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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 83 97
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -42
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 993 728 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.87% 2.82% 2.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.56% 20.95% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 484 640
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £583 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £784 £738
UK median daily rate £512 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.95% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 -
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +5.95% -3.93%
75th Percentile £62.31 £80.00 £75.75
90th Percentile £86.50 £89.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £71.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.89% +14.00% -10.71%

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 4,829 3,475 4,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.96% 13.46% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,179 3,067
10th Percentile £338 £338 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 60 210
10th Percentile £31.38 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £79.90 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -37 425 £525 -14.98% 87
North of England +18 266 £482 -3.60% 44
Yorkshire +26 195 £500 -16.67% 27
Midlands +26 141 £525 +10.53% 35
West Midlands +33 127 £525 +10.06% 32
South East +8 92 £473 -5.40% 52
North West -31 58 £446 +14.07% 13
South West 0 52 £525 -8.70% 24
East of England -20 20 £477 +5.89% 16
North East -4 16 £575 +6.73% 4
East Midlands -25 13 £397 -3.17% 3
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 (12.29%) Confluence
2 49 (4.93%) SAS
3 19 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.31%) Apache
6 12 (1.21%) JBoss
7 11 (1.11%) IIS
7 11 (1.11%) nginx
8 10 (1.01%) OpenStack
8 10 (1.01%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.70%) iPlanet
9 7 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
10 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
13 2 (0.20%) CMS
13 2 (0.20%) Mule
13 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) 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%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 519 (52.27%) AWS
2 361 (36.35%) GitHub
3 261 (26.28%) Azure
4 221 (22.26%) GitHub Actions
5 220 (22.16%) GCP
6 143 (14.40%) OpenShift
7 130 (13.09%) Serverless
8 119 (11.98%) Amazon S3
9 104 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
10 101 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
11 94 (9.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 91 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (9.06%) AWS CloudFormation
14 82 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 81 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
16 70 (7.05%) Amazon ECS
17 53 (5.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 48 (4.83%) Datadog
19 31 (3.12%) Route 53
19 31 (3.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.95%) DNS
2 63 (6.34%) Firewall
3 32 (3.22%) VPN
4 25 (2.52%) Network Security
5 23 (2.32%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.71%) HTTP
6 17 (1.71%) SSL
7 16 (1.61%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.60%) FTP
8 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.60%) Internet
8 6 (0.60%) SMTP
8 6 (0.60%) SSH
8 6 (0.60%) WAN
9 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.40%) IMAP
10 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.30%) SAN
12 2 (0.20%) NAS
12 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (9.26%) NoSQL
3 89 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (5.64%) MongoDB
5 39 (3.93%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.63%) MySQL
7 30 (3.02%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.92%) Oracle Database
8 29 (2.92%) Relational Database
9 26 (2.62%) Pentaho
10 23 (2.32%) Redis
11 22 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (2.11%) Big Data
13 18 (1.81%) BigQuery
14 16 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.21%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 12 (1.21%) Tableau
16 11 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (1.01%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 392 (39.48%) GitLab
2 287 (28.90%) Git
3 221 (22.26%) JIRA
4 106 (10.67%) Selenium
5 99 (9.97%) JUnit
6 92 (9.26%) Cucumber
7 82 (8.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 62 (6.24%) Postman
9 54 (5.44%) Bitbucket
10 51 (5.14%) Maven
11 44 (4.43%) REST Assured
12 40 (4.03%) SonarQube
13 31 (3.12%) JMeter
14 30 (3.02%) Artifactory
14 30 (3.02%) CircleCI
14 30 (3.02%) Gradle
15 25 (2.52%) Cypress.io
15 25 (2.52%) Liquibase
16 22 (2.22%) Gatling
17 21 (2.11%) Mockito
General
1 306 (30.82%) Social Skills
2 219 (22.05%) Finance
3 129 (12.99%) Banking
4 119 (11.98%) Public Sector
5 68 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.92%) Financial Institution
8 21 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.41%) Military
10 12 (1.21%) Retail
11 10 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (0.70%) Front Office
15 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.60%) Marketing
16 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.50%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 172 (17.32%) Developer
2 164 (16.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 158 (15.91%) Senior
4 92 (9.26%) Lead
5 85 (8.56%) Architect
6 74 (7.45%) Java Developer
7 65 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
8 59 (5.94%) GCP Engineer
