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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 86 102
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -49
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,009 713 843
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.78% 2.89% 2.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.29% 21.35% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 490 620
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% +2.95% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £669
90th Percentile £663 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
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 4,974 3,339 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.70% 13.53% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,364 2,179 3,010
10th Percentile £338 £333 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 64 191
10th Percentile £36.20 £26.10 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.95 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.50
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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -35 418 £530 -13.75% 100
North of England +17 257 £490 -6.18% 72
Yorkshire +18 197 £500 -13.61% 31
Midlands +21 161 £515 +8.42% 27
West Midlands +23 145 £515 +7.97% 23
South East -3 96 £462 -7.70% 74
South West +4 53 £525 -8.70% 42
North West -44 46 £445 +1.19% 24
East of England -18 22 £475 +5.56% 29
North East -1 19 £500 -0.99% 17
East Midlands -35 15 £401 -9.68% 4
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 (12.49%) Confluence
2 70 (6.94%) SAS
3 21 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.89%) Apache
7 7 (0.69%) nginx
8 6 (0.59%) JBoss
9 5 (0.50%) IIS
9 5 (0.50%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.099%) IBM HTTP Server
13 1 (0.099%) iPlanet
13 1 (0.099%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 20 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.099%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.099%) Actimize
3 1 (0.099%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.099%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.099%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 503 (49.85%) AWS
2 390 (38.65%) GitHub
3 275 (27.25%) Azure
4 235 (23.29%) GitHub Actions
5 226 (22.40%) GCP
6 147 (14.57%) OpenShift
7 128 (12.69%) Serverless
8 118 (11.69%) Amazon S3
9 114 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
10 101 (10.01%) Amazon EC2
11 92 (9.12%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
13 87 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 81 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 71 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 64 (6.34%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (5.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 50 (4.96%) Datadog
19 36 (3.57%) Azure AKS
20 31 (3.07%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.85%) DNS
2 51 (5.05%) Firewall
3 26 (2.58%) VPN
4 17 (1.68%) Network Security
5 14 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.09%) HTTP
7 10 (0.99%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.69%) SSL
8 7 (0.69%) WAN
9 6 (0.59%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.59%) Internet
9 6 (0.59%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.50%) SAN
11 3 (0.30%) BGP
12 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.20%) LAN
12 2 (0.20%) NAS
12 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
13 1 (0.099%) Multicast
13 1 (0.099%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (16.65%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (8.92%) NoSQL
3 88 (8.72%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (5.85%) MongoDB
5 44 (4.36%) DynamoDB
6 39 (3.87%) MySQL
6 39 (3.87%) Pentaho
7 34 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 32 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 28 (2.78%) Redis
10 23 (2.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 22 (2.18%) Oracle Database
12 20 (1.98%) Big Data
13 17 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (1.49%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.29%) Power BI
15 13 (1.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 12 (1.19%) Tableau
17 11 (1.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 400 (39.64%) GitLab
2 312 (30.92%) Git
3 234 (23.19%) JIRA
4 120 (11.89%) JUnit
5 114 (11.30%) Selenium
6 100 (9.91%) Cucumber
7 74 (7.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 62 (6.14%) Postman
9 56 (5.55%) Bitbucket
10 53 (5.25%) Maven
11 46 (4.56%) SonarQube
12 41 (4.06%) REST Assured
13 39 (3.87%) JMeter
14 31 (3.07%) Gradle
15 30 (2.97%) Mockito
16 28 (2.78%) CircleCI
17 27 (2.68%) Artifactory
18 22 (2.18%) Gatling
19 20 (1.98%) Cypress.io
19 20 (1.98%) Liquibase
General
1 310 (30.72%) Social Skills
2 210 (20.81%) Finance
3 128 (12.69%) Banking
4 123 (12.19%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.28%) Financial Institution
8 22 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.09%) Military
11 10 (0.99%) Retail
12 8 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.59%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.59%) Front Office
14 6 (0.59%) Law
14 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 183 (18.14%) Developer
2 150 (14.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 142 (14.07%) Senior
4 84 (8.33%) Architect
5 83 (8.23%) Java Developer
6 82 (8.13%) Lead
7 65 (6.44%) GCP Engineer
8 63 (6.24%) Data Engineer
9 59 (5.85%) AWS Engineer
10 50 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 50 (4.96%) Software Engineer
