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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 74 88
Rank change year-on-year -57 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 982 930 854
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.12% 3.35% 2.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.58% 22.50% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 640 618
10th Percentile £356 £350 £390
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year - -8.26% -5.22%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 33
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -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 5,286 4,133 4,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.88% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,332 2,858 2,820
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 94 170
10th Percentile £24.87 £43.98 £37.47
25th Percentile £51.25 £54.81 £54.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £78.38 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -25 527 £525 -2.33% 435
North of England -55 222 £452 -4.14% 127
Yorkshire -24 150 £483 -3.45% 42
Midlands -59 94 £489 +2.89% 43
West Midlands -42 88 £490 -2.00% 23
South East -76 67 £464 -7.25% 60
South West -15 57 £550 - 70
North West -88 54 £428 -4.15% 65
North East -37 20 £450 -6.98% 20
East of England -19 18 £475 -5.00% 43
East Midlands -40 5 £347 -2.12% 20
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 99 (10.08%) Confluence
2 28 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.34%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.73%) nginx
5 13 (1.32%) SAS
6 12 (1.22%) Apache
7 10 (1.02%) Camunda
8 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.41%) CICS
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 4 (0.41%) IIS
10 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) Traefik
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 517 (52.65%) AWS
2 391 (39.82%) GitHub
3 385 (39.21%) Azure
4 306 (31.16%) GitHub Actions
5 221 (22.51%) GCP
6 194 (19.76%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (11.81%) Serverless
8 108 (11.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.69%) Amazon S3
10 104 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
11 97 (9.88%) OpenShift
12 89 (9.06%) Amazon EKS
13 85 (8.66%) Amazon EC2
14 66 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.58%) Datadog
16 45 (4.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 44 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 42 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
19 26 (2.65%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.60%) Firewall
2 51 (5.19%) DNS
3 34 (3.46%) TCP/IP
4 25 (2.55%) Network Security
5 17 (1.73%) HTTP
5 17 (1.73%) SSL
6 14 (1.43%) BIG-IP
6 14 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 14 (1.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 13 (1.32%) VLAN
8 12 (1.22%) VPN
9 11 (1.12%) SAN
10 9 (0.92%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.81%) SSH
12 7 (0.71%) DHCP
12 7 (0.71%) WAN
13 6 (0.61%) 4G
13 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
14 5 (0.51%) 5G
15 3 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (6.72%) MongoDB
3 61 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (6.01%) Relational Database
5 58 (5.91%) NoSQL
6 51 (5.19%) SQL Server
7 40 (4.07%) Amazon Aurora
8 36 (3.67%) Redis
9 33 (3.36%) DynamoDB
10 28 (2.85%) MySQL
11 26 (2.65%) Big Data
12 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (1.63%) Data Lake
14 15 (1.53%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.53%) Metadata
15 14 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.43%) Pentaho
16 13 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
18 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 368 (37.47%) GitLab
2 353 (35.95%) Git
3 171 (17.41%) JIRA
4 98 (9.98%) JUnit
5 90 (9.16%) Maven
5 90 (9.16%) Selenium
6 82 (8.35%) SonarQube
7 63 (6.42%) Gradle
8 58 (5.91%) Mockito
9 57 (5.80%) Cucumber
10 54 (5.50%) Bitbucket
11 50 (5.09%) REST Assured
12 43 (4.38%) Sonatype Nexus
13 40 (4.07%) Postman
14 36 (3.67%) JMeter
15 32 (3.26%) Gatling
16 24 (2.44%) WebDriver
17 18 (1.83%) TestNG
17 18 (1.83%) Zephyr
18 17 (1.73%) Artifactory
General
1 231 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 153 (15.58%) Finance
3 126 (12.83%) Public Sector
4 111 (11.30%) Banking
5 107 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.04%) Retail
9 17 (1.73%) Law
10 15 (1.53%) Publishing
10 15 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.32%) Marketing
12 9 (0.92%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.81%) Front Office
13 8 (0.81%) Legal
13 8 (0.81%) Local Government
13 8 (0.81%) Military
14 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 251 (25.56%) Developer
2 183 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 154 (15.68%) Senior
4 119 (12.12%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.33%) Lead
6 53 (5.40%) Architect
6 53 (5.40%) AWS Engineer
7 48 (4.89%) Test Engineer
8 47 (4.79%) Senior Developer
9 45 (4.58%) Software Engineer
10 43 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
11 37 (3.77%) Software Developer
12 36 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 34 (3.46%) Platform Engineer
