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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 77 96
Rank change year-on-year -37 +19 -35
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 935 779 862
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.17% 2.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.47% 22.49% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 537 634
10th Percentile £374 £357 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £675
90th Percentile £658 £722 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 34
10th Percentile - £54.75 £51.88
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.25 -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% -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 5,062 3,463 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.08% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,296 2,351 2,997
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £681 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 70 220
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.35 £32.87
25th Percentile £59.44 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -37 419 £550 - 67
North of England -12 258 £465 - 45
Yorkshire -3 195 £488 -2.50% 19
Midlands -21 125 £481 +6.89% 11
West Midlands -2 115 £488 +2.63% 6
South East -75 61 £433 -13.50% 32
South West -6 51 £538 -6.52% 20
North West -68 42 £425 +8.70% 21
North East -13 28 £450 -3.23% 6
East of England -18 24 £478 -4.40% 8
East Midlands -45 8 £393 +8.12% 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
1 109 (11.66%) Confluence
2 33 (3.53%) SAS
3 25 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.07%) Apache
6 9 (0.96%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.86%) nginx
8 5 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.43%) JBoss
9 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.32%) Camunda
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 471 (50.37%) AWS
2 394 (42.14%) GitHub
3 292 (31.23%) Azure
4 265 (28.34%) GitHub Actions
5 208 (22.25%) GCP
6 130 (13.90%) Amazon S3
7 116 (12.41%) Azure DevOps
8 113 (12.09%) Serverless
9 105 (11.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 102 (10.91%) Amazon EC2
11 99 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
12 97 (10.37%) OpenShift
13 93 (9.95%) Amazon EKS
14 76 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 61 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
16 59 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 58 (6.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 42 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.85%) Route 53
20 33 (3.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.31%) DNS
2 54 (5.78%) Firewall
3 17 (1.82%) Network Security
3 17 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.50%) VPN
5 10 (1.07%) SSL
6 8 (0.86%) BIG-IP
6 8 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 8 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 8 (0.86%) SAN
7 7 (0.75%) HTTP
8 6 (0.64%) VLAN
9 5 (0.53%) NAS
9 5 (0.53%) WAN
10 4 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.32%) BGP
11 3 (0.32%) Multicast
11 3 (0.32%) VSAN
12 2 (0.21%) AMQP
12 2 (0.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (15.29%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.02%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (5.67%) MongoDB
4 52 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 48 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 48 (5.13%) DynamoDB
6 47 (5.03%) Relational Database
7 34 (3.64%) Redis
7 34 (3.64%) SQL Server
8 26 (2.78%) Big Data
9 24 (2.57%) Pentaho
10 20 (2.14%) MySQL
11 19 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.71%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.60%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (1.50%) Metadata
15 11 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (1.07%) Power BI
17 9 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 349 (37.33%) GitLab
2 283 (30.27%) Git
3 192 (20.53%) JIRA
4 114 (12.19%) JUnit
5 100 (10.70%) Selenium
6 70 (7.49%) Cucumber
7 68 (7.27%) Maven
8 56 (5.99%) Mockito
9 55 (5.88%) SonarQube
10 48 (5.13%) REST Assured
11 44 (4.71%) Bitbucket
12 43 (4.60%) Postman
13 36 (3.85%) Gatling
13 36 (3.85%) Gradle
13 36 (3.85%) JMeter
13 36 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
14 30 (3.21%) WebDriver
15 24 (2.57%) Liquibase
16 20 (2.14%) Artifactory
17 15 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
General
1 248 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 149 (15.94%) Finance
3 127 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 104 (11.12%) Banking
5 76 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (2.46%) Law
9 18 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.60%) Retail
12 9 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.86%) Legal
13 8 (0.86%) Publishing
14 7 (0.75%) Front Office
14 7 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.64%) Marketing
15 6 (0.64%) Military
16 4 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 184 (19.68%) Developer
2 162 (17.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 141 (15.08%) Senior
4 100 (10.70%) Java Developer
5 75 (8.02%) Architect
6 70 (7.49%) Lead
7 57 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 54 (5.78%) GCP Engineer
9 49 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
10 46 (4.92%) Data Engineer
11 45 (4.81%) Test Engineer
12 40 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
