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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 74 87
Rank change year-on-year -45 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 999 920 827
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.31% 2.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.73% 22.87% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 646 624
10th Percentile £363 £341 £388
25th Percentile £414 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £672
90th Percentile £638 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 34
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £64.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -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 5,335 4,022 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.45% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,779 2,837
10th Percentile £353 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 97 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - +0.97%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -36 490 £525 -2.33% 380
North of England -35 247 £450 -3.74% 127
Yorkshire -17 177 £488 -1.79% 36
Midlands -25 125 £477 +0.42% 48
West Midlands -7 118 £479 +0.84% 33
South East -90 65 £460 -8.19% 60
South West -22 54 £550 -6.38% 61
North West -84 48 £425 +5.72% 70
North East -29 26 £450 -6.25% 22
East of England -12 16 £438 -12.50% 31
East Midlands -36 5 £459 +28.07% 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 (10.91%) Confluence
2 34 (3.40%) SAS
3 25 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) Apache
5 11 (1.10%) nginx
6 10 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.70%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.40%) Camunda
9 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.30%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 517 (51.75%) AWS
2 421 (42.14%) GitHub
3 357 (35.74%) Azure
4 309 (30.93%) GitHub Actions
5 227 (22.72%) GCP
6 175 (17.52%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (12.41%) Amazon S3
8 118 (11.81%) Serverless
9 107 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 104 (10.41%) AWS Lambda
11 98 (9.81%) Amazon EC2
12 93 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
13 84 (8.41%) OpenShift
14 78 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
16 50 (5.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 47 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
18 44 (4.40%) Datadog
18 44 (4.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 29 (2.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.51%) DNS
2 52 (5.21%) Firewall
3 23 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.90%) Network Security
5 17 (1.70%) SSL
6 16 (1.60%) VPN
7 12 (1.20%) HTTP
8 10 (1.00%) VLAN
9 9 (0.90%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 8 (0.80%) WAN
11 7 (0.70%) SAN
12 4 (0.40%) 4G
12 4 (0.40%) BGP
12 4 (0.40%) DHCP
12 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.30%) 5G
13 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.51%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (6.11%) MongoDB
3 54 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 54 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 53 (5.31%) Relational Database
5 42 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 40 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 29 (2.90%) Redis
8 26 (2.60%) Big Data
8 26 (2.60%) Pentaho
9 19 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (1.90%) MySQL
10 18 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.70%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.70%) Metadata
12 15 (1.50%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.20%) Power BI
15 11 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 355 (35.54%) GitLab
2 337 (33.73%) Git
3 189 (18.92%) JIRA
4 107 (10.71%) JUnit
5 90 (9.01%) Selenium
6 76 (7.61%) Maven
7 69 (6.91%) SonarQube
8 62 (6.21%) Cucumber
9 55 (5.51%) Mockito
10 54 (5.41%) Bitbucket
11 52 (5.21%) Gradle
12 40 (4.00%) REST Assured
13 38 (3.80%) JMeter
13 38 (3.80%) Postman
14 37 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
15 34 (3.40%) Gatling
16 31 (3.10%) WebDriver
17 23 (2.30%) Liquibase
18 21 (2.10%) Artifactory
19 17 (1.70%) Zephyr
General
1 250 (25.03%) Social Skills
2 144 (14.41%) Finance
3 136 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 102 (10.21%) Banking
5 94 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.00%) Law
9 18 (1.80%) Retail
10 15 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (1.50%) Publishing
11 12 (1.20%) Marketing
12 11 (1.10%) Legal
12 11 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.60%) Front Office
15 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 235 (23.52%) Developer
2 175 (17.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 156 (15.62%) Senior
4 117 (11.71%) Java Developer
5 73 (7.31%) Lead
6 65 (6.51%) Software Engineer
7 55 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
8 49 (4.90%) Architect
8 49 (4.90%) Senior Developer
9 45 (4.50%) Data Engineer
10 44 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
11 41 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
12 38 (3.80%) GCP Engineer
13 37 (3.70%) Test Engineer
13 37 (3.70%) Tester
14 35 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.50%) Senior Java Developer
