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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 75 97
Rank change year-on-year -40 +22 -33
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 999 871 903
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.23% 2.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.97% 22.76% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 602 670
10th Percentile £366 £358 £400
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £675
90th Percentile £652 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 38
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £54.38
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.56 -
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -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 5,266 3,827 4,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.78% 14.18% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,392 2,609 3,077
10th Percentile £350 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £635
90th Percentile £688 £701 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 87 234
10th Percentile £29.42 £29.81 £33.02
25th Percentile £56.94 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.25 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -41 461 £550 +1.85% 86
North of England -14 284 £453 -2.37% 63
Yorkshire 0 213 £490 -2.00% 21
Midlands -26 127 £488 +8.33% 18
West Midlands -4 120 £490 +3.11% 9
South East -86 58 £455 -9.10% 37
South West -17 52 £531 -7.61% 27
North West -71 50 £425 +8.14% 33
North East -13 28 £450 -3.23% 9
East of England -16 20 £473 -7.80% 6
East Midlands -44 5 £447 +24.17% 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
1 122 (12.21%) Confluence
2 33 (3.30%) SAS
3 24 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) nginx
6 10 (1.00%) Apache
6 10 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.30%) Camunda
9 3 (0.30%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 17 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.70%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 511 (51.15%) AWS
2 415 (41.54%) GitHub
3 330 (33.03%) Azure
4 278 (27.83%) GitHub Actions
5 215 (21.52%) GCP
6 139 (13.91%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (13.41%) Amazon S3
8 121 (12.11%) Serverless
9 109 (10.91%) Amazon EC2
10 107 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 104 (10.41%) AWS Lambda
12 102 (10.21%) OpenShift
13 95 (9.51%) Amazon EKS
14 77 (7.71%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
16 59 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 49 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 43 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (3.50%) Datadog
20 33 (3.30%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.11%) DNS
2 46 (4.60%) Firewall
3 17 (1.70%) Network Security
4 14 (1.40%) VPN
5 13 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.20%) SSL
7 9 (0.90%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.80%) HTTP
9 7 (0.70%) SAN
9 7 (0.70%) VLAN
10 6 (0.60%) WAN
11 5 (0.50%) NAS
12 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.30%) BGP
13 3 (0.30%) Internet
13 3 (0.30%) Multicast
13 3 (0.30%) VSAN
14 2 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.01%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 56 (5.61%) Relational Database
5 51 (5.11%) SQL Server
6 50 (5.01%) NoSQL
7 45 (4.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 43 (4.30%) DynamoDB
9 27 (2.70%) Redis
10 26 (2.60%) Big Data
11 23 (2.30%) Pentaho
12 19 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (1.60%) Data Lake
13 16 (1.60%) MySQL
14 15 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (1.50%) Metadata
15 12 (1.20%) Neo4j
16 11 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (1.00%) BigQuery
18 9 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 355 (35.54%) GitLab
2 302 (30.23%) Git
3 208 (20.82%) JIRA
4 117 (11.71%) JUnit
5 104 (10.41%) Selenium
6 72 (7.21%) Cucumber
7 69 (6.91%) Maven
8 60 (6.01%) Mockito
9 58 (5.81%) SonarQube
10 52 (5.21%) REST Assured
11 50 (5.01%) Postman
12 47 (4.70%) Bitbucket
13 43 (4.30%) Gradle
14 41 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
15 40 (4.00%) JMeter
16 37 (3.70%) Gatling
17 31 (3.10%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.40%) Liquibase
19 21 (2.10%) Artifactory
20 15 (1.50%) Zephyr
General
1 269 (26.93%) Social Skills
2 161 (16.12%) Finance
3 135 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 110 (11.01%) Banking
5 81 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (2.00%) Law
11 18 (1.80%) Retail
12 11 (1.10%) Legal
12 11 (1.10%) Publishing
13 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.90%) Marketing
14 8 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.70%) Front Office
16 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.50%) Military
18 4 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 209 (20.92%) Developer
2 178 (17.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 149 (14.91%) Senior
4 112 (11.21%) Java Developer
5 69 (6.91%) Architect
6 65 (6.51%) Lead
7 62 (6.21%) Software Engineer
8 56 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
10 45 (4.50%) Data Engineer
10 45 (4.50%) Test Engineer
