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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 88 79
Rank change year-on-year +15 -9 -25
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 932 847 1,186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.35% 2.57% 2.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.53% 19.24% 21.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 616 834
10th Percentile £350 £390 £425
25th Percentile £413 £450 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 32 41
10th Percentile £55.13 £66.25 £51.25
25th Percentile £56.25 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £63.75 £70.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -4.11% +17.26%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £78.00
90th Percentile £110.00 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -8.93% -3.45% +23.40%

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 4,137 4,402 5,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 13.37% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,829 3,902
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 169 229
10th Percentile £44.63 £37.39 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.36 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.80 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Jenkins as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Jenkins 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -7 416 £538 -6.52% 141
North of England +31 259 £470 +2.17% 76
Yorkshire +2 133 £500 +8.70% 21
North West +46 112 £446 +4.94% 51
Midlands +57 110 £475 +2.15% 20
South East +14 86 £500 -9.09% 85
West Midlands +56 83 £500 +2.04% 13
South West -9 36 £550 - 39
East Midlands +9 27 £358 -21.32% 7
North East +7 14 £480 -12.73% 4
East of England +11 10 £500 -4.76% 5
Jenkins
UK

Jenkins
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 89 (9.55%) Confluence
2 37 (3.97%) Apache
3 29 (3.11%) JBoss
4 24 (2.58%) nginx
5 22 (2.36%) WebSphere
6 20 (2.15%) Tomcat
7 19 (2.04%) Apache Spark
8 18 (1.93%) SAS
9 16 (1.72%) WebSphere Application Server
10 14 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
11 11 (1.18%) CICS
11 11 (1.18%) IIS
12 10 (1.07%) iPlanet
12 10 (1.07%) Mule
13 6 (0.64%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.54%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
16 3 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 3 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
17 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (1.29%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.39%) Oracle BPM
2 11 (1.18%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.43%) Shopify
4 2 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.11%) Finacle
5 1 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 443 (47.53%) AWS
2 230 (24.68%) Azure
3 205 (22.00%) GitHub
4 179 (19.21%) GCP
5 119 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
6 105 (11.27%) Amazon EC2
7 104 (11.16%) Amazon S3
8 101 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 95 (10.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 88 (9.44%) Serverless
11 70 (7.51%) OpenShift
12 68 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
12 68 (7.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 62 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
14 58 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
15 49 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
16 48 (5.15%) Amazon ELB
17 39 (4.18%) AWS KMS
18 32 (3.43%) Route 53
19 31 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 93 (9.98%) Firewall
2 84 (9.01%) DNS
3 50 (5.36%) TCP/IP
4 42 (4.51%) HTTP
5 33 (3.54%) SSH
5 33 (3.54%) VPN
6 32 (3.43%) SSL
7 25 (2.68%) SMTP
8 24 (2.58%) Network Security
9 22 (2.36%) FTP
10 12 (1.29%) IMAP
10 12 (1.29%) Kerberos
10 12 (1.29%) OpenLDAP
11 9 (0.97%) Internet
12 8 (0.86%) NAS
12 8 (0.86%) SAN
13 6 (0.64%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.43%) tcpdump
15 3 (0.32%) SNMP
15 3 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (15.67%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (8.69%) Amazon RDS
3 64 (6.87%) NoSQL
4 48 (5.15%) Relational Database
5 46 (4.94%) MongoDB
6 38 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 30 (3.22%) Oracle Database
8 29 (3.11%) DynamoDB
9 24 (2.58%) SQL Server
10 22 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (2.25%) MySQL
12 20 (2.15%) Redis
13 18 (1.93%) Pentaho
14 17 (1.82%) Big Data
14 17 (1.82%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.82%) Hadoop
15 13 (1.39%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.29%) DB2
17 11 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
18 8 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 341 (36.59%) Git
2 257 (27.58%) GitLab
3 209 (22.42%) JIRA
4 92 (9.87%) JUnit
5 87 (9.33%) SonarQube
6 85 (9.12%) Selenium
7 77 (8.26%) Maven
8 76 (8.15%) Cucumber
9 71 (7.62%) Gradle
10 68 (7.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 53 (5.69%) Postman
12 51 (5.47%) Liquibase
13 50 (5.36%) REST Assured
14 48 (5.15%) Bitbucket
15 42 (4.51%) Mockito
16 41 (4.40%) Cypress.io
17 38 (4.08%) Artifactory
18 27 (2.90%) Vagrant
19 26 (2.79%) Bitbucket Server
19 26 (2.79%) JMeter
General
1 235 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 209 (22.42%) Finance
3 140 (15.02%) Banking
4 124 (13.30%) Public Sector
5 101 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.33%) Marketing
7 24 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 21 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 19 (2.04%) Electronics
9 19 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (1.93%) Military
11 17 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (1.50%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.50%) Retail
13 13 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.29%) Law
15 6 (0.64%) Front Office
15 6 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.64%) Police
16 5 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 199 (21.35%) Developer
2 186 (19.96%) DevOps Engineer
3 151 (16.20%) Senior
4 104 (11.16%) Java Developer
5 80 (8.58%) AWS Engineer
6 68 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
7 66 (7.08%) Lead
8 61 (6.55%) AWS DevOps
9 60 (6.44%) Architect
