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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 75 88
Rank change year-on-year -54 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 978 912 848
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 3.29% 2.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.81% 22.22% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 637 630
10th Percentile £356 £343 £388
25th Percentile £413 £408 £453
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 8 32
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -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 5,198 4,105 4,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.36% 14.79% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,305 2,845 2,845
10th Percentile £357 £325 £355
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 97 172
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.40 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.75 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.90 £71.84
UK median hourly rate £67.49 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.82% - -

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 31 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 31 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 -26 512 £525 -0.94% 226
North of England -47 235 £450 -3.23% 80
Yorkshire -14 163 £475 -3.34% 29
Midlands -48 94 £488 +2.63% 27
West Midlands -29 87 £488 - 17
South East -79 70 £460 -8.00% 52
South West -21 52 £550 -4.35% 59
North West -90 51 £425 +5.72% 39
North East -24 25 £450 -6.25% 12
East of England -11 15 £438 -12.50% 18
East Midlands -34 6 £358 - 10
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 (10.02%) Confluence
2 22 (2.25%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.43%) nginx
4 14 (1.43%) SAS
5 9 (0.92%) Camunda
5 9 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.82%) Apache
7 7 (0.72%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.72%) 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 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) 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
1 520 (53.17%) AWS
2 402 (41.10%) GitHub
3 386 (39.47%) Azure
4 308 (31.49%) GitHub Actions
5 219 (22.39%) GCP
6 190 (19.43%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (12.27%) Serverless
8 114 (11.66%) Amazon S3
9 103 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 93 (9.51%) OpenShift
12 88 (9.00%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
14 69 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (6.54%) Amazon ECS
16 48 (4.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 44 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
18 41 (4.19%) Datadog
19 38 (3.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 24 (2.45%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.42%) Firewall
2 50 (5.11%) DNS
3 32 (3.27%) TCP/IP
4 23 (2.35%) Network Security
5 17 (1.74%) HTTP
5 17 (1.74%) SSL
6 13 (1.33%) VLAN
7 12 (1.23%) VPN
8 11 (1.12%) SAN
9 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 8 (0.82%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.82%) WAN
11 7 (0.72%) SSH
12 6 (0.61%) DHCP
12 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (0.51%) 4G
14 4 (0.41%) 5G
14 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.83%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.34%) MongoDB
3 61 (6.24%) SQL Server
4 60 (6.13%) Amazon RDS
5 58 (5.93%) NoSQL
6 57 (5.83%) Relational Database
7 39 (3.99%) Amazon Aurora
8 37 (3.78%) Redis
9 34 (3.48%) DynamoDB
10 26 (2.66%) Big Data
11 22 (2.25%) MySQL
12 19 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (1.74%) Data Lake
13 17 (1.74%) Metadata
14 15 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.53%) Pentaho
15 14 (1.43%) BigQuery
16 12 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (1.23%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 362 (37.01%) GitLab
2 332 (33.95%) Git
3 169 (17.28%) JIRA
4 95 (9.71%) JUnit
5 88 (9.00%) Selenium
6 80 (8.18%) Maven
7 72 (7.36%) SonarQube
8 64 (6.54%) Gradle
9 55 (5.62%) Bitbucket
10 54 (5.52%) Cucumber
11 53 (5.42%) Mockito
12 46 (4.70%) REST Assured
13 43 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
14 40 (4.09%) Postman
15 38 (3.89%) JMeter
16 34 (3.48%) Gatling
17 28 (2.86%) WebDriver
18 22 (2.25%) Artifactory
19 20 (2.04%) Liquibase
20 16 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 238 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 154 (15.75%) Finance
3 124 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 108 (11.04%) Banking
5 96 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (1.94%) Law
9 18 (1.84%) Retail
10 16 (1.64%) Publishing
11 14 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.33%) Marketing
12 13 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.02%) Legal
14 9 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.72%) Front Office
15 7 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Local Government
16 5 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 246 (25.15%) Developer
2 173 (17.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 148 (15.13%) Senior
