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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 43 66
Rank change year-on-year -43 +23 +27
Contract jobs citing GitLab 33 41 23
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.65% 4.04% 1.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.26% 25.47% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 12
10th Percentile £366 £339 £356
25th Percentile £429 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £648 £575 £547
90th Percentile £734 £698 £643
North West median daily rate £569 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +21.32% -6.20% -9.09%

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 203 161 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.18% 15.88% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 115 83
10th Percentile £373 £339 £324
25th Percentile £402 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £550
90th Percentile £666 £658 £585
North West median daily rate £500 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +16.28% -9.47% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £24.13 £70.75 -
25th Percentile £50.30 £71.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £74.25 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +57.89% -25.49%
75th Percentile £76.25 £77.81 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.40 £78.38 -
North West median hourly rate £63.00 £72.58 £46.18
% change year-on-year -13.20% +57.17% -

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 11 September 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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.06%) Jupyter
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 28 (84.85%) AWS
2 13 (39.39%) GitHub
3 11 (33.33%) Azure
4 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (15.15%) OCI
5 5 (15.15%) Serverless
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (9.09%) SaaS
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
9 1 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
1 4 (12.12%) Network Security
2 3 (9.09%) BGP
2 3 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (9.09%) OSPF
2 3 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 3 (9.09%) VXLAN
2 3 (9.09%) WAN
3 2 (6.06%) BIG-IP
3 2 (6.06%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (6.06%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) HTTP
4 1 (3.03%) MPLS
4 1 (3.03%) SMS
4 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.03%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 6 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 3 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 2 (6.06%) DocumentDB
3 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.18%) Git
2 6 (18.18%) Selenium
3 5 (15.15%) REST Assured
4 3 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.09%) Gatling
4 3 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (6.06%) JUnit
5 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (6.06%) TestNG
5 2 (6.06%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.03%) JIRA
6 1 (3.03%) Maven
6 1 (3.03%) Postman
6 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.18%) Military
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Senior
3 8 (24.24%) Lead
4 7 (21.21%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (15.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (15.15%) Test Engineer
7 4 (12.12%) Developer
8 3 (9.09%) DBA
8 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
8 3 (9.09%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Lead Developer
9 2 (6.06%) Lead Test Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
9 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (66.67%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Kafka
3 5 (15.15%) JSON
3 5 (15.15%) Spring
3 5 (15.15%) Spring Boot
4 4 (12.12%) Node.js
4 4 (12.12%) Playwright
4 4 (12.12%) REST
5 3 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (9.09%) XML
6 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.03%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.03%) HTML
6 1 (3.03%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (3.03%) MACH
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (3.03%) PySpark
6 1 (3.03%) React
6 1 (3.03%) Semantic HTML
6 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (9.09%) NHS
4 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Replication
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) AIX
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) CI/CD
2 26 (78.79%) DevOps
3 20 (60.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (36.36%) Agile
4 12 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 8 (24.24%) Test Automation
6 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
6 7 (21.21%) Observability
7 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (15.15%) API Testing
8 5 (15.15%) Cloud Security
8 5 (15.15%) Coaching
8 5 (15.15%) Microservices
8 5 (15.15%) Migration
8 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (12.12%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven
9 4 (12.12%) Incident Response
9 4 (12.12%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) Java
1 9 (27.27%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.09%) Bash
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (6.06%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (48.48%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) CISSP
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) GCFA
3 2 (6.06%) GCIH
4 1 (3.03%) CCIE
4 1 (3.03%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Accessibility
2 3 (9.09%) QA
3 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 2 (6.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 13 (39.39%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) Argo
3 4 (12.12%) Grafana
3 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.09%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.06%) CASB
6 1 (3.03%) Data Guard
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (3.03%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Splunk
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) Palo Alto
3 3 (9.09%) F5
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.06%) Aruba
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) Cribl.io
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) Trend Micro
5 1 (3.03%) Arista
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.03%) Tanium
5 1 (3.03%) Tenable
5 1 (3.03%) VMware