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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 79 99
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 -38
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 923 763 832
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.18% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.47% 22.49% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 523 624
10th Percentile £373 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £657 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 27
10th Percentile - £54.75 £52.10
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £65.94
Median hourly rate £68.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.25 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% -7.14% -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 4,998 3,392 4,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.96% 14.14% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,267 2,287 2,901
10th Percentile £349 £350 £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 £610 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 64 205
10th Percentile £35.88 £27.63 £31.43
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.63 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +5.69%

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 4 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 4 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 -42 404 £550 - 89
North of England -9 258 £475 - 75
Yorkshire -2 199 £488 -2.50% 31
Midlands -23 128 £481 +6.89% 21
West Midlands -5 117 £488 +2.63% 6
South East -70 61 £433 -13.50% 37
South West -19 50 £538 -6.52% 28
North West -53 41 £425 +6.25% 33
North East -10 25 £425 -8.60% 12
East of England -24 24 £478 -4.40% 11
East Midlands -47 9 £393 +6.79% 15
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
1 109 (11.81%) Confluence
2 33 (3.58%) SAS
3 25 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.08%) Apache
6 8 (0.87%) nginx
6 8 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) Camunda
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 476 (51.57%) AWS
2 393 (42.58%) GitHub
3 295 (31.96%) Azure
4 265 (28.71%) GitHub Actions
5 211 (22.86%) GCP
6 132 (14.30%) Amazon S3
7 116 (12.57%) Serverless
8 109 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (11.38%) Amazon EC2
10 104 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (11.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 98 (10.62%) OpenShift
13 94 (10.18%) Amazon EKS
14 75 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (6.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 59 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
17 57 (6.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 40 (4.33%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.90%) Route 53
20 33 (3.58%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.50%) DNS
2 54 (5.85%) Firewall
3 17 (1.84%) Network Security
4 16 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.73%) VPN
5 10 (1.08%) SSL
6 8 (0.87%) SAN
7 7 (0.76%) BIG-IP
7 7 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 7 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (0.76%) HTTP
8 5 (0.54%) NAS
9 4 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.43%) VLAN
9 4 (0.43%) WAN
10 3 (0.33%) BGP
10 3 (0.33%) VSAN
11 2 (0.22%) LAN
11 2 (0.22%) Multicast
11 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.13%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (5.53%) NoSQL
4 50 (5.42%) MongoDB
5 49 (5.31%) DynamoDB
6 48 (5.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 45 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 40 (4.33%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.36%) Redis
10 27 (2.93%) Big Data
11 25 (2.71%) MySQL
12 24 (2.60%) Pentaho
13 19 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.73%) BigQuery
15 15 (1.63%) Data Lake
16 14 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
17 12 (1.30%) Metadata
18 10 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
19 9 (0.98%) Neo4j
19 9 (0.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 349 (37.81%) GitLab
2 278 (30.12%) Git
3 192 (20.80%) JIRA
4 110 (11.92%) JUnit
5 106 (11.48%) Selenium
6 73 (7.91%) Cucumber
7 64 (6.93%) Maven
8 56 (6.07%) Mockito
9 52 (5.63%) REST Assured
9 52 (5.63%) SonarQube
10 50 (5.42%) Postman
11 43 (4.66%) Bitbucket
12 36 (3.90%) Gatling
12 36 (3.90%) JMeter
13 35 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
14 34 (3.68%) Gradle
15 29 (3.14%) WebDriver
16 24 (2.60%) Liquibase
17 20 (2.17%) Artifactory
18 15 (1.63%) Serenity BDD
General
1 250 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 139 (15.06%) Finance
3 119 (12.89%) Public Sector
4 100 (10.83%) Banking
5 73 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (1.84%) Law
10 15 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (1.63%) Retail
11 9 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.87%) Front Office
12 8 (0.87%) Legal
13 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.65%) Marketing
14 6 (0.65%) Military
14 6 (0.65%) Publishing
15 3 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 176 (19.07%) Developer
2 154 (16.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 136 (14.73%) Senior
4 95 (10.29%) Java Developer
5 77 (8.34%) Architect
6 74 (8.02%) Lead
7 54 (5.85%) Software Engineer
8 53 (5.74%) GCP Engineer
9 49 (5.31%) Test Engineer
10 47 (5.09%) Data Engineer
11 43 (4.66%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 36 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
