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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 74 94
Rank change year-on-year -38 +20 -28
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 996 872 889
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.21% 2.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.94% 22.76% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 605 661
10th Percentile £364 £356 £400
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 38
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £54.38
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.56 -
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -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 5,260 3,831 4,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.76% 14.12% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,383 2,623 3,030
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
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 88 230
10th Percentile £28.08 £30.05 £32.87
25th Percentile £57.63 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £68.00 £63.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -3.08% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.04
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 15 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 15 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 -32 464 £550 +3.77% 98
North of England -13 281 £450 -2.81% 98
Yorkshire -1 211 £488 -2.50% 34
Midlands -16 126 £481 +6.92% 36
West Midlands -4 119 £484 +1.97% 18
South East -94 58 £460 -8.10% 62
North West -74 51 £425 +8.14% 49
South West -18 50 £538 -6.52% 49
North East -23 26 £450 -3.23% 16
East of England -15 19 £475 -7.32% 41
East Midlands -43 5 £447 +24.17% 17
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
1 119 (11.95%) Confluence
2 31 (3.11%) SAS
3 24 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) Apache
5 11 (1.10%) nginx
6 10 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.30%) Camunda
8 3 (0.30%) CMS
8 3 (0.30%) IIS
8 3 (0.30%) JBoss
8 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
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%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 17 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.70%) 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
1 505 (50.70%) AWS
2 421 (42.27%) GitHub
3 326 (32.73%) Azure
4 285 (28.61%) GitHub Actions
5 212 (21.29%) GCP
6 146 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
7 131 (13.15%) Amazon S3
8 122 (12.25%) Serverless
9 106 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 106 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
10 105 (10.54%) AWS Lambda
11 103 (10.34%) OpenShift
12 94 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
13 77 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 63 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
15 56 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 47 (4.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 44 (4.42%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.61%) Datadog
19 31 (3.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.02%) DNS
2 46 (4.62%) Firewall
3 16 (1.61%) Network Security
4 14 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.41%) VPN
5 12 (1.20%) SSL
6 9 (0.90%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.80%) HTTP
7 8 (0.80%) SAN
8 7 (0.70%) VLAN
9 6 (0.60%) WAN
10 5 (0.50%) NAS
11 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.30%) BGP
12 3 (0.30%) Internet
12 3 (0.30%) Multicast
12 3 (0.30%) VSAN
13 2 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (14.26%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (7.13%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (5.62%) MongoDB
3 56 (5.62%) Relational Database
4 54 (5.42%) SQL Server
5 45 (4.52%) NoSQL
6 44 (4.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 43 (4.32%) DynamoDB
8 26 (2.61%) Big Data
8 26 (2.61%) Redis
9 22 (2.21%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.71%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.51%) Metadata
14 14 (1.41%) MySQL
15 12 (1.20%) BigQuery
16 11 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
17 9 (0.90%) Power BI
17 9 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 348 (34.94%) GitLab
2 307 (30.82%) Git
3 201 (20.18%) JIRA
4 115 (11.55%) JUnit
5 99 (9.94%) Selenium
6 71 (7.13%) Maven
7 69 (6.93%) Cucumber
8 63 (6.33%) SonarQube
9 60 (6.02%) Mockito
10 49 (4.92%) REST Assured
11 47 (4.72%) Bitbucket
12 46 (4.62%) Gradle
12 46 (4.62%) Postman
13 37 (3.71%) JMeter
13 37 (3.71%) Sonatype Nexus
14 34 (3.41%) Gatling
15 31 (3.11%) WebDriver
16 24 (2.41%) Liquibase
17 21 (2.11%) Artifactory
18 16 (1.61%) Zephyr
General
1 263 (26.41%) Social Skills
2 155 (15.56%) Finance
3 139 (13.96%) Public Sector
4 104 (10.44%) Banking
5 83 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (2.01%) Law
10 18 (1.81%) Retail
11 11 (1.10%) Legal
11 11 (1.10%) Publishing
12 9 (0.90%) Marketing
13 8 (0.80%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.60%) Front Office
14 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.50%) Military
16 4 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 210 (21.08%) Developer
2 182 (18.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 148 (14.86%) Senior
4 112 (11.24%) Java Developer
5 68 (6.83%) Lead
6 66 (6.63%) Architect
7 62 (6.22%) Software Engineer
8 58 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (4.72%) GCP Engineer
10 44 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
