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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 85 105
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 -52
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 956 741 815
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.44% 3.04% 2.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.99% 22.45% 19.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 510 605
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -3.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £663 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 6
10th Percentile - £52.50 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +32.18% -29.57%
75th Percentile £52.31 £73.13 £56.25
90th Percentile £58.73 £77.50 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -29.63% +47.12% -35.61%

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 5,033 3,301 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.86% 13.56% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 2,215 2,904
10th Percentile £337 £341 £358
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
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 212 65 158
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.75 £30.60
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.18 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.44 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £84.38
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £61.00
% change year-on-year +6.72% +3.69% -0.81%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -44 403 £530 -11.67% 85
North of England +3 231 £477 -4.60% 84
Yorkshire +11 182 £487 -11.45% 31
Midlands +8 147 £500 +10.01% 19
West Midlands +16 132 £500 +8.11% 13
South East -27 89 £430 -14.00% 49
South West -12 53 £531 -7.61% 43
North West -49 36 £425 -10.53% 36
East of England -20 27 £475 -5.00% 18
North East -9 17 £425 -8.60% 17
East Midlands -43 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
1 112 (11.72%) Confluence
2 68 (7.11%) SAS
3 18 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.84%) Apache
7 7 (0.73%) nginx
8 6 (0.63%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.31%) IIS
11 2 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 463 (48.43%) AWS
2 374 (39.12%) GitHub
3 299 (31.28%) Azure
4 238 (24.90%) GitHub Actions
5 206 (21.55%) GCP
6 142 (14.85%) OpenShift
7 122 (12.76%) Amazon S3
8 117 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
9 115 (12.03%) Serverless
10 103 (10.77%) Amazon EC2
11 92 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
12 91 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (8.68%) AWS CloudFormation
14 75 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 62 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 56 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
16 56 (5.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 39 (4.08%) Datadog
18 38 (3.97%) Azure AKS
19 34 (3.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.75%) DNS
2 44 (4.60%) Firewall
3 18 (1.88%) VPN
4 17 (1.78%) Network Security
5 13 (1.36%) HTTP
6 10 (1.05%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.73%) SAN
8 5 (0.52%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.52%) Kerberos
8 5 (0.52%) SSL
9 4 (0.42%) NAS
10 3 (0.31%) BGP
10 3 (0.31%) Internet
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 (0.10%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (8.68%) Amazon RDS
3 63 (6.59%) NoSQL
4 44 (4.60%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.29%) Relational Database
6 37 (3.87%) Pentaho
6 37 (3.87%) SQL Server
7 35 (3.66%) MongoDB
8 32 (3.35%) MySQL
9 30 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
10 25 (2.62%) Redis
11 20 (2.09%) Big Data
12 16 (1.67%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.57%) Metadata
14 13 (1.36%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.36%) Power BI
15 12 (1.26%) Tableau
16 11 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (1.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 366 (38.28%) GitLab
2 306 (32.01%) Git
3 205 (21.44%) JIRA
4 122 (12.76%) JUnit
5 112 (11.72%) Selenium
6 86 (9.00%) Cucumber
7 58 (6.07%) Postman
8 57 (5.96%) Maven
9 55 (5.75%) Sonatype Nexus
10 48 (5.02%) Bitbucket
11 45 (4.71%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.39%) REST Assured
13 40 (4.18%) Mockito
14 35 (3.66%) JMeter
15 27 (2.82%) Gradle
16 25 (2.62%) Artifactory
17 24 (2.51%) Gatling
18 21 (2.20%) WebDriver
19 19 (1.99%) CircleCI
20 16 (1.67%) Liquibase
General
1 283 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 181 (18.93%) Finance
3 115 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 106 (11.09%) Banking
5 67 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.05%) Front Office
8 10 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (0.94%) Retail
10 8 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.84%) Law
11 7 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.73%) Military
11 7 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (18.62%) Developer
2 136 (14.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 132 (13.81%) Senior
4 88 (9.21%) Architect
5 83 (8.68%) Java Developer
6 72 (7.53%) Lead
7 62 (6.49%) Data Engineer
8 53 (5.54%) GCP Engineer
9 46 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 45 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
