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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 72 87
Rank change year-on-year -51 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,027 959 851
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.40% 2.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.91% 22.30% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 669 600
10th Percentile £357 £350 £387
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £675
90th Percentile £650 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 33
10th Percentile £64.50 £58.55 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile £75.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 5,430 4,301 4,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.60% 15.25% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,451 2,976 2,718
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 105 156
10th Percentile £22.68 £36.10 £40.02
25th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.50 £72.81
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -16 551 £525 - 52
North of England -52 232 £450 -5.26% 45
Yorkshire -25 145 £463 -7.50% 16
Midlands -62 93 £483 -3.40% 19
West Midlands -46 89 £485 -5.83% 16
North West -66 70 £425 -1.16% 21
South East -77 66 £488 -2.50% 25
South West -7 65 £550 - 24
North East -37 19 £450 -20.88% 8
East of England -20 17 £425 -15.00% 7
East Midlands -28 3 £347 -1.00% 3
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 99 (9.64%) Confluence
2 26 (2.53%) nginx
3 23 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.04%) SAS
5 16 (1.56%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.07%) Apache
6 11 (1.07%) Camunda
7 8 (0.78%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.78%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.68%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.39%) CICS
9 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 4 (0.39%) IIS
10 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.19%) Traefik
12 1 (0.097%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.097%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.097%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.097%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.097%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.097%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.097%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Magento
2 7 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.097%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.097%) Shopify
4 1 (0.097%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 554 (53.94%) AWS
2 413 (40.21%) GitHub
3 397 (38.66%) Azure
4 316 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
5 249 (24.25%) GCP
6 205 (19.96%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (11.68%) Serverless
8 108 (10.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 104 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
10 101 (9.83%) Amazon EKS
11 100 (9.74%) Amazon S3
11 100 (9.74%) OpenShift
12 88 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
13 72 (7.01%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 49 (4.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 47 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 44 (4.28%) Datadog
18 42 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
19 27 (2.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (6.23%) Firewall
2 58 (5.65%) DNS
3 39 (3.80%) TCP/IP
4 32 (3.12%) Network Security
5 20 (1.95%) VPN
6 19 (1.85%) SSL
7 18 (1.75%) BIG-IP
7 18 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 18 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (1.56%) HTTP
8 16 (1.56%) VLAN
9 9 (0.88%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.88%) SAN
9 9 (0.88%) WAN
10 8 (0.78%) DHCP
10 8 (0.78%) SSH
11 6 (0.58%) 4G
11 6 (0.58%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.49%) 5G
12 5 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (13.15%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (6.52%) MongoDB
3 63 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
3 63 (6.13%) Relational Database
4 54 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 53 (5.16%) SQL Server
6 38 (3.70%) Redis
7 34 (3.31%) DynamoDB
8 33 (3.21%) MySQL
9 27 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.04%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.85%) Big Data
11 19 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.75%) Data Lake
13 16 (1.56%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.36%) Metadata
16 13 (1.27%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (1.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 381 (37.10%) Git
2 380 (37.00%) GitLab
3 172 (16.75%) JIRA
4 99 (9.64%) Selenium
5 98 (9.54%) JUnit
6 94 (9.15%) Maven
7 74 (7.21%) SonarQube
8 73 (7.11%) Cucumber
9 69 (6.72%) Gradle
10 57 (5.55%) Mockito
11 56 (5.45%) Bitbucket
12 55 (5.36%) REST Assured
13 50 (4.87%) Sonatype Nexus
14 46 (4.48%) Postman
15 41 (3.99%) JMeter
16 31 (3.02%) Gatling
17 23 (2.24%) WebDriver
18 22 (2.14%) Cypress.io
18 22 (2.14%) TestNG
19 18 (1.75%) Artifactory
General
1 255 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 168 (16.36%) Finance
3 130 (12.66%) Public Sector
4 119 (11.59%) Banking
5 113 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.14%) Retail
9 18 (1.75%) Law
10 15 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.27%) Publishing
12 12 (1.17%) Marketing
13 11 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (0.97%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.97%) Military
15 8 (0.78%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.78%) Legal
15 8 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.78%) Police
16 7 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (23.86%) Developer
2 202 (19.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 160 (15.58%) Senior
4 114 (11.10%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.01%) Lead
6 58 (5.65%) Test Engineer
7 57 (5.55%) AWS Engineer
8 53 (5.16%) Architect
