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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 74 88
Rank change year-on-year -52 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,034 956 849
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.40% 2.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.05% 22.35% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 669 598
10th Percentile £358 £350 £386
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £674
90th Percentile £650 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 33
10th Percentile £64.50 £58.55 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
75th Percentile £75.00 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 5,428 4,278 4,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.59% 15.20% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,441 2,975 2,713
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
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 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 97 159
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.90 £41.51
25th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.50 £72.25
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 15 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 15 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 -19 554 £525 - 55
North of England -53 237 £450 -5.36% 46
Yorkshire -24 150 £475 -5.00% 13
Midlands -59 93 £483 -3.40% 19
West Midlands -45 89 £485 -5.83% 16
North West -69 70 £425 -1.16% 24
South East -88 67 £500 +2.56% 19
South West -10 63 £550 - 25
North East -35 19 £450 -20.88% 9
East of England -18 17 £425 -15.00% 7
East Midlands -34 3 £347 -2.12% 3
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 99 (9.57%) Confluence
2 26 (2.51%) nginx
3 24 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.03%) SAS
5 18 (1.74%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.06%) Apache
7 10 (0.97%) Camunda
8 8 (0.77%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.77%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.68%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.39%) CICS
10 4 (0.39%) CMS
10 4 (0.39%) IIS
11 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.19%) Traefik
13 1 (0.097%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.097%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.097%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.097%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.097%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.097%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.097%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Magento
2 7 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.097%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.097%) Shopify
4 1 (0.097%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 559 (54.06%) AWS
2 418 (40.43%) GitHub
3 403 (38.97%) Azure
4 320 (30.95%) GitHub Actions
5 249 (24.08%) GCP
6 206 (19.92%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (11.70%) Serverless
8 109 (10.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.15%) AWS Lambda
10 101 (9.77%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (9.77%) Amazon S3
11 99 (9.57%) OpenShift
12 87 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
13 72 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
14 69 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
15 49 (4.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 47 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 44 (4.26%) Datadog
18 42 (4.06%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (2.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (6.19%) Firewall
2 58 (5.61%) DNS
3 39 (3.77%) TCP/IP
4 31 (3.00%) Network Security
5 20 (1.93%) VPN
6 19 (1.84%) SSL
7 18 (1.74%) BIG-IP
7 18 (1.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 18 (1.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 16 (1.55%) HTTP
8 16 (1.55%) VLAN
9 9 (0.87%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.87%) SAN
9 9 (0.87%) WAN
10 8 (0.77%) DHCP
10 8 (0.77%) SSH
11 6 (0.58%) 4G
11 6 (0.58%) Internet
11 6 (0.58%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.48%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (6.48%) MongoDB
3 62 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 62 (6.00%) Relational Database
4 56 (5.42%) SQL Server
5 54 (5.22%) NoSQL
6 38 (3.68%) Redis
7 34 (3.29%) DynamoDB
8 33 (3.19%) MySQL
9 28 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
10 21 (2.03%) Pentaho
11 20 (1.93%) Big Data
12 19 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (1.74%) Data Lake
14 16 (1.55%) BigQuery
15 15 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.35%) Metadata
17 13 (1.26%) RDBMS
18 11 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
18 11 (1.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 382 (36.94%) Git
1 382 (36.94%) GitLab
2 173 (16.73%) JIRA
3 99 (9.57%) Selenium
4 98 (9.48%) JUnit
5 96 (9.28%) Maven
6 74 (7.16%) Cucumber
6 74 (7.16%) SonarQube
7 69 (6.67%) Gradle
8 57 (5.51%) Mockito
9 56 (5.42%) Bitbucket
10 55 (5.32%) REST Assured
11 50 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
12 45 (4.35%) Postman
13 41 (3.97%) JMeter
14 35 (3.38%) Gatling
15 23 (2.22%) WebDriver
16 22 (2.13%) TestNG
17 20 (1.93%) Artifactory
17 20 (1.93%) Cypress.io
General
1 253 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 170 (16.44%) Finance
3 132 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 120 (11.61%) Banking
5 111 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.13%) Retail
9 18 (1.74%) Law
10 15 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.26%) Publishing
12 12 (1.16%) Marketing
13 11 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (0.97%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.97%) Military
15 8 (0.77%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.77%) Legal
15 8 (0.77%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.77%) Police
16 7 (0.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 247 (23.89%) Developer
2 202 (19.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 160 (15.47%) Senior
4 115 (11.12%) Java Developer
5 73 (7.06%) Lead
