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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 88 103
Rank change year-on-year +7 +15 -50
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 980 741 825
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 2.74% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.20% 20.61% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 500 619
10th Percentile £358 £380 £406
25th Percentile £413 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +5.50% -9.17%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.82% +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 £58.50 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -17.89% +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 4,623 3,595 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.77% 13.29% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,196 2,238 3,093
10th Percentile £333 £336 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £538
% change year-on-year -1.72% -5.35% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 191
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.60
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £49.24
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 £82.70 £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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -26 416 £525 -14.81% 129
North of England +13 254 £490 +8.23% 94
Yorkshire +8 166 £500 - 50
Midlands +53 141 £519 +8.86% 43
West Midlands +53 126 £525 +7.25% 21
South East +17 101 £474 -5.20% 109
North West -18 71 £448 +12.00% 34
South West +4 51 £538 -10.42% 58
North East +6 18 £575 -9.27% 10
East Midlands -11 15 £397 -0.88% 20
East of England -22 13 £478 +9.26% 45
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 (12.04%) Confluence
2 55 (5.61%) SAS
3 21 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.53%) Apache
5 15 (1.53%) IIS
5 15 (1.53%) JBoss
5 15 (1.53%) nginx
6 13 (1.33%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.33%) WebSphere
7 11 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
8 10 (1.02%) iPlanet
9 6 (0.61%) Mule
10 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.41%) CICS
11 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.31%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.31%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
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%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 510 (52.04%) AWS
2 317 (32.35%) GitHub
3 267 (27.24%) Azure
4 239 (24.39%) GCP
5 204 (20.82%) GitHub Actions
6 128 (13.06%) Serverless
7 122 (12.45%) OpenShift
8 119 (12.14%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.82%) Amazon EC2
10 104 (10.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 98 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
12 93 (9.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 90 (9.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 88 (8.98%) AWS Lambda
15 76 (7.76%) Amazon ECS
16 66 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
17 58 (5.92%) Datadog
18 46 (4.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 44 (4.49%) Amazon ELB
20 37 (3.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (8.98%) Firewall
2 81 (8.27%) DNS
3 38 (3.88%) TCP/IP
3 38 (3.88%) VPN
4 29 (2.96%) HTTP
5 28 (2.86%) Network Security
6 27 (2.76%) SSL
7 21 (2.14%) SSH
8 19 (1.94%) Kerberos
9 17 (1.73%) SMTP
10 16 (1.63%) FTP
11 10 (1.02%) IMAP
11 10 (1.02%) OpenLDAP
12 7 (0.71%) Internet
13 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.61%) WAN
14 5 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 3 (0.31%) Multicast
15 3 (0.31%) tcpdump
16 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (16.73%) PostgreSQL
2 102 (10.41%) NoSQL
3 93 (9.49%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (5.51%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.88%) MySQL
6 36 (3.67%) DynamoDB
7 35 (3.57%) Pentaho
8 33 (3.37%) Oracle Database
8 33 (3.37%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
10 30 (3.06%) Redis
11 29 (2.96%) Relational Database
12 22 (2.24%) BigQuery
13 20 (2.04%) Big Data
14 14 (1.43%) Hadoop
14 14 (1.43%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 11 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 354 (36.12%) GitLab
2 325 (33.16%) Git
3 230 (23.47%) JIRA
4 90 (9.18%) Selenium
4 90 (9.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 82 (8.37%) JUnit
6 81 (8.27%) Cucumber
7 64 (6.53%) Bitbucket
8 58 (5.92%) SonarQube
9 52 (5.31%) Postman
10 42 (4.29%) Maven
11 38 (3.88%) Gradle
12 34 (3.47%) REST Assured
13 33 (3.37%) CircleCI
14 31 (3.16%) Artifactory
15 29 (2.96%) Liquibase
16 26 (2.65%) Cypress.io
17 22 (2.24%) JMeter
18 18 (1.84%) MLflow
18 18 (1.84%) TeamCity
General
1 283 (28.88%) Social Skills
2 217 (22.14%) Finance
3 145 (14.80%) Banking
4 126 (12.86%) Public Sector
5 56 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.16%) Financial Institution
7 24 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.33%) Military
9 12 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.02%) Retail
12 9 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.71%) Front Office
13 7 (0.71%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.71%) Marketing
14 6 (0.61%) Games
14 6 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Law
15 5 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 179 (18.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 165 (16.84%) Senior
3 162 (16.53%) Developer
4 81 (8.27%) AWS Engineer
4 81 (8.27%) Lead
5 68 (6.94%) Architect
5 68 (6.94%) Java Developer
6 65 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
7 62 (6.33%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.31%) GCP Engineer
