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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 73 90
Rank change year-on-year -54 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 984 935 846
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.12% 3.36% 2.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.71% 22.58% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 642 624
10th Percentile £357 £350 £390
25th Percentile £415 £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 £699 £730
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 5,258 4,141 4,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.35% 14.90% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 2,873 2,811
10th Percentile £357 £325 £355
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £637
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 234 95 171
10th Percentile £36.25 £44.30 £36.25
25th Percentile £54.53 £54.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% - -

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 10 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 10 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 -26 517 £525 -0.94% 387
North of England -49 234 £453 -2.58% 99
Yorkshire -21 160 £483 -3.45% 32
Midlands -58 101 £488 +2.63% 30
West Midlands -30 94 £488 -2.50% 17
South East -84 67 £460 -8.00% 63
South West -24 54 £550 - 62
North West -93 54 £425 +1.80% 57
North East -37 22 £450 -6.25% 10
East of England -22 16 £425 -15.00% 30
East Midlands -37 6 £358 - 13
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
1 104 (10.57%) Confluence
2 24 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.52%) nginx
5 13 (1.32%) SAS
6 10 (1.02%) Camunda
7 9 (0.91%) Apache
8 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.71%) 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%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.91%) 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 4 (0.41%) 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
1 523 (53.15%) AWS
2 406 (41.26%) GitHub
3 388 (39.43%) Azure
4 313 (31.81%) GitHub Actions
5 219 (22.26%) GCP
6 191 (19.41%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (12.30%) Serverless
8 111 (11.28%) Amazon S3
9 108 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
10 105 (10.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 93 (9.45%) OpenShift
12 88 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (8.54%) Amazon EKS
14 67 (6.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 66 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
16 44 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 41 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
17 41 (4.17%) Datadog
18 40 (4.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 23 (2.34%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.59%) Firewall
2 53 (5.39%) DNS
3 32 (3.25%) TCP/IP
4 25 (2.54%) Network Security
5 17 (1.73%) HTTP
5 17 (1.73%) SSL
6 13 (1.32%) VLAN
7 11 (1.12%) BIG-IP
7 11 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 11 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 11 (1.12%) SAN
7 11 (1.12%) VPN
8 8 (0.81%) Kerberos
9 7 (0.71%) DHCP
9 7 (0.71%) SSH
9 7 (0.71%) WAN
10 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
11 5 (0.51%) 4G
12 4 (0.41%) 5G
13 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.40%) Relational Database
3 62 (6.30%) MongoDB
4 61 (6.20%) SQL Server
5 60 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
6 58 (5.89%) NoSQL
7 40 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 37 (3.76%) DynamoDB
9 36 (3.66%) Redis
10 27 (2.74%) Big Data
11 24 (2.44%) MySQL
12 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.52%) Metadata
15 14 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (1.42%) BigQuery
15 14 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.42%) Pentaho
16 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 366 (37.20%) GitLab
2 343 (34.86%) Git
3 175 (17.78%) JIRA
4 109 (11.08%) JUnit
5 94 (9.55%) Maven
6 88 (8.94%) Selenium
7 80 (8.13%) SonarQube
8 67 (6.81%) Gradle
9 64 (6.50%) Mockito
10 57 (5.79%) Cucumber
11 56 (5.69%) Bitbucket
12 50 (5.08%) REST Assured
13 45 (4.57%) Sonatype Nexus
14 40 (4.07%) Postman
15 39 (3.96%) JMeter
16 35 (3.56%) Gatling
17 27 (2.74%) WebDriver
18 21 (2.13%) Liquibase
19 20 (2.03%) Artifactory
20 18 (1.83%) TestNG
General
1 242 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 155 (15.75%) Finance
3 126 (12.80%) Public Sector
4 112 (11.38%) Banking
5 101 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (1.93%) Law
8 19 (1.93%) Retail
9 15 (1.52%) Publishing
10 14 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.32%) Marketing
12 12 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.02%) Front Office
13 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.91%) Legal
15 6 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.61%) Military
16 5 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 254 (25.81%) Developer
2 175 (17.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 157 (15.96%) Senior
4 120 (12.20%) Java Developer
5 77 (7.83%) Lead
6 54 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
7 50 (5.08%) Senior Developer
7 50 (5.08%) Software Engineer
