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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 80 104
Rank change year-on-year -28 +24 -48
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 912 734 808
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 3.01% 2.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.24% 22.00% 19.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 507 595
10th Percentile £369 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £433 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £578 £666 £675
90th Percentile £674 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 18
10th Percentile £40.00 £51.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £41.56 £56.25 £58.59
Median hourly rate £54.75 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.77% -7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £70.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £76.00 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £58.73 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.65% -7.14% -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 4,999 3,336 4,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.30% 13.67% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,323 2,232 2,905
10th Percentile £343 £343 £352
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £690 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 66 189
10th Percentile £36.95 £27.72 £32.74
25th Percentile £59.44 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.97%
75th Percentile £74.69 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £81.30
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -34 420 £550 -4.35% 93
North of England -3 221 £476 -4.80% 71
Yorkshire +7 175 £487 -7.19% 23
Midlands -9 123 £500 +8.93% 24
West Midlands +11 108 £512 +13.72% 11
South East -49 68 £425 -15.00% 38
South West -20 49 £538 -6.52% 19
North West -71 33 £425 -11.46% 28
East of England -27 23 £475 -5.00% 9
North East -12 17 £419 -9.95% 20
East Midlands -35 14 £402 -15.37% 13
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
1 103 (11.29%) Confluence
2 38 (4.17%) SAS
3 27 (2.96%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.99%) Apache
5 9 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.66%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.44%) JBoss
7 4 (0.44%) nginx
8 3 (0.33%) IIS
8 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.22%) Camunda
9 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Shopify
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Magento
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 465 (50.99%) AWS
2 365 (40.02%) GitHub
3 302 (33.11%) Azure
4 247 (27.08%) GitHub Actions
5 203 (22.26%) GCP
6 127 (13.93%) Amazon S3
7 118 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (12.72%) OpenShift
9 106 (11.62%) Serverless
10 96 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
11 93 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
12 88 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
13 81 (8.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 78 (8.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 61 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (6.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 54 (5.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 39 (4.28%) Azure AKS
19 35 (3.84%) Datadog
20 30 (3.29%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 48 (5.26%) DNS
2 41 (4.50%) Firewall
3 18 (1.97%) Network Security
4 15 (1.64%) VPN
5 12 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.21%) HTTP
7 7 (0.77%) SAN
8 4 (0.44%) NAS
9 3 (0.33%) BGP
9 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.33%) SSL
10 2 (0.22%) AMQP
10 2 (0.22%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.22%) Internet
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) LAN
10 2 (0.22%) Multicast
10 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (15.13%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (5.70%) NoSQL
4 42 (4.61%) Amazon Aurora
5 41 (4.50%) DynamoDB
6 39 (4.28%) SQL Server
7 37 (4.06%) MongoDB
8 36 (3.95%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.96%) Redis
10 26 (2.85%) Big Data
10 26 (2.85%) Pentaho
11 20 (2.19%) MySQL
12 15 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.64%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.64%) Metadata
13 13 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.21%) Power BI
15 10 (1.10%) Aerospike
15 10 (1.10%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 339 (37.17%) GitLab
2 274 (30.04%) Git
3 182 (19.96%) JIRA
4 101 (11.07%) JUnit
5 93 (10.20%) Selenium
6 77 (8.44%) Cucumber
7 59 (6.47%) Maven
8 55 (6.03%) Postman
9 47 (5.15%) SonarQube
10 46 (5.04%) Bitbucket
10 46 (5.04%) Mockito
11 42 (4.61%) Sonatype Nexus
12 40 (4.39%) REST Assured
13 36 (3.95%) JMeter
14 29 (3.18%) Gatling
15 27 (2.96%) Gradle
16 24 (2.63%) WebDriver
17 23 (2.52%) Artifactory
18 17 (1.86%) CircleCI
18 17 (1.86%) Liquibase
General
1 254 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 163 (17.87%) Finance
3 113 (12.39%) Public Sector
4 95 (10.42%) Banking
5 71 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (1.10%) Front Office
9 10 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.10%) Retail
10 9 (0.99%) Law
11 8 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.77%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.77%) Legal
13 6 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.66%) Military
14 5 (0.55%) Publishing
15 4 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (19.85%) Developer
2 145 (15.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 127 (13.93%) Senior
4 91 (9.98%) Java Developer
5 81 (8.88%) Architect
6 73 (8.00%) Lead
7 59 (6.47%) Data Engineer
