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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 83 107
Rank change year-on-year -12 +24 -53
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,020 716 807
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.72% 2.95% 2.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.14% 21.86% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 498 601
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £657 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £57.25 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £63.44 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +20.00% -19.64%
75th Percentile £60.25 £75.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.90 £82.75 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £67.50 £51.07
% change year-on-year -21.48% +32.18% -27.05%

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 5,065 3,276 4,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 13.50% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,411 2,185 2,926
10th Percentile £340 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £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 198 66 170
10th Percentile £39.37 £26.15 £37.50
25th Percentile £59.25 £52.26 £48.85
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -37 429 £525 -12.50% 85
North of England +23 259 £482 -7.31% 84
Yorkshire +25 206 £500 -9.09% 31
Midlands +20 160 £506 +11.33% 19
West Midlands +26 145 £515 +8.42% 13
South East -11 95 £467 -6.55% 49
South West -2 56 £525 -8.70% 43
North West -51 40 £402 -8.32% 36
East of England -17 26 £475 +5.56% 18
North East -2 17 £450 -10.89% 17
East Midlands -35 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
1 127 (12.45%) Confluence
2 65 (6.37%) SAS
3 20 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.78%) Apache
7 7 (0.69%) nginx
8 6 (0.59%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.49%) JBoss
10 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.29%) IIS
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.59%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.29%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.098%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.098%) Actimize
3 1 (0.098%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 502 (49.22%) AWS
2 401 (39.31%) GitHub
3 300 (29.41%) Azure
4 249 (24.41%) GitHub Actions
5 234 (22.94%) GCP
6 144 (14.12%) OpenShift
7 131 (12.84%) Serverless
8 127 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
9 125 (12.25%) Amazon S3
10 107 (10.49%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 80 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (6.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 64 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (5.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 49 (4.80%) Datadog
19 38 (3.73%) Azure AKS
20 34 (3.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.08%) DNS
2 52 (5.10%) Firewall
3 28 (2.75%) VPN
4 20 (1.96%) Network Security
5 15 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.27%) HTTP
7 9 (0.88%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.78%) SSL
9 7 (0.69%) WAN
10 6 (0.59%) Internet
10 6 (0.59%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.49%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.49%) SAN
12 3 (0.29%) BGP
13 2 (0.20%) AMQP
13 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.20%) LAN
13 2 (0.20%) Multicast
13 2 (0.20%) NAS
13 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (16.08%) PostgreSQL
2 88 (8.63%) Amazon RDS
3 85 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 46 (4.51%) DynamoDB
4 46 (4.51%) MongoDB
5 42 (4.12%) Relational Database
6 39 (3.82%) SQL Server
7 37 (3.63%) MySQL
8 34 (3.33%) Pentaho
9 27 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 25 (2.45%) Redis
11 21 (2.06%) Big Data
12 17 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (1.57%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.37%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.37%) Metadata
15 13 (1.27%) Power BI
16 12 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
16 12 (1.18%) Tableau
17 11 (1.08%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 403 (39.51%) GitLab
2 317 (31.08%) Git
3 224 (21.96%) JIRA
4 123 (12.06%) JUnit
5 110 (10.78%) Selenium
6 95 (9.31%) Cucumber
7 67 (6.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 59 (5.78%) Maven
9 58 (5.69%) Postman
10 53 (5.20%) Bitbucket
11 44 (4.31%) SonarQube
12 41 (4.02%) REST Assured
13 37 (3.63%) Mockito
14 36 (3.53%) JMeter
15 33 (3.24%) Gradle
16 30 (2.94%) Artifactory
17 24 (2.35%) Gatling
17 24 (2.35%) Liquibase
18 22 (2.16%) CircleCI
19 20 (1.96%) WebDriver
General
1 319 (31.27%) Social Skills
2 211 (20.69%) Finance
3 126 (12.35%) Banking
4 122 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 77 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (0.98%) Front Office
11 9 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.88%) Military
11 9 (0.88%) Retail
12 8 (0.78%) Law
13 7 (0.69%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.59%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 186 (18.24%) Developer
2 151 (14.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 147 (14.41%) Senior
4 88 (8.63%) Architect
5 82 (8.04%) Java Developer
6 75 (7.35%) Lead
7 67 (6.57%) GCP Engineer
8 63 (6.18%) Data Engineer
9 56 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (5.20%) Software Engineer
11 52 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 47 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
13 43 (4.22%) Test Engineer
14 37 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 35 (3.43%) Senior Developer
