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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 80 102
Rank change year-on-year -28 +22 -45
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 921 732 801
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 3.02% 2.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.44% 21.92% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 511 598
10th Percentile £375 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £675
90th Percentile £671 £750 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 22
10th Percentile £42.50 £50.25 £46.92
25th Percentile £46.25 £55.31 £65.63
Median hourly rate £62.00 £61.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -12.50% -6.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £76.63 £71.69
UK median hourly rate £60.36 £61.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.45% -12.50% -5.41%

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 4,995 3,340 4,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.18% 13.77% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,293 2,255 2,887
10th Percentile £343 £340 £352
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £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 221 63 192
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.59 £31.84
25th Percentile £59.25 £49.00 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -40 420 £550 -1.79% 94
North of England -5 237 £475 -0.52% 83
Yorkshire +7 180 £485 -3.10% 34
Midlands -11 125 £498 +11.05% 18
West Midlands +5 110 £500 +11.11% 7
South East -73 61 £428 -14.50% 38
South West -25 48 £525 -8.70% 27
North West -57 40 £436 -7.23% 35
East of England -22 24 £478 -4.40% 6
North East -6 22 £425 -8.60% 14
East Midlands -40 14 £402 +9.39% 11
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 (11.29%) Confluence
2 38 (4.13%) SAS
3 26 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.09%) Apache
6 9 (0.98%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.76%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) IIS
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%) Oracle HTTP Server
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%) MTS
Applications
1 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Magento
1 3 (0.33%) Shopify
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 465 (50.49%) AWS
2 372 (40.39%) GitHub
3 310 (33.66%) Azure
4 252 (27.36%) GitHub Actions
5 208 (22.58%) GCP
6 131 (14.22%) Amazon S3
7 121 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
8 108 (11.73%) Serverless
9 105 (11.40%) OpenShift
10 100 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (10.31%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (9.77%) Amazon EKS
13 84 (9.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 81 (8.79%) AWS CloudFormation
15 63 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
16 61 (6.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 57 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 39 (4.23%) Azure AKS
19 31 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
19 31 (3.37%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.43%) DNS
2 43 (4.67%) Firewall
3 17 (1.85%) Network Security
4 15 (1.63%) VPN
5 13 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.87%) HTTP
7 7 (0.76%) SAN
8 4 (0.43%) NAS
9 3 (0.33%) BGP
9 3 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.33%) SSL
10 2 (0.22%) AMQP
10 2 (0.22%) Internet
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.22%) LAN
10 2 (0.22%) Multicast
10 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.22%) WAN
11 1 (0.11%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (14.33%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.82%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 45 (4.89%) MongoDB
5 43 (4.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 43 (4.67%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.34%) DynamoDB
7 39 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.26%) Redis
9 26 (2.82%) Pentaho
10 25 (2.71%) Big Data
11 20 (2.17%) MySQL
12 15 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.63%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.52%) Metadata
14 12 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.09%) Aerospike
15 10 (1.09%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.09%) Power BI
16 9 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 349 (37.89%) GitLab
2 275 (29.86%) Git
3 184 (19.98%) JIRA
4 100 (10.86%) Selenium
5 97 (10.53%) JUnit
6 71 (7.71%) Cucumber
7 61 (6.62%) Maven
8 56 (6.08%) Postman
9 48 (5.21%) Mockito
9 48 (5.21%) SonarQube
10 47 (5.10%) REST Assured
11 45 (4.89%) Bitbucket
12 37 (4.02%) Sonatype Nexus
13 34 (3.69%) Gatling
14 33 (3.58%) JMeter
15 30 (3.26%) Gradle
16 23 (2.50%) WebDriver
17 21 (2.28%) Artifactory
18 19 (2.06%) Liquibase
19 17 (1.85%) CircleCI
General
1 250 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 156 (16.94%) Finance
3 117 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 99 (10.75%) Banking
5 76 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.30%) Retail
10 10 (1.09%) Front Office
10 10 (1.09%) Law
11 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.76%) Military
13 5 (0.54%) Legal
13 5 (0.54%) Marketing
13 5 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 177 (19.22%) Developer
2 152 (16.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 126 (13.68%) Senior
4 85 (9.23%) Java Developer
5 80 (8.69%) Architect
6 76 (8.25%) Lead
7 58 (6.30%) Data Engineer
8 55 (5.97%) GCP Engineer
