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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 74 89
Rank change year-on-year -47 +15 -16
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 992 927 837
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.35% 2.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.63% 23.11% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 653 627
10th Percentile £363 £350 £385
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £670
90th Percentile £639 £700 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 34
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £64.00 £56.25 -
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 5,325 4,011 4,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.52% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,780 2,839
10th Percentile £352 £320 £352
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £631
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 244 95 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £57.75 £51.03 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £73.78
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 6 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 6 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 -39 480 £525 -2.78% 203
North of England -39 248 £450 -3.23% 101
Yorkshire -13 179 £488 -0.79% 35
Midlands -27 129 £477 +0.42% 34
West Midlands -6 122 £479 +0.84% 23
South East -76 65 £460 -8.09% 49
South West -31 53 £550 -4.35% 46
North West -97 47 £425 +5.72% 48
North East -29 26 £450 -3.23% 19
East of England -14 16 £438 -12.50% 20
East Midlands -35 5 £459 +28.07% 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
1 113 (11.39%) Confluence
2 34 (3.43%) SAS
3 25 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.21%) nginx
6 11 (1.11%) Apache
7 10 (1.01%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
9 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.40%) Camunda
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
11 3 (0.30%) IIS
11 3 (0.30%) JBoss
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) 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
1 512 (51.61%) AWS
2 418 (42.14%) GitHub
3 352 (35.48%) Azure
4 303 (30.54%) GitHub Actions
5 223 (22.48%) GCP
6 172 (17.34%) Azure DevOps
7 127 (12.80%) Amazon S3
8 116 (11.69%) Serverless
9 109 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 103 (10.38%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (10.18%) Amazon EC2
12 94 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
13 84 (8.47%) OpenShift
14 77 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 50 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
18 44 (4.44%) Datadog
18 44 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 31 (3.13%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.54%) DNS
2 51 (5.14%) Firewall
3 22 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.81%) Network Security
5 17 (1.71%) SSL
6 15 (1.51%) VPN
7 12 (1.21%) HTTP
8 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (0.81%) VLAN
10 7 (0.71%) SAN
10 7 (0.71%) WAN
11 4 (0.40%) 4G
11 4 (0.40%) BGP
11 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.30%) 5G
12 3 (0.30%) Multicast
12 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (6.15%) MongoDB
4 54 (5.44%) SQL Server
5 53 (5.34%) NoSQL
5 53 (5.34%) Relational Database
6 44 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 43 (4.33%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.92%) Redis
9 26 (2.62%) Big Data
9 26 (2.62%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.92%) MySQL
11 18 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.81%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.81%) Metadata
12 15 (1.51%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.21%) Power BI
15 10 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 351 (35.38%) GitLab
2 337 (33.97%) Git
3 193 (19.46%) JIRA
4 111 (11.19%) JUnit
5 89 (8.97%) Selenium
6 80 (8.06%) Maven
7 71 (7.16%) SonarQube
8 62 (6.25%) Cucumber
9 58 (5.85%) Mockito
10 53 (5.34%) Bitbucket
11 52 (5.24%) Gradle
12 42 (4.23%) REST Assured
13 37 (3.73%) JMeter
13 37 (3.73%) Postman
13 37 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
14 32 (3.23%) Gatling
15 30 (3.02%) WebDriver
16 24 (2.42%) Liquibase
17 22 (2.22%) Artifactory
18 17 (1.71%) Zephyr
General
1 250 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 143 (14.42%) Finance
3 137 (13.81%) Public Sector
4 101 (10.18%) Banking
5 88 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.02%) Law
8 18 (1.81%) Retail
9 16 (1.61%) Publishing
10 15 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.21%) Marketing
12 11 (1.11%) Legal
13 10 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.91%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.60%) Front Office
15 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 234 (23.59%) Developer
2 175 (17.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 155 (15.63%) Senior
4 118 (11.90%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.26%) Lead
6 66 (6.65%) Software Engineer
7 54 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
8 49 (4.94%) Architect
8 49 (4.94%) Senior Developer
9 45 (4.54%) Data Engineer
10 42 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
