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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 76 85
Rank change year-on-year -40 +9 -13
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,016 906 833
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.28% 2.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.11% 22.67% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 634 626
10th Percentile £358 £340 £388
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.66%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £674
90th Percentile £638 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 34
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.78%
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 5,317 3,996 4,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.67% 14.45% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,386 2,764 2,846
10th Percentile £353 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £631
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 244 94 194
10th Percentile £35.38 £40.68 £34.02
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £54.09
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.99 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -30 497 £525 -1.64% 364
North of England -38 251 £450 -4.05% 113
Yorkshire -15 180 £475 -5.00% 31
Midlands -27 126 £479 +0.84% 44
West Midlands -5 118 £484 +1.79% 28
South East -79 68 £460 -8.19% 64
South West -12 57 £550 -4.35% 59
North West -89 49 £425 +5.72% 64
North East -29 26 £450 -6.25% 19
East of England -15 16 £438 -12.50% 31
East Midlands -41 6 £447 +24.86% 16
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
1 110 (10.83%) Confluence
2 35 (3.44%) SAS
3 24 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.08%) nginx
6 10 (0.98%) Apache
6 10 (0.98%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.69%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.39%) Camunda
9 4 (0.39%) CMS
9 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.30%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
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 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.89%) Chatbot
2 9 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.098%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.79%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.098%) Shopify
4 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 529 (52.07%) AWS
2 427 (42.03%) GitHub
3 372 (36.61%) Azure
4 318 (31.30%) GitHub Actions
5 235 (23.13%) GCP
6 177 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (12.30%) Amazon S3
8 120 (11.81%) Serverless
9 107 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 97 (9.55%) Amazon EC2
12 94 (9.25%) Amazon EKS
13 85 (8.37%) OpenShift
14 74 (7.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 47 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
18 45 (4.43%) Datadog
19 44 (4.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 29 (2.85%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.41%) DNS
2 54 (5.31%) Firewall
3 24 (2.36%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.97%) Network Security
5 17 (1.67%) SSL
6 16 (1.57%) VPN
7 12 (1.18%) HTTP
8 11 (1.08%) VLAN
9 9 (0.89%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 8 (0.79%) WAN
11 7 (0.69%) SAN
12 5 (0.49%) DHCP
13 4 (0.39%) 4G
13 4 (0.39%) BGP
13 4 (0.39%) OpenLDAP
13 4 (0.39%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.30%) 5G
14 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (6.00%) MongoDB
4 56 (5.51%) Relational Database
5 55 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 54 (5.31%) NoSQL
7 41 (4.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 38 (3.74%) DynamoDB
9 31 (3.05%) Redis
10 27 (2.66%) Big Data
10 27 (2.66%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (1.87%) MySQL
12 18 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (1.77%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.77%) Metadata
13 14 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.38%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.28%) Power BI
15 11 (1.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 362 (35.63%) GitLab
2 345 (33.96%) Git
3 188 (18.50%) JIRA
4 105 (10.33%) JUnit
5 92 (9.06%) Selenium
6 78 (7.68%) Maven
7 68 (6.69%) SonarQube
8 63 (6.20%) Cucumber
9 54 (5.31%) Gradle
10 53 (5.22%) Bitbucket
10 53 (5.22%) Mockito
11 41 (4.04%) JMeter
12 40 (3.94%) Postman
13 39 (3.84%) REST Assured
14 37 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
15 34 (3.35%) Gatling
16 31 (3.05%) WebDriver
17 23 (2.26%) Liquibase
18 21 (2.07%) Artifactory
19 16 (1.57%) Zephyr
General
1 247 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 147 (14.47%) Finance
3 138 (13.58%) Public Sector
4 103 (10.14%) Banking
5 96 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.97%) Law
9 18 (1.77%) Retail
10 16 (1.57%) Publishing
11 14 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.18%) Marketing
13 11 (1.08%) Legal
13 11 (1.08%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.69%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.59%) Front Office
16 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 237 (23.33%) Developer
2 181 (17.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 159 (15.65%) Senior
4 118 (11.61%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.09%) Lead
6 64 (6.30%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
8 50 (4.92%) Architect
9 48 (4.72%) Senior Developer
10 47 (4.63%) Data Engineer
11 45 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
12 43 (4.23%) Test Engineer
13 39 (3.84%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (3.74%) GCP Engineer
