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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 85 105
Rank change year-on-year -10 +20 -52
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,003 725 828
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.72% 2.95% 2.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.97% 21.79% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 689 505 616
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £669
90th Percentile £663 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £539
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.23% -10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £58.13 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £71.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.67% -19.64%
75th Percentile £60.25 £80.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.90 £89.75 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £51.07
% change year-on-year -25.61% +39.53% -27.05%

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 5,023 3,327 4,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.64% 13.54% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,394 2,192 2,970
10th Percentile £338 £336 £358
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £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 183 62 183
10th Percentile £35.80 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.39
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.75 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -34 417 £525 -13.04% 99
North of England +13 255 £487 -2.60% 89
Yorkshire +13 195 £500 -9.09% 37
Midlands +19 157 £513 +7.95% 23
West Midlands +24 143 £515 +7.97% 18
South East +1 98 £467 -6.55% 64
South West -1 54 £525 -8.70% 43
North West -46 45 £430 +6.97% 31
East of England -21 23 £475 +5.56% 31
North East +2 20 £513 +1.49% 21
East Midlands -35 13 £401 -11.18% 5
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
1 126 (12.56%) Confluence
2 65 (6.48%) SAS
3 21 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.80%) Apache
7 7 (0.70%) nginx
8 5 (0.50%) JBoss
8 5 (0.50%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.100%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.100%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.100%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.100%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 20 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.100%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.100%) Actimize
3 1 (0.100%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.100%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.100%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 502 (50.05%) AWS
2 391 (38.98%) GitHub
3 278 (27.72%) Azure
4 237 (23.63%) GitHub Actions
5 226 (22.53%) GCP
6 144 (14.36%) OpenShift
7 131 (13.06%) Serverless
8 123 (12.26%) Amazon S3
9 115 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
10 105 (10.47%) Amazon EC2
11 97 (9.67%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (9.27%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (8.97%) AWS CloudFormation
14 80 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 73 (7.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 68 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
17 61 (6.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 49 (4.89%) Datadog
19 34 (3.39%) Azure AKS
20 32 (3.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.98%) DNS
2 53 (5.28%) Firewall
3 27 (2.69%) VPN
4 18 (1.79%) Network Security
5 14 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.10%) HTTP
7 9 (0.90%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.70%) SSL
8 7 (0.70%) WAN
9 6 (0.60%) Internet
9 6 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.50%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.50%) SAN
11 3 (0.30%) BGP
12 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.20%) LAN
12 2 (0.20%) NAS
12 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
13 1 (0.100%) Multicast
13 1 (0.100%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (16.45%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (8.87%) NoSQL
3 88 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (5.38%) MongoDB
5 45 (4.49%) DynamoDB
6 38 (3.79%) Relational Database
7 37 (3.69%) MySQL
8 34 (3.39%) Pentaho
9 32 (3.19%) SQL Server
10 26 (2.59%) Redis
11 24 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 21 (2.09%) Big Data
13 18 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (1.79%) Oracle Database
14 15 (1.50%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.30%) Power BI
16 12 (1.20%) Tableau
17 11 (1.10%) Hadoop
17 11 (1.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 400 (39.88%) GitLab
2 314 (31.31%) Git
3 228 (22.73%) JIRA
4 122 (12.16%) JUnit
5 112 (11.17%) Selenium
6 96 (9.57%) Cucumber
7 69 (6.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 61 (6.08%) Postman
9 56 (5.58%) Bitbucket
10 53 (5.28%) Maven
11 43 (4.29%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.19%) REST Assured
13 36 (3.59%) JMeter
13 36 (3.59%) Mockito
14 34 (3.39%) Gradle
15 26 (2.59%) Artifactory
15 26 (2.59%) CircleCI
16 23 (2.29%) Liquibase
17 20 (1.99%) Gatling
18 19 (1.89%) WebDriver
General
1 310 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 207 (20.64%) Finance
3 127 (12.66%) Banking
4 125 (12.46%) Public Sector
5 76 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (2.19%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.00%) Military
11 9 (0.90%) Retail
12 7 (0.70%) Front Office
12 7 (0.70%) Law
12 7 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 181 (18.05%) Developer
2 146 (14.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 138 (13.76%) Senior
4 86 (8.57%) Architect
5 81 (8.08%) Java Developer
5 81 (8.08%) Lead
