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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 96 95
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing GitLab 49 37 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.50% 1.36% 1.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.90% 13.50% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 26 43
10th Percentile £401 £450 £486
25th Percentile £444 £487 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -9.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £545 £694 £650
90th Percentile £586 - £675
England median daily rate £523 £563 £596
% change year-on-year -7.11% -5.66% -0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year - +51.52% -
England median hourly rate £82.96 £74.44 £39.60
% change year-on-year +11.45% +87.98% -27.00%

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 290 274 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.77% 10.08% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 203 266
10th Percentile £341 £358 £325
25th Percentile £381 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £495 £520
Median % change year-on-year -13.23% -4.81% +4.00%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £600
90th Percentile £599 £685 £653
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 12
10th Percentile £62.87 £37.55 £37.80
25th Percentile £70.63 £43.80 £39.15
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.44 £49.16
Median % change year-on-year +58.09% -3.49% -29.78%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.17 £53.19
90th Percentile £81.35 £80.82 £56.38
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +23.00%

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 31 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 31 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 +19 33 £495 -10.00% 53
Cheshire +8 12 £492 +3.58% 19
Lancashire +2 3 £575 +6.48% 18
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 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (8.16%) WebSphere
2 4 (8.16%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.04%) Documentum
3 1 (2.04%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) AWS
2 10 (20.41%) GCP
2 10 (20.41%) GitHub
3 6 (12.24%) Azure
4 5 (10.20%) Apigee
5 4 (8.16%) IBM Cloud
5 4 (8.16%) npm
6 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.04%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) Firewall
2 4 (8.16%) Calico
2 4 (8.16%) DHCP
3 3 (6.12%) DMZ
4 2 (4.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 7 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (12.24%) NoSQL
2 6 (12.24%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.20%) Data Lake
4 4 (8.16%) ObjectStore
5 2 (4.08%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (4.08%) GIS
6 1 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 13 (26.53%) Git
3 7 (14.29%) Maven
4 5 (10.20%) CircleCI
4 5 (10.20%) Gradle
4 5 (10.20%) JIRA
4 5 (10.20%) JUnit
4 5 (10.20%) Liquibase
4 5 (10.20%) Mockito
5 3 (6.12%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.04%) gulp
7 1 (2.04%) Selenium
7 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Finance
2 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.24%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Electronics
4 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
4 5 (10.20%) Marketing
4 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.08%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Developer
2 13 (26.53%) Senior
3 9 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.20%) React Developer
4 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 4 (8.16%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Build Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Lead
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Software Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) React
2 9 (18.37%) RESTful
3 8 (16.33%) Kafka
4 7 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 7 (14.29%) Node.js
4 7 (14.29%) OpenAPI
4 7 (14.29%) Swagger
5 6 (12.24%) Playwright
5 6 (12.24%) Spring
5 6 (12.24%) Spring Boot
6 4 (8.16%) OAuth
7 3 (6.12%) GraphQL
7 3 (6.12%) Puppeteer
7 3 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.08%) .NET
8 2 (4.08%) GeoJSON
8 2 (4.08%) Google Maps API
8 2 (4.08%) HTML
8 2 (4.08%) Leaflet
8 2 (4.08%) MapLibre
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.08%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Android
2 4 (8.16%) Apple iOS
2 4 (8.16%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) CI/CD
2 31 (63.27%) DevOps
3 18 (36.73%) Agile
4 17 (34.69%) Microservices
5 16 (32.65%) Test Automation
6 14 (28.57%) Containerisation
7 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (20.41%) Software Engineering
9 9 (18.37%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (18.37%) Event-Driven
10 8 (16.33%) Clean Code
10 8 (16.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 8 (16.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 7 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
12 6 (12.24%) Process Improvement
13 5 (10.20%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.86%) Python
2 19 (38.78%) Java
3 15 (30.61%) SQL
4 14 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 13 (26.53%) JavaScript
6 7 (14.29%) Bash
7 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
8 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.08%) C#
10 1 (2.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) CCNA
3 2 (4.08%) CCNP
3 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) COBIT
System Software
1 17 (34.69%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (46.94%) Kubernetes
2 17 (34.69%) Terraform
3 7 (14.29%) Ansible
3 7 (14.29%) Grafana
4 4 (8.16%) Dell DRAC
4 4 (8.16%) Istio
4 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.04%) Graylog
6 1 (2.04%) Packer
6 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Google
2 5 (10.20%) SAP
3 4 (8.16%) Dell
3 4 (8.16%) IBM
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.16%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.12%) CyberArk
4 3 (6.12%) Fortinet
4 3 (6.12%) Infoblox
4 3 (6.12%) PagerDuty
5 2 (4.08%) ForgeRock
5 2 (4.08%) Mapbox
5 2 (4.08%) Oracle
6 1 (2.04%) BMC
6 1 (2.04%) Remedy