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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 76 89
Rank change year-on-year -51 +13 -13
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 993 914 843
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.17% 3.32% 2.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.89% 22.61% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 643 628
10th Percentile £358 £346 £397
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £663
90th Percentile £638 £692 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -5.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 34
10th Percentile £64.20 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -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 5,258 4,042 4,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.51% 14.67% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,345 2,800 2,830
10th Percentile £356 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 96 184
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £31.78
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.05 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -25 503 £525 -0.94% 93
North of England -42 241 £450 -4.15% 54
Yorkshire -18 170 £475 -5.00% 17
Midlands -39 104 £466 -1.95% 20
West Midlands -25 97 £477 +0.42% 15
South East -81 71 £460 -8.05% 36
South West -25 57 £550 -4.35% 30
North West -87 50 £425 +5.72% 26
North East -25 25 £450 -6.98% 12
East of England -8 17 £438 -12.50% 9
East Midlands -40 6 £358 - 5
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
1 101 (10.17%) Confluence
2 24 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.11%) SAS
5 11 (1.11%) nginx
6 9 (0.91%) Apache
7 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.70%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.40%) Camunda
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) IIS
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 527 (53.07%) AWS
2 411 (41.39%) GitHub
3 384 (38.67%) Azure
4 311 (31.32%) GitHub Actions
5 227 (22.86%) GCP
6 190 (19.13%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (12.08%) Serverless
8 118 (11.88%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
10 104 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 91 (9.16%) Amazon EC2
11 91 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
12 83 (8.36%) OpenShift
13 71 (7.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 62 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
15 50 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 45 (4.53%) Amazon SQS
16 45 (4.53%) Datadog
17 40 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 29 (2.92%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.34%) Firewall
2 50 (5.04%) DNS
3 26 (2.62%) TCP/IP
4 22 (2.22%) Network Security
5 17 (1.71%) SSL
6 16 (1.61%) VPN
7 12 (1.21%) HTTP
7 12 (1.21%) VLAN
8 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 9 (0.91%) SAN
9 8 (0.81%) WAN
10 5 (0.50%) DHCP
11 4 (0.40%) 4G
11 4 (0.40%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.40%) SSH
12 3 (0.30%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (14.80%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.24%) MongoDB
3 60 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (5.74%) NoSQL
4 57 (5.74%) Relational Database
5 56 (5.64%) SQL Server
6 39 (3.93%) Amazon Aurora
7 36 (3.63%) Redis
8 35 (3.52%) DynamoDB
9 26 (2.62%) Big Data
10 21 (2.11%) MySQL
10 21 (2.11%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (1.71%) Data Lake
13 17 (1.71%) Metadata
14 14 (1.41%) BigQuery
15 12 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
15 12 (1.21%) Power BI
15 12 (1.21%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 365 (36.76%) GitLab
2 331 (33.33%) Git
3 177 (17.82%) JIRA
4 93 (9.37%) JUnit
5 86 (8.66%) Selenium
6 75 (7.55%) Maven
7 66 (6.65%) SonarQube
8 57 (5.74%) Gradle
9 56 (5.64%) Bitbucket
9 56 (5.64%) Cucumber
10 53 (5.34%) Mockito
11 39 (3.93%) JMeter
11 39 (3.93%) Postman
11 39 (3.93%) REST Assured
12 37 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
13 34 (3.42%) Gatling
14 29 (2.92%) WebDriver
15 22 (2.22%) Artifactory
16 20 (2.01%) Liquibase
17 16 (1.61%) Zephyr
General
1 238 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 152 (15.31%) Finance
3 131 (13.19%) Public Sector
4 109 (10.98%) Banking
5 94 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.01%) Law
9 18 (1.81%) Retail
10 16 (1.61%) Publishing
11 14 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.21%) Marketing
12 12 (1.21%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.01%) Legal
14 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.70%) Front Office
15 7 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 242 (24.37%) Developer
2 180 (18.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 158 (15.91%) Senior
4 115 (11.58%) Java Developer
5 70 (7.05%) Lead
6 64 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.64%) AWS Engineer
8 47 (4.73%) Architect
9 46 (4.63%) Senior Developer
10 45 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
11 42 (4.23%) Test Engineer
12 37 (3.73%) Data Engineer
13 36 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 36 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
14 35 (3.52%) Automation Engineer
15 33 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
