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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 84 102
Rank change year-on-year -18 +18 -46
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 918 729 813
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.28% 3.00% 2.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.26% 22.06% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 503 598
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £559
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -5.15% -6.88%
75th Percentile £581 £666 £675
90th Percentile £675 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 13
10th Percentile £40.00 £51.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £41.56 £56.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £54.75 £65.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% -5.45% -5.50%
75th Percentile £70.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £65.00 £68.13
% change year-on-year -9.65% -4.59% -6.03%

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 5,027 3,304 4,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.49% 13.59% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,215 2,876
10th Percentile £340 £350 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £692 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 61 175
10th Percentile £38.16 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.97%
75th Percentile £74.38 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -46 420 £550 -5.17% 67
North of England -4 228 £476 -4.80% 55
Yorkshire +5 178 £487 -9.35% 19
Midlands -1 120 £500 +11.11% 21
West Midlands +10 105 £513 +14.00% 11
South East -52 72 £425 -15.00% 29
South West -18 49 £538 -6.52% 16
North West -53 37 £425 -10.53% 27
East of England -29 23 £475 -7.32% 10
North East -8 17 £419 -9.95% 9
East Midlands -42 14 £402 -12.42% 10
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
1 108 (11.76%) Confluence
2 38 (4.14%) SAS
3 26 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.98%) Apache
5 9 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.87%) nginx
7 6 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 3 (0.33%) IIS
9 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 475 (51.74%) AWS
2 376 (40.96%) GitHub
3 298 (32.46%) Azure
4 245 (26.69%) GitHub Actions
5 205 (22.33%) GCP
6 133 (14.49%) Amazon S3
7 116 (12.64%) OpenShift
8 113 (12.31%) Serverless
9 111 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
10 104 (11.33%) Amazon EC2
11 99 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (10.13%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (9.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 82 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 67 (7.30%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (6.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 58 (6.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 39 (4.25%) Azure AKS
19 35 (3.81%) Datadog
20 34 (3.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.45%) DNS
2 44 (4.79%) Firewall
3 18 (1.96%) Network Security
4 17 (1.85%) VPN
5 13 (1.42%) HTTP
6 12 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.76%) SAN
8 5 (0.54%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.44%) Internet
9 4 (0.44%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.44%) NAS
10 3 (0.33%) BGP
10 3 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.33%) SSL
11 2 (0.22%) AMQP
11 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.22%) LAN
11 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.22%) WAN
12 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (16.34%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (6.54%) NoSQL
4 44 (4.79%) DynamoDB
5 43 (4.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 40 (4.36%) Relational Database
7 39 (4.25%) SQL Server
8 36 (3.92%) MongoDB
9 26 (2.83%) Big Data
9 26 (2.83%) Pentaho
9 26 (2.83%) Redis
10 25 (2.72%) MySQL
11 15 (1.63%) Metadata
12 14 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (1.53%) BigQuery
13 12 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.20%) Data Lake
14 11 (1.20%) Power BI
15 10 (1.09%) Aerospike
15 10 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 343 (37.36%) GitLab
2 278 (30.28%) Git
3 191 (20.81%) JIRA
4 104 (11.33%) JUnit
5 94 (10.24%) Selenium
6 80 (8.71%) Cucumber
7 61 (6.64%) Maven
8 57 (6.21%) Postman
9 53 (5.77%) Bitbucket
10 48 (5.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 47 (5.12%) SonarQube
12 44 (4.79%) Mockito
13 41 (4.47%) REST Assured
14 33 (3.59%) JMeter
15 28 (3.05%) Gatling
16 26 (2.83%) Gradle
17 23 (2.51%) WebDriver
18 22 (2.40%) Artifactory
19 17 (1.85%) CircleCI
20 15 (1.63%) Liquibase
General
1 256 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 173 (18.85%) Finance
3 114 (12.42%) Public Sector
4 95 (10.35%) Banking
5 69 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.09%) Front Office
8 10 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (0.98%) Law
10 8 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (0.87%) Retail
11 7 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.65%) Legal
12 6 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.65%) Military
12 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 185 (20.15%) Developer
2 146 (15.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 124 (13.51%) Senior
4 96 (10.46%) Java Developer
5 81 (8.82%) Architect
6 71 (7.73%) Lead
7 60 (6.54%) Data Engineer
8 53 (5.77%) GCP Engineer
9 49 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
10 46 (5.01%) Software Engineer
11 43 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
