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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 82 102
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 -48
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,028 725 816
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.75% 2.96% 2.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.21% 21.82% 19.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 505 603
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £675
90th Percentile £660 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £537 £540
% change year-on-year -6.89% -0.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £57.25 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £63.44 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +20.00% -19.64%
75th Percentile £60.25 £75.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.90 £82.75 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £67.50 £51.07
% change year-on-year -21.48% +32.18% -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 5,087 3,322 4,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.59% 13.56% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,448 2,196 2,942
10th Percentile £338 £340 £360
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.24%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 63 180
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.08 £37.50
25th Percentile £58.01 £51.72 £48.23
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £83.13
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -40 428 £530 -11.67% 82
North of England +24 265 £487 -2.60% 89
Yorkshire +15 204 £500 -8.05% 34
Midlands +18 159 £509 +12.05% 20
West Midlands +25 144 £515 +8.42% 15
South East -5 100 £462 -7.70% 42
South West -2 55 £525 -8.70% 41
North West -35 46 £425 +5.39% 36
East of England -11 25 £475 +5.56% 17
North East -3 19 £488 -3.47% 19
East Midlands -35 14 £402 -9.46% 5
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 (12.45%) Confluence
2 65 (6.32%) SAS
3 21 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.97%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.78%) Apache
7 7 (0.68%) nginx
8 5 (0.49%) JBoss
8 5 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.29%) IIS
9 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.097%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 1 (0.097%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.097%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 20 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.58%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.19%) Shopify
3 1 (0.097%) Actimize
3 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 510 (49.61%) AWS
2 412 (40.08%) GitHub
3 296 (28.79%) Azure
4 251 (24.42%) GitHub Actions
5 233 (22.67%) GCP
6 147 (14.30%) OpenShift
7 132 (12.84%) Serverless
8 124 (12.06%) Amazon S3
8 124 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
10 98 (9.53%) Amazon EKS
11 94 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
12 91 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 81 (7.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 69 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
16 61 (5.93%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 50 (4.86%) Datadog
18 38 (3.70%) Azure AKS
19 33 (3.21%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 64 (6.23%) DNS
2 53 (5.16%) Firewall
3 28 (2.72%) VPN
4 19 (1.85%) Network Security
5 14 (1.36%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.17%) HTTP
7 9 (0.88%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.68%) SSL
8 7 (0.68%) WAN
9 6 (0.58%) Internet
9 6 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.49%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.49%) SAN
11 3 (0.29%) BGP
12 2 (0.19%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.19%) LAN
12 2 (0.19%) Multicast
12 2 (0.19%) NAS
12 2 (0.19%) OpenVPN
13 1 (0.097%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (16.63%) PostgreSQL
2 90 (8.75%) NoSQL
3 89 (8.66%) Amazon RDS
4 49 (4.77%) MongoDB
5 45 (4.38%) DynamoDB
6 40 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 40 (3.89%) SQL Server
7 37 (3.60%) MySQL
8 34 (3.31%) Pentaho
9 27 (2.63%) Redis
10 25 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.04%) Big Data
12 18 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (1.65%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.26%) Power BI
16 12 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (1.17%) Tableau
17 11 (1.07%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 406 (39.49%) GitLab
2 318 (30.93%) Git
3 230 (22.37%) JIRA
4 122 (11.87%) JUnit
5 109 (10.60%) Selenium
6 95 (9.24%) Cucumber
7 72 (7.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 59 (5.74%) Maven
8 59 (5.74%) Postman
9 58 (5.64%) Bitbucket
10 44 (4.28%) SonarQube
11 42 (4.09%) REST Assured
12 37 (3.60%) Mockito
13 36 (3.50%) JMeter
14 35 (3.40%) Gradle
15 30 (2.92%) Artifactory
16 24 (2.33%) CircleCI
16 24 (2.33%) Gatling
16 24 (2.33%) Liquibase
17 20 (1.95%) WebDriver
General
1 326 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 218 (21.21%) Finance
3 131 (12.74%) Banking
4 121 (11.77%) Public Sector
5 77 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (0.97%) Front Office
11 9 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.88%) Military
11 9 (0.88%) Retail
12 8 (0.78%) Law
13 7 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.68%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.58%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 186 (18.09%) Developer
2 152 (14.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 148 (14.40%) Senior
4 88 (8.56%) Architect
5 84 (8.17%) Java Developer
6 78 (7.59%) Lead
7 67 (6.52%) GCP Engineer
8 63 (6.13%) Data Engineer
9 61 (5.93%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 53 (5.16%) Software Engineer