15 33 (3.32%) Tester
16 32 (3.22%) GCP Engineer
16 32 (3.22%) Senior Java Developer
16 32 (3.22%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (38.97%) Terraform
2 184 (18.53%) Kafka
3 173 (17.42%) Spring
4 157 (15.81%) REST
5 149 (15.01%) Spring Boot
6 114 (11.48%) RESTful
7 93 (9.37%) React
8 83 (8.36%) Node.js
9 60 (6.04%) Playwright
10 58 (5.84%) HTML
11 51 (5.14%) Elastic Stack
12 47 (4.73%) SOAP
13 46 (4.63%) AngularJS
14 41 (4.13%) Hibernate
15 39 (3.93%) CSS
15 39 (3.93%) Web Services
16 38 (3.83%) JPA
17 37 (3.73%) JSON
18 33 (3.32%) YAML
19 32 (3.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 167 (16.82%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 72 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
4 35 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (2.22%) Replication
9 20 (2.01%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.71%) AI Agents
10 17 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.61%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.51%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.41%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.21%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 201 (20.24%) Linux
2 65 (6.55%) Unix
3 47 (4.73%) Windows
4 43 (4.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.01%) Android
6 10 (1.01%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.70%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.60%) CentOS
10 3 (0.30%) AIX
10 3 (0.30%) VMS
10 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) zOS
11 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (83.48%) CI/CD
2 669 (67.37%) DevOps
3 471 (47.43%) Agile
4 352 (35.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 317 (31.92%) Test Automation
6 274 (27.59%) Containerisation
7 262 (26.38%) Microservices
8 211 (21.25%) Observability
9 178 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 176 (17.72%) Scrum
11 168 (16.92%) Software Engineering
12 149 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
13 138 (13.90%) Platform Engineering
14 105 (10.57%) Deployment Automation
14 105 (10.57%) TDD
15 101 (10.17%) Event-Driven
16 98 (9.87%) DevSecOps
17 95 (9.57%) AI
18 94 (9.47%) Validation
19 88 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 420 (42.30%) Python
2 371 (37.36%) Java
3 253 (25.48%) SQL
4 202 (20.34%) Bash
5 130 (13.09%) PowerShell
6 103 (10.37%) JavaScript
7 76 (7.65%) TypeScript
8 56 (5.64%) C#
9 53 (5.34%) Groovy
10 51 (5.14%) Shell Script
11 48 (4.83%) Go
12 39 (3.93%) PL/SQL
13 27 (2.72%) Scala
14 25 (2.52%) Perl
15 21 (2.11%) Bicep
16 18 (1.81%) Kotlin
17 12 (1.21%) C++
18 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
19 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
20 8 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 397 (39.98%) Security Cleared
2 333 (33.53%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.14%) Degree
4 50 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 16 (1.61%) ISTQB
11 14 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.41%) CISSP
12 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 9 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.70%) RHCE
15 6 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (12.99%) QA
2 42 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.12%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.31%) WCAG
5 11 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.11%) NIST
6 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
6 10 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.81%) GDPR
8 7 (0.70%) SLA
9 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.50%) SEPA
10 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.40%) NCSC
10 4 (0.40%) PSD2
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 475 (47.83%) Docker
2 27 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.91%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.01%) Postfix
6 9 (0.91%) vSphere
7 8 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.70%) NFS
9 5 (0.50%) HDFS
10 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.40%) SRDF
10 4 (0.40%) Varnish
10 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.30%) GridGain
11 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.20%) Squid
12 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 482 (48.54%) Kubernetes
2 234 (23.56%) Ansible
3 210 (21.15%) Grafana
4 179 (18.03%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.03%) Puppet
6 38 (3.83%) Argo
6 38 (3.83%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.81%) Control-M
7 18 (1.81%) Kibana
8 16 (1.61%) Istio
9 14 (1.41%) HAProxy
10 11 (1.11%) Packer
11 9 (0.91%) Kustomize
11 9 (0.91%) Podman
11 9 (0.91%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.70%) Consul
12 7 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.60%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.50%) CASB
Vendors
1 92 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.06%) Oracle
3 85 (8.56%) Google
3 85 (8.56%) Splunk
4 60 (6.04%) Dynatrace
5 46 (4.63%) Red Hat
6 34 (3.42%) VMware
7 32 (3.22%) Salesforce
8 27 (2.72%) IBM
9 25 (2.52%) Databricks
9 25 (2.52%) ServiceNow
10 22 (2.22%) Talend
11 18 (1.81%) Denodo
12 14 (1.41%) New Relic
12 14 (1.41%) Sonatype
13 12 (1.21%) Okta
14 11 (1.11%) F5
14 11 (1.11%) ForgeRock
15 10 (1.01%) CyberArk
15 10 (1.01%) Jaspersoft