9 54 (5.44%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (4.53%) Senior DevOps
12 45 (4.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 43 (4.33%) Software Engineer
13 43 (4.33%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.52%) AWS DevOps
14 35 (3.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 32 (3.22%) Automation Engineer
16 31 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
16 31 (3.12%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (15.71%) REST
2 142 (14.30%) Kafka
3 131 (13.19%) Spring
4 111 (11.18%) Node.js
5 98 (9.87%) Spring Boot
6 86 (8.66%) Elastic Stack
6 86 (8.66%) RESTful
7 76 (7.65%) Playwright
8 56 (5.64%) React
9 51 (5.14%) OpenID
10 50 (5.04%) LDAP
11 47 (4.73%) GraphQL
12 45 (4.53%) OpenTelemetry
13 42 (4.23%) JSON
14 40 (4.03%) AngularJS
15 38 (3.83%) OAuth
15 38 (3.83%) YAML
16 37 (3.73%) HTML
17 36 (3.63%) pytest
17 36 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.93%) Public Cloud
4 34 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 34 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 27 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.22%) Replication
7 17 (1.71%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.11%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.91%) Derivative
12 9 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.81%) NHS
14 7 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 236 (23.77%) Linux
2 61 (6.14%) Windows
3 41 (4.13%) Unix
4 26 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.11%) VMS
6 14 (1.41%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.21%) Android
7 12 (1.21%) CentOS
8 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 10 (1.01%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.70%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 833 (83.89%) CI/CD
2 666 (67.07%) DevOps
3 380 (38.27%) Agile
4 340 (34.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 307 (30.92%) Containerisation
6 280 (28.20%) Test Automation
7 240 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (21.95%) Microservices
9 154 (15.51%) Observability
10 127 (12.79%) Scrum
11 126 (12.69%) Mentoring
12 125 (12.59%) Software Engineering
13 114 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 94 (9.47%) Migration
15 85 (8.56%) DevSecOps
16 84 (8.46%) High Availability
17 82 (8.26%) Continuous Integration
18 80 (8.06%) Deployment Automation
19 77 (7.75%) Analytics
19 77 (7.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 447 (45.02%) Python
2 284 (28.60%) Java
3 169 (17.02%) SQL
4 151 (15.21%) Bash
5 105 (10.57%) JavaScript
6 88 (8.86%) TypeScript
7 87 (8.76%) Go
8 73 (7.35%) PowerShell
9 65 (6.55%) Shell Script
10 53 (5.34%) C#
11 39 (3.93%) Groovy
12 25 (2.52%) Scala
13 19 (1.91%) C++
14 14 (1.41%) PHP
15 12 (1.21%) Ruby
16 11 (1.11%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.91%) Perl
18 7 (0.70%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.70%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 336 (33.84%) Security Cleared
2 270 (27.19%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.25%) Degree
4 50 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (4.93%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.63%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.42%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
10 16 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.21%) OCP
13 11 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.91%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.50%) OCA
16 5 (0.50%) RHCE
17 4 (0.40%) CISSP
17 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (10.37%) QA
2 42 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.22%) NIST
6 19 (1.91%) NCSC
7 15 (1.51%) SLA
8 9 (0.91%) GDPR
9 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.50%) WCAG
12 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.20%) IEC 62304
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.20%) MiFID
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 475 (47.83%) Docker
2 26 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (2.32%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.01%) VMware NSX
4 20 (2.01%) vSphere
5 14 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.70%) Postfix
7 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.60%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.60%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 4 (0.40%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.40%) Squid
8 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.30%) HDFS
10 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 516 (51.96%) Kubernetes
2 410 (41.29%) Terraform
3 286 (28.80%) Ansible
4 195 (19.64%) Grafana
5 158 (15.91%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.04%) Progress Chef
7 44 (4.43%) Argo
8 30 (3.02%) Istio
9 25 (2.52%) Puppet
10 20 (2.01%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.91%) Podman
12 14 (1.41%) Kibana
13 11 (1.11%) Packer
13 11 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.70%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.70%) CA Wily
15 7 (0.70%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.70%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 123 (12.39%) Splunk
2 87 (8.76%) Google
3 76 (7.65%) Oracle
4 68 (6.85%) Microsoft
5 53 (5.34%) VMware
6 52 (5.24%) Red Hat
7 46 (4.63%) ServiceNow
8 34 (3.42%) Atlassian
9 33 (3.32%) Databricks
10 26 (2.62%) Denodo
10 26 (2.62%) Talend
11 22 (2.22%) Sonatype
12 21 (2.11%) Dynatrace
13 20 (2.01%) Pure Storage
14 18 (1.81%) CheckPoint
14 18 (1.81%) CyberArk
14 18 (1.81%) IBM
15 17 (1.71%) F5
15 17 (1.71%) Palo Alto
16 15 (1.51%) AppDynamics