13 39 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
13 39 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
13 39 (4.17%) Senior Developer
14 37 (3.96%) Tester
15 31 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 28 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
18 27 (2.89%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (17.86%) Spring
2 141 (15.08%) Spring Boot
3 138 (14.76%) Kafka
4 130 (13.90%) REST
5 99 (10.59%) RESTful
6 80 (8.56%) Node.js
7 68 (7.27%) React
8 55 (5.88%) Playwright
9 52 (5.56%) AngularJS
10 46 (4.92%) SOAP
11 43 (4.60%) HTML
11 43 (4.60%) JPA
11 43 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
12 42 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
12 42 (4.49%) Web Services
13 40 (4.28%) Spring Cloud
14 38 (4.06%) Hibernate
14 38 (4.06%) LDAP
15 32 (3.42%) Swagger
16 31 (3.32%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 187 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 87 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.32%) Data Centre
4 31 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.57%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (1.82%) Replication
9 15 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.07%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.75%) Clustering
13 7 (0.75%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.64%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 184 (19.68%) Linux
2 50 (5.35%) Unix
3 45 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (4.60%) Windows
5 12 (1.28%) CentOS
6 11 (1.18%) Android
7 9 (0.96%) VMS
8 8 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.64%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.32%) AIX
12 3 (0.32%) zOS
13 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.21%) Solaris
13 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 802 (85.78%) CI/CD
2 622 (66.52%) DevOps
3 397 (42.46%) Agile
4 318 (34.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 293 (31.34%) Test Automation
6 275 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 240 (25.67%) Microservices
8 184 (19.68%) Observability
9 170 (18.18%) Scrum
10 154 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
11 145 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 141 (15.08%) Software Engineering
13 114 (12.19%) Platform Engineering
14 102 (10.91%) Migration
15 91 (9.73%) TDD
15 91 (9.73%) Validation
16 85 (9.09%) Event-Driven
17 83 (8.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 77 (8.24%) Mentoring
19 75 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 392 (41.93%) Python
2 333 (35.61%) Java
3 221 (23.64%) SQL
4 174 (18.61%) Bash
5 86 (9.20%) PowerShell
6 71 (7.59%) JavaScript
7 56 (5.99%) TypeScript
8 55 (5.88%) Shell Script
9 45 (4.81%) Go
10 36 (3.85%) Groovy
10 36 (3.85%) Scala
11 31 (3.32%) C#
12 18 (1.93%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.71%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.18%) Bicep
14 11 (1.18%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.18%) Perl
15 9 (0.96%) Ruby
16 8 (0.86%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 356 (38.07%) Security Cleared
2 306 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 39 (4.17%) Degree
4 28 (2.99%) Azure Certification
5 26 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 13 (1.39%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.75%) RHCE
12 6 (0.64%) OCP
13 5 (0.53%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.43%) PMP
14 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.80%) QA
2 45 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.03%) SLA
6 17 (1.82%) NIST
7 13 (1.39%) NCSC
7 13 (1.39%) WCAG
8 8 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.43%) GDPR
10 4 (0.43%) PSD2
10 4 (0.43%) SEPA
11 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 416 (44.49%) Docker
2 26 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.25%) vSphere
4 19 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.82%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.60%) Postfix
7 13 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.75%) NFS
9 5 (0.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.43%) HDFS
10 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.43%) SRDF
10 4 (0.43%) Varnish
11 3 (0.32%) GridGain
11 3 (0.32%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 454 (48.56%) Kubernetes
2 377 (40.32%) Terraform
3 223 (23.85%) Ansible
4 205 (21.93%) Grafana
5 174 (18.61%) Prometheus
6 47 (5.03%) Argo
7 33 (3.53%) Istio
8 29 (3.10%) Puppet
9 24 (2.57%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.25%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.50%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.50%) Podman
12 12 (1.28%) Kibana
13 11 (1.18%) Check_MK
13 11 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (0.96%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.86%) Packer
16 7 (0.75%) Control-M
17 6 (0.64%) Consul
17 6 (0.64%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 84 (8.98%) Google
2 83 (8.88%) Splunk
3 67 (7.17%) Oracle
4 64 (6.84%) Red Hat
5 57 (6.10%) Microsoft
6 43 (4.60%) VMware
7 37 (3.96%) Dynatrace
8 29 (3.10%) ServiceNow
9 25 (2.67%) Databricks
9 25 (2.67%) Talend
10 22 (2.35%) Salesforce
11 21 (2.25%) Atlassian
11 21 (2.25%) Denodo
12 20 (2.14%) Pure Storage
13 19 (2.03%) Sonatype
14 18 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
15 17 (1.82%) IBM
16 14 (1.50%) CyberArk
17 13 (1.39%) Okta
18 11 (1.18%) ForgeRock