Jenkins Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Jenkins (JenkinsCI)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Jenkins skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 43 75
Rank change year-on-year -48 +32 -2
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 31 47 8
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.59% 4.63% 0.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.76% 31.33% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 7
10th Percentile £396 £393 £481
25th Percentile £411 £458 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £656
90th Percentile £547 £693 £725
North West median daily rate £425 £402 £475
% change year-on-year +5.72% -15.37% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 210 150 117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.74% 14.76% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 104 77
10th Percentile £371 £352 £350
25th Percentile £401 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -12.20%
75th Percentile £576 £581 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £598
North West median daily rate £500 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +16.41% -9.58% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 1
10th Percentile £24.13 £70.75 -
25th Percentile £32.30 £71.88 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.75 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.67% +57.89% -25.49%
75th Percentile £76.00 £77.81 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.70 £78.38 -
North West median hourly rate £43.15 £75.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year -42.47% +73.40% -6.34%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Jenkins job vacancy trend in Manchester

Jenkins
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins in Manchester over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in Manchester

Jenkins
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Jenkins

Jenkins
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 Jenkins within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Stockport - 2 - - 2
Jenkins
North West

Jenkins
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 (6.45%) Confluence
1 2 (6.45%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.23%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) GitHub
3 10 (32.26%) Azure
4 8 (25.81%) GCP
5 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (22.58%) dbt
6 5 (16.13%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (6.45%) OCI
7 2 (6.45%) SaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.23%) Apigee
8 1 (3.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
8 1 (3.23%) IaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Serverless
8 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) Firewall
2 3 (9.68%) Network Security
2 3 (9.68%) SSL
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
4 1 (3.23%) BGP
4 1 (3.23%) BIG-IP
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.23%) DHCP
4 1 (3.23%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (3.23%) MPLS
4 1 (3.23%) OSPF
4 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
4 1 (3.23%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) VPN
4 1 (3.23%) VXLAN
4 1 (3.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) Ataccama
2 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Git
2 10 (32.26%) GitLab
3 7 (22.58%) Selenium
4 6 (19.35%) Cucumber
4 6 (19.35%) REST Assured
4 6 (19.35%) SonarQube
4 6 (19.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (16.13%) Gatling
5 5 (16.13%) JUnit
6 4 (12.90%) Postman
7 3 (9.68%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
8 2 (6.45%) Burp Suite
8 2 (6.45%) Gradle
8 2 (6.45%) LoadRunner
9 1 (3.23%) JIRA
9 1 (3.23%) Maven
9 1 (3.23%) Mockito
9 1 (3.23%) TestNG
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Banking
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Lead
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) GCP DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead Test Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Principal Test Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) SIEM Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) Kafka
2 8 (25.81%) Spring
3 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
4 5 (16.13%) Playwright
5 4 (12.90%) JSON
6 3 (9.68%) Node.js
6 3 (9.68%) React
6 3 (9.68%) REST
6 3 (9.68%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
7 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
7 2 (6.45%) Quarkus
7 2 (6.45%) Spring MVC
8 1 (3.23%) .NET
8 1 (3.23%) CSS
8 1 (3.23%) HTML
8 1 (3.23%) OSGi
8 1 (3.23%) RESTful
8 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
1 3 (9.68%) Replication
2 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.45%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.45%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (83.87%) CI/CD
2 24 (77.42%) DevOps
3 11 (35.48%) Observability
4 9 (29.03%) Agile
4 9 (29.03%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (29.03%) Test Automation
5 8 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (25.81%) Microservices
6 6 (19.35%) Incident Response
6 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) AI
7 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
7 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (12.90%) High Availability
8 4 (12.90%) SDLC
8 4 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Java
2 14 (45.16%) Python
3 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) Bash
5 3 (9.68%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (6.45%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.23%) ActionScript
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) CISSP
2 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) GCFA
2 2 (6.45%) GCIH
3 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.23%) CCIE
3 1 (3.23%) CCNP
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) PCI DSS
2 2 (6.45%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (35.48%) Ansible
3 9 (29.03%) Grafana
3 9 (29.03%) Prometheus
4 7 (22.58%) Terraform
5 5 (16.13%) Istio
6 3 (9.68%) Argo
6 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
7 2 (6.45%) CASB
8 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Splunk
2 4 (12.90%) Dynatrace
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco
3 2 (6.45%) Confluent
3 2 (6.45%) Cribl.io
3 2 (6.45%) F5
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.23%) Adobe
4 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) VMware