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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 75 88
Rank change year-on-year -46 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 996 920 833
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.33% 2.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.68% 22.98% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 648 623
10th Percentile £363 £349 £383
25th Percentile £414 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £669
90th Percentile £638 £700 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 34
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £64.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.78%
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 5,332 4,004 4,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.68% 14.51% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,774 2,829
10th Percentile £353 £321 £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 £595 £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 243 95 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.90 £32.61
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 7 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 7 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 -36 484 £525 -2.78% 202
North of England -38 250 £450 -3.43% 99
Yorkshire -12 180 £488 -1.08% 33
Midlands -28 126 £479 +0.84% 33
West Midlands -14 119 £481 +1.26% 22
South East -86 66 £460 -8.19% 52
South West -21 53 £550 -4.35% 43
North West -85 48 £425 +5.72% 49
North East -29 26 £450 -6.25% 18
East of England -16 16 £438 -12.50% 18
East Midlands -41 5 £459 +28.07% 11
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
1 110 (11.04%) Confluence
2 34 (3.41%) SAS
3 25 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.20%) nginx
6 11 (1.10%) Apache
7 10 (1.00%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.70%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.40%) Camunda
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) IIS
11 3 (0.30%) JBoss
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 11 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 513 (51.51%) AWS
2 419 (42.07%) GitHub
3 353 (35.44%) Azure
4 305 (30.62%) GitHub Actions
5 224 (22.49%) GCP
6 174 (17.47%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (12.55%) Amazon S3
8 116 (11.65%) Serverless
9 107 (10.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 103 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (9.94%) Amazon EC2
12 94 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
13 85 (8.53%) OpenShift
14 77 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
18 44 (4.42%) Datadog
18 44 (4.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 29 (2.91%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.52%) DNS
2 52 (5.22%) Firewall
3 22 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.91%) Network Security
5 17 (1.71%) SSL
6 16 (1.61%) VPN
7 12 (1.20%) HTTP
8 9 (0.90%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 9 (0.90%) VLAN
9 8 (0.80%) WAN
10 7 (0.70%) SAN
11 4 (0.40%) 4G
11 4 (0.40%) BGP
11 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.30%) 5G
12 3 (0.30%) NAS
12 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (6.12%) MongoDB
3 54 (5.42%) SQL Server
4 53 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 53 (5.32%) Relational Database
5 42 (4.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 41 (4.12%) DynamoDB
7 29 (2.91%) Redis
8 26 (2.61%) Big Data
8 26 (2.61%) Pentaho
9 19 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (1.91%) MySQL
10 18 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 18 (1.81%) Metadata
11 15 (1.51%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 12 (1.20%) Power BI
14 11 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 354 (35.54%) GitLab
2 335 (33.63%) Git
3 190 (19.08%) JIRA
4 108 (10.84%) JUnit
5 89 (8.94%) Selenium
6 78 (7.83%) Maven
7 70 (7.03%) SonarQube
8 61 (6.12%) Cucumber
9 56 (5.62%) Mockito
10 53 (5.32%) Bitbucket
11 52 (5.22%) Gradle
12 41 (4.12%) REST Assured
13 37 (3.71%) Sonatype Nexus
14 36 (3.61%) JMeter
14 36 (3.61%) Postman
15 32 (3.21%) Gatling
16 31 (3.11%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.41%) Liquibase
18 21 (2.11%) Artifactory
19 17 (1.71%) Zephyr
General
1 250 (25.10%) Social Skills
2 144 (14.46%) Finance
3 134 (13.45%) Public Sector
4 102 (10.24%) Banking
5 92 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.01%) Law
8 18 (1.81%) Retail
9 16 (1.61%) Publishing
10 15 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.20%) Marketing
12 11 (1.10%) Legal
12 11 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.60%) Front Office
15 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 234 (23.49%) Developer
2 175 (17.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 156 (15.66%) Senior
4 118 (11.85%) Java Developer
5 73 (7.33%) Lead
6 66 (6.63%) Software Engineer
7 54 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
8 50 (5.02%) Architect
9 49 (4.92%) Senior Developer
10 45 (4.52%) Data Engineer
11 42 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
11 42 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
12 39 (3.92%) GCP Engineer
13 36 (3.61%) Tester
