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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 89 91
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -36
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,006 704 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.88% 2.77% 2.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.61% 20.73% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 474 650
10th Percentile £363 £361 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.49% +2.95% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £650
90th Percentile £676 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 -
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £54.19
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +31.48% -22.59%
75th Percentile £62.31 £80.00 £69.94
90th Percentile £86.50 £89.75 £73.50
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £71.25 £45.88
% change year-on-year -17.89% +55.30% -34.46%

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 4,880 3,396 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.38% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,160 3,082
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £408 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 58 202
10th Percentile £30.11 £39.75 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £74.69
90th Percentile £82.78 £80.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -27 416 £528 -14.40% 81
North of England +17 271 £490 -0.10% 47
Yorkshire +23 202 £500 -13.61% 19
Midlands +29 159 £520 +9.47% 23
West Midlands +30 144 £525 +10.06% 21
South East +5 94 £467 -6.55% 56
North West -33 55 £446 +13.94% 21
South West 0 49 £531 -7.61% 24
East of England -16 20 £477 +5.89% 12
North East -5 17 £538 -0.23% 7
East Midlands -31 14 £400 -2.32% 2
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
1 120 (11.93%) Confluence
2 65 (6.46%) SAS
3 21 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.19%) Apache
6 10 (0.99%) nginx
6 10 (0.99%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.89%) IIS
7 9 (0.89%) JBoss
8 8 (0.80%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.50%) iPlanet
9 5 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.099%) Mule
13 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.099%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.099%) Actimize
3 1 (0.099%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.099%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.099%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 517 (51.39%) AWS
2 367 (36.48%) GitHub
3 264 (26.24%) Azure
4 223 (22.17%) GitHub Actions
5 222 (22.07%) GCP
6 149 (14.81%) OpenShift
7 131 (13.02%) Serverless
8 122 (12.13%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.54%) Amazon EC2
10 105 (10.44%) Azure DevOps
11 93 (9.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 92 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
14 80 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
15 78 (7.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 68 (6.76%) Amazon ECS
17 55 (5.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 46 (4.57%) Datadog
19 33 (3.28%) Route 53
20 32 (3.18%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.76%) DNS
2 62 (6.16%) Firewall
3 33 (3.28%) VPN
4 23 (2.29%) Network Security
4 23 (2.29%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.59%) SSL
6 15 (1.49%) HTTP
7 14 (1.39%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.60%) Internet
8 6 (0.60%) WAN
9 5 (0.50%) SAN
9 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.40%) FTP
10 4 (0.40%) SMTP
10 4 (0.40%) SSH
11 3 (0.30%) IMAP
11 3 (0.30%) OpenLDAP
12 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (15.71%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (9.34%) NoSQL
3 92 (9.15%) Amazon RDS
4 55 (5.47%) MongoDB
5 42 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.68%) MySQL
7 35 (3.48%) Pentaho
8 31 (3.08%) SQL Server
9 29 (2.88%) Relational Database
10 28 (2.78%) Oracle Database
11 24 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.29%) Redis
13 21 (2.09%) Big Data
14 17 (1.69%) BigQuery
15 16 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (1.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 12 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
17 12 (1.19%) Tableau
18 11 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 398 (39.56%) GitLab
2 305 (30.32%) Git
3 222 (22.07%) JIRA
4 110 (10.93%) JUnit
5 108 (10.74%) Selenium
6 92 (9.15%) Cucumber
7 81 (8.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 62 (6.16%) Postman
9 53 (5.27%) Bitbucket
9 53 (5.27%) Maven
10 44 (4.37%) SonarQube
11 43 (4.27%) REST Assured
12 33 (3.28%) JMeter
13 30 (2.98%) Gradle
14 29 (2.88%) Artifactory
15 28 (2.78%) CircleCI
16 26 (2.58%) Liquibase
17 25 (2.49%) Mockito
18 24 (2.39%) Cypress.io
19 22 (2.19%) Gatling
General
1 311 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 218 (21.67%) Finance
3 131 (13.02%) Banking
4 122 (12.13%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.88%) Financial Institution
8 21 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.49%) Military
10 11 (1.09%) Retail
11 10 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.70%) Front Office
15 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.60%) Marketing
16 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 172 (17.10%) Developer
2 162 (16.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 158 (15.71%) Senior
4 88 (8.75%) Lead
5 87 (8.65%) Architect
6 77 (7.65%) Java Developer
7 65 (6.46%) Data Engineer
8 63 (6.26%) AWS Engineer
9 62 (6.16%) GCP Engineer
10 53 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 48 (4.77%) Platform Engineer
