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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 84 102
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -49
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 988 748 814
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.77% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.16% 20.72% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 503 611
10th Percentile £358 £380 £406
25th Percentile £425 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.36% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 £43.38
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £57.41
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%
75th Percentile £97.56 £80.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £89.75 £81.60
UK median hourly rate £58.61 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -17.74% +4.01% -2.14%

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 4,670 3,610 4,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.70% 13.39% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,229 2,254 3,037
10th Percentile £333 £336 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% -6.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £538
% change year-on-year -0.15% -6.84% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 65 193
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.65 £75.85 £90.00
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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -24 423 £528 -14.57% 119
North of England +14 258 £488 +7.73% 81
Yorkshire +8 169 £500 - 39
Midlands +50 140 £520 +9.01% 37
West Midlands +51 126 £525 +8.70% 20
South East +22 98 £474 -5.20% 96
North West -15 71 £448 +12.00% 34
South West +3 51 £538 -10.42% 52
North East +3 19 £575 -9.27% 8
East Midlands -19 14 £397 -0.88% 15
East of England -20 14 £478 +9.26% 32
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
1 118 (11.94%) Confluence
2 57 (5.77%) SAS
3 19 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.52%) Apache
5 15 (1.52%) IIS
6 14 (1.42%) JBoss
6 14 (1.42%) nginx
7 13 (1.32%) OpenStack
7 13 (1.32%) WebSphere
8 11 (1.11%) WebSphere Application Server
9 10 (1.01%) iPlanet
10 6 (0.61%) Mule
11 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.30%) CICS
13 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 518 (52.43%) AWS
2 319 (32.29%) GitHub
3 274 (27.73%) Azure
4 237 (23.99%) GCP
5 205 (20.75%) GitHub Actions
6 126 (12.75%) Serverless
7 120 (12.15%) OpenShift
8 118 (11.94%) Amazon S3
9 108 (10.93%) Amazon EC2
10 103 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 97 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
12 92 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
13 89 (9.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 88 (8.91%) AWS Lambda
15 76 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
16 67 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
17 59 (5.97%) Datadog
18 48 (4.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 43 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
20 37 (3.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (8.70%) Firewall
2 77 (7.79%) DNS
3 38 (3.85%) VPN
4 35 (3.54%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.94%) Network Security
6 28 (2.83%) HTTP
7 25 (2.53%) SSL
8 19 (1.92%) Kerberos
9 17 (1.72%) SSH
10 16 (1.62%) SMTP
11 15 (1.52%) FTP
12 9 (0.91%) IMAP
12 9 (0.91%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (0.71%) Internet
14 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.61%) WAN
15 5 (0.51%) SD-WAN
16 3 (0.30%) tcpdump
17 2 (0.20%) Multicast
17 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (10.22%) NoSQL
3 93 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (5.47%) MongoDB
5 39 (3.95%) MySQL
6 36 (3.64%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.64%) Pentaho
7 31 (3.14%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 30 (3.04%) Oracle Database
9 29 (2.94%) Redis
9 29 (2.94%) Relational Database
10 22 (2.23%) BigQuery
11 18 (1.82%) Big Data
12 14 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (1.32%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.21%) Tableau
15 11 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 10 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 364 (36.84%) GitLab
2 325 (32.89%) Git
3 230 (23.28%) JIRA
4 93 (9.41%) Selenium
5 91 (9.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 84 (8.50%) JUnit
7 83 (8.40%) Cucumber
8 60 (6.07%) Bitbucket
9 56 (5.67%) Postman
10 51 (5.16%) SonarQube
11 43 (4.35%) Maven
12 38 (3.85%) Gradle
13 34 (3.44%) CircleCI
13 34 (3.44%) REST Assured
14 30 (3.04%) Artifactory
15 27 (2.73%) Liquibase
16 25 (2.53%) Cypress.io
16 25 (2.53%) JMeter
17 17 (1.72%) TeamCity
18 16 (1.62%) Gatling
General
1 284 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 214 (21.66%) Finance
3 149 (15.08%) Banking
4 125 (12.65%) Public Sector
5 56 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 25 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.32%) Military
8 13 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.11%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.01%) Retail
11 8 (0.81%) Front Office
12 7 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.71%) Marketing
13 6 (0.61%) Games
13 6 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.61%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 169 (17.11%) Developer
3 168 (17.00%) Senior
4 81 (8.20%) Lead
5 78 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 71 (7.19%) Java Developer
7 69 (6.98%) Architect
8 62 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
9 59 (5.97%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
11 51 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.86%) Senior DevOps
