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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 81 94
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 -42
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,038 846 935
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.33% 2.76% 2.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.95% 20.76% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 579 686
10th Percentile £348 £390 £406
25th Percentile £413 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £598 £688 £641
90th Percentile £675 £775 £728
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -6.82% +1.85% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 18
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.25 £52.26
25th Percentile £43.13 - £62.19
Median hourly rate £58.50 £70.00 £72.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% -3.11% +23.50%
75th Percentile £86.88 £71.25 £76.88
90th Percentile £110.00 £81.50 £80.57
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £70.00 £72.25
% change year-on-year -16.43% -3.11% +23.50%

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 4,730 4,075 4,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 13.28% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,316 2,546 3,405
10th Percentile £329 £345 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £541
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.26% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 108 212
10th Percentile £39.00 £44.85 £45.91
25th Percentile £54.00 £53.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.00 £89.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 2025. 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 -23 441 £525 -14.39% 77
North of England +6 274 £480 +6.67% 54
Yorkshire +6 164 £500 +11.11% 25
Midlands +64 144 £515 +5.21% 16
West Midlands +67 129 £520 +6.12% 14
South East +22 110 £500 - 59
North West +3 90 £430 +7.50% 23
South West -7 50 £538 -10.42% 34
North East +8 21 £575 -7.07% 7
East Midlands -7 15 £359 -14.93% 2
East of England -18 9 £463 -11.90% 20
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
1 128 (12.33%) Confluence
2 54 (5.20%) SAS
3 23 (2.22%) JBoss
4 22 (2.12%) Apache
5 21 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (1.93%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.93%) nginx
7 15 (1.45%) IIS
8 13 (1.25%) Tomcat
8 13 (1.25%) WebSphere
9 11 (1.06%) OpenStack
9 11 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
10 10 (0.96%) iPlanet
11 8 (0.77%) Mule
12 6 (0.58%) CICS
13 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.39%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
15 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
15 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 12 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.096%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.29%) Shopify
3 2 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.096%) Actimize
4 1 (0.096%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.096%) Finacle
4 1 (0.096%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 527 (50.77%) AWS
2 294 (28.32%) GitHub
3 265 (25.53%) Azure
4 220 (21.19%) GCP
5 179 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
6 124 (11.95%) OpenShift
7 119 (11.46%) Serverless
8 116 (11.18%) Amazon S3
9 113 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 102 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
11 93 (8.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 90 (8.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 76 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
14 75 (7.23%) Amazon ECS
15 63 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
16 54 (5.20%) Datadog
17 46 (4.43%) Amazon ELB
18 38 (3.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 35 (3.37%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (8.67%) Firewall
2 83 (8.00%) DNS
3 38 (3.66%) VPN
4 37 (3.56%) TCP/IP
5 35 (3.37%) HTTP
6 28 (2.70%) SSL
7 26 (2.50%) SSH
8 24 (2.31%) Network Security
9 23 (2.22%) SMTP
10 21 (2.02%) FTP
11 18 (1.73%) Kerberos
12 11 (1.06%) IMAP
12 11 (1.06%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (0.67%) Internet
14 6 (0.58%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.58%) WAN
15 5 (0.48%) SD-WAN
16 4 (0.39%) NAS
16 4 (0.39%) SAN
16 4 (0.39%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (10.02%) NoSQL
3 97 (9.34%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (5.59%) MongoDB
5 37 (3.56%) Oracle Database
6 35 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 34 (3.28%) Pentaho
8 30 (2.89%) MySQL
9 29 (2.79%) SQL Server
10 28 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
10 28 (2.70%) DynamoDB
11 24 (2.31%) Redis
12 18 (1.73%) Big Data
12 18 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (1.64%) RDBMS
14 16 (1.54%) BigQuery
15 14 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (1.25%) Hadoop
17 11 (1.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
18 10 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 378 (36.42%) Git
2 349 (33.62%) GitLab
3 248 (23.89%) JIRA
4 96 (9.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 94 (9.06%) JUnit
6 83 (8.00%) Cucumber
7 81 (7.80%) Selenium
8 65 (6.26%) Bitbucket
8 65 (6.26%) SonarQube
9 53 (5.11%) Maven
9 53 (5.11%) Postman
10 45 (4.34%) Gradle
11 37 (3.56%) Artifactory
12 36 (3.47%) Liquibase
13 32 (3.08%) CircleCI
14 29 (2.79%) Cypress.io
14 29 (2.79%) REST Assured
15 25 (2.41%) Vagrant
16 23 (2.22%) JMeter
17 21 (2.02%) TeamCity
General
1 305 (29.38%) Social Skills
2 227 (21.87%) Finance
3 156 (15.03%) Banking
4 139 (13.39%) Public Sector
5 67 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.18%) Financial Institution
7 20 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.35%) Military
9 12 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.06%) Telecoms
11 10 (0.96%) Investment Banking
11 10 (0.96%) Marketing
12 9 (0.87%) Retail
13 7 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.58%) Front Office
14 6 (0.58%) Games
15 5 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 197 (18.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 183 (17.63%) Developer