12 46 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
12 46 (4.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 44 (4.37%) Software Engineer
14 43 (4.27%) Test Engineer
15 33 (3.28%) AWS DevOps
15 33 (3.28%) Senior Developer
15 33 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 31 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (2.98%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (15.90%) REST
2 141 (14.02%) Kafka
3 135 (13.42%) Spring
4 112 (11.13%) Node.js
5 101 (10.04%) Spring Boot
6 86 (8.55%) Elastic Stack
6 86 (8.55%) RESTful
7 74 (7.36%) Playwright
8 57 (5.67%) React
9 48 (4.77%) OpenID
10 47 (4.67%) LDAP
11 45 (4.47%) GraphQL
12 44 (4.37%) AngularJS
13 43 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
14 41 (4.08%) JSON
14 41 (4.08%) pytest
15 38 (3.78%) HTML
16 37 (3.68%) YAML
17 36 (3.58%) OAuth
17 36 (3.58%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 199 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 95 (9.44%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (4.97%) Public Cloud
4 35 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (1.99%) Replication
8 17 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 10 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (0.99%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.89%) Derivative
13 8 (0.80%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.80%) NHS
14 7 (0.70%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 238 (23.66%) Linux
2 58 (5.77%) Windows
3 41 (4.08%) Unix
4 28 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.89%) VMS
6 12 (1.19%) Android
7 11 (1.09%) CentOS
7 11 (1.09%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.89%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.80%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.099%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (84.89%) CI/CD
2 681 (67.69%) DevOps
3 398 (39.56%) Agile
4 344 (34.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 313 (31.11%) Containerisation
6 295 (29.32%) Test Automation
7 247 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (21.67%) Microservices
9 155 (15.41%) Observability
10 139 (13.82%) Scrum
11 126 (12.52%) Software Engineering
12 122 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 122 (12.13%) Mentoring
13 101 (10.04%) Migration
14 92 (9.15%) Analytics
14 92 (9.15%) Deployment Automation
15 89 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
16 86 (8.55%) High Availability
17 83 (8.25%) DevSecOps
17 83 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 449 (44.63%) Python
2 283 (28.13%) Java
3 190 (18.89%) SQL
4 157 (15.61%) Bash
5 104 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 87 (8.65%) Go
7 86 (8.55%) TypeScript
8 72 (7.16%) PowerShell
9 62 (6.16%) Shell Script
10 51 (5.07%) C#
11 35 (3.48%) Groovy
12 25 (2.49%) Scala
13 18 (1.79%) C++
14 14 (1.39%) PHP
15 11 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.09%) Ruby
16 9 (0.89%) PL/SQL
17 8 (0.80%) Perl
18 7 (0.70%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 354 (35.19%) Security Cleared
2 288 (28.63%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.06%) Degree
4 51 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (4.77%) AWS Certification
6 35 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 27 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.19%) OCP
12 11 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 7 (0.70%) RHCE
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.50%) OCA
16 4 (0.40%) CISSP
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (9.74%) QA
2 52 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.19%) NIST
6 18 (1.79%) NCSC
7 15 (1.49%) SLA
8 9 (0.89%) GDPR
9 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.40%) WCAG
12 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.20%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.20%) MiFID
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 480 (47.71%) Docker
2 28 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.09%) VMware NSX
3 21 (2.09%) vSphere
4 19 (1.89%) Active Directory
5 14 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.80%) Postfix
7 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.50%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 4 (0.40%) DFS Replication
9 4 (0.40%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.30%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
12 1 (0.099%) KVM
12 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 529 (52.58%) Kubernetes
2 411 (40.85%) Terraform
3 292 (29.03%) Ansible
4 197 (19.58%) Grafana
5 156 (15.51%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.07%) Progress Chef
7 45 (4.47%) Argo
8 31 (3.08%) Istio
9 27 (2.68%) Puppet
10 21 (2.09%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.79%) Podman
12 14 (1.39%) Kibana
13 11 (1.09%) Packer
14 9 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
14 9 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.70%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.70%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
16 6 (0.60%) Proxmox
17 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 120 (11.93%) Splunk
2 86 (8.55%) Google
3 81 (8.05%) Oracle
4 66 (6.56%) Microsoft
5 54 (5.37%) Red Hat
5 54 (5.37%) VMware
6 45 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 35 (3.48%) Databricks
7 35 (3.48%) Denodo
7 35 (3.48%) Talend
8 34 (3.38%) Atlassian
9 23 (2.29%) Sonatype
10 22 (2.19%) Dynatrace
11 21 (2.09%) Pure Storage
12 17 (1.69%) CyberArk
13 16 (1.59%) CheckPoint
13 16 (1.59%) F5
13 16 (1.59%) IBM
14 15 (1.49%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.29%) AppDynamics