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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 79 90
Rank change year-on-year -42 +11 -19
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 989 876 843
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.18% 2.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.67% 22.21% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 612 626
10th Percentile £363 £350 £381
25th Percentile £414 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £675
90th Percentile £641 £700 £741
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 37
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £56.25
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -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 5,297 3,945 4,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.30% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,381 2,716 2,901
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 93 209
10th Percentile £28.97 £40.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -40 465 £530 - 115
North of England -25 270 £450 -2.76% 66
Yorkshire -3 203 £488 -0.79% 19
Midlands -20 127 £476 +5.78% 18
West Midlands +5 119 £479 +0.84% 13
South East -102 59 £460 -8.10% 48
South West -22 51 £538 -6.52% 22
North West -87 48 £425 +5.99% 35
North East -29 26 £450 -3.23% 13
East of England -18 18 £463 -7.50% 13
East Midlands -42 6 £447 +24.86% 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 (11.83%) Confluence
2 29 (2.93%) SAS
3 24 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.11%) nginx
6 10 (1.01%) Apache
6 10 (1.01%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.40%) Camunda
8 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 16 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.91%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 506 (51.16%) AWS
2 424 (42.87%) GitHub
3 334 (33.77%) Azure
4 290 (29.32%) GitHub Actions
5 218 (22.04%) GCP
6 155 (15.67%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (12.64%) Amazon S3
8 116 (11.73%) Serverless
9 101 (10.21%) AWS Lambda
10 100 (10.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 99 (10.01%) Amazon EC2
12 94 (9.50%) OpenShift
13 93 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
14 72 (7.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 61 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
16 52 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (4.85%) Amazon SQS
18 45 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 39 (3.94%) Datadog
20 31 (3.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.46%) DNS
2 49 (4.95%) Firewall
3 18 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.72%) VPN
5 15 (1.52%) Network Security
5 15 (1.52%) SSL
6 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.81%) HTTP
7 8 (0.81%) SAN
7 8 (0.81%) VLAN
8 7 (0.71%) WAN
9 4 (0.40%) BGP
9 4 (0.40%) NAS
9 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.30%) DHCP
10 3 (0.30%) Internet
10 3 (0.30%) Multicast
10 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (5.97%) MongoDB
4 56 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 55 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 47 (4.75%) NoSQL
7 44 (4.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 43 (4.35%) DynamoDB
9 25 (2.53%) Big Data
9 25 (2.53%) Redis
10 20 (2.02%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (1.72%) Metadata
13 16 (1.62%) MySQL
14 13 (1.31%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.31%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.01%) Power BI
16 9 (0.91%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 345 (34.88%) GitLab
2 317 (32.05%) Git
3 197 (19.92%) JIRA
4 113 (11.43%) JUnit
5 96 (9.71%) Selenium
6 76 (7.68%) Maven
7 68 (6.88%) SonarQube
8 66 (6.67%) Cucumber
9 58 (5.86%) Mockito
10 51 (5.16%) Bitbucket
11 47 (4.75%) Gradle
11 47 (4.75%) REST Assured
12 40 (4.04%) Postman
13 38 (3.84%) JMeter
13 38 (3.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 36 (3.64%) Gatling
15 29 (2.93%) WebDriver
16 24 (2.43%) Liquibase
17 23 (2.33%) Artifactory
18 17 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 254 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 144 (14.56%) Finance
3 138 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 105 (10.62%) Banking
5 83 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.02%) Law
9 18 (1.82%) Retail
10 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.42%) Publishing
11 11 (1.11%) Legal
11 11 (1.11%) Marketing
12 10 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.61%) Front Office
14 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.61%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.51%) Military
15 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (22.55%) Developer
2 184 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 150 (15.17%) Senior
4 117 (11.83%) Java Developer
5 66 (6.67%) Lead
6 62 (6.27%) Software Engineer
7 57 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
8 55 (5.56%) Architect
9 48 (4.85%) Senior Developer
10 47 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
11 45 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