15 35 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
15 35 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 33 (3.24%) Automation Engineer
16 33 (3.24%) Tester
17 31 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (16.57%) REST
2 150 (14.71%) Spring
3 143 (14.02%) Kafka
4 116 (11.37%) Spring Boot
5 113 (11.08%) Node.js
6 85 (8.33%) RESTful
7 84 (8.24%) Elastic Stack
8 71 (6.96%) Playwright
9 53 (5.20%) React
10 51 (5.00%) AngularJS
11 50 (4.90%) OpenTelemetry
12 43 (4.22%) pytest
12 43 (4.22%) YAML
13 41 (4.02%) OpenID
14 40 (3.92%) JSON
15 39 (3.82%) GraphQL
15 39 (3.82%) LDAP
16 36 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
17 33 (3.24%) OAuth
17 33 (3.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 191 (18.73%) Cloud Native
2 92 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.31%) Public Cloud
4 43 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 35 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 16 (1.57%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.47%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.08%) Replication
11 9 (0.88%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.88%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.88%) Derivative
11 9 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.78%) Equities
12 8 (0.78%) Fixed Income
12 8 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 218 (21.37%) Linux
2 54 (5.29%) Windows
3 37 (3.63%) Unix
4 29 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.67%) VMS
6 13 (1.27%) Android
7 10 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.78%) CentOS
9 4 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.098%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (84.61%) CI/CD
2 687 (67.35%) DevOps
3 422 (41.37%) Agile
4 349 (34.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 324 (31.76%) Containerisation
6 312 (30.59%) Test Automation
7 244 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (21.96%) Microservices
9 161 (15.78%) Observability
10 153 (15.00%) Scrum
11 138 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (12.65%) Software Engineering
13 108 (10.59%) Migration
14 101 (9.90%) Mentoring
15 96 (9.41%) Analytics
16 94 (9.22%) Stakeholder Management
17 93 (9.12%) Deployment Automation
18 88 (8.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 87 (8.53%) Data Pipeline
20 86 (8.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 458 (44.90%) Python
2 297 (29.12%) Java
3 212 (20.78%) SQL
4 176 (17.25%) Bash
5 88 (8.63%) JavaScript
6 83 (8.14%) PowerShell
7 79 (7.75%) TypeScript
8 71 (6.96%) Go
9 54 (5.29%) Shell Script
10 52 (5.10%) C#
11 31 (3.04%) Groovy
12 30 (2.94%) Scala
13 15 (1.47%) Bicep
14 14 (1.37%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.37%) PHP
15 13 (1.27%) C++
16 10 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 10 (0.98%) Ruby
16 10 (0.98%) Swift
17 9 (0.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 370 (36.27%) Security Cleared
2 307 (30.10%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.37%) Degree
4 47 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.73%) AWS Certification
6 28 (2.75%) Azure Certification
7 27 (2.65%) Master's Degree
8 25 (2.45%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
10 17 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.37%) OCP
13 12 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.78%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.78%) RHCE
15 6 (0.59%) OCA
16 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
17 3 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (10.39%) QA
2 54 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 20 (1.96%) NIST
6 17 (1.67%) SLA
7 16 (1.57%) NCSC
8 10 (0.98%) GDPR
9 9 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.39%) WCAG
12 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) HL7
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.20%) MiFID
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
14 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
System Software
1 479 (46.96%) Docker
2 32 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (2.55%) VMware NSX
3 26 (2.55%) vSphere
4 12 (1.18%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (0.78%) Postfix
6 6 (0.59%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 6 (0.59%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) GridGain
8 2 (0.20%) SRDF
8 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.098%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.098%) KVM
9 1 (0.098%) NFS
9 1 (0.098%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.098%) Varnish
9 1 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 546 (53.53%) Kubernetes
2 418 (40.98%) Terraform
3 294 (28.82%) Ansible
4 217 (21.27%) Grafana
5 172 (16.86%) Prometheus
6 53 (5.20%) Argo
7 45 (4.41%) Progress Chef
8 34 (3.33%) Puppet
9 33 (3.24%) Istio
10 26 (2.55%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.57%) Podman
12 12 (1.18%) Kibana
13 9 (0.88%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.88%) Packer
14 8 (0.78%) Rancher
15 7 (0.69%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
16 6 (0.59%) HAProxy
17 5 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 116 (11.37%) Splunk
2 85 (8.33%) Google
3 71 (6.96%) Oracle
4 67 (6.57%) Microsoft
5 65 (6.37%) Red Hat
6 55 (5.39%) VMware
7 42 (4.12%) ServiceNow
8 41 (4.02%) Databricks
9 35 (3.43%) Talend
10 34 (3.33%) Denodo
11 31 (3.04%) Atlassian
12 26 (2.55%) Pure Storage
13 24 (2.35%) Dynatrace
13 24 (2.35%) Sonatype
14 17 (1.67%) CyberArk
15 11 (1.08%) AppDynamics
15 11 (1.08%) Jaspersoft
16 10 (0.98%) Cisco
16 10 (0.98%) Salesforce
16 10 (0.98%) Veritas