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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 86 97
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 -43
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 987 740 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.88% 2.84% 2.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.54% 21.03% 19.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 495 645
10th Percentile £360 £364 £406
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £580 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £783 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -6.82% +3.29% -11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 -
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +5.95% -3.93%
75th Percentile £62.31 £80.00 £75.75
90th Percentile £86.50 £89.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £71.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.89% +14.00% -10.71%

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 4,805 3,519 4,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.04% 13.51% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,307 2,206 3,114
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -5.22% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £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 132 61 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.50 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.70 £48.85
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 £75.25
90th Percentile £81.10 £80.00 £88.75
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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -34 426 £525 -15.49% 76
North of England +20 260 £482 -3.60% 46
Yorkshire +19 189 £500 -16.67% 21
Midlands +27 137 £525 +10.29% 28
West Midlands +30 124 £525 +8.70% 25
South East +15 95 £467 -6.55% 47
North West -35 58 £447 +12.90% 21
South West +6 52 £525 -8.70% 18
East of England -17 20 £477 +5.89% 12
North East -5 16 £575 +6.73% 4
East Midlands -28 13 £397 -3.17% 4
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
1 123 (12.46%) Confluence
2 47 (4.76%) SAS
3 19 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.32%) Apache
6 12 (1.22%) nginx
7 11 (1.11%) IIS
7 11 (1.11%) JBoss
7 11 (1.11%) OpenStack
8 10 (1.01%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.71%) iPlanet
9 7 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
10 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.20%) Mule
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 517 (52.38%) AWS
2 351 (35.56%) GitHub
3 265 (26.85%) Azure
4 219 (22.19%) GitHub Actions
5 218 (22.09%) GCP
6 142 (14.39%) OpenShift
7 131 (13.27%) Serverless
8 117 (11.85%) Amazon S3
9 102 (10.33%) Amazon EC2
9 102 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
10 94 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (9.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 91 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
13 82 (8.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 79 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
15 71 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 49 (4.96%) Datadog
18 32 (3.24%) Azure AKS
18 32 (3.24%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 68 (6.89%) DNS
2 64 (6.48%) Firewall
3 32 (3.24%) VPN
4 25 (2.53%) Network Security
5 23 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.93%) HTTP
7 17 (1.72%) SSL
8 16 (1.62%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.81%) FTP
9 8 (0.81%) SMTP
9 8 (0.81%) SSH
10 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.61%) IMAP
10 6 (0.61%) Internet
10 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
10 6 (0.61%) WAN
11 5 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.30%) SAN
13 2 (0.20%) NAS
13 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (9.32%) NoSQL
3 91 (9.22%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (5.47%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.65%) MySQL
7 30 (3.04%) Oracle Database
7 30 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.53%) Pentaho
9 25 (2.53%) Redis
10 24 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
11 20 (2.03%) Big Data
12 19 (1.93%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 12 (1.22%) Tableau
15 10 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.01%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 388 (39.31%) GitLab
2 286 (28.98%) Git
3 221 (22.39%) JIRA
4 105 (10.64%) Selenium
5 96 (9.73%) JUnit
6 90 (9.12%) Cucumber
7 82 (8.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 60 (6.08%) Postman
9 56 (5.67%) Bitbucket
10 49 (4.96%) Maven
11 45 (4.56%) REST Assured
12 40 (4.05%) SonarQube
13 31 (3.14%) Gradle
14 30 (3.04%) Artifactory
14 30 (3.04%) CircleCI
15 28 (2.84%) JMeter
16 26 (2.63%) Liquibase
17 25 (2.53%) Cypress.io
18 22 (2.23%) Mockito
19 21 (2.13%) Gatling
General
1 301 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 223 (22.59%) Finance
3 131 (13.27%) Banking
4 119 (12.06%) Public Sector
5 65 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 21 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.32%) Military
10 12 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.22%) Retail
11 9 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.71%) Front Office
14 6 (0.61%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.61%) Games
14 6 (0.61%) Marketing
14 6 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 173 (17.53%) Developer
2 163 (16.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 160 (16.21%) Senior
4 90 (9.12%) Lead
5 83 (8.41%) Architect
6 74 (7.50%) Java Developer
7 67 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
8 56 (5.67%) GCP Engineer
