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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 56 52
Rank change year-on-year -23 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 23 28 47
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.64% 2.74% 3.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.33% 17.18% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 41
10th Percentile £400 £324 £368
25th Percentile £413 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +11.11% -25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £538
90th Percentile £690 £694 £669
North West median daily rate £447 £405 £525
% change year-on-year +10.38% -22.95% -
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 203 163 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.51% 15.95% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 115 177
10th Percentile £350 £322 £375
25th Percentile £400 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £550 £509 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £694
North West median daily rate £431 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -4.22% -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 1 March 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 1 March 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 - 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 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) iPlanet
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) AWS
2 15 (65.22%) GitHub
3 9 (39.13%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (34.78%) GCP
5 7 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
5 7 (30.43%) Azure
6 6 (26.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (21.74%) Serverless
8 4 (17.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
9 3 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (8.70%) Apigee
10 2 (8.70%) Datadog
10 2 (8.70%) Pulumi
11 1 (4.35%) Azure Storage
11 1 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.35%) SSL
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.35%) DocumentDB
3 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (56.52%) GitLab
2 5 (21.74%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
3 3 (13.04%) Snyk
3 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.70%) Mocha
4 2 (8.70%) Selenium
5 1 (4.35%) Appium
5 1 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
5 1 (4.35%) Gatling
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
5 1 (4.35%) JUnit
5 1 (4.35%) Mockito
5 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
5 1 (4.35%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.35%) Spinnaker
5 1 (4.35%) TestComplete
5 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Senior
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.04%) Node.js
3 3 (13.04%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.70%) Jest
4 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) OAuth
5 1 (4.35%) JWT
5 1 (4.35%) LDAP
5 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.35%) OpenID
5 1 (4.35%) Playwright
5 1 (4.35%) RESTful
5 1 (4.35%) SailPoint
5 1 (4.35%) SAML
5 1 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.04%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) CI/CD
2 19 (82.61%) DevOps
3 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
5 7 (30.43%) Migration
6 6 (26.09%) Observability
6 6 (26.09%) Secure Coding
7 5 (21.74%) Agile
8 4 (17.39%) DevSecOps
8 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (17.39%) Microservices
8 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 3 (13.04%) API Development
9 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
9 3 (13.04%) High Availability
9 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) SDLC
9 3 (13.04%) Static Application Security Testing
9 3 (13.04%) Task Automation
9 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) C#
4 2 (8.70%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.35%) PMP
2 1 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 17 (73.91%) Kubernetes
2 15 (65.22%) Terraform
3 7 (30.43%) Grafana
4 5 (21.74%) Prometheus
5 4 (17.39%) Ansible
6 3 (13.04%) Istio
7 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (4.35%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (4.35%) CA Wily
8 1 (4.35%) Puppet
8 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (4.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Checkmarx
1 3 (13.04%) Google
1 3 (13.04%) Veracode
2 2 (8.70%) CheckPoint
2 2 (8.70%) F5
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
2 2 (8.70%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.35%) Broadcom
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Okta
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Zscaler