8 49 (4.98%) Architect
9 48 (4.88%) Test Engineer
10 41 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
12 36 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
12 36 (3.66%) Software Developer
13 35 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.46%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (2.95%) GCP Engineer
15 29 (2.95%) Tester
16 28 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (39.23%) Terraform
2 189 (19.21%) Kafka
3 186 (18.90%) Spring
4 167 (16.97%) Spring Boot
5 157 (15.96%) REST
6 126 (12.80%) RESTful
7 104 (10.57%) React
8 80 (8.13%) Node.js
9 70 (7.11%) HTML
10 59 (6.00%) Playwright
11 58 (5.89%) Hibernate
12 53 (5.39%) AngularJS
12 53 (5.39%) JPA
13 49 (4.98%) SOAP
14 48 (4.88%) CSS
14 48 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
15 46 (4.67%) Web Services
16 37 (3.76%) JSON
17 35 (3.56%) .NET
17 35 (3.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 179 (18.19%) Cloud Native
2 82 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 66 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.25%) Self-Motivation
6 31 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (2.74%) Replication
8 24 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (2.34%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.03%) AI Agents
10 20 (2.03%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.52%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.52%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.42%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
17 11 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 206 (20.93%) Linux
2 61 (6.20%) Unix
3 46 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (4.47%) Windows
5 15 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.02%) Android
6 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.81%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.71%) CentOS
9 5 (0.51%) VMS
10 4 (0.41%) zOS
11 3 (0.30%) AIX
11 3 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (84.45%) CI/CD
2 661 (67.17%) DevOps
3 478 (48.58%) Agile
4 352 (35.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 326 (33.13%) Test Automation
6 293 (29.78%) Containerisation
7 273 (27.74%) Microservices
8 214 (21.75%) Observability
9 183 (18.60%) Scrum
10 181 (18.39%) Continuous Improvement
11 159 (16.16%) Software Engineering
12 158 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
13 144 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
14 111 (11.28%) TDD
15 108 (10.98%) Deployment Automation
16 105 (10.67%) DevSecOps
17 104 (10.57%) Event-Driven
18 99 (10.06%) AI
19 91 (9.25%) Stakeholder Management
19 91 (9.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 414 (42.07%) Python
2 393 (39.94%) Java
3 244 (24.80%) SQL
4 191 (19.41%) Bash
5 119 (12.09%) PowerShell
6 114 (11.59%) JavaScript
7 83 (8.43%) TypeScript
8 59 (6.00%) C#
9 54 (5.49%) Groovy
10 49 (4.98%) Shell Script
11 47 (4.78%) Go
12 39 (3.96%) PL/SQL
13 28 (2.85%) Perl
13 28 (2.85%) Scala
14 20 (2.03%) Kotlin
15 17 (1.73%) Bicep
16 12 (1.22%) C++
17 11 (1.12%) ActionScript
17 11 (1.12%) Korn
18 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 397 (40.35%) Security Cleared
2 329 (33.43%) SC Cleared
3 61 (6.20%) DV Cleared
4 56 (5.69%) Degree
5 49 (4.98%) AWS Certification
6 38 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.64%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.73%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.52%) CISSP
11 14 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.91%) 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
1 138 (14.02%) QA
2 37 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.52%) NIST
5 14 (1.42%) WCAG
6 13 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.81%) GDPR
9 6 (0.61%) NCSC
10 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) SEPA
11 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.41%) PSD2
11 4 (0.41%) SLA
12 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 478 (48.58%) Docker
2 24 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 15 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 9 (0.91%) vSphere
7 8 (0.81%) 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%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) HDFS
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 481 (48.88%) Kubernetes
2 225 (22.87%) Ansible
3 209 (21.24%) Grafana
4 178 (18.09%) Prometheus
5 36 (3.66%) Argo
5 36 (3.66%) Progress Chef
6 34 (3.46%) Puppet
7 19 (1.93%) Kibana
8 17 (1.73%) Control-M
9 14 (1.42%) HAProxy
10 13 (1.32%) Istio
11 11 (1.12%) Packer
12 10 (1.02%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.91%) Podman
13 9 (0.91%) 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%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 93 (9.45%) Oracle
2 91 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 89 (9.04%) Google
4 82 (8.33%) Splunk
5 63 (6.40%) Dynatrace
6 44 (4.47%) Red Hat
7 35 (3.56%) IBM
8 32 (3.25%) Salesforce
8 32 (3.25%) VMware
9 28 (2.85%) Databricks
10 25 (2.54%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.52%) Talend
12 14 (1.42%) New Relic
13 13 (1.32%) Veracode
14 12 (1.22%) F5
14 12 (1.22%) Sonatype
15 11 (1.12%) Denodo
15 11 (1.12%) NetApp
16 10 (1.02%) CyberArk
16 10 (1.02%) Jaspersoft