Jenkins Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Jenkins (JenkinsCI)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Jenkins skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 +10
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 44 27 40
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 6.55% 5.70% 10.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.83% 39.71% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 17 29
10th Percentile £312 £288 £495
25th Percentile £358 £356 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £385 £560
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% -31.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile £469 £490 £583
90th Percentile £498 £638 £601
North West median daily rate £450 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +12.50% -21.95% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £80.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +28.00% +17.92%

All Development Application Skills
Cheshire

Jenkins 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 164 68 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 24.40% 14.35% 22.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 44 66
10th Percentile £310 £308 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.63% +0.75% +14.94%
75th Percentile £489 £580 £564
90th Percentile £579 £671 £587
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £39.00 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.75% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 -
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £47.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +33.22% +3.05% +2.62%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Jenkins relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Jenkins job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Jenkins
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Jenkins.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in Cheshire

Jenkins
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Jenkins.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jenkins within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Knutsford -12 39 £402 +4.42% 1
Chester - 2 £675 - 2
Warrington - 1 £400 -
Jenkins
North West

Jenkins
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 13 (29.55%) JBoss
2 9 (20.45%) Apache
2 9 (20.45%) IIS
2 9 (20.45%) WebSphere
3 8 (18.18%) iPlanet
3 8 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.27%) Confluence
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
6 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 35 (79.55%) AWS
2 15 (34.09%) OpenShift
3 9 (20.45%) GitHub
4 7 (15.91%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (13.64%) GCP
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon SageMaker
6 5 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (11.36%) Azure
7 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (9.09%) Apigee
8 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.55%) Datadog
9 2 (4.55%) Serverless
10 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) Kerberos
2 4 (9.09%) HTTP
2 4 (9.09%) HTTPS
3 3 (6.82%) Firewall
4 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) Oracle Database
2 5 (11.36%) Big Data
3 3 (6.82%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (65.91%) Git
2 16 (36.36%) GitLab
3 13 (29.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (27.27%) JIRA
5 11 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 11 (25.00%) CA Release Automation
6 7 (15.91%) JUnit
7 6 (13.64%) Cucumber
8 5 (11.36%) Bitbucket
8 5 (11.36%) MLflow
8 5 (11.36%) SonarQube
9 4 (9.09%) Gradle
9 4 (9.09%) Postman
10 3 (6.82%) CircleCI
10 3 (6.82%) TeamCity
10 3 (6.82%) Xcode
11 2 (4.55%) Snyk
12 1 (2.27%) Appium
12 1 (2.27%) Maven
12 1 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 13 (29.55%) Finance
2 8 (18.18%) Banking
3 7 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.27%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (34.09%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Data Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Senior
5 4 (9.09%) Apigee Developer
5 4 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.55%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) iOS Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Android Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) RESTful
1 16 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 13 (29.55%) OAuth
2 13 (29.55%) Spring
3 9 (20.45%) HTML
3 9 (20.45%) OpenID
3 9 (20.45%) REST
3 9 (20.45%) SAML
4 8 (18.18%) Kafka
4 8 (18.18%) LDAP
4 8 (18.18%) React
5 6 (13.64%) JSON
6 5 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (11.36%) Flask
6 5 (11.36%) PySpark
6 5 (11.36%) XML
7 4 (9.09%) CSS
7 4 (9.09%) JAX-RS
7 4 (9.09%) JWT
7 4 (9.09%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (2.27%) CMDB
3 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (36.36%) Linux
2 12 (27.27%) Windows
3 9 (20.45%) Unix
4 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
5 4 (9.09%) Apple iOS
6 3 (6.82%) Android
6 3 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 19 (43.18%) DevOps
2 19 (43.18%) Microservices
3 15 (34.09%) Agile
4 10 (22.73%) AI
4 10 (22.73%) Scrum
4 10 (22.73%) TDD
5 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (18.18%) Migration
7 7 (15.91%) Front End Development
7 7 (15.91%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (15.91%) SDLC
8 6 (13.64%) Containerisation
8 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
8 6 (13.64%) Release Management
8 6 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (13.64%) Task Automation
8 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.36%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (52.27%) Python
2 22 (50.00%) Java
3 9 (20.45%) Groovy
4 8 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 8 (18.18%) SQL
5 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.36%) Perl
5 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.36%) Ruby
6 3 (6.82%) Bash
6 3 (6.82%) C
6 3 (6.82%) C++
6 3 (6.82%) Kotlin
6 3 (6.82%) Objective-C
6 3 (6.82%) Scala
6 3 (6.82%) Swift
7 1 (2.27%) Korn
7 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.91%) AWS Certification
2 4 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.09%) Degree
3 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) CISSP
4 1 (2.27%) OSCP
4 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 25 (56.82%) Docker
2 11 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (15.91%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (43.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 9 (20.45%) CA Single Sign-On
4 8 (18.18%) CA Wily
5 7 (15.91%) Tivoli
6 4 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (9.09%) Terraform
7 3 (6.82%) Kibana
8 2 (4.55%) Ansible
8 2 (4.55%) Grafana
8 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Microsoft
1 16 (36.36%) Splunk
2 12 (27.27%) AppDynamics
2 12 (27.27%) Oracle
3 9 (20.45%) Broadcom
4 8 (18.18%) IBM
5 3 (6.82%) Cloudera
5 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.55%) Checkmarx
6 2 (4.55%) Veracode
7 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.27%) UiPath