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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 72 87
Rank change year-on-year -55 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 983 906 847
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 3.29% 2.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.92% 22.28% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 636 629
10th Percentile £358 £343 £390
25th Percentile £415 £408 £453
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 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 33
10th Percentile £64.20 £54.75 £65.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -6.67%
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% -3.78%

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 5,195 4,067 4,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.35% 14.76% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 2,815 2,833
10th Percentile £358 £325 £353
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 £602 £625
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 239 95 175
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.35 £36.45
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.41 £54.49
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 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 28 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 28 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 -32 514 £525 -0.94% 398
North of England -44 237 £450 -3.02% 115
Yorkshire -17 164 £475 -1.55% 35
Midlands -49 93 £488 +2.63% 40
West Midlands -35 86 £488 - 26
South East -71 71 £460 -8.00% 62
South West -10 52 £550 -4.35% 79
North West -85 52 £425 +5.72% 64
North East -27 25 £450 -6.25% 16
East of England -14 15 £438 -12.50% 27
East Midlands -38 6 £358 - 14
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 98 (9.97%) Confluence
2 23 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.42%) nginx
4 14 (1.42%) SAS
5 9 (0.92%) Camunda
5 9 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.81%) Apache
7 7 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
8 4 (0.41%) IIS
8 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 525 (53.41%) AWS
2 403 (41.00%) GitHub
3 385 (39.17%) Azure
4 308 (31.33%) GitHub Actions
5 223 (22.69%) GCP
6 191 (19.43%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (12.51%) Serverless
8 117 (11.90%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
10 104 (10.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (9.36%) OpenShift
12 90 (9.16%) Amazon EC2
13 87 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
14 69 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 44 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
17 44 (4.48%) Datadog
18 38 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 24 (2.44%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.29%) Firewall
2 49 (4.98%) DNS
3 31 (3.15%) TCP/IP
4 23 (2.34%) Network Security
5 17 (1.73%) HTTP
5 17 (1.73%) SSL
6 12 (1.22%) VLAN
6 12 (1.22%) VPN
7 11 (1.12%) SAN
8 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (0.81%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.81%) WAN
10 7 (0.71%) SSH
11 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.51%) 4G
12 5 (0.51%) DHCP
13 4 (0.41%) 5G
13 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (14.95%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.51%) MongoDB
3 63 (6.41%) SQL Server
4 60 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (6.10%) NoSQL
5 57 (5.80%) Relational Database
6 39 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 37 (3.76%) Redis
8 35 (3.56%) DynamoDB
9 26 (2.64%) Big Data
10 22 (2.24%) MySQL
11 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.73%) Metadata
13 15 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.53%) Pentaho
14 14 (1.42%) BigQuery
15 12 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 367 (37.33%) GitLab
2 333 (33.88%) Git
3 169 (17.19%) JIRA
4 97 (9.87%) JUnit
5 87 (8.85%) Selenium
6 80 (8.14%) Maven
7 72 (7.32%) SonarQube
8 63 (6.41%) Gradle
9 55 (5.60%) Bitbucket
9 55 (5.60%) Mockito
10 54 (5.49%) Cucumber
11 46 (4.68%) REST Assured
12 43 (4.37%) Sonatype Nexus
13 39 (3.97%) Postman
14 37 (3.76%) JMeter
15 34 (3.46%) Gatling
16 28 (2.85%) WebDriver
17 22 (2.24%) Artifactory
18 20 (2.03%) Liquibase
19 16 (1.63%) Zephyr
General
1 239 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 155 (15.77%) Finance
3 124 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 107 (10.89%) Banking
5 96 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (1.93%) Law
9 18 (1.83%) Retail
10 16 (1.63%) Publishing
11 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.32%) Marketing
12 13 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.02%) Legal
14 9 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.71%) Front Office
15 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 246 (25.03%) Developer
2 175 (17.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 153 (15.56%) Senior
4 111 (11.29%) Java Developer
5 71 (7.22%) Lead
6 57 (5.80%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (4.88%) Architect
9 44 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
9 44 (4.48%) Senior Developer
10 43 (4.37%) Test Engineer
11 37 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
12 35 (3.56%) Automation Engineer
12 35 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 33 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (3.36%) Software Developer
