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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 77 96
Rank change year-on-year -34 +19 -32
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 978 812 893
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 3.22% 2.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.89% 22.58% 19.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 559 659
10th Percentile £367 £358 £400
25th Percentile £418 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 37
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - £69.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -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 5,178 3,596 4,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.93% 14.27% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,354 2,444 3,027
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £411 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 76 233
10th Percentile £27.64 £27.72 £33.01
25th Percentile £56.94 £49.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -32 445 £550 +1.29% 69
North of England -8 274 £453 -2.58% 47
Yorkshire -1 203 £496 -0.75% 15
Midlands -32 128 £481 +6.92% 11
West Midlands -3 118 £488 +2.63% 5
South East -76 59 £444 -11.25% 38
South West -16 50 £538 -6.52% 22
North West -68 50 £425 +8.14% 25
North East -10 28 £450 -3.23% 8
East of England -17 25 £478 -6.73% 6
East Midlands -36 8 £393 +8.12% 6
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
1 119 (12.17%) Confluence
2 34 (3.48%) SAS
3 24 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 10 (1.02%) Apache
7 9 (0.92%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.31%) Camunda
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) IIS
11 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
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 15 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Magento
2 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 491 (50.20%) AWS
2 404 (41.31%) GitHub
3 309 (31.60%) Azure
4 271 (27.71%) GitHub Actions
5 208 (21.27%) GCP
6 132 (13.50%) Amazon S3
7 126 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (12.27%) Serverless
9 106 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 105 (10.74%) Amazon EC2
11 104 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
12 100 (10.22%) OpenShift
13 94 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
14 77 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
15 63 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (6.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 50 (5.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 44 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.68%) Route 53
20 33 (3.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.52%) DNS
2 50 (5.11%) Firewall
3 19 (1.94%) Network Security
4 14 (1.43%) VPN
5 13 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.12%) SSL
7 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.82%) HTTP
8 8 (0.82%) SAN
9 7 (0.72%) VLAN
10 6 (0.61%) WAN
11 5 (0.51%) NAS
12 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.31%) BGP
13 3 (0.31%) Internet
13 3 (0.31%) Multicast
13 3 (0.31%) VSAN
14 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.31%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.77%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (5.73%) MongoDB
4 53 (5.42%) NoSQL
5 52 (5.32%) Relational Database
6 49 (5.01%) DynamoDB
7 47 (4.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 47 (4.81%) SQL Server
8 33 (3.37%) Redis
9 26 (2.66%) Big Data
10 24 (2.45%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (1.94%) MySQL
12 16 (1.64%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.43%) Metadata
14 13 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.12%) Neo4j
16 10 (1.02%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 357 (36.50%) GitLab
2 294 (30.06%) Git
3 200 (20.45%) JIRA
4 116 (11.86%) JUnit
5 99 (10.12%) Selenium
6 71 (7.26%) Cucumber
7 67 (6.85%) Maven
8 60 (6.13%) Mockito
9 58 (5.93%) SonarQube
10 50 (5.11%) REST Assured
11 48 (4.91%) Postman
12 47 (4.81%) Bitbucket
13 40 (4.09%) Gradle
14 39 (3.99%) JMeter
14 39 (3.99%) Sonatype Nexus
15 37 (3.78%) Gatling
16 28 (2.86%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.45%) Liquibase
18 21 (2.15%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
General
1 257 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 155 (15.85%) Finance
3 132 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 105 (10.74%) Banking
5 77 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (2.04%) Law
9 18 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.23%) Retail
11 9 (0.92%) Legal
11 9 (0.92%) Publishing
12 8 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.72%) Front Office
13 7 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.72%) Marketing
14 5 (0.51%) Military
15 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 203 (20.76%) Developer
2 169 (17.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 146 (14.93%) Senior
4 109 (11.15%) Java Developer
5 75 (7.67%) Architect
6 62 (6.34%) Software Engineer
7 60 (6.13%) Lead
8 54 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (4.91%) GCP Engineer
10 45 (4.60%) Data Engineer
11 44 (4.50%) Test Engineer
12 42 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.29%) Senior Developer
