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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 84 104
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 -50
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,015 732 817
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.68% 2.99% 2.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.08% 22.02% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 509 611
10th Percentile £363 £362 £400
25th Percentile £425 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £657 £778 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.28% -3.00% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile - £57.25 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £63.44 £45.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +20.00% -21.05%
75th Percentile £52.31 £75.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.73 £82.75 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £51.07
% change year-on-year -29.63% +32.18% -27.05%

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 5,054 3,324 4,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 13.59% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,396 2,218 2,943
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.86%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 67 165
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.17 £34.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.72 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.28 £86.25
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -38 419 £525 -12.50% 85
North of England +15 260 £485 -3.10% 84
Yorkshire +14 207 £500 -9.09% 31
Midlands +15 162 £500 +8.93% 19
West Midlands +26 147 £513 +8.00% 13
South East -9 97 £462 -7.70% 49
South West -5 56 £525 -8.70% 43
North West -52 40 £402 -15.37% 36
East of England -19 26 £475 - 18
North East -5 17 £450 -3.23% 17
East Midlands -39 14 £402 -10.96% 6
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
1 123 (12.12%) Confluence
2 67 (6.60%) SAS
3 20 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.58%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.79%) Apache
7 7 (0.69%) nginx
8 6 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.49%) JBoss
10 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) IIS
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.099%) CMS
13 1 (0.099%) Ethereum
13 1 (0.099%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.099%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.099%) Actimize
3 1 (0.099%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 504 (49.66%) AWS
2 399 (39.31%) GitHub
3 305 (30.05%) Azure
4 249 (24.53%) GitHub Actions
5 233 (22.96%) GCP
6 144 (14.19%) OpenShift
7 131 (12.91%) Serverless
8 128 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (12.32%) Amazon S3
10 107 (10.54%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (9.36%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 80 (7.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (6.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 64 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
17 56 (5.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 49 (4.83%) Datadog
19 38 (3.74%) Azure AKS
20 34 (3.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.11%) DNS
2 52 (5.12%) Firewall
3 28 (2.76%) VPN
4 20 (1.97%) Network Security
5 15 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.28%) HTTP
7 9 (0.89%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.79%) SSL
9 7 (0.69%) WAN
10 6 (0.59%) Internet
10 6 (0.59%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.49%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.49%) SAN
12 3 (0.30%) BGP
13 2 (0.20%) AMQP
13 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.20%) LAN
13 2 (0.20%) Multicast
13 2 (0.20%) NAS
13 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (16.26%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (8.67%) Amazon RDS
3 85 (8.37%) NoSQL
4 46 (4.53%) DynamoDB
4 46 (4.53%) MongoDB
5 43 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 38 (3.74%) SQL Server
7 37 (3.65%) MySQL
8 36 (3.55%) Pentaho
9 27 (2.66%) Amazon Aurora
10 25 (2.46%) Redis
11 21 (2.07%) Big Data
12 17 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (1.58%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.38%) Metadata
15 13 (1.28%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.28%) Power BI
16 12 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (1.18%) Tableau
17 11 (1.08%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 402 (39.61%) GitLab
2 321 (31.63%) Git
3 221 (21.77%) JIRA
4 124 (12.22%) JUnit
5 112 (11.03%) Selenium
6 94 (9.26%) Cucumber
7 63 (6.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 58 (5.71%) Maven
8 58 (5.71%) Postman
9 53 (5.22%) Bitbucket
10 42 (4.14%) SonarQube
11 41 (4.04%) REST Assured
12 37 (3.65%) Mockito
13 36 (3.55%) JMeter
14 31 (3.05%) Gradle
15 30 (2.96%) Artifactory
16 24 (2.36%) Gatling
16 24 (2.36%) Liquibase
17 22 (2.17%) CircleCI
18 21 (2.07%) WebDriver
General
1 313 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 205 (20.20%) Finance
3 123 (12.12%) Banking
4 120 (11.82%) Public Sector
5 76 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 22 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (0.99%) Front Office
10 9 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.89%) Retail
11 8 (0.79%) Law
11 8 (0.79%) Military
12 7 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.49%) Marketing
13 5 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 182 (17.93%) Developer
2 149 (14.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 146 (14.38%) Senior
4 88 (8.67%) Architect
5 81 (7.98%) Java Developer
6 76 (7.49%) Lead
7 65 (6.40%) Data Engineer
7 65 (6.40%) GCP Engineer
8 56 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
9 55 (5.42%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
