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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 79 96
Rank change year-on-year -34 +17 -37
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 926 767 831
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.18% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.49% 22.49% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 526 622
10th Percentile £372 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £657 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £541
% change year-on-year - -7.62% -7.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 27
10th Percentile - £54.75 £52.10
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £65.94
Median hourly rate £68.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.25 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% -7.14% -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 5,007 3,411 4,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.94% 14.16% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,298 2,911
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £638
90th Percentile £680 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 64 205
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.63 £31.43
25th Percentile £56.81 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.63 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -41 405 £550 - 89
North of England -8 258 £475 +0.96% 77
Yorkshire +3 199 £488 -2.50% 31
Midlands -14 128 £481 +6.89% 21
West Midlands -2 117 £488 +2.63% 9
South East -73 62 £433 -13.50% 34
South West -15 51 £538 -6.52% 30
North West -65 41 £425 +8.14% 34
North East -10 25 £425 -8.60% 13
East of England -20 24 £478 -4.40% 12
East Midlands -47 9 £393 +7.08% 12
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
1 108 (11.66%) Confluence
2 33 (3.56%) SAS
3 25 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.08%) Apache
6 8 (0.86%) nginx
6 8 (0.86%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.32%) Camunda
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 477 (51.51%) AWS
2 393 (42.44%) GitHub
3 297 (32.07%) Azure
4 265 (28.62%) GitHub Actions
5 213 (23.00%) GCP
6 130 (14.04%) Amazon S3
7 114 (12.31%) Serverless
8 110 (11.88%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (11.23%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 102 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (10.69%) OpenShift
12 93 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
13 74 (7.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 60 (6.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 57 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
15 57 (6.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 40 (4.32%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (3.89%) Route 53
18 33 (3.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.48%) DNS
2 54 (5.83%) Firewall
3 17 (1.84%) Network Security
4 16 (1.73%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.62%) VPN
6 10 (1.08%) SSL
7 8 (0.86%) SAN
8 7 (0.76%) BIG-IP
8 7 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 7 (0.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 6 (0.65%) HTTP
10 5 (0.54%) NAS
10 5 (0.54%) VLAN
11 4 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.43%) WAN
12 3 (0.32%) BGP
12 3 (0.32%) VSAN
13 2 (0.22%) Internet
13 2 (0.22%) Multicast
13 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (15.55%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (8.10%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (5.51%) NoSQL
4 50 (5.40%) MongoDB
5 49 (5.29%) DynamoDB
6 48 (5.18%) Amazon Aurora
7 45 (4.86%) Relational Database
8 40 (4.32%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.35%) Redis
10 27 (2.92%) Big Data
11 26 (2.81%) MySQL
12 24 (2.59%) Pentaho
13 19 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.73%) BigQuery
14 16 (1.73%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (1.40%) Metadata
17 11 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
18 10 (1.08%) Power BI
19 9 (0.97%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 349 (37.69%) GitLab
2 277 (29.91%) Git
3 191 (20.63%) JIRA
4 111 (11.99%) JUnit
5 106 (11.45%) Selenium
6 73 (7.88%) Cucumber
7 65 (7.02%) Maven
8 56 (6.05%) Mockito
9 54 (5.83%) SonarQube
10 52 (5.62%) REST Assured
11 50 (5.40%) Postman
12 43 (4.64%) Bitbucket
13 37 (4.00%) JMeter
14 36 (3.89%) Gatling
15 35 (3.78%) Gradle
15 35 (3.78%) Sonatype Nexus
16 29 (3.13%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.59%) Liquibase
18 20 (2.16%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.62%) Serenity BDD
General
1 251 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 141 (15.23%) Finance
3 119 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 101 (10.91%) Banking
5 71 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (1.84%) Law
10 15 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (1.62%) Retail
11 9 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.86%) Legal
13 7 (0.76%) Front Office
13 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.76%) Publishing
14 6 (0.65%) Marketing
14 6 (0.65%) Military
15 3 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 176 (19.01%) Developer
2 155 (16.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 137 (14.79%) Senior
4 96 (10.37%) Java Developer
5 77 (8.32%) Architect
6 74 (7.99%) Lead
7 54 (5.83%) Software Engineer
8 53 (5.72%) GCP Engineer
9 50 (5.40%) Test Engineer
10 47 (5.08%) Data Engineer
