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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 74 98
Rank change year-on-year -37 +24 -37
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 923 781 856
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.19% 2.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.44% 22.46% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 537 633
10th Percentile £369 £357 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £675
90th Percentile £657 £715 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 31
10th Percentile - £54.75 £56.25
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.25 -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% -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 5,006 3,477 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.21% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,359 2,979
10th Percentile £350 £333 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £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 £675 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 68 216
10th Percentile £35.38 £27.06 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%

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 10 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 10 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 -48 407 £550 - 68
North of England -10 257 £474 +1.88% 64
Yorkshire -4 198 £488 -2.50% 25
Midlands -28 126 £479 +6.44% 15
West Midlands -5 115 £488 +2.63% 8
South East -78 61 £433 -13.50% 34
South West -10 50 £538 -6.52% 26
North West -70 40 £425 +8.42% 31
North East -4 26 £438 -5.91% 9
East of England -15 24 £478 -4.40% 10
East Midlands -53 9 £393 +8.12% 7
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
1 109 (11.81%) Confluence
2 33 (3.58%) SAS
3 25 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.08%) Apache
6 9 (0.98%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.87%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.43%) JBoss
9 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.33%) Camunda
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 473 (51.25%) AWS
2 386 (41.82%) GitHub
3 290 (31.42%) Azure
4 261 (28.28%) GitHub Actions
5 209 (22.64%) GCP
6 128 (13.87%) Amazon S3
7 110 (11.92%) Serverless
8 109 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (11.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 100 (10.83%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (10.51%) AWS Lambda
12 95 (10.29%) OpenShift
13 91 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
14 73 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (6.50%) Amazon ECS
16 57 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 55 (5.96%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 42 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (3.79%) Route 53
20 32 (3.47%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (6.18%) DNS
2 54 (5.85%) Firewall
3 16 (1.73%) Network Security
3 16 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.52%) VPN
5 10 (1.08%) SSL
6 8 (0.87%) SAN
7 7 (0.76%) BIG-IP
7 7 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 7 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (0.76%) HTTP
8 5 (0.54%) NAS
8 5 (0.54%) VLAN
9 4 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.43%) WAN
10 3 (0.33%) BGP
10 3 (0.33%) VSAN
11 2 (0.22%) Internet
11 2 (0.22%) Multicast
11 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (8.02%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 51 (5.53%) MongoDB
5 49 (5.31%) DynamoDB
6 48 (5.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 45 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 40 (4.33%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.36%) Redis
10 26 (2.82%) Big Data
10 26 (2.82%) MySQL
11 24 (2.60%) Pentaho
12 19 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.73%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.63%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (1.52%) Metadata
16 11 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (1.08%) Power BI
18 9 (0.98%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 347 (37.59%) GitLab
2 277 (30.01%) Git
3 192 (20.80%) JIRA
4 111 (12.03%) JUnit
5 106 (11.48%) Selenium
6 74 (8.02%) Cucumber
7 67 (7.26%) Maven
8 56 (6.07%) Mockito
9 53 (5.74%) REST Assured
9 53 (5.74%) SonarQube
10 49 (5.31%) Postman
11 41 (4.44%) Bitbucket
12 37 (4.01%) JMeter
13 36 (3.90%) Gatling
14 34 (3.68%) Gradle
14 34 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
15 29 (3.14%) WebDriver
16 24 (2.60%) Liquibase
17 19 (2.06%) Artifactory
18 15 (1.63%) Serenity BDD
General
1 250 (27.09%) Social Skills
2 141 (15.28%) Finance
3 122 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 102 (11.05%) Banking
5 72 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.17%) Law
9 19 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.73%) Retail
11 15 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.87%) Legal
13 8 (0.87%) Publishing
14 7 (0.76%) Front Office
14 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.65%) Marketing
15 6 (0.65%) Military
16 3 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 175 (18.96%) Developer
2 159 (17.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 138 (14.95%) Senior
4 98 (10.62%) Java Developer
5 74 (8.02%) Architect
6 73 (7.91%) Lead
7 54 (5.85%) Software Engineer
8 52 (5.63%) GCP Engineer
9 50 (5.42%) Test Engineer
10 48 (5.20%) AWS Engineer
