Jenkins Contract Job Trends in England

Jenkins (JenkinsCI)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Jenkins skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 81 105
Rank change year-on-year -14 +24 -52
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,026 725 806
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.74% 2.98% 2.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.34% 22.00% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 705 505 600
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £675
90th Percentile £661 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -6.63% -2.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £57.25 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £63.44 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +20.00% -19.64%
75th Percentile £60.25 £75.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.90 £82.75 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £67.50 £51.07
% change year-on-year -21.48% +32.18% -27.05%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,044 3,295 4,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.47% 13.55% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,410 2,190 2,929
10th Percentile £337 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 65 173
10th Percentile £39.27 £26.12 £37.50
25th Percentile £58.45 £52.18 £48.31
Median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.31 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Jenkins relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Jenkins job vacancy trend in England

Jenkins
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jenkins.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins in England over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in England

Jenkins
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jenkins.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins in England over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Jenkins in England

Jenkins
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jenkins within the England region over the 6 months to 24 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
London -33 432 £528 -12.08% 82
North of England +21 259 £480 -4.00% 84
Yorkshire +13 203 £500 -8.05% 33
Midlands +18 159 £509 +12.05% 19
West Midlands +23 144 £515 +8.42% 13
South East -8 98 £462 -7.70% 46
South West -3 57 £525 -8.70% 44
North West -45 43 £402 -0.31% 36
East of England -17 25 £475 +5.56% 21
North East -7 17 £450 -10.89% 15
East Midlands -34 14 £402 -9.46% 6
Jenkins
UK

