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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 84 103
Rank change year-on-year -23 +19 -48
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 918 738 804
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 3.04% 2.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.31% 22.14% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 516 598
10th Percentile £372 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £579 £657 £675
90th Percentile £674 £775 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 19
10th Percentile £40.00 £51.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £41.56 £56.25 £60.94
Median hourly rate £54.75 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% -7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £70.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.00 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.65% -7.14% -3.78%

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 5,014 3,334 4,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.30% 13.72% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,240 2,883
10th Percentile £342 £341 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 65 191
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.68 £33.00
25th Percentile £59.81 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.74% -6.92% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -36 423 £550 -4.35% 92
North of England -6 226 £475 -4.31% 73
Yorkshire +9 176 £487 -7.24% 25
Midlands -9 123 £500 +11.11% 21
West Midlands +8 108 £511 +13.44% 8
South East -64 66 £425 -15.00% 32
South West -22 47 £538 -6.52% 21
North West -62 35 £425 -8.60% 35
East of England -30 24 £475 -5.00% 9
North East -7 19 £425 -8.60% 13
East Midlands -44 14 £402 +7.20% 13
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
1 105 (11.44%) Confluence
2 38 (4.14%) SAS
3 27 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.09%) Apache
6 9 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) nginx
9 3 (0.33%) IIS
9 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
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%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Shopify
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Magento
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 465 (50.65%) AWS
2 369 (40.20%) GitHub
3 306 (33.33%) Azure
4 251 (27.34%) GitHub Actions
5 202 (22.00%) GCP
6 129 (14.05%) Amazon S3
7 121 (13.18%) Azure DevOps
8 112 (12.20%) OpenShift
9 108 (11.76%) Serverless
10 98 (10.68%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (10.35%) AWS Lambda
12 89 (9.69%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (9.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 78 (8.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 62 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (6.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 56 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 39 (4.25%) Azure AKS
19 35 (3.81%) Datadog
20 31 (3.38%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.23%) DNS
2 42 (4.58%) Firewall
3 18 (1.96%) Network Security
4 15 (1.63%) VPN
5 12 (1.31%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.09%) HTTP
7 7 (0.76%) SAN
8 4 (0.44%) NAS
9 3 (0.33%) BGP
9 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.33%) SSL
10 2 (0.22%) AMQP
10 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.22%) Internet
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) LAN
10 2 (0.22%) Multicast
10 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (15.14%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 43 (4.68%) Amazon Aurora
5 41 (4.47%) DynamoDB
6 39 (4.25%) MongoDB
6 39 (4.25%) SQL Server
7 38 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 28 (3.05%) Redis
9 26 (2.83%) Big Data
9 26 (2.83%) Pentaho
10 20 (2.18%) MySQL
11 15 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (1.63%) BigQuery
11 15 (1.63%) Metadata
12 13 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.20%) Power BI
14 10 (1.09%) Aerospike
14 10 (1.09%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 342 (37.25%) GitLab
2 275 (29.96%) Git
3 183 (19.93%) JIRA
4 101 (11.00%) JUnit
5 92 (10.02%) Selenium
6 74 (8.06%) Cucumber
7 61 (6.64%) Maven
8 54 (5.88%) Postman
9 47 (5.12%) Mockito
9 47 (5.12%) SonarQube
10 46 (5.01%) Bitbucket
11 41 (4.47%) REST Assured
11 41 (4.47%) Sonatype Nexus
12 37 (4.03%) JMeter
13 28 (3.05%) Gatling
13 28 (3.05%) Gradle
14 23 (2.51%) Artifactory
14 23 (2.51%) WebDriver
15 18 (1.96%) Liquibase
16 17 (1.85%) CircleCI
General
1 254 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 163 (17.76%) Finance
3 117 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 97 (10.57%) Banking
5 72 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.09%) Front Office
10 10 (1.09%) Retail
11 9 (0.98%) Law
12 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.65%) Legal
13 6 (0.65%) Military
14 5 (0.54%) Publishing
15 4 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 184 (20.04%) Developer
2 147 (16.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 129 (14.05%) Senior
4 91 (9.91%) Java Developer
5 82 (8.93%) Architect
6 73 (7.95%) Lead
7 59 (6.43%) Data Engineer
8 53 (5.77%) GCP Engineer
9 50 (5.45%) Software Engineer
10 44 (4.79%) AWS Engineer
11 42 (4.58%) Test Engineer
12 39 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (3.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 32 (3.49%) AWS DevOps
