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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 74 88
Rank change year-on-year -59 +14 -6
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 988 934 840
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.12% 3.33% 2.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.58% 22.06% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 643 599
10th Percentile £358 £341 £390
25th Percentile £419 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -4.89%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £669
90th Percentile £651 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.03% -5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 33
10th Percentile £62.35 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% -13.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +15.70% -13.57% -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 5,317 4,234 4,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.43% 15.11% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,934 2,749
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 96 164
10th Percentile £23.74 £38.13 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £76.25 £74.00
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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -18 532 £525 -1.64% 361
North of England -44 230 £450 -4.86% 188
Yorkshire -22 148 £475 -5.00% 53
Midlands -62 86 £488 +2.63% 82
West Midlands -39 82 £489 -2.25% 52
North West -82 64 £428 - 104
South East -85 64 £470 -6.00% 90
South West -12 60 £550 - 83
North East -40 20 £450 -20.00% 31
East of England -17 16 £425 -15.00% 48
East Midlands -41 3 £347 -1.00% 30
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 97 (9.82%) Confluence
2 29 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.82%) nginx
5 11 (1.11%) Apache
5 11 (1.11%) Camunda
6 10 (1.01%) SAS
7 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.40%) CICS
9 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) Traefik
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.10%) ThingWorx
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%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 7 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 537 (54.35%) AWS
2 402 (40.69%) GitHub
3 384 (38.87%) Azure
4 310 (31.38%) GitHub Actions
5 229 (23.18%) GCP
6 196 (19.84%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (12.04%) Serverless
8 111 (11.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 107 (10.83%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (10.73%) Amazon S3
11 97 (9.82%) OpenShift
12 96 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
13 85 (8.60%) Amazon EC2
14 71 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
16 48 (4.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 46 (4.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 45 (4.55%) Datadog
19 44 (4.45%) Amazon SQS
20 25 (2.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.38%) Firewall
2 55 (5.57%) DNS
3 37 (3.74%) TCP/IP
4 29 (2.94%) Network Security
5 19 (1.92%) SSL
6 17 (1.72%) BIG-IP
6 17 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 17 (1.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 16 (1.62%) HTTP
8 15 (1.52%) VPN
9 14 (1.42%) VLAN
10 10 (1.01%) SAN
11 9 (0.91%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.81%) DHCP
12 8 (0.81%) SSH
12 8 (0.81%) WAN
13 6 (0.61%) 4G
13 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
14 5 (0.51%) 5G
15 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.78%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (7.19%) MongoDB
3 61 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (5.97%) Relational Database
5 57 (5.77%) NoSQL
6 53 (5.36%) SQL Server
7 38 (3.85%) Redis
8 37 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
9 31 (3.14%) DynamoDB
10 30 (3.04%) MySQL
11 25 (2.53%) Big Data
12 19 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.42%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.21%) Metadata
15 12 (1.21%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 371 (37.55%) GitLab
2 347 (35.12%) Git
3 168 (17.00%) JIRA
4 97 (9.82%) JUnit
5 96 (9.72%) Selenium
6 93 (9.41%) Maven
7 77 (7.79%) SonarQube
8 67 (6.78%) Cucumber
8 67 (6.78%) Gradle
9 57 (5.77%) Mockito
10 55 (5.57%) REST Assured
11 53 (5.36%) Bitbucket
12 46 (4.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 44 (4.45%) Postman
14 39 (3.95%) JMeter
15 35 (3.54%) Gatling
16 23 (2.33%) WebDriver
17 22 (2.23%) TestNG
18 19 (1.92%) Cypress.io
19 18 (1.82%) Artifactory
General
1 230 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 163 (16.50%) Finance
3 128 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 117 (11.84%) Banking
5 112 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.23%) Retail
9 16 (1.62%) Law
9 16 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.32%) Publishing
11 12 (1.21%) Marketing
12 11 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.01%) Military
14 8 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.81%) Front Office
14 8 (0.81%) Legal
14 8 (0.81%) Local Government
14 8 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 249 (25.20%) Developer
2 184 (18.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 155 (15.69%) Senior
4 118 (11.94%) Java Developer
5 70 (7.09%) Lead
6 56 (5.67%) Test Engineer
7 54 (5.47%) AWS Engineer
8 52 (5.26%) Architect
9 46 (4.66%) Senior Developer
10 43 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 41 (4.15%) Software Engineer
