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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 83 105
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 -52
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 999 716 838
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.73% 2.90% 2.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.00% 21.45% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 497 617
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £650
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 4,994 3,338 4,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 13.53% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,373 2,183 2,993
10th Percentile £338 £335 £360
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -8.18%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 63 184
10th Percentile £32.39 £26.08 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.72 £48.23
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £72.50 £71.56
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £86.88
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -37 414 £530 -13.11% 95
North of England +16 257 £487 -2.60% 89
Yorkshire +16 196 £500 -11.11% 40
Midlands +14 155 £513 +7.77% 25
West Midlands +25 141 £515 +7.97% 20
South East -8 97 £462 -7.70% 60
South West -1 54 £525 -8.70% 40
North West -42 46 £435 +7.54% 27
East of England -19 23 £475 +5.56% 24
North East 0 20 £513 +1.49% 22
East Midlands -37 13 £401 -11.18% 5
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 (12.61%) Confluence
2 65 (6.51%) SAS
3 21 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.90%) Apache
7 7 (0.70%) nginx
8 6 (0.60%) JBoss
9 5 (0.50%) IIS
9 5 (0.50%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.10%) iPlanet
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.10%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 20 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 501 (50.15%) AWS
2 388 (38.84%) GitHub
3 275 (27.53%) Azure
4 233 (23.32%) GitHub Actions
5 227 (22.72%) GCP
6 144 (14.41%) OpenShift
7 127 (12.71%) Serverless
8 118 (11.81%) Amazon S3
9 113 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
10 100 (10.01%) Amazon EC2
11 94 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
13 86 (8.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 79 (7.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 70 (7.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 65 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
17 60 (6.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 49 (4.90%) Datadog
19 35 (3.50%) Azure AKS
20 31 (3.10%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.01%) DNS
2 53 (5.31%) Firewall
3 27 (2.70%) VPN
4 17 (1.70%) Network Security
5 14 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.10%) HTTP
7 10 (1.00%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.70%) SSL
8 7 (0.70%) WAN
9 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.60%) Internet
9 6 (0.60%) 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 (0.10%) Multicast
13 1 (0.10%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (16.32%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (9.01%) NoSQL
3 86 (8.61%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (5.61%) MongoDB
5 44 (4.40%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.70%) MySQL
7 35 (3.50%) Relational Database
8 34 (3.40%) Pentaho
9 32 (3.20%) SQL Server
10 27 (2.70%) Redis
11 23 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (2.10%) Big Data
13 19 (1.90%) Oracle Database
14 18 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (1.50%) BigQuery
16 13 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.30%) Power BI
17 12 (1.20%) Tableau
18 11 (1.10%) Hadoop
18 11 (1.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 401 (40.14%) GitLab
2 310 (31.03%) Git
3 228 (22.82%) JIRA
4 119 (11.91%) JUnit
5 114 (11.41%) Selenium
6 97 (9.71%) Cucumber
7 71 (7.11%) Sonatype Nexus
8 62 (6.21%) Postman
9 54 (5.41%) Bitbucket
10 53 (5.31%) Maven
11 46 (4.60%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.20%) REST Assured
13 37 (3.70%) JMeter
14 31 (3.10%) Gradle
14 31 (3.10%) Mockito
15 26 (2.60%) CircleCI
16 25 (2.50%) Artifactory
17 22 (2.20%) Gatling
18 20 (2.00%) Cypress.io
19 19 (1.90%) Liquibase
General
1 309 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 207 (20.72%) Finance
3 127 (12.71%) Banking
4 124 (12.41%) Public Sector
5 77 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 22 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.10%) Military
11 10 (1.00%) Retail
12 8 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.60%) Front Office
14 6 (0.60%) Law
14 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 180 (18.02%) Developer
2 147 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 143 (14.31%) Senior
4 85 (8.51%) Architect
5 82 (8.21%) Java Developer
6 80 (8.01%) Lead
7 66 (6.61%) GCP Engineer
8 64 (6.41%) Data Engineer
9 57 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
10 52 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 49 (4.90%) Software Engineer
12 42 (4.20%) Test Engineer
13 38 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (3.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 35 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