4 110 (11.25%) Java Developer
5 73 (7.46%) Lead
6 55 (5.62%) Software Engineer
7 53 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (4.91%) Architect
9 45 (4.60%) Test Engineer
10 44 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
11 43 (4.40%) Senior Developer
12 36 (3.68%) Automation Engineer
12 36 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
13 35 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.48%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
16 31 (3.17%) Data Engineer
16 31 (3.17%) Tester
17 30 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
18 29 (2.97%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (39.37%) Terraform
2 189 (19.33%) Kafka
3 170 (17.38%) Spring
4 154 (15.75%) REST
5 150 (15.34%) Spring Boot
6 114 (11.66%) RESTful
7 104 (10.63%) React
8 88 (9.00%) Node.js
9 68 (6.95%) HTML
10 59 (6.03%) Playwright
11 52 (5.32%) Elastic Stack
12 48 (4.91%) CSS
13 45 (4.60%) AngularJS
13 45 (4.60%) Hibernate
14 42 (4.29%) SOAP
15 41 (4.19%) JPA
16 39 (3.99%) Web Services
17 38 (3.89%) JSON
18 35 (3.58%) .NET
19 32 (3.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 167 (17.08%) Cloud Native
2 76 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 68 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.66%) Replication
6 26 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.15%) Data Centre
9 20 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.94%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
12 17 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.64%) Mobile App
14 15 (1.53%) Private Cloud
15 14 (1.43%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.23%) Algorithms
17 11 (1.12%) Public Cloud
17 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
18 10 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 206 (21.06%) Linux
2 61 (6.24%) Unix
3 46 (4.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (4.60%) 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
1 817 (83.54%) CI/CD
2 658 (67.28%) DevOps
3 464 (47.44%) Agile
4 348 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 314 (32.11%) Test Automation
6 274 (28.02%) Containerisation
7 265 (27.10%) Microservices
8 212 (21.68%) Observability
9 174 (17.79%) Scrum
10 168 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 156 (15.95%) Software Engineering
12 147 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
13 140 (14.31%) Platform Engineering
14 106 (10.84%) TDD
15 104 (10.63%) Deployment Automation
16 100 (10.22%) DevSecOps
17 98 (10.02%) Event-Driven
18 94 (9.61%) AI
19 93 (9.51%) Validation
20 87 (8.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 417 (42.64%) Python
2 376 (38.45%) Java
3 252 (25.77%) SQL
4 195 (19.94%) Bash
5 124 (12.68%) PowerShell
6 111 (11.35%) JavaScript
7 75 (7.67%) TypeScript
8 57 (5.83%) C#
9 55 (5.62%) Groovy
10 50 (5.11%) Go
11 49 (5.01%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.99%) PL/SQL
13 29 (2.97%) Perl
14 27 (2.76%) Scala
15 18 (1.84%) Bicep
15 18 (1.84%) Kotlin
16 13 (1.33%) C++
17 11 (1.12%) Korn
18 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
19 9 (0.92%) C
Qualifications
1 390 (39.88%) Security Cleared
2 324 (33.13%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.73%) Degree
4 55 (5.62%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.81%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.66%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.74%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.53%) CISSP
11 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.51%) GCFA
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (13.39%) QA
2 39 (3.99%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.53%) NIST
5 14 (1.43%) WCAG
6 13 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.82%) GDPR
9 6 (0.61%) NCSC
10 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) SEPA
11 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.41%) PSD2
11 4 (0.41%) SLA
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 471 (48.16%) Docker
2 25 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 8 (0.82%) 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%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 481 (49.18%) Kubernetes
2 225 (23.01%) Ansible
3 201 (20.55%) Grafana
4 174 (17.79%) Prometheus
5 36 (3.68%) Argo
5 36 (3.68%) Progress Chef
6 35 (3.58%) Puppet
7 19 (1.94%) Kibana
8 18 (1.84%) Control-M
9 15 (1.53%) Istio
10 13 (1.33%) HAProxy
11 11 (1.12%) Packer
12 9 (0.92%) Kustomize
12 9 (0.92%) Podman
12 9 (0.92%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.72%) Consul
13 7 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.51%) CASB
15 5 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 91 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.20%) Oracle
3 85 (8.69%) Google
4 81 (8.28%) Splunk
5 63 (6.44%) Dynatrace
6 46 (4.70%) Red Hat
7 33 (3.37%) IBM
7 33 (3.37%) VMware
8 32 (3.27%) Salesforce
9 27 (2.76%) Databricks
9 27 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.64%) Talend
11 14 (1.43%) New Relic
12 13 (1.33%) Sonatype
13 12 (1.23%) Denodo
13 12 (1.23%) Veracode
14 11 (1.12%) NetApp
15 10 (1.02%) CyberArk
15 10 (1.02%) F5
15 10 (1.02%) Jaspersoft