14 33 (3.36%) Cloud Engineer
15 32 (3.26%) GCP Engineer
15 32 (3.26%) Senior Java Developer
16 30 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
17 28 (2.85%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 386 (39.31%) Terraform
2 187 (19.04%) Kafka
3 179 (18.23%) Spring
4 164 (16.70%) Spring Boot
5 161 (16.40%) REST
6 123 (12.53%) RESTful
7 101 (10.29%) React
8 78 (7.94%) Node.js
9 74 (7.54%) HTML
10 60 (6.11%) Hibernate
11 57 (5.80%) Playwright
12 55 (5.60%) JPA
13 54 (5.50%) AngularJS
14 53 (5.40%) SOAP
15 51 (5.19%) Elastic Stack
16 50 (5.09%) CSS
17 46 (4.68%) Web Services
18 39 (3.97%) JSON
19 36 (3.67%) .NET
20 31 (3.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 172 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.25%) Product Ownership
3 62 (6.31%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
5 35 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.95%) Replication
7 27 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 26 (2.65%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.04%) AI Agents
10 20 (2.04%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 18 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.83%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (1.43%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
15 12 (1.22%) Mobile App
16 11 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 215 (21.89%) Linux
2 58 (5.91%) Unix
3 53 (5.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (4.89%) Windows
5 16 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.12%) CentOS
8 10 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.81%) Android
10 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.61%) zOS
11 4 (0.41%) VMS
12 3 (0.31%) AIX
12 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.20%) Rocky
13 2 (0.20%) Solaris
13 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (84.42%) CI/CD
2 657 (66.90%) DevOps
3 477 (48.57%) Agile
4 362 (36.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 326 (33.20%) Test Automation
6 301 (30.65%) Containerisation
7 266 (27.09%) Microservices
8 219 (22.30%) Observability
9 179 (18.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 175 (17.82%) Scrum
11 171 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (15.58%) Software Engineering
13 140 (14.26%) Platform Engineering
14 110 (11.20%) Deployment Automation
15 106 (10.79%) AI
16 103 (10.49%) Event-Driven
17 100 (10.18%) DevSecOps
17 100 (10.18%) TDD
18 99 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
19 91 (9.27%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 421 (42.87%) Python
2 382 (38.90%) Java
3 247 (25.15%) SQL
4 193 (19.65%) Bash
5 117 (11.91%) JavaScript
5 117 (11.91%) PowerShell
6 76 (7.74%) TypeScript
7 60 (6.11%) Groovy
8 58 (5.91%) C#
9 52 (5.30%) Go
10 48 (4.89%) Shell Script
11 39 (3.97%) PL/SQL
12 30 (3.05%) Scala
13 28 (2.85%) Perl
14 19 (1.93%) Bicep
15 18 (1.83%) Kotlin
16 14 (1.43%) ActionScript
17 12 (1.22%) C++
18 11 (1.12%) Korn
19 10 (1.02%) C
Qualifications
1 404 (41.14%) Security Cleared
2 331 (33.71%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.92%) DV Cleared
4 58 (5.91%) Degree
5 51 (5.19%) AWS Certification
6 40 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.85%) Azure Certification
8 27 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.73%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.43%) CISSP
12 12 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) GCFA
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (14.46%) QA
2 37 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.53%) NIST
5 12 (1.22%) WCAG
6 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
6 10 (1.02%) NCSC
7 9 (0.92%) GDPR
7 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.61%) SEPA
9 5 (0.51%) PSD2
9 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.41%) SLA
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 477 (48.57%) Docker
2 21 (2.14%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 6 (0.61%) NFS
7 5 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.41%) vSphere
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.31%) RACF
9 3 (0.31%) Varnish
9 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 483 (49.19%) Kubernetes
2 232 (23.63%) Ansible
3 223 (22.71%) Grafana
4 186 (18.94%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.87%) Progress Chef
6 37 (3.77%) Puppet
7 32 (3.26%) Argo
8 28 (2.85%) Kibana
9 17 (1.73%) Control-M
10 14 (1.43%) Istio
11 13 (1.32%) Packer
12 11 (1.12%) HAProxy
13 10 (1.02%) Kustomize
13 10 (1.02%) Podman
14 8 (0.81%) Consul
15 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) Rancher
16 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (9.57%) Google
2 91 (9.27%) Oracle
3 84 (8.55%) Microsoft
4 82 (8.35%) Splunk
5 68 (6.92%) Dynatrace
6 39 (3.97%) IBM
7 37 (3.77%) Red Hat
8 31 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 31 (3.16%) VMware
9 25 (2.55%) Databricks
9 25 (2.55%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.53%) F5
10 15 (1.53%) New Relic
10 15 (1.53%) Talend
11 12 (1.22%) Sonatype
11 12 (1.22%) Veracode
12 11 (1.12%) Denodo
12 11 (1.12%) NetApp
13 10 (1.02%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.02%) SAP