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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 79 95
Rank change year-on-year -34 +16 -31
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 967 810 893
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.23% 2.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.75% 22.61% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 557 659
10th Percentile £366 £358 £400
25th Percentile £414 £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 £703 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 36
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.00 £53.13
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - £69.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -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 5,157 3,583 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.88% 14.27% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,340 2,434 3,022
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £410 £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 237 76 234
10th Percentile £28.97 £27.72 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.50 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +4.00%

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 25 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 25 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 -38 438 £550 +1.85% 68
North of England -14 268 £453 -2.58% 49
Yorkshire -4 197 £500 - 16
Midlands -28 128 £481 +6.92% 8
West Midlands -2 118 £488 +2.63% 3
South East -77 61 £435 -13.00% 33
South West -28 50 £538 -6.52% 21
North West -68 50 £425 +7.19% 26
North East -14 28 £450 -3.23% 8
East of England -15 25 £478 -4.40% 6
East Midlands -44 8 £393 +8.12% 5
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
1 117 (12.10%) Confluence
2 34 (3.52%) SAS
3 24 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.14%) nginx
6 10 (1.03%) Apache
7 9 (0.93%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.31%) Camunda
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 15 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.52%) Magento
2 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 486 (50.26%) AWS
2 399 (41.26%) GitHub
3 305 (31.54%) Azure
4 269 (27.82%) GitHub Actions
5 206 (21.30%) GCP
6 132 (13.65%) Amazon S3
7 125 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (12.41%) Serverless
9 105 (10.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
10 104 (10.75%) AWS Lambda
11 100 (10.34%) OpenShift
12 94 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
13 76 (7.86%) AWS CloudFormation
14 63 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
15 60 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 51 (5.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 44 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.72%) Route 53
19 33 (3.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.58%) DNS
2 50 (5.17%) Firewall
3 17 (1.76%) Network Security
4 14 (1.45%) VPN
5 13 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.14%) SSL
7 9 (0.93%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.83%) HTTP
8 8 (0.83%) SAN
9 7 (0.72%) VLAN
10 6 (0.62%) WAN
11 5 (0.52%) NAS
12 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.31%) BGP
13 3 (0.31%) Multicast
13 3 (0.31%) VSAN
14 2 (0.21%) Internet
14 2 (0.21%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.86%) Amazon RDS
3 55 (5.69%) MongoDB
4 53 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 51 (5.27%) Relational Database
6 49 (5.07%) DynamoDB
7 47 (4.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 40 (4.14%) SQL Server
9 33 (3.41%) Redis
10 26 (2.69%) Big Data
11 24 (2.48%) Pentaho
12 19 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (1.96%) MySQL
13 16 (1.65%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.45%) Metadata
15 13 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (1.03%) BigQuery
17 10 (1.03%) Neo4j
18 9 (0.93%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 355 (36.71%) GitLab
2 291 (30.09%) Git
3 195 (20.17%) JIRA
4 116 (12.00%) JUnit
5 99 (10.24%) Selenium
6 71 (7.34%) Cucumber
7 67 (6.93%) Maven
8 60 (6.20%) Mockito
9 58 (6.00%) SonarQube
10 50 (5.17%) REST Assured
11 47 (4.86%) Bitbucket
11 47 (4.86%) Postman
12 40 (4.14%) Gradle
13 38 (3.93%) JMeter
14 36 (3.72%) Gatling
15 35 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
16 28 (2.90%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.48%) Liquibase
18 20 (2.07%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.55%) Serenity BDD
General
1 252 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 152 (15.72%) Finance
3 133 (13.75%) Public Sector
4 103 (10.65%) Banking
5 78 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.07%) Law
9 19 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.24%) Retail
12 9 (0.93%) Legal
13 8 (0.83%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.83%) Publishing
14 7 (0.72%) Front Office
14 7 (0.72%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.72%) Marketing
15 5 (0.52%) Military
16 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 198 (20.48%) Developer
2 167 (17.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 144 (14.89%) Senior
4 109 (11.27%) Java Developer
5 76 (7.86%) Architect
6 61 (6.31%) Software Engineer
7 60 (6.20%) Lead
8 54 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (4.96%) GCP Engineer
10 45 (4.65%) Data Engineer
10 45 (4.65%) Test Engineer
11 42 (4.34%) AWS DevOps
11 42 (4.34%) Senior Developer
12 40 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
