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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 75 88
Rank change year-on-year -46 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 996 908 831
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.27% 2.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.77% 22.67% 19.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 638 625
10th Percentile £363 £350 £384
25th Percentile £414 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £669
90th Percentile £642 £700 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 35
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £60.00
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £68.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -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 5,305 4,005 4,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.42% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,773 2,847
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £629
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 95 199
10th Percentile £31.12 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.03 £51.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% - +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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -34 481 £525 -2.33% 168
North of England -30 254 £450 -3.02% 90
Yorkshire -11 186 £488 -0.51% 31
Midlands -16 129 £476 +5.78% 28
West Midlands +2 121 £479 +0.84% 20
South East -94 64 £460 -8.00% 44
South West -25 51 £550 -4.35% 48
North West -87 47 £425 +5.72% 46
North East -26 25 £450 -3.23% 14
East of England -9 17 £450 -10.00% 16
East Midlands -43 6 £447 +24.86% 7
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
1 117 (11.75%) Confluence
2 32 (3.21%) SAS
3 25 (2.51%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.20%) Apache
5 12 (1.20%) nginx
6 10 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.40%) Camunda
8 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
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 12 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 514 (51.61%) AWS
2 425 (42.67%) GitHub
3 352 (35.34%) Azure
4 300 (30.12%) GitHub Actions
5 224 (22.49%) GCP
6 170 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
7 127 (12.75%) Amazon S3
8 116 (11.65%) Serverless
9 106 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 102 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (10.14%) Amazon EC2
12 97 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
13 86 (8.63%) OpenShift
14 76 (7.63%) AWS CloudFormation
15 62 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
16 52 (5.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 49 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
18 44 (4.42%) Datadog
19 43 (4.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 32 (3.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.42%) DNS
2 52 (5.22%) Firewall
3 18 (1.81%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.71%) VPN
5 16 (1.61%) Network Security
5 16 (1.61%) SSL
6 9 (0.90%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.80%) HTTP
7 8 (0.80%) VLAN
8 7 (0.70%) SAN
8 7 (0.70%) WAN
9 4 (0.40%) BGP
9 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.30%) DHCP
10 3 (0.30%) Internet
10 3 (0.30%) Multicast
10 3 (0.30%) NAS
10 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (14.96%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (5.82%) MongoDB
4 55 (5.52%) SQL Server
5 53 (5.32%) Relational Database
6 51 (5.12%) NoSQL
7 44 (4.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 44 (4.42%) DynamoDB
8 27 (2.71%) Redis
9 26 (2.61%) Big Data
10 24 (2.41%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.81%) Data Lake
13 17 (1.71%) Metadata
14 16 (1.61%) MySQL
15 14 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.31%) BigQuery
17 12 (1.20%) Power BI
18 10 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 347 (34.84%) GitLab
2 329 (33.03%) Git
3 197 (19.78%) JIRA
4 112 (11.24%) JUnit
5 89 (8.94%) Selenium
6 77 (7.73%) Maven
7 69 (6.93%) SonarQube
8 63 (6.33%) Cucumber
9 58 (5.82%) Mockito
10 53 (5.32%) Bitbucket
11 50 (5.02%) Gradle
12 42 (4.22%) REST Assured
13 38 (3.82%) Postman
14 37 (3.71%) JMeter
15 36 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
16 32 (3.21%) Gatling
17 29 (2.91%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.41%) Liquibase
19 23 (2.31%) Artifactory
20 17 (1.71%) Zephyr
General
1 248 (24.90%) Social Skills
2 147 (14.76%) Finance
3 137 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 104 (10.44%) Banking
5 89 (8.94%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.01%) Law
9 18 (1.81%) Retail
10 15 (1.51%) Publishing
11 13 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.20%) Marketing
13 11 (1.10%) Legal
14 10 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.60%) Front Office
16 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.60%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (23.29%) Developer
2 178 (17.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 152 (15.26%) Senior
4 119 (11.95%) Java Developer
5 69 (6.93%) Lead
6 64 (6.43%) Software Engineer
7 54 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
8 53 (5.32%) Architect
9 49 (4.92%) Senior Developer
10 47 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
