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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 87 102
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -49
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,004 757 840
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.17% 2.74% 2.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.35% 20.65% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 514 628
10th Percentile £358 £380 £406
25th Percentile £413 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £543
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +5.99% -9.58%
75th Percentile £594 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £775 £727
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -6.82% +3.29% -11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 £43.38
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £57.41
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%
75th Percentile £97.56 £80.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £89.75 £81.60
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -17.89% +4.01% -2.14%

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 4,703 3,665 4,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.87% 13.26% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 2,283 3,131
10th Percentile £331 £331 £375
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 69 198
10th Percentile £39.95 £46.18 £43.59
25th Percentile £54.81 £54.36 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.10 £75.45 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 3 January 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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -27 430 £525 -14.56% 270
North of England +6 261 £488 +8.33% 109
Yorkshire +8 169 £500 +9.89% 62
Midlands +53 141 £519 +8.86% 65
West Midlands +54 126 £525 +7.25% 36
South East +26 104 £500 - 232
North West -15 74 £452 +12.88% 39
South West +8 50 £538 -10.79% 60
North East +6 19 £575 -9.27% 8
East Midlands -14 15 £397 -0.88% 26
East of England -19 13 £478 +9.26% 75
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
1 118 (11.75%) Confluence
2 55 (5.48%) SAS
3 21 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (1.59%) nginx
6 15 (1.49%) Apache
6 15 (1.49%) IIS
6 15 (1.49%) JBoss
7 13 (1.29%) OpenStack
7 13 (1.29%) WebSphere
8 11 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
9 10 (1.00%) iPlanet
10 6 (0.60%) Mule
11 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.40%) CICS
12 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.100%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.100%) Actimize
3 1 (0.100%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.100%) Finacle
3 1 (0.100%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 518 (51.59%) AWS
2 321 (31.97%) GitHub
3 282 (28.09%) Azure
4 244 (24.30%) GCP
5 207 (20.62%) GitHub Actions
6 126 (12.55%) Serverless
7 122 (12.15%) OpenShift
8 117 (11.65%) Amazon S3
9 105 (10.46%) Amazon EC2
10 104 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
11 103 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 93 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
13 89 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 86 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
15 74 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
16 65 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
17 58 (5.78%) Datadog
18 46 (4.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 44 (4.38%) Amazon ELB
20 38 (3.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 92 (9.16%) Firewall
2 85 (8.47%) DNS
3 38 (3.78%) TCP/IP
3 38 (3.78%) VPN
4 30 (2.99%) HTTP
5 28 (2.79%) Network Security
6 27 (2.69%) SSL
7 21 (2.09%) SSH
8 19 (1.89%) Kerberos
9 17 (1.69%) SMTP
10 16 (1.59%) FTP
11 10 (1.00%) IMAP
11 10 (1.00%) OpenLDAP
12 7 (0.70%) Internet
13 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.60%) WAN
14 5 (0.50%) SAN
14 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.40%) NAS
16 3 (0.30%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (16.63%) PostgreSQL
2 103 (10.26%) NoSQL
3 92 (9.16%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (5.58%) MongoDB
5 37 (3.69%) MySQL
6 35 (3.49%) DynamoDB
6 35 (3.49%) Oracle Database
6 35 (3.49%) Pentaho
7 34 (3.39%) SQL Server
8 31 (3.09%) Redis
9 30 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 30 (2.99%) Relational Database
10 22 (2.19%) BigQuery
11 20 (1.99%) Big Data
12 14 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.39%) Hadoop
12 14 (1.39%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.10%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 11 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 363 (36.16%) GitLab
2 335 (33.37%) Git
3 230 (22.91%) JIRA
4 91 (9.06%) Selenium
5 89 (8.86%) Sonatype Nexus
6 85 (8.47%) JUnit
7 80 (7.97%) Cucumber
8 64 (6.37%) Bitbucket
9 62 (6.18%) SonarQube
10 57 (5.68%) Postman
11 47 (4.68%) Maven
12 41 (4.08%) Gradle
13 36 (3.59%) REST Assured
14 35 (3.49%) CircleCI
15 32 (3.19%) Artifactory
16 29 (2.89%) Liquibase
17 28 (2.79%) Cypress.io
18 24 (2.39%) JMeter
19 18 (1.79%) MLflow
19 18 (1.79%) TeamCity
General
1 292 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 222 (22.11%) Finance
3 151 (15.04%) Banking
4 130 (12.95%) Public Sector
5 57 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.09%) Financial Institution
7 24 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.29%) Military
9 12 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.00%) Retail
12 9 (0.90%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.80%) Marketing
14 7 (0.70%) Front Office
14 7 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.60%) Games
15 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (17.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 169 (16.83%) Developer
3 165 (16.43%) Senior
4 82 (8.17%) Lead
5 81 (8.07%) AWS Engineer
6 72 (7.17%) Java Developer
