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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 79 96
Rank change year-on-year -33 +17 -35
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 939 784 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.16% 2.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.48% 22.36% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 539 645
10th Percentile £367 £358 £400
25th Percentile £419 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £652 £710 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 34
10th Percentile - £54.38 £51.88
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.44 -
90th Percentile - £69.38 -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £61.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +11.84% -12.50% -3.45%

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 5,082 3,507 4,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.82% 14.14% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,378 2,994
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 71 228
10th Percentile £30.75 £27.50 £32.61
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.84%

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 18 June 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
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 18 June 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 -35 419 £550 +1.85% 63
North of England -15 261 £469 +0.81% 40
Yorkshire -5 195 £490 -2.00% 14
Midlands -21 126 £481 +6.89% 8
West Midlands +4 116 £488 +2.63% 4
South East -72 60 £435 -13.00% 34
South West -7 51 £538 -6.52% 19
North West -65 45 £425 +8.70% 20
North East -15 28 £450 -3.23% 7
East of England -17 24 £478 -4.40% 8
East Midlands -47 8 £393 +8.12% 4
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
1 114 (12.14%) Confluence
2 33 (3.51%) SAS
3 24 (2.56%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.06%) Apache
6 9 (0.96%) nginx
6 9 (0.96%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.32%) Camunda
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) JBoss
9 3 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 471 (50.16%) AWS
2 394 (41.96%) GitHub
3 290 (30.88%) Azure
4 263 (28.01%) GitHub Actions
5 201 (21.41%) GCP
6 131 (13.95%) Amazon S3
7 117 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (12.46%) Serverless
8 104 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 103 (10.97%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (10.86%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (10.54%) OpenShift
12 96 (10.22%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (7.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 64 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
15 59 (6.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 54 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 44 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.83%) Route 53
19 33 (3.51%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.96%) DNS
2 52 (5.54%) Firewall
3 17 (1.81%) Network Security
4 15 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.49%) VPN
6 10 (1.06%) SSL
7 9 (0.96%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.85%) HTTP
8 8 (0.85%) SAN
9 7 (0.75%) VLAN
10 5 (0.53%) NAS
10 5 (0.53%) WAN
11 4 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.32%) BGP
12 3 (0.32%) Multicast
12 3 (0.32%) VSAN
13 2 (0.21%) Internet
13 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (15.02%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (7.99%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (5.75%) NoSQL
4 53 (5.64%) MongoDB
5 50 (5.32%) Relational Database
6 48 (5.11%) Amazon Aurora
6 48 (5.11%) DynamoDB
7 37 (3.94%) SQL Server
8 34 (3.62%) Redis
9 25 (2.66%) Big Data
10 24 (2.56%) Pentaho
11 20 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (2.02%) MySQL
13 15 (1.60%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.49%) Metadata
15 13 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.28%) BigQuery
17 11 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
18 9 (0.96%) Neo4j
18 9 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 348 (37.06%) GitLab
2 283 (30.14%) Git
3 190 (20.23%) JIRA
4 113 (12.03%) JUnit
5 96 (10.22%) Selenium
6 68 (7.24%) Cucumber
7 66 (7.03%) Maven
8 57 (6.07%) Mockito
8 57 (6.07%) SonarQube
9 47 (5.01%) REST Assured
10 44 (4.69%) Bitbucket
10 44 (4.69%) Postman
11 38 (4.05%) Gradle
12 37 (3.94%) JMeter
13 36 (3.83%) Gatling
14 35 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
15 28 (2.98%) WebDriver
16 24 (2.56%) Liquibase
17 20 (2.13%) Artifactory
18 15 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
General
1 246 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 147 (15.65%) Finance
3 131 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 103 (10.97%) Banking
5 77 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.13%) Law
9 18 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.17%) Retail
12 9 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.85%) Legal
13 8 (0.85%) Publishing
14 7 (0.75%) Front Office
14 7 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.64%) Marketing
15 6 (0.64%) Military
16 4 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 191 (20.34%) Developer
2 165 (17.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 143 (15.23%) Senior
4 105 (11.18%) Java Developer
5 75 (7.99%) Architect
6 64 (6.82%) Lead
7 59 (6.28%) Software Engineer
8 51 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (5.32%) GCP Engineer
10 45 (4.79%) Data Engineer
10 45 (4.79%) Test Engineer
11 41 (4.37%) Senior Developer
