GitLab Contracts in Manchester

GitLab
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring GitLab skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitLab over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 53 59
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing GitLab 38 43 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.10% 2.83% 3.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.50% 21.18% 25.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 43
10th Percentile £438 £450 £525
25th Percentile £458 £500 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £638
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -7.84% +10.87%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £656
90th Percentile £675 £694 £698
North West median daily rate £500 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -17.53% +1.04% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £40.68
25th Percentile - £58.75 £42.30
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -
75th Percentile - £61.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +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 149 203 230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.09% 13.38% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 159 177
10th Percentile £322 £375 £320
25th Percentile £400 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £638
90th Percentile £635 £694 £688
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £71.63 £61.38 £40.68
25th Percentile £72.19 £65.31 £42.30
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +66.67% -
75th Percentile £77.81 £81.38 -
90th Percentile £78.38 £82.05 -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
% change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in Manchester

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitLab in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in Manchester

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in Manchester

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 (5.26%) Apache
1 2 (5.26%) WebSphere
1 2 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.63%) Documentum
2 1 (2.63%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) GCP
3 6 (15.79%) Azure
4 4 (10.53%) Apigee
4 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub
5 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.26%) IBM Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) npm
6 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.26%) Serverless
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.63%) Kong
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Calico
2 1 (2.63%) DHCP
2 1 (2.63%) DMZ
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) MongoDB
1 7 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.79%) Relational Database
3 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
4 4 (10.53%) ObjectStore
5 2 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (5.26%) GIS
6 1 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (60.53%) Jenkins
2 10 (26.32%) Git
3 8 (21.05%) Maven
4 5 (13.16%) Gradle
4 5 (13.16%) JUnit
4 5 (13.16%) Liquibase
4 5 (13.16%) Mockito
4 5 (13.16%) Selenium
5 4 (10.53%) CircleCI
5 4 (10.53%) Cypress.io
5 4 (10.53%) JIRA
6 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (5.26%) Eclipse
8 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.63%) gulp
8 1 (2.63%) Postman
8 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (34.21%) Public Sector
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 5 (13.16%) Electronics
3 5 (13.16%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.16%) Marketing
3 5 (13.16%) Telecoms
4 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Banking
5 3 (7.89%) Military
5 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) Senior
3 8 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.16%) React Developer
4 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Lead
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (5.26%) GIS Developer
7 2 (5.26%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (36.84%) React
2 11 (28.95%) Kafka
3 8 (21.05%) RESTful
4 7 (18.42%) OpenAPI
4 7 (18.42%) Swagger
5 6 (15.79%) AngularJS
5 6 (15.79%) Node.js
5 6 (15.79%) Spring
5 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
6 4 (10.53%) cloud-init
7 3 (7.89%) OAuth
7 3 (7.89%) Playwright
7 3 (7.89%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (5.26%) .NET
8 2 (5.26%) GeoJSON
8 2 (5.26%) Google Maps API
8 2 (5.26%) GraphQL
8 2 (5.26%) JDBC
8 2 (5.26%) Puppeteer
8 2 (5.26%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.95%) Linux
2 8 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (10.53%) CentOS
3 4 (10.53%) Unix
4 2 (5.26%) Android
4 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.63%) Windows
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (73.68%) CI/CD
2 22 (57.89%) DevOps
3 13 (34.21%) Agile
3 13 (34.21%) Containerisation
3 13 (34.21%) Test Automation
4 11 (28.95%) Microservices
5 10 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (23.68%) Event-Driven
6 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (23.68%) Software Engineering
7 8 (21.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (13.16%) Build Automation
10 5 (13.16%) Clean Code
10 5 (13.16%) Digital Marketing
10 5 (13.16%) Mentoring
10 5 (13.16%) Migration
10 5 (13.16%) Programme Management
10 5 (13.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) Python
2 15 (39.47%) Java
3 13 (34.21%) TypeScript
4 9 (23.68%) SQL
5 7 (18.42%) Bash
5 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (10.53%) Go
7 2 (5.26%) C#
7 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) COBIT
2 1 (2.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 19 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (15.79%) Ansible
2 6 (15.79%) Grafana
2 6 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 5 (13.16%) Packer
4 3 (7.89%) Istio
5 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.63%) Consul
6 1 (2.63%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (2.63%) Graylog
6 1 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.63%) linkerd
6 1 (2.63%) Puppet
6 1 (2.63%) Rancher
6 1 (2.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Google
2 5 (13.16%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) IBM
3 2 (5.26%) Mapbox
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.63%) BMC
4 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.63%) Dell
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Okta
4 1 (2.63%) Remedy
4 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Virgin Media