9 53 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
10 52 (5.27%) Data Engineer
11 50 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 45 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
12 45 (4.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 43 (4.36%) Software Engineer
14 42 (4.26%) Test Engineer
15 37 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
16 35 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 33 (3.34%) Senior Developer
18 32 (3.24%) Automation Engineer
18 32 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (16.01%) REST
2 146 (14.79%) Kafka
3 127 (12.87%) Spring
4 109 (11.04%) Node.js
5 98 (9.93%) Spring Boot
6 88 (8.92%) Elastic Stack
6 88 (8.92%) RESTful
7 75 (7.60%) Playwright
8 58 (5.88%) React
9 52 (5.27%) LDAP
10 51 (5.17%) OpenID
11 48 (4.86%) GraphQL
12 44 (4.46%) OpenTelemetry
13 43 (4.36%) JSON
14 41 (4.15%) AngularJS
15 39 (3.95%) HTML
16 38 (3.85%) OAuth
16 38 (3.85%) YAML
17 36 (3.65%) .NET
18 35 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 87 (8.81%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.96%) Public Cloud
4 34 (3.44%) Onboarding
5 33 (3.34%) Product Ownership
6 26 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 25 (2.53%) Replication
8 16 (1.62%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.11%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.91%) Derivative
13 9 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.81%) NHS
14 8 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 236 (23.91%) Linux
2 66 (6.69%) Windows
3 42 (4.26%) Unix
4 24 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 23 (2.33%) VMS
6 14 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
7 12 (1.22%) Android
7 12 (1.22%) CentOS
8 10 (1.01%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.91%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (83.59%) CI/CD
2 663 (67.17%) DevOps
3 376 (38.10%) Agile
4 341 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 305 (30.90%) Containerisation
6 275 (27.86%) Test Automation
7 239 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (21.88%) Microservices
9 153 (15.50%) Observability
10 126 (12.77%) Mentoring
10 126 (12.77%) Software Engineering
11 122 (12.36%) Scrum
12 110 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 95 (9.63%) Migration
14 86 (8.71%) DevSecOps
15 84 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
16 83 (8.41%) High Availability
17 78 (7.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 77 (7.80%) Deployment Automation
19 76 (7.70%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 450 (45.59%) Python
2 285 (28.88%) Java
3 171 (17.33%) SQL
4 152 (15.40%) Bash
5 106 (10.74%) JavaScript
6 88 (8.92%) Go
6 88 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 77 (7.80%) PowerShell
8 65 (6.59%) Shell Script
9 56 (5.67%) C#
10 44 (4.46%) Groovy
11 24 (2.43%) Scala
12 19 (1.93%) C++
13 13 (1.32%) PHP
14 12 (1.22%) Ruby
15 11 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.91%) Perl
17 7 (0.71%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.71%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 333 (33.74%) Security Cleared
2 266 (26.95%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.50%) Degree
4 51 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 50 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.65%) Master's Degree
7 27 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (1.62%) Oracle Certification
10 15 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.11%) OCP
12 9 (0.91%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.51%) OCA
14 5 (0.51%) RHCE
15 4 (0.41%) CISSP
15 4 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.33%) QA
2 40 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.23%) NIST
6 19 (1.93%) NCSC
7 15 (1.52%) SLA
8 8 (0.81%) GDPR
9 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) WCAG
11 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) HL7
12 2 (0.20%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.20%) MiFID
12 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 475 (48.13%) Docker
2 25 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (2.43%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.93%) VMware NSX
4 19 (1.93%) vSphere
5 14 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.91%) Postfix
7 8 (0.81%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.61%) Dovecot
8 6 (0.61%) Squid
8 6 (0.61%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.30%) HDFS
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
12 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 511 (51.77%) Kubernetes
2 408 (41.34%) Terraform
3 282 (28.57%) Ansible
4 195 (19.76%) Grafana
5 160 (16.21%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.07%) Progress Chef
7 43 (4.36%) Argo
8 30 (3.04%) Istio
9 24 (2.43%) Puppet
10 19 (1.93%) Podman
10 19 (1.93%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.42%) Kibana
12 11 (1.11%) Packer
12 11 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
13 9 (0.91%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.71%) CA Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.71%) CA Wily
14 7 (0.71%) Check_MK
14 7 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 123 (12.46%) Splunk
2 85 (8.61%) Google
3 79 (8.00%) Oracle
4 66 (6.69%) Microsoft
5 53 (5.37%) VMware
6 50 (5.07%) Red Hat
7 49 (4.96%) ServiceNow
8 33 (3.34%) Atlassian
9 32 (3.24%) Databricks
10 25 (2.53%) Denodo
10 25 (2.53%) Talend
11 22 (2.23%) Dynatrace
11 22 (2.23%) Sonatype
12 19 (1.93%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.82%) CheckPoint
13 18 (1.82%) CyberArk
14 17 (1.72%) F5
14 17 (1.72%) IBM
14 17 (1.72%) Palo Alto
15 15 (1.52%) AppDynamics