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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 81 87
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -35
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,031 843 982
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.36% 2.72% 2.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.05% 20.70% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 573 724
10th Percentile £348 £390 £406
25th Percentile £413 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -6.73% +1.85% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 21
10th Percentile £46.70 £65.50 £55.00
25th Percentile £56.75 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -3.45% +30.63%
75th Percentile £110.00 £70.94 £78.00
90th Percentile - £80.50 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -3.45% +30.63%

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 4,675 4,072 4,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.22% 13.14% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,521 3,511
10th Percentile £325 £348 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 114 216
10th Percentile £39.00 £45.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.09 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £74.83 £89.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 -19 435 £525 -14.39% 88
North of England +11 275 £480 +6.67% 39
Yorkshire +7 163 £500 +11.11% 13
Midlands +64 148 £515 +5.21% 20
West Midlands +67 132 £519 +5.82% 18
South East +35 109 £500 - 71
North West +1 92 £430 +7.50% 22
South West +7 49 £539 -10.21% 38
North East +7 21 £575 -7.07% 4
East Midlands -5 16 £358 -15.17% 2
East of England -15 9 £463 +2.78% 15
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
1 128 (12.42%) Confluence
2 54 (5.24%) SAS
3 24 (2.33%) JBoss
4 23 (2.23%) Apache
5 22 (2.13%) nginx
6 21 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (1.84%) Apache Spark
8 17 (1.65%) WebSphere
9 14 (1.36%) IIS
9 14 (1.36%) WebSphere Application Server
10 13 (1.26%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.97%) iPlanet
11 10 (0.97%) OpenStack
12 8 (0.78%) Mule
13 6 (0.58%) CICS
14 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
15 4 (0.39%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
16 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
16 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 12 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 12 (1.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.097%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.29%) Shopify
3 2 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.097%) Actimize
4 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.097%) Finacle
4 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.097%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 520 (50.44%) AWS
2 297 (28.81%) GitHub
3 263 (25.51%) Azure
4 217 (21.05%) GCP
5 185 (17.94%) GitHub Actions
6 121 (11.74%) OpenShift
7 119 (11.54%) Serverless
8 117 (11.35%) Amazon S3
9 113 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
10 105 (10.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 101 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
12 94 (9.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 89 (8.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 76 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
14 76 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
15 64 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
16 52 (5.04%) Datadog
17 47 (4.56%) Amazon ELB
18 38 (3.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 37 (3.59%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (8.73%) Firewall
2 83 (8.05%) DNS
3 38 (3.69%) VPN
4 37 (3.59%) TCP/IP
5 34 (3.30%) HTTP
6 31 (3.01%) SSL
7 27 (2.62%) SSH
8 24 (2.33%) Network Security
8 24 (2.33%) SMTP
9 21 (2.04%) FTP
10 18 (1.75%) Kerberos
11 12 (1.16%) IMAP
11 12 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
12 7 (0.68%) Internet
13 6 (0.58%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.58%) WAN
14 5 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.39%) NAS
15 4 (0.39%) SAN
15 4 (0.39%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (16.29%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (9.99%) NoSQL
3 100 (9.70%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (5.43%) MongoDB
5 36 (3.49%) Oracle Database
6 35 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 34 (3.30%) Pentaho
8 31 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
9 29 (2.81%) DynamoDB
10 28 (2.72%) MySQL
11 27 (2.62%) SQL Server
12 24 (2.33%) Redis
13 18 (1.75%) Big Data
13 18 (1.75%) BigQuery
13 18 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (1.65%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.26%) Hadoop
16 11 (1.07%) SAS Enterprise Guide
17 10 (0.97%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 376 (36.47%) Git
2 339 (32.88%) GitLab
3 244 (23.67%) JIRA
4 95 (9.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 92 (8.92%) JUnit
6 79 (7.66%) Selenium
7 78 (7.57%) Cucumber
8 67 (6.50%) SonarQube
9 64 (6.21%) Bitbucket
10 54 (5.24%) Maven
11 48 (4.66%) Postman
12 45 (4.36%) Gradle
13 40 (3.88%) Artifactory
14 36 (3.49%) Liquibase
15 31 (3.01%) CircleCI
16 29 (2.81%) Cypress.io
17 27 (2.62%) REST Assured
18 26 (2.52%) Vagrant
19 23 (2.23%) JMeter
19 23 (2.23%) TeamCity
General
1 299 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 223 (21.63%) Finance
3 156 (15.13%) Banking
4 139 (13.48%) Public Sector
5 69 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.10%) Financial Institution
7 20 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.36%) Military
9 12 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 10 (0.97%) Investment Banking
11 10 (0.97%) Marketing
12 9 (0.87%) Retail
13 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.58%) Front Office
14 6 (0.58%) Games
15 5 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 193 (18.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 181 (17.56%) Developer
3 169 (16.39%) Senior