11 43 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
12 42 (4.39%) Test Engineer
13 41 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 32 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
15 32 (3.35%) Tester
16 30 (3.14%) Senior Developer
16 30 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.03%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (15.38%) Spring
2 143 (14.96%) REST
3 131 (13.70%) Kafka
4 116 (12.13%) Spring Boot
5 112 (11.72%) Node.js
6 73 (7.64%) RESTful
7 67 (7.01%) Playwright
8 60 (6.28%) React
9 58 (6.07%) Elastic Stack
10 51 (5.33%) AngularJS
11 49 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
12 46 (4.81%) pytest
13 41 (4.29%) YAML
14 40 (4.18%) LDAP
14 40 (4.18%) OpenID
15 37 (3.87%) GraphQL
16 34 (3.56%) JSON
17 33 (3.45%) OAuth
18 32 (3.35%) Hibernate
19 31 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 183 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.05%) Replication
12 9 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (0.73%) Equities
13 7 (0.73%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.73%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 188 (19.67%) Linux
2 47 (4.92%) Windows
3 37 (3.87%) Unix
4 29 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.78%) VMS
6 11 (1.15%) Android
7 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.94%) CentOS
8 8 (0.84%) 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 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (84.73%) CI/CD
2 640 (66.95%) DevOps
3 392 (41.00%) Agile
4 306 (32.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 301 (31.49%) Containerisation
6 293 (30.65%) Test Automation
7 221 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
8 206 (21.55%) Microservices
9 156 (16.32%) Observability
10 152 (15.90%) Scrum
11 130 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 121 (12.66%) Software Engineering
13 110 (11.51%) Migration
14 100 (10.46%) Analytics
15 92 (9.62%) Deployment Automation
16 91 (9.52%) Mentoring
17 89 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
18 87 (9.10%) Data Pipeline
18 87 (9.10%) Platform Engineering
19 84 (8.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 410 (42.89%) Python
2 290 (30.33%) Java
3 213 (22.28%) SQL
4 164 (17.15%) Bash
5 82 (8.58%) JavaScript
6 78 (8.16%) TypeScript
7 73 (7.64%) PowerShell
8 55 (5.75%) Shell Script
9 49 (5.13%) C#
10 46 (4.81%) Go
11 30 (3.14%) Groovy
12 28 (2.93%) Scala
13 15 (1.57%) Bicep
14 14 (1.46%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.36%) PHP
16 11 (1.15%) Ruby
17 9 (0.94%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.94%) Perl
17 9 (0.94%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 360 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 303 (31.69%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.71%) Degree
4 37 (3.87%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.78%) Oracle Certification
10 16 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.26%) OCP
12 11 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.84%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.84%) RHCE
14 5 (0.52%) OCA
15 4 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.31%) CISSP
16 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.56%) QA
2 55 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.09%) NIST
5 18 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.78%) SLA
7 15 (1.57%) NCSC
8 10 (1.05%) GDPR
9 9 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.52%) WCAG
11 4 (0.42%) ISO 20022
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
1 457 (47.80%) Docker
2 34 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.82%) vSphere
4 26 (2.72%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.36%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.05%) Postfix
7 9 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.63%) HDFS
9 3 (0.31%) GridGain
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.31%) NFS
9 3 (0.31%) 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 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.10%) KVM
Systems Management
1 526 (55.02%) Kubernetes
2 374 (39.12%) Terraform
3 254 (26.57%) Ansible
4 187 (19.56%) Grafana
5 150 (15.69%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.33%) Argo
7 39 (4.08%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.45%) Istio
9 31 (3.24%) Puppet
10 27 (2.82%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.67%) Podman
12 12 (1.26%) Kibana
13 9 (0.94%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.94%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.84%) Rancher
15 7 (0.73%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.73%) Packer
16 6 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
17 5 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 94 (9.83%) Splunk
2 75 (7.85%) Google
3 71 (7.43%) Oracle
4 68 (7.11%) Red Hat
5 60 (6.28%) Microsoft
6 55 (5.75%) VMware
7 38 (3.97%) Databricks
7 38 (3.97%) Talend
8 37 (3.87%) Denodo
8 37 (3.87%) ServiceNow
9 27 (2.82%) Pure Storage
10 26 (2.72%) Atlassian
11 24 (2.51%) Sonatype
12 21 (2.20%) Dynatrace
13 15 (1.57%) CyberArk
14 13 (1.36%) Jaspersoft
15 11 (1.15%) Salesforce
16 10 (1.05%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.05%) IBM
17 9 (0.94%) Veritas