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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 79 101
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 -47
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 920 744 825
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.32% 3.02% 2.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.34% 22.12% 19.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 513 613
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £424 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £553
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -4.07% -7.92%
75th Percentile £581 £669 £675
90th Percentile £671 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile - £51.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.25 £48.47
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £61.88
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +5.05% -15.24%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £76.00 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £53.11 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year -18.29% +15.56% -22.68%

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 5,017 3,364 4,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.63% 13.68% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,265 2,909
10th Percentile £340 £342 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
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 213 60 173
10th Percentile £37.71 £27.35 £31.97
25th Percentile £59.00 £51.77 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.90 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% - +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -41 414 £550 -5.17% 98
North of England +1 228 £476 -4.80% 48
Yorkshire +8 178 £487 -10.44% 17
Midlands +2 120 £500 +11.11% 20
West Midlands +8 105 £513 +10.92% 11
South East -42 79 £425 -15.00% 51
South West -18 49 £531 -7.61% 22
North West -60 36 £425 -10.53% 26
East of England -27 23 £475 -5.00% 27
North East -7 18 £425 -8.60% 5
East Midlands -40 14 £402 -9.46% 9
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
1 106 (11.52%) Confluence
2 39 (4.24%) SAS
3 26 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.98%) Apache
5 9 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.87%) nginx
7 6 (0.65%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
9 3 (0.33%) IIS
9 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 470 (51.09%) AWS
2 379 (41.20%) GitHub
3 300 (32.61%) Azure
4 247 (26.85%) GitHub Actions
5 205 (22.28%) GCP
6 132 (14.35%) Amazon S3
7 119 (12.93%) OpenShift
8 117 (12.72%) Azure DevOps
9 115 (12.50%) Serverless
10 102 (11.09%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (10.54%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
13 80 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 78 (8.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 64 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
16 61 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 56 (6.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 38 (4.13%) Azure AKS
19 36 (3.91%) Datadog
19 36 (3.91%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.43%) DNS
2 45 (4.89%) Firewall
3 18 (1.96%) Network Security
4 17 (1.85%) VPN
5 14 (1.52%) HTTP
6 12 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.76%) SAN
8 5 (0.54%) HTTPS
8 5 (0.54%) SSL
9 4 (0.43%) Internet
9 4 (0.43%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.43%) NAS
10 3 (0.33%) BGP
11 2 (0.22%) AMQP
11 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.22%) LAN
11 2 (0.22%) Multicast
11 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
11 2 (0.22%) WAN
12 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (16.63%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (9.02%) Amazon RDS
3 64 (6.96%) NoSQL
4 46 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 43 (4.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 40 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 39 (4.24%) Relational Database
7 39 (4.24%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.04%) Big Data
8 28 (3.04%) MySQL
9 26 (2.83%) Pentaho
9 26 (2.83%) Redis
10 15 (1.63%) Metadata
11 14 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (1.52%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (1.20%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.20%) Power BI
13 11 (1.20%) Tableau
14 10 (1.09%) Aerospike
Development Applications
1 342 (37.17%) GitLab
2 279 (30.33%) Git
3 190 (20.65%) JIRA
4 106 (11.52%) JUnit
5 96 (10.43%) Selenium
6 84 (9.13%) Cucumber
7 60 (6.52%) Maven
8 59 (6.41%) Postman
9 51 (5.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 50 (5.43%) Bitbucket
11 47 (5.11%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.57%) Mockito
13 41 (4.46%) REST Assured
14 34 (3.70%) JMeter
15 29 (3.15%) Gatling
16 25 (2.72%) Artifactory
16 25 (2.72%) Gradle
17 22 (2.39%) WebDriver
18 19 (2.07%) CircleCI
19 15 (1.63%) Liquibase
General
1 262 (28.48%) Social Skills
2 174 (18.91%) Finance
3 116 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 96 (10.43%) Banking
5 73 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.09%) Front Office
9 10 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (0.98%) Retail
11 8 (0.87%) Law
11 8 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.76%) Military
12 7 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 182 (19.78%) Developer
2 147 (15.98%) DevOps Engineer
3 127 (13.80%) Senior
4 93 (10.11%) Java Developer
5 82 (8.91%) Architect
6 71 (7.72%) Lead
7 60 (6.52%) Data Engineer
8 53 (5.76%) GCP Engineer
9 49 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
