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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 73 88
Rank change year-on-year -54 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 997 928 852
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 3.34% 2.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.72% 22.45% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 638 617
10th Percentile £357 £350 £390
25th Percentile £423 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
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 8 32
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -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 5,327 4,133 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 14.86% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,371 2,855 2,828
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £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 244 95 169
10th Percentile £34.64 £44.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.53 £79.50 £73.80
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 19 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 19 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 -23 532 £525 -1.64% 429
North of England -50 230 £457 -2.87% 130
Yorkshire -19 157 £488 -2.50% 42
Midlands -54 94 £489 +2.89% 41
West Midlands -42 88 £490 -2.00% 22
South East -72 69 £461 -7.75% 62
South West -15 57 £550 - 70
North West -93 54 £428 -4.15% 68
North East -43 21 £450 -6.25% 20
East of England -17 18 £450 -10.00% 41
East Midlands -36 5 £347 -3.21% 19
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 (9.93%) Confluence
2 28 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.71%) nginx
5 13 (1.30%) SAS
6 12 (1.20%) Apache
7 10 (1.00%) Camunda
8 8 (0.80%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.80%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.60%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.40%) CICS
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
10 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) Traefik
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Magento
2 5 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 531 (53.26%) AWS
2 399 (40.02%) GitHub
3 395 (39.62%) Azure
4 312 (31.29%) GitHub Actions
5 225 (22.57%) GCP
6 197 (19.76%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (11.74%) Serverless
8 108 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.53%) Amazon S3
9 105 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
10 99 (9.93%) OpenShift
11 90 (9.03%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (8.53%) Amazon EC2
13 66 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 65 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
15 46 (4.61%) Datadog
16 45 (4.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 44 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 42 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (2.61%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.52%) Firewall
2 51 (5.12%) DNS
3 34 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 25 (2.51%) Network Security
5 17 (1.71%) HTTP
5 17 (1.71%) SSL
6 14 (1.40%) BIG-IP
6 14 (1.40%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 14 (1.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 13 (1.30%) VLAN
8 12 (1.20%) VPN
9 11 (1.10%) SAN
10 9 (0.90%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.80%) SSH
12 7 (0.70%) DHCP
12 7 (0.70%) WAN
13 6 (0.60%) 4G
13 6 (0.60%) OpenLDAP
14 5 (0.50%) 5G
15 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (15.35%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (6.62%) MongoDB
3 62 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (5.92%) NoSQL
4 59 (5.92%) Relational Database
5 57 (5.72%) SQL Server
6 41 (4.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 37 (3.71%) Redis
8 33 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 28 (2.81%) MySQL
10 26 (2.61%) Big Data
11 19 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (1.60%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.50%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.50%) Metadata
14 14 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.40%) Pentaho
15 13 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (1.20%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 371 (37.21%) GitLab
2 354 (35.51%) Git
3 171 (17.15%) JIRA
4 99 (9.93%) JUnit
5 94 (9.43%) Maven
6 90 (9.03%) Selenium
7 82 (8.22%) SonarQube
8 65 (6.52%) Gradle
9 59 (5.92%) Mockito
10 57 (5.72%) Cucumber
11 54 (5.42%) Bitbucket
12 50 (5.02%) REST Assured
13 43 (4.31%) Sonatype Nexus
14 40 (4.01%) Postman
15 36 (3.61%) Gatling
15 36 (3.61%) JMeter
16 24 (2.41%) WebDriver
17 20 (2.01%) Artifactory
18 18 (1.81%) TestNG
18 18 (1.81%) Zephyr
General
1 233 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 156 (15.65%) Finance
3 128 (12.84%) Public Sector
4 112 (11.23%) Banking
5 107 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.01%) Retail
9 18 (1.81%) Law
10 15 (1.50%) Publishing
10 15 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.30%) Marketing
12 9 (0.90%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.80%) Front Office
13 8 (0.80%) Legal
13 8 (0.80%) Local Government
13 8 (0.80%) Military
14 7 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 254 (25.48%) Developer
2 186 (18.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 157 (15.75%) Senior
4 120 (12.04%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.22%) Lead
6 57 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
7 53 (5.32%) Architect
8 49 (4.91%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.81%) Test Engineer
10 47 (4.71%) Software Engineer
