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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 76 95
Rank change year-on-year -39 +19 -33
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 948 799 884
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.21% 2.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.49% 22.50% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 551 651
10th Percentile £367 £358 £400
25th Percentile £416 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £675
90th Percentile £652 £706 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 36
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £53.13
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.44 -
90th Percentile - £69.38 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £61.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -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 5,128 3,551 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.87% 14.26% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 2,412 3,005
10th Percentile £350 £333 £350
25th Percentile £409 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 71 231
10th Percentile £33.36 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -41 427 £550 +2.33% 60
North of England -17 263 £465 - 43
Yorkshire -4 196 £490 -2.00% 16
Midlands -27 127 £481 +6.89% 10
West Midlands -8 117 £488 +2.63% 5
South East -78 59 £430 -14.00% 38
South West -12 50 £538 -6.52% 20
North West -78 46 £425 +7.19% 21
North East -14 28 £450 -3.23% 7
East of England -23 24 £478 -4.40% 7
East Midlands -44 8 £393 +8.12% 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
1 115 (12.13%) Confluence
2 34 (3.59%) SAS
3 25 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.05%) Apache
5 10 (1.05%) nginx
6 9 (0.95%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.32%) Camunda
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) JBoss
9 3 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Magento
2 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 480 (50.63%) AWS
2 395 (41.67%) GitHub
3 295 (31.12%) Azure
4 264 (27.85%) GitHub Actions
5 204 (21.52%) GCP
6 133 (14.03%) Amazon S3
7 119 (12.55%) Serverless
8 118 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (11.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 105 (11.08%) Amazon EC2
11 104 (10.97%) AWS Lambda
12 98 (10.34%) OpenShift
13 96 (10.13%) Amazon EKS
14 73 (7.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 51 (5.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 44 (4.64%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.80%) Route 53
20 32 (3.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.91%) DNS
2 53 (5.59%) Firewall
3 17 (1.79%) Network Security
4 15 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.48%) VPN
6 10 (1.05%) SSL
7 9 (0.95%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.84%) HTTP
8 8 (0.84%) SAN
9 7 (0.74%) VLAN
10 6 (0.63%) WAN
11 5 (0.53%) NAS
12 4 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.32%) BGP
13 3 (0.32%) Multicast
13 3 (0.32%) VSAN
14 2 (0.21%) DHCP
14 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (14.87%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.02%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (5.70%) MongoDB
3 54 (5.70%) NoSQL
4 51 (5.38%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.17%) DynamoDB
6 48 (5.06%) Amazon Aurora
7 38 (4.01%) SQL Server
8 34 (3.59%) Redis
9 26 (2.74%) Big Data
10 24 (2.53%) Pentaho
11 20 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (2.00%) MySQL
13 16 (1.69%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.48%) Metadata
15 13 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
16 11 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (1.05%) BigQuery
18 9 (0.95%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 355 (37.45%) GitLab
2 286 (30.17%) Git
3 192 (20.25%) JIRA
4 114 (12.03%) JUnit
5 96 (10.13%) Selenium
6 69 (7.28%) Cucumber
7 66 (6.96%) Maven
8 58 (6.12%) Mockito
9 57 (6.01%) SonarQube
10 47 (4.96%) REST Assured
11 45 (4.75%) Bitbucket
11 45 (4.75%) Postman
12 38 (4.01%) Gradle
13 37 (3.90%) JMeter
14 36 (3.80%) Gatling
15 35 (3.69%) Sonatype Nexus
16 28 (2.95%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.53%) Liquibase
18 20 (2.11%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.58%) Serenity BDD
General
1 248 (26.16%) Social Skills
2 149 (15.72%) Finance
3 134 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 105 (11.08%) Banking
5 78 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.11%) Law
9 19 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.16%) Retail
12 9 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.84%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.84%) Legal
13 8 (0.84%) Publishing
14 7 (0.74%) Front Office
14 7 (0.74%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.63%) Marketing
15 6 (0.63%) Military
16 4 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 193 (20.36%) Developer
2 165 (17.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 142 (14.98%) Senior
4 106 (11.18%) Java Developer
5 78 (8.23%) Architect
6 62 (6.54%) Lead
7 60 (6.33%) Software Engineer
8 52 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (5.06%) GCP Engineer
10 45 (4.75%) Data Engineer
10 45 (4.75%) Test Engineer
11 41 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
11 41 (4.32%) Senior Developer
12 39 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
13 38 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 38 (4.01%) Tester
14 32 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 29 (3.06%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (3.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (2.95%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (17.93%) Spring
