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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 58 63
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 39 27 41
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.49% 2.28% 2.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.35% 19.29% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 16 36
10th Percentile £366 £324 £365
25th Percentile £410 £352 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -16.67% -26.53%
75th Percentile £650 £591 £578
90th Percentile £713 £644 £688
North West median daily rate £418 £393 £519
% change year-on-year +6.37% -24.34% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile - - £64.75
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 167 140 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.96% 11.83% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 89 166
10th Percentile £333 £318 £363
25th Percentile £381 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £438 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -14.63% -6.82%
75th Percentile £588 £540 £605
90th Percentile £638 £590 £666
North West median daily rate £425 £445 £513
% change year-on-year -4.49% -13.17% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £71.50 - £49.25
25th Percentile £73.75 £46.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate £77.50 £47.50 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +63.16% -30.91% +52.78%
75th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £77.81
90th Percentile £83.50 - £79.88
North West median hourly rate £63.40 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.29% - +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 21 November 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 21 November 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 - 3
Oldham - 4 - -
Bolton - 1 £425 - 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 (10.26%) WebSphere
1 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (7.69%) JBoss
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.13%) IIS
3 2 (5.13%) iPlanet
4 1 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 30 (76.92%) AWS
2 18 (46.15%) Azure
2 18 (46.15%) GCP
3 16 (41.03%) GitHub
4 11 (28.21%) Serverless
5 10 (25.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (25.64%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (25.64%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (25.64%) Datadog
6 9 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (20.51%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (17.95%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (17.95%) Apigee
8 7 (17.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (15.38%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (12.82%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (12.82%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (12.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (12.82%) Loggly
10 5 (12.82%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Calico
1 2 (5.13%) Kerberos
1 2 (5.13%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) SSL
2 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (23.08%) DynamoDB
1 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (17.95%) MySQL
2 7 (17.95%) NoSQL
3 6 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (15.38%) Redis
4 5 (12.82%) BigQuery
4 5 (12.82%) RDBMS
4 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.13%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (51.28%) Git
2 14 (35.90%) GitLab
3 9 (23.08%) Maven
3 9 (23.08%) SonarQube
4 7 (17.95%) Gradle
5 6 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (12.82%) JIRA
6 5 (12.82%) SonarLint
7 4 (10.26%) Artifactory
8 3 (7.69%) Bitbucket
9 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (5.13%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (5.13%) JUnit
9 2 (5.13%) Snyk
9 2 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.56%) Gatling
10 1 (2.56%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (2.56%) Robot Framework
10 1 (2.56%) Spinnaker
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Banking
4 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.26%) Games
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Electronics
7 1 (2.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Architect
2 8 (20.51%) Java Architect
2 8 (20.51%) Java Technical Architect
2 8 (20.51%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Technical Architect
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Software Architect
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Developer
7 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Lead
7 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) RESTful
2 8 (20.51%) Spring Boot
3 6 (15.38%) Dropwizard
3 6 (15.38%) J2EE
3 6 (15.38%) JWT
3 6 (15.38%) Micronaut
4 5 (12.82%) Celery
4 5 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (10.26%) GraphQL
6 3 (7.69%) Node.js
6 3 (7.69%) OAuth
6 3 (7.69%) Spring
7 2 (5.13%) LDAP
7 2 (5.13%) OpenID
7 2 (5.13%) REST
7 2 (5.13%) SAML
8 1 (2.56%) Kafka
8 1 (2.56%) Laravel
8 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 6 (15.38%) N-Tier
2 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.13%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (5.13%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Android
2 2 (5.13%) Apple iOS
2 2 (5.13%) Unix
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (89.74%) CI/CD
2 23 (58.97%) DevOps
3 21 (53.85%) Containerisation
4 16 (41.03%) Agile
4 16 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (28.21%) Design Patterns
6 11 (28.21%) Microservices
7 10 (25.64%) Mentoring
8 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (20.51%) API Design
9 8 (20.51%) Clean Code
9 8 (20.51%) Event-Driven
9 8 (20.51%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (20.51%) TOGAF
10 7 (17.95%) Asynchronous Programming
10 7 (17.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (17.95%) Observability
10 7 (17.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) Python
2 18 (46.15%) Java
3 11 (28.21%) Bash
4 6 (15.38%) C++
5 4 (10.26%) Go
5 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.69%) C
7 2 (5.13%) Groovy
7 2 (5.13%) SQL
8 1 (2.56%) Bicep
8 1 (2.56%) C#
8 1 (2.56%) PHP
8 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.13%) Degree
6 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) IEC 61508
1 3 (7.69%) IEC 62304
1 3 (7.69%) ISO 26262
1 3 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 27 (69.23%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 1 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 25 (64.10%) Kubernetes
2 24 (61.54%) Terraform
3 8 (20.51%) Ansible
4 6 (15.38%) Grafana
4 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.69%) Istio
5 3 (7.69%) Podman
5 3 (7.69%) SELinux
6 2 (5.13%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (5.13%) CA Wily
6 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.56%) Puppet
7 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.56%) Tivoli
7 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Gigya
2 4 (10.26%) Atlassian
2 4 (10.26%) IBM
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.13%) Broadcom
4 2 (5.13%) Checkmarx
4 2 (5.13%) CheckPoint
4 2 (5.13%) F5
4 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 2 (5.13%) Veracode
5 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) Zscaler