11 47 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
12 44 (4.33%) Test Engineer
13 37 (3.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 34 (3.35%) Senior Developer
14 34 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
14 34 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 33 (3.25%) Tester
16 32 (3.15%) Automation Engineer
17 31 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (16.55%) REST
2 150 (14.78%) Spring
3 142 (13.99%) Kafka
4 116 (11.43%) Spring Boot
5 114 (11.23%) Node.js
6 85 (8.37%) RESTful
7 83 (8.18%) Elastic Stack
8 71 (7.00%) Playwright
9 55 (5.42%) React
10 52 (5.12%) AngularJS
11 50 (4.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 45 (4.43%) pytest
13 43 (4.24%) YAML
14 41 (4.04%) OpenID
15 39 (3.84%) GraphQL
15 39 (3.84%) JSON
15 39 (3.84%) LDAP
16 36 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
17 33 (3.25%) OAuth
18 32 (3.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 190 (18.72%) Cloud Native
2 91 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.33%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.24%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.58%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.08%) Replication
12 9 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (0.89%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.79%) Derivative
13 8 (0.79%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.69%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.69%) CMDB
14 7 (0.69%) Equities
14 7 (0.69%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 215 (21.18%) Linux
2 52 (5.12%) Windows
3 36 (3.55%) Unix
4 29 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.67%) VMS
6 12 (1.18%) Android
7 9 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.89%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.79%) CentOS
9 4 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 861 (84.83%) CI/CD
2 684 (67.39%) DevOps
3 421 (41.48%) Agile
4 347 (34.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 322 (31.72%) Containerisation
6 314 (30.94%) Test Automation
7 239 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (22.27%) Microservices
9 162 (15.96%) Observability
10 155 (15.27%) Scrum
11 136 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 128 (12.61%) Software Engineering
13 108 (10.64%) Migration
14 102 (10.05%) Mentoring
15 97 (9.56%) Analytics
16 95 (9.36%) Deployment Automation
17 92 (9.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 88 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
18 88 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 87 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 459 (45.22%) Python
2 296 (29.16%) Java
3 213 (20.99%) SQL
4 174 (17.14%) Bash
5 89 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 82 (8.08%) PowerShell
7 79 (7.78%) TypeScript
8 70 (6.90%) Go
9 54 (5.32%) Shell Script
10 52 (5.12%) C#
11 31 (3.05%) Groovy
12 30 (2.96%) Scala
13 15 (1.48%) Bicep
14 14 (1.38%) PHP
15 13 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 12 (1.18%) C++
17 11 (1.08%) Ruby
18 10 (0.99%) PL/SQL
19 9 (0.89%) Perl
19 9 (0.89%) Swift
Qualifications
1 370 (36.45%) Security Cleared
2 307 (30.25%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.50%) Degree
4 48 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.84%) AWS Certification
6 29 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 27 (2.66%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.46%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.87%) Oracle Certification
10 17 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.38%) OCP
12 12 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.79%) RHCE
15 5 (0.49%) OCA
16 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.30%) CISSP
17 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (10.44%) QA
2 56 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.97%) NIST
5 17 (1.67%) SLA
6 16 (1.58%) NCSC
7 10 (0.99%) GDPR
8 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.39%) WCAG
11 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) HL7
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.20%) MiFID
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
12 2 (0.20%) SEPA
13 1 (0.099%) SOC 2
System Software
1 479 (47.19%) Docker
2 32 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (2.56%) VMware NSX
3 26 (2.56%) vSphere
4 12 (1.18%) Active Directory
5 11 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.79%) Postfix
7 6 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.59%) HDFS
8 3 (0.30%) GridGain
9 2 (0.20%) SRDF
9 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.099%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.099%) KVM
10 1 (0.099%) NFS
10 1 (0.099%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.099%) Varnish
10 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 547 (53.89%) Kubernetes
2 415 (40.89%) Terraform
3 289 (28.47%) Ansible
4 215 (21.18%) Grafana
5 170 (16.75%) Prometheus
6 53 (5.22%) Argo
7 45 (4.43%) Progress Chef
8 34 (3.35%) Puppet
9 33 (3.25%) Istio
10 26 (2.56%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.58%) Podman
12 12 (1.18%) Kibana
13 9 (0.89%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.89%) Packer
14 8 (0.79%) Rancher
15 7 (0.69%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
16 6 (0.59%) HAProxy
17 5 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 116 (11.43%) Splunk
2 82 (8.08%) Google
3 71 (7.00%) Oracle
4 66 (6.50%) Microsoft
5 65 (6.40%) Red Hat
6 54 (5.32%) VMware
7 42 (4.14%) ServiceNow
8 41 (4.04%) Databricks
9 37 (3.65%) Talend
10 36 (3.55%) Denodo
11 30 (2.96%) Atlassian
12 26 (2.56%) Pure Storage
13 23 (2.27%) Sonatype
14 22 (2.17%) Dynatrace
15 17 (1.67%) CyberArk
16 11 (1.08%) AppDynamics
16 11 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
17 10 (0.99%) Cisco
17 10 (0.99%) Salesforce
17 10 (0.99%) Veritas