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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 82 100
Rank change year-on-year -26 +18 -43
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 909 742 824
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.03% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.33% 21.99% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 516 622
10th Percentile £375 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £423 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -5.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £675
90th Percentile £670 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -2.06% -7.18% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 23
10th Percentile £42.50 £50.25 £47.95
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 £71.50
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 4,959 3,375 4,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.10% 13.79% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,271 2,278 2,915
10th Percentile £343 £340 £353
25th Percentile £409 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year - -5.30% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £736 £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 £59.00 £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 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.38% -9.42% +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 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 18 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 18 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 -38 415 £550 - 98
North of England -5 236 £475 - 81
Yorkshire +5 180 £482 -3.60% 31
Midlands -12 121 £492 +12.74% 19
West Midlands +4 106 £500 +11.11% 8
South East -66 61 £428 -14.50% 34
South West -11 47 £525 -8.70% 28
North West -63 39 £425 -8.60% 36
East of England -21 24 £478 -4.40% 6
North East -4 23 £425 -8.60% 14
East Midlands -42 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
1 102 (11.22%) Confluence
2 35 (3.85%) SAS
3 25 (2.75%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.10%) Apache
6 7 (0.77%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.44%) JBoss
7 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.33%) IIS
8 3 (0.33%) nginx
8 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.22%) Camunda
9 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) MTS
Applications
1 14 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.77%) 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
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 460 (50.61%) AWS
2 369 (40.59%) GitHub
3 308 (33.88%) Azure
4 249 (27.39%) GitHub Actions
5 208 (22.88%) GCP
6 127 (13.97%) Amazon S3
7 120 (13.20%) Azure DevOps
8 104 (11.44%) OpenShift
8 104 (11.44%) Serverless
9 97 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
10 91 (10.01%) AWS Lambda
11 86 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
12 80 (8.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 80 (8.80%) AWS CloudFormation
13 61 (6.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 59 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
15 54 (5.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (4.29%) Azure AKS
17 31 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
17 31 (3.41%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.50%) DNS
2 43 (4.73%) Firewall
3 17 (1.87%) Network Security
4 15 (1.65%) VPN
5 13 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.88%) HTTP
7 7 (0.77%) SAN
8 4 (0.44%) 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 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (5.39%) NoSQL
4 46 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 43 (4.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 43 (4.73%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.40%) DynamoDB
7 39 (4.29%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.30%) Redis
9 24 (2.64%) Big Data
10 23 (2.53%) Pentaho
11 20 (2.20%) MySQL
12 15 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.65%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.54%) Metadata
14 12 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.10%) Aerospike
15 10 (1.10%) Data Lake
15 10 (1.10%) Power BI
16 9 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 342 (37.62%) GitLab
2 271 (29.81%) Git
3 177 (19.47%) JIRA
4 101 (11.11%) Selenium
5 96 (10.56%) JUnit
6 70 (7.70%) Cucumber
7 61 (6.71%) Maven
8 56 (6.16%) Postman
9 48 (5.28%) Mockito
9 48 (5.28%) REST Assured
10 47 (5.17%) SonarQube
11 45 (4.95%) Bitbucket
12 36 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
13 34 (3.74%) Gatling
13 34 (3.74%) JMeter
14 30 (3.30%) Gradle
15 23 (2.53%) WebDriver
16 21 (2.31%) Artifactory
17 19 (2.09%) Liquibase
18 15 (1.65%) CircleCI
General
1 248 (27.28%) Social Skills
2 152 (16.72%) Finance
3 117 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 98 (10.78%) Banking
5 76 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.32%) Retail
10 10 (1.10%) Front Office
10 10 (1.10%) Law
11 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 8 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 8 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.77%) Military
13 5 (0.55%) Legal
13 5 (0.55%) Marketing
13 5 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 175 (19.25%) Developer
2 151 (16.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 124 (13.64%) Senior
4 85 (9.35%) Java Developer
5 79 (8.69%) Architect
6 75 (8.25%) Lead
7 55 (6.05%) Data Engineer