12 48 (4.86%) Software Engineer
13 46 (4.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 41 (4.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 37 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
16 36 (3.64%) Senior Developer
17 35 (3.54%) Test Engineer
18 29 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (14.78%) REST
2 143 (14.47%) Kafka
3 107 (10.83%) Spring
4 103 (10.43%) Node.js
5 96 (9.72%) RESTful
6 89 (9.01%) Elastic Stack
7 85 (8.60%) Spring Boot
8 66 (6.68%) Playwright
9 58 (5.87%) React
10 52 (5.26%) GraphQL
11 46 (4.66%) HTML
12 44 (4.45%) LDAP
13 42 (4.25%) OpenID
14 41 (4.15%) JSON
15 40 (4.05%) OAuth
16 39 (3.95%) .NET
17 37 (3.74%) CSS
18 35 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
19 34 (3.44%) AngularJS
19 34 (3.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (16.60%) Cloud Native
2 79 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 43 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 35 (3.54%) Replication
6 24 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.13%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.32%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
12 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.11%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.01%) Derivative
13 10 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 235 (23.79%) Linux
2 74 (7.49%) Windows
3 45 (4.55%) Unix
4 30 (3.04%) VMS
5 22 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.82%) Amazon Linux
6 18 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (1.32%) Android
7 13 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.21%) CentOS
9 11 (1.11%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.30%) zOS
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.10%) MVS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (81.17%) CI/CD
2 658 (66.60%) DevOps
3 395 (39.98%) Agile
4 335 (33.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 294 (29.76%) Containerisation
6 273 (27.63%) Test Automation
7 228 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 211 (21.36%) Microservices
9 139 (14.07%) Software Engineering
10 138 (13.97%) Observability
11 137 (13.87%) Scrum
12 127 (12.85%) Mentoring
13 107 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 93 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
15 90 (9.11%) Configuration Management
16 87 (8.81%) DevSecOps
16 87 (8.81%) High Availability
17 86 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
18 83 (8.40%) Infrastructure Automation
18 83 (8.40%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 464 (46.96%) Python
2 294 (29.76%) Java
3 181 (18.32%) SQL
4 167 (16.90%) Bash
5 109 (11.03%) JavaScript
6 95 (9.62%) Go
7 85 (8.60%) PowerShell
7 85 (8.60%) TypeScript
8 67 (6.78%) Shell Script
9 51 (5.16%) C#
10 48 (4.86%) Groovy
11 24 (2.43%) C++
11 24 (2.43%) Scala
12 17 (1.72%) Ruby
13 16 (1.62%) Perl
14 14 (1.42%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.42%) PHP
15 11 (1.11%) C
16 10 (1.01%) Swift
17 8 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 340 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 264 (26.72%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.79%) Degree
4 53 (5.36%) AWS Certification
5 52 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.73%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
11 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.01%) OCP
13 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.81%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.51%) OCA
15 5 (0.51%) RHCE
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (10.02%) QA
2 50 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.52%) SLA
5 12 (1.21%) NIST
6 8 (0.81%) GDPR
6 8 (0.81%) NCSC
6 8 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.51%) WCAG
8 3 (0.30%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.30%) IEC 62304
8 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.30%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.20%) PSD2
9 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 497 (50.30%) Docker
2 30 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.52%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.91%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.91%) Postfix
6 9 (0.91%) Squid
6 9 (0.91%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.91%) vSphere
7 8 (0.81%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 6 (0.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.40%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 2 (0.20%) KVM
12 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.10%) SRDF
12 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 501 (50.71%) Kubernetes
2 409 (41.40%) Terraform
3 293 (29.66%) Ansible
4 177 (17.91%) Grafana
5 152 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 56 (5.67%) Progress Chef
7 34 (3.44%) Argo
8 29 (2.94%) Istio
9 27 (2.73%) Puppet
10 21 (2.13%) Podman
11 15 (1.52%) Kibana
12 12 (1.21%) Packer
12 12 (1.21%) Proxmox
13 11 (1.11%) CA Single Sign-On
13 11 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
13 11 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (1.01%) CA Wily
14 10 (1.01%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.91%) Nessus
15 9 (0.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (10.93%) Splunk
2 93 (9.41%) Oracle
3 92 (9.31%) Google
4 81 (8.20%) Microsoft
5 53 (5.36%) ServiceNow
6 49 (4.96%) Red Hat
7 45 (4.55%) VMware
8 36 (3.64%) Denodo
8 36 (3.64%) Talend
9 32 (3.24%) Databricks
10 29 (2.94%) Atlassian
11 28 (2.83%) F5
12 27 (2.73%) Palo Alto
13 26 (2.63%) CheckPoint
13 26 (2.63%) Dynatrace
14 19 (1.92%) AppDynamics
14 19 (1.92%) IBM
15 13 (1.32%) Confluent
15 13 (1.32%) Solace
16 11 (1.11%) Sonatype