Jenkins
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 129 (12.57%) Confluence
2 65 (6.34%) SAS
3 22 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.78%) Apache
7 7 (0.68%) nginx
8 5 (0.49%) JBoss
8 5 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.097%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.097%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.097%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 20 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.19%) Shopify
3 1 (0.097%) Actimize
3 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 505 (49.22%) AWS
2 408 (39.77%) GitHub
3 297 (28.95%) Azure
4 251 (24.46%) GitHub Actions
5 233 (22.71%) GCP
6 145 (14.13%) OpenShift
7 134 (13.06%) Serverless
8 126 (12.28%) Amazon S3
9 125 (12.18%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
11 98 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
12 96 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 79 (7.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 71 (6.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 68 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
17 61 (5.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 50 (4.87%) Datadog
19 39 (3.80%) Azure AKS
20 33 (3.22%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 61 (5.95%) DNS
2 53 (5.17%) Firewall
3 28 (2.73%) VPN
4 20 (1.95%) Network Security
5 14 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.17%) HTTP
7 9 (0.88%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.68%) SSL
8 7 (0.68%) WAN
9 6 (0.58%) Internet
9 6 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.49%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.49%) SAN
11 3 (0.29%) BGP
12 2 (0.19%) AMQP
12 2 (0.19%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.19%) LAN
12 2 (0.19%) Multicast
12 2 (0.19%) NAS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (16.37%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (8.58%) NoSQL
4 48 (4.68%) MongoDB
5 45 (4.39%) DynamoDB
6 42 (4.09%) Relational Database
7 40 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 37 (3.61%) MySQL
9 34 (3.31%) Pentaho
10 26 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
11 25 (2.44%) Redis
12 21 (2.05%) Big Data
13 18 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
14 16 (1.56%) BigQuery
14 16 (1.56%) Oracle Database
15 13 (1.27%) Power BI
16 12 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (1.17%) Tableau
17 11 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (1.07%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 402 (39.18%) GitLab
2 321 (31.29%) Git
3 230 (22.42%) JIRA
4 122 (11.89%) JUnit
5 109 (10.62%) Selenium
6 96 (9.36%) Cucumber
7 72 (7.02%) Sonatype Nexus
8 58 (5.65%) Maven
8 58 (5.65%) Postman
9 55 (5.36%) Bitbucket
10 41 (4.00%) REST Assured
11 40 (3.90%) SonarQube
12 36 (3.51%) JMeter
12 36 (3.51%) Mockito
13 34 (3.31%) Gradle
14 30 (2.92%) Artifactory
15 24 (2.34%) Gatling
15 24 (2.34%) Liquibase
16 23 (2.24%) CircleCI
17 20 (1.95%) WebDriver
General
1 323 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 217 (21.15%) Finance
3 129 (12.57%) Banking
4 121 (11.79%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (0.97%) Front Office
11 9 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.88%) Military
11 9 (0.88%) Retail
12 8 (0.78%) Law
13 7 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 185 (18.03%) Developer
2 150 (14.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 147 (14.33%) Senior
4 88 (8.58%) Architect
5 83 (8.09%) Java Developer
6 76 (7.41%) Lead
7 68 (6.63%) GCP Engineer
8 64 (6.24%) Data Engineer
9 57 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
10 56 (5.46%) Software Engineer
11 53 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
13 42 (4.09%) Test Engineer
14 37 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
14 37 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 37 (3.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 34 (3.31%) Senior Developer
16 33 (3.22%) Tester
17 32 (3.12%) Automation Engineer
18 31 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (16.57%) REST
2 152 (14.81%) Spring
3 145 (14.13%) Kafka
4 116 (11.31%) Spring Boot
5 112 (10.92%) Node.js
6 84 (8.19%) Elastic Stack
6 84 (8.19%) RESTful
7 71 (6.92%) Playwright
8 55 (5.36%) React
9 50 (4.87%) AngularJS
9 50 (4.87%) OpenTelemetry
10 43 (4.19%) pytest
11 41 (4.00%) OpenID
11 41 (4.00%) YAML
12 40 (3.90%) GraphQL
13 39 (3.80%) LDAP
14 37 (3.61%) JSON
14 37 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
15 33 (3.22%) HTML
16 32 (3.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 194 (18.91%) Cloud Native
2 92 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 35 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (3.02%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 13 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.07%) Replication
12 9 (0.88%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.88%) Derivative
12 9 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.88%) Equities
12 9 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.78%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 221 (21.54%) Linux
2 54 (5.26%) Windows
3 37 (3.61%) Unix
4 28 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.66%) VMS
6 13 (1.27%) Android
7 10 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.97%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.78%) CentOS
9 4 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.097%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (84.31%) CI/CD
2 686 (66.86%) DevOps
3 418 (40.74%) Agile
4 347 (33.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 323 (31.48%) Containerisation
6 310 (30.21%) Test Automation
7 246 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
8 227 (22.12%) Microservices
9 164 (15.98%) Observability
10 150 (14.62%) Scrum
11 138 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 134 (13.06%) Software Engineering
13 109 (10.62%) Migration
14 104 (10.14%) Mentoring
15 96 (9.36%) Analytics
16 92 (8.97%) Deployment Automation
17 91 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
18 88 (8.58%) Data Pipeline
19 87 (8.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 85 (8.28%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 461 (44.93%) Python
2 300 (29.24%) Java
3 214 (20.86%) SQL
4 175 (17.06%) Bash
5 90 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 83 (8.09%) PowerShell
7 81 (7.89%) TypeScript
8 72 (7.02%) Go
9 54 (5.26%) C#
10 53 (5.17%) Shell Script
11 31 (3.02%) Scala
12 29 (2.83%) Groovy
13 16 (1.56%) C++
14 15 (1.46%) Bicep
14 15 (1.46%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.36%) PHP
16 12 (1.17%) Ruby
17 10 (0.97%) Perl
17 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.97%) Swift
Qualifications
1 369 (35.96%) Security Cleared
2 305 (29.73%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.43%) Degree
4 48 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.00%) AWS Certification
6 29 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.73%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.34%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.95%) Oracle Certification
10 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.36%) OCP
13 12 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.78%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.78%) RHCE
15 6 (0.58%) OCA
16 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
18 3 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (10.14%) QA
2 52 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.95%) NIST
6 17 (1.66%) SLA
7 16 (1.56%) NCSC
8 10 (0.97%) GDPR
9 9 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.39%) WCAG
12 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.19%) HL7
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.19%) MiFID
13 2 (0.19%) PSD2
13 2 (0.19%) SEPA
14 1 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 484 (47.17%) Docker
2 32 (3.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (2.53%) VMware NSX
3 26 (2.53%) vSphere
4 14 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.17%) Active Directory
6 7 (0.68%) Postfix
7 6 (0.58%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.58%) HDFS
8 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.29%) GridGain
10 2 (0.19%) SRDF
11 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.097%) KVM
11 1 (0.097%) NFS
11 1 (0.097%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.097%) Varnish
11 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 551 (53.70%) Kubernetes
2 415 (40.45%) Terraform
3 292 (28.46%) Ansible
4 215 (20.96%) Grafana
5 170 (16.57%) Prometheus
6 53 (5.17%) Argo
7 45 (4.39%) Progress Chef
8 35 (3.41%) Istio
9 34 (3.31%) Puppet
10 26 (2.53%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.56%) Podman
12 12 (1.17%) Kibana
13 9 (0.88%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.88%) Packer
14 8 (0.78%) Rancher
15 7 (0.68%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
16 6 (0.58%) HAProxy
17 5 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 116 (11.31%) Splunk
2 88 (8.58%) Google
3 73 (7.12%) Oracle
4 69 (6.73%) Microsoft
5 64 (6.24%) Red Hat
6 55 (5.36%) VMware
7 42 (4.09%) Databricks
7 42 (4.09%) ServiceNow
8 34 (3.31%) Denodo
8 34 (3.31%) Talend
9 30 (2.92%) Atlassian
10 26 (2.53%) Pure Storage
11 24 (2.34%) Dynatrace
11 24 (2.34%) Sonatype
12 17 (1.66%) CyberArk
13 10 (0.97%) AppDynamics
13 10 (0.97%) Cisco
13 10 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
13 10 (0.97%) Solace
13 10 (0.97%) Veritas