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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 73 88
Rank change year-on-year -55 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 988 928 852
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 601 638 617
10th Percentile £356 £350 £390
25th Percentile £419 £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 5,279 4,133 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.43% 14.86% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 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 242 95 169
10th Percentile £34.54 £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 £76.68 £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 18 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 18 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 -26 525 £525 -1.64% 399
North of England -47 230 £457 -2.87% 124
Yorkshire -19 157 £488 -2.50% 43
Midlands -53 94 £489 +2.89% 42
West Midlands -38 88 £490 -2.00% 23
South East -75 69 £461 -7.75% 67
South West -15 56 £550 - 69
North West -87 54 £428 -4.15% 62
North East -39 21 £450 -6.25% 19
East of England -21 18 £450 -10.00% 36
East Midlands -37 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 98 (9.92%) Confluence
2 25 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.72%) nginx
5 13 (1.32%) SAS
6 11 (1.11%) Apache
7 10 (1.01%) Camunda
8 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
10 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) CICS
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%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 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
1 525 (53.14%) AWS
2 396 (40.08%) GitHub
3 392 (39.68%) Azure
4 309 (31.28%) GitHub Actions
5 224 (22.67%) GCP
6 197 (19.94%) Azure DevOps
7 115 (11.64%) Serverless
8 108 (10.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 104 (10.53%) Amazon S3
10 103 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (10.02%) OpenShift
12 88 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
13 84 (8.50%) Amazon EC2
14 66 (6.68%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.55%) Datadog
16 45 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 44 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 42 (4.25%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (2.63%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.57%) Firewall
2 51 (5.16%) DNS
3 34 (3.44%) TCP/IP
4 25 (2.53%) Network Security
5 17 (1.72%) HTTP
5 17 (1.72%) SSL
6 14 (1.42%) BIG-IP
6 14 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 14 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 13 (1.32%) VLAN
8 12 (1.21%) VPN
9 11 (1.11%) SAN
10 9 (0.91%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.81%) SSH
12 7 (0.71%) DHCP
12 7 (0.71%) WAN
13 6 (0.61%) 4G
13 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
14 5 (0.51%) 5G
15 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (15.28%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (6.58%) MongoDB
3 60 (6.07%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (5.87%) NoSQL
4 58 (5.87%) Relational Database
5 57 (5.77%) SQL Server
6 40 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 36 (3.64%) Redis
8 33 (3.34%) DynamoDB
9 28 (2.83%) MySQL
10 26 (2.63%) Big Data
11 19 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (1.62%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.52%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.52%) Metadata
14 14 (1.42%) Pentaho
15 13 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (1.21%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 369 (37.35%) GitLab
2 349 (35.32%) Git
3 170 (17.21%) JIRA
4 98 (9.92%) JUnit
5 93 (9.41%) Maven
6 89 (9.01%) Selenium
7 82 (8.30%) SonarQube
8 64 (6.48%) Gradle
9 58 (5.87%) Mockito
10 55 (5.57%) Cucumber
11 53 (5.36%) Bitbucket
12 50 (5.06%) REST Assured
13 42 (4.25%) Sonatype Nexus
14 39 (3.95%) Postman
15 36 (3.64%) Gatling
15 36 (3.64%) JMeter
16 24 (2.43%) WebDriver
17 20 (2.02%) Artifactory
18 18 (1.82%) TestNG
19 17 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 230 (23.28%) Social Skills
2 153 (15.49%) Finance
3 128 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 109 (11.03%) Banking
5 106 (10.73%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.02%) Retail
9 18 (1.82%) Law
10 15 (1.52%) Publishing
10 15 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.32%) Marketing
12 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.81%) Front Office
13 8 (0.81%) Legal
13 8 (0.81%) Military
14 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.71%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 252 (25.51%) Developer
2 185 (18.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 155 (15.69%) Senior
4 119 (12.04%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.29%) Lead
6 56 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
7 53 (5.36%) Architect
8 49 (4.96%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.86%) Test Engineer
10 47 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 43 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (3.74%) Software Developer
13 36 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
