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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 76 89
Rank change year-on-year -52 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 983 907 851
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 3.29% 2.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.95% 22.27% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 638 626
10th Percentile £358 £349 £389
25th Percentile £415 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £646 £688 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 34
10th Percentile £64.20 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -6.67%
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% -3.78%

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 5,188 4,073 4,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.35% 14.76% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 2,823 2,817
10th Percentile £356 £325 £353
25th Percentile £414 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £625
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 235 96 176
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.38 £36.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.58 £54.56
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 August 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 August 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 -20 511 £525 -0.94% 249
North of England -42 239 £450 -3.23% 90
Yorkshire -15 165 £475 -4.31% 25
Midlands -48 93 £488 +2.63% 29
West Midlands -31 86 £488 +2.63% 18
South East -68 71 £460 -8.00% 27
South West -21 53 £550 -4.35% 69
North West -87 53 £425 +5.72% 50
North East -29 25 £450 -6.25% 15
East of England -17 15 £438 -12.50% 16
East Midlands -36 6 £358 - 11
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 98 (9.97%) Confluence
2 23 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.42%) nginx
4 14 (1.42%) SAS
5 9 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.81%) Apache
6 8 (0.81%) Camunda
7 7 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
8 4 (0.41%) IIS
8 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
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%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 524 (53.31%) AWS
2 403 (41.00%) GitHub
3 383 (38.96%) Azure
4 309 (31.43%) GitHub Actions
5 222 (22.58%) GCP
6 191 (19.43%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (12.41%) Serverless
8 117 (11.90%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
10 104 (10.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 90 (9.16%) Amazon EC2
11 90 (9.16%) OpenShift
12 88 (8.95%) Amazon EKS
13 69 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 64 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
15 51 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 45 (4.58%) Datadog
17 43 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
18 38 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 24 (2.44%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.29%) Firewall
2 49 (4.98%) DNS
3 31 (3.15%) TCP/IP
4 23 (2.34%) Network Security
5 17 (1.73%) HTTP
5 17 (1.73%) SSL
6 12 (1.22%) VLAN
6 12 (1.22%) VPN
7 11 (1.12%) SAN
8 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (0.81%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.81%) WAN
10 7 (0.71%) SSH
11 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.51%) 4G
12 5 (0.51%) DHCP
13 4 (0.41%) 5G
13 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (14.95%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.51%) MongoDB
3 62 (6.31%) SQL Server
4 61 (6.21%) NoSQL
5 60 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
6 57 (5.80%) Relational Database
7 39 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
8 37 (3.76%) Redis
9 35 (3.56%) DynamoDB
10 26 (2.64%) Big Data
11 22 (2.24%) MySQL
12 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
13 17 (1.73%) Metadata
14 15 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.53%) Pentaho
15 14 (1.42%) BigQuery
16 12 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 365 (37.13%) GitLab
2 333 (33.88%) Git
3 169 (17.19%) JIRA
4 95 (9.66%) JUnit
5 87 (8.85%) Selenium
6 79 (8.04%) Maven
7 70 (7.12%) SonarQube
8 62 (6.31%) Gradle
9 55 (5.60%) Cucumber
10 54 (5.49%) Bitbucket
10 54 (5.49%) Mockito
11 45 (4.58%) REST Assured
12 41 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
13 38 (3.87%) Postman
14 37 (3.76%) JMeter
15 34 (3.46%) Gatling
16 28 (2.85%) WebDriver
17 22 (2.24%) Artifactory
18 20 (2.03%) Liquibase
19 16 (1.63%) Zephyr
General
1 235 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 153 (15.56%) Finance
3 122 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 106 (10.78%) Banking
5 96 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (1.93%) Law
9 18 (1.83%) Retail
10 16 (1.63%) Publishing
11 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.32%) Marketing
12 13 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.02%) Legal
14 9 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.71%) Front Office
15 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 245 (24.92%) Developer
2 176 (17.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 154 (15.67%) Senior
4 110 (11.19%) Java Developer
5 70 (7.12%) Lead
6 59 (6.00%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
