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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 77 95
Rank change year-on-year -36 +18 -29
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,008 877 894
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 3.24% 2.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.95% 22.89% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 608 665
10th Percentile £365 £356 £400
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 38
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £54.38
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.56 -
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -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 5,320 3,832 4,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.81% 14.14% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,429 2,624 3,048
10th Percentile £350 £327 £350
25th Percentile £413 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
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 237 88 233
10th Percentile £28.97 £30.05 £33.01
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.89
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 July 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 July 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 -39 467 £550 +2.33% 74
North of England -13 284 £450 -2.76% 56
Yorkshire -3 213 £488 -2.50% 18
Midlands -26 128 £488 +8.33% 16
West Midlands -7 121 £490 +3.11% 8
South East -90 59 £459 -8.20% 29
South West -19 52 £531 -7.61% 24
North West -77 50 £425 +8.14% 30
North East -14 28 £450 -3.23% 8
East of England -18 20 £473 -7.80% 6
East Midlands -52 5 £447 +24.17% 8
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
1 122 (12.10%) Confluence
2 33 (3.27%) SAS
3 25 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.09%) nginx
6 10 (0.99%) Apache
6 10 (0.99%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.30%) Camunda
8 3 (0.30%) CMS
8 3 (0.30%) IIS
8 3 (0.30%) JBoss
8 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 18 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.099%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.099%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.69%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 515 (51.09%) AWS
2 417 (41.37%) GitHub
3 333 (33.04%) Azure
4 280 (27.78%) GitHub Actions
5 214 (21.23%) GCP
6 142 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
7 133 (13.19%) Amazon S3
8 120 (11.90%) Serverless
9 109 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
10 106 (10.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 103 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
12 102 (10.12%) OpenShift
13 94 (9.33%) Amazon EKS
14 75 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 63 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
16 58 (5.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 49 (4.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 42 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (3.47%) Datadog
20 32 (3.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.96%) DNS
2 46 (4.56%) Firewall
3 17 (1.69%) Network Security
4 14 (1.39%) VPN
5 13 (1.29%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.19%) SSL
7 9 (0.89%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.79%) HTTP
9 7 (0.69%) SAN
9 7 (0.69%) VLAN
10 6 (0.60%) WAN
11 5 (0.50%) NAS
12 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.30%) BGP
13 3 (0.30%) Internet
13 3 (0.30%) Multicast
13 3 (0.30%) VSAN
14 2 (0.20%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (7.24%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (5.65%) MongoDB
3 57 (5.65%) Relational Database
4 54 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 49 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 44 (4.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 42 (4.17%) DynamoDB
8 27 (2.68%) Big Data
9 26 (2.58%) Redis
10 23 (2.28%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.69%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.49%) Metadata
13 15 (1.49%) MySQL
14 12 (1.19%) Neo4j
15 11 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (0.99%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 358 (35.52%) GitLab
2 308 (30.56%) Git
3 206 (20.44%) JIRA
4 118 (11.71%) JUnit
5 102 (10.12%) Selenium
6 72 (7.14%) Maven
7 70 (6.94%) Cucumber
8 62 (6.15%) SonarQube
9 61 (6.05%) Mockito
10 50 (4.96%) Postman
10 50 (4.96%) REST Assured
11 47 (4.66%) Bitbucket
12 44 (4.37%) Gradle
13 41 (4.07%) Sonatype Nexus
14 40 (3.97%) JMeter
15 37 (3.67%) Gatling
16 31 (3.08%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.38%) Liquibase
18 21 (2.08%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 271 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 159 (15.77%) Finance
3 137 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 110 (10.91%) Banking
5 83 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (1.98%) Law
11 18 (1.79%) Retail
12 11 (1.09%) Legal
12 11 (1.09%) Publishing
13 9 (0.89%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.89%) Marketing
14 8 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.69%) Front Office
16 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.50%) Military
18 4 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 215 (21.33%) Developer
2 180 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 150 (14.88%) Senior
4 113 (11.21%) Java Developer
5 68 (6.75%) Architect
5 68 (6.75%) Lead
6 62 (6.15%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
8 47 (4.66%) GCP Engineer
9 45 (4.46%) Data Engineer
10 44 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