6 66 (6.58%) GCP Engineer
7 64 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 57 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
9 52 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 51 (5.08%) Software Engineer
11 42 (4.19%) Test Engineer
12 39 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 35 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 33 (3.29%) Automation Engineer
15 33 (3.29%) AWS DevOps
16 32 (3.19%) Tester
17 31 (3.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (17.05%) REST
2 151 (15.05%) Spring
3 148 (14.76%) Kafka
4 114 (11.37%) Spring Boot
5 107 (10.67%) Node.js
6 79 (7.88%) Elastic Stack
7 77 (7.68%) RESTful
8 68 (6.78%) Playwright
9 55 (5.48%) React
10 47 (4.69%) AngularJS
11 46 (4.59%) OpenTelemetry
12 43 (4.29%) pytest
13 41 (4.09%) OpenID
14 40 (3.99%) GraphQL
15 39 (3.89%) JSON
15 39 (3.89%) LDAP
16 38 (3.79%) YAML
17 37 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
18 35 (3.49%) SOAP
19 34 (3.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 184 (18.34%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 38 (3.79%) Product Ownership
5 32 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.00%) Replication
10 9 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 9 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 9 (0.90%) Derivative
10 9 (0.90%) Equities
10 9 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
10 9 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 9 (0.90%) Private Cloud
11 8 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 216 (21.54%) Linux
2 54 (5.38%) Windows
3 35 (3.49%) Unix
4 28 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.69%) VMS
6 12 (1.20%) Android
7 10 (1.00%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.90%) CentOS
9 4 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.100%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.100%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (84.15%) CI/CD
2 667 (66.50%) DevOps
3 402 (40.08%) Agile
4 334 (33.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 305 (30.41%) Containerisation
6 302 (30.11%) Test Automation
7 243 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (22.53%) Microservices
9 158 (15.75%) Observability
10 145 (14.46%) Scrum
11 134 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (12.86%) Software Engineering
13 108 (10.77%) Migration
14 106 (10.57%) Mentoring
15 92 (9.17%) Analytics
16 89 (8.87%) Deployment Automation
17 88 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
18 86 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
19 84 (8.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 84 (8.37%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 448 (44.67%) Python
2 293 (29.21%) Java
3 209 (20.84%) SQL
4 164 (16.35%) Bash
5 91 (9.07%) JavaScript
6 80 (7.98%) TypeScript
7 77 (7.68%) PowerShell
8 75 (7.48%) Go
9 51 (5.08%) C#
9 51 (5.08%) Shell Script
10 28 (2.79%) Groovy
11 27 (2.69%) Scala
12 16 (1.60%) C++
13 14 (1.40%) PHP
14 12 (1.20%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.20%) Ruby
15 10 (1.00%) Bicep
15 10 (1.00%) Perl
15 10 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 359 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 293 (29.21%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.58%) Degree
4 48 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 27 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
9 14 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.10%) OCP
12 9 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.80%) RHCE
14 6 (0.60%) OCA
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.07%) QA
2 51 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.99%) NIST
5 19 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.69%) NCSC
6 17 (1.69%) SLA
7 10 (1.00%) GDPR
8 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.20%) HL7
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.20%) MiFID
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
11 2 (0.20%) SEPA
11 2 (0.20%) WCAG
12 1 (0.100%) SOC 2
System Software
1 465 (46.36%) Docker
2 28 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.19%) VMware NSX
3 22 (2.19%) vSphere
4 14 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.20%) Active Directory
6 7 (0.70%) Postfix
7 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.60%) HDFS
8 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.20%) SRDF
10 1 (0.100%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.100%) KVM
10 1 (0.100%) NFS
10 1 (0.100%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.100%) Varnish
10 1 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 531 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 398 (39.68%) Terraform
3 282 (28.12%) Ansible
4 206 (20.54%) Grafana
5 162 (16.15%) Prometheus
6 48 (4.79%) Argo
7 41 (4.09%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.29%) Istio
9 28 (2.79%) Puppet
10 22 (2.19%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.69%) Podman
12 12 (1.20%) Kibana
13 10 (1.00%) Packer
14 8 (0.80%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.70%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.70%) Rancher
15 7 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
17 4 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (11.27%) Splunk
2 84 (8.37%) Google
3 71 (7.08%) Oracle
4 62 (6.18%) Microsoft
5 57 (5.68%) Red Hat
6 52 (5.18%) VMware
7 41 (4.09%) ServiceNow
8 37 (3.69%) Databricks
9 34 (3.39%) Denodo
9 34 (3.39%) Talend
10 32 (3.19%) Atlassian
11 24 (2.39%) Dynatrace
11 24 (2.39%) Sonatype
12 22 (2.19%) Pure Storage
13 17 (1.69%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.00%) AppDynamics
14 10 (1.00%) Cisco
14 10 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (0.90%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.90%) Veritas