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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 80 102
Rank change year-on-year -22 +22 -48
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 945 750 808
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 3.06% 2.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.82% 22.51% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 513 601
10th Percentile £365 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £553
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -4.07% -7.92%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £675
90th Percentile £663 £775 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 6
10th Percentile - £51.75 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.25 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +29.74% -30.99%
75th Percentile £63.00 £70.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £69.00 £79.25 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £53.11 £66.25 £45.88
% change year-on-year -19.83% +44.40% -37.15%

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 5,022 3,332 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.74% 13.60% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,362 2,238 2,903
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -4.48%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £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 205 60 166
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.35 £29.86
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.14 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.90 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -40 411 £550 -5.17% 97
North of England -4 230 £476 -4.80% 64
Yorkshire +10 181 £485 -11.91% 22
Midlands +4 142 £500 +10.01% 21
West Midlands +12 127 £500 +8.11% 15
South East -25 82 £425 -15.00% 41
South West -13 50 £538 -6.52% 20
North West -69 36 £425 -9.57% 32
East of England -25 24 £475 -5.00% 14
North East -6 17 £425 -8.60% 10
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
1 108 (11.43%) Confluence
2 62 (6.56%) SAS
3 27 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.95%) Apache
5 9 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.74%) nginx
7 6 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.42%) JBoss
9 3 (0.32%) IIS
9 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 461 (48.78%) AWS
2 377 (39.89%) GitHub
3 302 (31.96%) Azure
4 244 (25.82%) GitHub Actions
5 202 (21.38%) GCP
6 132 (13.97%) OpenShift
7 129 (13.65%) Amazon S3
8 116 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (12.06%) Serverless
10 101 (10.69%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
13 80 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 76 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 62 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
16 59 (6.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 58 (6.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 39 (4.13%) Azure AKS
19 36 (3.81%) Datadog
19 36 (3.81%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.29%) DNS
2 42 (4.44%) Firewall
3 18 (1.90%) Network Security
4 17 (1.80%) VPN
5 13 (1.38%) HTTP
6 11 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.74%) SAN
8 5 (0.53%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.53%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.53%) SSL
9 4 (0.42%) Internet
9 4 (0.42%) NAS
10 3 (0.32%) BGP
11 2 (0.21%) AMQP
11 2 (0.21%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.21%) LAN
11 2 (0.21%) Multicast
11 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.21%) WAN
12 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (8.68%) Amazon RDS
3 66 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 46 (4.87%) DynamoDB
5 42 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 41 (4.34%) Relational Database
7 40 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
7 40 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 35 (3.70%) Pentaho
9 30 (3.17%) MySQL
10 27 (2.86%) Big Data
11 26 (2.75%) Redis
12 16 (1.69%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.59%) Metadata
14 13 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (1.38%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.27%) Power BI
15 12 (1.27%) Tableau
16 11 (1.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 357 (37.78%) GitLab
2 298 (31.53%) Git
3 198 (20.95%) JIRA
4 118 (12.49%) JUnit
5 108 (11.43%) Selenium
6 84 (8.89%) Cucumber
7 61 (6.46%) Maven
8 59 (6.24%) Postman
9 50 (5.29%) Sonatype Nexus
10 49 (5.19%) Bitbucket
11 46 (4.87%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.44%) Mockito
12 42 (4.44%) REST Assured
13 33 (3.49%) JMeter
14 29 (3.07%) Gatling
15 27 (2.86%) Gradle
16 25 (2.65%) Artifactory
17 21 (2.22%) WebDriver
18 20 (2.12%) CircleCI
19 15 (1.59%) Liquibase
General
1 274 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 177 (18.73%) Finance
3 116 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 97 (10.26%) Banking
5 73 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.06%) Front Office
9 10 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.95%) Retail
11 8 (0.85%) Law
11 8 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.74%) Military
12 7 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.63%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 182 (19.26%) Developer
2 140 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 131 (13.86%) Senior
4 92 (9.74%) Java Developer
5 83 (8.78%) Architect
6 74 (7.83%) Lead
7 66 (6.98%) Data Engineer