14 35 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
14 35 (3.51%) Test Engineer
15 34 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 32 (3.21%) Automation Engineer
18 29 (2.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (17.87%) Spring
2 163 (16.37%) Kafka
3 153 (15.36%) REST
4 148 (14.86%) Spring Boot
5 107 (10.74%) RESTful
6 92 (9.24%) React
7 87 (8.73%) Node.js
8 61 (6.12%) Playwright
9 53 (5.32%) SOAP
10 50 (5.02%) HTML
11 47 (4.72%) AngularJS
12 46 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
12 46 (4.62%) Hibernate
12 46 (4.62%) Web Services
13 41 (4.12%) JPA
14 36 (3.61%) CSS
15 33 (3.31%) YAML
16 32 (3.21%) JSON
16 32 (3.21%) Swagger
17 30 (3.01%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 171 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 83 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (7.13%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.01%) Replication
9 19 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.51%) Mobile App
11 15 (1.51%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.20%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.10%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.90%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 190 (19.08%) Linux
2 57 (5.72%) Unix
3 42 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 42 (4.22%) Windows
4 12 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.90%) Android
5 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.50%) CentOS
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.30%) zOS
10 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (83.43%) CI/CD
2 668 (67.07%) DevOps
3 485 (48.69%) Agile
4 337 (33.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 320 (32.13%) Test Automation
6 268 (26.91%) Containerisation
7 260 (26.10%) Microservices
8 198 (19.88%) Observability
9 193 (19.38%) Scrum
10 181 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 160 (16.06%) Software Engineering
12 157 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
13 137 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
14 115 (11.55%) TDD
15 106 (10.64%) Deployment Automation
16 91 (9.14%) AI
16 91 (9.14%) Event-Driven
17 90 (9.04%) Validation
18 87 (8.73%) DevSecOps
19 84 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 413 (41.47%) Python
2 358 (35.94%) Java
3 257 (25.80%) SQL
4 205 (20.58%) Bash
5 122 (12.25%) PowerShell
6 93 (9.34%) JavaScript
7 75 (7.53%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.12%) C#
9 50 (5.02%) Groovy
9 50 (5.02%) Shell Script
10 48 (4.82%) Go
11 39 (3.92%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.91%) Scala
13 19 (1.91%) Perl
14 18 (1.81%) Bicep
14 18 (1.81%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.00%) Apex Code
15 10 (1.00%) C++
16 9 (0.90%) ActionScript
17 8 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 386 (38.76%) Security Cleared
2 326 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.12%) Degree
4 44 (4.42%) AWS Certification
5 43 (4.32%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.51%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.31%) ISTQB
11 12 (1.20%) CISSP
12 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.80%) RHCE
15 7 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
17 5 (0.50%) OCP
18 4 (0.40%) CCNP
18 4 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (11.95%) QA
2 51 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.01%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.31%) WCAG
5 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.80%) GDPR
7 7 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.70%) NIST
7 7 (0.70%) SLA
8 6 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.50%) SEPA
10 4 (0.40%) PSD2
11 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) HL7
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 467 (46.89%) Docker
2 27 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.61%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.41%) vSphere
5 13 (1.31%) Postfix
5 13 (1.31%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.70%) NFS
8 6 (0.60%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.40%) SRDF
9 4 (0.40%) Varnish
9 4 (0.40%) 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
1 469 (47.09%) Kubernetes
2 384 (38.55%) Terraform
3 240 (24.10%) Ansible
4 207 (20.78%) Grafana
5 177 (17.77%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.12%) Argo
6 41 (4.12%) Puppet
7 34 (3.41%) Progress Chef
8 19 (1.91%) Istio
9 18 (1.81%) Control-M
10 14 (1.41%) HAProxy
10 14 (1.41%) vCenter Server
11 12 (1.20%) Kibana
12 11 (1.10%) Packer
13 10 (1.00%) Podman
14 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.70%) Consul
15 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
17 5 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 90 (9.04%) Oracle
2 88 (8.84%) Google
3 84 (8.43%) Microsoft
4 77 (7.73%) Splunk
5 57 (5.72%) Dynatrace
6 50 (5.02%) Red Hat
7 36 (3.61%) VMware
8 31 (3.11%) Salesforce
9 27 (2.71%) Talend
10 23 (2.31%) Databricks
10 23 (2.31%) Denodo
10 23 (2.31%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.21%) IBM
12 16 (1.61%) Jaspersoft
13 14 (1.41%) Sonatype
14 13 (1.31%) Okta
14 13 (1.31%) Pure Storage
15 12 (1.20%) Atlassian
15 12 (1.20%) F5
16 11 (1.10%) ForgeRock