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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 83 95
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -42
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 996 745 849
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 2.77% 2.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.33% 20.68% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 497 639
10th Percentile £358 £380 £406
25th Percentile £425 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £638
90th Percentile £680 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.55% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 £44.21
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +9.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £97.56 £80.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £89.75 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £58.61 £71.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -17.74% +9.62% -7.14%

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 4,670 3,603 4,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.68% 13.41% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,241 2,237 3,112
10th Percentile £334 £338 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.72% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 67 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.63 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.65 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -23 423 £536 -13.20% 67
North of England +13 267 £487 +4.78% 87
Yorkshire +11 177 £500 - 46
Midlands +42 139 £523 +9.54% 47
West Midlands +48 126 £525 +8.70% 22
South East +15 95 £473 -5.40% 89
North West -17 71 £446 +11.50% 32
South West +23 52 £538 -10.42% 53
North East +1 20 £550 -13.21% 9
East of England -12 15 £477 +7.38% 42
East Midlands -16 13 £397 -10.70% 23
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
1 121 (12.15%) Confluence
2 59 (5.92%) SAS
3 19 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.51%) Apache
4 15 (1.51%) IIS
5 14 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.41%) JBoss
5 14 (1.41%) nginx
6 13 (1.31%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.31%) WebSphere
7 11 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
8 10 (1.00%) iPlanet
9 6 (0.60%) Mule
10 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
13 2 (0.20%) CICS
13 2 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 520 (52.21%) AWS
2 324 (32.53%) GitHub
3 272 (27.31%) Azure
4 240 (24.10%) GCP
5 208 (20.88%) GitHub Actions
6 127 (12.75%) Serverless
7 122 (12.25%) OpenShift
8 117 (11.75%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (10.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 96 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
12 93 (9.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 89 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (8.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 77 (7.73%) Amazon ECS
15 71 (7.13%) Amazon EKS
16 59 (5.92%) Datadog
17 52 (5.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 42 (4.22%) Amazon ELB
19 35 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 85 (8.53%) Firewall
2 75 (7.53%) DNS
3 38 (3.82%) VPN
4 34 (3.41%) TCP/IP
5 30 (3.01%) Network Security
6 26 (2.61%) HTTP
7 25 (2.51%) SSL
8 19 (1.91%) Kerberos
9 16 (1.61%) SSH
10 15 (1.51%) SMTP
11 14 (1.41%) FTP
12 9 (0.90%) IMAP
12 9 (0.90%) OpenLDAP
13 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.60%) Internet
13 6 (0.60%) WAN
14 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
15 3 (0.30%) tcpdump
16 2 (0.20%) Multicast
16 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (15.56%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 92 (9.24%) Amazon RDS
4 55 (5.52%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.82%) DynamoDB
5 38 (3.82%) MySQL
5 38 (3.82%) Pentaho
6 31 (3.11%) Oracle Database
6 31 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 30 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 29 (2.91%) Redis
9 23 (2.31%) BigQuery
10 19 (1.91%) Big Data
11 14 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.31%) RDBMS
13 12 (1.20%) Tableau
14 11 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.10%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 10 (1.00%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 371 (37.25%) GitLab
2 321 (32.23%) Git
3 230 (23.09%) JIRA
4 95 (9.54%) Selenium
5 93 (9.34%) Sonatype Nexus
6 85 (8.53%) Cucumber
6 85 (8.53%) JUnit
7 60 (6.02%) Bitbucket
8 59 (5.92%) Postman
9 50 (5.02%) SonarQube
10 44 (4.42%) Maven
11 38 (3.82%) Gradle
12 35 (3.51%) CircleCI
12 35 (3.51%) REST Assured
13 30 (3.01%) Artifactory
14 25 (2.51%) Cypress.io
14 25 (2.51%) JMeter
15 24 (2.41%) Liquibase
16 17 (1.71%) TeamCity
17 16 (1.61%) Gatling
General
1 284 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 218 (21.89%) Finance
3 148 (14.86%) Banking
4 127 (12.75%) Public Sector
5 57 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 27 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.31%) Military
10 10 (1.00%) Retail
10 10 (1.00%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.70%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.70%) Front Office
12 7 (0.70%) Marketing
13 6 (0.60%) Games
13 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 177 (17.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 171 (17.17%) Developer
3 170 (17.07%) Senior
4 81 (8.13%) Lead
5 75 (7.53%) AWS Engineer
6 74 (7.43%) Architect
7 72 (7.23%) Java Developer
8 60 (6.02%) Data Engineer
9 59 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
10 54 (5.42%) GCP Engineer
