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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 52 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 34 34 49
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 2.71% 3.26% 3.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.67% 20.00% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 43
10th Percentile £366 £324 £368
25th Percentile £474 £360 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +11.11% -26.68%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £538
90th Percentile £639 £656 £665
North West median daily rate £447 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +11.75% -23.81% -
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 204 170 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.24% 16.30% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 117 184
10th Percentile £344 £324 £375
25th Percentile £400 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £515 £589
90th Percentile £623 £615 £694
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 9
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £81.00
90th Percentile £89.00 - £82.50
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £46.18
% change year-on-year +5.52% +12.87% -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 31 January 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 31 January 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 - 4 - -
Cheadle - 3 £550 -
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 21 (61.76%) GitHub
3 17 (50.00%) GCP
4 13 (38.24%) Azure
4 13 (38.24%) Serverless
5 12 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (32.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (29.41%) Datadog
7 10 (29.41%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (26.47%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (23.53%) Apigee
10 7 (20.59%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (20.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (17.65%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (14.71%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (14.71%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (14.71%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (14.71%) Loggly
12 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%) DynamoDB
1 9 (26.47%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (20.59%) NoSQL
4 6 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (17.65%) BigQuery
4 6 (17.65%) MySQL
4 6 (17.65%) Relational Database
5 5 (14.71%) RDBMS
5 5 (14.71%) Redis
6 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.94%) DocumentDB
7 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Git
2 12 (35.29%) GitLab
3 9 (26.47%) SonarQube
4 5 (14.71%) Gradle
4 5 (14.71%) Maven
4 5 (14.71%) SonarLint
5 3 (8.82%) Artifactory
5 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
5 3 (8.82%) Snyk
6 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (5.88%) Gatling
6 2 (5.88%) Mocha
6 2 (5.88%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (5.88%) Selenium
7 1 (2.94%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.94%) Spinnaker
7 1 (2.94%) TestComplete
7 1 (2.94%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Games
4 1 (2.94%) Electronics
4 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing
4 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
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Software Architect
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Developer
6 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) Spring Boot
2 9 (26.47%) RESTful
3 7 (20.59%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (20.59%) JWT
4 6 (17.65%) Dropwizard
4 6 (17.65%) GraphQL
4 6 (17.65%) J2EE
4 6 (17.65%) Micronaut
5 5 (14.71%) Celery
6 4 (11.76%) Node.js
6 4 (11.76%) OAuth
6 4 (11.76%) Spring
7 3 (8.82%) REST
8 2 (5.88%) Jest
8 2 (5.88%) LDAP
8 2 (5.88%) OpenID
8 2 (5.88%) Playwright
8 2 (5.88%) SAML
9 1 (2.94%) Puppeteer
9 1 (2.94%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.65%) N-Tier
3 5 (14.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (8.82%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) CI/CD
2 20 (58.82%) Containerisation
3 18 (52.94%) DevOps
4 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (32.35%) Microservices
6 10 (29.41%) Agile
6 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (26.47%) Design Patterns
7 9 (26.47%) Event-Driven
8 8 (23.53%) API Design
8 8 (23.53%) Clean Code
8 8 (23.53%) Observability
8 8 (23.53%) SDLC
8 8 (23.53%) TOGAF
9 7 (20.59%) Asynchronous Programming
9 7 (20.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
9 7 (20.59%) Migration
9 7 (20.59%) OOP
9 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Python
2 16 (47.06%) Java
3 9 (26.47%) Bash
4 4 (11.76%) Go
5 3 (8.82%) C
5 3 (8.82%) C++
6 2 (5.88%) C#
6 2 (5.88%) Groovy
6 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.88%) SQL
7 1 (2.94%) Bicep
7 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.94%) Scala
7 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 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
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (70.59%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 24 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 22 (64.71%) Terraform
3 9 (26.47%) Grafana
4 7 (20.59%) Prometheus
5 3 (8.82%) Istio
6 2 (5.88%) Ansible
6 2 (5.88%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (5.88%) CA Wily
6 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.94%) Puppet
7 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.94%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Gigya
2 3 (8.82%) Atlassian
2 3 (8.82%) Checkmarx
2 3 (8.82%) Google
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Splunk
2 3 (8.82%) Veracode
3 2 (5.88%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.88%) Broadcom
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
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Zscaler