14 31 (3.15%) Data Engineer
14 31 (3.15%) Tester
15 30 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
15 30 (3.05%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 390 (39.67%) Terraform
2 190 (19.33%) Kafka
3 172 (17.50%) Spring
4 157 (15.97%) REST
5 151 (15.36%) Spring Boot
6 114 (11.60%) RESTful
7 105 (10.68%) React
8 88 (8.95%) Node.js
9 69 (7.02%) HTML
10 59 (6.00%) Playwright
11 52 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
12 49 (4.98%) CSS
13 47 (4.78%) AngularJS
14 44 (4.48%) Hibernate
14 44 (4.48%) SOAP
15 41 (4.17%) JPA
16 39 (3.97%) Web Services
17 38 (3.87%) JSON
18 35 (3.56%) .NET
19 32 (3.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 167 (16.99%) Cloud Native
2 75 (7.63%) Product Ownership
3 69 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.64%) Replication
7 25 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.14%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.03%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.93%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
13 17 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
14 16 (1.63%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.53%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.53%) Private Cloud
16 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
17 11 (1.12%) Public Cloud
17 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
18 10 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 206 (20.96%) Linux
2 60 (6.10%) Unix
3 46 (4.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (4.58%) Windows
5 15 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.02%) Android
6 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.61%) CentOS
9 4 (0.41%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.31%) zOS
11 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (83.72%) CI/CD
2 662 (67.34%) DevOps
3 465 (47.30%) Agile
4 349 (35.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 313 (31.84%) Test Automation
6 275 (27.98%) Containerisation
7 267 (27.16%) Microservices
8 214 (21.77%) Observability
9 173 (17.60%) Scrum
10 169 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 158 (16.07%) Software Engineering
12 150 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
13 143 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
14 106 (10.78%) TDD
15 104 (10.58%) Deployment Automation
16 99 (10.07%) DevSecOps
16 99 (10.07%) Event-Driven
17 95 (9.66%) AI
18 92 (9.36%) Validation
19 88 (8.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 421 (42.83%) Python
2 376 (38.25%) Java
3 253 (25.74%) SQL
4 198 (20.14%) Bash
5 126 (12.82%) PowerShell
6 112 (11.39%) JavaScript
7 77 (7.83%) TypeScript
8 57 (5.80%) C#
9 55 (5.60%) Groovy
10 50 (5.09%) Go
11 49 (4.98%) Shell Script
12 38 (3.87%) PL/SQL
13 30 (3.05%) Perl
14 27 (2.75%) Scala
15 19 (1.93%) Bicep
16 18 (1.83%) Kotlin
17 13 (1.32%) C++
18 11 (1.12%) Korn
19 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
20 9 (0.92%) C
Qualifications
1 385 (39.17%) Security Cleared
2 320 (32.55%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.70%) Degree
4 54 (5.49%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.68%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.64%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.73%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.53%) CISSP
11 14 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.81%) 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
1 130 (13.22%) QA
2 39 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.53%) NIST
5 14 (1.42%) WCAG
6 13 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.81%) GDPR
10 7 (0.71%) SLA
11 6 (0.61%) NCSC
12 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.51%) SEPA
13 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.41%) PSD2
14 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.10%) GRC
15 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 475 (48.32%) Docker
2 24 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 8 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.61%) NFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) Squid
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) GridGain
10 3 (0.31%) Varnish
10 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) HDFS
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 481 (48.93%) Kubernetes
2 226 (22.99%) Ansible
3 204 (20.75%) Grafana
4 178 (18.11%) Prometheus
5 37 (3.76%) Argo
6 36 (3.66%) Progress Chef
7 35 (3.56%) Puppet
8 19 (1.93%) Kibana
9 18 (1.83%) Control-M
10 15 (1.53%) Istio
11 13 (1.32%) HAProxy
12 11 (1.12%) Packer
13 9 (0.92%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.92%) Podman
13 9 (0.92%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.71%) Consul
14 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 92 (9.36%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.05%) Oracle
3 86 (8.75%) Google
4 85 (8.65%) Splunk
5 62 (6.31%) Dynatrace
6 46 (4.68%) Red Hat
7 33 (3.36%) IBM
8 32 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 32 (3.26%) VMware
9 27 (2.75%) Databricks
9 27 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.63%) Talend
11 13 (1.32%) New Relic
11 13 (1.32%) Sonatype
12 12 (1.22%) Denodo
12 12 (1.22%) Veracode
13 11 (1.12%) NetApp
14 10 (1.02%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.02%) F5
14 10 (1.02%) Jaspersoft