12 36 (3.90%) Senior Developer
13 35 (3.79%) Tester
14 33 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
14 33 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.03%) GCP DevOps
16 27 (2.93%) Senior Java Developer
16 27 (2.93%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (17.66%) Spring
2 133 (14.41%) Spring Boot
3 130 (14.08%) Kafka
4 127 (13.76%) REST
5 92 (9.97%) RESTful
6 81 (8.78%) Node.js
7 61 (6.61%) React
8 58 (6.28%) Playwright
9 52 (5.63%) AngularJS
10 46 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
11 45 (4.88%) LDAP
11 45 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
12 44 (4.77%) SOAP
13 40 (4.33%) JPA
13 40 (4.33%) Web Services
14 39 (4.23%) Spring Cloud
15 38 (4.12%) HTML
16 37 (4.01%) OpenID
17 33 (3.58%) Hibernate
18 31 (3.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 187 (20.26%) Cloud Native
2 83 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.53%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.49%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (1.84%) Replication
9 12 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.30%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.87%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.76%) Clustering
13 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.76%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 184 (19.93%) Linux
2 48 (5.20%) Unix
3 43 (4.66%) Windows
4 42 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.52%) VMS
6 12 (1.30%) CentOS
7 10 (1.08%) Android
8 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.33%) AIX
11 3 (0.33%) zOS
12 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.22%) Solaris
12 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (86.13%) CI/CD
2 617 (66.85%) DevOps
3 388 (42.04%) Agile
4 322 (34.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 292 (31.64%) Test Automation
6 269 (29.14%) Containerisation
7 229 (24.81%) Microservices
8 181 (19.61%) Observability
9 163 (17.66%) Scrum
10 148 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
11 143 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 142 (15.38%) Software Engineering
13 111 (12.03%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (11.70%) Migration
15 92 (9.97%) TDD
16 85 (9.21%) Validation
17 83 (8.99%) Event-Driven
18 80 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 79 (8.56%) Stakeholder Management
20 77 (8.34%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 388 (42.04%) Python
2 321 (34.78%) Java
3 221 (23.94%) SQL
4 168 (18.20%) Bash
5 87 (9.43%) PowerShell
6 76 (8.23%) JavaScript
7 61 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 56 (6.07%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.66%) Go
10 36 (3.90%) Scala
11 34 (3.68%) Groovy
12 32 (3.47%) C#
13 17 (1.84%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.41%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.30%) Bicep
16 11 (1.19%) MATLAB
16 11 (1.19%) Perl
17 9 (0.98%) Ruby
18 8 (0.87%) PHP
19 7 (0.76%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 354 (38.35%) Security Cleared
2 304 (32.94%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.44%) Degree
4 35 (3.79%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.41%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.76%) RHCE
14 6 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.65%) OCP
15 4 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.43%) PMP
15 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.16%) QA
2 43 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.06%) SLA
6 17 (1.84%) NIST
7 14 (1.52%) NCSC
8 10 (1.08%) WCAG
9 8 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.43%) GDPR
11 4 (0.43%) PSD2
11 4 (0.43%) SEPA
12 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 415 (44.96%) Docker
2 25 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.28%) vSphere
4 19 (2.06%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.84%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.63%) Postfix
7 14 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.76%) NFS
9 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.54%) HDFS
10 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.43%) SRDF
11 4 (0.43%) Varnish
12 3 (0.33%) GridGain
12 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.22%) Squid
13 2 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 453 (49.08%) Kubernetes
2 376 (40.74%) Terraform
3 224 (24.27%) Ansible
4 205 (22.21%) Grafana
5 170 (18.42%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.98%) Argo
7 31 (3.36%) Puppet
8 30 (3.25%) Istio
9 27 (2.93%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.28%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.73%) Kibana
12 15 (1.63%) Podman
13 14 (1.52%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.19%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
15 9 (0.98%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.76%) Packer
17 6 (0.65%) Consul
17 6 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.54%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 84 (9.10%) Google
2 83 (8.99%) Splunk
3 63 (6.83%) Oracle
3 63 (6.83%) Red Hat
4 58 (6.28%) Microsoft
5 42 (4.55%) VMware
6 35 (3.79%) ServiceNow
7 29 (3.14%) Dynatrace
8 27 (2.93%) Databricks
9 25 (2.71%) Talend
10 21 (2.28%) Atlassian
10 21 (2.28%) Denodo
10 21 (2.28%) Salesforce
11 20 (2.17%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
13 17 (1.84%) Sonatype
14 16 (1.73%) IBM
15 15 (1.63%) CyberArk
16 13 (1.41%) Okta
17 11 (1.19%) ForgeRock