13 38 (3.93%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (3.93%) Tester
14 33 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
17 28 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (17.89%) Spring
2 150 (15.51%) Kafka
3 146 (15.10%) Spring Boot
4 133 (13.75%) REST
5 103 (10.65%) RESTful
6 75 (7.76%) Node.js
7 74 (7.65%) React
8 58 (6.00%) Playwright
9 48 (4.96%) SOAP
10 46 (4.76%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.65%) JPA
12 43 (4.45%) Elastic Stack
12 43 (4.45%) Hibernate
12 43 (4.45%) HTML
13 40 (4.14%) Web Services
14 39 (4.03%) Spring Cloud
15 37 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
16 36 (3.72%) LDAP
17 31 (3.21%) CSS
18 30 (3.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 198 (20.48%) Cloud Native
2 92 (9.51%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (5.89%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.79%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.86%) Replication
9 15 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.03%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.03%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.83%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 186 (19.23%) Linux
2 46 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 46 (4.76%) Unix
3 40 (4.14%) Windows
4 12 (1.24%) CentOS
5 11 (1.14%) Android
6 8 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.72%) VMS
8 6 (0.62%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
10 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.31%) zOS
11 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.21%) Solaris
11 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (84.90%) CI/CD
2 647 (66.91%) DevOps
3 423 (43.74%) Agile
4 323 (33.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 302 (31.23%) Test Automation
6 272 (28.13%) Containerisation
7 246 (25.44%) Microservices
8 179 (18.51%) Observability
9 171 (17.68%) Scrum
10 157 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
11 156 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 145 (14.99%) Software Engineering
13 123 (12.72%) Platform Engineering
14 102 (10.55%) Migration
15 96 (9.93%) TDD
16 90 (9.31%) Event-Driven
17 89 (9.20%) Validation
18 80 (8.27%) Deployment Automation
19 79 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
20 78 (8.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 402 (41.57%) Python
2 344 (35.57%) Java
3 227 (23.47%) SQL
4 179 (18.51%) Bash
5 92 (9.51%) PowerShell
6 76 (7.86%) JavaScript
7 61 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.27%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.55%) Go
10 40 (4.14%) C#
11 39 (4.03%) Groovy
12 34 (3.52%) Scala
13 26 (2.69%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.76%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.14%) Bicep
15 11 (1.14%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.14%) Perl
16 9 (0.93%) ActionScript
17 8 (0.83%) Ruby
17 8 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 374 (38.68%) Security Cleared
2 323 (33.40%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.24%) Degree
4 39 (4.03%) AWS Certification
5 34 (3.52%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.24%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.83%) RHCE
15 7 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.62%) OCP
17 5 (0.52%) CISSP
17 5 (0.52%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.41%) GIAC
18 4 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (11.38%) QA
2 44 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.96%) NIST
6 14 (1.45%) SLA
7 13 (1.34%) NCSC
8 12 (1.24%) WCAG
9 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.41%) GDPR
11 4 (0.41%) SEPA
12 3 (0.31%) PSD2
13 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.10%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 425 (43.95%) Docker
2 27 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.17%) vSphere
4 19 (1.96%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.76%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.55%) Postfix
7 12 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.72%) NFS
9 5 (0.52%) HDFS
9 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.41%) SRDF
10 4 (0.41%) Varnish
11 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.31%) GridGain
11 3 (0.31%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 462 (47.78%) Kubernetes
2 381 (39.40%) Terraform
3 229 (23.68%) Ansible
4 203 (20.99%) Grafana
5 177 (18.30%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.45%) Argo
7 32 (3.31%) Puppet
8 27 (2.79%) Istio
9 26 (2.69%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.17%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.45%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.45%) Podman
12 12 (1.24%) Control-M
13 11 (1.14%) Check_MK
13 11 (1.14%) Kibana
13 11 (1.14%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (0.93%) NetBackup
14 9 (0.93%) Packer
15 6 (0.62%) Consul
15 6 (0.62%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 83 (8.58%) Splunk
2 82 (8.48%) Google
3 72 (7.45%) Oracle
4 65 (6.72%) Red Hat
5 64 (6.62%) Microsoft
6 44 (4.55%) VMware
7 42 (4.34%) Dynatrace
8 25 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.59%) Talend
9 24 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.38%) Databricks
11 21 (2.17%) Atlassian
11 21 (2.17%) Denodo
12 20 (2.07%) Pure Storage
12 20 (2.07%) Sonatype
13 18 (1.86%) IBM
13 18 (1.86%) Jaspersoft
14 14 (1.45%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.34%) Okta
16 11 (1.14%) ForgeRock