9 46 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
9 46 (4.48%) Senior Developer
10 43 (4.19%) Software Engineer
11 40 (3.89%) Automation Engineer
12 39 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 38 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (3.70%) Software Developer
14 33 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.02%) Senior Java Developer
17 30 (2.92%) Data Engineer
17 30 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (39.73%) Terraform
2 198 (19.28%) Kafka
3 181 (17.62%) Spring
4 178 (17.33%) REST
5 168 (16.36%) Spring Boot
6 122 (11.88%) RESTful
7 104 (10.13%) React
8 72 (7.01%) HTML
9 67 (6.52%) Node.js
10 66 (6.43%) Playwright
11 61 (5.94%) Hibernate
12 57 (5.55%) Elastic Stack
13 56 (5.45%) JPA
13 56 (5.45%) SOAP
14 49 (4.77%) CSS
15 47 (4.58%) AngularJS
16 45 (4.38%) Web Services
17 40 (3.89%) .NET
17 40 (3.89%) JSON
18 34 (3.31%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 196 (19.08%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.79%) Product Ownership
3 59 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (3.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.53%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.53%) Replication
9 24 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.24%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.85%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.75%) Private Cloud
13 17 (1.66%) Linux Command Line
14 16 (1.56%) PKI
14 16 (1.56%) Virtual Team
15 15 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
16 13 (1.27%) Algorithms
17 12 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 232 (22.59%) Linux
2 60 (5.84%) Windows
3 53 (5.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 53 (5.16%) Unix
4 17 (1.66%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.36%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.07%) CentOS
7 10 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (0.88%) Android
9 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.49%) VMS
10 5 (0.49%) zOS
11 4 (0.39%) macOS
12 3 (0.29%) AIX
12 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.19%) Rocky
13 2 (0.19%) Solaris
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.097%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 879 (85.59%) CI/CD
2 695 (67.67%) DevOps
3 492 (47.91%) Agile
4 373 (36.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 340 (33.11%) Test Automation
6 327 (31.84%) Containerisation
7 276 (26.87%) Microservices
8 236 (22.98%) Observability
9 195 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
10 191 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 169 (16.46%) Scrum
12 154 (15.00%) Software Engineering
13 146 (14.22%) Platform Engineering
14 117 (11.39%) Deployment Automation
15 111 (10.81%) AI
16 107 (10.42%) DevSecOps
17 106 (10.32%) Event-Driven
17 106 (10.32%) SDLC
18 104 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 103 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 453 (44.11%) Python
2 385 (37.49%) Java
3 246 (23.95%) SQL
4 212 (20.64%) Bash
5 126 (12.27%) PowerShell
6 124 (12.07%) JavaScript
7 80 (7.79%) TypeScript
8 66 (6.43%) C#
8 66 (6.43%) Groovy
9 52 (5.06%) Go
10 48 (4.67%) Shell Script
11 40 (3.89%) PL/SQL
12 27 (2.63%) Perl
13 20 (1.95%) Scala
14 18 (1.75%) ActionScript
15 17 (1.66%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.56%) Bicep
17 14 (1.36%) C++
18 11 (1.07%) Korn
19 10 (0.97%) C
Qualifications
1 434 (42.26%) Security Cleared
2 352 (34.27%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.76%) DV Cleared
4 68 (6.62%) AWS Certification
5 61 (5.94%) Degree
6 43 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.85%) ISTQB
10 17 (1.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.36%) CISSP
12 13 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.49%) GCFA
16 5 (0.49%) GCIH
17 4 (0.39%) CEH
17 4 (0.39%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (15.38%) QA
2 42 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 40 (3.89%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.66%) GDPR
4 17 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.66%) NIST
5 11 (1.07%) WCAG
6 10 (0.97%) NCSC
6 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.58%) SEPA
9 5 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.49%) PSD2
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.19%) GRC
11 2 (0.19%) SLA
12 1 (0.097%) HL7
12 1 (0.097%) JSP 440
System Software
1 509 (49.56%) Docker
2 20 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.58%) Postfix
6 5 (0.49%) NFS
6 5 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.39%) HDFS
7 4 (0.39%) Squid
7 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.39%) VirtualBox
7 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.29%) RACF
8 3 (0.29%) vSphere
9 2 (0.19%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.19%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.19%) Varnish
9 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.097%) etcd
Systems Management
1 512 (49.85%) Kubernetes
2 239 (23.27%) Ansible
3 224 (21.81%) Grafana
4 184 (17.92%) Prometheus
5 39 (3.80%) Progress Chef
6 37 (3.60%) Puppet
7 35 (3.41%) Argo
8 34 (3.31%) Kibana
9 16 (1.56%) Control-M
10 15 (1.46%) Istio
11 13 (1.27%) Packer
12 10 (0.97%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
13 8 (0.78%) Podman
13 8 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.68%) Consul
14 7 (0.68%) HAProxy
15 6 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.49%) CASB
16 5 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 114 (11.10%) Google
2 89 (8.67%) Oracle
3 83 (8.08%) Splunk
4 82 (7.98%) Microsoft
5 76 (7.40%) Dynatrace
6 41 (3.99%) IBM
7 34 (3.31%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.92%) Salesforce
8 30 (2.92%) ServiceNow
9 29 (2.82%) VMware
10 24 (2.34%) Databricks
11 21 (2.04%) Talend
12 19 (1.85%) F5
13 17 (1.66%) Denodo
14 16 (1.56%) New Relic
15 13 (1.27%) Veracode
16 12 (1.17%) SAP
17 10 (0.97%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.97%) MuleSoft
18 9 (0.88%) SaltStack