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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 80 100
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 -39
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 913 757 837
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.16% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.28% 22.36% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 521 629
10th Percentile £368 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £419 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £659 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £546
% change year-on-year - -8.47% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 27
10th Percentile - £54.75 £52.10
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £65.94
Median hourly rate £68.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% -5.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.25 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% -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 4,994 3,386 4,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.98% 14.14% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 2,292 2,914
10th Percentile £348 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year - -4.85% -4.45%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £638
90th Percentile £676 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 63 208
10th Percentile £35.88 £27.59 £31.57
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 3 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 3 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 -49 399 £550 - 100
North of England -9 256 £475 - 74
Yorkshire 0 197 £488 -2.50% 30
Midlands -17 127 £481 +6.89% 23
West Midlands -7 116 £488 +2.63% 7
South East -73 58 £430 -14.00% 36
South West -14 50 £538 -6.52% 31
North West -60 41 £425 +6.25% 33
North East -12 25 £425 -8.60% 12
East of England -23 24 £478 -4.40% 11
East Midlands -50 9 £393 +6.79% 16
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
1 108 (11.83%) Confluence
2 33 (3.61%) SAS
3 25 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.10%) Apache
6 8 (0.88%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.77%) nginx
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.33%) Camunda
9 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) MTS
Applications
1 14 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Magento
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 473 (51.81%) AWS
2 387 (42.39%) GitHub
3 299 (32.75%) Azure
4 261 (28.59%) GitHub Actions
5 210 (23.00%) GCP
6 131 (14.35%) Amazon S3
7 114 (12.49%) Serverless
8 112 (12.27%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (11.50%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (11.17%) AWS Lambda
11 100 (10.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 97 (10.62%) OpenShift
13 91 (9.97%) Amazon EKS
14 74 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 57 (6.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 56 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
18 38 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.94%) Route 53
20 33 (3.61%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.46%) DNS
2 53 (5.81%) Firewall
3 17 (1.86%) Network Security
4 16 (1.75%) VPN
5 15 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.10%) SSL
7 8 (0.88%) SAN
8 6 (0.66%) BIG-IP
8 6 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 6 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (0.66%) HTTP
9 5 (0.55%) NAS
10 4 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (0.44%) WAN
11 3 (0.33%) BGP
11 3 (0.33%) VLAN
11 3 (0.33%) VSAN
12 2 (0.22%) AMQP
12 2 (0.22%) Multicast
12 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (15.66%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (5.59%) NoSQL
4 48 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 48 (5.26%) DynamoDB
5 47 (5.15%) MongoDB
6 43 (4.71%) Relational Database
7 40 (4.38%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.18%) Redis
9 27 (2.96%) Big Data
10 24 (2.63%) Pentaho
11 22 (2.41%) MySQL
12 20 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.75%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.31%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.31%) Metadata
16 9 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (0.99%) DocumentDB
17 8 (0.88%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 349 (38.23%) GitLab
2 275 (30.12%) Git
3 191 (20.92%) JIRA
4 108 (11.83%) JUnit
5 107 (11.72%) Selenium
6 75 (8.21%) Cucumber
7 64 (7.01%) Maven
8 56 (6.13%) Mockito
9 53 (5.81%) REST Assured
10 52 (5.70%) Postman
10 52 (5.70%) SonarQube
11 40 (4.38%) Bitbucket
12 36 (3.94%) Gatling
12 36 (3.94%) JMeter
12 36 (3.94%) Sonatype Nexus
13 33 (3.61%) Gradle
14 29 (3.18%) WebDriver
15 24 (2.63%) Liquibase
16 19 (2.08%) Artifactory
17 15 (1.64%) Serenity BDD
General
1 247 (27.05%) Social Skills
2 137 (15.01%) Finance
3 120 (13.14%) Public Sector
4 96 (10.51%) Banking
5 72 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (1.75%) Law
10 15 (1.64%) Retail
11 14 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.88%) Front Office
13 8 (0.88%) Legal
14 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.66%) Marketing
15 6 (0.66%) Military
15 6 (0.66%) Publishing
16 3 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 172 (18.84%) Developer
2 156 (17.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 129 (14.13%) Senior
4 92 (10.08%) Java Developer
5 77 (8.43%) Architect
6 74 (8.11%) Lead
7 53 (5.81%) GCP Engineer
7 53 (5.81%) Software Engineer
8 48 (5.26%) Test Engineer
