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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 77 88
Rank change year-on-year -40 +11 -16
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,014 903 838
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.27% 2.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.06% 22.56% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 631 630
10th Percentile £358 £345 £388
25th Percentile £415 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £669
90th Percentile £638 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 34
10th Percentile £63.80 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -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 5,320 4,002 4,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.67% 14.48% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,386 2,765 2,846
10th Percentile £353 £319 £352
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 94 194
10th Percentile £35.25 £40.68 £34.02
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £54.09
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.99 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -21 494 £525 -0.94% 197
North of England -35 251 £450 -4.15% 77
Yorkshire -14 181 £475 -5.00% 24
Midlands -18 126 £479 +0.84% 32
West Midlands -11 118 £484 +1.79% 19
South East -83 70 £460 -8.09% 46
South West -19 57 £550 -4.35% 41
North West -88 48 £425 +5.72% 38
North East -31 26 £450 -6.98% 16
East of England -14 16 £438 -12.50% 17
East Midlands -43 6 £447 +24.86% 13
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
1 106 (10.45%) Confluence
2 35 (3.45%) SAS
3 24 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.37%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.08%) nginx
5 10 (0.99%) Apache
6 7 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.69%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.39%) Camunda
8 4 (0.39%) CMS
8 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.099%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.79%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.099%) Shopify
4 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 528 (52.07%) AWS
2 426 (42.01%) GitHub
3 376 (37.08%) Azure
4 318 (31.36%) GitHub Actions
5 235 (23.18%) GCP
6 180 (17.75%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (12.33%) Amazon S3
8 120 (11.83%) Serverless
9 107 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (10.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 97 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
12 94 (9.27%) Amazon EKS
13 87 (8.58%) OpenShift
14 74 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
18 45 (4.44%) Datadog
19 44 (4.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 29 (2.86%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.52%) DNS
2 54 (5.33%) Firewall
3 25 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.97%) Network Security
5 17 (1.68%) SSL
5 17 (1.68%) VPN
6 12 (1.18%) HTTP
6 12 (1.18%) VLAN
7 9 (0.89%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.79%) WAN
9 7 (0.69%) SAN
10 5 (0.49%) DHCP
11 4 (0.39%) 4G
11 4 (0.39%) BGP
11 4 (0.39%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (0.30%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (14.69%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (6.02%) MongoDB
4 56 (5.52%) Relational Database
4 56 (5.52%) SQL Server
5 54 (5.33%) NoSQL
6 41 (4.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 38 (3.75%) DynamoDB
8 32 (3.16%) Redis
9 27 (2.66%) Big Data
9 27 (2.66%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.87%) MySQL
11 18 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.78%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.78%) Metadata
12 14 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
12 14 (1.38%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.28%) Power BI
14 11 (1.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 366 (36.09%) GitLab
2 344 (33.93%) Git
3 183 (18.05%) JIRA
4 104 (10.26%) JUnit
5 90 (8.88%) Selenium
6 78 (7.69%) Maven
7 68 (6.71%) SonarQube
8 62 (6.11%) Cucumber
9 54 (5.33%) Bitbucket
9 54 (5.33%) Gradle
10 53 (5.23%) Mockito
11 41 (4.04%) JMeter
12 40 (3.94%) Postman
13 38 (3.75%) REST Assured
14 37 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
15 34 (3.35%) Gatling
16 31 (3.06%) WebDriver
17 22 (2.17%) Artifactory
18 20 (1.97%) Liquibase
19 15 (1.48%) Zephyr
General
1 247 (24.36%) Social Skills
2 147 (14.50%) Finance
3 135 (13.31%) Public Sector
4 103 (10.16%) Banking
5 96 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.97%) Law
9 18 (1.78%) Retail
10 16 (1.58%) Publishing
11 14 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.18%) Marketing
13 11 (1.08%) Legal
13 11 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.59%) Front Office
16 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 237 (23.37%) Developer
2 179 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 161 (15.88%) Senior
4 117 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.10%) Lead
6 65 (6.41%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
8 50 (4.93%) Architect
9 48 (4.73%) Senior Developer
10 47 (4.64%) Data Engineer
11 45 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
12 41 (4.04%) Test Engineer
13 39 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
15 37 (3.65%) Tester
16 36 (3.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 35 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
17 35 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