7 55 (6.05%) GCP Engineer
8 52 (5.72%) Software Engineer
9 49 (5.39%) Test Engineer
10 41 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
12 35 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 34 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 30 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
14 30 (3.30%) Tester
15 28 (3.08%) Senior Developer
15 28 (3.08%) Site Engineer
16 25 (2.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 25 (2.75%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (15.95%) Spring
2 132 (14.52%) Kafka
3 122 (13.42%) Spring Boot
4 116 (12.76%) REST
5 97 (10.67%) Node.js
6 79 (8.69%) RESTful
7 66 (7.26%) Playwright
8 56 (6.16%) React
9 52 (5.72%) AngularJS
10 49 (5.39%) Elastic Stack
10 49 (5.39%) OpenTelemetry
11 44 (4.84%) LDAP
12 37 (4.07%) Spring Cloud
13 36 (3.96%) OpenID
14 35 (3.85%) HTML
14 35 (3.85%) YAML
15 34 (3.74%) Web Services
16 33 (3.63%) SOAP
17 29 (3.19%) pytest
17 29 (3.19%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 184 (20.24%) Cloud Native
2 75 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.72%) Product Ownership
4 27 (2.97%) Onboarding
5 25 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.64%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.31%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.65%) Replication
9 13 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
12 9 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.77%) Derivative
14 7 (0.77%) Hedge funds
15 6 (0.66%) Equities
15 6 (0.66%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 173 (19.03%) Linux
2 45 (4.95%) Unix
3 39 (4.29%) Windows
4 33 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.76%) VMS
6 11 (1.21%) Android
6 11 (1.21%) CentOS
7 6 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.66%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.44%) 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
1 781 (85.92%) CI/CD
2 617 (67.88%) DevOps
3 373 (41.03%) Agile
4 317 (34.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 288 (31.68%) Test Automation
6 278 (30.58%) Containerisation
7 210 (23.10%) Microservices
8 173 (19.03%) Problem-Solving
9 165 (18.15%) Observability
10 149 (16.39%) Scrum
11 141 (15.51%) Software Engineering
12 134 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 99 (10.89%) Platform Engineering
14 95 (10.45%) Migration
15 84 (9.24%) Mentoring
16 83 (9.13%) TDD
17 79 (8.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 77 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
18 77 (8.47%) Validation
19 75 (8.25%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 378 (41.58%) Python
2 302 (33.22%) Java
3 207 (22.77%) SQL
4 155 (17.05%) Bash
5 81 (8.91%) PowerShell
6 75 (8.25%) JavaScript
7 65 (7.15%) TypeScript
8 56 (6.16%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.73%) C#
9 43 (4.73%) Go
10 37 (4.07%) Groovy
10 37 (4.07%) Scala
11 17 (1.87%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.76%) Bicep
13 11 (1.21%) MATLAB
13 11 (1.21%) Perl
13 11 (1.21%) PHP
14 10 (1.10%) Ruby
15 9 (0.99%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 350 (38.50%) Security Cleared
2 293 (32.23%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.18%) Degree
4 32 (3.52%) AWS Certification
4 32 (3.52%) Azure Certification
5 24 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (1.10%) RHCE
8 10 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
9 9 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (0.77%) OCP
12 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.44%) PMP
13 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (10.34%) QA
2 46 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.09%) SLA
6 18 (1.98%) NIST
7 14 (1.54%) NCSC
8 9 (0.99%) GDPR
8 9 (0.99%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.99%) WCAG
9 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.44%) PSD2
11 4 (0.44%) 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%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 428 (47.08%) Docker
2 22 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.09%) vSphere
4 18 (1.98%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.65%) Active Directory
6 13 (1.43%) Postfix
7 11 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.66%) HDFS
9 5 (0.55%) 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
1 469 (51.60%) Kubernetes
2 370 (40.70%) Terraform
3 224 (24.64%) Ansible
4 198 (21.78%) Grafana
5 163 (17.93%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.84%) Argo
7 34 (3.74%) Istio
8 32 (3.52%) Puppet
9 30 (3.30%) Progress Chef
10 19 (2.09%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.76%) Kibana
12 15 (1.65%) Podman
13 13 (1.43%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.21%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.88%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.66%) Rancher
17 5 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
18 4 (0.44%) linkerd
18 4 (0.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 90 (9.90%) Splunk
2 77 (8.47%) Google
3 61 (6.71%) Microsoft
3 61 (6.71%) Red Hat
4 50 (5.50%) Oracle
5 39 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 39 (4.29%) VMware
6 36 (3.96%) Databricks
7 28 (3.08%) Dynatrace
8 24 (2.64%) Talend
9 23 (2.53%) Denodo
10 19 (2.09%) Atlassian
10 19 (2.09%) Pure Storage
11 18 (1.98%) Sonatype
12 17 (1.87%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.65%) Jaspersoft
14 14 (1.54%) CyberArk
15 12 (1.32%) Okta
16 11 (1.21%) ForgeRock
16 11 (1.21%) IBM