10 44 (4.37%) Senior Developer
10 44 (4.37%) Test Engineer
11 43 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
12 39 (3.87%) Tester
13 38 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.08%) Senior Java Developer
15 31 (3.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (2.98%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (17.86%) Spring
2 153 (15.18%) Kafka
2 153 (15.18%) Spring Boot
3 148 (14.68%) REST
4 108 (10.71%) RESTful
5 90 (8.93%) React
6 88 (8.73%) Node.js
7 66 (6.55%) Playwright
8 54 (5.36%) SOAP
9 51 (5.06%) AngularJS
10 49 (4.86%) HTML
11 48 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
12 47 (4.66%) Web Services
13 42 (4.17%) JPA
14 41 (4.07%) Hibernate
15 35 (3.47%) CSS
15 35 (3.47%) Spring Cloud
16 32 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
17 31 (3.08%) LDAP
17 31 (3.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 195 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.83%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.58%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.08%) Replication
8 19 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.39%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
12 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.09%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 8 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 192 (19.05%) Linux
2 48 (4.76%) Unix
3 45 (4.46%) Windows
4 41 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.99%) Android
6 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.69%) CentOS
8 6 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
9 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
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 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (84.13%) CI/CD
2 676 (67.06%) DevOps
3 459 (45.54%) Agile
4 336 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 312 (30.95%) Test Automation
6 285 (28.27%) Containerisation
7 256 (25.40%) Microservices
8 190 (18.85%) Observability
9 184 (18.25%) Scrum
10 167 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 167 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
11 148 (14.68%) Software Engineering
12 131 (13.00%) Platform Engineering
13 109 (10.81%) TDD
14 97 (9.62%) Migration
15 93 (9.23%) Event-Driven
16 90 (8.93%) Validation
17 87 (8.63%) Deployment Automation
18 86 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
19 78 (7.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 417 (41.37%) Python
2 351 (34.82%) Java
3 237 (23.51%) SQL
4 186 (18.45%) Bash
5 104 (10.32%) PowerShell
6 90 (8.93%) JavaScript
7 71 (7.04%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.86%) Shell Script
9 46 (4.56%) C#
9 46 (4.56%) Go
10 44 (4.37%) Groovy
11 35 (3.47%) Scala
12 29 (2.88%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.79%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.49%) Bicep
15 12 (1.19%) Perl
16 9 (0.89%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.89%) Ruby
17 8 (0.79%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.79%) Swift
Qualifications
1 384 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 329 (32.64%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.46%) Degree
4 42 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.67%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.29%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.79%) RHCE
14 7 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.60%) CISSP
15 6 (0.60%) OCP
16 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
17 4 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.31%) QA
2 44 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.39%) NIST
6 12 (1.19%) NCSC
6 12 (1.19%) WCAG
7 9 (0.89%) SLA
8 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) GDPR
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) SEPA
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
11 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.099%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.099%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 449 (44.54%) Docker
2 27 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.08%) vSphere
4 19 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.88%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.49%) Postfix
6 12 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.69%) NFS
8 6 (0.60%) HDFS
9 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.40%) SRDF
10 4 (0.40%) Varnish
11 3 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.30%) GridGain
11 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 479 (47.52%) Kubernetes
2 392 (38.89%) Terraform
3 239 (23.71%) Ansible
4 213 (21.13%) Grafana
5 185 (18.35%) Prometheus
6 45 (4.46%) Argo
7 35 (3.47%) Puppet
8 28 (2.78%) Progress Chef
9 25 (2.48%) Istio
10 21 (2.08%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.39%) HAProxy
12 13 (1.29%) Control-M
13 11 (1.09%) Kibana
14 10 (0.99%) Packer
15 9 (0.89%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.89%) Podman
16 7 (0.69%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.60%) Check_MK
17 6 (0.60%) Consul
17 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (8.83%) Splunk
2 84 (8.33%) Google
3 80 (7.94%) Oracle
4 74 (7.34%) Microsoft
5 59 (5.85%) Red Hat
6 44 (4.37%) Dynatrace
7 40 (3.97%) VMware
8 27 (2.68%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.38%) Talend
10 21 (2.08%) Databricks
11 20 (1.98%) Denodo
11 20 (1.98%) IBM
11 20 (1.98%) Pure Storage
11 20 (1.98%) Sonatype
12 19 (1.88%) Atlassian
13 18 (1.79%) CyberArk
13 18 (1.79%) Jaspersoft
14 13 (1.29%) Okta
15 11 (1.09%) F5