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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 81 102
Rank change year-on-year -17 +21 -48
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,000 745 818
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.61% 3.07% 2.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.77% 22.45% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 512 611
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £670 £675
90th Percentile £653 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 7
10th Percentile - £57.25 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £63.44 £45.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +20.00% -19.64%
75th Percentile £52.31 £75.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.73 £82.75 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £51.07
% change year-on-year -29.63% +32.18% -27.05%

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 5,058 3,318 4,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 13.68% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,403 2,206 2,930
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -5.44% -6.42%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 66 162
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.15 £33.38
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.48 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -44 413 £530 -11.67% 85
North of England +10 256 £482 -3.60% 84
Yorkshire +19 206 £493 -12.44% 31
Midlands +17 162 £500 +10.01% 19
West Midlands +26 147 £513 +10.81% 13
South East -23 92 £430 -14.00% 49
South West -10 52 £525 -8.70% 43
North West -55 37 £435 -8.42% 36
East of England -20 28 £475 - 18
North East -6 17 £450 -3.23% 17
East Midlands -37 14 £402 -10.96% 6
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
1 118 (11.80%) Confluence
2 68 (6.80%) SAS
3 20 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.90%) Apache
7 7 (0.70%) nginx
8 6 (0.60%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.50%) JBoss
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) IIS
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.10%) CMS
13 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 493 (49.30%) AWS
2 395 (39.50%) GitHub
3 304 (30.40%) Azure
4 248 (24.80%) GitHub Actions
5 229 (22.90%) GCP
6 146 (14.60%) OpenShift
7 131 (13.10%) Serverless
8 125 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 124 (12.40%) Amazon S3
10 106 (10.60%) Amazon EC2
11 94 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
13 87 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 78 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 66 (6.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 62 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
17 55 (5.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 43 (4.30%) Datadog
19 40 (4.00%) Azure AKS
20 35 (3.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.10%) DNS
2 50 (5.00%) Firewall
3 26 (2.60%) VPN
4 19 (1.90%) Network Security
5 13 (1.30%) HTTP
5 13 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.70%) Kerberos
6 7 (0.70%) WAN
7 6 (0.60%) SAN
7 6 (0.60%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.60%) SSL
8 5 (0.50%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.50%) Internet
9 3 (0.30%) BGP
9 3 (0.30%) NAS
10 2 (0.20%) AMQP
10 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.20%) LAN
10 2 (0.20%) Multicast
10 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
3 81 (8.10%) NoSQL
4 45 (4.50%) DynamoDB
5 43 (4.30%) Relational Database
6 42 (4.20%) MongoDB
7 38 (3.80%) SQL Server
8 37 (3.70%) Pentaho
9 36 (3.60%) MySQL
10 28 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (2.40%) Redis
12 21 (2.10%) Big Data
13 17 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
14 16 (1.60%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.40%) Metadata
16 13 (1.30%) BigQuery
16 13 (1.30%) Power BI
17 12 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (1.20%) Tableau
18 11 (1.10%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 396 (39.60%) GitLab
2 318 (31.80%) Git
3 212 (21.20%) JIRA
4 122 (12.20%) JUnit
5 110 (11.00%) Selenium
6 90 (9.00%) Cucumber
7 59 (5.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 58 (5.80%) Postman
9 57 (5.70%) Maven
10 50 (5.00%) Bitbucket
11 43 (4.30%) SonarQube
12 41 (4.10%) REST Assured
13 38 (3.80%) Mockito
14 36 (3.60%) JMeter
15 28 (2.80%) Gradle
16 27 (2.70%) Artifactory
17 24 (2.40%) Gatling
18 23 (2.30%) Liquibase
19 21 (2.10%) CircleCI
19 21 (2.10%) WebDriver
General
1 307 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 200 (20.00%) Finance
3 123 (12.30%) Banking
4 121 (12.10%) Public Sector
5 67 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (2.10%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (0.90%) Front Office
10 9 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.90%) Retail
11 8 (0.80%) Law
12 7 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.70%) Military
12 7 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.60%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 181 (18.10%) Developer
2 144 (14.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 139 (13.90%) Senior
4 89 (8.90%) Architect
5 81 (8.10%) Java Developer
6 75 (7.50%) Lead
7 65 (6.50%) Data Engineer
8 63 (6.30%) GCP Engineer
9 54 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (5.30%) Software Engineer
11 51 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 45 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
