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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 77 90
Rank change year-on-year -40 +13 -19
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,002 893 837
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.24% 2.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.95% 22.58% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 629 624
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £420 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £675
90th Percentile £645 £700 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 36
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £60.94
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £69.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
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 5,287 3,954 4,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.66% 14.37% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,368 2,740 2,847
10th Percentile £350 £320 £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 £588 £600 £629
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 238 94 206
10th Percentile £29.42 £40.68 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.53 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 31 July 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 31 July 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 -33 479 £530 -1.62% 132
North of England -23 260 £450 -2.70% 74
Yorkshire -8 191 £488 +1.04% 22
Midlands -15 130 £477 +6.00% 25
West Midlands -2 122 £481 +1.26% 19
South East -89 64 £460 -8.00% 47
South West -27 51 £550 -4.35% 32
North West -90 48 £425 +5.72% 40
North East -31 25 £450 -3.23% 13
East of England -12 18 £463 -7.50% 17
East Midlands -41 6 £447 +24.86% 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
1 117 (11.68%) Confluence
2 32 (3.19%) SAS
3 25 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 24 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.20%) Apache
5 12 (1.20%) nginx
6 10 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.40%) Camunda
8 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 12 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.100%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.100%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.100%) 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
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.100%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 516 (51.50%) AWS
2 428 (42.71%) GitHub
3 352 (35.13%) Azure
4 300 (29.94%) GitHub Actions
5 225 (22.46%) GCP
6 168 (16.77%) Azure DevOps
7 126 (12.57%) Amazon S3
8 115 (11.48%) Serverless
9 105 (10.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 101 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
11 100 (9.98%) Amazon EC2
12 96 (9.58%) Amazon EKS
13 92 (9.18%) OpenShift
14 75 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 61 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
16 52 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 49 (4.89%) Amazon SQS
18 44 (4.39%) Datadog
19 43 (4.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 32 (3.19%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.49%) DNS
2 52 (5.19%) Firewall
3 18 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.70%) VPN
5 16 (1.60%) Network Security
5 16 (1.60%) SSL
6 9 (0.90%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.80%) HTTP
7 8 (0.80%) VLAN
8 7 (0.70%) SAN
8 7 (0.70%) WAN
9 4 (0.40%) BGP
9 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.30%) Internet
10 3 (0.30%) Multicast
10 3 (0.30%) NAS
10 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (5.79%) MongoDB
4 55 (5.49%) SQL Server
5 53 (5.29%) Relational Database
6 50 (4.99%) NoSQL
7 44 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 44 (4.39%) DynamoDB
8 27 (2.69%) Redis
9 26 (2.59%) Big Data
10 23 (2.30%) Pentaho
11 21 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (1.80%) Data Lake
14 17 (1.70%) Metadata
15 16 (1.60%) MySQL
16 14 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
17 13 (1.30%) BigQuery
18 12 (1.20%) Power BI
19 10 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 354 (35.33%) GitLab
2 327 (32.63%) Git
3 197 (19.66%) JIRA
4 114 (11.38%) JUnit
5 92 (9.18%) Selenium
6 76 (7.58%) Maven
7 69 (6.89%) SonarQube
8 64 (6.39%) Cucumber
9 59 (5.89%) Mockito
10 53 (5.29%) Bitbucket
11 48 (4.79%) Gradle
12 43 (4.29%) REST Assured
13 40 (3.99%) Postman
14 39 (3.89%) JMeter
15 36 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
16 32 (3.19%) Gatling
17 29 (2.89%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.40%) Liquibase
19 23 (2.30%) Artifactory
20 18 (1.80%) Zephyr
General
1 251 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 147 (14.67%) Finance
3 141 (14.07%) Public Sector
4 103 (10.28%) Banking
5 88 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.00%) Law
8 18 (1.80%) Retail
9 15 (1.50%) Publishing
10 13 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.20%) Marketing
12 11 (1.10%) Legal
13 10 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.60%) Front Office
15 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.60%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (23.05%) Developer
2 178 (17.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 151 (15.07%) Senior
4 119 (11.88%) Java Developer
5 69 (6.89%) Lead
6 62 (6.19%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.59%) Architect
8 54 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
9 49 (4.89%) Senior Developer
10 48 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
