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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 77 88
Rank change year-on-year -50 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 982 913 843
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 3.31% 2.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.86% 22.43% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 640 622
10th Percentile £358 £340 £390
25th Percentile £413 £407 £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 £650 £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 5,207 4,070 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.77% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,314 2,822 2,821
10th Percentile £357 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £699 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 97 181
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.35 £33.07
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.06 £54.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +0.48%

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 26 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 26 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 -29 505 £525 -0.94% 111
North of England -43 242 £450 -3.33% 52
Yorkshire -15 166 £475 -4.31% 16
Midlands -45 95 £486 +2.32% 21
West Midlands -39 88 £488 +2.63% 13
South East -80 70 £460 -8.00% 18
North West -87 55 £425 +5.72% 26
South West -24 53 £550 -4.35% 51
North East -30 25 £450 -6.98% 10
East of England -18 16 £438 -12.50% 8
East Midlands -36 6 £358 - 8
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 99 (10.08%) Confluence
2 24 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.43%) nginx
4 14 (1.43%) SAS
5 9 (0.92%) Apache
5 9 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.71%) Camunda
6 7 (0.71%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.41%) CMS
7 4 (0.41%) IIS
7 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 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
1 528 (53.77%) AWS
2 408 (41.55%) GitHub
3 387 (39.41%) Azure
4 314 (31.98%) GitHub Actions
5 226 (23.01%) GCP
6 192 (19.55%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (12.42%) Serverless
8 117 (11.91%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
10 104 (10.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 91 (9.27%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (9.16%) Amazon EC2
13 86 (8.76%) OpenShift
14 72 (7.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
16 52 (5.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 45 (4.58%) Datadog
18 43 (4.38%) Amazon SQS
19 39 (3.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 26 (2.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.50%) Firewall
2 51 (5.19%) DNS
3 28 (2.85%) TCP/IP
4 22 (2.24%) Network Security
5 17 (1.73%) HTTP
5 17 (1.73%) SSL
6 14 (1.43%) VPN
7 12 (1.22%) VLAN
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%) SAN
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
12 5 (0.51%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.41%) 5G
13 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.87%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (6.62%) MongoDB
3 61 (6.21%) SQL Server
4 60 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (6.11%) NoSQL
5 56 (5.70%) Relational Database
6 39 (3.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 37 (3.77%) Redis
8 35 (3.56%) DynamoDB
9 26 (2.65%) Big Data
10 21 (2.14%) MySQL
11 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.73%) Metadata
13 15 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.53%) Pentaho
14 14 (1.43%) BigQuery
15 12 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 366 (37.27%) GitLab
2 330 (33.60%) Git
3 170 (17.31%) JIRA
4 94 (9.57%) JUnit
5 88 (8.96%) Selenium
6 76 (7.74%) Maven
7 68 (6.92%) SonarQube
8 60 (6.11%) Gradle
9 56 (5.70%) Cucumber
10 54 (5.50%) Bitbucket
11 53 (5.40%) Mockito
12 44 (4.48%) REST Assured
13 40 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
14 39 (3.97%) JMeter
15 38 (3.87%) Postman
16 34 (3.46%) Gatling
17 30 (3.05%) WebDriver
18 22 (2.24%) Artifactory
19 20 (2.04%) Liquibase
20 16 (1.63%) Zephyr
General
1 236 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 153 (15.58%) Finance
3 124 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 107 (10.90%) Banking
5 95 (9.67%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (1.93%) Law
9 18 (1.83%) Retail
10 16 (1.63%) Publishing
11 14 (1.43%) 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
1 243 (24.75%) Developer
2 180 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 157 (15.99%) Senior
4 110 (11.20%) Java Developer
5 70 (7.13%) Lead
6 59 (6.01%) Software Engineer
7 58 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
8 47 (4.79%) Architect
9 46 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
10 44 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 43 (4.38%) Test Engineer
12 37 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 37 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
13 34 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
14 33 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
14 33 (3.36%) Tester
15 32 (3.26%) Software Developer