8 46 (4.68%) Architect
9 44 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
9 44 (4.48%) Senior Developer
9 44 (4.48%) Test Engineer
10 37 (3.76%) Platform Engineer
11 35 (3.56%) Automation Engineer
11 35 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 33 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (3.36%) Software Developer
13 31 (3.15%) Data Engineer
13 31 (3.15%) Tester
14 30 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
14 30 (3.05%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (39.17%) Terraform
2 188 (19.13%) Kafka
3 171 (17.40%) Spring
4 160 (16.28%) REST
5 150 (15.26%) Spring Boot
6 114 (11.60%) RESTful
7 104 (10.58%) React
8 88 (8.95%) Node.js
9 68 (6.92%) HTML
10 62 (6.31%) Playwright
11 52 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
12 48 (4.88%) CSS
13 47 (4.78%) AngularJS
14 45 (4.58%) SOAP
15 43 (4.37%) Hibernate
16 40 (4.07%) JPA
17 39 (3.97%) Web Services
18 38 (3.87%) JSON
19 33 (3.36%) .NET
20 32 (3.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 166 (16.89%) Cloud Native
2 76 (7.73%) Product Ownership
3 69 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.64%) Replication
7 25 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.14%) Data Centre
10 19 (1.93%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.53%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.12%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 204 (20.75%) Linux
2 60 (6.10%) Unix
3 45 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (4.48%) Windows
5 15 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.02%) Android
6 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.61%) CentOS
9 4 (0.41%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.31%) 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%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (83.52%) CI/CD
2 659 (67.04%) DevOps
3 462 (47.00%) Agile
4 347 (35.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 313 (31.84%) Test Automation
6 274 (27.87%) Containerisation
7 265 (26.96%) Microservices
8 212 (21.57%) Observability
9 172 (17.50%) Scrum
10 169 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 159 (16.17%) Software Engineering
12 150 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
13 142 (14.45%) Platform Engineering
14 105 (10.68%) TDD
15 103 (10.48%) Deployment Automation
16 100 (10.17%) Event-Driven
17 98 (9.97%) DevSecOps
18 95 (9.66%) AI
19 92 (9.36%) Validation
20 88 (8.95%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 420 (42.73%) Python
2 375 (38.15%) Java
3 251 (25.53%) SQL
4 198 (20.14%) Bash
5 125 (12.72%) PowerShell
6 112 (11.39%) JavaScript
7 79 (8.04%) TypeScript
8 56 (5.70%) C#
9 55 (5.60%) Groovy
10 50 (5.09%) Go
11 49 (4.98%) Shell Script
12 38 (3.87%) PL/SQL
13 30 (3.05%) Perl
14 27 (2.75%) Scala
15 19 (1.93%) Bicep
16 18 (1.83%) Kotlin
17 13 (1.32%) C++
18 11 (1.12%) Korn
19 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
20 9 (0.92%) C
Qualifications
1 383 (38.96%) Security Cleared
2 319 (32.45%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.60%) Degree
4 54 (5.49%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.78%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.64%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.73%) ISTQB
10 16 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.42%) CISSP
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (13.33%) QA
2 39 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.42%) WCAG
5 13 (1.32%) NIST
6 12 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.81%) GDPR
10 7 (0.71%) SLA
11 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.51%) SEPA
12 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.41%) NCSC
12 4 (0.41%) PSD2
13 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.10%) GRC
14 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 475 (48.32%) Docker
2 24 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 8 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.61%) NFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) Squid
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) GridGain
10 3 (0.31%) Varnish
10 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) HDFS
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 479 (48.73%) Kubernetes
2 225 (22.89%) Ansible
3 205 (20.85%) Grafana
4 179 (18.21%) Prometheus
5 37 (3.76%) Argo
6 36 (3.66%) Progress Chef
6 36 (3.66%) Puppet
7 19 (1.93%) Kibana
8 18 (1.83%) Control-M
9 15 (1.53%) Istio
10 13 (1.32%) HAProxy
11 11 (1.12%) Packer
12 9 (0.92%) Kustomize
12 9 (0.92%) Podman
12 9 (0.92%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.71%) Consul
13 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.51%) CASB
15 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 91 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.05%) Oracle
3 84 (8.55%) Google
3 84 (8.55%) Splunk
4 61 (6.21%) Dynatrace
5 45 (4.58%) Red Hat
6 32 (3.26%) IBM
6 32 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 32 (3.26%) VMware
7 27 (2.75%) Databricks
7 27 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.63%) Talend
9 13 (1.32%) New Relic
9 13 (1.32%) Sonatype
10 12 (1.22%) Denodo
11 11 (1.12%) F5
11 11 (1.12%) NetApp
11 11 (1.12%) Veracode
12 10 (1.02%) CyberArk
12 10 (1.02%) Jaspersoft