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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 72 88
Rank change year-on-year -59 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 990 939 843
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 3.38% 2.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.72% 22.69% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 643 622
10th Percentile £358 £350 £390
25th Percentile £417 £413 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £730
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% -6.67%
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% -4.11%

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 5,289 4,138 4,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.87% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,352 2,861 2,833
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £635
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 96 172
10th Percentile £35.00 £44.63 £36.30
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.94 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.85 £82.98 £71.88
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 12 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 12 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 -25 525 £525 -0.94% 302
North of England -48 234 £453 -3.10% 89
Yorkshire -20 159 £483 -3.45% 28
Midlands -55 98 £488 +2.63% 26
West Midlands -38 92 £489 -2.25% 15
South East -75 68 £460 -8.00% 58
North West -90 55 £425 +0.59% 47
South West -26 53 £550 - 52
North East -37 22 £450 -6.25% 14
East of England -15 16 £450 -10.00% 28
East Midlands -39 5 £347 -3.21% 11
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
1 104 (10.51%) Confluence
2 23 (2.32%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.62%) nginx
5 13 (1.31%) SAS
6 10 (1.01%) Camunda
7 9 (0.91%) Apache
8 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
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%) CICS
12 2 (0.20%) Traefik
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 5 (0.51%) 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
1 526 (53.13%) AWS
2 407 (41.11%) GitHub
3 389 (39.29%) Azure
4 315 (31.82%) GitHub Actions
5 221 (22.32%) GCP
6 196 (19.80%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (12.22%) Serverless
8 111 (11.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 111 (11.21%) Amazon S3
9 109 (11.01%) AWS Lambda
10 97 (9.80%) OpenShift
11 90 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (8.99%) Amazon EC2
13 72 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 69 (6.97%) Amazon ECS
15 47 (4.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 44 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 43 (4.34%) Datadog
18 40 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
19 25 (2.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.25%) Firewall
2 51 (5.15%) DNS
3 32 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 25 (2.53%) Network Security
5 17 (1.72%) SSL
6 16 (1.62%) HTTP
7 13 (1.31%) VLAN
8 11 (1.11%) BIG-IP
8 11 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 11 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 11 (1.11%) SAN
9 10 (1.01%) VPN
10 9 (0.91%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.71%) DHCP
11 7 (0.71%) SSH
11 7 (0.71%) WAN
12 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (0.51%) 4G
14 4 (0.40%) 5G
15 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (15.45%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.46%) MongoDB
2 64 (6.46%) Relational Database
3 61 (6.16%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (6.16%) SQL Server
4 58 (5.86%) NoSQL
5 41 (4.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 36 (3.64%) DynamoDB
7 35 (3.54%) Redis
8 27 (2.73%) Big Data
9 26 (2.63%) MySQL
10 20 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (1.82%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.52%) Metadata
13 14 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.41%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.41%) Pentaho
14 12 (1.21%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 369 (37.27%) GitLab
2 348 (35.15%) Git
3 173 (17.47%) JIRA
4 105 (10.61%) JUnit
5 95 (9.60%) Maven
6 85 (8.59%) Selenium
7 81 (8.18%) SonarQube
8 67 (6.77%) Gradle
9 63 (6.36%) Mockito
10 55 (5.56%) Bitbucket
10 55 (5.56%) Cucumber
11 49 (4.95%) REST Assured
12 45 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
13 39 (3.94%) Postman
14 36 (3.64%) JMeter
15 35 (3.54%) Gatling
16 25 (2.53%) WebDriver
17 21 (2.12%) Artifactory
18 20 (2.02%) Liquibase
19 18 (1.82%) TestNG
General
1 240 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 156 (15.76%) Finance
3 130 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 112 (11.31%) Banking
5 105 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.02%) Retail
8 19 (1.92%) Law
9 15 (1.52%) Publishing
10 14 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.31%) Marketing
12 12 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.01%) Front Office
14 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.91%) Legal
15 8 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.71%) Military
17 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 252 (25.45%) Developer
2 184 (18.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 154 (15.56%) Senior
4 120 (12.12%) Java Developer
5 76 (7.68%) Lead
6 56 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
7 54 (5.45%) Architect
8 50 (5.05%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.85%) Software Engineer
9 48 (4.85%) Test Engineer