4 89 (8.63%) AWS Engineer
5 86 (8.34%) Java Developer
6 77 (7.47%) Platform Engineer
7 69 (6.69%) Lead
8 62 (6.01%) Architect
9 59 (5.72%) Data Engineer
10 58 (5.63%) AWS DevOps
11 50 (4.85%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (4.85%) Software Engineer
12 49 (4.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 48 (4.66%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 44 (4.27%) GCP Engineer
16 37 (3.59%) Automation Engineer
16 37 (3.59%) Senior Developer
16 37 (3.59%) Tester
17 33 (3.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (15.32%) REST
2 149 (14.45%) Kafka
3 111 (10.77%) RESTful
4 105 (10.18%) Spring
5 100 (9.70%) Elastic Stack
6 90 (8.73%) Spring Boot
7 83 (8.05%) Node.js
8 69 (6.69%) React
9 56 (5.43%) Playwright
10 54 (5.24%) HTML
11 53 (5.14%) GraphQL
12 44 (4.27%) CSS
13 42 (4.07%) SOAP
14 41 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
15 38 (3.69%) OAuth
16 37 (3.59%) JSON
17 33 (3.20%) AngularJS
18 31 (3.01%) .NET
18 31 (3.01%) XML
19 30 (2.91%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 150 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 83 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 41 (3.98%) Replication
5 40 (3.88%) Public Cloud
6 20 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 19 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.75%) Private Cloud
9 16 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.26%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.26%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.16%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.87%) Derivative
13 9 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 270 (26.19%) Linux
2 88 (8.54%) Windows
3 57 (5.53%) Unix
4 29 (2.81%) VMS
5 27 (2.62%) Amazon Linux
6 26 (2.52%) Windows Server
7 23 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.45%) Android
8 15 (1.45%) Apple iOS
9 14 (1.36%) Ubuntu
10 12 (1.16%) CentOS
11 3 (0.29%) Debian
11 3 (0.29%) Solaris
11 3 (0.29%) zOS
12 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.097%) MVS
12 1 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.097%) SUSE
12 1 (0.097%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (78.08%) CI/CD
2 663 (64.31%) DevOps
3 440 (42.68%) Agile
4 326 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 300 (29.10%) Containerisation
6 251 (24.35%) Test Automation
7 239 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
8 237 (22.99%) Microservices
9 159 (15.42%) Scrum
10 145 (14.06%) Software Engineering
11 123 (11.93%) Mentoring
12 120 (11.64%) Configuration Management
13 117 (11.35%) Observability
14 115 (11.15%) Continuous Integration
15 109 (10.57%) Infrastructure Automation
16 103 (9.99%) Continuous Improvement
17 99 (9.60%) Migration
18 94 (9.12%) High Availability
18 94 (9.12%) TDD
19 92 (8.92%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 506 (49.08%) Python
2 311 (30.16%) Java
3 188 (18.23%) SQL
4 184 (17.85%) Bash
5 123 (11.93%) JavaScript
6 108 (10.48%) PowerShell
7 105 (10.18%) Go
8 77 (7.47%) TypeScript
9 69 (6.69%) Shell Script
10 66 (6.40%) Groovy
11 64 (6.21%) C#
12 32 (3.10%) C++
13 30 (2.91%) Perl
14 18 (1.75%) Scala
15 15 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.45%) Ruby
16 12 (1.16%) C
17 11 (1.07%) Swift
18 10 (0.97%) PHP
19 9 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 357 (34.63%) Security Cleared
2 272 (26.38%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.12%) Degree
4 68 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (6.21%) AWS Certification
6 45 (4.36%) DV Cleared
7 39 (3.78%) Master's Degree
8 26 (2.52%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.26%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.87%) OCP
14 6 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.48%) CISSP
15 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.39%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (9.31%) QA
2 47 (4.56%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.97%) NCSC
6 7 (0.68%) NIST
7 6 (0.58%) WCAG
8 5 (0.48%) GDPR
8 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.39%) SLA
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.29%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.29%) IEC 62304
10 3 (0.29%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.19%) HL7
12 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.097%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.097%) MiFID
System Software
1 524 (50.82%) Docker
2 37 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (3.49%) Active Directory
4 21 (2.04%) DFS Replication
5 14 (1.36%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.36%) vSphere
6 13 (1.26%) Postfix
7 12 (1.16%) Dovecot
7 12 (1.16%) Squid
8 11 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 4 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.29%) HDFS
11 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.19%) GridGain
12 2 (0.19%) KVM
12 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.097%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 500 (48.50%) Kubernetes
2 409 (39.67%) Terraform
3 317 (30.75%) Ansible
4 172 (16.68%) Grafana
5 153 (14.84%) Prometheus
6 63 (6.11%) Progress Chef
7 44 (4.27%) Puppet
8 36 (3.49%) Argo
9 26 (2.52%) Istio
10 20 (1.94%) Kibana
11 16 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
11 16 (1.55%) Packer
11 16 (1.55%) vCenter Server
12 14 (1.36%) Podman
12 14 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (1.26%) Nessus
13 13 (1.26%) Proxmox
14 11 (1.07%) CA Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.97%) CA Wily
15 10 (0.97%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 117 (11.35%) Splunk
2 100 (9.70%) Oracle
3 92 (8.92%) Microsoft
4 83 (8.05%) Google
5 58 (5.63%) Red Hat
6 55 (5.33%) VMware
7 42 (4.07%) ServiceNow
8 36 (3.49%) Talend
9 34 (3.30%) Denodo
10 33 (3.20%) Dynatrace
10 33 (3.20%) F5
11 28 (2.72%) Atlassian
11 28 (2.72%) Databricks
12 27 (2.62%) Palo Alto
13 26 (2.52%) CheckPoint
14 22 (2.13%) IBM
15 20 (1.94%) AppDynamics
16 15 (1.45%) Solace
17 13 (1.26%) Broadcom
17 13 (1.26%) Jaspersoft