18 33 (3.25%) Automation Engineer
19 30 (2.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (17.75%) Kafka
1 180 (17.75%) Spring
2 151 (14.89%) REST
3 150 (14.79%) Spring Boot
4 111 (10.95%) RESTful
5 92 (9.07%) React
6 87 (8.58%) Node.js
7 58 (5.72%) Playwright
8 54 (5.33%) HTML
9 50 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
9 50 (4.93%) SOAP
10 46 (4.54%) AngularJS
11 43 (4.24%) Hibernate
12 42 (4.14%) Web Services
13 40 (3.94%) JPA
14 36 (3.55%) CSS
15 35 (3.45%) JSON
16 33 (3.25%) YAML
17 30 (2.96%) Swagger
18 28 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 175 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 81 (7.99%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (7.10%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.07%) Replication
8 20 (1.97%) Data Centre
9 19 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.68%) AI Agents
11 16 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.48%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.38%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.28%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.28%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.99%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.89%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 200 (19.72%) Linux
2 62 (6.11%) Unix
3 44 (4.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 44 (4.34%) Windows
4 13 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.89%) Android
5 9 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.59%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) AIX
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.30%) zOS
9 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Solaris
9 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (83.63%) CI/CD
2 681 (67.16%) DevOps
3 488 (48.13%) Agile
4 353 (34.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 328 (32.35%) Test Automation
6 279 (27.51%) Containerisation
7 263 (25.94%) Microservices
8 210 (20.71%) Observability
9 187 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 185 (18.24%) Scrum
11 166 (16.37%) Software Engineering
12 156 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
13 136 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
14 114 (11.24%) Deployment Automation
15 112 (11.05%) TDD
16 97 (9.57%) AI
16 97 (9.57%) Event-Driven
16 97 (9.57%) Validation
17 94 (9.27%) DevSecOps
18 89 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 418 (41.22%) Python
2 368 (36.29%) Java
3 264 (26.04%) SQL
4 204 (20.12%) Bash
5 125 (12.33%) PowerShell
6 98 (9.66%) JavaScript
7 75 (7.40%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.03%) C#
8 51 (5.03%) Groovy
9 49 (4.83%) Go
9 49 (4.83%) Shell Script
10 39 (3.85%) PL/SQL
11 29 (2.86%) Scala
12 22 (2.17%) Perl
13 19 (1.87%) Bicep
14 18 (1.78%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.08%) C++
16 10 (0.99%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.89%) ActionScript
18 8 (0.79%) C
Qualifications
1 406 (40.04%) Security Cleared
2 343 (33.83%) SC Cleared
3 49 (4.83%) Degree
4 47 (4.64%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.54%) AWS Certification
6 30 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.28%) ISTQB
12 12 (1.18%) CISSP
13 11 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.79%) RHCE
16 6 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
17 5 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.49%) OCP
18 4 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.83%) QA
2 52 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.28%) WCAG
5 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.89%) NIST
5 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.79%) GDPR
7 7 (0.69%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.69%) SLA
8 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.49%) SEPA
9 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.39%) PSD2
10 3 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.099%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.099%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 484 (47.73%) Docker
2 28 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.18%) Postfix
4 12 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.08%) vSphere
6 10 (0.99%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.69%) NFS
8 5 (0.49%) HDFS
9 4 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.39%) SRDF
9 4 (0.39%) Varnish
9 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 499 (49.21%) Kubernetes
2 395 (38.95%) Terraform
3 237 (23.37%) Ansible
4 215 (21.20%) Grafana
5 182 (17.95%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.04%) Puppet
7 39 (3.85%) Argo
8 36 (3.55%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.78%) Control-M
10 17 (1.68%) Istio
11 15 (1.48%) Kibana
12 14 (1.38%) HAProxy
13 12 (1.18%) Packer
14 11 (1.08%) vCenter Server
15 9 (0.89%) Kustomize
15 9 (0.89%) Podman
16 7 (0.69%) Consul
16 7 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
16 7 (0.69%) NetBackup
17 6 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (9.17%) Oracle
2 90 (8.88%) Microsoft
3 89 (8.78%) Google
4 82 (8.09%) Splunk
5 62 (6.11%) Dynatrace
6 48 (4.73%) Red Hat
7 35 (3.45%) VMware
8 31 (3.06%) Salesforce
9 28 (2.76%) Talend
10 27 (2.66%) Databricks
10 27 (2.66%) IBM
11 25 (2.47%) ServiceNow
12 24 (2.37%) Denodo
13 14 (1.38%) Jaspersoft
13 14 (1.38%) New Relic
13 14 (1.38%) Sonatype
14 12 (1.18%) F5
14 12 (1.18%) Okta
15 11 (1.08%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.08%) ForgeRock