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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 83 103
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 -49
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 956 748 803
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.44% 3.07% 2.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.02% 22.47% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 513 595
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £553
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -3.44% -7.92%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £663 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 6
10th Percentile - £52.50 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +32.18% -30.99%
75th Percentile £63.00 £73.13 £56.25
90th Percentile £69.00 £77.50 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £53.11 £67.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -21.31% +47.12% -37.15%

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 5,027 3,329 4,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.82% 13.65% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,226 2,878
10th Percentile £336 £341 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 66 160
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 £31.34
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 -42 409 £544 -9.38% 73
North of England -3 225 £476 -4.80% 50
Yorkshire +9 178 £481 -12.55% 13
Midlands +12 147 £500 +11.11% 20
West Midlands +14 132 £500 +8.11% 14
South East -23 89 £430 -14.00% 31
South West -10 52 £538 -6.52% 21
North West -65 36 £425 -10.53% 26
East of England -20 26 £475 -5.00% 12
North East -14 15 £425 -8.60% 11
East Midlands -34 14 £402 -9.46% 6
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
1 110 (11.51%) Confluence
2 68 (7.11%) SAS
3 25 (2.62%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.84%) Apache
7 7 (0.73%) nginx
8 6 (0.63%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.31%) IIS
11 2 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.10%) Camunda
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 468 (48.95%) AWS
2 374 (39.12%) GitHub
3 297 (31.07%) Azure
4 239 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 203 (21.23%) GCP
6 142 (14.85%) OpenShift
7 130 (13.60%) Amazon S3
8 116 (12.13%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (12.13%) Serverless
9 103 (10.77%) Amazon EC2
10 97 (10.15%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
12 82 (8.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 76 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 61 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
14 61 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 56 (5.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 39 (4.08%) Datadog
17 38 (3.97%) Azure AKS
18 35 (3.66%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.75%) DNS
2 43 (4.50%) Firewall
3 17 (1.78%) Network Security
3 17 (1.78%) VPN
4 13 (1.36%) HTTP
5 10 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.73%) SAN
7 5 (0.52%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.52%) SSL
8 4 (0.42%) NAS
9 3 (0.31%) BGP
9 3 (0.31%) Internet
10 2 (0.21%) AMQP
10 2 (0.21%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.21%) LAN
10 2 (0.21%) Multicast
10 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.21%) WAN
11 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
3 69 (7.22%) NoSQL
4 45 (4.71%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 41 (4.29%) Relational Database
6 37 (3.87%) Amazon Aurora
6 37 (3.87%) Pentaho
7 36 (3.77%) SQL Server
8 32 (3.35%) MySQL
9 26 (2.72%) Big Data
10 24 (2.51%) Redis
11 16 (1.67%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.57%) Metadata
13 13 (1.36%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.36%) Power BI
13 13 (1.36%) Tableau
14 12 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 362 (37.87%) GitLab
2 303 (31.69%) Git
3 202 (21.13%) JIRA
4 123 (12.87%) JUnit
5 112 (11.72%) Selenium
6 85 (8.89%) Cucumber
7 57 (5.96%) Maven
7 57 (5.96%) Postman
8 54 (5.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 47 (4.92%) Bitbucket
10 46 (4.81%) SonarQube
11 41 (4.29%) Mockito
11 41 (4.29%) REST Assured
12 35 (3.66%) JMeter
13 26 (2.72%) Gradle
14 24 (2.51%) Gatling
15 23 (2.41%) Artifactory
16 21 (2.20%) WebDriver
17 20 (2.09%) CircleCI
18 15 (1.57%) Liquibase
General
1 282 (29.50%) Social Skills
2 181 (18.93%) Finance
3 115 (12.03%) Public Sector
4 103 (10.77%) Banking
5 73 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.05%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.05%) Front Office
8 10 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (0.94%) Retail
10 8 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (0.84%) Law
11 7 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.73%) Military
11 7 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.63%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (18.62%) Developer
2 137 (14.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 133 (13.91%) Senior
4 88 (9.21%) Architect
5 87 (9.10%) Java Developer
6 73 (7.64%) Lead
7 66 (6.90%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.44%) GCP Engineer
9 46 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 43 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
11 41 (4.29%) Test Engineer
12 40 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
