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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 74 88
Rank change year-on-year -54 +14 -13
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 983 921 842
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.12% 3.36% 2.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.59% 22.50% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 633 608
10th Percentile £356 £350 £390
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -7.06% -6.43%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 33
10th Percentile £64.20 £54.75 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -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 5,288 4,094 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 14.93% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 2,830 2,789
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
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 246 92 169
10th Percentile £24.62 £42.50 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.94 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £77.50 £74.00
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 22 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 22 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 -26 529 £525 -2.55% 320
North of England -52 224 £453 -4.23% 120
Yorkshire -22 151 £477 -4.70% 40
Midlands -57 92 £489 +2.89% 37
West Midlands -43 88 £490 -2.00% 20
South East -78 67 £464 -7.25% 62
South West -15 57 £550 - 61
North West -88 55 £430 -1.83% 59
North East -33 20 £450 -13.25% 21
East of England -25 17 £475 -5.00% 35
East Midlands -39 3 £347 -2.12% 17
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 (10.07%) Confluence
2 28 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.73%) nginx
5 13 (1.32%) SAS
6 12 (1.22%) Apache
7 10 (1.02%) Camunda
8 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.41%) CICS
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 4 (0.41%) IIS
10 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) Traefik
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.10%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 522 (53.10%) AWS
2 389 (39.57%) GitHub
3 382 (38.86%) Azure
4 302 (30.72%) GitHub Actions
5 221 (22.48%) GCP
6 190 (19.33%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (11.90%) Serverless
8 109 (11.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.68%) Amazon S3
9 105 (10.68%) AWS Lambda
10 98 (9.97%) OpenShift
11 90 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (8.65%) Amazon EC2
13 67 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 66 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
15 44 (4.48%) Datadog
15 44 (4.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 44 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 43 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
17 25 (2.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.70%) Firewall
2 52 (5.29%) DNS
3 34 (3.46%) TCP/IP
4 25 (2.54%) Network Security
5 17 (1.73%) SSL
6 16 (1.63%) HTTP
7 15 (1.53%) BIG-IP
7 15 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 15 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 13 (1.32%) VLAN
9 11 (1.12%) SAN
9 11 (1.12%) VPN
10 9 (0.92%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.81%) SSH
12 7 (0.71%) DHCP
12 7 (0.71%) WAN
13 6 (0.61%) 4G
13 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
14 5 (0.51%) 5G
15 3 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.85%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 61 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (6.10%) Relational Database
5 58 (5.90%) NoSQL
6 51 (5.19%) SQL Server
7 40 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 36 (3.66%) Redis
9 33 (3.36%) DynamoDB
10 29 (2.95%) MySQL
11 27 (2.75%) Big Data
12 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (1.63%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.53%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.53%) Metadata
15 14 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.42%) Pentaho
16 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 365 (37.13%) GitLab
2 357 (36.32%) Git
3 172 (17.50%) JIRA
4 100 (10.17%) JUnit
5 93 (9.46%) Selenium
6 91 (9.26%) Maven
7 81 (8.24%) SonarQube
8 64 (6.51%) Gradle
9 59 (6.00%) Cucumber
9 59 (6.00%) Mockito
10 52 (5.29%) Bitbucket
11 50 (5.09%) REST Assured
12 41 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 40 (4.07%) Postman
14 38 (3.87%) JMeter
15 34 (3.46%) Gatling
16 24 (2.44%) WebDriver
17 20 (2.03%) TestNG
18 18 (1.83%) Zephyr
19 16 (1.63%) Artifactory
General
1 228 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 150 (15.26%) Finance
3 128 (13.02%) Public Sector
4 111 (11.29%) Banking
5 106 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.03%) Retail
9 17 (1.73%) Law
10 15 (1.53%) Publishing
10 15 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.32%) Marketing
12 10 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.81%) Front Office
13 8 (0.81%) Legal
13 8 (0.81%) Local Government
13 8 (0.81%) Military
14 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 252 (25.64%) Developer
2 179 (18.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 154 (15.67%) Senior
4 120 (12.21%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.32%) Lead
6 53 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (5.29%) Architect
8 50 (5.09%) Test Engineer
9 47 (4.78%) Senior Developer
10 44 (4.48%) Software Engineer