11 42 (4.16%) Test Engineer
12 38 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 34 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
14 34 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
14 34 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
14 34 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.17%) Automation Engineer
15 32 (3.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (16.95%) REST
2 148 (14.67%) Kafka
2 148 (14.67%) Spring
3 109 (10.80%) Spring Boot
4 107 (10.60%) Node.js
5 83 (8.23%) Elastic Stack
6 76 (7.53%) RESTful
7 70 (6.94%) Playwright
8 53 (5.25%) React
9 47 (4.66%) AngularJS
10 46 (4.56%) OpenTelemetry
11 43 (4.26%) pytest
12 42 (4.16%) OpenID
13 41 (4.06%) GraphQL
14 40 (3.96%) JSON
14 40 (3.96%) LDAP
15 37 (3.67%) Hibernate
15 37 (3.67%) YAML
16 36 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
17 34 (3.37%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 186 (18.43%) Cloud Native
2 91 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.36%) Public Cloud
4 35 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
9 11 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.09%) Replication
10 10 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (0.89%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.89%) Derivative
11 9 (0.89%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.89%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.79%) Equities
12 8 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 224 (22.20%) Linux
2 55 (5.45%) Windows
3 36 (3.57%) Unix
4 29 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.59%) VMS
6 12 (1.19%) Android
7 11 (1.09%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.99%) CentOS
9 9 (0.89%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 852 (84.44%) CI/CD
2 675 (66.90%) DevOps
3 408 (40.44%) Agile
4 337 (33.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 306 (30.33%) Containerisation
6 305 (30.23%) Test Automation
7 250 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
8 223 (22.10%) Microservices
9 162 (16.06%) Observability
10 148 (14.67%) Scrum
11 135 (13.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (12.59%) Software Engineering
13 108 (10.70%) Mentoring
13 108 (10.70%) Migration
14 97 (9.61%) Analytics
15 94 (9.32%) Deployment Automation
16 88 (8.72%) Data Pipeline
17 87 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
18 82 (8.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 80 (7.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 450 (44.60%) Python
2 291 (28.84%) Java
3 208 (20.61%) SQL
4 164 (16.25%) Bash
5 93 (9.22%) JavaScript
6 78 (7.73%) Go
6 78 (7.73%) PowerShell
6 78 (7.73%) TypeScript
7 53 (5.25%) Shell Script
8 50 (4.96%) C#
9 28 (2.78%) Groovy
10 25 (2.48%) Scala
11 17 (1.68%) C++
12 14 (1.39%) PHP
13 12 (1.19%) Ruby
14 11 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.99%) Bicep
15 10 (0.99%) Perl
15 10 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.69%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 359 (35.58%) Security Cleared
2 294 (29.14%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.54%) Degree
4 47 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 29 (2.87%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.48%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
9 16 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.09%) OCP
13 9 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.79%) RHCE
15 6 (0.59%) OCA
16 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
17 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.01%) QA
2 55 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.98%) NIST
5 18 (1.78%) NCSC
5 18 (1.78%) SLA
6 10 (0.99%) GDPR
7 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
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
10 2 (0.20%) WCAG
11 1 (0.099%) SOC 2
System Software
1 470 (46.58%) Docker
2 31 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.18%) VMware NSX
3 22 (2.18%) vSphere
4 14 (1.39%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.69%) Postfix
6 6 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 6 (0.59%) HDFS
7 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.20%) SRDF
9 1 (0.099%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.099%) KVM
9 1 (0.099%) NFS
9 1 (0.099%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.099%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 1 (0.099%) Varnish
9 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 538 (53.32%) Kubernetes
2 398 (39.44%) Terraform
3 289 (28.64%) Ansible
4 205 (20.32%) Grafana
5 161 (15.96%) Prometheus
6 49 (4.86%) Argo
7 48 (4.76%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.27%) Istio
9 30 (2.97%) Puppet
10 22 (2.18%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.68%) Podman
12 13 (1.29%) Kibana
13 11 (1.09%) Packer
14 8 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.79%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.69%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
16 6 (0.59%) Rancher
17 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 117 (11.60%) Splunk
2 83 (8.23%) Google
3 76 (7.53%) Oracle
4 63 (6.24%) Microsoft
5 56 (5.55%) Red Hat
5 56 (5.55%) VMware
6 41 (4.06%) ServiceNow
7 39 (3.87%) Denodo
7 39 (3.87%) Talend
8 36 (3.57%) Databricks
9 33 (3.27%) Atlassian
10 24 (2.38%) Sonatype
11 23 (2.28%) Dynatrace
12 22 (2.18%) Pure Storage
13 17 (1.68%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.09%) AppDynamics
15 10 (0.99%) Cisco
15 10 (0.99%) Jaspersoft
16 9 (0.89%) Okta
16 9 (0.89%) Veritas