10 44 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (4.32%) Data Engineer
11 43 (4.32%) Senior Developer
12 40 (4.02%) Test Engineer
13 39 (3.92%) Tester
14 38 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
15 35 (3.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.01%) Automation Engineer
16 30 (3.01%) Senior Java Developer
17 29 (2.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (17.57%) Spring
2 153 (15.36%) Kafka
3 151 (15.16%) Spring Boot
4 147 (14.76%) REST
5 104 (10.44%) RESTful
6 88 (8.84%) React
7 84 (8.43%) Node.js
8 63 (6.33%) Playwright
9 53 (5.32%) SOAP
10 48 (4.82%) AngularJS
10 48 (4.82%) Web Services
11 45 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
12 44 (4.42%) Hibernate
13 43 (4.32%) HTML
13 43 (4.32%) JPA
14 35 (3.51%) Spring Cloud
15 31 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
15 31 (3.11%) Swagger
16 30 (3.01%) CSS
17 29 (2.91%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.38%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (6.22%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 26 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.11%) Replication
9 19 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
9 19 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.41%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.10%) AI Agents
15 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.80%) Hedge funds
16 8 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 188 (18.88%) Linux
2 48 (4.82%) Unix
3 43 (4.32%) Windows
4 40 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.00%) Android
6 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.60%) CentOS
8 3 (0.30%) AIX
8 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.30%) zOS
9 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Solaris
9 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.20%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 839 (84.24%) CI/CD
2 675 (67.77%) DevOps
3 459 (46.08%) Agile
4 338 (33.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 308 (30.92%) Test Automation
6 277 (27.81%) Containerisation
7 255 (25.60%) Microservices
8 189 (18.98%) Observability
9 182 (18.27%) Scrum
10 166 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 163 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
12 149 (14.96%) Software Engineering
13 131 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
14 107 (10.74%) TDD
15 97 (9.74%) Migration
16 91 (9.14%) Event-Driven
17 88 (8.84%) Deployment Automation
18 86 (8.63%) Validation
19 85 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
20 76 (7.63%) AI
Programming Languages
1 414 (41.57%) Python
2 342 (34.34%) Java
3 236 (23.69%) SQL
4 190 (19.08%) Bash
5 108 (10.84%) PowerShell
6 84 (8.43%) JavaScript
7 69 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 47 (4.72%) Shell Script
9 46 (4.62%) C#
10 44 (4.42%) Go
10 44 (4.42%) Groovy
11 31 (3.11%) PL/SQL
11 31 (3.11%) Scala
12 18 (1.81%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.51%) Bicep
14 13 (1.31%) Perl
15 9 (0.90%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.90%) Ruby
16 8 (0.80%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 378 (37.95%) Security Cleared
2 324 (32.53%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.52%) AWS Certification
3 45 (4.52%) Degree
4 38 (3.82%) DV Cleared
5 28 (2.81%) Azure Certification
5 28 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 15 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.80%) RHCE
13 7 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.60%) CISSP
14 6 (0.60%) OCP
15 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.24%) QA
2 43 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.31%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.41%) NIST
6 12 (1.20%) NCSC
6 12 (1.20%) WCAG
7 8 (0.80%) SLA
8 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) GDPR
10 3 (0.30%) SEPA
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
12 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 444 (44.58%) Docker
2 27 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.11%) vSphere
4 19 (1.91%) VMware NSX
5 18 (1.81%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.51%) Postfix
7 14 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.70%) NFS
9 6 (0.60%) HDFS
10 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.40%) SRDF
11 4 (0.40%) Varnish
12 3 (0.30%) GridGain
12 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.20%) Squid
13 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 470 (47.19%) Kubernetes
2 392 (39.36%) Terraform
3 235 (23.59%) Ansible
4 215 (21.59%) Grafana
5 184 (18.47%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.62%) Argo
7 36 (3.61%) Puppet
8 28 (2.81%) Progress Chef
9 25 (2.51%) Istio
10 21 (2.11%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.51%) Control-M
12 14 (1.41%) HAProxy
13 11 (1.10%) Kibana
14 10 (1.00%) Packer
15 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.90%) Podman
16 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.60%) Consul
17 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
18 5 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 89 (8.94%) Splunk
2 85 (8.53%) Google
3 82 (8.23%) Oracle
4 75 (7.53%) Microsoft
5 57 (5.72%) Red Hat
6 45 (4.52%) Dynatrace
7 39 (3.92%) VMware
8 28 (2.81%) Salesforce
9 23 (2.31%) Talend
10 21 (2.11%) Databricks
10 21 (2.11%) ServiceNow
11 20 (2.01%) IBM
11 20 (2.01%) Pure Storage
12 19 (1.91%) Atlassian
12 19 (1.91%) Denodo
12 19 (1.91%) Sonatype
13 18 (1.81%) CyberArk
13 18 (1.81%) Jaspersoft
14 13 (1.31%) Okta
15 11 (1.10%) ForgeRock