11 44 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
12 38 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (3.71%) Automation Engineer
13 37 (3.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 37 (3.71%) Software Developer
14 34 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
15 32 (3.21%) GCP Engineer
15 32 (3.21%) Senior Java Developer
16 30 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
17 28 (2.81%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 395 (39.62%) Terraform
2 191 (19.16%) Kafka
3 181 (18.15%) Spring
4 166 (16.65%) Spring Boot
5 163 (16.35%) REST
6 126 (12.64%) RESTful
7 102 (10.23%) React
8 78 (7.82%) Node.js
9 74 (7.42%) HTML
10 61 (6.12%) Playwright
11 60 (6.02%) Hibernate
12 55 (5.52%) JPA
13 54 (5.42%) AngularJS
13 54 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
14 53 (5.32%) SOAP
15 50 (5.02%) CSS
16 46 (4.61%) Web Services
17 39 (3.91%) JSON
18 36 (3.61%) .NET
19 32 (3.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 174 (17.45%) Cloud Native
2 84 (8.43%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
5 35 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (3.01%) Replication
7 27 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.01%) AI Agents
10 20 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.91%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.81%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.81%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (1.40%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.20%) Algorithms
16 11 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 217 (21.77%) Linux
2 58 (5.82%) Unix
3 53 (5.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (4.81%) Windows
5 16 (1.60%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.10%) CentOS
8 10 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
9 9 (0.90%) Android
10 7 (0.70%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.60%) zOS
12 4 (0.40%) VMS
13 3 (0.30%) AIX
13 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.20%) Rocky
14 2 (0.20%) Solaris
14 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (84.35%) CI/CD
2 669 (67.10%) DevOps
3 486 (48.75%) Agile
4 368 (36.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 330 (33.10%) Test Automation
6 306 (30.69%) Containerisation
7 269 (26.98%) Microservices
8 223 (22.37%) Observability
9 181 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 177 (17.75%) Scrum
11 171 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (15.85%) Software Engineering
13 146 (14.64%) Platform Engineering
14 112 (11.23%) Deployment Automation
15 106 (10.63%) AI
16 104 (10.43%) Event-Driven
17 103 (10.33%) TDD
18 102 (10.23%) DevSecOps
19 99 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
20 92 (9.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 426 (42.73%) Python
2 391 (39.22%) Java
3 250 (25.08%) SQL
4 195 (19.56%) Bash
5 118 (11.84%) PowerShell
6 117 (11.74%) JavaScript
7 77 (7.72%) TypeScript
8 61 (6.12%) Groovy
9 58 (5.82%) C#
10 52 (5.22%) Go
11 48 (4.81%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.91%) PL/SQL
13 34 (3.41%) Scala
14 28 (2.81%) Perl
15 19 (1.91%) Bicep
15 19 (1.91%) Kotlin
16 14 (1.40%) ActionScript
17 12 (1.20%) C++
18 11 (1.10%) Korn
19 10 (1.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 412 (41.32%) Security Cleared
2 339 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 59 (5.92%) Degree
5 51 (5.12%) AWS Certification
6 41 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.81%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.71%) ISTQB
9 15 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.50%) CISSP
10 12 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.50%) GCIH
14 5 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (14.24%) QA
2 37 (3.71%) Accessibility
2 37 (3.71%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (1.50%) NIST
4 14 (1.40%) WCAG
5 10 (1.00%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.00%) NCSC
6 9 (0.90%) GDPR
6 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.60%) SEPA
8 5 (0.50%) PSD2
8 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.40%) SLA
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 15022
11 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 488 (48.95%) Docker
2 21 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.00%) Postfix
6 6 (0.60%) NFS
7 5 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.40%) Squid
8 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.40%) vSphere
9 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.30%) RACF
9 3 (0.30%) Varnish
9 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 494 (49.55%) Kubernetes
2 232 (23.27%) Ansible
3 227 (22.77%) Grafana
4 190 (19.06%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.81%) Progress Chef
6 37 (3.71%) Puppet
7 32 (3.21%) Argo
8 28 (2.81%) Kibana
9 17 (1.71%) Control-M
10 16 (1.60%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.40%) Istio
12 13 (1.30%) Packer
13 10 (1.00%) Kustomize
13 10 (1.00%) Podman
14 8 (0.80%) Consul
15 7 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.60%) Rancher
17 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 95 (9.53%) Google
2 92 (9.23%) Oracle
3 91 (9.13%) Microsoft
4 84 (8.43%) Splunk
5 71 (7.12%) Dynatrace
6 39 (3.91%) IBM
7 38 (3.81%) Red Hat
8 31 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 31 (3.11%) VMware
9 26 (2.61%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.51%) Databricks
11 15 (1.50%) F5
11 15 (1.50%) New Relic
11 15 (1.50%) Talend
12 12 (1.20%) Sonatype
12 12 (1.20%) Veracode
13 11 (1.10%) Denodo
13 11 (1.10%) NetApp
14 10 (1.00%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.00%) SAP