11 43 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
11 43 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (4.30%) Senior Developer
12 39 (3.90%) Tester
13 38 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
15 31 (3.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (17.72%) Spring
2 150 (15.02%) Kafka
2 150 (15.02%) REST
2 150 (15.02%) Spring Boot
3 107 (10.71%) RESTful
4 85 (8.51%) React
5 84 (8.41%) Node.js
6 66 (6.61%) Playwright
7 54 (5.41%) SOAP
8 51 (5.11%) AngularJS
9 48 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
10 47 (4.70%) Web Services
11 44 (4.40%) HTML
12 43 (4.30%) JPA
13 42 (4.20%) Hibernate
14 36 (3.60%) Spring Cloud
15 33 (3.30%) OpenTelemetry
16 32 (3.20%) LDAP
17 31 (3.10%) CSS
17 31 (3.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 196 (19.62%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.01%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.00%) Replication
9 19 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.10%) AI Agents
15 9 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.90%) Management Information System
16 8 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (19.12%) Linux
2 48 (4.80%) Unix
3 43 (4.30%) Windows
4 41 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.00%) Android
6 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.70%) CentOS
7 7 (0.70%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
9 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.30%) zOS
10 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (84.38%) CI/CD
2 670 (67.07%) DevOps
3 456 (45.65%) Agile
4 334 (33.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 313 (31.33%) Test Automation
6 281 (28.13%) Containerisation
7 253 (25.33%) Microservices
8 190 (19.02%) Observability
9 182 (18.22%) Scrum
10 167 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
11 165 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 147 (14.71%) Software Engineering
13 131 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
14 109 (10.91%) TDD
15 97 (9.71%) Migration
16 93 (9.31%) Event-Driven
17 90 (9.01%) Validation
18 85 (8.51%) Deployment Automation
18 85 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
19 78 (7.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 413 (41.34%) Python
2 350 (35.04%) Java
3 239 (23.92%) SQL
4 185 (18.52%) Bash
5 104 (10.41%) PowerShell
6 83 (8.31%) JavaScript
7 71 (7.11%) TypeScript
8 48 (4.80%) Shell Script
9 46 (4.60%) Go
10 45 (4.50%) C#
11 43 (4.30%) Groovy
12 35 (3.50%) Scala
13 28 (2.80%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.80%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.50%) Bicep
16 12 (1.20%) Perl
17 9 (0.90%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.90%) Ruby
18 8 (0.80%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 379 (37.94%) Security Cleared
2 325 (32.53%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.50%) Degree
4 40 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.80%) RHCE
14 7 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.60%) OCP
16 5 (0.50%) CISSP
16 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.40%) GIAC
17 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (11.31%) QA
2 44 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.50%) NIST
6 12 (1.20%) NCSC
6 12 (1.20%) WCAG
7 9 (0.90%) SLA
8 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) GDPR
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) SEPA
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
11 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 446 (44.64%) Docker
2 27 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.10%) vSphere
4 19 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 18 (1.80%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.50%) Postfix
7 12 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.70%) NFS
9 5 (0.50%) HDFS
9 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.40%) SRDF
10 4 (0.40%) Varnish
11 3 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.30%) GridGain
11 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 475 (47.55%) Kubernetes
2 392 (39.24%) Terraform
3 237 (23.72%) Ansible
4 213 (21.32%) Grafana
5 185 (18.52%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.30%) Argo
7 34 (3.40%) Puppet
8 28 (2.80%) Progress Chef
9 25 (2.50%) Istio
10 21 (2.10%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.40%) HAProxy
12 13 (1.30%) Control-M
13 11 (1.10%) Kibana
14 10 (1.00%) Packer
15 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.90%) Podman
16 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.60%) Check_MK
17 6 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
17 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (8.81%) Splunk
2 85 (8.51%) Google
3 77 (7.71%) Oracle
4 73 (7.31%) Microsoft
5 59 (5.91%) Red Hat
6 44 (4.40%) Dynatrace
7 39 (3.90%) VMware
8 27 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 25 (2.50%) ServiceNow
10 24 (2.40%) Talend
11 21 (2.10%) Databricks
12 20 (2.00%) Denodo
12 20 (2.00%) IBM
12 20 (2.00%) Pure Storage
12 20 (2.00%) Sonatype
13 19 (1.90%) Atlassian
14 18 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
15 17 (1.70%) CyberArk
16 13 (1.30%) Okta
17 11 (1.10%) ForgeRock