15 37 (3.64%) Tester
16 36 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 35 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
17 35 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
18 34 (3.35%) Automation Engineer
19 30 (2.95%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (17.72%) Spring
2 178 (17.52%) Kafka
3 150 (14.76%) REST
4 149 (14.67%) Spring Boot
5 111 (10.93%) RESTful
6 91 (8.96%) React
7 87 (8.56%) Node.js
8 59 (5.81%) Playwright
9 54 (5.31%) HTML
10 50 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
10 50 (4.92%) SOAP
11 46 (4.53%) AngularJS
12 43 (4.23%) Hibernate
12 43 (4.23%) Web Services
13 40 (3.94%) JPA
14 36 (3.54%) CSS
15 34 (3.35%) JSON
16 33 (3.25%) YAML
17 30 (2.95%) Swagger
18 28 (2.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 173 (17.03%) Cloud Native
2 81 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 25 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (2.07%) Replication
7 20 (1.97%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 16 (1.57%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.57%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.48%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.38%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.28%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.98%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.89%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 196 (19.29%) Linux
2 62 (6.10%) Unix
3 43 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.13%) Windows
5 12 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.89%) Android
6 9 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.59%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.49%) CentOS
10 3 (0.30%) AIX
10 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) 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
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (83.66%) CI/CD
2 681 (67.03%) DevOps
3 489 (48.13%) Agile
4 348 (34.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 330 (32.48%) Test Automation
6 276 (27.17%) Containerisation
7 262 (25.79%) Microservices
8 207 (20.37%) Observability
9 190 (18.70%) Scrum
10 186 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 164 (16.14%) Software Engineering
12 155 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
13 136 (13.39%) Platform Engineering
14 112 (11.02%) Deployment Automation
14 112 (11.02%) TDD
15 96 (9.45%) AI
16 95 (9.35%) Event-Driven
16 95 (9.35%) Validation
17 93 (9.15%) DevSecOps
18 88 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 417 (41.04%) Python
2 369 (36.32%) Java
3 262 (25.79%) SQL
4 204 (20.08%) Bash
5 123 (12.11%) PowerShell
6 99 (9.74%) JavaScript
7 75 (7.38%) TypeScript
8 52 (5.12%) C#
9 51 (5.02%) Groovy
10 49 (4.82%) Go
10 49 (4.82%) Shell Script
11 39 (3.84%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.85%) Scala
13 22 (2.17%) Perl
14 19 (1.87%) Bicep
15 18 (1.77%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.08%) C++
17 10 (0.98%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.89%) ActionScript
19 8 (0.79%) C
Qualifications
1 408 (40.16%) Security Cleared
2 345 (33.96%) SC Cleared
3 49 (4.82%) Degree
4 46 (4.53%) AWS Certification
4 46 (4.53%) DV Cleared
5 30 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 24 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 14 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.28%) ISTQB
11 12 (1.18%) CISSP
12 11 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.79%) RHCE
15 6 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.49%) OCP
17 4 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (11.91%) QA
2 52 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.28%) WCAG
5 9 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.89%) NIST
5 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.79%) GDPR
7 7 (0.69%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.69%) SLA
8 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.49%) SEPA
9 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.39%) PSD2
10 3 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.098%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.098%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 486 (47.83%) Docker
2 28 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.18%) Postfix
4 12 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.08%) vSphere
6 10 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.69%) NFS
8 5 (0.49%) HDFS
9 4 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.39%) SRDF
9 4 (0.39%) Varnish
9 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 496 (48.82%) Kubernetes
2 393 (38.68%) Terraform
3 240 (23.62%) Ansible
4 214 (21.06%) Grafana
5 182 (17.91%) Prometheus
6 42 (4.13%) Puppet
7 39 (3.84%) Argo
8 36 (3.54%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.77%) Control-M
10 17 (1.67%) Istio
11 15 (1.48%) Kibana
12 14 (1.38%) HAProxy
13 12 (1.18%) Packer
14 11 (1.08%) vCenter Server
15 9 (0.89%) Podman
16 8 (0.79%) Kustomize
16 8 (0.79%) NetBackup
17 7 (0.69%) Consul
18 6 (0.59%) ITRS Geneos
18 6 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (9.06%) Oracle
2 89 (8.76%) Google
2 89 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 81 (7.97%) Splunk
4 61 (6.00%) Dynatrace
5 49 (4.82%) Red Hat
6 35 (3.44%) VMware
7 31 (3.05%) Salesforce
8 30 (2.95%) IBM
9 28 (2.76%) Talend
10 27 (2.66%) Databricks
11 24 (2.36%) Denodo
11 24 (2.36%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.38%) Jaspersoft
12 14 (1.38%) New Relic
12 14 (1.38%) Sonatype
13 13 (1.28%) Okta
14 12 (1.18%) F5
15 11 (1.08%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.08%) ForgeRock