16 31 (3.16%) Data Engineer
17 30 (3.05%) GCP Engineer
17 30 (3.05%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (39.41%) Terraform
2 186 (18.94%) Kafka
3 172 (17.52%) Spring
4 159 (16.19%) REST
5 149 (15.17%) Spring Boot
6 112 (11.41%) RESTful
7 100 (10.18%) React
8 85 (8.66%) Node.js
9 66 (6.72%) HTML
10 62 (6.31%) Playwright
11 52 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
12 46 (4.68%) AngularJS
12 46 (4.68%) CSS
13 44 (4.48%) SOAP
14 43 (4.38%) Hibernate
15 39 (3.97%) JPA
16 38 (3.87%) JSON
16 38 (3.87%) Web Services
17 33 (3.36%) .NET
18 32 (3.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (16.70%) Cloud Native
2 76 (7.74%) Product Ownership
3 71 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.55%) Replication
6 25 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.04%) Data Centre
9 18 (1.83%) Data Structures
9 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.73%) AI Agents
11 16 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.63%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.53%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.43%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.22%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.02%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.92%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 198 (20.16%) Linux
2 59 (6.01%) Unix
3 43 (4.38%) Windows
4 41 (4.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.43%) 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
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (83.50%) CI/CD
2 659 (67.11%) DevOps
3 462 (47.05%) Agile
4 350 (35.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 312 (31.77%) Test Automation
6 271 (27.60%) Containerisation
7 264 (26.88%) Microservices
8 214 (21.79%) Observability
9 172 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 172 (17.52%) Scrum
10 157 (15.99%) Software Engineering
11 147 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
12 139 (14.15%) Platform Engineering
13 105 (10.69%) TDD
14 103 (10.49%) Deployment Automation
15 101 (10.29%) Event-Driven
16 99 (10.08%) DevSecOps
17 95 (9.67%) Validation
18 94 (9.57%) AI
19 87 (8.86%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 416 (42.36%) Python
2 371 (37.78%) Java
3 250 (25.46%) SQL
4 197 (20.06%) Bash
5 127 (12.93%) PowerShell
6 110 (11.20%) JavaScript
7 78 (7.94%) TypeScript
8 56 (5.70%) C#
9 55 (5.60%) Groovy
10 51 (5.19%) Shell Script
11 48 (4.89%) Go
12 38 (3.87%) PL/SQL
13 27 (2.75%) Scala
14 26 (2.65%) Perl
15 21 (2.14%) Bicep
16 18 (1.83%) Kotlin
17 12 (1.22%) C++
18 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
19 9 (0.92%) ActionScript
20 8 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 383 (39.00%) Security Cleared
2 320 (32.59%) SC Cleared
3 53 (5.40%) Degree
4 50 (5.09%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.99%) AWS Certification
6 34 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.95%) Azure Certification
8 26 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.63%) ISTQB
11 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.43%) CISSP
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.81%) 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
1 130 (13.24%) QA
2 39 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.43%) WCAG
5 12 (1.22%) NIST
6 11 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.81%) GDPR
9 7 (0.71%) SLA
10 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) SEPA
11 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.41%) NCSC
11 4 (0.41%) PSD2
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 475 (48.37%) Docker
2 24 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 13 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.12%) Postfix
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 8 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.71%) NFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) Squid
9 4 (0.41%) Varnish
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) GridGain
10 3 (0.31%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) HDFS
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 477 (48.57%) Kubernetes
2 224 (22.81%) Ansible
3 210 (21.38%) Grafana
4 182 (18.53%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.87%) Argo
6 35 (3.56%) Progress Chef
6 35 (3.56%) Puppet
7 18 (1.83%) Control-M
7 18 (1.83%) Kibana
8 16 (1.63%) Istio
9 14 (1.43%) HAProxy
10 11 (1.12%) Packer
11 9 (0.92%) Kustomize
11 9 (0.92%) Podman
11 9 (0.92%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.71%) Consul
12 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.51%) CASB
14 5 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 93 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.06%) Oracle
3 85 (8.66%) Splunk
4 84 (8.55%) Google
5 60 (6.11%) Dynatrace
6 44 (4.48%) Red Hat
7 32 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 31 (3.16%) IBM
8 31 (3.16%) VMware
9 27 (2.75%) Databricks
9 27 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 16 (1.63%) Talend
11 14 (1.43%) New Relic
12 13 (1.32%) Sonatype
13 12 (1.22%) Denodo
14 11 (1.12%) F5
15 10 (1.02%) CyberArk
15 10 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (1.02%) Veracode
16 9 (0.92%) Okta