13 36 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 32 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
15 32 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
16 30 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
17 27 (2.73%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 393 (39.78%) Terraform
2 188 (19.03%) Kafka
3 180 (18.22%) Spring
4 165 (16.70%) Spring Boot
5 161 (16.30%) REST
6 125 (12.65%) RESTful
7 102 (10.32%) React
8 78 (7.89%) Node.js
9 73 (7.39%) HTML
10 61 (6.17%) Playwright
11 59 (5.97%) Hibernate
12 54 (5.47%) AngularJS
12 54 (5.47%) JPA
13 53 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
13 53 (5.36%) SOAP
14 50 (5.06%) CSS
15 46 (4.66%) Web Services
16 38 (3.85%) JSON
17 36 (3.64%) .NET
18 31 (3.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 173 (17.51%) Cloud Native
2 83 (8.40%) Product Ownership
3 63 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 34 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.94%) Replication
7 26 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 26 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.02%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.92%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.82%) Private Cloud
12 17 (1.72%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 13 (1.32%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.21%) Algorithms
17 11 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 216 (21.86%) Linux
2 58 (5.87%) Unix
3 52 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (4.76%) Windows
5 16 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.11%) CentOS
8 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.81%) Android
10 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.51%) 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
1 834 (84.41%) CI/CD
2 666 (67.41%) DevOps
3 478 (48.38%) Agile
4 366 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 324 (32.79%) Test Automation
6 301 (30.47%) Containerisation
7 269 (27.23%) Microservices
8 220 (22.27%) Observability
9 177 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 175 (17.71%) Scrum
11 169 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (15.99%) Software Engineering
13 145 (14.68%) Platform Engineering
14 109 (11.03%) Deployment Automation
15 104 (10.53%) AI
16 103 (10.43%) Event-Driven
17 102 (10.32%) DevSecOps
17 102 (10.32%) TDD
18 98 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
19 90 (9.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 422 (42.71%) Python
2 388 (39.27%) Java
3 247 (25.00%) SQL
4 193 (19.53%) Bash
5 117 (11.84%) JavaScript
5 117 (11.84%) PowerShell
6 77 (7.79%) TypeScript
7 59 (5.97%) Groovy
8 58 (5.87%) C#
9 51 (5.16%) Go
10 48 (4.86%) Shell Script
11 39 (3.95%) PL/SQL
12 31 (3.14%) Scala
13 27 (2.73%) Perl
14 19 (1.92%) Bicep
15 17 (1.72%) Kotlin
16 14 (1.42%) ActionScript
17 12 (1.21%) C++
18 11 (1.11%) Korn
19 10 (1.01%) C
Qualifications
1 406 (41.09%) Security Cleared
2 333 (33.70%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.88%) DV Cleared
4 57 (5.77%) Degree
5 51 (5.16%) AWS Certification
6 39 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.72%) ISTQB
9 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.52%) CISSP
10 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
12 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.51%) GCIH
14 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (14.07%) QA
2 36 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 36 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (1.52%) NIST
4 14 (1.42%) WCAG
5 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.01%) NCSC
6 9 (0.91%) GDPR
6 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.61%) SEPA
8 5 (0.51%) PSD2
8 5 (0.51%) 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%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 482 (48.79%) Docker
2 21 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.01%) Postfix
6 6 (0.61%) NFS
7 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.40%) Squid
7 4 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.40%) vSphere
8 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.30%) Varnish
8 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 490 (49.60%) Kubernetes
2 230 (23.28%) Ansible
3 221 (22.37%) Grafana
4 187 (18.93%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.85%) Progress Chef
6 37 (3.74%) Puppet
7 32 (3.24%) Argo
8 25 (2.53%) Kibana
9 17 (1.72%) Control-M
10 16 (1.62%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.42%) Istio
12 13 (1.32%) Packer
13 10 (1.01%) Kustomize
13 10 (1.01%) Podman
14 8 (0.81%) Consul
15 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) Rancher
16 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (9.51%) Google
2 91 (9.21%) Oracle
3 90 (9.11%) Microsoft
4 83 (8.40%) Splunk
5 69 (6.98%) Dynatrace
6 38 (3.85%) Red Hat
7 37 (3.74%) IBM
8 31 (3.14%) Salesforce
8 31 (3.14%) VMware
9 25 (2.53%) Databricks
9 25 (2.53%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.52%) F5
10 15 (1.52%) New Relic
10 15 (1.52%) Talend
11 12 (1.21%) Sonatype
11 12 (1.21%) Veracode
12 11 (1.11%) Denodo
12 11 (1.11%) NetApp
13 10 (1.01%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.01%) SAP