12 40 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
13 38 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
13 38 (4.05%) Tester
14 31 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 29 (3.09%) Senior Java Developer
17 28 (2.98%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (18.00%) Spring
2 144 (15.34%) Spring Boot
3 143 (15.23%) Kafka
4 129 (13.74%) REST
5 102 (10.86%) RESTful
6 74 (7.88%) Node.js
7 68 (7.24%) React
8 53 (5.64%) Playwright
9 47 (5.01%) AngularJS
10 45 (4.79%) SOAP
11 43 (4.58%) JPA
12 42 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
12 42 (4.47%) Hibernate
12 42 (4.47%) HTML
12 42 (4.47%) Web Services
13 39 (4.15%) OpenTelemetry
13 39 (4.15%) Spring Cloud
14 36 (3.83%) LDAP
15 32 (3.41%) Swagger
16 30 (3.19%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 193 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.58%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 31 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (2.56%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.81%) Replication
10 15 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.60%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.28%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.06%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 7 (0.75%) Clustering
16 7 (0.75%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 181 (19.28%) Linux
2 47 (5.01%) Unix
3 45 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (4.37%) Windows
5 12 (1.28%) CentOS
6 11 (1.17%) Android
7 9 (0.96%) VMS
8 8 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.64%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.32%) AIX
12 3 (0.32%) zOS
13 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.21%) Solaris
13 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (85.52%) CI/CD
2 626 (66.67%) DevOps
3 405 (43.13%) Agile
4 318 (33.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 293 (31.20%) Test Automation
6 272 (28.97%) Containerisation
7 242 (25.77%) Microservices
8 177 (18.85%) Observability
9 168 (17.89%) Scrum
10 151 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 151 (16.08%) Problem-Solving
11 141 (15.02%) Software Engineering
12 117 (12.46%) Platform Engineering
13 103 (10.97%) Migration
14 91 (9.69%) TDD
15 90 (9.58%) Event-Driven
15 90 (9.58%) Validation
16 77 (8.20%) Deployment Automation
17 76 (8.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 75 (7.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 395 (42.07%) Python
2 334 (35.57%) Java
3 223 (23.75%) SQL
4 175 (18.64%) Bash
5 86 (9.16%) PowerShell
6 69 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 54 (5.75%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.43%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.69%) Go
10 36 (3.83%) Groovy
11 35 (3.73%) Scala
12 34 (3.62%) C#
13 23 (2.45%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.70%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.17%) Bicep
15 11 (1.17%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.17%) Perl
16 9 (0.96%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.96%) Ruby
17 8 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 363 (38.66%) Security Cleared
2 313 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 39 (4.15%) Degree
5 29 (3.09%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.98%) Azure Certification
7 26 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.38%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.17%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.75%) RHCE
14 6 (0.64%) OCP
15 5 (0.53%) CISSP
15 5 (0.53%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.43%) GIAC
16 4 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (10.97%) QA
2 44 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.92%) NIST
6 16 (1.70%) SLA
7 13 (1.38%) NCSC
7 13 (1.38%) WCAG
8 9 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.43%) PSD2
10 4 (0.43%) SEPA
11 3 (0.32%) GDPR
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 415 (44.20%) Docker
2 26 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.24%) vSphere
4 19 (2.02%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.81%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.60%) Postfix
7 13 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.75%) NFS
9 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.43%) HDFS
10 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.43%) SRDF
10 4 (0.43%) Varnish
11 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.32%) GridGain
11 3 (0.32%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 451 (48.03%) Kubernetes
2 377 (40.15%) Terraform
3 225 (23.96%) Ansible
4 202 (21.51%) Grafana
5 174 (18.53%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.69%) Argo
7 29 (3.09%) Istio
7 29 (3.09%) Puppet
8 24 (2.56%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.24%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.49%) HAProxy
10 14 (1.49%) Podman
11 11 (1.17%) Check_MK
11 11 (1.17%) Control-M
11 11 (1.17%) Kibana
11 11 (1.17%) Red Hat Satellite
12 9 (0.96%) NetBackup
13 8 (0.85%) Packer
14 6 (0.64%) Consul
14 6 (0.64%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 81 (8.63%) Splunk
2 79 (8.41%) Google
3 70 (7.45%) Oracle
4 63 (6.71%) Red Hat
5 57 (6.07%) Microsoft
6 43 (4.58%) VMware
7 38 (4.05%) Dynatrace
8 25 (2.66%) Talend
9 24 (2.56%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.45%) Databricks
11 22 (2.34%) Salesforce
12 21 (2.24%) Atlassian
12 21 (2.24%) Denodo
13 20 (2.13%) Pure Storage
14 19 (2.02%) Sonatype
15 18 (1.92%) IBM
15 18 (1.92%) Jaspersoft
16 14 (1.49%) CyberArk
17 13 (1.38%) Okta
18 11 (1.17%) ForgeRock