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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 77 93
Rank change year-on-year -40 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 978 873 855
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.20% 2.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.65% 22.56% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 606 632
10th Percentile £363 £356 £388
25th Percentile £417 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £611 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 37
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £56.25
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.56 -
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -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 5,244 3,869 4,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.20% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,647 2,938
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £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 238 89 216
10th Percentile £29.42 £39.25 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.94 £50.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.15 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.89% -1.15% +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 21 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 21 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 -38 459 £540 +1.79% 97
North of England -21 269 £452 -2.90% 70
Yorkshire -5 203 £488 -2.50% 23
Midlands -16 123 £475 +5.56% 16
West Midlands 0 116 £477 +0.42% 11
South East -96 60 £460 -8.00% 38
South West -26 49 £538 -6.52% 27
North West -83 47 £425 +6.25% 36
North East -28 26 £450 -3.23% 12
East of England -16 18 £463 -7.50% 12
East Midlands -42 5 £447 +24.51% 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
1 114 (11.66%) Confluence
2 29 (2.97%) SAS
3 24 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 10 (1.02%) Apache
6 10 (1.02%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.41%) Camunda
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
8 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.31%) IIS
9 3 (0.31%) 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 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.92%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Magento
2 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 498 (50.92%) AWS
2 415 (42.43%) GitHub
3 328 (33.54%) Azure
4 284 (29.04%) GitHub Actions
5 208 (21.27%) GCP
6 148 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (12.78%) Amazon S3
8 115 (11.76%) Serverless
9 100 (10.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 100 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
10 99 (10.12%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (9.92%) OpenShift
12 88 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
13 71 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 60 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
15 52 (5.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 47 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
17 41 (4.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 35 (3.58%) Datadog
19 31 (3.17%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.21%) DNS
2 45 (4.60%) Firewall
3 16 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.53%) Network Security
4 15 (1.53%) VPN
5 12 (1.23%) SSL
6 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.82%) HTTP
7 8 (0.82%) SAN
7 8 (0.82%) VLAN
8 5 (0.51%) WAN
9 4 (0.41%) NAS
9 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.31%) BGP
10 3 (0.31%) Internet
10 3 (0.31%) Multicast
10 3 (0.31%) VSAN
11 2 (0.20%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.83%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (6.03%) MongoDB
4 55 (5.62%) Relational Database
4 55 (5.62%) SQL Server
5 45 (4.60%) NoSQL
6 44 (4.50%) Amazon Aurora
7 43 (4.40%) DynamoDB
8 25 (2.56%) Big Data
8 25 (2.56%) Redis
9 20 (2.04%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.74%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.74%) Metadata
12 15 (1.53%) MySQL
13 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
13 11 (1.12%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.02%) Power BI
15 9 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 335 (34.25%) GitLab
2 309 (31.60%) Git
3 194 (19.84%) JIRA
4 112 (11.45%) JUnit
5 94 (9.61%) Selenium
6 72 (7.36%) Maven
7 67 (6.85%) Cucumber
8 65 (6.65%) SonarQube
9 57 (5.83%) Mockito
10 48 (4.91%) Bitbucket
11 47 (4.81%) REST Assured
12 45 (4.60%) Gradle
13 39 (3.99%) Postman
14 37 (3.78%) JMeter
15 35 (3.58%) Gatling
16 34 (3.48%) Sonatype Nexus
17 30 (3.07%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.45%) Liquibase
19 22 (2.25%) Artifactory
20 16 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 255 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 146 (14.93%) Finance
3 136 (13.91%) Public Sector
4 104 (10.63%) Banking
5 82 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (2.04%) Law
10 19 (1.94%) Retail
11 17 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 14 (1.43%) Publishing
13 11 (1.12%) Legal
14 10 (1.02%) Marketing
15 8 (0.82%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.61%) Front Office
16 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.51%) Military
17 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 216 (22.09%) Developer
2 180 (18.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 145 (14.83%) Senior
4 114 (11.66%) Java Developer
5 66 (6.75%) Lead