13 43 (4.30%) Test Engineer
14 36 (3.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 33 (3.30%) Tester
16 32 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
16 32 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.10%) Automation Engineer
17 31 (3.10%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (15.90%) REST
2 149 (14.90%) Spring
3 138 (13.80%) Kafka
4 115 (11.50%) Spring Boot
5 111 (11.10%) Node.js
6 87 (8.70%) RESTful
7 78 (7.80%) Elastic Stack
8 69 (6.90%) Playwright
9 56 (5.60%) React
10 50 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
11 48 (4.80%) AngularJS
12 46 (4.60%) pytest
13 42 (4.20%) YAML
14 41 (4.10%) LDAP
15 40 (4.00%) OpenID
16 38 (3.80%) GraphQL
17 34 (3.40%) JSON
18 33 (3.30%) Hibernate
18 33 (3.30%) OAuth
19 32 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 189 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 91 (9.10%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (3.00%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.20%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.00%) Replication
12 9 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.80%) Derivative
13 8 (0.80%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.70%) Equities
15 6 (0.60%) Clustering
15 6 (0.60%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 214 (21.40%) Linux
2 49 (4.90%) Windows
3 37 (3.70%) Unix
4 31 (3.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.70%) VMS
6 11 (1.10%) Android
7 10 (1.00%) CentOS
8 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.90%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 847 (84.70%) CI/CD
2 675 (67.50%) DevOps
3 410 (41.00%) Agile
4 338 (33.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 323 (32.30%) Containerisation
6 307 (30.70%) Test Automation
7 227 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
8 221 (22.10%) Microservices
9 159 (15.90%) Observability
10 151 (15.10%) Scrum
11 132 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (12.70%) Software Engineering
13 111 (11.10%) Migration
14 99 (9.90%) Analytics
14 99 (9.90%) Mentoring
15 92 (9.20%) Deployment Automation
16 90 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
17 89 (8.90%) Data Pipeline
18 87 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 86 (8.60%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 444 (44.40%) Python
2 294 (29.40%) Java
3 213 (21.30%) SQL
4 169 (16.90%) Bash
5 82 (8.20%) JavaScript
6 78 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 74 (7.40%) PowerShell
8 66 (6.60%) Go
9 57 (5.70%) Shell Script
10 51 (5.10%) C#
11 30 (3.00%) Groovy
12 29 (2.90%) Scala
13 15 (1.50%) Bicep
14 14 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.30%) PHP
16 12 (1.20%) Ruby
17 9 (0.90%) C++
17 9 (0.90%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.90%) Perl
17 9 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 370 (37.00%) Security Cleared
2 306 (30.60%) SC Cleared
3 62 (6.20%) Degree
4 45 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 29 (2.90%) Azure Certification
7 26 (2.60%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.40%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
10 17 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.30%) OCP
12 12 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.80%) RHCE
14 5 (0.50%) OCA
15 3 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.30%) CISSP
15 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (10.30%) QA
2 57 (5.70%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.00%) NIST
5 19 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.80%) SLA
7 16 (1.60%) NCSC
8 10 (1.00%) GDPR
9 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.40%) WCAG
12 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) HL7
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.20%) MiFID
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 475 (47.50%) Docker
2 33 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.70%) VMware NSX
3 27 (2.70%) vSphere
4 14 (1.40%) Active Directory
5 10 (1.00%) Postfix
5 10 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 6 (0.60%) HDFS
7 3 (0.30%) GridGain
8 2 (0.20%) NFS
8 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.20%) SRDF
8 2 (0.20%) Varnish
8 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.10%) KVM
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 547 (54.70%) Kubernetes
2 408 (40.80%) Terraform
3 284 (28.40%) Ansible
4 210 (21.00%) Grafana
5 168 (16.80%) Prometheus
6 54 (5.40%) Argo
7 44 (4.40%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.30%) Istio
8 33 (3.30%) Puppet
9 27 (2.70%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.80%) Podman
11 11 (1.10%) Kibana
12 9 (0.90%) Check_MK
12 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
12 9 (0.90%) Packer
12 9 (0.90%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (0.80%) Rancher
14 7 (0.70%) HAProxy
15 6 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
16 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 113 (11.30%) Splunk
2 80 (8.00%) Google
3 71 (7.10%) Oracle
4 68 (6.80%) Red Hat
5 62 (6.20%) Microsoft
6 56 (5.60%) VMware
7 40 (4.00%) Databricks
8 38 (3.80%) ServiceNow
8 38 (3.80%) Talend
9 37 (3.70%) Denodo
10 27 (2.70%) Atlassian
10 27 (2.70%) Pure Storage
11 23 (2.30%) Sonatype
12 21 (2.10%) Dynatrace
13 16 (1.60%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
15 11 (1.10%) Salesforce
16 10 (1.00%) Cisco
16 10 (1.00%) IBM
16 10 (1.00%) Veritas
283 Jenkins jobs in England