10 46 (5.00%) Software Engineer
11 43 (4.67%) Platform Engineer
12 41 (4.46%) Test Engineer
13 37 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
14 35 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 31 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
16 29 (3.15%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.04%) Senior Developer
17 28 (3.04%) Senior DevOps
17 28 (3.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (16.30%) Spring
2 130 (14.13%) Kafka
3 123 (13.37%) REST
4 122 (13.26%) Spring Boot
5 109 (11.85%) Node.js
6 78 (8.48%) RESTful
7 71 (7.72%) Playwright
8 58 (6.30%) React
9 57 (6.20%) Elastic Stack
10 51 (5.54%) AngularJS
11 50 (5.43%) OpenTelemetry
12 41 (4.46%) OpenID
12 41 (4.46%) YAML
13 40 (4.35%) LDAP
14 36 (3.91%) GraphQL
14 36 (3.91%) HTML
15 33 (3.59%) Hibernate
15 33 (3.59%) JSON
16 32 (3.48%) SOAP
17 30 (3.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 184 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 22 (2.39%) Public Cloud
7 18 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.41%) Replication
10 11 (1.20%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
11 10 (1.09%) Mobile App
12 9 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.76%) Equities
13 7 (0.76%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.76%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.65%) Derivative
14 6 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 186 (20.22%) Linux
2 43 (4.67%) Unix
3 42 (4.57%) Windows
4 31 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.85%) VMS
6 9 (0.98%) Android
6 9 (0.98%) CentOS
7 8 (0.87%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.76%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.22%) AIX
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (84.67%) CI/CD
2 613 (66.63%) DevOps
3 378 (41.09%) Agile
4 309 (33.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 283 (30.76%) Containerisation
6 270 (29.35%) Test Automation
7 209 (22.72%) Microservices
8 187 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
9 157 (17.07%) Observability
10 142 (15.43%) Scrum
11 133 (14.46%) Software Engineering
12 127 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 100 (10.87%) Migration
14 92 (10.00%) Mentoring
15 89 (9.67%) Platform Engineering
16 84 (9.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 81 (8.80%) TDD
18 75 (8.15%) Deployment Automation
18 75 (8.15%) Event-Driven
18 75 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 395 (42.93%) Python
2 310 (33.70%) Java
3 209 (22.72%) SQL
4 158 (17.17%) Bash
5 86 (9.35%) JavaScript
6 77 (8.37%) PowerShell
6 77 (8.37%) TypeScript
7 54 (5.87%) Shell Script
8 48 (5.22%) C#
9 46 (5.00%) Go
10 40 (4.35%) Scala
11 33 (3.59%) Groovy
12 15 (1.63%) Bicep
13 14 (1.52%) Kotlin
13 14 (1.52%) PHP
14 12 (1.30%) Ruby
15 11 (1.20%) Perl
16 9 (0.98%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.98%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 339 (36.85%) Security Cleared
2 283 (30.76%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.78%) Degree
4 37 (4.02%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 28 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (2.39%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.74%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.20%) OCP
12 10 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.98%) RHCE
14 7 (0.76%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.54%) OCA
16 4 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 4 (0.43%) SAFe Agilist
16 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (10.65%) QA
2 48 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.07%) NIST
5 17 (1.85%) SLA
6 16 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.63%) NCSC
8 10 (1.09%) GDPR
9 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.43%) WCAG
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.22%) HL7
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.22%) MiFID
13 2 (0.22%) PSD2
13 2 (0.22%) SEPA
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 441 (47.93%) Docker
2 28 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.28%) vSphere
4 20 (2.17%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.41%) Active Directory
6 12 (1.30%) Postfix
7 8 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.65%) HDFS
9 3 (0.33%) GridGain
9 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.33%) NFS
9 3 (0.33%) SRDF
10 2 (0.22%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.22%) Varnish
10 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 494 (53.70%) Kubernetes
2 374 (40.65%) Terraform
3 237 (25.76%) Ansible
4 196 (21.30%) Grafana
5 155 (16.85%) Prometheus
6 46 (5.00%) Argo
7 37 (4.02%) Progress Chef
8 31 (3.37%) Istio
8 31 (3.37%) Puppet
9 21 (2.28%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.74%) Kibana
11 13 (1.41%) Podman
12 12 (1.30%) HAProxy
13 9 (0.98%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.98%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.87%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.87%) Rancher
15 6 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.65%) Packer
16 5 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 95 (10.33%) Splunk
2 72 (7.83%) Google
3 62 (6.74%) Red Hat
4 61 (6.63%) Microsoft
5 56 (6.09%) Oracle
6 47 (5.11%) VMware
7 40 (4.35%) ServiceNow
8 37 (4.02%) Databricks
9 27 (2.93%) Atlassian
9 27 (2.93%) Talend
10 26 (2.83%) Denodo
11 21 (2.28%) Dynatrace
11 21 (2.28%) Pure Storage
11 21 (2.28%) Sonatype
12 15 (1.63%) CyberArk
12 15 (1.63%) Jaspersoft
13 12 (1.30%) Salesforce
14 10 (1.09%) AppDynamics
14 10 (1.09%) IBM
14 10 (1.09%) Okta