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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 87 92
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -38
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,021 705 874
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.87% 2.82% 2.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.59% 21.07% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 474 642
10th Percentile £363 £364 £400
25th Percentile £426 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £579 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.36% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £58.13 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £71.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.67% -19.64%
75th Percentile £60.25 £80.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.90 £89.75 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £51.07
% change year-on-year -25.61% +39.53% -27.05%

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 4,958 3,346 4,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.93% 13.37% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 2,139 3,052
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £636 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 58 201
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.13 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.81 £55.50 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £74.44
90th Percentile £85.33 £80.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -28 424 £537 -13.08% 98
North of England +18 265 £500 -6.98% 82
Yorkshire +14 197 £500 -14.16% 32
Midlands +26 162 £515 +8.42% 32
West Midlands +32 147 £520 +9.01% 24
South East +5 93 £467 -6.55% 68
South West +11 57 £525 -8.70% 35
North West -37 54 £447 -7.36% 36
East of England -19 22 £477 +5.89% 22
North East -4 17 £538 -2.27% 14
East Midlands -32 14 £400 -9.91% 8
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
1 126 (12.34%) Confluence
2 69 (6.76%) SAS
3 21 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.27%) Apache
6 9 (0.88%) IIS
6 9 (0.88%) JBoss
6 9 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.78%) nginx
7 8 (0.78%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.49%) iPlanet
8 5 (0.49%) WebSphere Application Server
9 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.098%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.098%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.098%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.098%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.098%) Actimize
3 1 (0.098%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.098%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 520 (50.93%) AWS
2 381 (37.32%) GitHub
3 273 (26.74%) Azure
4 233 (22.82%) GitHub Actions
5 227 (22.23%) GCP
6 148 (14.50%) OpenShift
7 126 (12.34%) Serverless
8 123 (12.05%) Amazon S3
9 110 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
10 109 (10.68%) Amazon EC2
11 93 (9.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 90 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 87 (8.52%) Amazon EKS
15 80 (7.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 66 (6.46%) Amazon ECS
17 60 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 48 (4.70%) Datadog
19 37 (3.62%) Azure AKS
20 33 (3.23%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.76%) DNS
2 63 (6.17%) Firewall
3 37 (3.62%) VPN
4 24 (2.35%) Network Security
5 23 (2.25%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.57%) SSL
7 14 (1.37%) Kerberos
8 12 (1.18%) HTTP
9 6 (0.59%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.59%) Internet
9 6 (0.59%) WAN
10 5 (0.49%) SAN
10 5 (0.49%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.20%) BGP
11 2 (0.20%) FTP
11 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.20%) NAS
11 2 (0.20%) SMTP
11 2 (0.20%) SSH
12 1 (0.098%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (16.06%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (9.01%) NoSQL
3 90 (8.81%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (5.68%) MongoDB
5 42 (4.11%) DynamoDB
6 39 (3.82%) MySQL
7 38 (3.72%) Pentaho
8 33 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 30 (2.94%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.55%) Oracle Database
11 23 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
11 23 (2.25%) Redis
12 20 (1.96%) Big Data
13 17 (1.67%) BigQuery
14 16 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.27%) Power BI
16 13 (1.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 12 (1.18%) Tableau
18 11 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 407 (39.86%) GitLab
2 313 (30.66%) Git
3 231 (22.62%) JIRA
4 116 (11.36%) JUnit
5 110 (10.77%) Selenium
6 98 (9.60%) Cucumber
7 79 (7.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 62 (6.07%) Postman
9 55 (5.39%) Bitbucket
9 55 (5.39%) Maven
10 45 (4.41%) SonarQube
11 42 (4.11%) REST Assured
12 36 (3.53%) JMeter
13 30 (2.94%) Mockito
14 29 (2.84%) Gradle
15 28 (2.74%) CircleCI
16 26 (2.55%) Artifactory
17 22 (2.15%) Cypress.io
17 22 (2.15%) Gatling
17 22 (2.15%) Liquibase
General
1 307 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 216 (21.16%) Finance
3 132 (12.93%) Banking
4 127 (12.44%) Public Sector
5 71 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.55%) Financial Institution
8 21 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.47%) Military
10 11 (1.08%) Retail
11 10 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.69%) Front Office
13 7 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.59%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.49%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.49%) Law
15 5 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (17.43%) Developer
2 168 (16.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 161 (15.77%) Senior
4 87 (8.52%) Lead
