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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 90 95
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 -41
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,005 727 865
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.88% 2.80% 2.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.67% 20.92% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 486 639
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £650
90th Percentile £680 £781 £738
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -7.73% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 -
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +5.95% -3.93%
75th Percentile £62.31 £80.00 £75.75
90th Percentile £86.50 £89.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £71.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.89% +14.00% -10.71%

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 4,863 3,475 4,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.96% 13.39% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,331 2,194 3,065
10th Percentile £340 £335 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -5.72% -7.30%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £695 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 59 204
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.25 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £83.00 £80.00 £87.43
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -36 427 £525 -14.98% 103
North of England +18 267 £485 -2.12% 48
Yorkshire +19 197 £500 -16.67% 25
Midlands +29 154 £520 +9.47% 36
West Midlands +32 140 £525 +10.06% 31
South East +5 91 £473 -5.40% 52
North West -27 57 £446 +13.94% 17
South West +4 50 £531 -7.61% 24
East of England -19 20 £477 +5.89% 13
North East -7 16 £575 +6.73% 6
East Midlands -28 13 £397 -3.17% 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
1 121 (12.04%) Confluence
2 60 (5.97%) SAS
3 20 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.29%) Apache
6 11 (1.09%) JBoss
6 11 (1.09%) nginx
7 10 (1.00%) IIS
7 10 (1.00%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.90%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.60%) iPlanet
9 6 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
10 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.20%) Mule
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.100%) Jupyter
Applications
1 19 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.100%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.100%) Actimize
3 1 (0.100%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.100%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.100%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 522 (51.94%) AWS
2 366 (36.42%) GitHub
3 264 (26.27%) Azure
4 227 (22.59%) GCP
5 224 (22.29%) GitHub Actions
6 146 (14.53%) OpenShift
7 132 (13.13%) Serverless
8 121 (12.04%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.55%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
11 95 (9.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 93 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 81 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
15 80 (7.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 71 (7.06%) Amazon ECS
17 55 (5.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 48 (4.78%) Datadog
19 32 (3.18%) Route 53
20 31 (3.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.97%) DNS
2 64 (6.37%) Firewall
3 33 (3.28%) VPN
4 23 (2.29%) Network Security
5 22 (2.19%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.69%) HTTP
7 16 (1.59%) SSL
8 15 (1.49%) Kerberos
9 6 (0.60%) FTP
9 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.60%) Internet
9 6 (0.60%) SMTP
9 6 (0.60%) SSH
9 6 (0.60%) WAN
10 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.40%) IMAP
11 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.30%) SAN
13 2 (0.20%) NAS
13 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (9.45%) NoSQL
3 91 (9.05%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (5.57%) MongoDB
5 41 (4.08%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.58%) MySQL
7 31 (3.08%) Pentaho
8 30 (2.99%) SQL Server
9 29 (2.89%) Oracle Database
9 29 (2.89%) Relational Database
10 23 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (2.29%) Redis
11 21 (2.09%) Big Data
12 17 (1.69%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (1.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 12 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.19%) Tableau
16 10 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.00%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 396 (39.40%) GitLab
2 302 (30.05%) Git
3 225 (22.39%) JIRA
4 109 (10.85%) Selenium
5 108 (10.75%) JUnit
6 92 (9.15%) Cucumber
7 81 (8.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 62 (6.17%) Postman
9 53 (5.27%) Bitbucket
10 52 (5.17%) Maven
11 43 (4.28%) REST Assured
12 41 (4.08%) SonarQube
13 33 (3.28%) JMeter
14 30 (2.99%) Gradle
15 29 (2.89%) Artifactory
15 29 (2.89%) CircleCI
16 26 (2.59%) Liquibase
17 25 (2.49%) Cypress.io
18 23 (2.29%) Mockito
19 22 (2.19%) Gatling
General
1 310 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 218 (21.69%) Finance
3 131 (13.03%) Banking
4 122 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 69 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.89%) Financial Institution
8 21 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.39%) Military
10 11 (1.09%) Retail
11 10 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.90%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.70%) Front Office
15 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.60%) Marketing
16 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 174 (17.31%) Developer
2 165 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 160 (15.92%) Senior
4 91 (9.05%) Lead
5 86 (8.56%) Architect
6 78 (7.76%) Java Developer
7 65 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
