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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 81 99
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 -43
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 914 734 820
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.06% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.36% 22.10% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 505 618
10th Percentile £372 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £675
90th Percentile £663 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 23
10th Percentile £42.50 £49.50 £47.95
25th Percentile £46.25 £54.38 £65.63
Median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.13 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £68.75 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £60.36 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.98% -17.86% -4.11%

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 4,979 3,321 4,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 13.85% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,283 2,239 2,902
10th Percentile £346 £342 £353
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 61 194
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.50 £32.10
25th Percentile £55.63 £48.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -11.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +5.69%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -37 407 £550 - 91
North of England -4 246 £475 - 62
Yorkshire +5 189 £485 -3.10% 26
Midlands -24 119 £492 +13.03% 14
West Midlands +6 106 £498 +10.56% 6
South East -56 64 £450 -10.00% 51
South West -12 50 £525 -8.70% 31
North West -65 40 £425 +5.72% 23
North East -11 24 £425 -8.60% 13
East of England -21 24 £478 -4.40% 22
East Midlands -44 11 £400 +7.67% 8
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
1 104 (11.38%) Confluence
2 33 (3.61%) SAS
3 24 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.09%) Apache
6 8 (0.88%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) nginx
9 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) IIS
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) MTS
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Magento
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 468 (51.20%) AWS
2 377 (41.25%) GitHub
3 305 (33.37%) Azure
4 250 (27.35%) GitHub Actions
5 207 (22.65%) GCP
6 128 (14.00%) Amazon S3
7 115 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
8 107 (11.71%) Serverless
9 106 (11.60%) OpenShift
10 100 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (10.50%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (9.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 83 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
14 78 (8.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 58 (6.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 57 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
16 57 (6.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 38 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.94%) Azure AKS
19 34 (3.72%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.91%) DNS
2 47 (5.14%) Firewall
3 16 (1.75%) Network Security
4 15 (1.64%) VPN
5 14 (1.53%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.88%) HTTP
7 7 (0.77%) SAN
8 6 (0.66%) SSL
9 4 (0.44%) NAS
10 3 (0.33%) BGP
10 3 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.33%) WAN
11 2 (0.22%) AMQP
11 2 (0.22%) BIG-IP
11 2 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 2 (0.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (0.22%) Internet
11 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.22%) LAN
11 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (14.99%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (7.99%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (5.58%) NoSQL
4 49 (5.36%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 47 (5.14%) DynamoDB
7 42 (4.60%) Relational Database
8 38 (4.16%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.17%) Redis
10 25 (2.74%) Big Data
11 21 (2.30%) MySQL
11 21 (2.30%) Pentaho
12 15 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.64%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.42%) Metadata
14 11 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.98%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.98%) DocumentDB
16 8 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 344 (37.64%) GitLab
2 277 (30.31%) Git
3 181 (19.80%) JIRA
4 107 (11.71%) Selenium
5 103 (11.27%) JUnit
6 74 (8.10%) Cucumber
7 64 (7.00%) Maven
8 56 (6.13%) Postman
9 54 (5.91%) Mockito
9 54 (5.91%) SonarQube
10 52 (5.69%) REST Assured
11 44 (4.81%) Bitbucket
12 38 (4.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 35 (3.83%) Gatling
14 33 (3.61%) JMeter
15 30 (3.28%) Gradle
16 23 (2.52%) WebDriver
17 21 (2.30%) Liquibase
18 20 (2.19%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.64%) Serenity BDD
General
1 243 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.08%) Finance
3 120 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 102 (11.16%) Banking
5 77 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.64%) Retail
10 13 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.31%) Law
12 9 (0.98%) Front Office
12 9 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.77%) Legal
15 6 (0.66%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.66%) Marketing
15 6 (0.66%) Military
16 5 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 180 (19.69%) Developer
2 150 (16.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 124 (13.57%) Senior
4 92 (10.07%) Java Developer
5 83 (9.08%) Architect
6 77 (8.42%) Lead
7 53 (5.80%) GCP Engineer
8 52 (5.69%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.47%) Test Engineer
10 49 (5.36%) Data Engineer
