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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 40 65
Rank change year-on-year -39 +25 +4
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 42 48 19
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.12% 4.80% 1.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.54% 30.57% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 33 13
10th Percentile £384 £400 £324
25th Percentile £413 £475 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 £360
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +52.78% -28.00%
75th Percentile £531 £650 £588
90th Percentile £644 £708 £700
North West median daily rate £453 £446 £435
% change year-on-year +1.46% +2.53% -15.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £70.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -17.65% +85.27%

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 195 157 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 9.83% 15.70% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 117 73
10th Percentile £375 £336 £318
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +9.83% -15.61%
75th Percentile £600 £580 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £575
North West median daily rate £500 £430 £458
% change year-on-year +16.41% -6.12% -10.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £22.88 - -
25th Percentile £24.19 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +47.37% -26.92%
75th Percentile £76.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile £77.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £46.80 £66.70 £46.18
% change year-on-year -29.84% +44.43% -

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 4 (9.52%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (2.38%) nginx
3 1 (2.38%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) GitHub
3 13 (30.95%) Azure
4 10 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (21.43%) GCP
6 8 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (16.67%) dbt
8 4 (9.52%) IaaS
9 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (4.76%) OCI
10 2 (4.76%) SaaS
10 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.38%) Adobe Analytics
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
11 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) Firewall
2 6 (14.29%) DNS
2 6 (14.29%) Network Security
3 4 (9.52%) BIG-IP
3 4 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (7.14%) SSL
5 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.38%) BGP
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.38%) DHCP
6 1 (2.38%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (2.38%) HTTP
6 1 (2.38%) MPLS
6 1 (2.38%) OSPF
6 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.38%) VPN
6 1 (2.38%) VXLAN
6 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) MongoDB
2 7 (16.67%) Ataccama
3 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (42.86%) Git
2 14 (33.33%) GitLab
3 9 (21.43%) Cucumber
3 9 (21.43%) Selenium
4 8 (19.05%) JUnit
4 8 (19.05%) REST Assured
5 7 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (14.29%) Gatling
6 6 (14.29%) SonarQube
7 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket
7 4 (9.52%) Postman
8 3 (7.14%) Gradle
8 3 (7.14%) Maven
8 3 (7.14%) Serenity BDD
8 3 (7.14%) TestNG
9 2 (4.76%) Burp Suite
9 2 (4.76%) JIRA
9 2 (4.76%) LoadRunner
9 2 (4.76%) Mockito
10 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 6 (14.29%) Banking
5 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.14%) Military
6 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Lead
3 7 (16.67%) Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Test Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Technical Leader
6 3 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Principal Test Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
7 2 (4.76%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Kafka
2 11 (26.19%) Spring
3 9 (21.43%) Terraform
4 8 (19.05%) Spring Boot
5 7 (16.67%) Playwright
6 5 (11.90%) JSON
6 5 (11.90%) React
6 5 (11.90%) REST
7 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
7 4 (9.52%) Spring MVC
8 3 (7.14%) Node.js
8 3 (7.14%) RESTful
8 3 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
9 2 (4.76%) HTML
9 2 (4.76%) Quarkus
10 1 (2.38%) .NET
10 1 (2.38%) CSS
10 1 (2.38%) XML
10 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.14%) PKI
3 3 (7.14%) Replication
3 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) CentOS
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Windows
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 29 (69.05%) DevOps
3 19 (45.24%) Agile
4 12 (28.57%) Observability
5 11 (26.19%) Test Automation
6 10 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (23.81%) Microservices
7 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.67%) Scrum
9 6 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
10 5 (11.90%) AI
10 5 (11.90%) BDD
10 5 (11.90%) Configuration Management
10 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (11.90%) SDLC
10 5 (11.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (11.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (57.14%) Java
2 18 (42.86%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 6 (14.29%) SQL
4 5 (11.90%) Bash
5 4 (9.52%) ActionScript
6 3 (7.14%) C#
6 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (4.76%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) CISSP
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) GCFA
3 2 (4.76%) GCIH
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) CCIE
4 1 (2.38%) CCNP
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Accessibility
2 4 (9.52%) QA
3 2 (4.76%) GDPR
3 2 (4.76%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.38%) NCSC
4 1 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (40.48%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (26.19%) Ansible
3 10 (23.81%) Grafana
3 10 (23.81%) Prometheus
4 6 (14.29%) Istio
5 3 (7.14%) Argo
5 3 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.76%) CASB
7 1 (2.38%) Consul
7 1 (2.38%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.38%) linkerd
7 1 (2.38%) Packer
7 1 (2.38%) Puppet
7 1 (2.38%) Rancher
7 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Splunk
2 5 (11.90%) F5
3 4 (9.52%) Dynatrace
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco
4 2 (4.76%) Confluent
4 2 (4.76%) Cribl.io
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.38%) Adobe
5 1 (2.38%) Apple
5 1 (2.38%) ESET
5 1 (2.38%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.38%) Okta
5 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.38%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.38%) VMware