12 43 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
13 41 (4.15%) Data Engineer
14 39 (3.94%) Tester
15 38 (3.84%) Test Engineer
16 36 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
17 34 (3.44%) Automation Engineer
17 34 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 34 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
18 30 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (18.10%) Spring
2 158 (15.98%) Kafka
3 152 (15.37%) REST
3 152 (15.37%) Spring Boot
4 105 (10.62%) RESTful
5 90 (9.10%) React
6 89 (9.00%) Node.js
7 61 (6.17%) Playwright
8 55 (5.56%) SOAP
9 49 (4.95%) Web Services
10 48 (4.85%) AngularJS
11 46 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
12 45 (4.55%) Hibernate
13 43 (4.35%) HTML
13 43 (4.35%) JPA
14 35 (3.54%) Spring Cloud
15 32 (3.24%) OpenTelemetry
15 32 (3.24%) Swagger
15 32 (3.24%) YAML
16 31 (3.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 180 (18.20%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.10%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.12%) Replication
8 19 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 15 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.11%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.91%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 189 (19.11%) Linux
2 50 (5.06%) Unix
3 44 (4.45%) Windows
4 40 (4.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.11%) Android
6 10 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.51%) CentOS
9 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.30%) AIX
10 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) zOS
11 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (83.92%) CI/CD
2 668 (67.54%) DevOps
3 474 (47.93%) Agile
4 328 (33.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 307 (31.04%) Test Automation
6 275 (27.81%) Containerisation
7 264 (26.69%) Microservices
8 194 (19.62%) Observability
9 189 (19.11%) Scrum
10 173 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
11 165 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (15.47%) Software Engineering
13 138 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
14 116 (11.73%) TDD
15 90 (9.10%) Event-Driven
15 90 (9.10%) Migration
16 87 (8.80%) Deployment Automation
17 85 (8.59%) Validation
18 84 (8.49%) AI
19 82 (8.29%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 413 (41.76%) Python
2 354 (35.79%) Java
3 239 (24.17%) SQL
4 198 (20.02%) Bash
5 111 (11.22%) PowerShell
6 85 (8.59%) JavaScript
7 70 (7.08%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.95%) Go
9 47 (4.75%) Groovy
10 45 (4.55%) C#
10 45 (4.55%) Shell Script
11 35 (3.54%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.93%) Scala
13 18 (1.82%) Kotlin
14 16 (1.62%) Bicep
15 15 (1.52%) Perl
16 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.91%) Ruby
18 8 (0.81%) C++
Qualifications
1 375 (37.92%) Security Cleared
2 315 (31.85%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.75%) Degree
4 42 (4.25%) AWS Certification
4 42 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 29 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.21%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.81%) RHCE
13 7 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.61%) CISSP
14 6 (0.61%) OCP
15 5 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.40%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (11.43%) QA
2 43 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.44%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.31%) WCAG
5 7 (0.71%) SLA
6 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.40%) NIST
7 4 (0.40%) SEPA
8 3 (0.30%) GDPR
8 3 (0.30%) PSD2
9 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 452 (45.70%) Docker
2 30 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.12%) vSphere
4 20 (2.02%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.62%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.52%) Postfix
7 7 (0.71%) NFS
8 6 (0.61%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.40%) SRDF
9 4 (0.40%) Varnish
9 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 467 (47.22%) Kubernetes
2 390 (39.43%) Terraform
3 243 (24.57%) Ansible
4 215 (21.74%) Grafana
5 182 (18.40%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.06%) Argo
7 38 (3.84%) Puppet
8 28 (2.83%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.12%) Istio
9 21 (2.12%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.62%) Control-M
11 14 (1.42%) HAProxy
12 11 (1.11%) Kibana
13 10 (1.01%) Packer
13 10 (1.01%) Podman
14 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.61%) Consul
17 5 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 85 (8.59%) Google
1 85 (8.59%) Oracle
2 81 (8.19%) Splunk
3 80 (8.09%) Microsoft
4 54 (5.46%) Red Hat
5 48 (4.85%) Dynatrace
6 42 (4.25%) VMware
7 28 (2.83%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.22%) Databricks
8 22 (2.22%) ServiceNow
9 21 (2.12%) IBM
9 21 (2.12%) Talend
10 20 (2.02%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.82%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
12 17 (1.72%) Denodo
12 17 (1.72%) Sonatype
13 13 (1.31%) Okta
14 12 (1.21%) F5
15 11 (1.11%) ForgeRock