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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 93 97
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -45
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,035 729 873
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.84% 2.84% 2.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.58% 21.11% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 717 495 645
10th Percentile £363 £361 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +4.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £650
90th Percentile £664 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £506 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -8.00% +1.85% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £58.13 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £71.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.67% -19.64%
75th Percentile £60.25 £80.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.90 £89.75 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £51.07
% change year-on-year -25.61% +39.53% -27.05%

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 5,028 3,454 4,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.81% 13.44% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,421 2,216 3,073
10th Percentile £340 £332 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £694 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 64 197
10th Percentile £33.26 £26.63 £39.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.56 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £86.12
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -25 432 £530 -14.17% 123
North of England +18 266 £493 -5.65% 74
Yorkshire +22 202 £500 -13.61% 28
Midlands +21 162 £515 +10.28% 28
West Midlands +33 147 £520 +9.01% 24
South East +4 96 £467 -6.55% 81
South West -1 58 £525 -8.70% 40
North West -41 50 £447 +1.65% 32
East of England -17 22 £477 +5.89% 32
North East -1 19 £538 -2.27% 14
East Midlands -33 14 £400 -2.32% 4
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
1 128 (12.37%) Confluence
2 70 (6.76%) SAS
3 21 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.06%) Apache
5 11 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.77%) JBoss
6 8 (0.77%) nginx
7 7 (0.68%) IIS
8 6 (0.58%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.29%) iPlanet
10 3 (0.29%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.19%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.097%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.097%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.19%) Shopify
3 1 (0.097%) Actimize
3 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.097%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 522 (50.43%) AWS
2 389 (37.58%) GitHub
3 279 (26.96%) Azure
4 237 (22.90%) GitHub Actions
5 232 (22.42%) GCP
6 149 (14.40%) OpenShift
7 131 (12.66%) Serverless
8 118 (11.40%) Amazon S3
9 113 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
10 102 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
11 91 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (8.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 83 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 72 (6.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 67 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
17 62 (5.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 50 (4.83%) Datadog
19 37 (3.57%) Azure AKS
20 33 (3.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 59 (5.70%) DNS
2 52 (5.02%) Firewall
3 27 (2.61%) VPN
4 18 (1.74%) Network Security
5 14 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.16%) Kerberos
7 11 (1.06%) HTTP
8 7 (0.68%) SSL
9 6 (0.58%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.58%) Internet
9 6 (0.58%) WAN
10 5 (0.48%) SAN
10 5 (0.48%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.19%) BGP
11 2 (0.19%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.19%) NAS
11 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
12 1 (0.097%) DSL
12 1 (0.097%) FTP
12 1 (0.097%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
2 96 (9.28%) NoSQL
3 91 (8.79%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (5.99%) MongoDB
5 43 (4.15%) DynamoDB
6 39 (3.77%) MySQL
6 39 (3.77%) Pentaho
7 34 (3.29%) Relational Database
7 34 (3.29%) SQL Server
8 26 (2.51%) Redis
9 24 (2.32%) Oracle Database
10 23 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
11 20 (1.93%) Big Data
12 17 (1.64%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (1.35%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.26%) Power BI
14 13 (1.26%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 12 (1.16%) Tableau
16 11 (1.06%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 408 (39.42%) GitLab
2 311 (30.05%) Git
3 234 (22.61%) JIRA
4 117 (11.30%) JUnit
5 112 (10.82%) Selenium
6 99 (9.57%) Cucumber
7 75 (7.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 63 (6.09%) Postman
9 55 (5.31%) Bitbucket
10 54 (5.22%) Maven
11 47 (4.54%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.06%) REST Assured
13 36 (3.48%) JMeter
14 30 (2.90%) Gradle
14 30 (2.90%) Mockito
15 28 (2.71%) Artifactory
15 28 (2.71%) CircleCI
16 22 (2.13%) Cypress.io
16 22 (2.13%) Gatling
16 22 (2.13%) Liquibase
General
1 313 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 216 (20.87%) Finance
3 132 (12.75%) Banking
4 130 (12.56%) Public Sector
5 74 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.51%) Financial Institution
8 22 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.16%) Military
10 11 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.06%) Retail
11 8 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.58%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.58%) Front Office
13 6 (0.58%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.48%) Law
14 5 (0.48%) Marketing
14 5 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 183 (17.68%) Developer
2 163 (15.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 150 (14.49%) Senior
4 91 (8.79%) Lead
5 84 (8.12%) Architect
