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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 81 96
Rank change year-on-year -28 +15 -40
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 911 733 824
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.02% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.37% 21.91% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 505 622
10th Percentile £375 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -5.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £580 £650 £675
90th Percentile £664 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -2.20% -7.05% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 23
10th Percentile £42.50 £50.25 £47.95
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.31 £65.63
Median hourly rate £62.00 £61.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -12.50% -6.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £76.63 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £60.36 £61.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.45% -12.50% -4.11%

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 4,958 3,346 4,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 13.78% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 2,251 2,916
10th Percentile £344 £343 £353
25th Percentile £409 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -5.48% -3.82%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £638
90th Percentile £688 £735 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 63 193
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.59 £31.97
25th Percentile £57.94 £49.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% -9.42% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -38 408 £550 -1.79% 97
North of England -2 241 £475 - 66
Yorkshire +8 184 £481 -3.80% 29
Midlands -15 121 £492 +15.22% 15
West Midlands +8 105 £498 +10.56% 7
South East -66 63 £433 -13.50% 50
South West -23 49 £531 -7.61% 29
North West -61 40 £425 -4.92% 26
East of England -21 25 £477 -4.70% 22
North East -7 23 £425 -8.60% 11
East Midlands -45 14 £402 +9.24% 8
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
1 103 (11.31%) Confluence
2 33 (3.62%) SAS
3 26 (2.85%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.10%) Apache
6 7 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) IIS
9 3 (0.33%) nginx
9 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) MTS
Applications
1 14 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Magento
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 469 (51.48%) AWS
2 372 (40.83%) GitHub
3 308 (33.81%) Azure
4 251 (27.55%) GitHub Actions
5 209 (22.94%) GCP
6 131 (14.38%) Amazon S3
7 120 (13.17%) Azure DevOps
8 108 (11.86%) Serverless
9 103 (11.31%) OpenShift
10 100 (10.98%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
12 85 (9.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 84 (9.22%) Amazon EKS
14 78 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 61 (6.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 58 (6.37%) Amazon ECS
17 56 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 40 (4.39%) Azure AKS
19 38 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
20 34 (3.73%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.60%) DNS
2 44 (4.83%) Firewall
3 16 (1.76%) Network Security
4 14 (1.54%) VPN
5 13 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.88%) HTTP
7 7 (0.77%) SAN
8 4 (0.44%) NAS
8 4 (0.44%) SSL
9 3 (0.33%) BGP
9 3 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.33%) WAN
10 2 (0.22%) AMQP
10 2 (0.22%) Internet
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) LAN
10 2 (0.22%) Multicast
10 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
11 1 (0.11%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (8.01%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (5.60%) NoSQL
4 48 (5.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 47 (5.16%) MongoDB
6 45 (4.94%) DynamoDB
7 43 (4.72%) Relational Database
8 40 (4.39%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.18%) Redis
10 24 (2.63%) Big Data
11 21 (2.31%) Pentaho
12 20 (2.20%) MySQL
13 15 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.65%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.54%) Metadata
15 12 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.10%) Aerospike
17 9 (0.99%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.99%) DocumentDB
17 9 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 342 (37.54%) GitLab
2 276 (30.30%) Git
3 177 (19.43%) JIRA
4 104 (11.42%) Selenium
5 101 (11.09%) JUnit
6 70 (7.68%) Cucumber
7 65 (7.14%) Maven
8 55 (6.04%) Postman
9 52 (5.71%) Mockito
10 51 (5.60%) SonarQube
11 48 (5.27%) REST Assured
12 45 (4.94%) Bitbucket
13 35 (3.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 34 (3.73%) Gatling
14 34 (3.73%) JMeter
15 30 (3.29%) Gradle
16 23 (2.52%) WebDriver
17 20 (2.20%) Artifactory
18 19 (2.09%) Liquibase
19 14 (1.54%) CircleCI
General
1 247 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 150 (16.47%) Finance
3 121 (13.28%) Public Sector
4 100 (10.98%) Banking
5 81 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.43%) Retail
10 10 (1.10%) Front Office
10 10 (1.10%) Law
11 9 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.77%) Military
14 6 (0.66%) Legal
14 6 (0.66%) Marketing
15 5 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 183 (20.09%) Developer
2 152 (16.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 128 (14.05%) Senior
4 93 (10.21%) Java Developer
5 81 (8.89%) Architect
6 75 (8.23%) Lead
7 54 (5.93%) GCP Engineer
8 52 (5.71%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.71%) Software Engineer