7 67 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
8 66 (6.57%) Architect
9 62 (6.18%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.18%) GCP Engineer
11 50 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
11 50 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
12 48 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
12 48 (4.78%) Software Engineer
13 46 (4.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 43 (4.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 37 (3.69%) Automation Engineer
16 35 (3.49%) Senior Developer
17 31 (3.09%) Test Engineer
18 30 (2.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (15.04%) REST
2 145 (14.44%) Kafka
3 102 (10.16%) Node.js
4 100 (9.96%) Spring
5 96 (9.56%) Elastic Stack
5 96 (9.56%) RESTful
6 83 (8.27%) Spring Boot
7 64 (6.37%) Playwright
8 57 (5.68%) React
9 53 (5.28%) GraphQL
10 48 (4.78%) HTML
11 42 (4.18%) JSON
12 40 (3.98%) CSS
13 39 (3.88%) .NET
13 39 (3.88%) OAuth
14 38 (3.78%) LDAP
15 37 (3.69%) AngularJS
16 35 (3.49%) OpenID
16 35 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
17 34 (3.39%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 160 (15.94%) Cloud Native
2 84 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.38%) Product Ownership
3 44 (4.38%) Public Cloud
4 36 (3.59%) Replication
5 22 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 19 (1.89%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.49%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
12 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.00%) Derivative
13 10 (1.00%) Management Information System
14 9 (0.90%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 244 (24.30%) Linux
2 79 (7.87%) Windows
3 51 (5.08%) Unix
4 34 (3.39%) VMS
5 25 (2.49%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.89%) Amazon Linux
6 19 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (1.29%) Android
7 13 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.20%) CentOS
8 12 (1.20%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.30%) Solaris
9 3 (0.30%) zOS
10 1 (0.100%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.100%) MVS
10 1 (0.100%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (80.68%) CI/CD
2 670 (66.73%) DevOps
3 404 (40.24%) Agile
4 348 (34.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 296 (29.48%) Containerisation
6 267 (26.59%) Test Automation
7 233 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (21.71%) Microservices
9 143 (14.24%) Software Engineering
10 141 (14.04%) Observability
11 140 (13.94%) Scrum
12 130 (12.95%) Mentoring
13 107 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 97 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
15 95 (9.46%) Configuration Management
16 93 (9.26%) Infrastructure Automation
17 92 (9.16%) High Availability
18 91 (9.06%) Migration
19 88 (8.76%) DevSecOps
20 87 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 480 (47.81%) Python
2 290 (28.88%) Java
3 189 (18.82%) SQL
4 178 (17.73%) Bash
5 112 (11.16%) JavaScript
6 97 (9.66%) Go
7 95 (9.46%) PowerShell
8 86 (8.57%) TypeScript
9 71 (7.07%) Shell Script
10 55 (5.48%) Groovy
11 54 (5.38%) C#
12 24 (2.39%) C++
13 20 (1.99%) Scala
14 17 (1.69%) Perl
14 17 (1.69%) Ruby
15 14 (1.39%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.39%) PHP
16 11 (1.10%) C
17 10 (1.00%) Swift
18 9 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 339 (33.76%) Security Cleared
2 262 (26.10%) SC Cleared
3 88 (8.76%) Degree
4 62 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (5.98%) AWS Certification
6 38 (3.78%) Master's Degree
7 33 (3.29%) Azure Certification
8 31 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 19 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.00%) OCP
14 7 (0.70%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.50%) OCA
15 5 (0.50%) RHCE
16 4 (0.40%) CISSP
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.16%) QA
2 48 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.39%) SLA
6 11 (1.10%) NIST
7 9 (0.90%) NCSC
8 7 (0.70%) GDPR
8 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.60%) WCAG
10 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.30%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.30%) IEC 62304
11 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.30%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
12 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 506 (50.40%) Docker
2 33 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.59%) DFS Replication
5 13 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (1.20%) VMware NSX
6 12 (1.20%) vSphere
7 10 (1.00%) Dovecot
7 10 (1.00%) Postfix
7 10 (1.00%) Squid
8 8 (0.80%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 4 (0.40%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 2 (0.20%) KVM
12 1 (0.100%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.100%) SRDF
12 1 (0.100%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 508 (50.60%) Kubernetes
2 421 (41.93%) Terraform
3 307 (30.58%) Ansible
4 184 (18.33%) Grafana
5 155 (15.44%) Prometheus
6 55 (5.48%) Progress Chef
7 39 (3.88%) Argo
8 33 (3.29%) Istio
9 29 (2.89%) Puppet
10 20 (1.99%) Podman
11 18 (1.79%) Kibana
12 13 (1.29%) ITRS Geneos
12 13 (1.29%) Packer
12 13 (1.29%) Proxmox
13 12 (1.20%) vCenter Server
14 11 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
14 11 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (1.00%) CA Wily
15 10 (1.00%) Nessus
15 10 (1.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 116 (11.55%) Splunk
2 98 (9.76%) Oracle
3 91 (9.06%) Google
4 84 (8.37%) Microsoft
5 54 (5.38%) Red Hat
6 49 (4.88%) ServiceNow
7 48 (4.78%) VMware
8 35 (3.49%) Denodo
8 35 (3.49%) Talend
9 31 (3.09%) Databricks
9 31 (3.09%) F5
10 30 (2.99%) Dynatrace
11 29 (2.89%) Atlassian
12 27 (2.69%) Palo Alto
13 26 (2.59%) CheckPoint
14 20 (1.99%) AppDynamics
15 19 (1.89%) IBM
16 13 (1.29%) Confluent
17 12 (1.20%) Solace
18 11 (1.10%) Broadcom