13 35 (3.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 33 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
15 32 (3.35%) Tester
16 31 (3.24%) Senior Developer
17 30 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
17 30 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 29 (3.03%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (15.59%) Spring
2 143 (14.96%) REST
3 132 (13.81%) Kafka
4 119 (12.45%) Spring Boot
5 111 (11.61%) Node.js
6 79 (8.26%) RESTful
7 67 (7.01%) Playwright
8 60 (6.28%) React
9 57 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
10 52 (5.44%) AngularJS
11 49 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
12 46 (4.81%) pytest
13 41 (4.29%) YAML
14 40 (4.18%) LDAP
14 40 (4.18%) OpenID
15 37 (3.87%) GraphQL
16 34 (3.56%) JSON
17 33 (3.45%) Hibernate
17 33 (3.45%) HTML
17 33 (3.45%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 182 (19.04%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.94%) Replication
13 7 (0.73%) Equities
13 7 (0.73%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.73%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 193 (20.19%) Linux
2 47 (4.92%) Windows
3 42 (4.39%) Unix
4 29 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.78%) VMS
6 11 (1.15%) Android
7 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.94%) CentOS
8 8 (0.84%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (84.83%) CI/CD
2 634 (66.32%) DevOps
3 398 (41.63%) Agile
4 307 (32.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 303 (31.69%) Containerisation
6 296 (30.96%) Test Automation
7 221 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
8 209 (21.86%) Microservices
9 156 (16.32%) Scrum
10 155 (16.21%) Observability
11 129 (13.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (13.08%) Software Engineering
13 110 (11.51%) Migration
14 101 (10.56%) Analytics
15 91 (9.52%) Mentoring
16 90 (9.41%) Deployment Automation
16 90 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
17 88 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
18 87 (9.10%) Platform Engineering
19 84 (8.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 414 (43.31%) Python
2 297 (31.07%) Java
3 221 (23.12%) SQL
4 162 (16.95%) Bash
5 89 (9.31%) JavaScript
6 78 (8.16%) TypeScript
7 73 (7.64%) PowerShell
8 55 (5.75%) Shell Script
9 48 (5.02%) C#
10 45 (4.71%) Go
11 35 (3.66%) Scala
12 27 (2.82%) Groovy
13 15 (1.57%) Bicep
14 14 (1.46%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.36%) PHP
16 11 (1.15%) Ruby
17 9 (0.94%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.94%) Perl
17 9 (0.94%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 363 (37.97%) Security Cleared
2 304 (31.80%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.71%) Degree
4 37 (3.87%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (2.30%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.78%) Oracle Certification
10 16 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.26%) OCP
12 11 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.84%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.84%) RHCE
14 5 (0.52%) OCA
15 4 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.31%) CISSP
16 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.67%) QA
2 56 (5.86%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.99%) NIST
5 18 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.78%) SLA
7 15 (1.57%) NCSC
8 10 (1.05%) GDPR
9 9 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.52%) WCAG
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.21%) HL7
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.21%) MiFID
11 2 (0.21%) PSD2
11 2 (0.21%) SEPA
11 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 465 (48.64%) Docker
2 34 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.82%) vSphere
4 26 (2.72%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.36%) Active Directory
6 11 (1.15%) Postfix
7 9 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.63%) HDFS
9 3 (0.31%) GridGain
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.31%) NFS
9 3 (0.31%) SRDF
10 2 (0.21%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.21%) Varnish
10 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.10%) KVM
Systems Management
1 525 (54.92%) Kubernetes
2 377 (39.44%) Terraform
3 251 (26.26%) Ansible
4 195 (20.40%) Grafana
5 152 (15.90%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.33%) Argo
7 39 (4.08%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.45%) Istio
9 30 (3.14%) Puppet
10 27 (2.82%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.88%) Kibana
12 15 (1.57%) Podman
13 9 (0.94%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.84%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.73%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.73%) Packer
15 7 (0.73%) Rancher
16 6 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
17 5 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 99 (10.36%) Splunk
2 75 (7.85%) Google
3 71 (7.43%) Oracle
4 67 (7.01%) Red Hat
5 58 (6.07%) Microsoft
6 55 (5.75%) VMware
7 38 (3.97%) Databricks
7 38 (3.97%) Talend
8 37 (3.87%) Denodo
9 36 (3.77%) ServiceNow
10 27 (2.82%) Atlassian
10 27 (2.82%) Pure Storage
11 24 (2.51%) Sonatype
12 20 (2.09%) Dynatrace
13 15 (1.57%) CyberArk
14 14 (1.46%) Jaspersoft
15 11 (1.15%) Salesforce
16 10 (1.05%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.05%) IBM
17 8 (0.84%) Veritas