2 146 (15.40%) Kafka
3 144 (15.19%) Spring Boot
4 129 (13.61%) REST
5 102 (10.76%) RESTful
6 72 (7.59%) Node.js
7 68 (7.17%) React
8 53 (5.59%) Playwright
9 47 (4.96%) SOAP
10 46 (4.85%) AngularJS
11 44 (4.64%) JPA
12 42 (4.43%) Elastic Stack
12 42 (4.43%) Hibernate
12 42 (4.43%) HTML
12 42 (4.43%) Web Services
13 39 (4.11%) Spring Cloud
14 38 (4.01%) OpenTelemetry
15 36 (3.80%) LDAP
16 31 (3.27%) Swagger
17 30 (3.16%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 195 (20.57%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.49%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 31 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 24 (2.53%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.79%) Replication
10 16 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.58%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.05%) AI Agents
16 9 (0.95%) Data Structures
16 9 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.74%) Algorithms
17 7 (0.74%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 183 (19.30%) Linux
2 47 (4.96%) Unix
3 45 (4.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.43%) Windows
5 12 (1.27%) CentOS
6 11 (1.16%) Android
7 9 (0.95%) VMS
8 8 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.63%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.32%) AIX
11 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.32%) zOS
12 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.21%) Solaris
12 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (85.34%) CI/CD
2 631 (66.56%) DevOps
3 413 (43.57%) Agile
4 321 (33.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 295 (31.12%) Test Automation
6 272 (28.69%) Containerisation
7 243 (25.63%) Microservices
8 177 (18.67%) Observability
9 169 (17.83%) Scrum
10 153 (16.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 152 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
12 144 (15.19%) Software Engineering
13 119 (12.55%) Platform Engineering
14 103 (10.86%) Migration
15 91 (9.60%) Event-Driven
15 91 (9.60%) TDD
16 90 (9.49%) Validation
17 78 (8.23%) Deployment Automation
18 76 (8.02%) Analytics
18 76 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 397 (41.88%) Python
2 339 (35.76%) Java
3 224 (23.63%) SQL
4 173 (18.25%) Bash
5 85 (8.97%) PowerShell
6 72 (7.59%) JavaScript
7 55 (5.80%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.38%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.54%) Go
10 38 (4.01%) C#
11 36 (3.80%) Groovy
12 35 (3.69%) Scala
13 24 (2.53%) PL/SQL
14 16 (1.69%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.16%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.16%) Perl
16 10 (1.05%) Bicep
17 9 (0.95%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.95%) Ruby
18 8 (0.84%) Swift
Qualifications
1 368 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 315 (33.23%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.22%) AWS Certification
3 40 (4.22%) Degree
4 33 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 27 (2.85%) Azure Certification
5 27 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 13 (1.37%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.16%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (0.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.74%) RHCE
12 6 (0.63%) OCP
13 5 (0.53%) CISSP
13 5 (0.53%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.42%) GIAC
14 4 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (11.08%) QA
2 44 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.00%) NIST
6 16 (1.69%) SLA
7 13 (1.37%) NCSC
7 13 (1.37%) WCAG
8 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.63%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.42%) PSD2
10 4 (0.42%) SEPA
11 3 (0.32%) GDPR
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 419 (44.20%) Docker
2 27 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.22%) vSphere
4 19 (2.00%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.79%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.58%) Postfix
7 13 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.74%) NFS
9 5 (0.53%) HDFS
9 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.42%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.42%) SRDF
10 4 (0.42%) Varnish
11 3 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.32%) GridGain
11 3 (0.32%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 454 (47.89%) Kubernetes
2 378 (39.87%) Terraform
3 230 (24.26%) Ansible
4 204 (21.52%) Grafana
5 176 (18.57%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.54%) Argo
7 31 (3.27%) Puppet
8 27 (2.85%) Istio
9 24 (2.53%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.22%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.48%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.48%) Podman
12 11 (1.16%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.16%) Control-M
12 11 (1.16%) Kibana
12 11 (1.16%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (0.95%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.95%) Packer
14 6 (0.63%) Consul
14 6 (0.63%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 81 (8.54%) Splunk
2 79 (8.33%) Google
3 71 (7.49%) Oracle
4 64 (6.75%) Red Hat
5 60 (6.33%) Microsoft
6 44 (4.64%) VMware
7 37 (3.90%) Dynatrace
8 25 (2.64%) Talend
9 24 (2.53%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.43%) Databricks
10 23 (2.43%) Salesforce
11 21 (2.22%) Atlassian
11 21 (2.22%) Denodo
12 20 (2.11%) Pure Storage
12 20 (2.11%) Sonatype
13 18 (1.90%) IBM
13 18 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
14 14 (1.48%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.37%) Okta
16 11 (1.16%) ForgeRock