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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 54 52
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 27 30 50
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.96% 2.94% 3.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.17% 18.40% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 44
10th Percentile £385 £324 £368
25th Percentile £400 £358 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% -25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £538
90th Percentile £668 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £445 £391 £525
% change year-on-year +13.81% -25.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £80.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year - +74.37% -13.43%

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 205 163 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.87% 15.95% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 115 184
10th Percentile £344 £319 £383
25th Percentile £400 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £503 £575
90th Percentile £638 £623 £694
North West median daily rate £420 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £71.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £72.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% - +61.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £81.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £63.88 £46.18
% change year-on-year -13.89% +38.32% -5.15%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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
Oldham - 3 - -
Cheadle - 2 £550 - 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 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) IIS
2 1 (3.70%) iPlanet
2 1 (3.70%) JBoss
2 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) AWS
2 16 (59.26%) GitHub
3 10 (37.04%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (33.33%) GCP
5 8 (29.63%) Azure
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (25.93%) Amazon S3
7 6 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (18.52%) Serverless
9 4 (14.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (14.81%) OpenShift
10 3 (11.11%) Datadog
10 3 (11.11%) Pulumi
10 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (7.41%) Apigee
12 1 (3.70%) BrowserStack
12 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.70%) SSL
2 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.70%) DocumentDB
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) GitLab
2 5 (18.52%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 3 (11.11%) Snyk
3 3 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.41%) Artifactory
4 2 (7.41%) Gatling
4 2 (7.41%) Mocha
4 2 (7.41%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (7.41%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) Appium
5 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) JUnit
5 1 (3.70%) Mockito
5 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.70%) TestComplete
5 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Games
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Lead
2 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Software Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (14.81%) Node.js
2 4 (14.81%) Spring
2 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
3 3 (11.11%) REST
4 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
4 2 (7.41%) Jest
4 2 (7.41%) Kafka
4 2 (7.41%) OAuth
4 2 (7.41%) Playwright
4 2 (7.41%) RESTful
5 1 (3.70%) JWT
5 1 (3.70%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.70%) OpenID
5 1 (3.70%) Puppeteer
5 1 (3.70%) SailPoint
5 1 (3.70%) SAML
5 1 (3.70%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Swagger
5 1 (3.70%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (96.30%) CI/CD
2 20 (74.07%) DevOps
3 13 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 7 (25.93%) Migration
5 7 (25.93%) Observability
6 6 (22.22%) Agile
6 6 (22.22%) Secure Coding
7 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
8 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) Microservices
8 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) Task Automation
9 3 (11.11%) API Development
9 3 (11.11%) High Availability
9 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.11%) SDLC
9 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) Bash
2 8 (29.63%) Java
3 3 (11.11%) Go
4 2 (7.41%) C
4 2 (7.41%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) C++
4 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) SQL
5 1 (3.70%) Bicep
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) PMP
2 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.41%) IEC 61508
1 2 (7.41%) IEC 62304
1 2 (7.41%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (59.26%) Terraform
3 8 (29.63%) Grafana
4 6 (22.22%) Prometheus
5 4 (14.81%) Ansible
6 3 (11.11%) Istio
7 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.70%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (3.70%) CA Wily
8 1 (3.70%) Puppet
8 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (3.70%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Checkmarx
1 3 (11.11%) Google
1 3 (11.11%) Veracode
2 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.41%) CheckPoint
2 2 (7.41%) F5
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
2 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.70%) Broadcom
3 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) Okta
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Zscaler