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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -39 +11 -20
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 986 877 835
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.18% 2.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.73% 22.21% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 613 622
10th Percentile £363 £350 £382
25th Percentile £413 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £639 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 36
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £60.94
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £69.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
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 5,263 3,948 4,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.30% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,357 2,719 2,886
10th Percentile £350 £321 £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 £588 £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 235 93 205
10th Percentile £28.08 £40.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.63 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 27 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 27 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 -33 465 £530 - 117
North of England -24 268 £450 -2.76% 68
Yorkshire -4 201 £488 -0.79% 20
Midlands -15 127 £476 +5.78% 18
West Midlands +4 119 £479 +0.84% 14
South East -98 59 £460 -8.10% 49
South West -27 50 £544 -5.43% 22
North West -89 48 £425 +5.99% 36
North East -26 26 £450 -3.23% 13
East of England -12 18 £463 -7.50% 13
East Midlands -41 6 £447 +24.86% 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
1 116 (11.76%) Confluence
2 29 (2.94%) SAS
3 24 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 10 (1.01%) Apache
6 10 (1.01%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.41%) Camunda
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
8 4 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 15 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.91%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) 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%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 506 (51.32%) AWS
2 422 (42.80%) GitHub
3 334 (33.87%) Azure
4 289 (29.31%) GitHub Actions
5 216 (21.91%) GCP
6 155 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (12.68%) Amazon S3
8 116 (11.76%) Serverless
9 101 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
10 100 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 99 (10.04%) Amazon EC2
12 95 (9.63%) OpenShift
13 93 (9.43%) Amazon EKS
14 72 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 61 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
16 52 (5.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (4.87%) Amazon SQS
18 43 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 39 (3.96%) Datadog
20 31 (3.14%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.48%) DNS
2 49 (4.97%) Firewall
3 18 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.72%) VPN
5 15 (1.52%) Network Security
5 15 (1.52%) SSL
6 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.81%) HTTP
7 8 (0.81%) SAN
7 8 (0.81%) VLAN
8 7 (0.71%) WAN
9 4 (0.41%) BGP
9 4 (0.41%) NAS
9 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.30%) DHCP
10 3 (0.30%) Internet
10 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (5.98%) MongoDB
4 56 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 55 (5.58%) Relational Database
6 47 (4.77%) NoSQL
7 44 (4.46%) Amazon Aurora
8 43 (4.36%) DynamoDB
9 25 (2.54%) Big Data
9 25 (2.54%) Redis
10 20 (2.03%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (1.72%) Metadata
13 16 (1.62%) MySQL
14 13 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.22%) BigQuery
16 10 (1.01%) Power BI
17 9 (0.91%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 344 (34.89%) GitLab
2 316 (32.05%) Git
3 196 (19.88%) JIRA
4 113 (11.46%) JUnit
5 96 (9.74%) Selenium
6 75 (7.61%) Maven
7 67 (6.80%) SonarQube
8 65 (6.59%) Cucumber
9 58 (5.88%) Mockito
10 50 (5.07%) Bitbucket
11 48 (4.87%) Gradle
12 47 (4.77%) REST Assured
13 40 (4.06%) Postman
14 38 (3.85%) JMeter
15 37 (3.75%) Sonatype Nexus
16 36 (3.65%) Gatling
17 29 (2.94%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.43%) Liquibase
19 23 (2.33%) Artifactory
20 17 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 252 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 142 (14.40%) Finance
3 138 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 105 (10.65%) Banking
5 83 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.03%) Law
8 17 (1.72%) Retail
9 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.42%) Publishing
10 11 (1.12%) Legal
10 11 (1.12%) Marketing
11 10 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.61%) Front Office
13 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.61%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.51%) Military
14 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 223 (22.62%) Developer
2 183 (18.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 148 (15.01%) Senior
4 117 (11.87%) Java Developer
5 66 (6.69%) Lead
6 62 (6.29%) Software Engineer
7 57 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
8 55 (5.58%) Architect
9 47 (4.77%) Platform Engineer
