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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 74 86
Rank change year-on-year -59 +12 -4
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 988 939 838
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.12% 3.36% 2.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.59% 22.18% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 646 596
10th Percentile £356 £348 £389
25th Percentile £419 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.70% -6.97%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £658
90th Percentile £650 £688 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £521
% change year-on-year - -4.03% -5.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 33
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% -13.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +15.70% -13.57% -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 5,314 4,234 4,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 15.15% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,937 2,726
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £634
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 96 164
10th Percentile £24.06 £38.13 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.53 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -16 533 £525 -2.33% 337
North of England -45 231 £450 -5.26% 154
Yorkshire -19 149 £475 -5.00% 41
Midlands -63 87 £488 +2.63% 57
West Midlands -36 83 £489 -2.25% 36
North West -79 64 £428 -1.16% 90
South East -88 64 £470 -6.00% 60
South West -10 59 £550 - 74
North East -32 20 £450 -20.00% 23
East of England -20 15 £425 -15.00% 39
East Midlands -39 3 £347 -1.00% 21
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 97 (9.82%) Confluence
2 29 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.82%) nginx
5 12 (1.21%) Apache
6 11 (1.11%) Camunda
7 10 (1.01%) SAS
8 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.40%) CICS
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
10 4 (0.40%) IIS
11 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) Traefik
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.10%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.10%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 7 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 533 (53.95%) AWS
2 400 (40.49%) GitHub
3 383 (38.77%) Azure
4 308 (31.17%) GitHub Actions
5 227 (22.98%) GCP
6 194 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (11.84%) Serverless
8 111 (11.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 106 (10.73%) Amazon S3
10 105 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
11 98 (9.92%) OpenShift
12 94 (9.51%) Amazon EKS
13 86 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
14 69 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
15 66 (6.68%) AWS CloudFormation
16 47 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 45 (4.55%) Datadog
17 45 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 44 (4.45%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (2.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.17%) Firewall
2 55 (5.57%) DNS
3 35 (3.54%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.83%) Network Security
5 18 (1.82%) SSL
6 16 (1.62%) BIG-IP
6 16 (1.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 16 (1.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 15 (1.52%) HTTP
8 14 (1.42%) VLAN
8 14 (1.42%) VPN
9 10 (1.01%) SAN
10 9 (0.91%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.81%) DHCP
11 8 (0.81%) SSH
12 7 (0.71%) WAN
13 6 (0.61%) 4G
13 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
14 5 (0.51%) 5G
15 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (7.19%) MongoDB
3 61 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (5.87%) NoSQL
4 58 (5.87%) Relational Database
5 52 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 38 (3.85%) Redis
7 37 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
8 32 (3.24%) DynamoDB
9 30 (3.04%) MySQL
10 25 (2.53%) Big Data
11 19 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.42%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.21%) Metadata
14 12 (1.21%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 368 (37.25%) GitLab
2 346 (35.02%) Git
3 168 (17.00%) JIRA
4 98 (9.92%) JUnit
5 96 (9.72%) Selenium
6 93 (9.41%) Maven
7 78 (7.89%) SonarQube
8 66 (6.68%) Cucumber
8 66 (6.68%) Gradle
9 58 (5.87%) Mockito
10 54 (5.47%) REST Assured
11 53 (5.36%) Bitbucket
12 46 (4.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 44 (4.45%) Postman
14 39 (3.95%) JMeter
15 35 (3.54%) Gatling
16 23 (2.33%) WebDriver
17 22 (2.23%) TestNG
18 19 (1.92%) Cypress.io
19 18 (1.82%) Artifactory
General
1 228 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 160 (16.19%) Finance
3 130 (13.16%) Public Sector
4 117 (11.84%) Banking
5 110 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.23%) Retail
9 16 (1.62%) Law
9 16 (1.62%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.32%) Publishing
11 12 (1.21%) Marketing
12 10 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.01%) Military
13 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.81%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.81%) Front Office
14 8 (0.81%) Legal
14 8 (0.81%) Local Government
14 8 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 253 (25.61%) Developer
2 182 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 154 (15.59%) Senior
4 120 (12.15%) Java Developer
5 70 (7.09%) Lead
6 55 (5.57%) Test Engineer
7 53 (5.36%) Architect
7 53 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
8 46 (4.66%) Senior Developer
9 43 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
10 40 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