11 45 (4.52%) Data Engineer
12 42 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.22%) GCP Engineer
13 37 (3.71%) Tester
14 35 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (3.51%) Test Engineer
15 34 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
15 34 (3.41%) Senior Java Developer
16 32 (3.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (17.87%) Spring
2 159 (15.96%) Kafka
3 151 (15.16%) Spring Boot
4 150 (15.06%) REST
5 105 (10.54%) RESTful
6 94 (9.44%) React
7 90 (9.04%) Node.js
8 58 (5.82%) Playwright
9 55 (5.52%) SOAP
10 50 (5.02%) AngularJS
11 49 (4.92%) Web Services
12 48 (4.82%) Hibernate
13 47 (4.72%) HTML
14 46 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
15 43 (4.32%) JPA
16 34 (3.41%) CSS
17 33 (3.31%) Swagger
18 32 (3.21%) Spring Cloud
19 31 (3.11%) YAML
20 30 (3.01%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 177 (17.77%) Cloud Native
2 87 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (6.83%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
4 29 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.01%) Replication
9 19 (1.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.51%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.41%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.31%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.10%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.90%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 189 (18.98%) Linux
2 52 (5.22%) Unix
3 43 (4.32%) Windows
4 41 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.10%) Android
7 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.50%) CentOS
11 3 (0.30%) AIX
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.30%) zOS
12 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.20%) VMS
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 668 (67.07%) DevOps
3 487 (48.90%) Agile
4 336 (33.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 312 (31.33%) Test Automation
6 271 (27.21%) Containerisation
7 262 (26.31%) Microservices
8 195 (19.58%) Observability
8 195 (19.58%) Scrum
9 182 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 161 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
11 155 (15.56%) Software Engineering
12 140 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
13 118 (11.85%) TDD
14 102 (10.24%) Deployment Automation
15 92 (9.24%) AI
16 89 (8.94%) Event-Driven
17 85 (8.53%) Validation
18 84 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
19 83 (8.33%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 412 (41.37%) Python
2 358 (35.94%) Java
3 248 (24.90%) SQL
4 200 (20.08%) Bash
5 117 (11.75%) PowerShell
6 93 (9.34%) JavaScript
7 74 (7.43%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.92%) C#
9 48 (4.82%) Go
9 48 (4.82%) Groovy
10 45 (4.52%) Shell Script
11 38 (3.82%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.91%) Scala
13 18 (1.81%) Kotlin
13 18 (1.81%) Perl
14 17 (1.71%) Bicep
15 10 (1.00%) Apex Code
15 10 (1.00%) C++
16 9 (0.90%) ActionScript
17 8 (0.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 382 (38.35%) Security Cleared
2 323 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 49 (4.92%) Degree
4 45 (4.52%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 30 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.20%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.80%) CISSP
14 8 (0.80%) RHCE
15 7 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.60%) OCP
17 4 (0.40%) CCNP
17 4 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (11.85%) QA
2 50 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.31%) WCAG
5 7 (0.70%) SLA
6 6 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.50%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.50%) NIST
7 5 (0.50%) SEPA
8 4 (0.40%) GDPR
8 4 (0.40%) PSD2
9 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.10%) NCSC
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 461 (46.29%) Docker
2 29 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 17 (1.71%) vSphere
4 16 (1.61%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.51%) Postfix
6 13 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.70%) NFS
8 6 (0.60%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.40%) SRDF
9 4 (0.40%) Varnish
9 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 471 (47.29%) Kubernetes
2 388 (38.96%) Terraform
3 240 (24.10%) Ansible
4 210 (21.08%) Grafana
5 175 (17.57%) Prometheus
6 45 (4.52%) Argo
7 40 (4.02%) Puppet
8 30 (3.01%) Progress Chef
9 20 (2.01%) Istio
10 18 (1.81%) Control-M
11 17 (1.71%) vCenter Server
12 14 (1.41%) HAProxy
13 12 (1.20%) Kibana
14 10 (1.00%) Packer
14 10 (1.00%) Podman
15 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.60%) Consul
18 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 90 (9.04%) Google
2 85 (8.53%) Oracle
3 83 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 75 (7.53%) Splunk
5 55 (5.52%) Dynatrace
6 50 (5.02%) Red Hat
7 39 (3.92%) VMware
8 31 (3.11%) Salesforce
9 25 (2.51%) Databricks
9 25 (2.51%) Talend
10 24 (2.41%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.11%) Denodo
11 21 (2.11%) IBM
12 18 (1.81%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.81%) Jaspersoft
13 16 (1.61%) Pure Storage
14 13 (1.31%) Okta
14 13 (1.31%) Sonatype
15 12 (1.20%) F5
16 11 (1.10%) ForgeRock