9 50 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
9 50 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
10 48 (4.90%) Software Engineer
11 46 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 43 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 37 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
14 35 (3.57%) Senior Developer
15 31 (3.16%) Test Engineer
16 29 (2.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (14.90%) REST
2 142 (14.49%) Kafka
3 99 (10.10%) Node.js
4 98 (10.00%) Spring
5 95 (9.69%) Elastic Stack
6 93 (9.49%) RESTful
7 80 (8.16%) Spring Boot
8 63 (6.43%) Playwright
9 55 (5.61%) React
10 53 (5.41%) GraphQL
11 41 (4.18%) HTML
11 41 (4.18%) JSON
11 41 (4.18%) LDAP
12 40 (4.08%) OAuth
13 39 (3.98%) OpenID
14 38 (3.88%) .NET
15 35 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (3.47%) Vitest
17 33 (3.37%) CSS
17 33 (3.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 162 (16.53%) Cloud Native
2 82 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 44 (4.49%) Public Cloud
4 36 (3.67%) Replication
5 23 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 19 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
12 11 (1.12%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.02%) Derivative
13 10 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (0.92%) NHS
15 8 (0.82%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 241 (24.59%) Linux
2 76 (7.76%) Windows
3 49 (5.00%) Unix
4 32 (3.27%) VMS
5 22 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.94%) Amazon Linux
6 19 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (1.33%) Android
7 13 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.22%) CentOS
8 12 (1.22%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.31%) zOS
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.10%) MVS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (81.02%) CI/CD
2 658 (67.14%) DevOps
3 391 (39.90%) Agile
4 340 (34.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 292 (29.80%) Containerisation
6 265 (27.04%) Test Automation
7 226 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
8 209 (21.33%) Microservices
9 142 (14.49%) Software Engineering
10 136 (13.88%) Observability
11 132 (13.47%) Scrum
12 126 (12.86%) Mentoring
13 103 (10.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 96 (9.80%) Continuous Integration
15 90 (9.18%) Configuration Management
15 90 (9.18%) High Availability
16 88 (8.98%) DevSecOps
17 87 (8.88%) Infrastructure Automation
18 86 (8.78%) Migration
19 85 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 467 (47.65%) Python
2 282 (28.78%) Java
3 185 (18.88%) SQL
4 176 (17.96%) Bash
5 105 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 97 (9.90%) Go
7 90 (9.18%) PowerShell
8 82 (8.37%) TypeScript
9 67 (6.84%) Shell Script
10 52 (5.31%) C#
10 52 (5.31%) Groovy
11 24 (2.45%) C++
12 20 (2.04%) Scala
13 17 (1.73%) Perl
13 17 (1.73%) Ruby
14 14 (1.43%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.43%) PHP
15 11 (1.12%) C
16 10 (1.02%) Swift
17 8 (0.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 336 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 260 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.27%) Degree
4 58 (5.92%) AWS Certification
5 55 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (3.88%) Master's Degree
7 30 (3.06%) DV Cleared
8 29 (2.96%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.02%) OCP
14 7 (0.71%) 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 (0.41%) CISSP
16 4 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.69%) QA
2 47 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 17 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.43%) SLA
6 13 (1.33%) NIST
7 10 (1.02%) NCSC
8 8 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.71%) GDPR
10 5 (0.51%) WCAG
11 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.31%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.31%) IEC 62304
12 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.31%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 497 (50.71%) Docker
2 30 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.63%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.02%) Dovecot
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
5 10 (1.02%) Squid
5 10 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.92%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 8 (0.82%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 4 (0.41%) HDFS
8 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.20%) GridGain
10 2 (0.20%) KVM
11 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.10%) SRDF
11 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 499 (50.92%) Kubernetes
2 413 (42.14%) Terraform
3 295 (30.10%) Ansible
4 182 (18.57%) Grafana
5 154 (15.71%) Prometheus
6 55 (5.61%) Progress Chef
7 38 (3.88%) Argo
8 32 (3.27%) Istio
9 29 (2.96%) Puppet
10 20 (2.04%) Podman
11 16 (1.63%) Kibana
12 13 (1.33%) Packer
12 13 (1.33%) Proxmox
13 12 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
14 11 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
14 11 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (1.02%) CA Wily
15 10 (1.02%) Nessus
15 10 (1.02%) NetBackup
16 9 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 115 (11.73%) Splunk
2 95 (9.69%) Oracle
3 91 (9.29%) Google
4 82 (8.37%) Microsoft
5 53 (5.41%) Red Hat
6 51 (5.20%) ServiceNow
7 44 (4.49%) VMware
8 35 (3.57%) Denodo
8 35 (3.57%) Talend
9 31 (3.16%) Databricks
10 29 (2.96%) Atlassian
11 28 (2.86%) F5
12 27 (2.76%) Dynatrace
12 27 (2.76%) Palo Alto
13 26 (2.65%) CheckPoint
14 20 (2.04%) AppDynamics
15 19 (1.94%) IBM
16 13 (1.33%) Confluent
17 11 (1.12%) Solace
17 11 (1.12%) Veritas