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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 73 98
Rank change year-on-year -41 +25 -38
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 916 761 837
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.16% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.30% 22.36% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 524 629
10th Percentile £372 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £417 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £658 £726 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £546
% change year-on-year - -8.47% -6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 27
10th Percentile - £54.75 £52.10
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £65.94
Median hourly rate £68.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.25 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% -7.14% -3.78%

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 5,005 3,404 4,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.01% 14.14% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 2,301 2,912
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year - -4.85% -4.45%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £638
90th Percentile £681 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 63 208
10th Percentile £36.00 £27.59 £31.57
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%

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 2 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 2 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 -40 401 £550 - 116
North of England -6 259 £475 - 74
Yorkshire +3 200 £487 -2.60% 29
Midlands -22 124 £484 +7.64% 19
West Midlands -3 113 £492 +3.58% 6
South East -71 58 £430 -14.00% 56
South West -16 50 £538 -6.52% 41
North West -65 41 £425 +6.25% 32
North East -8 25 £425 -8.60% 14
East of England -28 24 £478 -4.40% 25
East Midlands -51 9 £393 +6.79% 13
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
1 104 (11.35%) Confluence
2 33 (3.60%) SAS
3 26 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.09%) Apache
6 8 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) nginx
8 5 (0.55%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.33%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Magento
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 473 (51.64%) AWS
2 389 (42.47%) GitHub
3 304 (33.19%) Azure
4 262 (28.60%) GitHub Actions
5 214 (23.36%) GCP
6 127 (13.86%) Amazon S3
7 112 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
7 112 (12.23%) Serverless
8 104 (11.35%) OpenShift
9 101 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
9 101 (11.03%) AWS Lambda
10 99 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 90 (9.83%) Amazon EKS
12 73 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 59 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 57 (6.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 56 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
16 38 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
17 35 (3.82%) Route 53
18 33 (3.60%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.44%) DNS
2 53 (5.79%) Firewall
3 16 (1.75%) Network Security
3 16 (1.75%) VPN
4 15 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.09%) SSL
6 8 (0.87%) SAN
7 6 (0.66%) BIG-IP
7 6 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 6 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (0.55%) HTTP
8 5 (0.55%) NAS
9 4 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.44%) WAN
10 3 (0.33%) BGP
10 3 (0.33%) VLAN
10 3 (0.33%) VSAN
11 2 (0.22%) LAN
11 2 (0.22%) Multicast
11 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (15.61%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (8.08%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (5.57%) NoSQL
4 48 (5.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 48 (5.24%) DynamoDB
5 47 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 43 (4.69%) Relational Database
7 40 (4.37%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.17%) Redis
9 27 (2.95%) Big Data
10 21 (2.29%) Pentaho
11 20 (2.18%) MySQL
12 17 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.75%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.31%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.31%) Metadata
16 9 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (0.98%) DocumentDB
17 7 (0.76%) Ataccama
Development Applications
1 350 (38.21%) GitLab
2 272 (29.69%) Git
3 188 (20.52%) JIRA
4 108 (11.79%) JUnit
5 106 (11.57%) Selenium
6 75 (8.19%) Cucumber
7 65 (7.10%) Maven
8 56 (6.11%) Mockito
9 52 (5.68%) REST Assured
9 52 (5.68%) SonarQube
10 51 (5.57%) Postman
11 40 (4.37%) Bitbucket
12 36 (3.93%) Gatling
12 36 (3.93%) JMeter
12 36 (3.93%) Sonatype Nexus
13 33 (3.60%) Gradle
14 28 (3.06%) WebDriver
15 24 (2.62%) Liquibase
16 19 (2.07%) Artifactory
17 15 (1.64%) Serenity BDD
General
1 249 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 138 (15.07%) Finance
3 119 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 98 (10.70%) Banking
5 73 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (1.75%) Law
10 15 (1.64%) Retail
11 14 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.87%) Front Office
13 8 (0.87%) Legal
14 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.66%) Marketing
15 6 (0.66%) Military
15 6 (0.66%) Publishing
16 3 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 172 (18.78%) Developer
2 158 (17.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 129 (14.08%) Senior
4 92 (10.04%) Java Developer
5 79 (8.62%) Architect
6 74 (8.08%) Lead
7 53 (5.79%) GCP Engineer
7 53 (5.79%) Software Engineer
8 47 (5.13%) Test Engineer
