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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 75 95
Rank change year-on-year -36 +20 -29
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,000 878 889
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.22% 2.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.91% 22.76% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 609 661
10th Percentile £366 £356 £400
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 38
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £54.38
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.56 -
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -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 5,289 3,857 4,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.80% 14.13% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,406 2,640 3,029
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
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 239 88 230
10th Percentile £29.86 £30.05 £32.87
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.04
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +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 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 13 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 -37 464 £550 +2.33% 121
North of England -11 282 £453 -2.11% 72
Yorkshire -1 213 £488 -2.50% 19
Midlands -22 126 £488 +8.33% 16
West Midlands -8 119 £488 +2.63% 10
South East -99 59 £459 -8.20% 34
South West -17 52 £531 -7.61% 50
North West -81 50 £425 +8.14% 41
North East -18 26 £450 -3.23% 12
East of England -15 19 £475 -7.32% 6
East Midlands -46 5 £447 +24.17% 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
1 119 (11.90%) Confluence
2 33 (3.30%) SAS
3 25 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) nginx
6 10 (1.00%) Apache
6 10 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.30%) Camunda
8 3 (0.30%) CMS
8 3 (0.30%) IIS
8 3 (0.30%) JBoss
8 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 17 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.70%) 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 (0.10%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 510 (51.00%) AWS
2 415 (41.50%) GitHub
3 330 (33.00%) Azure
4 280 (28.00%) GitHub Actions
5 213 (21.30%) GCP
6 141 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
7 130 (13.00%) Amazon S3
8 119 (11.90%) Serverless
9 106 (10.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 106 (10.60%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (10.10%) OpenShift
12 93 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 62 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
15 57 (5.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 48 (4.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 42 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (3.50%) Datadog
19 32 (3.20%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.00%) DNS
2 46 (4.60%) Firewall
3 17 (1.70%) Network Security
4 14 (1.40%) VPN
5 13 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.20%) SSL
7 9 (0.90%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.80%) HTTP
9 7 (0.70%) SAN
9 7 (0.70%) VLAN
10 6 (0.60%) WAN
11 5 (0.50%) NAS
12 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.30%) BGP
13 3 (0.30%) Internet
13 3 (0.30%) Multicast
13 3 (0.30%) VSAN
14 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (7.10%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (5.70%) MongoDB
3 57 (5.70%) Relational Database
4 54 (5.40%) SQL Server
5 47 (4.70%) NoSQL
6 44 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 42 (4.20%) DynamoDB
8 26 (2.60%) Big Data
8 26 (2.60%) Redis
9 23 (2.30%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.70%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.50%) Metadata
12 15 (1.50%) MySQL
13 12 (1.20%) Neo4j
14 11 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 355 (35.50%) GitLab
2 304 (30.40%) Git
3 203 (20.30%) JIRA
4 117 (11.70%) JUnit
5 100 (10.00%) Selenium
6 71 (7.10%) Maven
7 69 (6.90%) Cucumber
8 62 (6.20%) SonarQube
9 61 (6.10%) Mockito
10 49 (4.90%) REST Assured
11 48 (4.80%) Postman
12 47 (4.70%) Bitbucket
13 44 (4.40%) Gradle
14 40 (4.00%) JMeter
15 39 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
16 37 (3.70%) Gatling
17 31 (3.10%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.40%) Liquibase
19 21 (2.10%) Artifactory
20 15 (1.50%) Zephyr
General
1 268 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 156 (15.60%) Finance
3 137 (13.70%) Public Sector
4 107 (10.70%) Banking
5 83 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
7 21 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.00%) Law
9 18 (1.80%) Retail
10 11 (1.10%) Legal
10 11 (1.10%) Publishing
11 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 9 (0.90%) Marketing
12 8 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.70%) Front Office
14 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.50%) Military
16 4 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 213 (21.30%) Developer
2 179 (17.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 149 (14.90%) Senior
4 111 (11.10%) Java Developer
5 68 (6.80%) Architect
5 68 (6.80%) Lead
6 62 (6.20%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
8 47 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
9 45 (4.50%) Data Engineer
