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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 37 60
Rank change year-on-year -36 +23 +10
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 45 48 19
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.28% 4.83% 1.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.50% 32.21% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 13
10th Percentile £392 £400 £324
25th Percentile £413 £475 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 £360
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +52.78% -26.15%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £708 £700
North West median daily rate £428 £441 £400
% change year-on-year -2.95% +10.13% -21.95%
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 200 149 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.12% 15.01% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 112 71
10th Percentile £377 £338 £324
25th Percentile £413 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +9.83% -15.20%
75th Percentile £632 £584 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £575
North West median daily rate £505 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +18.82% -5.56% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £23.44 - -
25th Percentile £32.52 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +47.37% -30.91%
75th Percentile £76.75 - £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 30 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 30 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 (8.89%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (2.22%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) nginx
3 1 (2.22%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) AWS
2 22 (48.89%) GitHub
3 14 (31.11%) Azure
4 11 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (22.22%) GCP
6 9 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (15.56%) dbt
8 5 (11.11%) IaaS
9 4 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (4.44%) npm
10 2 (4.44%) OCI
10 2 (4.44%) SaaS
10 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
11 1 (2.22%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (2.22%) BrowserStack
11 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) Firewall
2 7 (15.56%) DNS
2 7 (15.56%) Network Security
3 5 (11.11%) BIG-IP
3 5 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 5 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (6.67%) SSL
5 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.22%) BGP
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.22%) DHCP
6 1 (2.22%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (2.22%) HTTP
6 1 (2.22%) MPLS
6 1 (2.22%) OSPF
6 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.22%) VPN
6 1 (2.22%) VXLAN
6 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) MongoDB
2 7 (15.56%) Ataccama
3 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (40.00%) Git
2 15 (33.33%) GitLab
3 10 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 10 (22.22%) Selenium
4 9 (20.00%) JUnit
4 9 (20.00%) REST Assured
5 8 (17.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (13.33%) Gatling
6 6 (13.33%) SonarQube
7 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
7 4 (8.89%) Maven
7 4 (8.89%) Postman
7 4 (8.89%) TestNG
8 3 (6.67%) Gradle
8 3 (6.67%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (4.44%) Burp Suite
9 2 (4.44%) JIRA
9 2 (4.44%) LoadRunner
9 2 (4.44%) Mockito
10 1 (2.22%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Military
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Lead
3 7 (15.56%) Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Technical Leader
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) GCP DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior
6 3 (6.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Test Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (28.89%) Kafka
2 11 (24.44%) Spring
3 10 (22.22%) Terraform
4 8 (17.78%) Playwright
4 8 (17.78%) Spring Boot
5 5 (11.11%) JSON
5 5 (11.11%) React
5 5 (11.11%) REST
6 4 (8.89%) Hibernate
6 4 (8.89%) RESTful
6 4 (8.89%) Spring MVC
7 3 (6.67%) Node.js
7 3 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.44%) HTML
8 2 (4.44%) Quarkus
9 1 (2.22%) .NET
9 1 (2.22%) cloud-init
9 1 (2.22%) CSS
9 1 (2.22%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Public Cloud
2 5 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.67%) PKI
4 3 (6.67%) Replication
5 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) CentOS
3 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (84.44%) CI/CD
2 31 (68.89%) DevOps
3 22 (48.89%) Agile
4 12 (26.67%) Observability
4 12 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 11 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (24.44%) Microservices
6 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (17.78%) Scrum
9 6 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (13.33%) Incident Response
9 6 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (13.33%) SDLC
9 6 (13.33%) Test Strategy
10 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 5 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) Java
2 19 (42.22%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.33%) SQL
4 5 (11.11%) ActionScript
4 5 (11.11%) Bash
5 3 (6.67%) C#
5 3 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.44%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (4.44%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (24.44%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) CISSP
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) GCFA
3 2 (4.44%) GCIH
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.22%) CCIE
4 1 (2.22%) CCNP
4 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (24.44%) Ansible
3 10 (22.22%) Grafana
3 10 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 6 (13.33%) Istio
5 3 (6.67%) Argo
5 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.44%) CASB
7 1 (2.22%) Consul
7 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.22%) linkerd
7 1 (2.22%) Packer
7 1 (2.22%) Puppet
7 1 (2.22%) Rancher
7 1 (2.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) F5
1 6 (13.33%) Splunk
2 4 (8.89%) Dynatrace
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) Cisco
3 2 (4.44%) Confluent
3 2 (4.44%) Cribl.io
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle
3 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.22%) Adobe
4 1 (2.22%) Apple
4 1 (2.22%) ESET
4 1 (2.22%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.22%) Okta
4 1 (2.22%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) VMware