15 35 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 33 (3.30%) Tester
17 32 (3.20%) Automation Engineer
17 32 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
17 32 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (17.22%) REST
2 148 (14.81%) Spring
3 145 (14.51%) Kafka
4 111 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 106 (10.61%) Node.js
6 80 (8.01%) Elastic Stack
7 77 (7.71%) RESTful
8 69 (6.91%) Playwright
9 52 (5.21%) React
10 47 (4.70%) AngularJS
11 46 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
12 43 (4.30%) OpenID
12 43 (4.30%) pytest
13 41 (4.10%) GraphQL
14 40 (4.00%) JSON
14 40 (4.00%) LDAP
15 37 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
15 37 (3.70%) YAML
16 34 (3.40%) OAuth
16 34 (3.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 188 (18.82%) Cloud Native
2 91 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 35 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.30%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.00%) Replication
12 9 (0.90%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.90%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.90%) Derivative
12 9 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
12 9 (0.90%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.90%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.80%) Equities
13 8 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 219 (21.92%) Linux
2 55 (5.51%) Windows
3 35 (3.50%) Unix
4 28 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.60%) VMS
6 13 (1.30%) Android
7 11 (1.10%) Windows Server
8 10 (1.00%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.90%) CentOS
10 4 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (84.08%) CI/CD
2 667 (66.77%) DevOps
3 401 (40.14%) Agile
4 333 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 303 (30.33%) Containerisation
6 301 (30.13%) Test Automation
7 246 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
8 222 (22.22%) Microservices
9 159 (15.92%) Observability
10 141 (14.11%) Scrum
11 131 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (12.71%) Software Engineering
13 106 (10.61%) Mentoring
13 106 (10.61%) Migration
14 92 (9.21%) Analytics
15 89 (8.91%) Deployment Automation
16 87 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
17 84 (8.41%) Data Pipeline
18 83 (8.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 81 (8.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 446 (44.64%) Python
2 291 (29.13%) Java
3 205 (20.52%) SQL
4 162 (16.22%) Bash
5 91 (9.11%) JavaScript
6 78 (7.81%) PowerShell
6 78 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 76 (7.61%) Go
8 52 (5.21%) Shell Script
9 48 (4.80%) C#
10 28 (2.80%) Groovy
11 27 (2.70%) Scala
12 16 (1.60%) C++
13 14 (1.40%) PHP
14 13 (1.30%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.20%) Ruby
16 10 (1.00%) Bicep
16 10 (1.00%) Perl
16 10 (1.00%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 354 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 288 (28.83%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.51%) Degree
4 47 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 28 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
9 14 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.10%) OCP
12 9 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.80%) RHCE
14 6 (0.60%) OCA
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.11%) QA
2 51 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.00%) NIST
5 17 (1.70%) NCSC
5 17 (1.70%) SLA
6 10 (1.00%) GDPR
7 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.60%) 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 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 461 (46.15%) Docker
2 29 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.20%) VMware NSX
3 22 (2.20%) vSphere
4 14 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (1.30%) Active Directory
6 7 (0.70%) Postfix
7 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.60%) HDFS
8 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.20%) SRDF
10 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.10%) KVM
10 1 (0.10%) NFS
10 1 (0.10%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 1 (0.10%) Varnish
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 531 (53.15%) Kubernetes
2 394 (39.44%) Terraform
3 284 (28.43%) Ansible
4 205 (20.52%) Grafana
5 161 (16.12%) Prometheus
6 48 (4.80%) Argo
7 43 (4.30%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.30%) Istio
9 28 (2.80%) Puppet
10 22 (2.20%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.70%) Podman
12 13 (1.30%) Kibana
13 10 (1.00%) Packer
14 8 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.80%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.70%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
16 6 (0.60%) Rancher
17 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 116 (11.61%) Splunk
2 85 (8.51%) Google
3 71 (7.11%) Oracle
4 63 (6.31%) Microsoft
5 56 (5.61%) Red Hat
6 53 (5.31%) VMware
7 42 (4.20%) ServiceNow
8 38 (3.80%) Databricks
9 34 (3.40%) Denodo
9 34 (3.40%) Talend
10 32 (3.20%) Atlassian
11 24 (2.40%) Sonatype
12 23 (2.30%) Dynatrace
13 22 (2.20%) Pure Storage
14 17 (1.70%) CyberArk
15 11 (1.10%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.00%) Cisco
16 10 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
17 9 (0.90%) Veritas
18 8 (0.80%) IBM