11 46 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
12 42 (4.09%) Test Engineer
13 38 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
13 38 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 36 (3.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 35 (3.40%) Senior Developer
16 34 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
17 33 (3.21%) Tester
18 32 (3.11%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (16.63%) REST
2 152 (14.79%) Spring
3 148 (14.40%) Kafka
4 116 (11.28%) Spring Boot
5 108 (10.51%) Node.js
6 84 (8.17%) Elastic Stack
7 82 (7.98%) RESTful
8 71 (6.91%) Playwright
9 55 (5.35%) React
10 50 (4.86%) OpenTelemetry
11 46 (4.47%) AngularJS
12 43 (4.18%) pytest
13 41 (3.99%) OpenID
14 40 (3.89%) GraphQL
14 40 (3.89%) YAML
15 39 (3.79%) LDAP
16 38 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
17 37 (3.60%) JSON
18 34 (3.31%) HTML
19 33 (3.21%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 192 (18.68%) Cloud Native
2 93 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.28%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.18%) Product Ownership
5 35 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 32 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.07%) Replication
11 9 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.88%) Derivative
11 9 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (0.88%) Equities
11 9 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
12 8 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 221 (21.50%) Linux
2 54 (5.25%) Windows
3 38 (3.70%) Unix
4 29 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.65%) VMS
6 13 (1.26%) Android
7 10 (0.97%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.97%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.88%) CentOS
9 4 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.097%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 866 (84.24%) CI/CD
2 686 (66.73%) DevOps
3 415 (40.37%) Agile
4 345 (33.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 324 (31.52%) Containerisation
6 310 (30.16%) Test Automation
7 248 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
8 229 (22.28%) Microservices
9 165 (16.05%) Observability
10 148 (14.40%) Scrum
11 137 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 130 (12.65%) Software Engineering
13 114 (11.09%) Migration
14 104 (10.12%) Mentoring
15 95 (9.24%) Analytics
16 92 (8.95%) Deployment Automation
17 90 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
18 87 (8.46%) TDD
19 86 (8.37%) Data Pipeline
19 86 (8.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 464 (45.14%) Python
2 300 (29.18%) Java
3 212 (20.62%) SQL
4 176 (17.12%) Bash
5 91 (8.85%) JavaScript
6 82 (7.98%) PowerShell
6 82 (7.98%) TypeScript
7 75 (7.30%) Go
8 53 (5.16%) Shell Script
9 52 (5.06%) C#
10 31 (3.02%) Scala
11 29 (2.82%) Groovy
12 16 (1.56%) C++
13 15 (1.46%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.36%) Bicep
14 14 (1.36%) PHP
15 12 (1.17%) Ruby
16 10 (0.97%) Perl
16 10 (0.97%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.97%) Swift
Qualifications
1 366 (35.60%) Security Cleared
2 303 (29.47%) SC Cleared
3 67 (6.52%) Degree
4 49 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 28 (2.72%) Azure Certification
7 27 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.33%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.95%) Oracle Certification
10 17 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.36%) OCP
13 12 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.78%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.78%) RHCE
15 6 (0.58%) OCA
16 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.39%) CISSP
17 4 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (10.12%) QA
2 51 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.95%) NIST
6 17 (1.65%) NCSC
6 17 (1.65%) SLA
7 10 (0.97%) GDPR
8 9 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.39%) WCAG
11 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.19%) HL7
12 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.19%) MiFID
12 2 (0.19%) PSD2
12 2 (0.19%) SEPA
13 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 487 (47.37%) Docker
2 32 (3.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (2.53%) VMware NSX
3 26 (2.53%) vSphere
4 14 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.17%) Active Directory
6 7 (0.68%) 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%) GridGain
10 2 (0.19%) SRDF
11 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.097%) KVM
11 1 (0.097%) NFS
11 1 (0.097%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.097%) Varnish
11 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 557 (54.18%) Kubernetes
2 412 (40.08%) Terraform
3 291 (28.31%) Ansible
4 216 (21.01%) Grafana
5 169 (16.44%) Prometheus
6 53 (5.16%) Argo
7 43 (4.18%) Progress Chef
8 35 (3.40%) Istio
9 33 (3.21%) Puppet
10 26 (2.53%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.56%) Podman
12 12 (1.17%) Kibana
13 10 (0.97%) Packer
14 9 (0.88%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.78%) Rancher
16 7 (0.68%) Check_MK
16 7 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
16 7 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
17 6 (0.58%) HAProxy
18 4 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 118 (11.48%) Splunk
2 87 (8.46%) Google
3 74 (7.20%) Oracle
4 70 (6.81%) Microsoft
5 64 (6.23%) Red Hat
6 55 (5.35%) VMware
7 42 (4.09%) ServiceNow
8 41 (3.99%) Databricks
9 34 (3.31%) Denodo
9 34 (3.31%) Talend
10 32 (3.11%) Atlassian
11 27 (2.63%) Dynatrace
12 26 (2.53%) Pure Storage
13 24 (2.33%) Sonatype
14 17 (1.65%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.97%) AppDynamics
15 10 (0.97%) Cisco
15 10 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (0.97%) Solace
15 10 (0.97%) Veritas