11 43 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (3.76%) Automation Engineer
12 37 (3.76%) Software Developer
13 36 (3.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 32 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
14 32 (3.26%) Senior Java Developer
15 31 (3.15%) GCP Engineer
15 31 (3.15%) Platform Engineer
16 30 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
17 28 (2.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (38.96%) Terraform
2 188 (19.13%) Kafka
3 180 (18.31%) Spring
4 165 (16.79%) Spring Boot
5 162 (16.48%) REST
6 124 (12.61%) RESTful
7 102 (10.38%) React
8 78 (7.93%) Node.js
9 75 (7.63%) HTML
10 60 (6.10%) Hibernate
11 59 (6.00%) Playwright
12 55 (5.60%) AngularJS
12 55 (5.60%) JPA
13 54 (5.49%) SOAP
14 51 (5.19%) CSS
15 50 (5.09%) Elastic Stack
16 47 (4.78%) Web Services
17 40 (4.07%) JSON
18 35 (3.56%) .NET
19 31 (3.15%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 169 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 62 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 36 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.95%) Replication
7 27 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 27 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.03%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.93%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.83%) Private Cloud
12 15 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.22%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 213 (21.67%) Linux
2 57 (5.80%) Unix
3 53 (5.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (4.88%) Windows
5 16 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.12%) CentOS
8 10 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.81%) Android
10 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.61%) zOS
11 4 (0.41%) VMS
12 3 (0.31%) AIX
12 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.20%) Rocky
13 2 (0.20%) Solaris
13 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (84.54%) CI/CD
2 654 (66.53%) DevOps
3 480 (48.83%) Agile
4 358 (36.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 330 (33.57%) Test Automation
6 300 (30.52%) Containerisation
7 265 (26.96%) Microservices
8 219 (22.28%) Observability
9 181 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 176 (17.90%) Scrum
11 173 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (15.56%) Software Engineering
13 134 (13.63%) Platform Engineering
14 112 (11.39%) Deployment Automation
15 107 (10.89%) AI
16 102 (10.38%) Event-Driven
17 101 (10.27%) DevSecOps
17 101 (10.27%) TDD
18 98 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
19 93 (9.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 421 (42.83%) Python
2 382 (38.86%) Java
3 248 (25.23%) SQL
4 189 (19.23%) Bash
5 120 (12.21%) JavaScript
6 115 (11.70%) PowerShell
7 76 (7.73%) TypeScript
8 60 (6.10%) Groovy
9 57 (5.80%) C#
10 52 (5.29%) Go
11 49 (4.98%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.97%) PL/SQL
13 30 (3.05%) Scala
14 28 (2.85%) Perl
15 17 (1.73%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.63%) Bicep
17 15 (1.53%) ActionScript
18 12 (1.22%) C++
19 11 (1.12%) Korn
20 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 406 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 334 (33.98%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.22%) DV Cleared
4 59 (6.00%) Degree
5 52 (5.29%) AWS Certification
6 41 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.54%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.73%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.42%) CISSP
12 12 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) GCFA
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (14.65%) QA
2 37 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.66%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.73%) NIST
5 12 (1.22%) WCAG
6 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
6 10 (1.02%) NCSC
6 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.92%) GDPR
8 6 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.61%) SEPA
9 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.51%) PSD2
10 4 (0.41%) SLA
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 477 (48.52%) Docker
2 22 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 6 (0.61%) NFS
7 5 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.41%) vSphere
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.31%) RACF
9 3 (0.31%) Varnish
9 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.20%) HDFS
10 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 480 (48.83%) Kubernetes
2 229 (23.30%) Ansible
3 222 (22.58%) Grafana
4 184 (18.72%) Prometheus
5 35 (3.56%) Progress Chef
6 33 (3.36%) Argo
7 32 (3.26%) Puppet
8 28 (2.85%) Kibana
9 17 (1.73%) Control-M
10 13 (1.32%) Packer
11 12 (1.22%) Istio
12 11 (1.12%) HAProxy
13 10 (1.02%) Kustomize
13 10 (1.02%) Podman
14 8 (0.81%) Consul
15 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) Cilium
16 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (9.56%) Google
2 91 (9.26%) Oracle
3 84 (8.55%) Microsoft
4 83 (8.44%) Splunk
5 69 (7.02%) Dynatrace
6 41 (4.17%) IBM
7 37 (3.76%) Red Hat
8 31 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 31 (3.15%) VMware
9 25 (2.54%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.34%) Databricks
11 16 (1.63%) F5
11 16 (1.63%) New Relic
12 15 (1.53%) Talend
13 12 (1.22%) Sonatype
13 12 (1.22%) Veracode
14 11 (1.12%) Denodo
14 11 (1.12%) NetApp
15 10 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (1.02%) SAP