8 53 (5.61%) GCP Engineer
9 47 (4.97%) AWS Engineer
10 46 (4.87%) Software Engineer
11 45 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
12 41 (4.34%) Test Engineer
13 39 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
14 34 (3.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 32 (3.39%) Tester
16 30 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
16 30 (3.17%) Senior Developer
17 29 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (15.77%) Spring
2 137 (14.50%) REST
3 134 (14.18%) Kafka
4 121 (12.80%) Spring Boot
5 109 (11.53%) Node.js
6 78 (8.25%) RESTful
7 72 (7.62%) Playwright
8 59 (6.24%) React
9 55 (5.82%) Elastic Stack
10 51 (5.40%) AngularJS
11 50 (5.29%) OpenTelemetry
12 42 (4.44%) pytest
13 41 (4.34%) YAML
14 40 (4.23%) LDAP
14 40 (4.23%) OpenID
15 37 (3.92%) GraphQL
16 34 (3.60%) HTML
16 34 (3.60%) OAuth
17 33 (3.49%) Hibernate
17 33 (3.49%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 181 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.96%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.54%) Public Cloud
7 18 (1.90%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.06%) Replication
11 9 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (0.74%) Equities
12 7 (0.74%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.74%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 179 (18.94%) Linux
2 43 (4.55%) Windows
3 41 (4.34%) Unix
4 30 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.80%) VMS
6 11 (1.16%) Android
7 9 (0.95%) CentOS
8 8 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.85%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (84.44%) CI/CD
2 625 (66.14%) DevOps
3 398 (42.12%) Agile
4 309 (32.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 294 (31.11%) Containerisation
6 290 (30.69%) Test Automation
7 206 (21.80%) Microservices
7 206 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (16.40%) Observability
9 154 (16.30%) Scrum
10 131 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 129 (13.65%) Software Engineering
12 103 (10.90%) Migration
13 94 (9.95%) Analytics
14 93 (9.84%) Mentoring
15 90 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
16 87 (9.21%) Stakeholder Management
17 86 (9.10%) Deployment Automation
18 83 (8.78%) Data Pipeline
18 83 (8.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 413 (43.70%) Python
2 306 (32.38%) Java
3 219 (23.17%) SQL
4 155 (16.40%) Bash
5 91 (9.63%) JavaScript
6 77 (8.15%) TypeScript
7 73 (7.72%) PowerShell
8 53 (5.61%) Shell Script
9 47 (4.97%) C#
10 45 (4.76%) Go
11 41 (4.34%) Scala
12 29 (3.07%) Groovy
13 15 (1.59%) Bicep
14 14 (1.48%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.48%) PHP
15 12 (1.27%) Ruby
16 9 (0.95%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.85%) Perl
17 8 (0.85%) Swift
Qualifications
1 360 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 304 (32.17%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.76%) Degree
4 35 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.17%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.27%) OCP
12 11 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.95%) RHCE
15 7 (0.74%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.53%) OCA
17 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 4 (0.42%) SAFe Agilist
17 4 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.69%) QA
2 54 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.01%) NIST
5 17 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.80%) SLA
6 15 (1.59%) NCSC
7 10 (1.06%) GDPR
8 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.63%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.42%) WCAG
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.21%) HL7
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.21%) MiFID
12 2 (0.21%) PSD2
12 2 (0.21%) SEPA
12 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 456 (48.25%) Docker
2 30 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.33%) vSphere
4 21 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.38%) Active Directory
6 12 (1.27%) Postfix
7 8 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.63%) HDFS
9 3 (0.32%) GridGain
9 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.32%) NFS
9 3 (0.32%) SRDF
10 2 (0.21%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.21%) Varnish
10 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 518 (54.81%) Kubernetes
2 372 (39.37%) Terraform
3 236 (24.97%) Ansible
4 193 (20.42%) Grafana
5 149 (15.77%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.97%) Argo
7 36 (3.81%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.49%) Istio
9 30 (3.17%) Puppet
10 22 (2.33%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.80%) Kibana
12 14 (1.48%) Podman
13 12 (1.27%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.95%) Check_MK
14 9 (0.95%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.85%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.85%) Rancher
16 6 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
16 6 (0.63%) Packer
17 5 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 98 (10.37%) Splunk
2 74 (7.83%) Google
3 70 (7.41%) Oracle
4 64 (6.77%) Red Hat
5 62 (6.56%) Microsoft
6 49 (5.19%) VMware
7 39 (4.13%) Databricks
8 37 (3.92%) ServiceNow
9 36 (3.81%) Talend
10 35 (3.70%) Denodo
11 28 (2.96%) Atlassian
12 22 (2.33%) Pure Storage
13 21 (2.22%) Dynatrace
13 21 (2.22%) Sonatype
14 15 (1.59%) CyberArk
14 15 (1.59%) Jaspersoft
15 11 (1.16%) IBM
15 11 (1.16%) Salesforce
16 10 (1.06%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.06%) Okta