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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 75 89
Rank change year-on-year -35 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,022 909 830
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 3.28% 2.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.17% 22.72% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 638 623
10th Percentile £358 £341 £388
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.82%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £673
90th Percentile £638 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 34
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £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 5,330 4,001 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.45% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,401 2,773 2,835
10th Percentile £353 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £631
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 244 94 198
10th Percentile £35.38 £40.68 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.99 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%

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 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 12 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 -33 499 £525 -2.33% 383
North of England -32 255 £450 -3.43% 123
Yorkshire -14 184 £475 -5.00% 32
Midlands -22 127 £476 +0.21% 47
West Midlands -4 119 £479 +0.84% 32
South East -80 68 £460 -8.19% 60
South West -17 56 £550 -4.35% 68
North West -90 49 £425 +5.99% 72
North East -29 26 £450 -6.25% 20
East of England -13 16 £438 -12.50% 31
East Midlands -33 6 £447 +24.86% 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
1 110 (10.76%) Confluence
2 34 (3.33%) SAS
3 24 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.08%) nginx
6 10 (0.98%) Apache
6 10 (0.98%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.68%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.39%) Camunda
9 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.29%) IIS
10 3 (0.29%) 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 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.88%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.098%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Magento
2 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.098%) Shopify
4 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 532 (52.05%) AWS
2 433 (42.37%) GitHub
3 371 (36.30%) Azure
4 321 (31.41%) GitHub Actions
5 235 (22.99%) GCP
6 178 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (12.62%) Amazon S3
8 122 (11.94%) Serverless
9 110 (10.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 109 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
12 96 (9.39%) Amazon EKS
13 88 (8.61%) OpenShift
14 77 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 67 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
16 53 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 49 (4.79%) Amazon SQS
18 46 (4.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 45 (4.40%) Datadog
20 29 (2.84%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.48%) DNS
2 54 (5.28%) Firewall
3 24 (2.35%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.96%) Network Security
5 17 (1.66%) SSL
6 16 (1.57%) VPN
7 12 (1.17%) HTTP
8 11 (1.08%) VLAN
9 9 (0.88%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 8 (0.78%) WAN
11 7 (0.68%) SAN
12 5 (0.49%) DHCP
13 4 (0.39%) 4G
13 4 (0.39%) BGP
13 4 (0.39%) OpenLDAP
13 4 (0.39%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.29%) 5G
14 3 (0.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (5.97%) MongoDB
4 55 (5.38%) Relational Database
4 55 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 54 (5.28%) NoSQL
6 43 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 40 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 30 (2.94%) Redis
9 27 (2.64%) Big Data
10 26 (2.54%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (1.86%) MySQL
12 18 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (1.76%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.76%) Metadata
13 14 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.37%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.27%) Power BI
15 11 (1.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 363 (35.52%) GitLab
2 345 (33.76%) Git
3 188 (18.40%) JIRA
4 107 (10.47%) JUnit
5 92 (9.00%) Selenium
6 79 (7.73%) Maven
7 70 (6.85%) SonarQube
8 63 (6.16%) Cucumber
9 55 (5.38%) Bitbucket
9 55 (5.38%) Mockito
10 53 (5.19%) Gradle
11 41 (4.01%) JMeter
12 40 (3.91%) Postman
13 39 (3.82%) REST Assured
14 37 (3.62%) Sonatype Nexus
15 34 (3.33%) Gatling
16 31 (3.03%) WebDriver
17 23 (2.25%) Liquibase
18 21 (2.05%) Artifactory
19 16 (1.57%) Zephyr
General
1 249 (24.36%) Social Skills
2 147 (14.38%) Finance
3 140 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 104 (10.18%) Banking
5 95 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.96%) Law
9 18 (1.76%) Retail
10 16 (1.57%) Publishing
11 14 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.17%) Marketing
13 11 (1.08%) Legal
13 11 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.88%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.68%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.59%) Front Office
17 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 237 (23.19%) Developer
2 181 (17.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 159 (15.56%) Senior
4 119 (11.64%) Java Developer
5 76 (7.44%) Lead
6 64 (6.26%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
8 50 (4.89%) Architect
9 48 (4.70%) Senior Developer
10 46 (4.50%) Data Engineer
11 45 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
12 43 (4.21%) Test Engineer
13 41 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
14 40 (3.91%) GCP Engineer
15 37 (3.62%) Tester
