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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 74 90
Rank change year-on-year -52 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 988 935 847
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.13% 3.36% 2.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.71% 22.57% 19.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 640 625
10th Percentile £358 £350 £390
25th Percentile £417 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 32
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -6.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -4.11%

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 5,281 4,143 4,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.89% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,870 2,828
10th Percentile £358 £325 £355
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £635
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 95 171
10th Percentile £36.25 £44.30 £36.25
25th Percentile £53.34 £54.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -29 522 £525 -0.94% 206
North of England -48 233 £453 -2.79% 74
Yorkshire -23 159 £483 -3.45% 27
Midlands -50 99 £488 +2.63% 21
West Midlands -36 93 £488 -2.50% 12
South East -75 68 £460 -8.00% 53
South West -29 54 £550 - 41
North West -88 54 £425 +1.19% 37
North East -38 22 £450 -6.25% 10
East of England -25 17 £450 -10.00% 21
East Midlands -34 5 £347 -3.21% 9
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
1 104 (10.53%) Confluence
2 23 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.52%) nginx
5 13 (1.32%) SAS
6 10 (1.01%) Camunda
7 9 (0.91%) Apache
8 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
10 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) CICS
13 1 (0.10%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 525 (53.14%) AWS
2 408 (41.30%) GitHub
3 390 (39.47%) Azure
4 316 (31.98%) GitHub Actions
5 224 (22.67%) GCP
6 194 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
7 121 (12.25%) Serverless
8 111 (11.23%) Amazon S3
9 109 (11.03%) AWS Lambda
10 107 (10.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 96 (9.72%) OpenShift
12 88 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
13 87 (8.81%) Amazon EKS
14 70 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 66 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 45 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 43 (4.35%) Datadog
18 41 (4.15%) Amazon SQS
19 25 (2.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.47%) Firewall
2 52 (5.26%) DNS
3 31 (3.14%) TCP/IP
4 25 (2.53%) Network Security
5 17 (1.72%) SSL
6 16 (1.62%) HTTP
7 13 (1.32%) VLAN
8 11 (1.11%) BIG-IP
8 11 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 11 (1.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 11 (1.11%) SAN
8 11 (1.11%) VPN
9 9 (0.91%) Kerberos
10 7 (0.71%) DHCP
10 7 (0.71%) SSH
10 7 (0.71%) WAN
11 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.51%) 4G
13 4 (0.40%) 5G
14 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (15.59%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.48%) Relational Database
3 63 (6.38%) MongoDB
4 61 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (6.17%) SQL Server
5 58 (5.87%) NoSQL
6 41 (4.15%) Amazon Aurora
7 36 (3.64%) DynamoDB
8 35 (3.54%) Redis
9 27 (2.73%) Big Data
10 26 (2.63%) MySQL
11 20 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.82%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.52%) Metadata
14 14 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.42%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.42%) Pentaho
15 12 (1.21%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 369 (37.35%) GitLab
2 350 (35.43%) Git
3 173 (17.51%) JIRA
4 107 (10.83%) JUnit
5 95 (9.62%) Maven
6 86 (8.70%) Selenium
7 81 (8.20%) SonarQube
8 67 (6.78%) Gradle
9 64 (6.48%) Mockito
10 56 (5.67%) Cucumber
11 55 (5.57%) Bitbucket
12 50 (5.06%) REST Assured
13 45 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
14 40 (4.05%) Postman
15 37 (3.74%) JMeter
16 35 (3.54%) Gatling
17 26 (2.63%) WebDriver
18 21 (2.13%) Artifactory
19 20 (2.02%) Liquibase
20 18 (1.82%) TestNG
General
1 240 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 157 (15.89%) Finance
3 126 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 113 (11.44%) Banking
5 105 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.02%) Retail
8 18 (1.82%) Law
9 15 (1.52%) Publishing
10 14 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.32%) Marketing
12 12 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.01%) Front Office
13 10 (1.01%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.91%) Legal
15 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 253 (25.61%) Developer
2 182 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 156 (15.79%) Senior
4 121 (12.25%) Java Developer
5 76 (7.69%) Lead
6 55 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (5.26%) Architect
8 50 (5.06%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.86%) Software Engineer
9 48 (4.86%) Test Engineer
10 43 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
12 36 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
12 36 (3.64%) Software Developer
13 35 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 35 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
