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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 81 101
Rank change year-on-year -17 +20 -47
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 992 736 820
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.56% 3.02% 2.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.52% 22.14% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 512 612
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £655 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 6
10th Percentile - £57.25 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £63.44 £45.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +32.18% -28.33%
75th Percentile £52.31 £75.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £58.73 £82.75 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -29.63% +47.12% -34.46%

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 5,083 3,324 4,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.12% 13.64% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,405 2,223 2,922
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 65 159
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.12 £32.74
25th Percentile £60.25 £51.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.31 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%

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 5 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins in England over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Jenkins in England

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 5 April 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 -44 409 £525 -12.50% 85
North of England +1 251 £480 -4.00% 84
Yorkshire +18 201 £488 -15.77% 31
Midlands +13 161 £500 +10.01% 19
West Midlands +26 146 £513 +10.81% 13
South East -13 93 £433 -13.50% 49
South West -9 51 £525 -8.70% 43
North West -65 37 £435 -0.80% 36
East of England -19 28 £475 -5.00% 18
North East -6 17 £450 -3.23% 17
East Midlands -36 14 £402 -10.96% 6
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
1 112 (11.29%) Confluence
2 68 (6.85%) SAS
3 20 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.01%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.91%) Apache
7 7 (0.71%) nginx
8 6 (0.60%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.50%) JBoss
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) IIS
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.10%) CMS
13 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 484 (48.79%) AWS
2 390 (39.31%) GitHub
3 301 (30.34%) Azure
4 248 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 222 (22.38%) GCP
6 147 (14.82%) OpenShift
7 132 (13.31%) Serverless
8 123 (12.40%) Amazon S3
9 121 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
10 104 (10.48%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (9.58%) AWS Lambda
12 93 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
13 88 (8.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 78 (7.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 64 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 63 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
17 55 (5.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 42 (4.23%) Datadog
19 40 (4.03%) Azure AKS
20 35 (3.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 58 (5.85%) DNS
2 44 (4.44%) Firewall
3 20 (2.02%) VPN
4 17 (1.71%) Network Security
5 13 (1.31%) HTTP
6 10 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.71%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.60%) SAN
9 5 (0.50%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.50%) Internet
9 5 (0.50%) SSL
10 3 (0.30%) BGP
10 3 (0.30%) NAS
11 2 (0.20%) AMQP
11 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.20%) LAN
11 2 (0.20%) Multicast
11 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.20%) WAN
12 1 (0.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (8.87%) Amazon RDS
3 81 (8.17%) NoSQL
4 45 (4.54%) DynamoDB
5 44 (4.44%) Relational Database
6 39 (3.93%) MongoDB
7 38 (3.83%) SQL Server
8 37 (3.73%) Pentaho
9 36 (3.63%) MySQL
10 28 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (2.42%) Redis
12 21 (2.12%) Big Data
13 17 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
14 16 (1.61%) Oracle Database
15 15 (1.51%) Metadata
16 13 (1.31%) BigQuery
16 13 (1.31%) Power BI
17 12 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (1.21%) Tableau
18 11 (1.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 386 (38.91%) GitLab
2 317 (31.96%) Git
3 206 (20.77%) JIRA
4 125 (12.60%) JUnit
5 113 (11.39%) Selenium
6 89 (8.97%) Cucumber
7 59 (5.95%) Maven
7 59 (5.95%) Postman
7 59 (5.95%) Sonatype Nexus
8 49 (4.94%) Bitbucket
9 44 (4.44%) SonarQube
10 42 (4.23%) REST Assured
11 39 (3.93%) Mockito
12 37 (3.73%) JMeter
13 30 (3.02%) Gradle
14 27 (2.72%) Artifactory
15 25 (2.52%) Gatling
16 23 (2.32%) Liquibase
17 21 (2.12%) CircleCI
17 21 (2.12%) WebDriver
General
1 304 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 200 (20.16%) Finance
3 123 (12.40%) Banking
4 119 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 65 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (2.12%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.01%) Front Office
11 9 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.91%) Retail
12 8 (0.81%) Law
13 7 (0.71%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.71%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.71%) Military
13 7 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.60%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 180 (18.15%) Developer
2 142 (14.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 135 (13.61%) Senior
4 89 (8.97%) Architect
5 82 (8.27%) Java Developer
6 76 (7.66%) Lead
7 64 (6.45%) Data Engineer
8 62 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
