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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 81 93
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 -42
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,025 837 940
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.31% 2.76% 2.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.88% 20.82% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 723 581 689
10th Percentile £351 £390 £406
25th Percentile £413 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £775 £726
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -6.36% +1.85% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 18
10th Percentile £40.00 £52.75 £52.26
25th Percentile £43.13 £66.25 £62.19
Median hourly rate £58.50 £70.00 £72.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.43% -3.11% +12.45%
75th Percentile £86.88 £75.00 £76.88
90th Percentile £110.00 £85.50 £80.57
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £70.00 £72.25
% change year-on-year -16.43% -3.11% +12.45%

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 4,684 4,020 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.26% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,521 3,424
10th Percentile £330 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 101 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -22 440 £525 -14.39% 120
North of England +4 266 £487 +8.28% 127
Yorkshire +2 164 £500 +11.11% 65
Midlands +60 140 £519 +5.92% 87
West Midlands +60 128 £520 +6.12% 50
South East +21 110 £500 - 156
North West +3 82 £450 +12.50% 54
South West -5 50 £538 -10.42% 77
North East +10 21 £575 -7.07% 9
East Midlands -13 12 £402 -4.74% 34
East of England -15 9 £463 -11.90% 72
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
1 125 (12.20%) Confluence
2 54 (5.27%) SAS
3 21 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.85%) Apache
6 18 (1.76%) JBoss
7 17 (1.66%) nginx
8 15 (1.46%) IIS
9 13 (1.27%) WebSphere
10 11 (1.07%) OpenStack
10 11 (1.07%) WebSphere Application Server
11 10 (0.98%) iPlanet
12 8 (0.78%) Mule
13 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.49%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.39%) Anypoint
14 4 (0.39%) CICS
14 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
15 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
15 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 12 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
2 3 (0.29%) Shopify
3 2 (0.20%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.098%) Actimize
4 1 (0.098%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.098%) Finacle
4 1 (0.098%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.098%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 520 (50.73%) AWS
2 294 (28.68%) GitHub
3 265 (25.85%) Azure
4 220 (21.46%) GCP
5 179 (17.46%) GitHub Actions
6 121 (11.80%) Serverless
7 119 (11.61%) OpenShift
8 117 (11.41%) Amazon S3
9 113 (11.02%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (9.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 102 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
11 93 (9.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 89 (8.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 78 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
14 77 (7.51%) Amazon ECS
15 63 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
16 54 (5.27%) Datadog
17 45 (4.39%) Amazon ELB
18 38 (3.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 34 (3.32%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (8.49%) Firewall
2 82 (8.00%) DNS
3 38 (3.71%) VPN
4 37 (3.61%) TCP/IP
5 35 (3.41%) HTTP
6 28 (2.73%) SSL
7 25 (2.44%) SSH
8 24 (2.34%) Network Security
9 22 (2.15%) SMTP
10 20 (1.95%) FTP
11 18 (1.76%) Kerberos
12 11 (1.07%) IMAP
12 11 (1.07%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (0.68%) Internet
14 6 (0.59%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.59%) WAN
15 5 (0.49%) SD-WAN
16 4 (0.39%) NAS
16 4 (0.39%) SAN
16 4 (0.39%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (16.10%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (10.15%) NoSQL
3 96 (9.37%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 35 (3.41%) Oracle Database
6 34 (3.32%) Pentaho
7 33 (3.22%) Relational Database
8 30 (2.93%) MySQL
9 28 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 28 (2.73%) DynamoDB
9 28 (2.73%) SQL Server
10 23 (2.24%) Redis
11 19 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.76%) Big Data
13 17 (1.66%) RDBMS
14 16 (1.56%) BigQuery
15 14 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (1.27%) Hadoop
17 11 (1.07%) SAS Enterprise Guide
18 10 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 368 (35.90%) Git
2 350 (34.15%) GitLab
3 240 (23.41%) JIRA
4 91 (8.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 88 (8.59%) JUnit
6 81 (7.90%) Cucumber
7 79 (7.71%) Selenium
8 65 (6.34%) Bitbucket
8 65 (6.34%) SonarQube
9 52 (5.07%) Postman
10 46 (4.49%) Maven
11 39 (3.80%) Gradle
12 36 (3.51%) Artifactory
13 35 (3.41%) Liquibase
14 33 (3.22%) CircleCI
15 29 (2.83%) Cypress.io
16 28 (2.73%) REST Assured
17 24 (2.34%) Vagrant
18 23 (2.24%) JMeter
19 21 (2.05%) TeamCity
General
1 303 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 226 (22.05%) Finance
3 154 (15.02%) Banking
4 138 (13.46%) Public Sector
5 65 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.22%) Financial Institution
7 21 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.37%) Military
9 12 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 10 (0.98%) Investment Banking
11 10 (0.98%) Marketing
12 9 (0.88%) Retail
13 7 (0.68%) Front Office
13 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.59%) Games
15 5 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 196 (19.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 174 (16.98%) Developer
3 169 (16.49%) Senior
4 90 (8.78%) AWS Engineer
5 79 (7.71%) Java Developer
