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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 53 68
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 -13
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 34 33 35
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.97% 2.86% 2.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.24% 21.71% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 21 31
10th Percentile £378 £324 £363
25th Percentile £513 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +11.11% -28.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £581
90th Percentile £714 £725 £675
North West median daily rate £430 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +7.50% -21.95% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £64.75
North West median hourly rate - £80.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +28.00% +17.92%

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 168 152 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.67% 13.18% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 101 162
10th Percentile £333 £319 £363
25th Percentile £385 £363 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -11.98% -7.05%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £619
90th Percentile £638 £638 £668
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £513
% change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £49.25
25th Percentile - £46.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +78.95% -30.91% +52.78%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £46.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +35.35% +1.43% +2.62%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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
Cheadle - 5 £625 - 1
Oldham - 4 - -
Bolton - 1 £425 -
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 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.88%) IIS
1 2 (5.88%) iPlanet
1 2 (5.88%) JBoss
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) AWS
2 16 (47.06%) GCP
3 15 (44.12%) Azure
3 15 (44.12%) GitHub
4 11 (32.35%) Serverless
5 10 (29.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (29.41%) Datadog
6 8 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (20.59%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (20.59%) Apigee
7 7 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (17.65%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (14.71%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (14.71%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (14.71%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (14.71%) Loggly
9 5 (14.71%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Kerberos
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) SSL
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (26.47%) DynamoDB
1 9 (26.47%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (20.59%) MySQL
2 7 (20.59%) NoSQL
3 6 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (17.65%) Redis
4 5 (14.71%) BigQuery
4 5 (14.71%) RDBMS
4 5 (14.71%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (47.06%) Git
2 11 (32.35%) GitLab
3 8 (23.53%) SonarQube
4 5 (14.71%) Gradle
4 5 (14.71%) Maven
4 5 (14.71%) Rational DOORS
4 5 (14.71%) SonarLint
5 3 (8.82%) Artifactory
5 3 (8.82%) JIRA
6 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (5.88%) Snyk
7 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.94%) Gatling
7 1 (2.94%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.94%) Spinnaker
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.76%) Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Games
5 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Architect
2 8 (23.53%) Java Architect
2 8 (23.53%) Java Technical Architect
2 8 (23.53%) Technical Architect
3 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Software Architect
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Lead
7 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Backend Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) RESTful
2 7 (20.59%) Spring Boot
3 6 (17.65%) Dropwizard
3 6 (17.65%) J2EE
3 6 (17.65%) JWT
3 6 (17.65%) Micronaut
4 5 (14.71%) Celery
4 5 (14.71%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (11.76%) GraphQL
6 3 (8.82%) Node.js
6 3 (8.82%) OAuth
7 2 (5.88%) LDAP
7 2 (5.88%) OpenID
7 2 (5.88%) SAML
8 1 (2.94%) HTML
8 1 (2.94%) Kafka
8 1 (2.94%) Laravel
8 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.94%) REST
8 1 (2.94%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
1 6 (17.65%) N-Tier
2 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (91.18%) CI/CD
2 20 (58.82%) Containerisation
2 20 (58.82%) DevOps
3 14 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (38.24%) Agile
5 10 (29.41%) Microservices
5 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (26.47%) Design Patterns
6 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (23.53%) API Design
7 8 (23.53%) Clean Code
7 8 (23.53%) Event-Driven
7 8 (23.53%) Mentoring
7 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 8 (23.53%) TOGAF
8 7 (20.59%) Asynchronous Programming
8 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 7 (20.59%) Observability
8 7 (20.59%) OOP
8 7 (20.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Python
2 16 (47.06%) Java
3 11 (32.35%) Bash
4 6 (17.65%) C++
5 4 (11.76%) Go
6 3 (8.82%) C
7 2 (5.88%) Groovy
7 2 (5.88%) SQL
8 1 (2.94%) Bicep
8 1 (2.94%) C#
8 1 (2.94%) PHP
8 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.94%) Scala
8 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.88%) Degree
6 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) IEC 61508
1 3 (8.82%) IEC 62304
1 3 (8.82%) ISO 26262
1 3 (8.82%) QA
System Software
1 24 (70.59%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (64.71%) Kubernetes
2 21 (61.76%) Terraform
3 8 (23.53%) Ansible
4 6 (17.65%) Grafana
4 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.82%) Podman
5 3 (8.82%) SELinux
6 2 (5.88%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (5.88%) CA Wily
6 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.94%) Istio
7 1 (2.94%) Puppet
7 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.94%) Tivoli
7 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Gigya
2 3 (8.82%) Atlassian
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.88%) Broadcom
3 2 (5.88%) Checkmarx
3 2 (5.88%) CheckPoint
3 2 (5.88%) F5
3 2 (5.88%) IBM
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.88%) Splunk
3 2 (5.88%) Veracode
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) VMware
4 1 (2.94%) Zscaler