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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 44 58
Rank change year-on-year -35 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 51 40 23
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.53% 3.95% 1.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.29% 26.32% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 15
10th Percentile £400 £393 £324
25th Percentile £413 £461 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +43.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £619
90th Percentile £650 £713 £695
North West median daily rate £425 £430 £400
% change year-on-year -1.16% +7.50% -21.76%
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% +36.00%

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 219 152 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.88% 15.00% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 114 79
10th Percentile £381 £338 £323
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -14.43%
75th Percentile £600 £582 £550
90th Percentile £675 £647 £590
North West median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 1
10th Percentile £24.08 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £76.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +47.37% -30.91%
75th Percentile £77.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile £85.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £63.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.36% +37.29% -

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 - - 1
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 (7.84%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.96%) CMS
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
3 1 (1.96%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) SAP MM
1 1 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (52.94%) GitHub
2 23 (45.10%) AWS
3 17 (33.33%) Azure
4 15 (29.41%) GCP
5 13 (25.49%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (13.73%) dbt
8 6 (11.76%) IaaS
9 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (3.92%) npm
11 2 (3.92%) OCI
11 2 (3.92%) SaaS
12 1 (1.96%) Adobe Analytics
12 1 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.57%) Firewall
2 8 (15.69%) DNS
2 8 (15.69%) Network Security
3 6 (11.76%) BIG-IP
3 6 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 6 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (5.88%) SSL
5 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.96%) BGP
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.96%) DHCP
6 1 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.96%) HTTP
6 1 (1.96%) Internet
6 1 (1.96%) MPLS
6 1 (1.96%) OSPF
6 1 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.96%) VPN
6 1 (1.96%) VXLAN
6 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) MongoDB
2 7 (13.73%) Ataccama
3 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.96%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.96%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (41.18%) Git
2 15 (29.41%) GitLab
3 10 (19.61%) Cucumber
3 10 (19.61%) Selenium
4 9 (17.65%) JUnit
4 9 (17.65%) REST Assured
5 8 (15.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (11.76%) Gatling
7 5 (9.80%) SonarQube
8 4 (7.84%) Bitbucket
8 4 (7.84%) Maven
8 4 (7.84%) Postman
8 4 (7.84%) TestNG
9 3 (5.88%) Gradle
9 3 (5.88%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (3.92%) Burp Suite
10 2 (3.92%) JIRA
10 2 (3.92%) LoadRunner
10 2 (3.92%) Mockito
11 1 (1.96%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (21.57%) Finance
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Banking
2 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.84%) Military
4 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Developer
2 7 (13.73%) Lead
3 6 (11.76%) Test Engineer
4 5 (9.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Senior
5 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Technical Leader
6 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
6 3 (5.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) SIEM Engineer
7 2 (3.92%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (31.37%) Kafka
2 13 (25.49%) Spring
3 12 (23.53%) Terraform
4 10 (19.61%) Spring Boot
5 8 (15.69%) Playwright
5 8 (15.69%) REST
6 5 (9.80%) JSON
7 4 (7.84%) Hibernate
7 4 (7.84%) React
7 4 (7.84%) RESTful
7 4 (7.84%) Spring MVC
8 3 (5.88%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (3.92%) HTML
9 2 (3.92%) Node.js
9 2 (3.92%) Quarkus
10 1 (1.96%) .NET
10 1 (1.96%) CSS
10 1 (1.96%) SOAP
10 1 (1.96%) XML
10 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Public Cloud
2 6 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.80%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.80%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.88%) PKI
5 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) CentOS
3 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (86.27%) CI/CD
2 35 (68.63%) DevOps
3 24 (47.06%) Agile
4 13 (25.49%) Microservices
4 13 (25.49%) Test Automation
5 12 (23.53%) Observability
6 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (15.69%) Scrum
9 7 (13.73%) Incident Response
9 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (11.76%) SDLC
10 6 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (11.76%) Test Strategy
11 5 (9.80%) BDD
11 5 (9.80%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.98%) Java
2 22 (43.14%) Python
3 8 (15.69%) PowerShell
3 8 (15.69%) SQL
4 6 (11.76%) ActionScript
4 6 (11.76%) Bash
5 3 (5.88%) C#
6 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.92%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.92%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.96%) Bicep
7 1 (1.96%) Go
7 1 (1.96%) Groovy
7 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 11 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.92%) CISSP
3 2 (3.92%) Degree
3 2 (3.92%) GCFA
3 2 (3.92%) GCIH
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.96%) CCIE
4 1 (1.96%) CCNP
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.84%) QA
3 2 (3.92%) GDPR
3 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.96%) NCSC
4 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 11 (21.57%) Ansible
3 10 (19.61%) Grafana
3 10 (19.61%) Prometheus
4 7 (13.73%) Istio
5 3 (5.88%) Argo
5 3 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.92%) CASB
7 1 (1.96%) Consul
7 1 (1.96%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.96%) linkerd
7 1 (1.96%) Packer
7 1 (1.96%) Puppet
7 1 (1.96%) Rancher
7 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) F5
2 6 (11.76%) Dynatrace
2 6 (11.76%) Splunk
3 4 (7.84%) Google
3 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco
4 2 (3.92%) Confluent
4 2 (3.92%) Cribl.io
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.92%) SAP
5 1 (1.96%) Adobe
5 1 (1.96%) Apple
5 1 (1.96%) ESET
5 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.96%) Okta
5 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.96%) VMware