10 42 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
11 39 (3.93%) GCP Engineer
12 37 (3.73%) Tester
13 35 (3.53%) Senior Java Developer
13 35 (3.53%) Test Engineer
14 34 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
15 33 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
15 33 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 29 (2.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (17.94%) Spring
2 160 (16.13%) Kafka
3 154 (15.52%) REST
4 150 (15.12%) Spring Boot
5 105 (10.58%) RESTful
6 92 (9.27%) React
7 89 (8.97%) Node.js
8 61 (6.15%) Playwright
9 55 (5.54%) SOAP
10 49 (4.94%) AngularJS
10 49 (4.94%) HTML
11 48 (4.84%) Hibernate
11 48 (4.84%) Web Services
12 46 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
13 43 (4.33%) JPA
14 36 (3.63%) CSS
15 32 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
15 32 (3.23%) Swagger
15 32 (3.23%) YAML
16 31 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 172 (17.34%) Cloud Native
2 85 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (7.06%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.02%) Replication
9 19 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.61%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.51%) Mobile App
11 15 (1.51%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.41%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.31%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.21%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
17 9 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 190 (19.15%) Linux
2 55 (5.54%) Unix
3 42 (4.23%) Windows
4 41 (4.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.91%) Android
6 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.50%) CentOS
10 3 (0.30%) AIX
10 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) zOS
11 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (83.67%) CI/CD
2 668 (67.34%) DevOps
3 487 (49.09%) Agile
4 335 (33.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 318 (32.06%) Test Automation
6 269 (27.12%) Containerisation
7 261 (26.31%) Microservices
8 196 (19.76%) Observability
9 195 (19.66%) Scrum
10 181 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 159 (16.03%) Software Engineering
12 156 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
13 137 (13.81%) Platform Engineering
14 118 (11.90%) TDD
15 105 (10.58%) Deployment Automation
16 91 (9.17%) AI
17 89 (8.97%) Event-Driven
17 89 (8.97%) Validation
18 86 (8.67%) DevSecOps
19 85 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 411 (41.43%) Python
2 358 (36.09%) Java
3 255 (25.71%) SQL
4 201 (20.26%) Bash
5 121 (12.20%) PowerShell
6 92 (9.27%) JavaScript
7 75 (7.56%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.14%) C#
9 49 (4.94%) Groovy
9 49 (4.94%) Shell Script
10 48 (4.84%) Go
11 39 (3.93%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.92%) Scala
13 19 (1.92%) Perl
14 18 (1.81%) Bicep
14 18 (1.81%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
15 10 (1.01%) C++
16 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
17 8 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 387 (39.01%) Security Cleared
2 326 (32.86%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.14%) Degree
4 46 (4.64%) AWS Certification
5 43 (4.33%) DV Cleared
6 31 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.31%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.11%) CISSP
11 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.81%) RHCE
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.50%) OCP
17 4 (0.40%) CCNP
17 4 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (12.10%) QA
2 51 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.31%) WCAG
5 8 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.71%) GDPR
6 7 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.71%) SLA
7 6 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.60%) NIST
8 5 (0.50%) SEPA
9 4 (0.40%) PSD2
9 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.20%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 465 (46.88%) Docker
2 27 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.61%) Active Directory
4 15 (1.51%) Postfix
5 14 (1.41%) vSphere
6 13 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.71%) 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
1 465 (46.88%) Kubernetes
2 383 (38.61%) Terraform
3 239 (24.09%) Ansible
4 207 (20.87%) Grafana
5 175 (17.64%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.13%) Argo
6 41 (4.13%) Puppet
7 33 (3.33%) Progress Chef
8 19 (1.92%) Istio
9 18 (1.81%) Control-M
10 14 (1.41%) HAProxy
10 14 (1.41%) vCenter Server
11 11 (1.11%) Packer
12 10 (1.01%) Kibana
12 10 (1.01%) Podman
13 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.71%) Consul
14 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.50%) linkerd
Vendors
1 89 (8.97%) Google
1 89 (8.97%) Oracle
2 83 (8.37%) Microsoft
3 76 (7.66%) Splunk
4 57 (5.75%) Dynatrace
5 49 (4.94%) Red Hat
6 36 (3.63%) VMware
7 31 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 27 (2.72%) Talend
9 24 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 23 (2.32%) Databricks
10 23 (2.32%) Denodo
11 21 (2.12%) IBM
12 18 (1.81%) Jaspersoft
13 14 (1.41%) Atlassian
13 14 (1.41%) Sonatype
14 13 (1.31%) Okta
14 13 (1.31%) Pure Storage
15 12 (1.21%) F5
16 11 (1.11%) ForgeRock