3 171 (16.47%) Senior
4 91 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
5 85 (8.19%) Java Developer
6 77 (7.42%) Platform Engineer
7 72 (6.94%) Lead
8 61 (5.88%) Architect
9 60 (5.78%) Data Engineer
10 56 (5.39%) AWS DevOps
11 51 (4.91%) Software Engineer
12 50 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
13 48 (4.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 48 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (4.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 44 (4.24%) GCP Engineer
16 38 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
17 37 (3.56%) Senior Developer
17 37 (3.56%) Tester
18 34 (3.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (15.32%) REST
2 152 (14.64%) Kafka
3 111 (10.69%) RESTful
4 104 (10.02%) Spring
5 101 (9.73%) Elastic Stack
6 90 (8.67%) Spring Boot
7 89 (8.57%) Node.js
8 71 (6.84%) React
9 62 (5.97%) Playwright
10 55 (5.30%) GraphQL
11 53 (5.11%) HTML
12 44 (4.24%) CSS
13 42 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
14 40 (3.85%) JSON
14 40 (3.85%) SOAP
15 35 (3.37%) OAuth
16 33 (3.18%) .NET
16 33 (3.18%) AngularJS
16 33 (3.18%) XML
17 30 (2.89%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 150 (14.45%) Cloud Native
2 83 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 41 (3.95%) Replication
5 39 (3.76%) Public Cloud
6 21 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.83%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.73%) Private Cloud
9 17 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.16%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.06%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (0.87%) Derivative
14 9 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 264 (25.43%) Linux
2 89 (8.57%) Windows
3 57 (5.49%) Unix
4 29 (2.79%) VMS
5 27 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 25 (2.41%) Amazon Linux
7 22 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 14 (1.35%) Apple iOS
10 13 (1.25%) Android
11 12 (1.16%) CentOS
12 3 (0.29%) Debian
12 3 (0.29%) Solaris
12 3 (0.29%) zOS
13 1 (0.096%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.096%) MVS
13 1 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.096%) SUSE
13 1 (0.096%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (78.42%) CI/CD
2 674 (64.93%) DevOps
3 441 (42.49%) Agile
4 329 (31.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 305 (29.38%) Containerisation
6 262 (25.24%) Test Automation
7 244 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
8 239 (23.03%) Microservices
9 152 (14.64%) Scrum
10 145 (13.97%) Software Engineering
11 126 (12.14%) Mentoring
12 122 (11.75%) Observability
13 117 (11.27%) Configuration Management
14 115 (11.08%) Continuous Integration
15 107 (10.31%) Infrastructure Automation
16 103 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 96 (9.25%) High Availability
17 96 (9.25%) TDD
18 91 (8.77%) Data Pipeline
18 91 (8.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 514 (49.52%) Python
2 312 (30.06%) Java
3 191 (18.40%) SQL
4 190 (18.30%) Bash
5 121 (11.66%) JavaScript
6 106 (10.21%) PowerShell
7 105 (10.12%) Go
8 82 (7.90%) TypeScript
9 69 (6.65%) Shell Script
10 64 (6.17%) C#
10 64 (6.17%) Groovy
11 30 (2.89%) Perl
12 28 (2.70%) C++
13 20 (1.93%) Scala
14 16 (1.54%) Ruby
15 13 (1.25%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.06%) C
16 11 (1.06%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.96%) PHP
17 10 (0.96%) Swift
Qualifications
1 357 (34.39%) Security Cleared
2 273 (26.30%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.06%) Degree
4 68 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (6.17%) AWS Certification
6 43 (4.14%) DV Cleared
7 39 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 27 (2.60%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.96%) OCP
14 6 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.48%) OCA
15 5 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.39%) CISSP
16 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (9.92%) QA
2 48 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.02%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.87%) NCSC
6 7 (0.67%) GDPR
6 7 (0.67%) NIST
7 6 (0.58%) WCAG
8 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.39%) SLA
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.29%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.29%) IEC 62304
10 3 (0.29%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.19%) HL7
11 2 (0.19%) MiFID
12 1 (0.096%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.096%) JSP 440
System Software
1 528 (50.87%) Docker
2 37 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (3.47%) Active Directory
4 21 (2.02%) DFS Replication
5 14 (1.35%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.35%) vSphere
6 12 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.06%) Dovecot
7 11 (1.06%) Postfix
7 11 (1.06%) Squid
8 8 (0.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 4 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.29%) HDFS
10 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.19%) GridGain
11 2 (0.19%) KVM
11 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.096%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 509 (49.04%) Kubernetes
2 413 (39.79%) Terraform
3 316 (30.44%) Ansible
4 177 (17.05%) Grafana
5 156 (15.03%) Prometheus
6 64 (6.17%) Progress Chef
7 41 (3.95%) Puppet
8 36 (3.47%) Argo
9 26 (2.50%) Istio
10 19 (1.83%) Kibana
11 16 (1.54%) ITRS Geneos
11 16 (1.54%) vCenter Server
12 15 (1.45%) Packer
13 14 (1.35%) Podman
14 13 (1.25%) Proxmox
15 12 (1.16%) Nessus
16 11 (1.06%) CA Single Sign-On
16 11 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
17 10 (0.96%) CA Wily
17 10 (0.96%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 117 (11.27%) Splunk
2 100 (9.63%) Oracle
3 94 (9.06%) Microsoft
4 80 (7.71%) Google
5 57 (5.49%) Red Hat
6 55 (5.30%) VMware
7 44 (4.24%) ServiceNow
8 36 (3.47%) Talend
9 34 (3.28%) Denodo
10 33 (3.18%) F5
11 30 (2.89%) Dynatrace
12 28 (2.70%) Databricks
13 27 (2.60%) Atlassian
13 27 (2.60%) Palo Alto
14 26 (2.50%) CheckPoint
15 20 (1.93%) AppDynamics
16 19 (1.83%) IBM
17 15 (1.45%) Solace
18 13 (1.25%) Broadcom
19 11 (1.06%) Jaspersoft