8 54 (5.92%) GCP Engineer
9 49 (5.37%) Software Engineer
10 45 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 42 (4.61%) Test Engineer
12 40 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 31 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
15 30 (3.29%) Site Engineer
15 30 (3.29%) Tester
16 29 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
17 28 (3.07%) Senior Developer
18 27 (2.96%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (16.01%) Spring
2 130 (14.25%) Kafka
3 119 (13.05%) Spring Boot
4 117 (12.83%) REST
5 99 (10.86%) Node.js
6 77 (8.44%) RESTful
7 63 (6.91%) Playwright
8 56 (6.14%) React
9 54 (5.92%) Elastic Stack
10 50 (5.48%) AngularJS
10 50 (5.48%) OpenTelemetry
11 42 (4.61%) LDAP
12 38 (4.17%) OpenID
13 37 (4.06%) YAML
14 35 (3.84%) HTML
15 32 (3.51%) SOAP
15 32 (3.51%) Web Services
16 31 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (3.40%) Spring Cloud
17 29 (3.18%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 188 (20.61%) Cloud Native
2 78 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.37%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 19 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.54%) Replication
9 11 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
10 10 (1.10%) Mobile App
11 8 (0.88%) Private Cloud
12 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.66%) Derivative
13 6 (0.66%) Equities
13 6 (0.66%) Fixed Income
13 6 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.66%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 179 (19.63%) Linux
2 43 (4.71%) Windows
3 41 (4.50%) Unix
4 31 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.86%) VMS
6 9 (0.99%) Android
6 9 (0.99%) CentOS
7 8 (0.88%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.66%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.33%) AIX
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.22%) zOS
12 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (85.75%) CI/CD
2 613 (67.21%) DevOps
3 378 (41.45%) Agile
4 311 (34.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 288 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 277 (30.37%) Test Automation
7 209 (22.92%) Microservices
8 176 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
9 156 (17.11%) Observability
10 148 (16.23%) Scrum
11 140 (15.35%) Software Engineering
12 129 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (10.86%) Migration
14 97 (10.64%) Platform Engineering
15 86 (9.43%) Mentoring
16 84 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 81 (8.88%) TDD
18 76 (8.33%) Event-Driven
19 74 (8.11%) DevSecOps
20 73 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 380 (41.67%) Python
2 304 (33.33%) Java
3 206 (22.59%) SQL
4 153 (16.78%) Bash
5 80 (8.77%) PowerShell
6 79 (8.66%) JavaScript
7 70 (7.68%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.81%) Shell Script
9 45 (4.93%) Go
10 43 (4.71%) C#
11 38 (4.17%) Scala
12 35 (3.84%) Groovy
13 16 (1.75%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.64%) Bicep
15 11 (1.21%) PHP
16 9 (0.99%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.99%) Perl
16 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.99%) Ruby
17 7 (0.77%) C++
Qualifications
1 349 (38.27%) Security Cleared
2 295 (32.35%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.39%) Degree
4 34 (3.73%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.52%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.10%) OCP
11 10 (1.10%) RHCE
12 9 (0.99%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
14 6 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.55%) OCA
16 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (10.64%) QA
2 47 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.97%) NIST
5 17 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.86%) SLA
6 15 (1.64%) NCSC
7 10 (1.10%) GDPR
8 9 (0.99%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.55%) WCAG
11 3 (0.33%) PSD2
11 3 (0.33%) SEPA
12 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.22%) HL7
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 429 (47.04%) Docker
2 28 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.30%) vSphere
4 20 (2.19%) VMware NSX
5 12 (1.32%) Postfix
6 11 (1.21%) Active Directory
7 9 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.66%) HDFS
9 4 (0.44%) NFS
10 3 (0.33%) GridGain
10 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.33%) SRDF
11 2 (0.22%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.22%) Varnish
11 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.11%) KVM
12 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 484 (53.07%) Kubernetes
2 373 (40.90%) Terraform
3 233 (25.55%) Ansible
4 197 (21.60%) Grafana
5 155 (17.00%) Prometheus
6 48 (5.26%) Argo
7 35 (3.84%) Progress Chef
8 32 (3.51%) Puppet
9 30 (3.29%) Istio
10 21 (2.30%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.75%) Kibana
12 13 (1.43%) Podman
13 12 (1.32%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.99%) Check_MK
14 9 (0.99%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.88%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.77%) Rancher
17 6 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
18 5 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.55%) Packer
Vendors
1 88 (9.65%) Splunk
2 75 (8.22%) Google
3 62 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 61 (6.69%) Red Hat
5 54 (5.92%) Oracle
6 45 (4.93%) VMware
7 39 (4.28%) ServiceNow
8 37 (4.06%) Databricks
9 27 (2.96%) Talend
10 26 (2.85%) Denodo
11 22 (2.41%) Atlassian
12 21 (2.30%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.30%) Pure Storage
13 19 (2.08%) Sonatype
14 17 (1.86%) Salesforce
15 15 (1.64%) CyberArk
15 15 (1.64%) Jaspersoft
16 12 (1.32%) Okta
17 11 (1.21%) ForgeRock
17 11 (1.21%) IBM