9 60 (6.44%) Software Engineer
10 53 (5.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 46 (4.94%) Tester
12 39 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (3.54%) Data Engineer
14 32 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (3.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 30 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.11%) Automation Engineer
16 29 (3.11%) Automation Tester
17 27 (2.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (14.59%) Kafka
2 123 (13.20%) REST
3 113 (12.12%) Spring Boot
4 111 (11.91%) Spring
5 105 (11.27%) RESTful
6 102 (10.94%) React
7 70 (7.51%) Elastic Stack
8 63 (6.76%) HTML
8 63 (6.76%) Node.js
9 60 (6.44%) SOAP
10 48 (5.15%) CSS
11 47 (5.04%) Web Services
12 41 (4.40%) GraphQL
13 40 (4.29%) AngularJS
13 40 (4.29%) Playwright
14 36 (3.86%) Hibernate
14 36 (3.86%) Swagger
15 35 (3.76%) OAuth
16 28 (3.00%) LDAP
16 28 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 117 (12.55%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.01%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.65%) Replication
5 21 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 20 (2.15%) Private Cloud
7 18 (1.93%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.82%) Mobile App
9 15 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.39%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.39%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.07%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.07%) Mainframe
13 10 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (0.86%) Distributed Applications
14 8 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 232 (24.89%) Linux
2 82 (8.80%) Windows
3 66 (7.08%) Unix
4 31 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (3.11%) VMS
6 26 (2.79%) Amazon Linux
7 25 (2.68%) Windows Server
8 20 (2.15%) Android
9 16 (1.72%) Apple iOS
10 14 (1.50%) Ubuntu
11 13 (1.39%) CentOS
12 6 (0.64%) Solaris
13 4 (0.43%) zOS
14 3 (0.32%) AIX
14 3 (0.32%) Debian
14 3 (0.32%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.11%) MVS
15 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.11%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (71.57%) CI/CD
2 564 (60.52%) DevOps
3 416 (44.64%) Agile
4 254 (27.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 251 (26.93%) Containerisation
6 225 (24.14%) Microservices
7 207 (22.21%) Test Automation
8 193 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
9 155 (16.63%) Software Engineering
10 150 (16.09%) Continuous Integration
11 145 (15.56%) Scrum
12 138 (14.81%) TDD
13 133 (14.27%) Configuration Management
14 110 (11.80%) Migration
15 102 (10.94%) Infrastructure Automation
16 99 (10.62%) Mentoring
17 88 (9.44%) Observability
18 79 (8.48%) Platform Engineering
19 74 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
20 70 (7.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 413 (44.31%) Python
2 375 (40.24%) Java
3 189 (20.28%) SQL
4 148 (15.88%) Bash
5 139 (14.91%) JavaScript
6 88 (9.44%) PowerShell
7 82 (8.80%) Shell Script
7 82 (8.80%) TypeScript
8 70 (7.51%) Groovy
9 66 (7.08%) Go
10 47 (5.04%) C#
11 32 (3.43%) Perl
12 26 (2.79%) C++
13 21 (2.25%) Kotlin
14 19 (2.04%) PL/SQL
15 17 (1.82%) Scala
16 13 (1.39%) C
16 13 (1.39%) Ruby
17 10 (1.07%) Swift
18 9 (0.97%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 319 (34.23%) Security Cleared
2 247 (26.50%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.69%) Degree
4 60 (6.44%) AWS Certification
5 45 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (4.61%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.47%) Azure Certification
8 21 (2.25%) Master's Degree
9 20 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.86%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.54%) CISSP
15 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 3 (0.32%) CISM
16 3 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 2 (0.21%) IBM Certification
17 2 (0.21%) MCP
17 2 (0.21%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (9.33%) QA
2 29 (3.11%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.58%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.39%) WCAG
5 10 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.97%) NCSC
7 8 (0.86%) GDPR
7 8 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.75%) NIST
9 5 (0.54%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.32%) GxP
11 3 (0.32%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.32%) IEC 62304
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 26262
11 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.32%) SEPA
12 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 441 (47.32%) Docker
2 46 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 38 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.36%) DFS Replication
5 18 (1.93%) Postfix
6 12 (1.29%) Dovecot
6 12 (1.29%) Squid
7 11 (1.18%) vSphere
8 8 (0.86%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 8 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 6 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.21%) Firmware
13 2 (0.21%) HDFS
13 2 (0.21%) vCloud
13 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.21%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 381 (40.88%) Kubernetes
2 323 (34.66%) Terraform
3 257 (27.58%) Ansible
4 116 (12.45%) Grafana
4 116 (12.45%) Prometheus
5 60 (6.44%) Puppet
6 52 (5.58%) Progress Chef
7 31 (3.33%) Kibana
8 22 (2.36%) Argo
9 21 (2.25%) Istio
10 18 (1.93%) Podman
11 17 (1.82%) Nessus
12 15 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (1.18%) CA Single Sign-On
13 11 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (1.18%) vCenter Server
14 10 (1.07%) CA Wily
14 10 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
14 10 (1.07%) logstash
14 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 89 (9.55%) Oracle
2 86 (9.23%) Splunk
3 85 (9.12%) Microsoft
4 76 (8.15%) Google
5 56 (6.01%) Red Hat
6 47 (5.04%) VMware
7 32 (3.43%) ServiceNow
8 30 (3.22%) F5
9 26 (2.79%) SAP
10 25 (2.68%) AppDynamics
10 25 (2.68%) Palo Alto
11 24 (2.58%) Dynatrace
11 24 (2.58%) IBM
12 23 (2.47%) CheckPoint
13 22 (2.36%) MuleSoft
14 20 (2.15%) Talend
15 18 (1.93%) Denodo
15 18 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
16 17 (1.82%) Atlassian
17 16 (1.72%) Databricks