12 42 (4.58%) Test Engineer
13 37 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (3.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 33 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
16 30 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.16%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.05%) Senior Developer
19 27 (2.94%) Tester
20 26 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (16.34%) Spring
2 129 (14.05%) Kafka
3 122 (13.29%) Spring Boot
4 116 (12.64%) REST
5 107 (11.66%) Node.js
6 79 (8.61%) RESTful
7 67 (7.30%) Playwright
8 58 (6.32%) React
9 54 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
10 51 (5.56%) AngularJS
10 51 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
11 42 (4.58%) LDAP
12 40 (4.36%) YAML
13 38 (4.14%) OpenID
14 35 (3.81%) HTML
15 33 (3.59%) Hibernate
16 32 (3.49%) SOAP
17 31 (3.38%) GraphQL
17 31 (3.38%) JSON
17 31 (3.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 185 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 76 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 18 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.63%) Replication
9 14 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.09%) Mobile App
12 9 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (0.76%) Equities
13 7 (0.76%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.76%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.65%) Derivative
14 6 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.65%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 186 (20.26%) Linux
2 44 (4.79%) Unix
3 42 (4.58%) Windows
4 29 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.85%) VMS
6 9 (0.98%) Android
6 9 (0.98%) CentOS
7 8 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.33%) AIX
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (84.64%) CI/CD
2 612 (66.67%) DevOps
3 377 (41.07%) Agile
4 309 (33.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 285 (31.05%) Containerisation
6 271 (29.52%) Test Automation
7 210 (22.88%) Microservices
8 179 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
9 153 (16.67%) Observability
10 144 (15.69%) Scrum
11 135 (14.71%) Software Engineering
12 129 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (10.78%) Migration
14 95 (10.35%) Platform Engineering
15 89 (9.69%) Mentoring
16 83 (9.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 81 (8.82%) TDD
18 75 (8.17%) Event-Driven
19 73 (7.95%) Deployment Automation
19 73 (7.95%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 389 (42.37%) Python
2 310 (33.77%) Java
3 210 (22.88%) SQL
4 153 (16.67%) Bash
5 82 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 76 (8.28%) PowerShell
7 75 (8.17%) TypeScript
8 54 (5.88%) Shell Script
9 45 (4.90%) C#
10 43 (4.68%) Go
11 39 (4.25%) Scala
12 35 (3.81%) Groovy
13 15 (1.63%) Bicep
13 15 (1.63%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.31%) Ruby
15 11 (1.20%) Perl
15 11 (1.20%) PHP
16 9 (0.98%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.98%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 346 (37.69%) Security Cleared
2 293 (31.92%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.68%) Degree
4 36 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.49%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.29%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.09%) OCP
12 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
12 9 (0.98%) RHCE
13 8 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
15 5 (0.54%) OCA
16 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (10.68%) QA
2 45 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.96%) NIST
5 17 (1.85%) SLA
6 16 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.63%) NCSC
8 10 (1.09%) GDPR
9 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.44%) WCAG
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.22%) HL7
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.22%) MiFID
13 2 (0.22%) PSD2
13 2 (0.22%) SEPA
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 443 (48.26%) Docker
2 28 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.29%) vSphere
4 20 (2.18%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.31%) Postfix
6 11 (1.20%) Active Directory
7 9 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.65%) HDFS
9 3 (0.33%) GridGain
9 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.33%) NFS
9 3 (0.33%) SRDF
10 2 (0.22%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.22%) Varnish
10 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 495 (53.92%) Kubernetes
2 377 (41.07%) Terraform
3 233 (25.38%) Ansible
4 196 (21.35%) Grafana
5 154 (16.78%) Prometheus
6 46 (5.01%) Argo
7 36 (3.92%) Progress Chef
8 31 (3.38%) Puppet
9 30 (3.27%) Istio
10 21 (2.29%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.74%) Kibana
12 13 (1.42%) Podman
13 12 (1.31%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.98%) Check_MK
14 9 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.87%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.87%) Packer
16 7 (0.76%) Rancher
17 5 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 91 (9.91%) Splunk
2 73 (7.95%) Google
3 60 (6.54%) Red Hat
4 58 (6.32%) Microsoft
5 56 (6.10%) Oracle
6 46 (5.01%) VMware
7 39 (4.25%) ServiceNow
8 37 (4.03%) Databricks
9 27 (2.94%) Atlassian
9 27 (2.94%) Talend
10 26 (2.83%) Denodo
11 21 (2.29%) Dynatrace
11 21 (2.29%) Pure Storage
11 21 (2.29%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.63%) CyberArk
12 15 (1.63%) Jaspersoft
13 12 (1.31%) Okta
14 11 (1.20%) ForgeRock
14 11 (1.20%) Salesforce
15 10 (1.09%) IBM