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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 72 87
Rank change year-on-year -56 +15 -8
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 987 922 841
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.13% 3.37% 2.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.73% 22.61% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 629 614
10th Percentile £358 £344 £391
25th Percentile £418 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 32
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -5.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -3.78%

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 5,271 4,077 4,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.90% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,341 2,819 2,812
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £632
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 95 169
10th Percentile £34.79 £44.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £54.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £81.80 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -23 520 £525 -2.33% 550
North of England -45 235 £453 -3.62% 186
Yorkshire -19 161 £488 -2.50% 61
Midlands -50 98 £488 +2.63% 57
West Midlands -38 92 £489 -2.25% 35
South East -76 68 £460 -8.00% 73
North West -84 55 £425 -1.16% 101
South West -32 54 £550 - 85
North East -31 21 £450 -6.25% 24
East of England -22 17 £450 -10.00% 50
East Midlands -33 5 £347 -3.21% 22
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
1 102 (10.33%) Confluence
2 23 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.62%) nginx
5 13 (1.32%) SAS
6 10 (1.01%) Apache
6 10 (1.01%) Camunda
7 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 4 (0.41%) IIS
10 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) CICS
12 2 (0.20%) Traefik
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 522 (52.89%) AWS
2 406 (41.13%) GitHub
3 389 (39.41%) Azure
4 313 (31.71%) GitHub Actions
5 223 (22.59%) GCP
6 193 (19.55%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (11.96%) Serverless
8 110 (11.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 107 (10.84%) Amazon S3
10 106 (10.74%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (10.03%) OpenShift
12 89 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
13 86 (8.71%) Amazon EC2
14 69 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 67 (6.79%) Amazon ECS
16 47 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 43 (4.36%) Datadog
17 43 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 41 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
19 25 (2.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.57%) Firewall
2 54 (5.47%) DNS
3 33 (3.34%) TCP/IP
4 25 (2.53%) Network Security
5 17 (1.72%) SSL
6 16 (1.62%) HTTP
7 14 (1.42%) BIG-IP
7 14 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 14 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 13 (1.32%) VLAN
9 11 (1.11%) SAN
9 11 (1.11%) VPN
10 9 (0.91%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.71%) DHCP
11 7 (0.71%) SSH
11 7 (0.71%) WAN
12 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (0.51%) 4G
14 4 (0.41%) 5G
15 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (15.40%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.48%) MongoDB
3 62 (6.28%) Relational Database
4 60 (6.08%) SQL Server
5 58 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 57 (5.78%) NoSQL
7 41 (4.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 35 (3.55%) Redis
9 33 (3.34%) DynamoDB
10 27 (2.74%) MySQL
11 26 (2.63%) Big Data
12 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.52%) Metadata
15 14 (1.42%) BigQuery
15 14 (1.42%) Pentaho
16 13 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
18 11 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 365 (36.98%) GitLab
2 343 (34.75%) Git
3 174 (17.63%) JIRA
4 102 (10.33%) JUnit
5 96 (9.73%) Maven
6 85 (8.61%) Selenium
7 82 (8.31%) SonarQube
8 66 (6.69%) Gradle
9 61 (6.18%) Mockito
10 55 (5.57%) Bitbucket
11 53 (5.37%) Cucumber
12 49 (4.96%) REST Assured
13 44 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
14 38 (3.85%) Postman
15 37 (3.75%) JMeter
16 36 (3.65%) Gatling
17 25 (2.53%) WebDriver
18 20 (2.03%) Artifactory
19 18 (1.82%) Liquibase
19 18 (1.82%) TestNG
General
1 239 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 157 (15.91%) Finance
3 128 (12.97%) Public Sector
4 111 (11.25%) Banking
5 104 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.03%) Retail
8 18 (1.82%) Law
9 15 (1.52%) Publishing
10 14 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.32%) Marketing
12 12 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.91%) Front Office
14 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.81%) Legal
15 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.71%) Military
16 6 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 253 (25.63%) Developer
2 185 (18.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 157 (15.91%) Senior
4 121 (12.26%) Java Developer
5 75 (7.60%) Lead