9 45 (4.91%) Data Engineer
10 41 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
12 35 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (3.82%) Tester
13 34 (3.71%) Senior Developer
14 31 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
14 31 (3.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.06%) Automation Engineer
15 28 (3.06%) GCP DevOps
16 26 (2.84%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (17.14%) Spring
2 128 (13.97%) Kafka
2 128 (13.97%) Spring Boot
3 123 (13.43%) REST
4 92 (10.04%) RESTful
5 82 (8.95%) Node.js
6 60 (6.55%) React
7 59 (6.44%) Playwright
8 52 (5.68%) AngularJS
9 48 (5.24%) Elastic Stack
10 47 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
11 45 (4.91%) LDAP
12 41 (4.48%) SOAP
13 39 (4.26%) Spring Cloud
14 38 (4.15%) Web Services
15 37 (4.04%) OpenID
16 36 (3.93%) JPA
17 34 (3.71%) HTML
18 31 (3.38%) Swagger
19 30 (3.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 184 (20.09%) Cloud Native
2 79 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.38%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.28%) Data Centre
6 29 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.51%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (1.86%) Replication
9 12 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 8 (0.87%) Private Cloud
12 7 (0.76%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.76%) Clustering
12 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
12 7 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 177 (19.32%) Linux
2 43 (4.69%) Unix
3 42 (4.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (4.48%) Windows
5 15 (1.64%) VMS
6 12 (1.31%) CentOS
7 10 (1.09%) Android
8 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.33%) AIX
12 3 (0.33%) zOS
13 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 791 (86.35%) CI/CD
2 620 (67.69%) DevOps
3 383 (41.81%) Agile
4 323 (35.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 292 (31.88%) Test Automation
6 271 (29.59%) Containerisation
7 227 (24.78%) Microservices
8 181 (19.76%) Observability
9 160 (17.47%) Scrum
10 152 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
11 140 (15.28%) Software Engineering
12 138 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 107 (11.68%) Platform Engineering
14 106 (11.57%) Migration
15 92 (10.04%) TDD
16 83 (9.06%) Validation
17 81 (8.84%) Event-Driven
18 80 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
19 78 (8.52%) Mentoring
19 78 (8.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 389 (42.47%) Python
2 316 (34.50%) Java
3 215 (23.47%) SQL
4 169 (18.45%) Bash
5 89 (9.72%) PowerShell
6 74 (8.08%) JavaScript
7 61 (6.66%) TypeScript
8 52 (5.68%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.80%) Go
10 38 (4.15%) Groovy
10 38 (4.15%) Scala
11 34 (3.71%) C#
12 17 (1.86%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.31%) Bicep
14 11 (1.20%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.09%) Perl
16 9 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.98%) Ruby
17 8 (0.87%) PHP
18 6 (0.66%) C++
Qualifications
1 346 (37.77%) Security Cleared
2 297 (32.42%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.37%) Degree
4 35 (3.82%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.31%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
10 8 (0.87%) RHCE
11 6 (0.66%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.66%) OCP
12 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.44%) PMP
12 4 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.35%) QA
2 43 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.95%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.07%) SLA
5 17 (1.86%) NIST
6 14 (1.53%) NCSC
7 10 (1.09%) WCAG
8 7 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.55%) GDPR
11 4 (0.44%) PSD2
11 4 (0.44%) SEPA
12 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 413 (45.09%) Docker
2 24 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.29%) vSphere
4 19 (2.07%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.86%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.64%) Postfix
6 15 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.76%) NFS
8 6 (0.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.55%) HDFS
10 4 (0.44%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.44%) SRDF
10 4 (0.44%) Varnish
10 4 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.33%) GridGain
11 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.22%) Squid
12 2 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 458 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 377 (41.16%) Terraform
3 228 (24.89%) Ansible
4 206 (22.49%) Grafana
5 171 (18.67%) Prometheus
6 46 (5.02%) Argo
7 32 (3.49%) Puppet
8 30 (3.28%) Istio
9 28 (3.06%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.29%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.75%) Kibana
12 15 (1.64%) Podman
13 14 (1.53%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.20%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 9 (0.98%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.76%) Packer
17 6 (0.66%) Consul
18 5 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 84 (9.17%) Splunk
2 80 (8.73%) Google
3 64 (6.99%) Red Hat
4 59 (6.44%) Microsoft
5 55 (6.00%) Oracle
6 41 (4.48%) VMware
7 34 (3.71%) ServiceNow
8 29 (3.17%) Databricks
8 29 (3.17%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.40%) Talend
10 21 (2.29%) Atlassian
10 21 (2.29%) Denodo
11 20 (2.18%) Pure Storage
11 20 (2.18%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.97%) Jaspersoft
13 17 (1.86%) Sonatype
14 15 (1.64%) CyberArk
15 14 (1.53%) IBM
16 13 (1.42%) Okta
17 11 (1.20%) ForgeRock