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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 83 89
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -36
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,026 842 1,017
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 2.70% 2.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.44% 20.39% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 586 752
10th Percentile £350 £390 £410
25th Percentile £412 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £596 £675 £652
90th Percentile £661 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 24
10th Percentile £58.55 £66.63 £56.88
25th Percentile £61.25 - £65.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% +30.63%
75th Percentile £110.00 - £78.00
90th Percentile - £74.50 £83.99
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +30.63%

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 4,573 4,130 5,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.36% 13.26% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,194 2,597 3,617
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 126 227
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.94 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.50 £70.00 £77.02
90th Percentile £79.25 £74.72 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 -23 416 £525 -12.50% 424
North of England +18 298 £475 +5.56% 153
Yorkshire +6 180 £500 +11.11% 42
Midlands +63 150 £500 +6.16% 54
West Midlands +63 132 £509 +3.93% 31
South East +28 102 £500 +2.56% 375
North West +13 100 £418 +4.38% 96
South West -18 44 £545 -9.17% 72
North East +5 19 £575 +5.75% 15
East Midlands -13 18 £345 -22.47% 21
East of England -8 10 £500 +11.11% 20
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
1 125 (12.18%) Confluence
2 49 (4.78%) SAS
3 27 (2.63%) JBoss
4 23 (2.24%) Apache
5 22 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
5 22 (2.14%) nginx
6 19 (1.85%) WebSphere
7 16 (1.56%) WebSphere Application Server
8 14 (1.36%) Apache Spark
8 14 (1.36%) Tomcat
9 12 (1.17%) IIS
10 10 (0.97%) iPlanet
10 10 (0.97%) Mule
11 7 (0.68%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.58%) CICS
13 5 (0.49%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
15 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
15 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (1.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.097%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Oracle BPM
2 7 (0.68%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.19%) Shopify
6 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.097%) Finacle
6 1 (0.097%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 512 (49.90%) AWS
2 280 (27.29%) GitHub
3 257 (25.05%) Azure
4 214 (20.86%) GCP
5 163 (15.89%) GitHub Actions
6 118 (11.50%) Serverless
7 117 (11.40%) Amazon S3
8 116 (11.31%) Amazon EC2
9 112 (10.92%) OpenShift
10 105 (10.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 94 (9.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 89 (8.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 84 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
14 75 (7.31%) AWS Lambda
15 72 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
16 57 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
17 49 (4.78%) Amazon ELB
18 46 (4.48%) AWS KMS
19 41 (4.00%) Datadog
20 38 (3.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 102 (9.94%) Firewall
2 88 (8.58%) DNS
3 49 (4.78%) TCP/IP
4 39 (3.80%) VPN
5 35 (3.41%) SSL
6 33 (3.22%) HTTP
7 30 (2.92%) SSH
8 25 (2.44%) Network Security
8 25 (2.44%) SMTP
9 22 (2.14%) FTP
10 17 (1.66%) Kerberos
11 12 (1.17%) IMAP
11 12 (1.17%) OpenLDAP
12 9 (0.88%) Internet
13 6 (0.58%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.58%) WAN
14 5 (0.49%) NAS
14 5 (0.49%) SAN
14 5 (0.49%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.39%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (17.35%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
3 100 (9.75%) NoSQL
4 58 (5.65%) MongoDB
5 37 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 36 (3.51%) Oracle Database
7 35 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 34 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 33 (3.22%) MySQL
10 29 (2.83%) Pentaho
11 24 (2.34%) SQL Server
12 23 (2.24%) Redis
13 20 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (1.85%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.56%) BigQuery
16 13 (1.27%) Big Data
16 13 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
17 12 (1.17%) Hadoop
18 11 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (1.07%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 385 (37.52%) Git
2 324 (31.58%) GitLab
3 239 (23.29%) JIRA
4 97 (9.45%) JUnit
5 91 (8.87%) Sonatype Nexus
6 86 (8.38%) Selenium
7 77 (7.50%) Cucumber
8 76 (7.41%) SonarQube
9 72 (7.02%) Maven
10 62 (6.04%) Bitbucket
11 59 (5.75%) Postman
12 56 (5.46%) Gradle
13 44 (4.29%) Artifactory
14 41 (4.00%) Liquibase
15 34 (3.31%) Cypress.io
15 34 (3.31%) REST Assured
16 28 (2.73%) CircleCI
17 27 (2.63%) Vagrant
18 23 (2.24%) JMeter
18 23 (2.24%) TeamCity
General
1 287 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 217 (21.15%) Finance
3 165 (16.08%) Banking
4 131 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 84 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 20 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.75%) Military
9 16 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.27%) Retail
11 12 (1.17%) Marketing
12 9 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.58%) Games
14 6 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.49%) Front Office
15 5 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 202 (19.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 181 (17.64%) Developer
3 170 (16.57%) Senior
4 90 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (8.28%) Java Developer