15 32 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
16 28 (2.83%) Full-Stack Developer
16 28 (2.83%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (39.88%) Terraform
2 189 (19.13%) Kafka
3 186 (18.83%) Spring
4 168 (17.00%) Spring Boot
5 157 (15.89%) REST
6 127 (12.85%) RESTful
7 103 (10.43%) React
8 80 (8.10%) Node.js
9 71 (7.19%) HTML
10 59 (5.97%) Playwright
11 58 (5.87%) Hibernate
12 53 (5.36%) AngularJS
12 53 (5.36%) JPA
13 52 (5.26%) SOAP
14 49 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
15 48 (4.86%) CSS
16 46 (4.66%) Web Services
17 37 (3.74%) JSON
18 36 (3.64%) .NET
19 34 (3.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 178 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 82 (8.30%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (2.94%) Replication
8 24 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (2.33%) Data Centre
10 20 (2.02%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.92%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
12 17 (1.72%) Private Cloud
13 16 (1.62%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.62%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.52%) Onboarding
15 14 (1.42%) Virtual Team
16 12 (1.21%) Algorithms
17 11 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 210 (21.26%) Linux
2 61 (6.17%) Unix
3 49 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (4.45%) Windows
5 15 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (1.01%) Android
7 10 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.81%) CentOS
9 5 (0.51%) VMS
10 4 (0.40%) zOS
11 3 (0.30%) AIX
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.20%) Rocky
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 670 (67.81%) DevOps
3 475 (48.08%) Agile
4 362 (36.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 326 (33.00%) Test Automation
6 297 (30.06%) Containerisation
7 272 (27.53%) Microservices
8 216 (21.86%) Observability
9 181 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 180 (18.22%) Scrum
11 164 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (15.99%) Software Engineering
13 145 (14.68%) Platform Engineering
14 110 (11.13%) TDD
15 107 (10.83%) Deployment Automation
16 106 (10.73%) Event-Driven
17 104 (10.53%) DevSecOps
18 99 (10.02%) AI
19 95 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
20 91 (9.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 416 (42.11%) Python
2 393 (39.78%) Java
3 247 (25.00%) SQL
4 194 (19.64%) Bash
5 118 (11.94%) PowerShell
6 115 (11.64%) JavaScript
7 81 (8.20%) TypeScript
8 59 (5.97%) C#
9 57 (5.77%) Groovy
10 49 (4.96%) Shell Script
11 47 (4.76%) Go
12 39 (3.95%) PL/SQL
13 28 (2.83%) Scala
14 27 (2.73%) Perl
15 20 (2.02%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.92%) Bicep
17 12 (1.21%) C++
18 11 (1.11%) ActionScript
18 11 (1.11%) Korn
19 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 400 (40.49%) Security Cleared
2 329 (33.30%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.58%) DV Cleared
4 58 (5.87%) Degree
5 50 (5.06%) AWS Certification
6 40 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (2.73%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.72%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.52%) CISSP
11 14 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (13.87%) QA
2 37 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.52%) NIST
5 14 (1.42%) WCAG
6 13 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
8 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.71%) GDPR
10 6 (0.61%) NCSC
10 6 (0.61%) SEPA
11 5 (0.51%) PSD2
11 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.40%) SLA
13 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.10%) GRC
14 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 484 (48.99%) Docker
2 23 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.02%) Active Directory
4 15 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.01%) Postfix
6 8 (0.81%) vSphere
7 7 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.61%) NFS
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Squid
9 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.30%) Time Sharing Option
10 3 (0.30%) Varnish
10 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) HDFS
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 487 (49.29%) Kubernetes
2 227 (22.98%) Ansible
3 212 (21.46%) Grafana
4 182 (18.42%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 38 (3.85%) Puppet
6 36 (3.64%) Argo
7 19 (1.92%) Kibana
8 17 (1.72%) Control-M
9 15 (1.52%) HAProxy
10 13 (1.32%) Istio
11 11 (1.11%) Packer
12 10 (1.01%) Kustomize
12 10 (1.01%) Podman
13 8 (0.81%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.71%) Consul
14 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 93 (9.41%) Google
1 93 (9.41%) Oracle
2 90 (9.11%) Microsoft
3 81 (8.20%) Splunk
4 66 (6.68%) Dynatrace
5 43 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 35 (3.54%) IBM
7 33 (3.34%) VMware
8 32 (3.24%) Salesforce
9 27 (2.73%) Databricks
10 26 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.52%) Talend
12 14 (1.42%) New Relic
13 12 (1.21%) F5
13 12 (1.21%) Sonatype
13 12 (1.21%) Veracode
14 11 (1.11%) Denodo
14 11 (1.11%) NetApp
15 10 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (1.01%) SAP