5 83 (8.13%) Architect
5 83 (8.13%) Java Developer
6 67 (6.56%) GCP Engineer
7 65 (6.37%) Data Engineer
8 62 (6.07%) AWS Engineer
9 53 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
10 48 (4.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 47 (4.60%) Software Engineer
12 44 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
12 44 (4.31%) Test Engineer
13 36 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 34 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
14 34 (3.33%) Senior Developer
15 32 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
15 32 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (15.96%) REST
2 144 (14.10%) Spring
3 141 (13.81%) Kafka
4 108 (10.58%) Node.js
4 108 (10.58%) Spring Boot
5 82 (8.03%) RESTful
6 81 (7.93%) Elastic Stack
7 73 (7.15%) Playwright
8 57 (5.58%) React
9 48 (4.70%) OpenID
10 46 (4.51%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.41%) LDAP
12 43 (4.21%) GraphQL
12 43 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
13 41 (4.02%) pytest
14 39 (3.82%) JSON
15 37 (3.62%) Hibernate
15 37 (3.62%) HTML
15 37 (3.62%) OAuth
16 36 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 195 (19.10%) Cloud Native
2 92 (9.01%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.60%) Public Cloud
4 35 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 16 (1.57%) Replication
9 12 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.08%) Mobile App
11 10 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (0.98%) Management Information System
11 10 (0.98%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.88%) Derivative
13 8 (0.78%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.78%) NHS
14 7 (0.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 232 (22.72%) Linux
2 59 (5.78%) Windows
3 41 (4.02%) Unix
4 28 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.67%) VMS
6 12 (1.18%) Android
6 12 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.08%) CentOS
8 9 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.098%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 692 (67.78%) DevOps
3 405 (39.67%) Agile
4 350 (34.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 307 (30.07%) Containerisation
6 302 (29.58%) Test Automation
7 247 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
8 217 (21.25%) Microservices
9 158 (15.48%) Observability
10 142 (13.91%) Scrum
11 134 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (12.63%) Software Engineering
13 123 (12.05%) Mentoring
14 105 (10.28%) Migration
15 97 (9.50%) Deployment Automation
16 96 (9.40%) Analytics
17 87 (8.52%) Data Pipeline
17 87 (8.52%) DevSecOps
18 86 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
19 82 (8.03%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 460 (45.05%) Python
2 288 (28.21%) Java
3 198 (19.39%) SQL
4 171 (16.75%) Bash
5 104 (10.19%) JavaScript
6 86 (8.42%) TypeScript
7 82 (8.03%) Go
8 79 (7.74%) PowerShell
9 59 (5.78%) Shell Script
10 53 (5.19%) C#
11 33 (3.23%) Groovy
12 24 (2.35%) Scala
13 16 (1.57%) C++
14 14 (1.37%) PHP
15 12 (1.18%) Ruby
16 11 (1.08%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.88%) Bicep
18 9 (0.88%) Perl
19 7 (0.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 368 (36.04%) Security Cleared
2 302 (29.58%) SC Cleared
3 67 (6.56%) Degree
4 47 (4.60%) AWS Certification
4 47 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 26 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
8 17 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.18%) OCP
12 9 (0.88%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.78%) RHCE
14 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.59%) OCA
15 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.39%) CISSP
16 4 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (9.89%) QA
2 52 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.15%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.15%) NIST
5 18 (1.76%) NCSC
5 18 (1.76%) SLA
6 9 (0.88%) GDPR
7 8 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.29%) WCAG
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.20%) HL7
10 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.20%) MiFID
10 2 (0.20%) PSD2
10 2 (0.20%) SEPA
11 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 482 (47.21%) Docker
2 29 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.06%) VMware NSX
3 21 (2.06%) vSphere
4 19 (1.86%) Active Directory
5 14 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.78%) Postfix
7 6 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.59%) HDFS
8 5 (0.49%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.20%) GridGain
10 2 (0.20%) SRDF
11 1 (0.098%) KVM
11 1 (0.098%) NFS
11 1 (0.098%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.098%) Squid
11 1 (0.098%) Varnish
11 1 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 535 (52.40%) Kubernetes
2 418 (40.94%) Terraform
3 300 (29.38%) Ansible
4 203 (19.88%) Grafana
5 159 (15.57%) Prometheus
6 52 (5.09%) Progress Chef
7 49 (4.80%) Argo
8 33 (3.23%) Istio
9 29 (2.84%) Puppet
10 21 (2.06%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.67%) Podman
12 14 (1.37%) Kibana
13 11 (1.08%) Packer
14 9 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
14 9 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.78%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.69%) Check_MK
16 7 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
17 5 (0.49%) CA Wily
17 5 (0.49%) logstash
Vendors
1 124 (12.14%) Splunk
2 86 (8.42%) Google
3 81 (7.93%) Oracle
4 67 (6.56%) Microsoft
5 55 (5.39%) VMware
6 54 (5.29%) Red Hat
7 43 (4.21%) ServiceNow
8 38 (3.72%) Denodo
8 38 (3.72%) Talend
9 34 (3.33%) Databricks
10 33 (3.23%) Atlassian
11 23 (2.25%) Sonatype
12 22 (2.15%) Dynatrace
13 21 (2.06%) Pure Storage
14 17 (1.67%) CyberArk
14 17 (1.67%) F5
15 16 (1.57%) CheckPoint
16 15 (1.47%) Palo Alto
17 14 (1.37%) AppDynamics
17 14 (1.37%) IBM