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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 37 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 -15
Contract jobs citing GitLab 57 49 31
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 4.86% 4.67% 2.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.00% 30.63% 14.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 31 24
10th Percentile £372 £360 £450
25th Percentile £400 £388 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £594
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% -1.04%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £625
90th Percentile £655 £656 £694
North West median daily rate £405 £488 £613
% change year-on-year -16.92% -20.41% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £59.38 - £61.25
90th Percentile £63.50 - -
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 190 160 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.20% 15.24% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 111 172
10th Percentile £344 £324 £368
25th Percentile £400 £369 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £524 £602
90th Percentile £638 £600 £694
North West median daily rate £424 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -5.83% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 8
10th Percentile - - £47.50
25th Percentile £52.50 - £60.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £68.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.78%
75th Percentile £68.38 - £77.81
90th Percentile £70.00 - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £49.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +12.24% +6.11% +0.16%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 (12.28%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 31 (54.39%) AWS
2 13 (22.81%) GitHub
3 10 (17.54%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 8 (14.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.77%) Azure
7 5 (8.77%) Datadog
7 5 (8.77%) GCP
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.02%) Pulumi
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (5.26%) Serverless
10 2 (3.51%) dbt
10 2 (3.51%) Kong
10 2 (3.51%) npm
10 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
10 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) DNS
1 1 (1.75%) Firewall
1 1 (1.75%) Network Security
1 1 (1.75%) SSL
1 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.26%) OLTP
3 2 (3.51%) Data Vault
3 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.51%) Redis
4 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Gradle
1 11 (19.30%) IntelliJ
2 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 8 (14.04%) Git
4 6 (10.53%) Cypress.io
5 4 (7.02%) CircleCI
5 4 (7.02%) JUnit
6 3 (5.26%) Mocha
7 2 (3.51%) fastlane
7 2 (3.51%) XCTest
8 1 (1.75%) Android Studio
8 1 (1.75%) JIRA
8 1 (1.75%) Xcode
General
1 18 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 6 (10.53%) Finance
3 4 (7.02%) Banking
3 4 (7.02%) Games
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Local Government
6 1 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (24.56%) Software Engineer
3 12 (21.05%) Java Engineer
3 12 (21.05%) Java Software Engineer
4 11 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (8.77%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
10 3 (5.26%) Backend Developer
10 3 (5.26%) Oracle Developer
10 3 (5.26%) Snowflake Developer
11 2 (3.51%) AWS Data Engineer
11 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
11 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Python Developer
11 2 (3.51%) Lead
11 2 (3.51%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (33.33%) Spring
1 19 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 12 (21.05%) Node.js
3 11 (19.30%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (17.54%) REST
5 6 (10.53%) Jest
6 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (8.77%) Playwright
6 5 (8.77%) React
7 3 (5.26%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.51%) Express.js
8 2 (3.51%) JSON
8 2 (3.51%) JSON Schema
8 2 (3.51%) Kafka
8 2 (3.51%) Middleware
8 2 (3.51%) Nunjucks
8 2 (3.51%) SwiftUI
8 2 (3.51%) UIKit
8 2 (3.51%) YAML
9 1 (1.75%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Legacy Code
1 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.75%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) CI/CD
2 25 (43.86%) DevOps
3 15 (26.32%) Software Engineering
4 13 (22.81%) Containerisation
4 13 (22.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (15.79%) Agile
5 9 (15.79%) Observability
5 9 (15.79%) User Experience
6 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (12.28%) Microservices
8 6 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (10.53%) High Availability
9 5 (8.77%) Analytics
9 5 (8.77%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (8.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (8.77%) Process Improvement
9 5 (8.77%) TDD
9 5 (8.77%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) Java
2 16 (28.07%) Python
3 13 (22.81%) SQL
4 11 (19.30%) Kotlin
5 9 (15.79%) Bash
6 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
6 7 (12.28%) TypeScript
7 6 (10.53%) Go
8 5 (8.77%) Shell Script
9 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
9 3 (5.26%) ProC
10 2 (3.51%) Objective-C
10 2 (3.51%) Perl
10 2 (3.51%) Swift
11 1 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (22.81%) Accessibility
2 7 (12.28%) WCAG
3 2 (3.51%) QA
System Software
1 14 (24.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (50.88%) Kubernetes
2 23 (40.35%) Grafana
2 23 (40.35%) Terraform
3 12 (21.05%) Prometheus
4 7 (12.28%) Ansible
5 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.51%) Packer
7 1 (1.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Dynatrace
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.77%) Splunk
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle
3 2 (3.51%) Cribl.io
4 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.75%) F5
4 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto