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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 85 94
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -41
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,015 737 858
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 2.77% 2.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.47% 20.61% 19.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 491 648
10th Percentile £358 £375 £406
25th Percentile £425 £453 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -4.28% +0.09% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 £43.38
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £57.41
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%
75th Percentile £97.56 £80.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £89.75 £81.60
UK median hourly rate £58.61 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -17.74% +4.01% -2.14%

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 4,728 3,576 4,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.64% 13.42% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 2,222 3,123
10th Percentile £336 £335 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 67 204
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.71 £44.98
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.65 £90.00
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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -27 434 £537 -13.08% 67
North of England +16 271 £490 +7.64% 81
Yorkshire +10 180 £500 - 42
Midlands +39 145 £525 +10.06% 40
West Midlands +48 132 £525 +8.70% 21
South East +15 94 £467 -4.15% 82
North West -21 73 £447 +11.75% 32
South West +17 53 £538 -10.42% 44
North East 0 19 £550 -13.21% 7
East of England -19 15 £477 +7.38% 30
East Midlands -25 13 £397 -6.04% 18
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
1 122 (12.02%) Confluence
2 59 (5.81%) SAS
3 19 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.48%) Apache
4 15 (1.48%) IIS
5 14 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.38%) JBoss
5 14 (1.38%) nginx
6 13 (1.28%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.28%) WebSphere
7 11 (1.08%) WebSphere Application Server
8 10 (0.99%) iPlanet
9 6 (0.59%) Mule
10 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.39%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
13 2 (0.20%) CICS
13 2 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.099%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.099%) Actimize
3 1 (0.099%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.099%) Finacle
3 1 (0.099%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.099%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.099%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 531 (52.32%) AWS
2 329 (32.41%) GitHub
3 274 (27.00%) Azure
4 243 (23.94%) GCP
5 211 (20.79%) GitHub Actions
6 133 (13.10%) Serverless
7 126 (12.41%) OpenShift
8 123 (12.12%) Amazon S3
9 112 (11.03%) Amazon EC2
10 107 (10.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 98 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
12 96 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 94 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
14 92 (9.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 80 (7.88%) Amazon ECS
16 73 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
17 59 (5.81%) Datadog
18 54 (5.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 42 (4.14%) Amazon ELB
20 36 (3.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 85 (8.37%) Firewall
2 75 (7.39%) DNS
3 38 (3.74%) VPN
4 33 (3.25%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.96%) Network Security
6 26 (2.56%) HTTP
7 25 (2.46%) SSL
8 19 (1.87%) Kerberos
9 16 (1.58%) SSH
10 15 (1.48%) SMTP
11 14 (1.38%) FTP
12 9 (0.89%) IMAP
12 9 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (0.69%) WAN
14 6 (0.59%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.59%) Internet
15 5 (0.49%) SD-WAN
16 3 (0.30%) SAN
16 3 (0.30%) tcpdump
17 2 (0.20%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (15.47%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (10.25%) NoSQL
3 97 (9.56%) Amazon RDS
4 55 (5.42%) MongoDB
5 40 (3.94%) MySQL
6 39 (3.84%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.74%) Pentaho
8 31 (3.05%) Oracle Database
8 31 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 31 (3.05%) SQL Server
9 29 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 29 (2.86%) Redis
10 23 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 19 (1.87%) Big Data
12 14 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (1.28%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.18%) Tableau
15 11 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.08%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 10 (0.99%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 378 (37.24%) GitLab
2 328 (32.32%) Git
3 234 (23.05%) JIRA
4 98 (9.66%) Selenium
5 94 (9.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 88 (8.67%) JUnit
7 87 (8.57%) Cucumber
8 61 (6.01%) Bitbucket
8 61 (6.01%) Postman
9 52 (5.12%) SonarQube
10 48 (4.73%) Maven
11 40 (3.94%) Gradle
12 37 (3.65%) REST Assured
13 36 (3.55%) CircleCI
14 30 (2.96%) Artifactory
15 25 (2.46%) Cypress.io
15 25 (2.46%) JMeter
16 24 (2.36%) Liquibase
17 17 (1.67%) TeamCity
18 16 (1.58%) Gatling
General
1 293 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 223 (21.97%) Finance
3 150 (14.78%) Banking
4 128 (12.61%) Public Sector
5 59 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 29 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 14 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.28%) Military
9 11 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (0.99%) Retail
10 10 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.69%) Front Office
11 7 (0.69%) Marketing
12 6 (0.59%) Games
12 6 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.59%) Publishing
13 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 180 (17.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 174 (17.14%) Developer
3 170 (16.75%) Senior
4 82 (8.08%) Lead
5 77 (7.59%) Architect
6 76 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
7 73 (7.19%) Java Developer
8 60 (5.91%) Data Engineer
9 58 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
10 56 (5.52%) GCP Engineer
11 51 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (4.53%) Senior DevOps
12 46 (4.53%) Software Engineer
13 45 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
13 45 (4.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 39 (3.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 38 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
16 37 (3.65%) Test Engineer
17 35 (3.45%) Senior Developer
18 31 (3.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (14.68%) REST
2 143 (14.09%) Kafka
3 112 (11.03%) Spring
4 105 (10.34%) Node.js
5 98 (9.66%) RESTful
6 91 (8.97%) Elastic Stack
7 90 (8.87%) Spring Boot
8 68 (6.70%) Playwright
9 57 (5.62%) React
10 52 (5.12%) GraphQL
11 51 (5.02%) LDAP
12 47 (4.63%) OpenID
13 46 (4.53%) HTML
14 43 (4.24%) JSON
15 41 (4.04%) OAuth
16 40 (3.94%) .NET
17 37 (3.65%) CSS
18 36 (3.55%) RabbitMQ
18 36 (3.55%) YAML
19 35 (3.45%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 177 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 80 (7.88%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 47 (4.63%) Public Cloud
5 34 (3.35%) Replication
6 29 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.48%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (1.18%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 10 (0.99%) NHS
14 9 (0.89%) Derivative
14 9 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 236 (23.25%) Linux
2 74 (7.29%) Windows
3 45 (4.43%) Unix
4 29 (2.86%) VMS
5 21 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.67%) Amazon Linux
8 13 (1.28%) Android
8 13 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.28%) CentOS
9 11 (1.08%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) zOS
11 1 (0.099%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.099%) MVS
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (81.58%) CI/CD
2 676 (66.60%) DevOps
3 393 (38.72%) Agile
4 347 (34.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 302 (29.75%) Containerisation
6 287 (28.28%) Test Automation
7 237 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (21.48%) Microservices
9 144 (14.19%) Observability
10 138 (13.60%) Scrum
10 138 (13.60%) Software Engineering
11 129 (12.71%) Mentoring
12 112 (11.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 90 (8.87%) DevSecOps
14 89 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
15 88 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
15 88 (8.67%) Migration
16 85 (8.37%) Configuration Management
16 85 (8.37%) High Availability
17 84 (8.28%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 468 (46.11%) Python
2 302 (29.75%) Java
3 187 (18.42%) SQL
4 162 (15.96%) Bash
5 111 (10.94%) JavaScript
6 92 (9.06%) Go
7 88 (8.67%) TypeScript
8 84 (8.28%) PowerShell
9 69 (6.80%) Shell Script
10 54 (5.32%) C#
11 48 (4.73%) Groovy
12 26 (2.56%) Scala
13 22 (2.17%) C++
14 17 (1.67%) Ruby
15 14 (1.38%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.38%) Perl
16 13 (1.28%) PHP
17 11 (1.08%) C
18 10 (0.99%) Swift
19 8 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 346 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 270 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.49%) Degree
4 57 (5.62%) AWS Certification
5 51 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.35%) Master's Degree
7 31 (3.05%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.66%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.99%) OCP
14 8 (0.79%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.49%) OCA
15 5 (0.49%) RHCE
16 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.85%) QA
2 52 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.48%) NIST
5 15 (1.48%) SLA
6 13 (1.28%) NCSC
7 8 (0.79%) GDPR
7 8 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.49%) WCAG
9 3 (0.30%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.30%) IEC 62304
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 26262
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.20%) PSD2
10 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 507 (49.95%) Docker
2 31 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.38%) DFS Replication
5 10 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.89%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.89%) Postfix
6 9 (0.89%) Squid
6 9 (0.89%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.89%) vSphere
7 8 (0.79%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 6 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.39%) HDFS
9 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 2 (0.20%) KVM
12 1 (0.099%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.099%) SRDF
12 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 514 (50.64%) Kubernetes
2 421 (41.48%) Terraform
3 291 (28.67%) Ansible
4 180 (17.73%) Grafana
5 158 (15.57%) Prometheus
6 57 (5.62%) Progress Chef
7 32 (3.15%) Argo
8 30 (2.96%) Istio
9 26 (2.56%) Puppet
10 20 (1.97%) Podman
11 15 (1.48%) Kibana
12 12 (1.18%) Packer
12 12 (1.18%) Proxmox
13 11 (1.08%) CA Single Sign-On
13 11 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
13 11 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.99%) CA Wily
14 10 (0.99%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.89%) Nessus
15 9 (0.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (10.94%) Splunk
2 96 (9.46%) Google
3 95 (9.36%) Oracle
4 78 (7.68%) Microsoft
5 53 (5.22%) ServiceNow
6 47 (4.63%) Red Hat
7 46 (4.53%) VMware
8 38 (3.74%) Denodo
8 38 (3.74%) Talend
9 31 (3.05%) Databricks
10 30 (2.96%) Atlassian
11 28 (2.76%) F5
12 27 (2.66%) Palo Alto
13 26 (2.56%) CheckPoint
14 25 (2.46%) Dynatrace
15 19 (1.87%) AppDynamics
16 18 (1.77%) IBM
17 16 (1.58%) Sonatype
18 13 (1.28%) Confluent
18 13 (1.28%) Solace