16 30 (3.27%) Tester
17 29 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
17 29 (3.16%) Senior Developer
17 29 (3.16%) Site Engineer
18 27 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (15.90%) Spring
2 133 (14.49%) Kafka
3 121 (13.18%) Spring Boot
4 117 (12.75%) REST
5 99 (10.78%) Node.js
6 80 (8.71%) RESTful
7 63 (6.86%) Playwright
8 57 (6.21%) React
9 54 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
10 51 (5.56%) AngularJS
11 50 (5.45%) OpenTelemetry
12 43 (4.68%) LDAP
13 38 (4.14%) OpenID
14 37 (4.03%) YAML
15 36 (3.92%) HTML
16 34 (3.70%) Web Services
17 33 (3.59%) SOAP
18 32 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
18 32 (3.49%) Spring Cloud
19 29 (3.16%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 187 (20.37%) Cloud Native
2 78 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.66%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.27%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 20 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.63%) Replication
9 14 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.31%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (0.87%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.87%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.65%) Derivative
14 6 (0.65%) Equities
14 6 (0.65%) Fixed Income
14 6 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 179 (19.50%) Linux
2 43 (4.68%) Unix
3 41 (4.47%) Windows
4 32 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.74%) VMS
6 10 (1.09%) Android
6 10 (1.09%) CentOS
7 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.33%) AIX
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.22%) zOS
12 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (85.62%) CI/CD
2 618 (67.32%) DevOps
3 382 (41.61%) Agile
4 312 (33.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 287 (31.26%) Containerisation
6 282 (30.72%) Test Automation
7 213 (23.20%) Microservices
8 173 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
9 162 (17.65%) Observability
10 150 (16.34%) Scrum
11 141 (15.36%) Software Engineering
12 131 (14.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 98 (10.68%) Migration
13 98 (10.68%) Platform Engineering
14 86 (9.37%) Mentoring
15 82 (8.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 82 (8.93%) TDD
16 76 (8.28%) Event-Driven
16 76 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 75 (8.17%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 381 (41.50%) Python
2 306 (33.33%) Java
3 208 (22.66%) SQL
4 153 (16.67%) Bash
5 80 (8.71%) PowerShell
6 79 (8.61%) JavaScript
7 71 (7.73%) TypeScript
8 55 (5.99%) Shell Script
9 46 (5.01%) Go
10 43 (4.68%) C#
11 38 (4.14%) Scala
12 36 (3.92%) Groovy
13 17 (1.85%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.63%) Bicep
15 11 (1.20%) Perl
15 11 (1.20%) PHP
16 10 (1.09%) MATLAB
16 10 (1.09%) Ruby
17 9 (0.98%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.76%) C++
Qualifications
1 354 (38.56%) Security Cleared
2 300 (32.68%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.36%) Degree
4 35 (3.81%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.51%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 10 (1.09%) RHCE
11 9 (0.98%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.98%) OCP
11 9 (0.98%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.44%) OCA
14 3 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (10.46%) QA
2 48 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.18%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.96%) NIST
5 18 (1.96%) SLA
6 15 (1.63%) NCSC
7 10 (1.09%) GDPR
8 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.76%) WCAG
10 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.44%) PSD2
12 4 (0.44%) SEPA
13 2 (0.22%) HL7
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.22%) MiFID
14 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
System Software
1 432 (47.06%) Docker
2 26 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.18%) vSphere
4 19 (2.07%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.42%) Active Directory
5 13 (1.42%) Postfix
6 9 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.65%) HDFS
8 5 (0.54%) NFS
9 3 (0.33%) GridGain
9 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.33%) SRDF
9 3 (0.33%) Varnish
10 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
11 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 484 (52.72%) Kubernetes
2 372 (40.52%) Terraform
3 232 (25.27%) Ansible
4 198 (21.57%) Grafana
5 157 (17.10%) Prometheus
6 48 (5.23%) Argo
7 35 (3.81%) Progress Chef
8 32 (3.49%) Puppet
9 30 (3.27%) Istio
10 20 (2.18%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.74%) Kibana
12 13 (1.42%) HAProxy
12 13 (1.42%) Podman
13 10 (1.09%) Check_MK
13 10 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.87%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.65%) Rancher
16 5 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
17 4 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 88 (9.59%) Splunk
2 76 (8.28%) Google
3 61 (6.64%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.64%) Red Hat
4 53 (5.77%) Oracle
5 43 (4.68%) VMware
6 40 (4.36%) ServiceNow
7 37 (4.03%) Databricks
8 27 (2.94%) Talend
9 26 (2.83%) Denodo
10 23 (2.51%) Dynatrace
11 21 (2.29%) Atlassian
12 20 (2.18%) Pure Storage
13 19 (2.07%) Sonatype
14 18 (1.96%) Salesforce
15 15 (1.63%) CyberArk
15 15 (1.63%) Jaspersoft
16 12 (1.31%) Okta
17 11 (1.20%) ForgeRock
17 11 (1.20%) IBM