9 47 (4.77%) Senior Developer
10 43 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
10 43 (4.36%) GCP Engineer
11 41 (4.16%) Data Engineer
12 39 (3.96%) Tester
13 38 (3.85%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
15 34 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 33 (3.35%) Senior Java Developer
17 30 (3.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (18.05%) Spring
2 159 (16.13%) Kafka
3 152 (15.42%) REST
3 152 (15.42%) Spring Boot
4 105 (10.65%) RESTful
5 90 (9.13%) React
6 88 (8.92%) Node.js
7 61 (6.19%) Playwright
8 55 (5.58%) SOAP
9 49 (4.97%) Web Services
10 47 (4.77%) AngularJS
11 46 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
11 46 (4.67%) Hibernate
12 43 (4.36%) HTML
12 43 (4.36%) JPA
13 35 (3.55%) Spring Cloud
14 32 (3.25%) Swagger
14 32 (3.25%) YAML
15 31 (3.14%) CSS
16 30 (3.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 179 (18.15%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (6.69%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.13%) Replication
9 19 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
10 15 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.52%) Public Cloud
11 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.42%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.91%) Private Cloud
16 8 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 189 (19.17%) Linux
2 50 (5.07%) Unix
3 44 (4.46%) Windows
4 40 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.12%) Android
6 10 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.51%) CentOS
9 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
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 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (83.87%) CI/CD
2 665 (67.44%) DevOps
3 474 (48.07%) Agile
4 326 (33.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 307 (31.14%) Test Automation
6 273 (27.69%) Containerisation
7 263 (26.67%) Microservices
8 192 (19.47%) Observability
9 188 (19.07%) Scrum
10 173 (17.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 163 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
12 152 (15.42%) Software Engineering
13 138 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
14 116 (11.76%) TDD
15 90 (9.13%) Event-Driven
16 89 (9.03%) Migration
17 87 (8.82%) Deployment Automation
18 85 (8.62%) Validation
19 83 (8.42%) AI
20 80 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 412 (41.78%) Python
2 354 (35.90%) Java
3 239 (24.24%) SQL
4 198 (20.08%) Bash
5 111 (11.26%) PowerShell
6 85 (8.62%) JavaScript
7 70 (7.10%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.97%) Go
9 47 (4.77%) Groovy
10 45 (4.56%) C#
10 45 (4.56%) Shell Script
11 36 (3.65%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.94%) Scala
13 18 (1.83%) Kotlin
14 16 (1.62%) Bicep
15 15 (1.52%) Perl
16 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.91%) Ruby
18 8 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 376 (38.13%) Security Cleared
2 316 (32.05%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.77%) Degree
4 42 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 42 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 29 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.84%) Azure Certification
7 22 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 12 (1.22%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.81%) RHCE
13 7 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.61%) CISSP
14 6 (0.61%) OCP
15 5 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (11.46%) QA
2 43 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.32%) WCAG
5 7 (0.71%) SLA
6 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.41%) NIST
7 4 (0.41%) SEPA
8 3 (0.30%) GDPR
8 3 (0.30%) PSD2
9 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 449 (45.54%) Docker
2 30 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.13%) vSphere
4 20 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.62%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.52%) Postfix
7 7 (0.71%) NFS
8 6 (0.61%) HDFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) SRDF
9 4 (0.41%) Varnish
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 465 (47.16%) Kubernetes
2 388 (39.35%) Terraform
3 242 (24.54%) Ansible
4 214 (21.70%) Grafana
5 181 (18.36%) Prometheus
6 49 (4.97%) Argo
7 38 (3.85%) Puppet
8 28 (2.84%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.13%) vCenter Server
10 20 (2.03%) Istio
11 17 (1.72%) Control-M
12 14 (1.42%) HAProxy
13 11 (1.12%) Kibana
14 10 (1.01%) Packer
14 10 (1.01%) Podman
15 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.61%) Consul
18 5 (0.51%) linkerd
18 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (8.62%) Oracle
2 84 (8.52%) Google
3 80 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 80 (8.11%) Splunk
4 54 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 48 (4.87%) Dynatrace
6 42 (4.26%) VMware
7 28 (2.84%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.23%) Databricks
8 22 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 21 (2.13%) IBM
9 21 (2.13%) Talend
10 20 (2.03%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.83%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.83%) Jaspersoft
12 17 (1.72%) Denodo
13 16 (1.62%) Sonatype
14 13 (1.32%) Okta
15 12 (1.22%) F5
16 11 (1.12%) ForgeRock