%) Splunk
2 4 (5.63%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.82%) Cribl.io
3 2 (2.82%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.41%) F5
4 1 (1.41%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.41%) Veracode