9 51 (5.60%) Test Engineer
10 40 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
11 38 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
12 35 (3.84%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (3.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 32 (3.51%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.29%) Tester
16 28 (3.07%) AWS DevOps
17 27 (2.96%) Site Engineer
17 27 (2.96%) Test Automation Engineer
18 26 (2.85%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (16.68%) Spring
2 131 (14.38%) Kafka
3 128 (14.05%) Spring Boot
4 118 (12.95%) REST
5 96 (10.54%) Node.js
6 86 (9.44%) RESTful
7 63 (6.92%) Playwright
8 57 (6.26%) React
9 55 (6.04%) AngularJS
10 47 (5.16%) OpenTelemetry
11 46 (5.05%) Elastic Stack
12 44 (4.83%) LDAP
13 39 (4.28%) Spring Cloud
14 38 (4.17%) SOAP
14 38 (4.17%) Web Services
15 36 (3.95%) OpenID
16 35 (3.84%) HTML
17 32 (3.51%) YAML
18 31 (3.40%) pytest
19 30 (3.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 186 (20.42%) Cloud Native
2 79 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.54%) Replication
9 12 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (0.99%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.88%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.77%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.66%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.66%) Derivative
14 6 (0.66%) Equities
14 6 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 174 (19.10%) Linux
2 44 (4.83%) Unix
3 39 (4.28%) Windows
4 34 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.76%) VMS
6 11 (1.21%) Android
6 11 (1.21%) CentOS
7 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.33%) AIX
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.22%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (85.95%) CI/CD
2 617 (67.73%) DevOps
3 378 (41.49%) Agile
4 313 (34.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 287 (31.50%) Test Automation
6 277 (30.41%) Containerisation
7 218 (23.93%) Microservices
8 169 (18.55%) Observability
8 169 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
9 153 (16.79%) Scrum
10 142 (15.59%) Software Engineering
11 136 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 103 (11.31%) Platform Engineering
13 96 (10.54%) Migration
14 89 (9.77%) TDD
15 78 (8.56%) Mentoring
15 78 (8.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 78 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
16 77 (8.45%) Event-Driven
16 77 (8.45%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 376 (41.27%) Python
2 311 (34.14%) Java
3 209 (22.94%) SQL
4 157 (17.23%) Bash
5 83 (9.11%) PowerShell
6 74 (8.12%) JavaScript
7 65 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 55 (6.04%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.72%) C#
9 43 (4.72%) Go
10 37 (4.06%) Groovy
10 37 (4.06%) Scala
11 18 (1.98%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.76%) Bicep
13 11 (1.21%) MATLAB
13 11 (1.21%) PHP
14 10 (1.10%) Perl
14 10 (1.10%) Ruby
15 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 352 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 297 (32.60%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.39%) Degree
4 34 (3.73%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.62%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (1.10%) RHCE
8 10 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.77%) OCP
12 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.44%) PMP
13 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (10.65%) QA
2 44 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.09%) SLA
6 18 (1.98%) NIST
7 14 (1.54%) NCSC
8 9 (0.99%) GDPR
8 9 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.99%) WCAG
9 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.44%) PSD2
11 4 (0.44%) SEPA
12 2 (0.22%) HL7
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 423 (46.43%) Docker
2 22 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.09%) vSphere
4 18 (1.98%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.76%) Active Directory
6 14 (1.54%) Postfix
7 11 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.55%) HDFS
9 5 (0.55%) NFS
10 3 (0.33%) GridGain
10 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.33%) SRDF
10 3 (0.33%) Varnish
11 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.11%) KVM
12 1 (0.11%) Squid
12 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 465 (51.04%) Kubernetes
2 370 (40.61%) Terraform
3 221 (24.26%) Ansible
4 199 (21.84%) Grafana
5 162 (17.78%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.72%) Argo
7 33 (3.62%) Istio
8 32 (3.51%) Puppet
9 29 (3.18%) Progress Chef
10 19 (2.09%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.76%) Kibana
12 15 (1.65%) Podman
13 13 (1.43%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.21%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.88%) NetBackup
16 5 (0.55%) Packer
16 5 (0.55%) Rancher
17 4 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
17 4 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 89 (9.77%) Splunk
2 77 (8.45%) Google
3 62 (6.81%) Red Hat
4 60 (6.59%) Microsoft
5 49 (5.38%) Oracle
6 39 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 39 (4.28%) VMware
7 35 (3.84%) Databricks
8 28 (3.07%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.41%) Atlassian
9 22 (2.41%) Talend
10 21 (2.31%) Denodo
11 19 (2.09%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.98%) Jaspersoft
12 18 (1.98%) Sonatype
13 17 (1.87%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.54%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.43%) Okta
16 11 (1.21%) ForgeRock
16 11 (1.21%) IBM