9 47 (5.15%) Data Engineer
10 42 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
12 35 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (3.83%) Tester
13 34 (3.72%) Senior Developer
14 32 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
15 31 (3.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 28 (3.07%) GCP DevOps
17 26 (2.85%) Automation Engineer
17 26 (2.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (17.20%) Spring
2 127 (13.91%) Kafka
2 127 (13.91%) Spring Boot
3 123 (13.47%) REST
4 92 (10.08%) RESTful
5 81 (8.87%) Node.js
6 60 (6.57%) React
7 59 (6.46%) Playwright
8 52 (5.70%) AngularJS
9 48 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
10 45 (4.93%) LDAP
10 45 (4.93%) OpenTelemetry
11 41 (4.49%) SOAP
12 39 (4.27%) Spring Cloud
13 38 (4.16%) Web Services
14 37 (4.05%) OpenID
15 36 (3.94%) JPA
16 34 (3.72%) HTML
17 31 (3.40%) Swagger
18 30 (3.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 184 (20.15%) Cloud Native
2 79 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.18%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (1.86%) Replication
9 12 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 9 (0.99%) Virtual Team
11 7 (0.77%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.77%) Clustering
11 7 (0.77%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (0.77%) Private Cloud
12 6 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 180 (19.72%) Linux
2 44 (4.82%) Unix
3 43 (4.71%) Windows
4 42 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.53%) VMS
6 12 (1.31%) CentOS
7 10 (1.10%) Android
8 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.44%) 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
1 789 (86.42%) CI/CD
2 614 (67.25%) DevOps
3 383 (41.95%) Agile
4 319 (34.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 291 (31.87%) Test Automation
6 267 (29.24%) Containerisation
7 224 (24.53%) Microservices
8 179 (19.61%) Observability
9 161 (17.63%) Scrum
10 148 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
11 142 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 140 (15.33%) Software Engineering
13 107 (11.72%) Migration
14 106 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
15 91 (9.97%) TDD
16 84 (9.20%) Validation
17 82 (8.98%) Event-Driven
18 79 (8.65%) Stakeholder Management
19 78 (8.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 77 (8.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 385 (42.17%) Python
2 317 (34.72%) Java
3 218 (23.88%) SQL
4 167 (18.29%) Bash
5 89 (9.75%) PowerShell
6 74 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 61 (6.68%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.81%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.71%) Go
10 36 (3.94%) Scala
11 35 (3.83%) Groovy
12 34 (3.72%) C#
13 17 (1.86%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.31%) Bicep
15 11 (1.20%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.20%) Perl
16 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.99%) Ruby
17 8 (0.88%) PHP
18 6 (0.66%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 350 (38.34%) Security Cleared
2 301 (32.97%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.38%) Degree
4 35 (3.83%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.31%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
10 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.77%) RHCE
12 6 (0.66%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.66%) OCP
13 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.44%) PMP
13 4 (0.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.39%) QA
2 42 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.08%) SLA
6 17 (1.86%) NIST
7 14 (1.53%) NCSC
8 10 (1.10%) WCAG
9 8 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.55%) GDPR
12 4 (0.44%) PSD2
12 4 (0.44%) SEPA
13 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
15 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 411 (45.02%) Docker
2 25 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.30%) vSphere
4 19 (2.08%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.86%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.64%) Postfix
7 14 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.77%) NFS
9 6 (0.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.55%) HDFS
10 5 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.44%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.44%) SRDF
11 4 (0.44%) 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
14 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 449 (49.18%) Kubernetes
2 373 (40.85%) Terraform
3 224 (24.53%) Ansible
4 205 (22.45%) Grafana
5 170 (18.62%) Prometheus
6 46 (5.04%) Argo
7 32 (3.50%) Puppet
8 30 (3.29%) Istio
9 28 (3.07%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.30%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.75%) Kibana
12 15 (1.64%) Podman
13 14 (1.53%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.20%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 9 (0.99%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.77%) Packer
17 6 (0.66%) Consul
18 5 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 84 (9.20%) Splunk
2 81 (8.87%) Google
3 64 (7.01%) Red Hat
4 60 (6.57%) Oracle
5 59 (6.46%) Microsoft
6 42 (4.60%) VMware
7 37 (4.05%) ServiceNow
8 29 (3.18%) Dynatrace
9 27 (2.96%) Databricks
10 25 (2.74%) Talend
11 21 (2.30%) Atlassian
11 21 (2.30%) Denodo
12 20 (2.19%) Pure Storage
12 20 (2.19%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.97%) Jaspersoft
14 17 (1.86%) Sonatype
15 15 (1.64%) CyberArk
15 15 (1.64%) IBM
16 13 (1.42%) Okta
17 11 (1.20%) ForgeRock