6 80 (7.80%) Platform Engineer
7 69 (6.73%) Lead
8 60 (5.85%) Architect
8 60 (5.85%) AWS DevOps
9 53 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (5.17%) Software Engineer
10 51 (4.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 48 (4.68%) Data Engineer
12 45 (4.39%) Senior DevOps
12 45 (4.39%) Tester
13 44 (4.29%) GCP Engineer
14 43 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 41 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
16 35 (3.41%) Senior Developer
17 33 (3.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (16.18%) REST
2 137 (13.35%) Kafka
3 115 (11.21%) RESTful
4 103 (10.04%) Spring
5 94 (9.16%) Elastic Stack
6 90 (8.77%) Spring Boot
7 74 (7.21%) React
8 70 (6.82%) Node.js
9 61 (5.95%) HTML
10 59 (5.75%) SOAP
11 52 (5.07%) Playwright
12 49 (4.78%) CSS
13 45 (4.39%) GraphQL
14 37 (3.61%) AngularJS
15 36 (3.51%) OAuth
16 35 (3.41%) Web Services
17 33 (3.22%) Hibernate
17 33 (3.22%) JSON
18 30 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
19 29 (2.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 131 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 76 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 41 (4.00%) Replication
5 39 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 20 (1.95%) Mobile App
6 20 (1.95%) Private Cloud
7 19 (1.85%) Onboarding
8 16 (1.56%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 9 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 268 (26.12%) Linux
2 91 (8.87%) Windows
3 62 (6.04%) Unix
4 30 (2.92%) VMS
5 29 (2.83%) Amazon Linux
6 28 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 23 (2.24%) Android
7 23 (2.24%) Windows Server
8 18 (1.75%) Apple iOS
9 14 (1.36%) Ubuntu
10 12 (1.17%) CentOS
11 6 (0.58%) Solaris
12 3 (0.29%) AIX
12 3 (0.29%) Debian
12 3 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.29%) zOS
13 1 (0.097%) MVS
13 1 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.097%) SUSE
13 1 (0.097%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (75.34%) CI/CD
2 648 (63.16%) DevOps
3 448 (43.66%) Agile
4 313 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 281 (27.39%) Containerisation
6 245 (23.88%) Test Automation
7 234 (22.81%) Microservices
8 232 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
9 159 (15.50%) Scrum
10 135 (13.16%) Software Engineering
11 130 (12.67%) Continuous Integration
12 125 (12.18%) Configuration Management
13 118 (11.50%) Mentoring
14 116 (11.31%) TDD
15 113 (11.01%) Observability
16 110 (10.72%) Infrastructure Automation
17 105 (10.23%) Migration
18 93 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
19 87 (8.48%) High Availability
20 86 (8.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 512 (49.90%) Python
2 335 (32.65%) Java
3 188 (18.32%) SQL
4 181 (17.64%) Bash
5 136 (13.26%) JavaScript
6 106 (10.33%) PowerShell
7 100 (9.75%) Go
8 75 (7.31%) Shell Script
9 68 (6.63%) Groovy
10 64 (6.24%) TypeScript
11 60 (5.85%) C#
12 34 (3.31%) C++
12 34 (3.31%) Perl
13 20 (1.95%) Scala
14 19 (1.85%) Kotlin
15 17 (1.66%) Ruby
16 14 (1.36%) C
17 12 (1.17%) Objective-C
17 12 (1.17%) PL/SQL
17 12 (1.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 355 (34.60%) Security Cleared
2 277 (27.00%) SC Cleared
3 96 (9.36%) Degree
4 67 (6.53%) AWS Certification
5 66 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (4.00%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.51%) Master's Degree
8 22 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 20 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 9 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.68%) OCP
13 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.49%) CISSP
13 5 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.29%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (8.97%) QA
2 43 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 28 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.27%) WCAG
5 11 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.97%) NCSC
7 9 (0.88%) NIST
8 6 (0.58%) GDPR
9 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.39%) SLA
11 3 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.29%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.29%) IEC 62304
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.29%) SEPA
11 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 504 (49.12%) Docker
2 41 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (3.80%) Active Directory
4 22 (2.14%) DFS Replication
5 16 (1.56%) Postfix
6 13 (1.27%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.27%) vSphere
7 12 (1.17%) Dovecot
7 12 (1.17%) Squid
8 10 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 7 (0.68%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 5 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
14 2 (0.19%) GridGain
14 2 (0.19%) HDFS
14 2 (0.19%) KVM
14 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
15 1 (0.097%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 466 (45.42%) Kubernetes
2 391 (38.11%) Terraform
3 315 (30.70%) Ansible
4 156 (15.20%) Grafana
5 146 (14.23%) Prometheus
6 53 (5.17%) Progress Chef
7 51 (4.97%) Puppet
8 33 (3.22%) Argo
9 23 (2.24%) Kibana
10 22 (2.14%) Istio
11 18 (1.75%) Packer
12 16 (1.56%) vCenter Server
13 15 (1.46%) Nessus
13 15 (1.46%) Podman
13 15 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (1.27%) Proxmox
15 12 (1.17%) ITRS Geneos
16 11 (1.07%) CA Single Sign-On
16 11 (1.07%) logstash
17 10 (0.97%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 114 (11.11%) Splunk
2 100 (9.75%) Oracle
3 97 (9.45%) Microsoft
4 82 (7.99%) Google
5 59 (5.75%) Red Hat
6 58 (5.65%) VMware
7 37 (3.61%) ServiceNow
8 33 (3.22%) F5
9 31 (3.02%) Dynatrace
9 31 (3.02%) Talend
10 29 (2.83%) Atlassian
10 29 (2.83%) Denodo
11 27 (2.63%) Palo Alto
12 26 (2.53%) CheckPoint
13 24 (2.34%) IBM
14 21 (2.05%) MuleSoft
15 19 (1.85%) AppDynamics
16 18 (1.75%) Databricks
17 16 (1.56%) Jaspersoft
17 16 (1.56%) Solace