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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 77 93
Rank change year-on-year -36 +16 -31
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 935 779 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.15% 2.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.46% 22.39% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 539 636
10th Percentile £375 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £675
90th Percentile £663 £725 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 34
10th Percentile - £54.38 £51.88
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -5.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.44 -
90th Percentile - £69.38 -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £61.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +11.84% -12.50% -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 5,064 3,479 4,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.82% 14.09% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 2,359 2,971
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 70 226
10th Percentile £31.87 £27.35 £32.36
25th Percentile £59.06 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £75.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +4.84%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -38 421 £550 +0.64% 87
North of England -9 256 £473 +1.61% 48
Yorkshire -1 193 £488 -2.50% 16
Midlands -25 126 £481 +6.89% 11
West Midlands -4 116 £488 +2.63% 4
South East -72 60 £435 -13.00% 40
South West -10 51 £538 -6.52% 21
North West -71 42 £425 +8.70% 24
North East -11 28 £450 -3.23% 9
East of England -21 24 £478 -4.40% 9
East Midlands -49 8 £393 +8.12% 7
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
1 110 (11.76%) Confluence
2 33 (3.53%) SAS
3 25 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.07%) Apache
6 9 (0.96%) nginx
6 9 (0.96%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.64%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.32%) Camunda
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 469 (50.16%) AWS
2 395 (42.25%) GitHub
3 289 (30.91%) Azure
4 265 (28.34%) GitHub Actions
5 205 (21.93%) GCP
6 131 (14.01%) Amazon S3
7 117 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
8 115 (12.30%) Serverless
9 106 (11.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 103 (11.02%) Amazon EC2
11 100 (10.70%) AWS Lambda
12 97 (10.37%) OpenShift
13 95 (10.16%) Amazon EKS
14 75 (8.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 62 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
16 59 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 58 (6.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 42 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.85%) Route 53
20 33 (3.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (6.10%) DNS
2 52 (5.56%) Firewall
3 17 (1.82%) Network Security
4 15 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.50%) VPN
6 10 (1.07%) SSL
7 8 (0.86%) BIG-IP
7 8 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 8 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.86%) HTTP
7 8 (0.86%) SAN
8 6 (0.64%) VLAN
9 5 (0.53%) NAS
9 5 (0.53%) WAN
10 4 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.32%) BGP
11 3 (0.32%) Multicast
11 3 (0.32%) VSAN
12 2 (0.21%) Internet
12 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (15.19%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.02%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 51 (5.45%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 48 (5.13%) DynamoDB
6 47 (5.03%) Relational Database
7 34 (3.64%) Redis
7 34 (3.64%) SQL Server
8 25 (2.67%) Big Data
9 24 (2.57%) Pentaho
10 20 (2.14%) MySQL
11 19 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.71%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.60%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (1.50%) Metadata
15 11 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (1.07%) Power BI
17 9 (0.96%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 344 (36.79%) GitLab
2 282 (30.16%) Git
3 190 (20.32%) JIRA
4 112 (11.98%) JUnit
5 95 (10.16%) Selenium
6 67 (7.17%) Cucumber
6 67 (7.17%) Maven
7 56 (5.99%) Mockito
7 56 (5.99%) SonarQube
8 46 (4.92%) REST Assured
9 44 (4.71%) Bitbucket
10 42 (4.49%) Postman
11 36 (3.85%) Gatling
11 36 (3.85%) Gradle
11 36 (3.85%) JMeter
11 36 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (2.99%) WebDriver
13 24 (2.57%) Liquibase
14 20 (2.14%) Artifactory
15 15 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
General
1 245 (26.20%) Social Skills
2 147 (15.72%) Finance
3 127 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 102 (10.91%) Banking
5 76 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.25%) Law
9 18 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (1.60%) Retail
12 9 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.86%) Legal
13 8 (0.86%) Publishing
14 7 (0.75%) Front Office
14 7 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.64%) Marketing
15 6 (0.64%) Military
16 4 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 187 (20.00%) Developer
2 164 (17.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 141 (15.08%) Senior
4 102 (10.91%) Java Developer
5 76 (8.13%) Architect
6 65 (6.95%) Lead
7 57 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 54 (5.78%) GCP Engineer
9 49 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
10 46 (4.92%) Data Engineer
11 44 (4.71%) Test Engineer
12 40 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
