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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 72 71
Rank change year-on-year +35 -1 -18
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 49 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.84% 1.26% 2.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.43% 12.93% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 12 21
10th Percentile £400 £326 £363
25th Percentile £475 £352 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £513
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -16.10% -13.14%
75th Percentile £650 £591 £650
90th Percentile £715 £712 £688
North West median daily rate £446 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +4.94% -19.05% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £43.93
25th Percentile - - £50.43
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £64.75
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - £45.88

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 161 116 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.89% 9.76% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 77 148
10th Percentile £336 £324 £361
25th Percentile £400 £375 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £514
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -15.82% -3.29%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £620
90th Percentile £650 £575 £684
North West median daily rate £430 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -4.56% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £70.75 - £50.43
25th Percentile £71.88 £46.25 £62.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -30.91% -5.17%
75th Percentile £77.81 £48.75 £76.56
90th Percentile £78.38 - £80.00
North West median hourly rate £72.58 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +57.17% - -36.30%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Jenkins as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Jenkins 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -
Oldham - 2 - -
Bolton - 1 £425 - 3
Jenkins
North West

Jenkins
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.16%) WebSphere
1 4 (8.16%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (6.12%) JBoss
3 2 (4.08%) Apache
3 2 (4.08%) IIS
3 2 (4.08%) iPlanet
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (57.14%) AWS
2 21 (42.86%) GCP
3 15 (30.61%) Azure
4 11 (22.45%) Apigee
4 11 (22.45%) Serverless
5 10 (20.41%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (20.41%) GitHub
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (16.33%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (16.33%) Datadog
7 7 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (12.24%) Amazon EventBridge
9 5 (10.20%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (10.20%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (10.20%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (10.20%) Loggly
9 5 (10.20%) Route 53
9 5 (10.20%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Calico
1 2 (4.08%) Kerberos
1 2 (4.08%) Network Security
2 1 (2.04%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) SSL
2 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (26.53%) Relational Database
3 12 (24.49%) NoSQL
4 9 (18.37%) DynamoDB
5 8 (16.33%) MySQL
6 7 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (12.24%) MongoDB
7 6 (12.24%) Redis
8 5 (10.20%) BigQuery
8 5 (10.20%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (44.90%) GitLab
2 21 (42.86%) Git
3 15 (30.61%) Gradle
4 10 (20.41%) JIRA
4 10 (20.41%) JUnit
4 10 (20.41%) Maven
5 8 (16.33%) Liquibase
5 8 (16.33%) Mockito
5 8 (16.33%) SonarQube
6 6 (12.24%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (10.20%) Artifactory
7 5 (10.20%) CircleCI
7 5 (10.20%) SonarLint
8 3 (6.12%) Cypress.io
8 3 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (4.08%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.04%) Gatling
10 1 (2.04%) MLflow
General
1 17 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.61%) Finance
3 14 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 10 (20.41%) Manufacturing
5 9 (18.37%) Electronics
5 9 (18.37%) Marketing
5 9 (18.37%) Telecoms
6 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.16%) Banking
7 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.08%) Games
9 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Software Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) Architect
3 11 (22.45%) Senior
4 8 (16.33%) Developer
4 8 (16.33%) Java Architect
4 8 (16.33%) Java Technical Architect
4 8 (16.33%) Technical Architect
5 5 (10.20%) Java Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.16%) Kafka Developer
6 4 (8.16%) React Developer
6 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Software Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.69%) Spring Boot
2 14 (28.57%) RESTful
3 13 (26.53%) React
4 12 (24.49%) Kafka
4 12 (24.49%) Spring
5 10 (20.41%) OpenAPI
5 10 (20.41%) Swagger
6 7 (14.29%) Dropwizard
6 7 (14.29%) GraphQL
6 7 (14.29%) OAuth
7 6 (12.24%) J2EE
7 6 (12.24%) JWT
7 6 (12.24%) Micronaut
7 6 (12.24%) Node.js
8 5 (10.20%) Celery
9 4 (8.16%) Playwright
9 4 (8.16%) Puppeteer
9 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (4.08%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.24%) N-Tier
3 5 (10.20%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.08%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Android
2 2 (4.08%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.08%) Unix
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (89.80%) CI/CD
2 29 (59.18%) Containerisation
2 29 (59.18%) DevOps
3 25 (51.02%) Agile
3 25 (51.02%) Microservices
4 21 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 16 (32.65%) Event-Driven
6 14 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (28.57%) TDD
7 12 (24.49%) Clean Code
8 10 (20.41%) Design Patterns
8 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
8 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (18.37%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (18.37%) Digital Marketing
9 9 (18.37%) Migration
9 9 (18.37%) Programme Management
10 8 (16.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 32 (65.31%) Java
2 22 (44.90%) Python
3 13 (26.53%) SQL
3 13 (26.53%) TypeScript
4 11 (22.45%) Bash
5 6 (12.24%) C++
6 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.12%) C
8 2 (4.08%) Go
8 2 (4.08%) Groovy
9 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.04%) PHP
9 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.12%) Degree
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) IEC 61508
1 3 (6.12%) IEC 62304
1 3 (6.12%) ISO 26262
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) COBIT
System Software
1 33 (67.35%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (51.02%) Kubernetes
2 24 (48.98%) Terraform
3 9 (18.37%) Ansible
4 5 (10.20%) Grafana
4 5 (10.20%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.12%) Podman
5 3 (6.12%) SELinux
6 2 (4.08%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (4.08%) CA Wily
6 2 (4.08%) Istio
6 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.04%) Puppet
7 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.04%) Tivoli
7 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) SAP
2 6 (12.24%) Gigya
2 6 (12.24%) Google
3 4 (8.16%) Atlassian
3 4 (8.16%) IBM
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) PagerDuty
5 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.08%) Broadcom
5 2 (4.08%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.08%) F5
5 2 (4.08%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.04%) BMC
6 1 (2.04%) Remedy
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) VMware
6 1 (2.04%) Zscaler