11 46 (4.98%) Data Engineer
12 39 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
13 38 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
13 38 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
14 36 (3.90%) Senior Developer
14 36 (3.90%) Tester
15 32 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 27 (2.93%) GCP DevOps
17 27 (2.93%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (18.20%) Spring
2 139 (15.06%) Spring Boot
3 133 (14.41%) REST
4 131 (14.19%) Kafka
5 94 (10.18%) RESTful
6 79 (8.56%) Node.js
7 64 (6.93%) React
8 56 (6.07%) Playwright
9 52 (5.63%) AngularJS
10 45 (4.88%) LDAP
11 44 (4.77%) SOAP
12 43 (4.66%) JPA
12 43 (4.66%) OpenTelemetry
13 42 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
14 41 (4.44%) HTML
15 40 (4.33%) Web Services
16 39 (4.23%) Spring Cloud
17 37 (4.01%) OpenID
18 35 (3.79%) Hibernate
19 31 (3.36%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 185 (20.04%) Cloud Native
2 84 (9.10%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.49%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.84%) Replication
10 13 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.87%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.76%) Clustering
15 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
16 6 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
16 6 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 183 (19.83%) Linux
2 50 (5.42%) Unix
3 44 (4.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (4.66%) Windows
5 13 (1.41%) VMS
6 12 (1.30%) CentOS
7 10 (1.08%) Android
8 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.65%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.33%) AIX
12 3 (0.33%) zOS
13 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.22%) Solaris
13 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (85.92%) CI/CD
2 615 (66.63%) DevOps
3 393 (42.58%) Agile
4 316 (34.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 295 (31.96%) Test Automation
6 268 (29.04%) Containerisation
7 236 (25.57%) Microservices
8 178 (19.28%) Observability
9 165 (17.88%) Scrum
10 148 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
11 143 (15.49%) Software Engineering
12 141 (15.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
14 105 (11.38%) Migration
15 95 (10.29%) TDD
16 89 (9.64%) Validation
17 82 (8.88%) Event-Driven
17 82 (8.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 76 (8.23%) Mentoring
18 76 (8.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 386 (41.82%) Python
2 330 (35.75%) Java
3 223 (24.16%) SQL
4 168 (18.20%) Bash
5 85 (9.21%) PowerShell
6 77 (8.34%) JavaScript
7 56 (6.07%) Shell Script
7 56 (6.07%) TypeScript
8 42 (4.55%) Go
9 36 (3.90%) Groovy
9 36 (3.90%) Scala
10 31 (3.36%) C#
11 17 (1.84%) Kotlin
12 15 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.19%) Bicep
13 11 (1.19%) MATLAB
13 11 (1.19%) Perl
14 9 (0.98%) Ruby
15 8 (0.87%) PHP
16 7 (0.76%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 358 (38.79%) Security Cleared
2 308 (33.37%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.44%) Degree
4 40 (4.33%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.36%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.52%) ISTQB
10 13 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.76%) RHCE
14 6 (0.65%) OCP
15 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.43%) PMP
16 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (11.38%) QA
2 43 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.06%) SLA
6 18 (1.95%) NIST
7 14 (1.52%) NCSC
8 11 (1.19%) WCAG
9 8 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.43%) GDPR
11 4 (0.43%) PSD2
11 4 (0.43%) SEPA
12 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 409 (44.31%) Docker
2 26 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.28%) vSphere
4 19 (2.06%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.84%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.63%) Postfix
7 13 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.76%) NFS
9 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.43%) HDFS
11 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.43%) SRDF
11 4 (0.43%) Varnish
12 3 (0.33%) GridGain
12 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.22%) Squid
13 2 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 448 (48.54%) Kubernetes
2 373 (40.41%) Terraform
3 221 (23.94%) Ansible
4 202 (21.89%) Grafana
5 168 (18.20%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.98%) Argo
7 30 (3.25%) Istio
8 28 (3.03%) Puppet
9 24 (2.60%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.28%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.52%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.52%) Podman
12 12 (1.30%) Kibana
13 11 (1.19%) Check_MK
13 11 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (0.98%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.76%) Packer
16 6 (0.65%) Consul
17 5 (0.54%) Kustomize
17 5 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 86 (9.32%) Google
2 82 (8.88%) Splunk
3 66 (7.15%) Oracle
4 63 (6.83%) Red Hat
5 55 (5.96%) Microsoft
6 43 (4.66%) VMware
7 35 (3.79%) ServiceNow
8 31 (3.36%) Dynatrace
9 26 (2.82%) Databricks
10 25 (2.71%) Talend
11 21 (2.28%) Atlassian
11 21 (2.28%) Denodo
12 20 (2.17%) Pure Storage
13 19 (2.06%) Salesforce
13 19 (2.06%) Sonatype
14 18 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
15 17 (1.84%) IBM
16 15 (1.63%) CyberArk
17 13 (1.41%) Okta
18 11 (1.19%) ForgeRock