13 39 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
13 39 (4.17%) Senior Developer
14 38 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
15 37 (3.96%) Tester
16 31 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 28 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
19 27 (2.89%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (18.07%) Spring
2 144 (15.40%) Spring Boot
3 137 (14.65%) Kafka
4 127 (13.58%) REST
5 100 (10.70%) RESTful
6 80 (8.56%) Node.js
7 69 (7.38%) React
8 55 (5.88%) Playwright
9 51 (5.45%) AngularJS
10 46 (4.92%) SOAP
11 43 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
11 43 (4.60%) JPA
11 43 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
12 42 (4.49%) HTML
12 42 (4.49%) Web Services
13 40 (4.28%) Spring Cloud
14 39 (4.17%) Hibernate
15 36 (3.85%) LDAP
16 32 (3.42%) Swagger
17 30 (3.21%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 192 (20.53%) Cloud Native
2 87 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.32%) Data Centre
4 31 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.57%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (1.82%) Replication
9 15 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.75%) Clustering
14 7 (0.75%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 183 (19.57%) Linux
2 49 (5.24%) Unix
3 45 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (4.39%) Windows
5 12 (1.28%) CentOS
6 11 (1.18%) Android
7 9 (0.96%) VMS
8 8 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.64%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.32%) AIX
12 3 (0.32%) zOS
13 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.21%) Solaris
13 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (85.67%) CI/CD
2 623 (66.63%) DevOps
3 398 (42.57%) Agile
4 320 (34.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 290 (31.02%) Test Automation
6 274 (29.30%) Containerisation
7 242 (25.88%) Microservices
8 183 (19.57%) Observability
9 168 (17.97%) Scrum
10 151 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
11 146 (15.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 141 (15.08%) Software Engineering
13 114 (12.19%) Platform Engineering
14 102 (10.91%) Migration
15 91 (9.73%) TDD
16 90 (9.63%) Validation
17 85 (9.09%) Event-Driven
18 80 (8.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 75 (8.02%) Deployment Automation
19 75 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 392 (41.93%) Python
2 330 (35.29%) Java
3 218 (23.32%) SQL
4 174 (18.61%) Bash
5 84 (8.98%) PowerShell
6 70 (7.49%) JavaScript
7 56 (5.99%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.67%) Shell Script
9 45 (4.81%) Go
10 36 (3.85%) Groovy
10 36 (3.85%) Scala
11 31 (3.32%) C#
12 20 (2.14%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.71%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.18%) Bicep
14 11 (1.18%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.18%) Perl
15 9 (0.96%) Ruby
16 8 (0.86%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.86%) Swift
Qualifications
1 357 (38.18%) Security Cleared
2 308 (32.94%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.28%) AWS Certification
4 39 (4.17%) Degree
5 29 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (1.39%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.75%) RHCE
13 6 (0.64%) OCP
14 5 (0.53%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.43%) CISSP
15 4 (0.43%) PMP
15 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (10.70%) QA
2 45 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.93%) NIST
6 17 (1.82%) SLA
7 13 (1.39%) NCSC
7 13 (1.39%) WCAG
8 9 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.43%) PSD2
10 4 (0.43%) SEPA
11 3 (0.32%) GDPR
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 418 (44.71%) Docker
2 26 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.25%) vSphere
4 19 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.82%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.60%) Postfix
7 13 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.75%) NFS
9 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.43%) HDFS
10 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.43%) SRDF
10 4 (0.43%) Varnish
11 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.32%) GridGain
11 3 (0.32%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 454 (48.56%) Kubernetes
2 379 (40.53%) Terraform
3 222 (23.74%) Ansible
4 203 (21.71%) Grafana
5 174 (18.61%) Prometheus
6 48 (5.13%) Argo
7 33 (3.53%) Istio
8 29 (3.10%) Puppet
9 24 (2.57%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.25%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.50%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.50%) Podman
12 12 (1.28%) Kibana
13 11 (1.18%) Check_MK
13 11 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (0.96%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.86%) Control-M
15 8 (0.86%) Packer
16 6 (0.64%) Consul
16 6 (0.64%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 83 (8.88%) Google
2 82 (8.77%) Splunk
3 68 (7.27%) Oracle
4 63 (6.74%) Red Hat
5 57 (6.10%) Microsoft
6 43 (4.60%) VMware
7 37 (3.96%) Dynatrace
8 25 (2.67%) Databricks
8 25 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 25 (2.67%) Talend
9 22 (2.35%) Salesforce
10 21 (2.25%) Atlassian
10 21 (2.25%) Denodo
11 20 (2.14%) Pure Storage
12 19 (2.03%) Sonatype
13 18 (1.93%) IBM
13 18 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
14 14 (1.50%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.39%) Okta
16 11 (1.18%) ForgeRock