12 40 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
13 36 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 36 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (3.64%) Software Developer
14 33 (3.34%) Full-Stack Developer
15 31 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
15 31 (3.14%) Senior Java Developer
16 30 (3.04%) GCP Engineer
17 29 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 391 (39.57%) Terraform
2 195 (19.74%) Kafka
3 177 (17.91%) Spring
4 169 (17.11%) REST
5 163 (16.50%) Spring Boot
6 124 (12.55%) RESTful
7 103 (10.43%) React
8 78 (7.89%) HTML
9 70 (7.09%) Node.js
10 64 (6.48%) Playwright
11 60 (6.07%) Hibernate
12 55 (5.57%) Elastic Stack
12 55 (5.57%) JPA
13 54 (5.47%) SOAP
14 53 (5.36%) CSS
15 49 (4.96%) AngularJS
16 46 (4.66%) Web Services
17 38 (3.85%) JSON
18 36 (3.64%) .NET
19 32 (3.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 177 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 84 (8.50%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (2.83%) Replication
7 27 (2.73%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 22 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.82%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.82%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
15 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.21%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.21%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 217 (21.96%) Linux
2 58 (5.87%) Unix
3 51 (5.16%) Windows
4 50 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (0.91%) Android
8 9 (0.91%) CentOS
9 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.61%) zOS
11 5 (0.51%) VMS
12 3 (0.30%) AIX
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.20%) Rocky
13 2 (0.20%) Solaris
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (85.22%) CI/CD
2 657 (66.50%) DevOps
3 480 (48.58%) Agile
4 365 (36.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 334 (33.81%) Test Automation
6 306 (30.97%) Containerisation
7 266 (26.92%) Microservices
8 225 (22.77%) Observability
9 181 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 178 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
11 176 (17.81%) Scrum
12 151 (15.28%) Software Engineering
13 138 (13.97%) Platform Engineering
14 113 (11.44%) Deployment Automation
15 107 (10.83%) AI
16 105 (10.63%) DevSecOps
16 105 (10.63%) Event-Driven
17 100 (10.12%) SDLC
18 99 (10.02%) TDD
19 96 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 433 (43.83%) Python
2 386 (39.07%) Java
3 241 (24.39%) SQL
4 199 (20.14%) Bash
5 128 (12.96%) JavaScript
6 116 (11.74%) PowerShell
7 75 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 59 (5.97%) C#
9 58 (5.87%) Groovy
10 52 (5.26%) Go
11 47 (4.76%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.95%) PL/SQL
13 32 (3.24%) Scala
14 27 (2.73%) Perl
15 17 (1.72%) ActionScript
15 17 (1.72%) Kotlin
16 15 (1.52%) Bicep
17 14 (1.42%) C++
18 11 (1.11%) Korn
19 10 (1.01%) C
Qualifications
1 411 (41.60%) Security Cleared
2 333 (33.70%) SC Cleared
3 79 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 59 (5.97%) Degree
5 54 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 41 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.62%) ISTQB
10 14 (1.42%) CISSP
11 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.51%) GCFA
15 5 (0.51%) GCIH
15 5 (0.51%) RHCE
16 4 (0.40%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (15.08%) QA
2 38 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.72%) NIST
5 12 (1.21%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
6 10 (1.01%) NCSC
6 10 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
8 6 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.61%) SEPA
9 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.51%) PSD2
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
11 2 (0.20%) SLA
12 1 (0.10%) HL7
12 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
System Software
1 480 (48.58%) Docker
2 20 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.71%) Postfix
5 5 (0.51%) NFS
5 5 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
6 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.40%) Squid
6 4 (0.40%) VirtualBox
6 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.30%) HDFS
7 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.30%) RACF
7 3 (0.30%) vSphere
8 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.20%) SRDF
8 2 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 480 (48.58%) Kubernetes
2 231 (23.38%) Ansible
3 229 (23.18%) Grafana
4 186 (18.83%) Prometheus
5 36 (3.64%) Progress Chef
6 34 (3.44%) Argo
6 34 (3.44%) Puppet
7 33 (3.34%) Kibana
8 17 (1.72%) Control-M
9 14 (1.42%) Istio
10 13 (1.32%) Packer
11 11 (1.11%) HAProxy
12 10 (1.01%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.81%) Consul
13 8 (0.81%) Podman
14 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
14 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.51%) Rancher
15 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 101 (10.22%) Google
2 88 (8.91%) Splunk
3 87 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 87 (8.81%) Oracle
4 72 (7.29%) Dynatrace
5 42 (4.25%) IBM
6 33 (3.34%) Red Hat
7 29 (2.94%) VMware
8 28 (2.83%) Salesforce
9 25 (2.53%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.33%) Databricks
11 18 (1.82%) F5
12 16 (1.62%) New Relic
13 13 (1.32%) Veracode
14 12 (1.21%) SAP
15 11 (1.11%) Talend
16 10 (1.01%) CyberArk
16 10 (1.01%) NetApp
16 10 (1.01%) Sonatype
17 9 (0.91%) SaltStack