8 62 (6.17%) GCP Engineer
9 61 (6.07%) Data Engineer
10 53 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 49 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
12 46 (4.58%) Senior DevOps
12 46 (4.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 44 (4.38%) Software Engineer
14 43 (4.28%) Test Engineer
15 35 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
15 35 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 34 (3.38%) Senior Developer
17 31 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
17 31 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (15.72%) REST
2 143 (14.23%) Kafka
3 137 (13.63%) Spring
4 112 (11.14%) Node.js
5 102 (10.15%) Spring Boot
6 88 (8.76%) RESTful
7 87 (8.66%) Elastic Stack
8 76 (7.56%) Playwright
9 57 (5.67%) React
10 50 (4.98%) OpenID
11 49 (4.88%) LDAP
12 47 (4.68%) GraphQL
13 43 (4.28%) OpenTelemetry
14 42 (4.18%) AngularJS
15 41 (4.08%) JSON
16 40 (3.98%) pytest
17 38 (3.78%) HTML
17 38 (3.78%) YAML
18 37 (3.68%) OAuth
19 36 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 201 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 93 (9.25%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (4.98%) Public Cloud
4 35 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.19%) Replication
8 17 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.00%) Management Information System
13 9 (0.90%) Derivative
14 8 (0.80%) Data Structures
14 8 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.80%) NHS
15 7 (0.70%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 234 (23.28%) Linux
2 58 (5.77%) Windows
3 39 (3.88%) Unix
4 25 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.09%) VMS
6 12 (1.19%) Android
6 12 (1.19%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.09%) CentOS
8 10 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
8 10 (1.00%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.70%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.100%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.100%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (84.58%) CI/CD
2 677 (67.36%) DevOps
3 397 (39.50%) Agile
4 343 (34.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 314 (31.24%) Containerisation
6 290 (28.86%) Test Automation
7 245 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
8 223 (22.19%) Microservices
9 152 (15.12%) Observability
10 136 (13.53%) Scrum
11 126 (12.54%) Mentoring
11 126 (12.54%) Software Engineering
12 121 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 95 (9.45%) Migration
14 87 (8.66%) Analytics
14 87 (8.66%) Data Pipeline
14 87 (8.66%) Deployment Automation
15 84 (8.36%) High Availability
16 83 (8.26%) Continuous Integration
16 83 (8.26%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 443 (44.08%) Python
2 287 (28.56%) Java
3 183 (18.21%) SQL
4 149 (14.83%) Bash
5 105 (10.45%) JavaScript
6 88 (8.76%) TypeScript
7 85 (8.46%) Go
8 72 (7.16%) PowerShell
9 63 (6.27%) Shell Script
10 52 (5.17%) C#
11 38 (3.78%) Groovy
12 25 (2.49%) Scala
13 19 (1.89%) C++
14 14 (1.39%) PHP
15 11 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.09%) Ruby
16 9 (0.90%) Perl
17 7 (0.70%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.70%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 349 (34.73%) Security Cleared
2 283 (28.16%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.06%) Degree
4 49 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 49 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (3.58%) Master's Degree
6 26 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 24 (2.39%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
9 14 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.19%) OCP
11 11 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.50%) OCA
14 5 (0.50%) RHCE
15 4 (0.40%) CISSP
15 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.15%) QA
2 50 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.19%) NIST
6 18 (1.79%) NCSC
7 15 (1.49%) SLA
8 9 (0.90%) GDPR
9 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.40%) WCAG
12 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.20%) HL7
13 2 (0.20%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.20%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.20%) MiFID
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 485 (48.26%) Docker
2 26 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.09%) VMware NSX
3 21 (2.09%) vSphere
4 14 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.80%) Postfix
6 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 6 (0.60%) DFS Replication
7 5 (0.50%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 4 (0.40%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.40%) Squid
8 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.30%) HDFS
10 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 1 (0.100%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 533 (53.03%) Kubernetes
2 413 (41.09%) Terraform
3 285 (28.36%) Ansible
4 197 (19.60%) Grafana
5 159 (15.82%) Prometheus
6 49 (4.88%) Progress Chef
7 45 (4.48%) Argo
8 30 (2.99%) Istio
9 25 (2.49%) Puppet
10 21 (2.09%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.89%) Podman
12 14 (1.39%) Kibana
13 11 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (1.00%) Packer
15 9 (0.90%) ITRS Geneos
16 7 (0.70%) Check_MK
16 7 (0.70%) Proxmox
16 7 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
17 6 (0.60%) CA Single Sign-On
17 6 (0.60%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 122 (12.14%) Splunk
2 89 (8.86%) Google
3 80 (7.96%) Oracle
4 68 (6.77%) Microsoft
5 52 (5.17%) Red Hat
5 52 (5.17%) VMware
6 47 (4.68%) ServiceNow
7 34 (3.38%) Atlassian
8 33 (3.28%) Databricks
9 31 (3.08%) Denodo
9 31 (3.08%) Talend
10 22 (2.19%) Sonatype
11 21 (2.09%) Dynatrace
11 21 (2.09%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.79%) CyberArk
13 17 (1.69%) IBM
14 16 (1.59%) CheckPoint
15 15 (1.49%) F5
15 15 (1.49%) Palo Alto
16 14 (1.39%) AppDynamics