11 39 (4.27%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
12 33 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 33 (3.61%) Senior Developer
12 33 (3.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 31 (3.39%) Tester
14 28 (3.06%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (2.95%) Site Engineer
16 26 (2.84%) Automation Engineer
16 26 (2.84%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (17.07%) Spring
2 132 (14.44%) Spring Boot
3 128 (14.00%) Kafka
4 117 (12.80%) REST
5 91 (9.96%) Node.js
5 91 (9.96%) RESTful
6 65 (7.11%) Playwright
7 57 (6.24%) React
8 55 (6.02%) AngularJS
9 50 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
10 49 (5.36%) OpenTelemetry
11 44 (4.81%) LDAP
12 40 (4.38%) Spring Cloud
13 39 (4.27%) SOAP
14 38 (4.16%) Web Services
15 36 (3.94%) OpenID
16 35 (3.83%) HTML
17 32 (3.50%) JPA
17 32 (3.50%) YAML
18 29 (3.17%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 184 (20.13%) Cloud Native
2 76 (8.32%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.80%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 22 (2.41%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.53%) Replication
9 13 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.31%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.98%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.77%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.66%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.55%) Derivative
15 5 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 176 (19.26%) Linux
2 45 (4.92%) Unix
3 39 (4.27%) Windows
4 37 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.75%) VMS
6 12 (1.31%) CentOS
7 11 (1.20%) Android
8 6 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.66%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.55%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.33%) AIX
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.22%) zOS
12 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (85.89%) CI/CD
2 619 (67.72%) DevOps
3 377 (41.25%) Agile
4 315 (34.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 286 (31.29%) Test Automation
6 279 (30.53%) Containerisation
7 218 (23.85%) Microservices
8 171 (18.71%) Observability
9 163 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
10 154 (16.85%) Scrum
11 141 (15.43%) Software Engineering
12 139 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 104 (11.38%) Platform Engineering
14 99 (10.83%) Migration
15 88 (9.63%) TDD
16 79 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 79 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
17 78 (8.53%) Event-Driven
17 78 (8.53%) Mentoring
17 78 (8.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 377 (41.25%) Python
2 313 (34.25%) Java
3 208 (22.76%) SQL
4 161 (17.61%) Bash
5 82 (8.97%) PowerShell
6 73 (7.99%) JavaScript
7 64 (7.00%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.80%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.81%) Go
10 38 (4.16%) C#
10 38 (4.16%) Scala
11 37 (4.05%) Groovy
12 18 (1.97%) Kotlin
13 14 (1.53%) Bicep
14 11 (1.20%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.20%) Perl
14 11 (1.20%) Ruby
15 9 (0.98%) PHP
16 8 (0.88%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.77%) C++
Qualifications
1 352 (38.51%) Security Cleared
2 298 (32.60%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.60%) Degree
4 34 (3.72%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.52%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.20%) RHCE
10 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.98%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.77%) OCP
14 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.44%) PMP
15 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (10.83%) QA
2 43 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.08%) SLA
6 18 (1.97%) NIST
7 14 (1.53%) NCSC
8 9 (0.98%) GDPR
8 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.98%) WCAG
9 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.44%) PSD2
11 4 (0.44%) SEPA
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 420 (45.95%) Docker
2 22 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.08%) vSphere
4 18 (1.97%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.75%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.64%) Postfix
7 12 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.55%) HDFS
9 5 (0.55%) NFS
10 4 (0.44%) Varnish
11 3 (0.33%) GridGain
11 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.33%) SRDF
12 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.11%) KVM
13 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 465 (50.88%) Kubernetes
2 372 (40.70%) Terraform
3 231 (25.27%) Ansible
4 202 (22.10%) Grafana
5 167 (18.27%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.70%) Argo
7 34 (3.72%) Puppet
8 30 (3.28%) Istio
9 29 (3.17%) Progress Chef
10 19 (2.08%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.75%) Kibana
12 15 (1.64%) Podman
13 14 (1.53%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.20%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.88%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.66%) Consul
17 5 (0.55%) Packer
17 5 (0.55%) Rancher
18 4 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 90 (9.85%) Splunk
2 77 (8.42%) Google
3 66 (7.22%) Red Hat
4 59 (6.46%) Microsoft
5 50 (5.47%) Oracle
6 39 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 39 (4.27%) VMware
7 31 (3.39%) Databricks
8 27 (2.95%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.41%) Atlassian
9 22 (2.41%) Talend
10 21 (2.30%) Denodo
11 19 (2.08%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.97%) Jaspersoft
12 18 (1.97%) Sonatype
13 17 (1.86%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.53%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.42%) Okta
16 12 (1.31%) IBM
17 11 (1.20%) ForgeRock