13 41 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (3.89%) Tester
15 33 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
18 28 (2.86%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (17.69%) Spring
2 151 (15.44%) Kafka
3 146 (14.93%) Spring Boot
4 139 (14.21%) REST
5 105 (10.74%) RESTful
6 81 (8.28%) Node.js
7 80 (8.18%) React
8 63 (6.44%) Playwright
9 50 (5.11%) SOAP
10 49 (5.01%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.60%) JPA
12 44 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
12 44 (4.50%) Web Services
13 43 (4.40%) Hibernate
13 43 (4.40%) HTML
14 39 (3.99%) Spring Cloud
15 37 (3.78%) LDAP
15 37 (3.78%) OpenTelemetry
16 31 (3.17%) CSS
16 31 (3.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 199 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 93 (9.51%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (5.93%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 29 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 26 (2.66%) Public Cloud
8 24 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
10 18 (1.84%) Replication
11 14 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.92%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 188 (19.22%) Linux
2 47 (4.81%) Unix
3 46 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (4.19%) Windows
5 12 (1.23%) CentOS
6 10 (1.02%) Android
7 8 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.72%) VMS
8 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
10 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.31%) 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
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 826 (84.46%) CI/CD
2 650 (66.46%) DevOps
3 433 (44.27%) Agile
4 326 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 306 (31.29%) Test Automation
6 274 (28.02%) Containerisation
7 248 (25.36%) Microservices
8 181 (18.51%) Observability
9 173 (17.69%) Scrum
10 159 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 158 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
12 146 (14.93%) Software Engineering
13 126 (12.88%) Platform Engineering
14 103 (10.53%) Migration
15 102 (10.43%) TDD
16 93 (9.51%) Event-Driven
17 89 (9.10%) Validation
18 82 (8.38%) Deployment Automation
19 81 (8.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 79 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 405 (41.41%) Python
2 344 (35.17%) Java
3 233 (23.82%) SQL
4 180 (18.40%) Bash
5 96 (9.82%) PowerShell
6 78 (7.98%) JavaScript
7 68 (6.95%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.21%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.50%) Go
10 43 (4.40%) C#
11 39 (3.99%) Groovy
12 34 (3.48%) Scala
13 27 (2.76%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.74%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.23%) Bicep
16 11 (1.12%) MATLAB
16 11 (1.12%) Perl
17 9 (0.92%) ActionScript
18 8 (0.82%) Ruby
18 8 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 372 (38.04%) Security Cleared
2 322 (32.92%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.29%) Degree
4 39 (3.99%) AWS Certification
5 34 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.23%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.82%) RHCE
15 7 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.61%) OCP
17 5 (0.51%) CISSP
17 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.41%) GIAC
18 4 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (11.35%) QA
2 44 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.94%) NIST
6 14 (1.43%) SLA
7 13 (1.33%) NCSC
8 12 (1.23%) WCAG
9 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.41%) GDPR
11 4 (0.41%) SEPA
12 3 (0.31%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.10%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 430 (43.97%) Docker
2 27 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.15%) vSphere
4 20 (2.04%) Active Directory
5 19 (1.94%) VMware NSX
6 15 (1.53%) Postfix
7 12 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.72%) NFS
9 5 (0.51%) HDFS
9 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.41%) SRDF
10 4 (0.41%) Varnish
11 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.31%) GridGain
11 3 (0.31%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 466 (47.65%) Kubernetes
2 384 (39.26%) Terraform
3 235 (24.03%) Ansible
4 205 (20.96%) Grafana
5 178 (18.20%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.40%) Argo
7 32 (3.27%) Puppet
8 26 (2.66%) Istio
8 26 (2.66%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.15%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.43%) HAProxy
10 14 (1.43%) Podman
11 12 (1.23%) Control-M
12 11 (1.12%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.12%) Kibana
12 11 (1.12%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (0.92%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.92%) Packer
14 6 (0.61%) Consul
14 6 (0.61%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 83 (8.49%) Google
1 83 (8.49%) Splunk
2 73 (7.46%) Microsoft
2 73 (7.46%) Oracle
3 65 (6.65%) Red Hat
4 44 (4.50%) VMware
5 42 (4.29%) Dynatrace
6 25 (2.56%) Salesforce
6 25 (2.56%) Talend
7 24 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 23 (2.35%) Databricks
9 21 (2.15%) Denodo
10 20 (2.04%) Atlassian
10 20 (2.04%) Pure Storage
10 20 (2.04%) Sonatype
11 18 (1.84%) IBM
11 18 (1.84%) Jaspersoft
12 17 (1.74%) CyberArk
13 13 (1.33%) Okta
14 11 (1.12%) ForgeRock