6 61 (6.24%) Architect
7 60 (6.13%) Software Engineer
8 56 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (4.60%) Senior Developer
10 44 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.29%) GCP Engineer
13 41 (4.19%) Data Engineer
14 39 (3.99%) Tester
15 38 (3.89%) Test Engineer
16 35 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
17 34 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 33 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
19 32 (3.27%) Senior Java Developer
20 28 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (17.89%) Spring
2 157 (16.05%) Kafka
3 149 (15.24%) Spring Boot
4 148 (15.13%) REST
5 103 (10.53%) RESTful
6 90 (9.20%) React
7 88 (9.00%) Node.js
8 60 (6.13%) Playwright
9 54 (5.52%) SOAP
10 49 (5.01%) Web Services
11 47 (4.81%) AngularJS
12 43 (4.40%) Hibernate
12 43 (4.40%) HTML
13 42 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
13 42 (4.29%) JPA
14 34 (3.48%) Spring Cloud
15 32 (3.27%) OpenTelemetry
15 32 (3.27%) Swagger
16 31 (3.17%) CSS
17 30 (3.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 179 (18.30%) Cloud Native
2 89 (9.10%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (6.44%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.15%) Replication
8 20 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.64%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.53%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.12%) AI Agents
14 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.02%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.82%) Hedge funds
17 7 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 184 (18.81%) Linux
2 49 (5.01%) Unix
3 42 (4.29%) Windows
4 39 (3.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.12%) Android
6 9 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.92%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.51%) CentOS
9 3 (0.31%) AIX
9 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.31%) zOS
10 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (84.05%) CI/CD
2 661 (67.59%) DevOps
3 463 (47.34%) Agile
4 323 (33.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 303 (30.98%) Test Automation
6 266 (27.20%) Containerisation
7 258 (26.38%) Microservices
8 187 (19.12%) Observability
9 184 (18.81%) Scrum
10 164 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 160 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
12 149 (15.24%) Software Engineering
13 135 (13.80%) Platform Engineering
14 114 (11.66%) TDD
15 90 (9.20%) Migration
16 89 (9.10%) Event-Driven
17 85 (8.69%) Deployment Automation
18 84 (8.59%) Stakeholder Management
18 84 (8.59%) Validation
19 81 (8.28%) AI
Programming Languages
1 406 (41.51%) Python
2 341 (34.87%) Java
3 233 (23.82%) SQL
4 192 (19.63%) Bash
5 108 (11.04%) PowerShell
6 84 (8.59%) JavaScript
7 69 (7.06%) TypeScript
8 46 (4.70%) Groovy
9 45 (4.60%) Go
9 45 (4.60%) Shell Script
10 43 (4.40%) C#
11 33 (3.37%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.97%) Scala
13 18 (1.84%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.53%) Bicep
15 14 (1.43%) Perl
16 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.92%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.92%) Ruby
18 8 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 369 (37.73%) Security Cleared
2 313 (32.00%) SC Cleared
3 46 (4.70%) Degree
4 41 (4.19%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.89%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.23%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.82%) RHCE
13 7 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.61%) CISSP
14 6 (0.61%) OCP
15 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (11.35%) QA
2 42 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.23%) WCAG
5 11 (1.12%) NIST
6 7 (0.72%) NCSC
6 7 (0.72%) SLA
7 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.31%) GDPR
9 3 (0.31%) SEPA
10 2 (0.20%) PSD2
11 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 440 (44.99%) Docker
2 27 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.15%) vSphere
4 19 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.64%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.53%) Postfix
7 7 (0.72%) NFS
8 6 (0.61%) HDFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) SRDF
9 4 (0.41%) Varnish
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) GridGain
10 3 (0.31%) 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
1 460 (47.03%) Kubernetes
2 378 (38.65%) Terraform
3 233 (23.82%) Ansible
4 209 (21.37%) Grafana
5 175 (17.89%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.81%) Argo
7 35 (3.58%) Puppet
8 25 (2.56%) Progress Chef
9 22 (2.25%) Istio
10 21 (2.15%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.53%) Control-M
12 14 (1.43%) HAProxy
13 11 (1.12%) Kibana
14 10 (1.02%) Packer
15 9 (0.92%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.92%) Podman
16 7 (0.72%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.61%) Consul
18 5 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 85 (8.69%) Splunk
2 82 (8.38%) Oracle
3 81 (8.28%) Google
4 79 (8.08%) Microsoft
5 54 (5.52%) Red Hat
6 46 (4.70%) Dynatrace
7 38 (3.89%) VMware
8 28 (2.86%) Salesforce
9 22 (2.25%) Databricks
9 22 (2.25%) ServiceNow
10 21 (2.15%) IBM
10 21 (2.15%) Talend
11 20 (2.04%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.84%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.84%) Jaspersoft
13 17 (1.74%) Denodo
13 17 (1.74%) Sonatype
14 14 (1.43%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.33%) Okta
16 11 (1.12%) ForgeRock