11 50 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 46 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
13 45 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 45 (4.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 45 (4.52%) Software Engineer
14 39 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 37 (3.71%) Automation Engineer
15 37 (3.71%) Test Engineer
16 35 (3.51%) Senior Developer
17 29 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (14.56%) REST
2 142 (14.26%) Kafka
3 107 (10.74%) Spring
4 103 (10.34%) Node.js
5 96 (9.64%) RESTful
6 90 (9.04%) Elastic Stack
7 85 (8.53%) Spring Boot
8 68 (6.83%) Playwright
9 58 (5.82%) React
10 51 (5.12%) GraphQL
11 47 (4.72%) LDAP
12 46 (4.62%) HTML
13 44 (4.42%) OpenID
14 41 (4.12%) JSON
15 40 (4.02%) .NET
15 40 (4.02%) OAuth
16 37 (3.71%) CSS
17 35 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
18 34 (3.41%) AngularJS
18 34 (3.41%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 169 (16.97%) Cloud Native
2 80 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.62%) Public Cloud
4 34 (3.41%) Replication
5 26 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.31%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (1.20%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.00%) NHS
13 9 (0.90%) Derivative
13 9 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 233 (23.39%) Linux
2 74 (7.43%) Windows
3 45 (4.52%) Unix
4 29 (2.91%) VMS
5 21 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 20 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.71%) Amazon Linux
8 13 (1.31%) Android
8 13 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 13 (1.31%) CentOS
9 11 (1.10%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) zOS
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.10%) MVS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (81.22%) CI/CD
2 661 (66.37%) DevOps
3 390 (39.16%) Agile
4 339 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 295 (29.62%) Containerisation
6 282 (28.31%) Test Automation
7 231 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
8 215 (21.59%) Microservices
9 140 (14.06%) Observability
10 139 (13.96%) Scrum
11 136 (13.65%) Software Engineering
12 126 (12.65%) Mentoring
13 109 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (8.94%) Continuous Integration
15 88 (8.84%) Data Pipeline
16 87 (8.73%) Migration
17 86 (8.63%) DevSecOps
17 86 (8.63%) High Availability
18 85 (8.53%) Configuration Management
18 85 (8.53%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 464 (46.59%) Python
2 296 (29.72%) Java
3 183 (18.37%) SQL
4 162 (16.27%) Bash
5 111 (11.14%) JavaScript
6 92 (9.24%) Go
7 87 (8.73%) TypeScript
8 84 (8.43%) PowerShell
9 68 (6.83%) Shell Script
10 53 (5.32%) C#
11 46 (4.62%) Groovy
12 26 (2.61%) Scala
13 22 (2.21%) C++
14 17 (1.71%) Ruby
15 14 (1.41%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.41%) Perl
16 13 (1.31%) PHP
17 11 (1.10%) C
18 10 (1.00%) Swift
19 8 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 341 (34.24%) Security Cleared
2 265 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.53%) Degree
4 55 (5.52%) AWS Certification
5 50 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.41%) Master's Degree
7 30 (3.01%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.71%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
11 14 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.00%) OCP
13 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 8 (0.80%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.50%) OCA
15 5 (0.50%) RHCE
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (9.84%) QA
2 52 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.91%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.51%) SLA
6 12 (1.20%) NIST
7 10 (1.00%) NCSC
8 8 (0.80%) GDPR
8 8 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.50%) WCAG
10 3 (0.30%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.30%) IEC 62304
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
11 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 497 (49.90%) Docker
2 30 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.41%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.90%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.90%) Postfix
6 9 (0.90%) Squid
6 9 (0.90%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.90%) vSphere
7 8 (0.80%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.40%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 2 (0.20%) KVM
12 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.10%) SRDF
12 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 505 (50.70%) Kubernetes
2 412 (41.37%) Terraform
3 291 (29.22%) Ansible
4 174 (17.47%) Grafana
5 151 (15.16%) Prometheus
6 55 (5.52%) Progress Chef
7 33 (3.31%) Argo
8 31 (3.11%) Istio
9 27 (2.71%) Puppet
10 20 (2.01%) Podman
11 14 (1.41%) Kibana
12 12 (1.20%) Packer
12 12 (1.20%) Proxmox
13 11 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
13 11 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
14 10 (1.00%) CA Wily
14 10 (1.00%) NetBackup
14 10 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
15 9 (0.90%) Nessus
15 9 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (10.74%) Splunk
2 96 (9.64%) Google
3 93 (9.34%) Oracle
4 80 (8.03%) Microsoft
5 53 (5.32%) ServiceNow
6 48 (4.82%) Red Hat
7 46 (4.62%) VMware
8 38 (3.82%) Denodo
8 38 (3.82%) Talend
9 31 (3.11%) Databricks
10 30 (3.01%) Atlassian
11 28 (2.81%) F5
12 27 (2.71%) Palo Alto
13 26 (2.61%) CheckPoint
14 25 (2.51%) Dynatrace
15 19 (1.91%) AppDynamics
16 18 (1.81%) IBM
17 13 (1.31%) Confluent
17 13 (1.31%) Solace
17 13 (1.31%) Sonatype