15 34 (3.40%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (3.30%) Automation Engineer
17 29 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (17.72%) Spring
2 167 (16.72%) Kafka
3 151 (15.12%) REST
4 147 (14.71%) Spring Boot
5 108 (10.81%) RESTful
6 91 (9.11%) React
7 87 (8.71%) Node.js
8 60 (6.01%) Playwright
9 52 (5.21%) SOAP
10 51 (5.11%) HTML
11 48 (4.80%) AngularJS
12 47 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
13 45 (4.50%) Hibernate
13 45 (4.50%) Web Services
14 40 (4.00%) JPA
15 35 (3.50%) CSS
16 32 (3.20%) Swagger
16 32 (3.20%) YAML
17 31 (3.10%) JSON
18 29 (2.90%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 170 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 83 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (7.11%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.00%) Replication
9 19 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.60%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.50%) AI Agents
11 15 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 15 (1.50%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.20%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.90%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 188 (18.82%) Linux
2 58 (5.81%) Unix
3 42 (4.20%) Windows
4 41 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.90%) Android
6 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.50%) CentOS
10 3 (0.30%) AIX
10 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) zOS
11 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (83.38%) CI/CD
2 668 (66.87%) DevOps
3 486 (48.65%) Agile
4 339 (33.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 323 (32.33%) Test Automation
6 270 (27.03%) Containerisation
7 262 (26.23%) Microservices
8 201 (20.12%) Observability
9 192 (19.22%) Scrum
10 181 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 160 (16.02%) Software Engineering
12 156 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
13 136 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
14 114 (11.41%) TDD
15 106 (10.61%) Deployment Automation
16 94 (9.41%) AI
17 91 (9.11%) Event-Driven
17 91 (9.11%) Validation
18 86 (8.61%) DevSecOps
18 86 (8.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 414 (41.44%) Python
2 361 (36.14%) Java
3 257 (25.73%) SQL
4 203 (20.32%) Bash
5 122 (12.21%) PowerShell
6 95 (9.51%) JavaScript
7 76 (7.61%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.31%) C#
9 50 (5.01%) Shell Script
10 49 (4.90%) Groovy
11 48 (4.80%) Go
12 39 (3.90%) PL/SQL
13 30 (3.00%) Scala
14 19 (1.90%) Perl
15 18 (1.80%) Bicep
15 18 (1.80%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.00%) Apex Code
16 10 (1.00%) C++
17 9 (0.90%) ActionScript
18 8 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 392 (39.24%) Security Cleared
2 330 (33.03%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.11%) Degree
4 44 (4.40%) AWS Certification
4 44 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 32 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.10%) CISSP
11 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.80%) RHCE
14 7 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.50%) OCP
17 4 (0.40%) CCNP
17 4 (0.40%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (12.01%) QA
2 51 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.30%) WCAG
5 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.80%) GDPR
7 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.70%) NIST
7 7 (0.70%) SLA
8 6 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.50%) SEPA
10 4 (0.40%) PSD2
11 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) HL7
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 470 (47.05%) Docker
2 28 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.60%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.30%) Postfix
4 13 (1.30%) vSphere
5 12 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.20%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.70%) NFS
7 6 (0.60%) HDFS
8 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.40%) SRDF
8 4 (0.40%) Varnish
8 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.30%) GridGain
9 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.20%) Squid
10 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 473 (47.35%) Kubernetes
2 384 (38.44%) Terraform
3 239 (23.92%) Ansible
4 207 (20.72%) Grafana
5 176 (17.62%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.10%) Puppet
7 39 (3.90%) Argo
8 34 (3.40%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.90%) Istio
10 18 (1.80%) Control-M
11 14 (1.40%) HAProxy
12 13 (1.30%) Kibana
12 13 (1.30%) vCenter Server
13 11 (1.10%) Packer
14 10 (1.00%) Podman
15 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.70%) Consul
16 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
18 5 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 90 (9.01%) Oracle
2 88 (8.81%) Google
3 85 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 77 (7.71%) Splunk
5 59 (5.91%) Dynatrace
6 48 (4.80%) Red Hat
7 36 (3.60%) VMware
8 31 (3.10%) Salesforce
9 27 (2.70%) Talend
10 25 (2.50%) IBM
11 23 (2.30%) Databricks
11 23 (2.30%) Denodo
11 23 (2.30%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.60%) Jaspersoft
13 13 (1.30%) Okta
13 13 (1.30%) Sonatype
14 12 (1.20%) Atlassian
14 12 (1.20%) F5
14 12 (1.20%) Pure Storage
15 11 (1.10%) ForgeRock