6 59 (5.71%) Test Engineer
7 57 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
8 55 (5.32%) Architect
9 46 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
9 46 (4.45%) Senior Developer
10 44 (4.26%) Software Engineer
11 40 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
12 39 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 38 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (3.68%) Software Developer
14 33 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.09%) Platform Engineer
15 32 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.00%) Full-Stack Developer
16 31 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (39.75%) Terraform
2 197 (19.05%) Kafka
3 181 (17.50%) Spring
4 176 (17.02%) REST
5 168 (16.25%) Spring Boot
6 122 (11.80%) RESTful
7 103 (9.96%) React
8 73 (7.06%) HTML
9 68 (6.58%) Playwright
10 67 (6.48%) Node.js
11 60 (5.80%) Hibernate
12 57 (5.51%) Elastic Stack
13 55 (5.32%) JPA
14 54 (5.22%) SOAP
15 49 (4.74%) CSS
16 47 (4.55%) AngularJS
17 46 (4.45%) Web Services
18 40 (3.87%) .NET
19 38 (3.68%) JSON
20 34 (3.29%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 196 (18.96%) Cloud Native
2 84 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (4.16%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (2.80%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.51%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.51%) Replication
9 24 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.22%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.84%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.74%) Private Cloud
13 16 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.55%) PKI
13 16 (1.55%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
15 13 (1.26%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.16%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 231 (22.34%) Linux
2 60 (5.80%) Windows
3 53 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 53 (5.13%) Unix
4 17 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.35%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (0.97%) CentOS
7 9 (0.87%) Android
8 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.58%) zOS
10 5 (0.48%) VMS
11 4 (0.39%) macOS
12 3 (0.29%) AIX
12 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.19%) Rocky
13 2 (0.19%) Solaris
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (85.59%) CI/CD
2 700 (67.70%) DevOps
3 494 (47.78%) Agile
4 378 (36.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 340 (32.88%) Test Automation
6 331 (32.01%) Containerisation
7 275 (26.60%) Microservices
8 237 (22.92%) Observability
9 193 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
10 192 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 170 (16.44%) Scrum
12 156 (15.09%) Software Engineering
13 148 (14.31%) Platform Engineering
14 117 (11.32%) Deployment Automation
15 110 (10.64%) AI
16 107 (10.35%) DevSecOps
17 106 (10.25%) Event-Driven
17 106 (10.25%) SDLC
18 104 (10.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 103 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 461 (44.58%) Python
2 387 (37.43%) Java
3 245 (23.69%) SQL
4 213 (20.60%) Bash
5 127 (12.28%) PowerShell
6 125 (12.09%) JavaScript
7 80 (7.74%) TypeScript
8 66 (6.38%) C#
8 66 (6.38%) Groovy
9 53 (5.13%) Go
10 48 (4.64%) Shell Script
11 40 (3.87%) PL/SQL
12 27 (2.61%) Perl
13 25 (2.42%) Scala
14 18 (1.74%) ActionScript
15 17 (1.64%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.55%) Bicep
17 14 (1.35%) C++
18 11 (1.06%) Korn
19 10 (0.97%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 439 (42.46%) Security Cleared
2 358 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.61%) DV Cleared
4 68 (6.58%) AWS Certification
5 60 (5.80%) Degree
6 42 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (1.64%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.35%) CISSP
10 13 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.48%) GCFA
14 5 (0.48%) GCIH
14 5 (0.48%) RHCE
15 4 (0.39%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (15.18%) QA
2 42 (4.06%) Data Quality
3 41 (3.97%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.64%) GDPR
4 17 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.64%) NIST
5 11 (1.06%) WCAG
6 10 (0.97%) NCSC
6 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.77%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.58%) SEPA
9 5 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.48%) PSD2
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.19%) GRC
11 2 (0.19%) SLA
12 1 (0.097%) HL7
12 1 (0.097%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 512 (49.52%) Docker
2 20 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.58%) Postfix
6 5 (0.48%) NFS
6 5 (0.48%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.39%) HDFS
7 4 (0.39%) Squid
7 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.39%) VirtualBox
7 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.29%) RACF
8 3 (0.29%) vSphere
9 2 (0.19%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.19%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.19%) Varnish
9 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.097%) KVM
Systems Management
1 515 (49.81%) Kubernetes
2 239 (23.11%) Ansible
3 222 (21.47%) Grafana
4 183 (17.70%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.68%) Progress Chef
6 37 (3.58%) Puppet
7 34 (3.29%) Argo
7 34 (3.29%) Kibana
8 17 (1.64%) Control-M
9 15 (1.45%) Istio
10 13 (1.26%) Packer
11 11 (1.06%) HAProxy
12 10 (0.97%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
13 8 (0.77%) Podman
14 7 (0.68%) Consul
14 7 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.48%) CASB
15 5 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 114 (11.03%) Google
2 89 (8.61%) Oracle
3 87 (8.41%) Microsoft
4 83 (8.03%) Splunk
5 76 (7.35%) Dynatrace
6 42 (4.06%) IBM
7 34 (3.29%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 30 (2.90%) ServiceNow
9 28 (2.71%) VMware
10 25 (2.42%) Databricks
11 21 (2.03%) Talend
12 19 (1.84%) F5
13 17 (1.64%) Denodo
14 16 (1.55%) New Relic
15 13 (1.26%) Veracode
16 12 (1.16%) SAP
17 10 (0.97%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.97%) MuleSoft
18 9 (0.87%) SaltStack