9 54 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (5.34%) Software Engineer
11 50 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
12 45 (4.54%) Platform Engineer
13 42 (4.23%) Test Engineer
14 36 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 33 (3.33%) Tester
16 31 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
16 31 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (3.02%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.02%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (16.13%) REST
2 150 (15.12%) Spring
3 139 (14.01%) Kafka
4 116 (11.69%) Spring Boot
5 110 (11.09%) Node.js
6 87 (8.77%) RESTful
7 77 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
8 67 (6.75%) Playwright
9 58 (5.85%) React
10 50 (5.04%) OpenTelemetry
11 49 (4.94%) AngularJS
12 46 (4.64%) pytest
13 42 (4.23%) YAML
14 41 (4.13%) LDAP
15 40 (4.03%) OpenID
16 37 (3.73%) GraphQL
17 35 (3.53%) JSON
18 33 (3.33%) Hibernate
18 33 (3.33%) OAuth
19 32 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 188 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.33%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.93%) Public Cloud
5 33 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (3.02%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (0.91%) Replication
12 8 (0.81%) Derivative
12 8 (0.81%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.71%) Equities
13 7 (0.71%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.60%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 213 (21.47%) Linux
2 49 (4.94%) Windows
3 37 (3.73%) Unix
4 31 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.71%) VMS
6 11 (1.11%) Android
7 10 (1.01%) CentOS
8 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.91%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (84.68%) CI/CD
2 668 (67.34%) DevOps
3 404 (40.73%) Agile
4 327 (32.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 322 (32.46%) Containerisation
6 300 (30.24%) Test Automation
7 224 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
8 221 (22.28%) Microservices
9 159 (16.03%) Observability
10 149 (15.02%) Scrum
11 131 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 128 (12.90%) Software Engineering
13 112 (11.29%) Migration
14 99 (9.98%) Analytics
15 95 (9.58%) Mentoring
16 93 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
17 90 (9.07%) Stakeholder Management
18 89 (8.97%) Data Pipeline
19 86 (8.67%) Platform Engineering
19 86 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 439 (44.25%) Python
2 297 (29.94%) Java
3 217 (21.88%) SQL
4 167 (16.83%) Bash
5 82 (8.27%) JavaScript
6 76 (7.66%) TypeScript
7 73 (7.36%) PowerShell
8 65 (6.55%) Go
9 57 (5.75%) Shell Script
10 51 (5.14%) C#
11 31 (3.13%) Groovy
12 29 (2.92%) Scala
13 15 (1.51%) Bicep
14 14 (1.41%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.31%) PHP
16 12 (1.21%) Ruby
17 9 (0.91%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.91%) Perl
17 9 (0.91%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 367 (37.00%) Security Cleared
2 304 (30.65%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.35%) Degree
4 46 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.93%) AWS Certification
6 29 (2.92%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.52%) Master's Degree
8 23 (2.32%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.81%) Oracle Certification
10 17 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.31%) OCP
12 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.81%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.81%) RHCE
14 5 (0.50%) OCA
15 3 (0.30%) CCNP
15 3 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.30%) PhD
15 3 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.28%) QA
2 57 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.02%) NIST
5 18 (1.81%) SLA
6 17 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 16 (1.61%) NCSC
8 10 (1.01%) GDPR
9 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.40%) WCAG
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) HL7
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.20%) MiFID
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
12 2 (0.20%) SEPA
12 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 475 (47.88%) Docker
2 33 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.72%) VMware NSX
3 27 (2.72%) vSphere
4 14 (1.41%) Active Directory
5 10 (1.01%) Postfix
5 10 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 6 (0.60%) HDFS
7 3 (0.30%) GridGain
8 2 (0.20%) NFS
8 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.20%) SRDF
8 2 (0.20%) Varnish
8 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.10%) KVM
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 547 (55.14%) Kubernetes
2 400 (40.32%) Terraform
3 277 (27.92%) Ansible
4 205 (20.67%) Grafana
5 165 (16.63%) Prometheus
6 54 (5.44%) Argo
7 44 (4.44%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.33%) Istio
8 33 (3.33%) Puppet
9 27 (2.72%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.81%) Podman
11 11 (1.11%) Kibana
12 9 (0.91%) Check_MK
12 9 (0.91%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (0.81%) NetBackup
13 8 (0.81%) Packer
13 8 (0.81%) Rancher
14 7 (0.71%) HAProxy
15 6 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
16 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 112 (11.29%) Splunk
2 80 (8.06%) Google
3 71 (7.16%) Oracle
4 68 (6.85%) Red Hat
5 63 (6.35%) Microsoft
6 56 (5.65%) VMware
7 40 (4.03%) Databricks
8 38 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 38 (3.83%) Talend
9 37 (3.73%) Denodo
10 27 (2.72%) Pure Storage
11 26 (2.62%) Atlassian
12 24 (2.42%) Sonatype
13 21 (2.12%) Dynatrace
14 16 (1.61%) CyberArk
15 12 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
16 11 (1.11%) Salesforce
17 10 (1.01%) AppDynamics
17 10 (1.01%) IBM
18 9 (0.91%) Veritas