10 44 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
11 43 (4.30%) Senior Developer
11 43 (4.30%) Test Engineer
12 39 (3.90%) Tester
13 37 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
15 30 (3.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 29 (2.90%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (17.80%) Spring
2 153 (15.30%) Kafka
3 152 (15.20%) Spring Boot
4 148 (14.80%) REST
5 107 (10.70%) RESTful
6 90 (9.00%) React
7 88 (8.80%) Node.js
8 65 (6.50%) Playwright
9 53 (5.30%) SOAP
10 51 (5.10%) AngularJS
11 48 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
12 47 (4.70%) HTML
12 47 (4.70%) Web Services
13 42 (4.20%) JPA
14 41 (4.10%) Hibernate
15 35 (3.50%) Spring Cloud
16 34 (3.40%) CSS
17 31 (3.10%) OpenTelemetry
17 31 (3.10%) Swagger
18 30 (3.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 194 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.10%) Replication
8 19 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.30%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.10%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.80%) Hedge funds
15 8 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (18.90%) Linux
2 48 (4.80%) Unix
3 45 (4.50%) Windows
4 39 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.00%) Android
6 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.60%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) AIX
8 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.30%) zOS
9 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Solaris
9 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (84.10%) CI/CD
2 673 (67.30%) DevOps
3 457 (45.70%) Agile
4 336 (33.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 309 (30.90%) Test Automation
6 283 (28.30%) Containerisation
7 254 (25.40%) Microservices
8 189 (18.90%) Observability
9 183 (18.30%) Scrum
10 167 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 166 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
12 148 (14.80%) Software Engineering
13 131 (13.10%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (10.80%) TDD
15 96 (9.60%) Migration
16 92 (9.20%) Event-Driven
17 89 (8.90%) Validation
18 87 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
19 86 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
20 78 (7.80%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 415 (41.50%) Python
2 348 (34.80%) Java
3 234 (23.40%) SQL
4 186 (18.60%) Bash
5 104 (10.40%) PowerShell
6 89 (8.90%) JavaScript
7 71 (7.10%) TypeScript
8 47 (4.70%) Shell Script
9 46 (4.60%) C#
9 46 (4.60%) Go
10 43 (4.30%) Groovy
11 35 (3.50%) Scala
12 29 (2.90%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.80%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.50%) Bicep
15 12 (1.20%) Perl
16 9 (0.90%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.90%) Ruby
17 8 (0.80%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 380 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 325 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.50%) Degree
4 42 (4.20%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.20%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.80%) RHCE
15 7 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.60%) CISSP
16 6 (0.60%) OCP
17 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.40%) CSSLP
18 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (11.30%) QA
2 43 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.40%) NIST
6 12 (1.20%) NCSC
6 12 (1.20%) WCAG
7 8 (0.80%) SLA
8 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) GDPR
10 3 (0.30%) SEPA
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
12 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 446 (44.60%) Docker
2 27 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.10%) vSphere
4 19 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 18 (1.80%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.50%) Postfix
7 12 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.70%) NFS
9 6 (0.60%) HDFS
10 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.40%) SRDF
11 4 (0.40%) Varnish
12 3 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 3 (0.30%) GridGain
12 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 476 (47.60%) Kubernetes
2 390 (39.00%) Terraform
3 235 (23.50%) Ansible
4 211 (21.10%) Grafana
5 183 (18.30%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.60%) Argo
7 35 (3.50%) Puppet
8 27 (2.70%) Progress Chef
9 25 (2.50%) Istio
10 21 (2.10%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.40%) HAProxy
12 13 (1.30%) Control-M
13 11 (1.10%) Kibana
14 10 (1.00%) Packer
15 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
16 8 (0.80%) Podman
17 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
18 6 (0.60%) Consul
18 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
19 5 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 89 (8.90%) Splunk
2 84 (8.40%) Google
3 80 (8.00%) Oracle
4 72 (7.20%) Microsoft
5 58 (5.80%) Red Hat
6 44 (4.40%) Dynatrace
7 39 (3.90%) VMware
8 27 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.40%) Talend
10 21 (2.10%) Databricks
11 20 (2.00%) Denodo
11 20 (2.00%) IBM
11 20 (2.00%) Pure Storage
12 19 (1.90%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.90%) Sonatype
13 18 (1.80%) CyberArk
13 18 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
14 13 (1.30%) Okta
15 11 (1.10%) ForgeRock