5 84 (8.12%) Java Developer
6 68 (6.57%) GCP Engineer
7 66 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 61 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
9 53 (5.12%) Software Engineer
10 52 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.25%) Test Engineer
12 42 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
13 39 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
13 39 (3.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 35 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
16 34 (3.29%) Full-Stack Developer
17 33 (3.19%) Automation Engineer
17 33 (3.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (16.71%) REST
2 148 (14.30%) Spring
3 147 (14.20%) Kafka
4 116 (11.21%) Node.js
5 110 (10.63%) Spring Boot
6 85 (8.21%) Elastic Stack
7 82 (7.92%) RESTful
8 74 (7.15%) Playwright
9 62 (5.99%) React
10 48 (4.64%) AngularJS
11 46 (4.44%) OpenID
12 45 (4.35%) GraphQL
12 45 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
13 43 (4.15%) LDAP
14 42 (4.06%) pytest
15 40 (3.86%) JSON
16 38 (3.67%) YAML
17 37 (3.57%) Hibernate
18 36 (3.48%) HTML
18 36 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 199 (19.23%) Cloud Native
2 95 (9.18%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.54%) Public Cloud
4 35 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 30 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.35%) Replication
9 12 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 10 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.97%) Derivative
11 10 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (0.97%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.87%) Data Structures
12 9 (0.87%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.77%) Equities
13 8 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 232 (22.42%) Linux
2 56 (5.41%) Windows
3 37 (3.57%) Unix
4 28 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.64%) VMS
6 12 (1.16%) Android
6 12 (1.16%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.06%) CentOS
8 9 (0.87%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.097%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (84.44%) CI/CD
2 694 (67.05%) DevOps
3 415 (40.10%) Agile
4 350 (33.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 312 (30.14%) Containerisation
6 308 (29.76%) Test Automation
7 251 (24.25%) Problem-Solving
8 227 (21.93%) Microservices
9 162 (15.65%) Observability
10 149 (14.40%) Scrum
11 137 (13.24%) Software Engineering
12 136 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 120 (11.59%) Mentoring
14 107 (10.34%) Migration
15 97 (9.37%) Analytics
15 97 (9.37%) Deployment Automation
16 89 (8.60%) Data Pipeline
17 86 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
18 81 (7.83%) Continuous Integration
18 81 (7.83%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 462 (44.64%) Python
2 297 (28.70%) Java
3 208 (20.10%) SQL
4 168 (16.23%) Bash
5 106 (10.24%) JavaScript
6 90 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 84 (8.12%) Go
8 82 (7.92%) PowerShell
9 57 (5.51%) Shell Script
10 54 (5.22%) C#
11 32 (3.09%) Groovy
12 25 (2.42%) Scala
13 17 (1.64%) C++
14 14 (1.35%) PHP
15 12 (1.16%) Ruby
16 11 (1.06%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.97%) Bicep
17 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.87%) Perl
19 7 (0.68%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 367 (35.46%) Security Cleared
2 298 (28.79%) SC Cleared
3 70 (6.76%) Degree
4 50 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (4.54%) AWS Certification
6 32 (3.09%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 26 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
9 14 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.06%) OCP
12 9 (0.87%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.77%) RHCE
14 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.58%) OCA
15 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (9.95%) QA
2 54 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.13%) NIST
5 18 (1.74%) NCSC
5 18 (1.74%) SLA
6 9 (0.87%) GDPR
7 8 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.29%) WCAG
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.19%) HL7
10 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.19%) MiFID
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
10 2 (0.19%) SEPA
11 1 (0.097%) JSP 440
System Software
1 484 (46.76%) Docker
2 29 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.03%) VMware NSX
3 21 (2.03%) vSphere
4 16 (1.55%) Active Directory
5 14 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.77%) Postfix
7 6 (0.58%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.58%) HDFS
8 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.29%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 2 (0.19%) SRDF
11 1 (0.097%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.097%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.097%) KVM
11 1 (0.097%) NFS
11 1 (0.097%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.097%) Squid
11 1 (0.097%) Varnish
11 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 549 (53.04%) Kubernetes
2 416 (40.19%) Terraform
3 296 (28.60%) Ansible
4 207 (20.00%) Grafana
5 163 (15.75%) Prometheus
6 50 (4.83%) Progress Chef
7 49 (4.73%) Argo
8 34 (3.29%) Istio
9 30 (2.90%) Puppet
10 21 (2.03%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.64%) Podman
12 14 (1.35%) Kibana
13 11 (1.06%) Packer
14 9 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
14 9 (0.87%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.68%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
15 7 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 122 (11.79%) Splunk
2 87 (8.41%) Google
3 77 (7.44%) Oracle
4 64 (6.18%) Microsoft
5 56 (5.41%) Red Hat
6 55 (5.31%) VMware
7 43 (4.15%) ServiceNow
8 39 (3.77%) Denodo
8 39 (3.77%) Talend
9 36 (3.48%) Databricks
10 33 (3.19%) Atlassian
11 24 (2.32%) Sonatype
12 22 (2.13%) Dynatrace
13 21 (2.03%) Pure Storage
14 17 (1.64%) CyberArk
15 12 (1.16%) AppDynamics
16 11 (1.06%) IBM
16 11 (1.06%) Jaspersoft
17 10 (0.97%) Cisco
17 10 (0.97%) Veritas