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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 78 94
Rank change year-on-year -33 +16 -30
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 960 806 887
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.22% 2.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.64% 22.54% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 556 653
10th Percentile £366 £358 £400
25th Percentile £414 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £652 £706 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 36
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.00 £53.13
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - £69.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -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 5,150 3,576 4,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.28% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 2,430 3,000
10th Percentile £350 £337 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 75 234
10th Percentile £28.53 £27.68 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -37 433 £550 +2.09% 69
North of England -15 267 £469 +0.81% 47
Yorkshire -2 197 £500 - 18
Midlands -21 128 £481 +6.92% 7
West Midlands -5 118 £488 +2.63% 3
South East -75 60 £435 -13.00% 35
South West -14 50 £538 -6.52% 19
North West -74 49 £425 +7.19% 22
North East -14 28 £450 -3.23% 8
East of England -15 25 £478 -4.40% 7
East Midlands -44 8 £393 +8.12% 4
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
1 117 (12.19%) Confluence
2 34 (3.54%) SAS
3 24 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.15%) nginx
6 10 (1.04%) Apache
7 9 (0.94%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.31%) Camunda
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) JBoss
11 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Magento
2 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 483 (50.31%) AWS
2 399 (41.56%) GitHub
3 302 (31.46%) Azure
4 268 (27.92%) GitHub Actions
5 207 (21.56%) GCP
6 132 (13.75%) Amazon S3
7 125 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (12.50%) Serverless
9 105 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
10 104 (10.83%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (10.31%) OpenShift
12 95 (9.90%) Amazon EKS
13 76 (7.92%) AWS CloudFormation
14 63 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
15 60 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 51 (5.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 44 (4.58%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.75%) Route 53
19 34 (3.54%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.63%) DNS
2 50 (5.21%) Firewall
3 17 (1.77%) Network Security
4 14 (1.46%) VPN
5 13 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.15%) SSL
7 9 (0.94%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.83%) HTTP
8 8 (0.83%) SAN
9 7 (0.73%) VLAN
10 6 (0.63%) WAN
11 5 (0.52%) NAS
12 4 (0.42%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.31%) BGP
13 3 (0.31%) Multicast
13 3 (0.31%) VSAN
14 2 (0.21%) Internet
14 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (5.63%) MongoDB
3 54 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 51 (5.31%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.10%) DynamoDB
6 47 (4.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 39 (4.06%) SQL Server
8 34 (3.54%) Redis
9 26 (2.71%) Big Data
10 24 (2.50%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (1.98%) MySQL
12 16 (1.67%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.46%) Metadata
14 13 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.15%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (1.04%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.94%) Neo4j
17 9 (0.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 355 (36.98%) GitLab
2 288 (30.00%) Git
3 195 (20.31%) JIRA
4 115 (11.98%) JUnit
5 97 (10.10%) Selenium
6 70 (7.29%) Cucumber
7 67 (6.98%) Maven
8 59 (6.15%) Mockito
9 58 (6.04%) SonarQube
10 48 (5.00%) REST Assured
11 47 (4.90%) Bitbucket
11 47 (4.90%) Postman
12 39 (4.06%) Gradle
13 38 (3.96%) JMeter
14 37 (3.85%) Gatling
15 35 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
16 28 (2.92%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.50%) Liquibase
18 20 (2.08%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
General
1 249 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 152 (15.83%) Finance
3 133 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 105 (10.94%) Banking
5 78 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.08%) Law
9 19 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.15%) Retail
12 9 (0.94%) Legal
13 8 (0.83%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.83%) Publishing
14 7 (0.73%) Front Office
14 7 (0.73%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.63%) Marketing
16 5 (0.52%) Military
17 4 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 196 (20.42%) Developer
2 167 (17.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 142 (14.79%) Senior
4 108 (11.25%) Java Developer
5 76 (7.92%) Architect
6 60 (6.25%) Lead
6 60 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 54 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
9 45 (4.69%) Data Engineer
10 44 (4.58%) Test Engineer
11 42 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
12 41 (4.27%) Senior Developer
13 40 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (3.96%) Tester
15 33 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 29 (3.02%) Senior Java Developer
18 28 (2.92%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (17.92%) Spring
2 148 (15.42%) Kafka
3 145 (15.10%) Spring Boot