9 52 (5.65%) Software Engineer
10 48 (5.21%) Test Engineer
11 41 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
12 39 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
13 35 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 31 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
16 29 (3.15%) Tester
17 28 (3.04%) Senior Developer
17 28 (3.04%) Site Engineer
18 26 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
18 26 (2.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (15.85%) Spring
2 136 (14.77%) Kafka
3 123 (13.36%) Spring Boot
4 118 (12.81%) REST
5 99 (10.75%) Node.js
6 80 (8.69%) RESTful
7 66 (7.17%) Playwright
8 58 (6.30%) React
9 53 (5.75%) AngularJS
10 51 (5.54%) Elastic Stack
11 49 (5.32%) OpenTelemetry
12 44 (4.78%) LDAP
13 37 (4.02%) Spring Cloud
14 36 (3.91%) HTML
14 36 (3.91%) OpenID
15 35 (3.80%) YAML
16 34 (3.69%) Web Services
17 33 (3.58%) SOAP
18 30 (3.26%) pytest
18 30 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 185 (20.09%) Cloud Native
2 79 (8.58%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.61%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.28%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.63%) Replication
9 13 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.87%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.76%) Derivative
14 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
15 6 (0.65%) Equities
15 6 (0.65%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 178 (19.33%) Linux
2 45 (4.89%) Unix
3 40 (4.34%) Windows
4 33 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.74%) VMS
6 11 (1.19%) Android
6 11 (1.19%) CentOS
7 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.65%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.43%) 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
1 791 (85.88%) CI/CD
2 627 (68.08%) DevOps
3 381 (41.37%) Agile
4 322 (34.96%) Infrastructure as Code
5 292 (31.70%) Test Automation
6 283 (30.73%) Containerisation
7 215 (23.34%) Microservices
8 179 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
9 168 (18.24%) Observability
10 152 (16.50%) Scrum
11 144 (15.64%) Software Engineering
12 137 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 100 (10.86%) Platform Engineering
14 96 (10.42%) Migration
15 85 (9.23%) Mentoring
15 85 (9.23%) TDD
16 82 (8.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 77 (8.36%) Validation
18 76 (8.25%) Event-Driven
18 76 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 385 (41.80%) Python
2 306 (33.22%) Java
3 210 (22.80%) SQL
4 157 (17.05%) Bash
5 80 (8.69%) PowerShell
6 78 (8.47%) JavaScript
7 67 (7.27%) TypeScript
8 56 (6.08%) Shell Script
9 45 (4.89%) Go
10 43 (4.67%) C#
11 37 (4.02%) Groovy
11 37 (4.02%) Scala
12 17 (1.85%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.74%) Bicep
14 11 (1.19%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.19%) Perl
14 11 (1.19%) PHP
14 11 (1.19%) Ruby
15 9 (0.98%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.87%) C++
Qualifications
1 352 (38.22%) Security Cleared
2 296 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.23%) Degree
4 35 (3.80%) AWS Certification
5 32 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (1.09%) RHCE
9 10 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.98%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.76%) OCP
13 4 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.43%) PMP
14 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (10.42%) QA
2 48 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.06%) SLA
6 18 (1.95%) NIST
7 15 (1.63%) NCSC
8 9 (0.98%) GDPR
8 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.98%) WCAG
9 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.43%) PSD2
11 4 (0.43%) SEPA
12 2 (0.22%) HL7
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 437 (47.45%) Docker
2 22 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.06%) vSphere
4 18 (1.95%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.63%) Active Directory
6 13 (1.41%) Postfix
7 11 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.65%) HDFS
9 5 (0.54%) NFS
10 3 (0.33%) GridGain
10 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.33%) SRDF
10 3 (0.33%) Varnish
11 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.11%) KVM
12 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 478 (51.90%) Kubernetes
2 378 (41.04%) Terraform
3 227 (24.65%) Ansible
4 199 (21.61%) Grafana
5 162 (17.59%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.99%) Argo
7 34 (3.69%) Istio
8 32 (3.47%) Puppet
9 30 (3.26%) Progress Chef
10 19 (2.06%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.74%) Kibana
12 15 (1.63%) Podman
13 13 (1.41%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.19%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.87%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
16 6 (0.65%) Rancher
17 5 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
18 4 (0.43%) linkerd
Vendors
1 90 (9.77%) Splunk
2 77 (8.36%) Google
3 61 (6.62%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.62%) Red Hat
4 53 (5.75%) Oracle
5 39 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 39 (4.23%) VMware
6 37 (4.02%) Databricks
7 28 (3.04%) Dynatrace
8 27 (2.93%) Talend
9 26 (2.82%) Denodo
10 19 (2.06%) Atlassian
10 19 (2.06%) Pure Storage
10 19 (2.06%) Sonatype
11 17 (1.85%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.63%) Jaspersoft
13 14 (1.52%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.30%) Okta
15 11 (1.19%) ForgeRock
15 11 (1.19%) IBM