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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 77 93
Rank change year-on-year -43 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 985 871 848
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.19% 2.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.72% 22.33% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 606 628
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 37
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £56.25
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
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% -3.45%

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 5,263 3,900 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.73% 14.26% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,365 2,675 2,938
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 91 214
10th Percentile £28.08 £40.00 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -41 461 £532 +0.38% 107
North of England -19 272 £453 -2.58% 67
Yorkshire -2 205 £488 -1.79% 19
Midlands -19 124 £476 +5.78% 19
West Midlands -2 117 £479 +0.84% 14
South East -97 60 £460 -8.00% 45
South West -24 50 £538 -6.52% 25
North West -80 48 £425 +5.72% 34
North East -24 26 £450 -3.23% 15
East of England -19 18 £463 -7.50% 12
East Midlands -42 5 £447 +24.51% 5
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
1 116 (11.78%) Confluence
2 29 (2.94%) SAS
3 24 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 10 (1.02%) Apache
6 10 (1.02%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.41%) Camunda
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
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%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 16 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.91%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 503 (51.07%) AWS
2 423 (42.94%) GitHub
3 331 (33.60%) Azure
4 290 (29.44%) GitHub Actions
5 217 (22.03%) GCP
6 150 (15.23%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (12.69%) Amazon S3
8 115 (11.68%) Serverless
9 100 (10.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 100 (10.15%) AWS Lambda
10 99 (10.05%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (9.64%) OpenShift
12 91 (9.24%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (7.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 60 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
15 52 (5.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 47 (4.77%) Amazon SQS
17 45 (4.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 39 (3.96%) Datadog
19 31 (3.15%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.38%) DNS
2 47 (4.77%) Firewall
3 18 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.73%) VPN
5 16 (1.62%) Network Security
6 12 (1.22%) SSL
7 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.81%) HTTP
8 8 (0.81%) SAN
8 8 (0.81%) VLAN
9 7 (0.71%) WAN
10 4 (0.41%) BGP
10 4 (0.41%) NAS
10 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.30%) DHCP
11 3 (0.30%) Internet
11 3 (0.30%) Multicast
11 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (5.99%) MongoDB
4 55 (5.58%) Relational Database
4 55 (5.58%) SQL Server
5 47 (4.77%) NoSQL
6 44 (4.47%) Amazon Aurora
7 43 (4.37%) DynamoDB
8 25 (2.54%) Big Data
8 25 (2.54%) Redis
9 20 (2.03%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.73%) Metadata
12 15 (1.52%) MySQL
13 13 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.22%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.02%) Power BI
16 9 (0.91%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 341 (34.62%) GitLab
2 313 (31.78%) Git
3 196 (19.90%) JIRA
4 113 (11.47%) JUnit
5 95 (9.64%) Selenium
6 73 (7.41%) Maven
7 66 (6.70%) Cucumber
7 66 (6.70%) SonarQube
8 57 (5.79%) Mockito
9 50 (5.08%) Bitbucket
10 47 (4.77%) Gradle
10 47 (4.77%) REST Assured
11 40 (4.06%) Postman
12 37 (3.76%) JMeter
12 37 (3.76%) Sonatype Nexus
13 35 (3.55%) Gatling
14 29 (2.94%) WebDriver
15 24 (2.44%) Liquibase
16 23 (2.34%) Artifactory
17 17 (1.73%) Zephyr
General
1 253 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 144 (14.62%) Finance
3 136 (13.81%) Public Sector
4 104 (10.56%) Banking
5 84 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.03%) Law
9 18 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 18 (1.83%) Retail
10 14 (1.42%) Publishing
11 13 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.12%) Legal
13 10 (1.02%) Marketing
14 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.61%) Front Office
15 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.61%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.51%) Military
16 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 219 (22.23%) Developer
2 183 (18.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 148 (15.03%) Senior
4 115 (11.68%) Java Developer
5 66 (6.70%) Lead
6 60 (6.09%) Software Engineer
7 58 (5.89%) Architect
8 56 (5.69%) AWS Engineer
9 45 (4.57%) GCP Engineer
9 45 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (4.57%) Senior Developer
10 43 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
11 41 (4.16%) Data Engineer
12 39 (3.96%) Tester
13 38 (3.86%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