10 40 (4.05%) Software Engineer
11 37 (3.74%) Software Developer
12 36 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 34 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
13 34 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
14 31 (3.14%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.14%) Senior Java Developer
15 30 (3.04%) GCP Engineer
16 29 (2.94%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (38.97%) Terraform
2 195 (19.74%) Kafka
3 178 (18.02%) Spring
4 170 (17.21%) REST
5 164 (16.60%) Spring Boot
6 126 (12.75%) RESTful
7 104 (10.53%) React
8 78 (7.89%) HTML
9 70 (7.09%) Node.js
10 64 (6.48%) Playwright
11 60 (6.07%) Hibernate
12 55 (5.57%) Elastic Stack
12 55 (5.57%) JPA
12 55 (5.57%) SOAP
13 53 (5.36%) CSS
14 49 (4.96%) AngularJS
15 47 (4.76%) Web Services
16 38 (3.85%) JSON
17 36 (3.64%) .NET
18 32 (3.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 177 (17.91%) Cloud Native
2 84 (8.50%) Product Ownership
3 61 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
5 37 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (2.83%) Replication
7 26 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (2.23%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.13%) Data Structures
11 20 (2.02%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.82%) Private Cloud
13 16 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.52%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
16 12 (1.21%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.21%) Mobile App
17 11 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 219 (22.17%) Linux
2 59 (5.97%) Unix
3 51 (5.16%) Windows
4 50 (5.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (0.91%) Android
8 9 (0.91%) CentOS
9 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.61%) zOS
11 5 (0.51%) VMS
12 3 (0.30%) AIX
12 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.20%) Rocky
13 2 (0.20%) Solaris
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (84.82%) CI/CD
2 657 (66.50%) DevOps
3 481 (48.68%) Agile
4 360 (36.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 332 (33.60%) Test Automation
6 306 (30.97%) Containerisation
7 267 (27.02%) Microservices
8 222 (22.47%) Observability
9 182 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 175 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
10 175 (17.71%) Scrum
11 152 (15.38%) Software Engineering
12 137 (13.87%) Platform Engineering
13 111 (11.23%) Deployment Automation
14 104 (10.53%) AI
14 104 (10.53%) DevSecOps
14 104 (10.53%) Event-Driven
15 101 (10.22%) TDD
16 100 (10.12%) SDLC
17 98 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 428 (43.32%) Python
2 390 (39.47%) Java
3 242 (24.49%) SQL
4 196 (19.84%) Bash
5 127 (12.85%) JavaScript
6 114 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 75 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 59 (5.97%) C#
9 58 (5.87%) Groovy
10 52 (5.26%) Go
11 47 (4.76%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.95%) PL/SQL
13 32 (3.24%) Scala
14 27 (2.73%) Perl
15 17 (1.72%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.62%) ActionScript
17 15 (1.52%) Bicep
18 14 (1.42%) C++
19 11 (1.11%) Korn
20 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 412 (41.70%) Security Cleared
2 335 (33.91%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.79%) DV Cleared
4 59 (5.97%) Degree
5 53 (5.36%) AWS Certification
6 41 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.62%) ISTQB
10 14 (1.42%) CISSP
11 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.51%) GCFA
15 5 (0.51%) GCIH
15 5 (0.51%) RHCE
16 4 (0.40%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (15.08%) QA
2 38 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 31 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.72%) NIST
5 12 (1.21%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
6 10 (1.01%) NCSC
6 10 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
8 6 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.61%) SEPA
9 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.51%) PSD2
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
11 2 (0.20%) SLA
12 1 (0.10%) HL7
12 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
System Software
1 480 (48.58%) Docker
2 20 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 20 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (0.91%) Postfix
5 6 (0.61%) NFS
6 5 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 4 (0.40%) Squid
7 4 (0.40%) VirtualBox
7 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.40%) vSphere
8 3 (0.30%) HDFS
8 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.30%) RACF
8 3 (0.30%) Varnish
8 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 481 (48.68%) Kubernetes
2 229 (23.18%) Ansible
2 229 (23.18%) Grafana
3 185 (18.72%) Prometheus
4 36 (3.64%) Progress Chef
5 35 (3.54%) Argo
6 34 (3.44%) Puppet
7 33 (3.34%) Kibana
8 17 (1.72%) Control-M
9 14 (1.42%) Istio
10 13 (1.32%) Packer
11 12 (1.21%) HAProxy
12 10 (1.01%) Kustomize
13 8 (0.81%) Consul
13 8 (0.81%) Podman
14 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
14 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.51%) CASB
15 5 (0.51%) Cilium
15 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 99 (10.02%) Google
2 87 (8.81%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.81%) Oracle
2 87 (8.81%) Splunk
3 72 (7.29%) Dynatrace
4 43 (4.35%) IBM
5 34 (3.44%) Red Hat
6 30 (3.04%) VMware
7 29 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.53%) ServiceNow
9 23 (2.33%) Databricks
10 17 (1.72%) F5
11 16 (1.62%) New Relic
12 13 (1.32%) Veracode
13 12 (1.21%) SAP
14 11 (1.11%) Talend
15 10 (1.01%) CyberArk
15 10 (1.01%) NetApp
15 10 (1.01%) Okta
15 10 (1.01%) Sonatype