4 132 (13.75%) REST
5 103 (10.73%) RESTful
6 73 (7.60%) Node.js
7 70 (7.29%) React
8 55 (5.73%) Playwright
9 47 (4.90%) SOAP
10 46 (4.79%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.69%) JPA
12 43 (4.48%) Elastic Stack
13 42 (4.38%) Hibernate
13 42 (4.38%) HTML
14 40 (4.17%) Web Services
15 39 (4.06%) Spring Cloud
16 38 (3.96%) OpenTelemetry
17 36 (3.75%) LDAP
18 31 (3.23%) Swagger
19 30 (3.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 197 (20.52%) Cloud Native
2 92 (9.58%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 29 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.81%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.98%) Distributed Architecture
8 18 (1.88%) Replication
9 16 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.46%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.04%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.94%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.73%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.73%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 186 (19.38%) Linux
2 46 (4.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 46 (4.79%) Unix
3 40 (4.17%) Windows
4 12 (1.25%) CentOS
5 11 (1.15%) Android
6 8 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.73%) VMS
8 6 (0.63%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
10 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.31%) zOS
11 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.21%) Solaris
11 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (85.31%) CI/CD
2 641 (66.77%) DevOps
3 417 (43.44%) Agile
4 325 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 297 (30.94%) Test Automation
6 273 (28.44%) Containerisation
7 245 (25.52%) Microservices
8 181 (18.85%) Observability
9 171 (17.81%) Scrum
10 154 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 154 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
11 144 (15.00%) Software Engineering
12 123 (12.81%) Platform Engineering
13 101 (10.52%) Migration
14 93 (9.69%) TDD
15 90 (9.38%) Event-Driven
15 90 (9.38%) Validation
16 79 (8.23%) Deployment Automation
16 79 (8.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 76 (7.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 402 (41.88%) Python
2 342 (35.63%) Java
3 225 (23.44%) SQL
4 179 (18.65%) Bash
5 91 (9.48%) PowerShell
6 75 (7.81%) JavaScript
7 59 (6.15%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.31%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.58%) Go
10 39 (4.06%) C#
10 39 (4.06%) Groovy
11 34 (3.54%) Scala
12 25 (2.60%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.67%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.15%) Bicep
14 11 (1.15%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.15%) Perl
15 9 (0.94%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.83%) Ruby
16 8 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 371 (38.65%) Security Cleared
2 320 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.17%) Degree
4 39 (4.06%) AWS Certification
5 34 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.25%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.15%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.83%) RHCE
15 7 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.63%) OCP
17 5 (0.52%) CISSP
17 5 (0.52%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.42%) GIAC
18 4 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (11.15%) QA
2 44 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.44%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.98%) NIST
6 14 (1.46%) SLA
7 13 (1.35%) NCSC
8 12 (1.25%) WCAG
9 9 (0.94%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.63%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.52%) SEPA
12 4 (0.42%) PSD2
13 3 (0.31%) GDPR
14 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 423 (44.06%) Docker
2 27 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.19%) vSphere
4 19 (1.98%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.77%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.56%) Postfix
7 12 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.73%) NFS
9 5 (0.52%) HDFS
9 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.42%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.42%) SRDF
10 4 (0.42%) Varnish
11 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.31%) GridGain
11 3 (0.31%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 460 (47.92%) Kubernetes
2 383 (39.90%) Terraform
3 229 (23.85%) Ansible
4 204 (21.25%) Grafana
5 178 (18.54%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.58%) Argo
7 32 (3.33%) Puppet
8 27 (2.81%) Istio
9 26 (2.71%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.19%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.46%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.46%) Podman
12 11 (1.15%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.15%) Control-M
12 11 (1.15%) Kibana
12 11 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (0.94%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.94%) Packer
14 6 (0.63%) Consul
14 6 (0.63%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 83 (8.65%) Splunk
2 82 (8.54%) Google
3 71 (7.40%) Oracle
4 65 (6.77%) Red Hat
5 61 (6.35%) Microsoft
6 44 (4.58%) VMware
7 42 (4.38%) Dynatrace
8 25 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.60%) Talend
9 24 (2.50%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.40%) Databricks
11 21 (2.19%) Atlassian
11 21 (2.19%) Denodo
12 20 (2.08%) Pure Storage
12 20 (2.08%) Sonatype
13 18 (1.88%) IBM
13 18 (1.88%) Jaspersoft
14 14 (1.46%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.35%) Okta
16 11 (1.15%) ForgeRock