15 34 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.25%) Senior Java Developer
17 30 (3.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (17.87%) Spring
2 158 (16.04%) Kafka
3 150 (15.23%) REST
3 150 (15.23%) Spring Boot
4 103 (10.46%) RESTful
5 91 (9.24%) React
6 89 (9.04%) Node.js
7 60 (6.09%) Playwright
8 54 (5.48%) SOAP
9 49 (4.97%) Web Services
10 47 (4.77%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
12 44 (4.47%) Hibernate
12 44 (4.47%) HTML
13 42 (4.26%) JPA
14 34 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
15 32 (3.25%) CSS
15 32 (3.25%) OpenTelemetry
15 32 (3.25%) Swagger
15 32 (3.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 178 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 89 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (6.40%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.13%) Replication
8 19 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.73%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.62%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.52%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.12%) AI Agents
14 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.02%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.81%) Hedge funds
16 8 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (19.19%) Linux
2 50 (5.08%) Unix
3 44 (4.47%) Windows
4 40 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.12%) Android
6 10 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.51%) CentOS
9 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.30%) AIX
10 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) 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%) VMS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (84.06%) CI/CD
2 664 (67.41%) DevOps
3 468 (47.51%) Agile
4 326 (33.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 304 (30.86%) Test Automation
6 268 (27.21%) Containerisation
7 259 (26.29%) Microservices
8 190 (19.29%) Observability
9 186 (18.88%) Scrum
10 170 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 163 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
12 150 (15.23%) Software Engineering
13 136 (13.81%) Platform Engineering
14 115 (11.68%) TDD
15 91 (9.24%) Migration
16 89 (9.04%) Event-Driven
17 86 (8.73%) Deployment Automation
18 85 (8.63%) Validation
19 83 (8.43%) AI
20 81 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 412 (41.83%) Python
2 347 (35.23%) Java
3 237 (24.06%) SQL
4 198 (20.10%) Bash
5 111 (11.27%) PowerShell
6 84 (8.53%) JavaScript
7 70 (7.11%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.97%) Go
9 47 (4.77%) Groovy
10 45 (4.57%) Shell Script
11 43 (4.37%) C#
12 34 (3.45%) PL/SQL
13 29 (2.94%) Scala
14 18 (1.83%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.52%) Bicep
15 15 (1.52%) Perl
16 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.91%) Ruby
18 8 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 369 (37.46%) Security Cleared
2 312 (31.68%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.77%) Degree
4 41 (4.16%) AWS Certification
5 39 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.22%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.81%) RHCE
14 7 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.61%) CISSP
15 6 (0.61%) OCP
16 5 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.41%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (11.27%) QA
2 43 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.32%) WCAG
5 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.71%) NIST
6 7 (0.71%) SLA
7 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.30%) GDPR
9 3 (0.30%) NCSC
9 3 (0.30%) SEPA
10 2 (0.20%) PSD2
11 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 444 (45.08%) Docker
2 30 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.13%) vSphere
4 20 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.62%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.52%) Postfix
7 7 (0.71%) NFS
8 6 (0.61%) HDFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) SRDF
9 4 (0.41%) Varnish
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 464 (47.11%) Kubernetes
2 386 (39.19%) Terraform
3 238 (24.16%) Ansible
4 213 (21.62%) Grafana
5 180 (18.27%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.77%) Argo
7 37 (3.76%) Puppet
8 27 (2.74%) Progress Chef
9 22 (2.23%) Istio
10 21 (2.13%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.62%) Control-M
12 14 (1.42%) HAProxy
13 11 (1.12%) Kibana
14 10 (1.02%) Packer
14 10 (1.02%) Podman
15 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.61%) Consul
18 5 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 84 (8.53%) Google
1 84 (8.53%) Oracle
2 83 (8.43%) Splunk
3 80 (8.12%) Microsoft
4 54 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 48 (4.87%) Dynatrace
6 41 (4.16%) VMware
7 28 (2.84%) Salesforce
8 22 (2.23%) Databricks
8 22 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 21 (2.13%) IBM
9 21 (2.13%) Talend
10 20 (2.03%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.83%) Atlassian
11 18 (1.83%) Jaspersoft
12 17 (1.73%) Denodo
12 17 (1.73%) Sonatype
13 13 (1.32%) Okta
14 12 (1.22%) F5
15 11 (1.12%) ForgeRock