16 36 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 35 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
17 35 (3.42%) Senior Java Developer
18 34 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
19 30 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (17.61%) Spring
2 177 (17.32%) Kafka
3 152 (14.87%) REST
4 149 (14.58%) Spring Boot
5 111 (10.86%) RESTful
6 91 (8.90%) React
7 89 (8.71%) Node.js
8 59 (5.77%) Playwright
9 54 (5.28%) HTML
10 52 (5.09%) SOAP
11 50 (4.89%) Elastic Stack
12 48 (4.70%) AngularJS
13 45 (4.40%) Hibernate
13 45 (4.40%) Web Services
14 42 (4.11%) JPA
15 36 (3.52%) CSS
16 33 (3.23%) JSON
16 33 (3.23%) YAML
17 32 (3.13%) Swagger
18 29 (2.84%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 174 (17.03%) Cloud Native
2 82 (8.02%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (7.05%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.05%) Replication
9 20 (1.96%) Data Centre
10 19 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.57%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.47%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.47%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.37%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.37%) Private Cloud
14 13 (1.27%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.98%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.88%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 198 (19.37%) Linux
2 62 (6.07%) Unix
3 43 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.11%) Windows
5 12 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.88%) Android
6 9 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.49%) CentOS
10 3 (0.29%) AIX
10 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.29%) 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 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 856 (83.76%) CI/CD
2 683 (66.83%) DevOps
3 492 (48.14%) Agile
4 351 (34.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 331 (32.39%) Test Automation
6 280 (27.40%) Containerisation
7 263 (25.73%) Microservices
8 209 (20.45%) Observability
9 191 (18.69%) Scrum
10 187 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 163 (15.95%) Software Engineering
12 155 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
13 139 (13.60%) Platform Engineering
14 114 (11.15%) TDD
15 111 (10.86%) Deployment Automation
16 95 (9.30%) AI
17 94 (9.20%) Event-Driven
17 94 (9.20%) Validation
18 92 (9.00%) DevSecOps
19 89 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 424 (41.49%) Python
2 369 (36.11%) Java
3 262 (25.64%) SQL
4 209 (20.45%) Bash
5 125 (12.23%) PowerShell
6 99 (9.69%) JavaScript
7 75 (7.34%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.19%) Groovy
9 51 (4.99%) C#
9 51 (4.99%) Shell Script
10 49 (4.79%) Go
11 39 (3.82%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.84%) Scala
13 22 (2.15%) Perl
14 19 (1.86%) Bicep
15 18 (1.76%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.08%) C++
17 10 (0.98%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.88%) ActionScript
19 8 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 409 (40.02%) Security Cleared
2 347 (33.95%) SC Cleared
3 50 (4.89%) Degree
4 46 (4.50%) AWS Certification
5 45 (4.40%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.27%) ISTQB
12 12 (1.17%) CISSP
13 11 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
14 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 8 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.78%) RHCE
16 6 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
17 5 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.49%) OCP
18 4 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.74%) QA
2 51 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.27%) WCAG
5 9 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.88%) NIST
5 9 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.78%) GDPR
7 7 (0.68%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.68%) SLA
8 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.49%) SEPA
9 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.39%) PSD2
10 3 (0.29%) NCSC
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 487 (47.65%) Docker
2 29 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.66%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.27%) Postfix
4 13 (1.27%) vSphere
5 12 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.17%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.68%) NFS
7 5 (0.49%) HDFS
8 4 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.39%) SRDF
8 4 (0.39%) Varnish
8 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.29%) GridGain
9 3 (0.29%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.29%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.20%) Squid
10 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 496 (48.53%) Kubernetes
2 398 (38.94%) Terraform
3 242 (23.68%) Ansible
4 217 (21.23%) Grafana
5 182 (17.81%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.21%) Puppet
7 41 (4.01%) Argo
8 36 (3.52%) Progress Chef
9 19 (1.86%) Istio
10 18 (1.76%) Control-M
11 15 (1.47%) Kibana
12 14 (1.37%) HAProxy
13 13 (1.27%) vCenter Server
14 12 (1.17%) Packer
15 9 (0.88%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.88%) Podman
16 7 (0.68%) Consul
16 7 (0.68%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
17 6 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (9.00%) Oracle
2 90 (8.81%) Google
3 89 (8.71%) Microsoft
4 82 (8.02%) Splunk
5 63 (6.16%) Dynatrace
6 51 (4.99%) Red Hat
7 37 (3.62%) VMware
8 31 (3.03%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.94%) IBM
10 27 (2.64%) Databricks
10 27 (2.64%) Talend
11 24 (2.35%) ServiceNow
12 23 (2.25%) Denodo
13 16 (1.57%) Jaspersoft
14 14 (1.37%) New Relic
14 14 (1.37%) Sonatype
15 13 (1.27%) Okta
16 12 (1.17%) Atlassian
16 12 (1.17%) F5
16 12 (1.17%) Pure Storage