GitLab Contracts in the North West

GitLab
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 65 87 74
Rank change year-on-year +22 -13 +13
Contract jobs citing GitLab 56 50 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.85% 1.81% 2.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.44% 16.61% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 38 65
10th Percentile £412 £450 £509
25th Percentile £458 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £606 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +1.04% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £650
90th Percentile £656 £694 £695
England median daily rate £530 £574 £590
% change year-on-year -7.63% -2.75% +0.85%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.45% +65.42% -13.25%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 274 301 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.92% 10.93% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 231 322
10th Percentile £329 £375 £325
25th Percentile £391 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £675 £656
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.02 £40.52 £38.16
25th Percentile £63.25 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.63 £53.44
90th Percentile £81.35 £81.45 £56.38
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

GitLab
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing GitLab as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the North West.

Daily rate trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitLab in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for GitLab in the North West

GitLab
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitLab within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +11 38 £500 -14.89% 17
Cheshire +13 14 £500 - 8
Lancashire +1 3 £575 -8.00% 12
GitLab
England

GitLab
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (8.93%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.57%) Apache
2 2 (3.57%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.79%) Documentum
3 1 (1.79%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 29 (51.79%) AWS
2 9 (16.07%) GitHub
3 7 (12.50%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) Azure
5 4 (7.14%) Apigee
5 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.57%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (3.57%) npm
7 2 (3.57%) Serverless
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.79%) Kong
8 1 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) Firewall
2 4 (7.14%) DHCP
3 3 (5.36%) DMZ
4 2 (3.57%) Calico
4 2 (3.57%) HTTP
5 1 (1.79%) DNS
5 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 7 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.93%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.93%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.14%) ObjectStore
5 2 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.57%) GIS
6 1 (1.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (48.21%) Jenkins
2 10 (17.86%) Git
3 8 (14.29%) Maven
4 5 (8.93%) Gradle
4 5 (8.93%) JUnit
4 5 (8.93%) Liquibase
4 5 (8.93%) Mockito
4 5 (8.93%) Selenium
5 4 (7.14%) CircleCI
5 4 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 4 (7.14%) JIRA
6 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.57%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.79%) gulp
8 1 (1.79%) Postman
8 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (23.21%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Electronics
4 5 (8.93%) Manufacturing
4 5 (8.93%) Marketing
4 5 (8.93%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.14%) Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Military
7 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Developer
2 16 (28.57%) Senior
3 15 (26.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Lead
4 6 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (8.93%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.93%) React Developer
5 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (8.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) React
2 13 (23.21%) Kafka
3 8 (14.29%) RESTful
4 7 (12.50%) OpenAPI
4 7 (12.50%) Swagger
5 6 (10.71%) AngularJS
5 6 (10.71%) Node.js
5 6 (10.71%) Spring
5 6 (10.71%) Spring Boot
6 4 (7.14%) cloud-init
7 3 (5.36%) OAuth
7 3 (5.36%) Playwright
7 3 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.57%) .NET
8 2 (3.57%) Apache POI
8 2 (3.57%) GeoJSON
8 2 (3.57%) Google Maps API
8 2 (3.57%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.57%) Leaflet
8 2 (3.57%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.36%) PKI
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.14%) CentOS
3 4 (7.14%) Unix
3 4 (7.14%) Windows
3 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.57%) Android
4 2 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (73.21%) CI/CD
2 36 (64.29%) DevOps
3 19 (33.93%) Agile
4 18 (32.14%) Microservices
5 16 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 13 (23.21%) Containerisation
7 11 (19.64%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (19.64%) Event-Driven
8 10 (17.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (16.07%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (16.07%) Software Engineering
10 8 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 7 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (12.50%) Mentoring
12 6 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (10.71%) Observability
12 6 (10.71%) Process Improvement
13 5 (8.93%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (51.79%) Python
2 17 (30.36%) Java
3 14 (25.00%) SQL
4 13 (23.21%) TypeScript
5 12 (21.43%) JavaScript
6 10 (17.86%) Bash
7 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
8 4 (7.14%) Go
9 2 (3.57%) C#
9 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (30.36%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) CCNA
3 2 (3.57%) CCNP
3 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.57%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) COBIT
2 1 (1.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 24 (42.86%) Terraform
2 11 (19.64%) Ansible
3 6 (10.71%) Grafana
3 6 (10.71%) Progress Chef
3 6 (10.71%) Prometheus
4 5 (8.93%) Packer
5 4 (7.14%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (5.36%) Istio
7 1 (1.79%) Consul
7 1 (1.79%) Graylog
7 1 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.79%) linkerd
7 1 (1.79%) Puppet
7 1 (1.79%) Rancher
7 1 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Google
2 5 (8.93%) SAP
3 4 (7.14%) Dell
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.36%) CyberArk
4 3 (5.36%) Fortinet
4 3 (5.36%) Infoblox
5 2 (3.57%) ForgeRock
5 2 (3.57%) IBM
5 2 (3.57%) Mapbox
5 2 (3.57%) Oracle
5 2 (3.57%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.79%) BMC
6 1 (1.79%) Okta
6 1 (1.79%) Remedy
6 1 (1.79%) Splunk
6 1 (1.79%) Virgin Media