11 44 (4.39%) Data Engineer
12 42 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.19%) GCP Engineer
13 38 (3.79%) Tester
14 35 (3.49%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (3.49%) Test Engineer
15 34 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
15 34 (3.39%) Senior Java Developer
16 32 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 30 (2.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (17.66%) Spring
2 158 (15.77%) Kafka
3 150 (14.97%) Spring Boot
4 149 (14.87%) REST
5 106 (10.58%) RESTful
6 93 (9.28%) React
7 90 (8.98%) Node.js
8 58 (5.79%) Playwright
9 55 (5.49%) SOAP
10 49 (4.89%) AngularJS
10 49 (4.89%) Web Services
11 47 (4.69%) Hibernate
11 47 (4.69%) HTML
12 46 (4.59%) Elastic Stack
13 43 (4.29%) JPA
14 34 (3.39%) CSS
15 33 (3.29%) Swagger
16 32 (3.19%) Spring Cloud
16 32 (3.19%) YAML
17 31 (3.09%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 182 (18.16%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (6.79%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.00%) Replication
10 19 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.40%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.40%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.30%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (1.30%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.10%) Private Cloud
16 9 (0.90%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 191 (19.06%) Linux
2 52 (5.19%) Unix
3 45 (4.49%) Windows
4 41 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.10%) Android
7 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.50%) CentOS
11 3 (0.30%) AIX
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.30%) zOS
12 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.20%) VMS
13 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (83.53%) CI/CD
2 673 (67.17%) DevOps
3 486 (48.50%) Agile
4 336 (33.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 315 (31.44%) Test Automation
6 276 (27.54%) Containerisation
7 264 (26.35%) Microservices
8 196 (19.56%) Observability
9 194 (19.36%) Scrum
10 181 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 161 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (15.27%) Software Engineering
13 141 (14.07%) Platform Engineering
14 119 (11.88%) TDD
15 100 (9.98%) Deployment Automation
16 92 (9.18%) AI
17 91 (9.08%) Event-Driven
18 86 (8.58%) Stakeholder Management
19 85 (8.48%) Validation
20 83 (8.28%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 419 (41.82%) Python
2 356 (35.53%) Java
3 247 (24.65%) SQL
4 202 (20.16%) Bash
5 117 (11.68%) PowerShell
6 92 (9.18%) JavaScript
7 74 (7.39%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.89%) C#
8 49 (4.89%) Go
9 48 (4.79%) Groovy
10 46 (4.59%) Shell Script
11 37 (3.69%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.89%) Scala
13 18 (1.80%) Kotlin
13 18 (1.80%) Perl
14 17 (1.70%) Bicep
15 10 (1.00%) Apex Code
15 10 (1.00%) C++
16 9 (0.90%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 383 (38.22%) Security Cleared
2 321 (32.04%) SC Cleared
3 49 (4.89%) Degree
4 45 (4.49%) AWS Certification
5 43 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 30 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.69%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.20%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.80%) CISSP
14 8 (0.80%) RHCE
15 7 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.60%) OCP
17 4 (0.40%) CCNP
17 4 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (12.08%) QA
2 49 (4.89%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.30%) WCAG
5 7 (0.70%) SLA
6 6 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.50%) NIST
7 5 (0.50%) SEPA
8 4 (0.40%) GDPR
8 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.40%) PSD2
9 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.100%) NCSC
10 1 (0.100%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.100%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 463 (46.21%) Docker
2 30 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.90%) vSphere
4 18 (1.80%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.70%) Active Directory
6 16 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (1.50%) Postfix
8 7 (0.70%) NFS
9 6 (0.60%) HDFS
10 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.40%) SRDF
10 4 (0.40%) Varnish
10 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.30%) GridGain
11 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.20%) Squid
12 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 479 (47.80%) Kubernetes
2 391 (39.02%) Terraform
3 244 (24.35%) Ansible
4 213 (21.26%) Grafana
5 177 (17.66%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.69%) Argo
7 40 (3.99%) Puppet
8 30 (2.99%) Progress Chef
9 20 (2.00%) Istio
10 19 (1.90%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.70%) Control-M
12 14 (1.40%) HAProxy
13 12 (1.20%) Kibana
14 10 (1.00%) Packer
14 10 (1.00%) Podman
15 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.60%) Consul
18 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 91 (9.08%) Google
2 84 (8.38%) Microsoft
2 84 (8.38%) Oracle
3 77 (7.68%) Splunk
4 55 (5.49%) Dynatrace
5 53 (5.29%) Red Hat
6 41 (4.09%) VMware
7 31 (3.09%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.50%) Databricks
8 25 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.40%) Talend
10 21 (2.10%) IBM
11 20 (2.00%) Denodo
12 18 (1.80%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
12 18 (1.80%) Pure Storage
13 13 (1.30%) Okta
13 13 (1.30%) Sonatype
14 12 (1.20%) F5
15 11 (1.10%) ForgeRock