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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 73 87
Rank change year-on-year -51 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,030 951 848
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.41% 2.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.11% 22.34% 19.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 664 597
10th Percentile £358 £350 £381
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -7.06% -3.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £671
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 10 5 33
10th Percentile £62.35 £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 5,389 4,257 4,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.58% 15.25% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,416 2,963 2,694
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £416
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 256 97 159
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.90 £41.51
25th Percentile £51.01 £50.00 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 13 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 13 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 -14 554 £525 - 338
North of England -50 235 £450 -5.26% 141
Yorkshire -26 149 £475 -5.00% 43
Midlands -55 92 £484 -3.20% 48
West Midlands -51 88 £486 -5.73% 30
North West -69 69 £425 -1.16% 78
South East -84 67 £500 +2.56% 66
South West -4 62 £550 - 51
North East -38 19 £450 -20.88% 20
East of England -14 17 £425 -15.00% 40
East Midlands -34 3 £347 -2.12% 18
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 97 (9.42%) Confluence
2 30 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 25 (2.43%) nginx
4 19 (1.84%) SAS
5 11 (1.07%) Apache
5 11 (1.07%) Camunda
6 8 (0.78%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.68%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.39%) CICS
8 4 (0.39%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) CMS
9 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.19%) Traefik
11 1 (0.097%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.097%) FactoryTalk
11 1 (0.097%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.78%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.78%) 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 (0.78%) 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
1 561 (54.47%) AWS
2 417 (40.49%) GitHub
3 398 (38.64%) Azure
4 320 (31.07%) GitHub Actions
5 245 (23.79%) GCP
6 205 (19.90%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (11.84%) Serverless
8 111 (10.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 111 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (10.58%) Amazon S3
10 100 (9.71%) OpenShift
11 99 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
13 77 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
14 70 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
15 48 (4.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 47 (4.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 44 (4.27%) Datadog
18 43 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (2.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (6.21%) Firewall
2 58 (5.63%) DNS
3 39 (3.79%) TCP/IP
4 31 (3.01%) Network Security
5 20 (1.94%) VPN
6 19 (1.84%) SSL
7 18 (1.75%) BIG-IP
7 18 (1.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 18 (1.75%) 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 (0.78%) DHCP
10 8 (0.78%) SSH
11 6 (0.58%) 4G
11 6 (0.58%) Internet
11 6 (0.58%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.49%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (7.09%) MongoDB
3 66 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (5.92%) Relational Database
5 60 (5.83%) NoSQL
6 55 (5.34%) SQL Server
7 38 (3.69%) Redis
8 35 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
9 34 (3.30%) DynamoDB
10 32 (3.11%) MySQL
11 26 (2.52%) Big Data
12 19 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (1.84%) Pentaho
13 18 (1.75%) Data Lake
14 16 (1.55%) BigQuery
15 15 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (1.36%) Metadata
17 12 (1.17%) RDBMS
18 11 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
18 11 (1.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 379 (36.80%) GitLab
2 376 (36.50%) Git
3 171 (16.60%) JIRA
4 99 (9.61%) Selenium
5 98 (9.51%) JUnit
6 94 (9.13%) Maven
7 76 (7.38%) SonarQube
8 73 (7.09%) Cucumber
9 68 (6.60%) Gradle
10 58 (5.63%) Mockito
11 55 (5.34%) Bitbucket
11 55 (5.34%) REST Assured
12 48 (4.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 45 (4.37%) Postman
14 40 (3.88%) JMeter
15 35 (3.40%) Gatling
16 23 (2.23%) WebDriver
17 22 (2.14%) TestNG
18 20 (1.94%) Cypress.io
19 19 (1.84%) Artifactory
General
1 248 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 170 (16.50%) Finance
3 132 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 120 (11.65%) Banking
5 116 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.14%) Retail
9 18 (1.75%) Law
10 15 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.26%) Publishing
12 12 (1.17%) Marketing
13 11 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (0.97%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.97%) Military
15 8 (0.78%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.78%) Legal
15 8 (0.78%) Local Government
15 8 (0.78%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 250 (24.27%) Developer
2 199 (19.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 159 (15.44%) Senior
4 119 (11.55%) Java Developer
5 71 (6.89%) Lead
6 58 (5.63%) Test Engineer