11 43 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (3.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 36 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
12 36 (3.89%) Senior Developer
13 35 (3.78%) Tester
14 33 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
14 33 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 28 (3.02%) GCP DevOps
16 27 (2.92%) Java Engineer
16 27 (2.92%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (17.71%) Spring
2 135 (14.58%) Spring Boot
3 130 (14.04%) Kafka
4 127 (13.71%) REST
5 92 (9.94%) RESTful
6 82 (8.86%) Node.js
7 62 (6.70%) React
8 58 (6.26%) Playwright
9 52 (5.62%) AngularJS
10 45 (4.86%) Elastic Stack
10 45 (4.86%) LDAP
10 45 (4.86%) OpenTelemetry
11 44 (4.75%) SOAP
12 41 (4.43%) JPA
13 40 (4.32%) Web Services
14 39 (4.21%) HTML
14 39 (4.21%) Spring Cloud
15 37 (4.00%) OpenID
16 35 (3.78%) Hibernate
17 31 (3.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 187 (20.19%) Cloud Native
2 83 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (5.51%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (1.84%) Replication
9 12 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.30%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.86%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.76%) Clustering
13 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.76%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 185 (19.98%) Linux
2 50 (5.40%) Unix
3 43 (4.64%) Windows
4 42 (4.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.51%) VMS
6 12 (1.30%) CentOS
7 10 (1.08%) Android
8 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.32%) AIX
11 3 (0.32%) zOS
12 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.22%) Solaris
12 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (86.07%) CI/CD
2 618 (66.74%) DevOps
3 389 (42.01%) Agile
4 323 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 293 (31.64%) Test Automation
6 270 (29.16%) Containerisation
7 231 (24.95%) Microservices
8 182 (19.65%) Observability
9 162 (17.49%) Scrum
10 147 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
11 143 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 143 (15.44%) Software Engineering
12 110 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
13 108 (11.66%) Migration
14 92 (9.94%) TDD
15 86 (9.29%) Validation
16 83 (8.96%) Event-Driven
17 80 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 78 (8.42%) DevSecOps
18 78 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 386 (41.68%) Python
2 324 (34.99%) Java
3 223 (24.08%) SQL
4 166 (17.93%) Bash
5 85 (9.18%) PowerShell
6 77 (8.32%) JavaScript
7 61 (6.59%) TypeScript
8 57 (6.16%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.64%) Go
10 36 (3.89%) Scala
11 35 (3.78%) Groovy
12 31 (3.35%) C#
13 17 (1.84%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.62%) PL/SQL
15 12 (1.30%) Bicep
16 11 (1.19%) MATLAB
16 11 (1.19%) Perl
17 9 (0.97%) Ruby
18 8 (0.86%) PHP
19 7 (0.76%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 357 (38.55%) Security Cleared
2 306 (33.05%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.32%) Degree
4 37 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.51%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.19%) SAFe Agilist
11 10 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.76%) Oracle Certification
13 7 (0.76%) RHCE
14 6 (0.65%) OCP
15 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.43%) PMP
16 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (11.12%) QA
2 43 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.05%) SLA
6 18 (1.94%) NIST
7 14 (1.51%) NCSC
8 10 (1.08%) WCAG
9 8 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.43%) GDPR
11 4 (0.43%) PSD2
11 4 (0.43%) SEPA
12 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 414 (44.71%) Docker
2 26 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.27%) vSphere
4 19 (2.05%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.84%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.62%) Postfix
7 14 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.76%) NFS
9 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.54%) HDFS
10 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.43%) SRDF
11 4 (0.43%) Varnish
12 3 (0.32%) GridGain
12 3 (0.32%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.22%) Squid
13 2 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.22%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 453 (48.92%) Kubernetes
2 377 (40.71%) Terraform
3 224 (24.19%) Ansible
4 204 (22.03%) Grafana
5 169 (18.25%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.97%) Argo
7 30 (3.24%) Istio
7 30 (3.24%) Puppet
8 26 (2.81%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.27%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.62%) Kibana
10 15 (1.62%) Podman
11 14 (1.51%) HAProxy
12 11 (1.19%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (0.97%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.76%) Packer
15 6 (0.65%) Consul
16 5 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 85 (9.18%) Google
2 82 (8.86%) Splunk
3 65 (7.02%) Oracle
4 63 (6.80%) Red Hat
5 58 (6.26%) Microsoft
6 43 (4.64%) VMware
7 35 (3.78%) ServiceNow
8 29 (3.13%) Dynatrace
9 27 (2.92%) Databricks
10 25 (2.70%) Talend
11 21 (2.27%) Atlassian
11 21 (2.27%) Denodo
11 21 (2.27%) Salesforce
12 20 (2.16%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
13 18 (1.94%) Sonatype
14 16 (1.73%) IBM
15 15 (1.62%) CyberArk
16 13 (1.40%) Okta
17 11 (1.19%) ForgeRock