6 76 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
7 71 (6.93%) Lead
8 61 (5.95%) Architect
9 60 (5.85%) Data Engineer
10 56 (5.46%) AWS DevOps
11 51 (4.98%) Software Engineer
12 49 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 48 (4.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 48 (4.68%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 44 (4.29%) GCP Engineer
16 39 (3.80%) Automation Engineer
17 36 (3.51%) Senior Developer
18 35 (3.41%) Tester
19 34 (3.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (15.02%) REST
2 152 (14.83%) Kafka
3 110 (10.73%) RESTful
4 102 (9.95%) Elastic Stack
5 98 (9.56%) Spring
6 88 (8.59%) Node.js
7 84 (8.20%) Spring Boot
8 67 (6.54%) React
9 62 (6.05%) Playwright
10 55 (5.37%) GraphQL
11 50 (4.88%) HTML
12 42 (4.10%) RabbitMQ
13 41 (4.00%) CSS
14 40 (3.90%) JSON
15 35 (3.41%) OAuth
15 35 (3.41%) SOAP
16 34 (3.32%) XML
17 33 (3.22%) .NET
17 33 (3.22%) AngularJS
18 30 (2.93%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 151 (14.73%) Cloud Native
2 83 (8.10%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.90%) Replication
5 39 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 20 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.76%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.76%) Private Cloud
8 17 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.17%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 12 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
12 12 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (0.98%) Derivative
15 9 (0.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 256 (24.98%) Linux
2 88 (8.59%) Windows
3 52 (5.07%) Unix
4 28 (2.73%) VMS
5 27 (2.63%) Windows Server
6 24 (2.34%) Amazon Linux
7 21 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.37%) Apple iOS
8 14 (1.37%) Ubuntu
9 13 (1.27%) Android
10 11 (1.07%) CentOS
11 3 (0.29%) Debian
11 3 (0.29%) Solaris
11 3 (0.29%) zOS
12 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.098%) MVS
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (79.12%) CI/CD
2 669 (65.27%) DevOps
3 440 (42.93%) Agile
4 329 (32.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 303 (29.56%) Containerisation
6 258 (25.17%) Test Automation
7 241 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
8 233 (22.73%) Microservices
9 153 (14.93%) Scrum
10 144 (14.05%) Software Engineering
11 126 (12.29%) Mentoring
12 122 (11.90%) Observability
13 114 (11.12%) Configuration Management
13 114 (11.12%) Continuous Integration
14 106 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
15 101 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
16 96 (9.37%) High Availability
17 95 (9.27%) TDD
18 91 (8.88%) Data Pipeline
19 90 (8.78%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 512 (49.95%) Python
2 303 (29.56%) Java
3 189 (18.44%) Bash
4 188 (18.34%) SQL
5 117 (11.41%) JavaScript
6 107 (10.44%) PowerShell
7 105 (10.24%) Go
8 81 (7.90%) TypeScript
9 64 (6.24%) C#
9 64 (6.24%) Shell Script
10 63 (6.15%) Groovy
11 29 (2.83%) Perl
12 28 (2.73%) C++
13 20 (1.95%) Scala
14 16 (1.56%) Ruby
15 13 (1.27%) Kotlin
16 11 (1.07%) C
16 11 (1.07%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.98%) PHP
17 10 (0.98%) Swift
Qualifications
1 354 (34.54%) Security Cleared
2 270 (26.34%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.27%) Degree
4 68 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (6.24%) AWS Certification
6 42 (4.10%) DV Cleared
7 40 (3.90%) Master's Degree
8 27 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 19 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
12 11 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.98%) OCP
14 6 (0.59%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.49%) OCA
15 5 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.39%) CISSP
16 4 (0.39%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (10.05%) QA
2 48 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (0.88%) NCSC
6 7 (0.68%) GDPR
6 7 (0.68%) NIST
7 6 (0.59%) WCAG
8 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.39%) SLA
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.29%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.29%) IEC 62304
10 3 (0.29%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.20%) HL7
11 2 (0.20%) MiFID
12 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.098%) JSP 440
System Software
1 527 (51.41%) Docker
2 36 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (3.41%) Active Directory
4 20 (1.95%) DFS Replication
5 14 (1.37%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.37%) vSphere
6 12 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (1.07%) Dovecot
7 11 (1.07%) Postfix
7 11 (1.07%) Squid
8 8 (0.78%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 4 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.29%) HDFS
10 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 2 (0.20%) KVM
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.098%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 509 (49.66%) Kubernetes
2 413 (40.29%) Terraform
3 315 (30.73%) Ansible
4 177 (17.27%) Grafana
5 156 (15.22%) Prometheus
6 64 (6.24%) Progress Chef
7 40 (3.90%) Puppet
8 35 (3.41%) Argo
9 26 (2.54%) Istio
10 20 (1.95%) Kibana
11 16 (1.56%) ITRS Geneos
11 16 (1.56%) vCenter Server
12 15 (1.46%) Packer
13 14 (1.37%) Podman
14 13 (1.27%) Proxmox
15 12 (1.17%) Nessus
16 11 (1.07%) CA Single Sign-On
16 11 (1.07%) logstash
17 10 (0.98%) CA Wily
17 10 (0.98%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 118 (11.51%) Splunk
2 93 (9.07%) Oracle
3 91 (8.88%) Microsoft
4 80 (7.80%) Google
5 56 (5.46%) Red Hat
6 54 (5.27%) VMware
7 43 (4.20%) ServiceNow
8 36 (3.51%) Talend
9 34 (3.32%) Denodo
10 33 (3.22%) F5
11 30 (2.93%) Dynatrace
12 28 (2.73%) Databricks
13 27 (2.63%) Atlassian
13 27 (2.63%) Palo Alto
14 26 (2.54%) CheckPoint
15 20 (1.95%) AppDynamics
16 19 (1.85%) IBM
17 15 (1.46%) Solace
18 13 (1.27%) Broadcom
19 11 (1.07%) Jaspersoft