6 56 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (5.27%) Architect
8 50 (5.07%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.86%) Test Engineer
10 47 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 44 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
13 36 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 36 (3.65%) Software Developer
14 34 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
15 31 (3.14%) GCP Engineer
16 29 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
17 28 (2.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (39.92%) Terraform
2 188 (19.05%) Kafka
3 181 (18.34%) Spring
4 165 (16.72%) Spring Boot
5 156 (15.81%) REST
6 127 (12.87%) RESTful
7 103 (10.44%) React
8 78 (7.90%) Node.js
9 72 (7.29%) HTML
10 60 (6.08%) Playwright
11 59 (5.98%) Hibernate
12 54 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
12 54 (5.47%) JPA
13 53 (5.37%) AngularJS
14 52 (5.27%) SOAP
15 49 (4.96%) CSS
16 46 (4.66%) Web Services
17 38 (3.85%) JSON
18 35 (3.55%) .NET
19 33 (3.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 175 (17.73%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.21%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 29 (2.94%) Replication
7 26 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 24 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 17 (1.72%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 11 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 215 (21.78%) Linux
2 62 (6.28%) Unix
3 50 (5.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (4.56%) Windows
5 16 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (0.91%) CentOS
9 8 (0.81%) Android
9 8 (0.81%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.41%) VMS
10 4 (0.41%) zOS
11 3 (0.30%) AIX
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.20%) Rocky
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (84.80%) CI/CD
2 669 (67.78%) DevOps
3 478 (48.43%) Agile
4 362 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 321 (32.52%) Test Automation
6 301 (30.50%) Containerisation
7 269 (27.25%) Microservices
8 221 (22.39%) Observability
9 181 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 177 (17.93%) Scrum
11 167 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
12 157 (15.91%) Software Engineering
13 146 (14.79%) Platform Engineering
14 107 (10.84%) Deployment Automation
15 106 (10.74%) TDD
16 105 (10.64%) DevSecOps
17 104 (10.54%) Event-Driven
18 99 (10.03%) AI
19 96 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
20 89 (9.02%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 420 (42.55%) Python
2 386 (39.11%) Java
3 244 (24.72%) SQL
4 194 (19.66%) Bash
5 117 (11.85%) PowerShell
6 116 (11.75%) JavaScript
7 80 (8.11%) TypeScript
8 57 (5.78%) C#
8 57 (5.78%) Groovy
9 49 (4.96%) Shell Script
10 48 (4.86%) Go
11 39 (3.95%) PL/SQL
12 27 (2.74%) Perl
13 26 (2.63%) Scala
14 19 (1.93%) Bicep
15 18 (1.82%) Kotlin
16 14 (1.42%) ActionScript
17 12 (1.22%) C++
18 11 (1.11%) Korn
19 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 406 (41.13%) Security Cleared
2 335 (33.94%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.69%) DV Cleared
4 57 (5.78%) Degree
5 50 (5.07%) AWS Certification
6 39 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.72%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.52%) CISSP
11 12 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (13.98%) QA
2 36 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.52%) NIST
5 14 (1.42%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
7 9 (0.91%) NCSC
7 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.61%) SEPA
9 5 (0.51%) PSD2
9 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.41%) SLA
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 479 (48.53%) Docker
2 24 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.01%) Postfix
6 8 (0.81%) vSphere
7 7 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.61%) NFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Squid
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.30%) Varnish
10 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) HDFS
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 490 (49.65%) Kubernetes
2 226 (22.90%) Ansible
3 219 (22.19%) Grafana
4 187 (18.95%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 38 (3.85%) Puppet
6 37 (3.75%) Argo
7 19 (1.93%) Kibana
8 17 (1.72%) Control-M
9 16 (1.62%) HAProxy
10 14 (1.42%) Istio
11 13 (1.32%) Packer
12 10 (1.01%) Kustomize
12 10 (1.01%) Podman
13 9 (0.91%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.81%) Consul
15 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (9.63%) Oracle
2 92 (9.32%) Microsoft
3 91 (9.22%) Google
4 85 (8.61%) Splunk
5 67 (6.79%) Dynatrace
6 45 (4.56%) Red Hat
7 35 (3.55%) IBM
8 34 (3.44%) VMware
9 31 (3.14%) Salesforce
10 26 (2.63%) Databricks
11 25 (2.53%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.52%) F5
12 15 (1.52%) New Relic
12 15 (1.52%) Talend
13 12 (1.22%) Sonatype
13 12 (1.22%) Veracode
14 11 (1.11%) Denodo
14 11 (1.11%) NetApp
15 10 (1.01%) CyberArk
15 10 (1.01%) SAP