7 57 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
8 56 (5.44%) Architect
9 47 (4.56%) Senior Developer
10 46 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
11 42 (4.08%) Software Engineer
12 40 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
13 39 (3.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 38 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
15 37 (3.59%) Software Developer
16 33 (3.20%) Data Engineer
17 32 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
17 32 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
17 32 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
17 32 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 414 (40.19%) Terraform
2 197 (19.13%) Kafka
3 182 (17.67%) Spring
4 176 (17.09%) REST
5 169 (16.41%) Spring Boot
6 127 (12.33%) RESTful
7 104 (10.10%) React
8 80 (7.77%) HTML
9 68 (6.60%) Playwright
10 67 (6.50%) Node.js
11 60 (5.83%) Hibernate
12 56 (5.44%) Elastic Stack
13 55 (5.34%) CSS
13 55 (5.34%) JPA
13 55 (5.34%) SOAP
14 48 (4.66%) AngularJS
15 47 (4.56%) Web Services
16 39 (3.79%) .NET
17 37 (3.59%) JSON
18 33 (3.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 191 (18.54%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.64%) Product Ownership
3 62 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 42 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (3.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 26 (2.52%) Replication
9 24 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 24 (2.33%) Onboarding
10 23 (2.23%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.75%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.75%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.55%) PKI
13 15 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.26%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 234 (22.72%) Linux
2 59 (5.73%) Windows
3 58 (5.63%) Unix
4 53 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.97%) CentOS
8 9 (0.87%) Android
9 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.58%) zOS
11 5 (0.49%) VMS
12 4 (0.39%) macOS
13 3 (0.29%) AIX
13 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.19%) Rocky
14 2 (0.19%) Solaris
14 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 880 (85.44%) CI/CD
2 693 (67.28%) DevOps
3 495 (48.06%) Agile
4 379 (36.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 345 (33.50%) Test Automation
6 326 (31.65%) Containerisation
7 274 (26.60%) Microservices
8 234 (22.72%) Observability
9 192 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
10 189 (18.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 173 (16.80%) Scrum
12 154 (14.95%) Software Engineering
13 145 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
14 117 (11.36%) Deployment Automation
15 108 (10.49%) AI
16 106 (10.29%) DevSecOps
17 105 (10.19%) Event-Driven
17 105 (10.19%) SDLC
18 102 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 101 (9.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 462 (44.85%) Python
2 392 (38.06%) Java
3 247 (23.98%) SQL
4 212 (20.58%) Bash
5 133 (12.91%) JavaScript
6 126 (12.23%) PowerShell
7 80 (7.77%) TypeScript
8 65 (6.31%) Groovy
9 64 (6.21%) C#
10 53 (5.15%) Go
11 48 (4.66%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.79%) PL/SQL
13 32 (3.11%) Scala
14 27 (2.62%) Perl
15 18 (1.75%) ActionScript
16 17 (1.65%) Kotlin
17 16 (1.55%) Bicep
18 14 (1.36%) C++
19 11 (1.07%) Korn
20 10 (0.97%) C
Qualifications
1 437 (42.43%) Security Cleared
2 356 (34.56%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.54%) DV Cleared
4 64 (6.21%) AWS Certification
5 59 (5.73%) Degree
6 41 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.55%) ISTQB
11 14 (1.36%) CISSP
12 13 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 5 (0.49%) GCFA
16 5 (0.49%) GCIH
16 5 (0.49%) RHCE
17 4 (0.39%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (15.24%) QA
2 41 (3.98%) Accessibility
2 41 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 17 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.65%) NIST
4 16 (1.55%) GDPR
5 11 (1.07%) WCAG
6 10 (0.97%) NCSC
6 10 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.87%) ISO 20022
8 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.58%) SEPA
9 5 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.49%) 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%) JSP 440
System Software
1 509 (49.42%) Docker
2 20 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.68%) Postfix
6 5 (0.49%) NFS
6 5 (0.49%) 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%) etcd
Systems Management
1 505 (49.03%) Kubernetes
2 237 (23.01%) Ansible
3 228 (22.14%) Grafana
4 184 (17.86%) Prometheus
5 39 (3.79%) Kibana
6 37 (3.59%) Progress Chef
7 36 (3.50%) Puppet
8 34 (3.30%) Argo
9 17 (1.65%) Control-M
10 15 (1.46%) Istio
11 13 (1.26%) Packer
12 11 (1.07%) HAProxy
13 10 (0.97%) Kustomize
14 8 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.78%) Podman
15 7 (0.68%) Consul
15 7 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.49%) CASB
16 5 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 111 (10.78%) Google
2 89 (8.64%) Oracle
3 88 (8.54%) Splunk
4 87 (8.45%) Microsoft
5 75 (7.28%) Dynatrace
6 42 (4.08%) IBM
7 34 (3.30%) Red Hat
8 30 (2.91%) Salesforce
9 29 (2.82%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.72%) VMware
11 25 (2.43%) Databricks
12 19 (1.84%) F5
12 19 (1.84%) Talend
13 16 (1.55%) New Relic
14 15 (1.46%) Denodo
15 13 (1.26%) Veracode
16 12 (1.17%) SAP
17 10 (0.97%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.97%) MuleSoft
18 9 (0.87%) SaltStack