10 44 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
11 37 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
12 36 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 36 (3.64%) Software Developer
13 34 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
13 34 (3.43%) Senior Java Developer
14 31 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
15 28 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (2.73%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (40.10%) Terraform
2 189 (19.09%) Kafka
3 184 (18.59%) Spring
4 167 (16.87%) Spring Boot
5 157 (15.86%) REST
6 126 (12.73%) RESTful
7 103 (10.40%) React
8 80 (8.08%) Node.js
9 71 (7.17%) HTML
10 60 (6.06%) Playwright
11 58 (5.86%) Hibernate
12 53 (5.35%) AngularJS
12 53 (5.35%) JPA
13 52 (5.25%) SOAP
14 51 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
15 48 (4.85%) CSS
16 46 (4.65%) Web Services
17 38 (3.84%) JSON
18 36 (3.64%) .NET
19 34 (3.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 176 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 82 (8.28%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.46%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (2.93%) Replication
8 24 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (2.32%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.02%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.92%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.72%) Private Cloud
13 16 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
13 16 (1.62%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.52%) Mobile App
14 15 (1.52%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.41%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.21%) Algorithms
17 11 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 214 (21.62%) Linux
2 62 (6.26%) Unix
3 50 (5.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (4.44%) Windows
5 15 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (0.91%) Android
8 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.91%) CentOS
9 5 (0.51%) VMS
10 4 (0.40%) zOS
11 3 (0.30%) AIX
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.20%) Rocky
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (84.75%) CI/CD
2 672 (67.88%) DevOps
3 478 (48.28%) Agile
4 365 (36.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 325 (32.83%) Test Automation
6 301 (30.40%) Containerisation
7 272 (27.47%) Microservices
8 220 (22.22%) Observability
9 181 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 180 (18.18%) Scrum
11 165 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 159 (16.06%) Software Engineering
13 147 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (10.91%) Deployment Automation
14 108 (10.91%) TDD
15 106 (10.71%) DevSecOps
15 106 (10.71%) Event-Driven
16 99 (10.00%) AI
17 96 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
18 90 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 419 (42.32%) Python
2 392 (39.60%) Java
3 247 (24.95%) SQL
4 197 (19.90%) Bash
5 118 (11.92%) PowerShell
6 115 (11.62%) JavaScript
7 81 (8.18%) TypeScript
8 59 (5.96%) C#
9 57 (5.76%) Groovy
10 49 (4.95%) Shell Script
11 48 (4.85%) Go
12 39 (3.94%) PL/SQL
13 28 (2.83%) Scala
14 27 (2.73%) Perl
15 19 (1.92%) Bicep
15 19 (1.92%) Kotlin
16 12 (1.21%) C++
17 11 (1.11%) ActionScript
17 11 (1.11%) Korn
18 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 404 (40.81%) Security Cleared
2 331 (33.43%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 58 (5.86%) Degree
5 50 (5.05%) AWS Certification
6 40 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (2.73%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.72%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.52%) CISSP
11 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (14.04%) QA
2 37 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.52%) NIST
5 14 (1.41%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
7 9 (0.91%) NCSC
7 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.61%) SEPA
9 5 (0.51%) PSD2
9 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.40%) SLA
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 485 (48.99%) Docker
2 23 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 15 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.01%) Postfix
6 8 (0.81%) vSphere
7 7 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.61%) NFS
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Squid
9 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.30%) Varnish
10 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) HDFS
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 489 (49.39%) Kubernetes
2 227 (22.93%) Ansible
3 217 (21.92%) Grafana
4 186 (18.79%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.84%) Progress Chef
5 38 (3.84%) Puppet
6 36 (3.64%) Argo
7 19 (1.92%) Kibana
8 17 (1.72%) Control-M
9 16 (1.62%) HAProxy
10 14 (1.41%) Istio
11 12 (1.21%) Packer
12 10 (1.01%) Kustomize
12 10 (1.01%) Podman
13 8 (0.81%) Consul
13 8 (0.81%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.61%) Rancher
15 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
Vendors
1 93 (9.39%) Oracle
2 91 (9.19%) Google
2 91 (9.19%) Microsoft
3 83 (8.38%) Splunk
4 67 (6.77%) Dynatrace
5 43 (4.34%) Red Hat
6 35 (3.54%) IBM
7 33 (3.33%) VMware
8 32 (3.23%) Salesforce
9 27 (2.73%) Databricks
10 26 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.52%) Talend
12 14 (1.41%) New Relic
13 12 (1.21%) F5
13 12 (1.21%) Sonatype
13 12 (1.21%) Veracode
14 11 (1.11%) Denodo
14 11 (1.11%) NetApp
15 10 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (1.01%) SAP