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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 74 87
Rank change year-on-year -54 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 977 903 849
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 3.30% 2.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.78% 22.28% 19.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 628 630
10th Percentile £356 £344 £388
25th Percentile £413 £409 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 32
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -5.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -3.78%

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 5,202 4,053 4,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.80% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,809 2,845
10th Percentile £356 £325 £354
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 97 172
10th Percentile £36.75 £42.40 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.75 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.18 £82.98 £71.84
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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -26 514 £525 -0.94% 426
North of England -47 233 £450 -3.23% 118
Yorkshire -17 161 £477 -3.31% 37
Midlands -48 97 £487 +2.47% 40
West Midlands -31 90 £488 - 25
South East -80 69 £460 -8.00% 59
South West -22 51 £550 -4.35% 74
North West -89 51 £425 +5.33% 68
North East -35 23 £450 -6.25% 13
East of England -16 16 £425 -15.00% 34
East Midlands -35 6 £358 - 15
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
1 102 (10.44%) Confluence
2 23 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.43%) nginx
5 13 (1.33%) SAS
6 9 (0.92%) Camunda
6 9 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.82%) Apache
8 7 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.72%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 4 (0.41%) IIS
9 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Magento
2 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 520 (53.22%) AWS
2 404 (41.35%) GitHub
3 389 (39.82%) Azure
4 310 (31.73%) GitHub Actions
5 219 (22.42%) GCP
6 192 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (12.59%) Serverless
8 114 (11.67%) Amazon S3
9 105 (10.75%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (10.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (9.42%) OpenShift
12 86 (8.80%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
14 68 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (6.65%) Amazon ECS
16 46 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 43 (4.40%) Amazon SQS
18 41 (4.20%) Datadog
19 40 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 24 (2.46%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.53%) Firewall
2 50 (5.12%) DNS
3 32 (3.28%) TCP/IP
4 23 (2.35%) Network Security
5 17 (1.74%) HTTP
5 17 (1.74%) SSL
6 13 (1.33%) VLAN
7 12 (1.23%) VPN
8 11 (1.13%) SAN
9 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 8 (0.82%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.82%) WAN
11 7 (0.72%) SSH
12 6 (0.61%) DHCP
12 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (0.51%) 4G
14 4 (0.41%) 5G
14 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (15.66%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.35%) Relational Database
2 62 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 61 (6.24%) MongoDB
4 59 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (6.04%) NoSQL
5 40 (4.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 38 (3.89%) Redis
7 36 (3.68%) DynamoDB
8 27 (2.76%) Big Data
9 24 (2.46%) MySQL
10 19 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.74%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.64%) Metadata
13 15 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.43%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.43%) Pentaho
15 13 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (1.23%) RDBMS
17 11 (1.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 362 (37.05%) GitLab
2 334 (34.19%) Git
3 173 (17.71%) JIRA
4 100 (10.24%) JUnit
5 86 (8.80%) Selenium
6 85 (8.70%) Maven
7 75 (7.68%) SonarQube
8 65 (6.65%) Gradle
9 59 (6.04%) Mockito
10 55 (5.63%) Bitbucket
11 54 (5.53%) Cucumber
12 46 (4.71%) REST Assured
13 44 (4.50%) Sonatype Nexus
14 39 (3.99%) Postman
15 38 (3.89%) JMeter
16 34 (3.48%) Gatling
17 28 (2.87%) WebDriver
18 21 (2.15%) Liquibase
19 20 (2.05%) Artifactory
20 16 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 242 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 153 (15.66%) Finance
3 124 (12.69%) Public Sector
4 107 (10.95%) Banking
5 101 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (1.94%) Law
9 18 (1.84%) Retail
10 15 (1.54%) Publishing
11 13 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.33%) Marketing
11 13 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.02%) Legal
13 9 (0.92%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.72%) Front Office
14 7 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 250 (25.59%) Developer
2 174 (17.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 152 (15.56%) Senior
4 115 (11.77%) Java Developer
5 73 (7.47%) Lead
6 52 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
6 52 (5.32%) Software Engineer
7 48 (4.91%) Architect
8 47 (4.81%) Senior Developer
9 45 (4.61%) Test Engineer
10 41 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
12 35 (3.58%) Automation Engineer
13 34 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 34 (3.48%) Software Developer
14 33 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
14 33 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
15 30 (3.07%) Data Engineer
15 30 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
15 30 (3.07%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 383 (39.20%) Terraform
2 188 (19.24%) Kafka
3 177 (18.12%) Spring
4 158 (16.17%) REST
4 158 (16.17%) Spring Boot
5 120 (12.28%) RESTful
6 108 (11.05%) React
7 88 (9.01%) Node.js
8 69 (7.06%) HTML
9 58 (5.94%) Playwright
10 51 (5.22%) AngularJS
10 51 (5.22%) Hibernate
11 50 (5.12%) Elastic Stack
12 49 (5.02%) CSS
13 47 (4.81%) JPA
14 46 (4.71%) SOAP
15 44 (4.50%) Web Services
16 38 (3.89%) JSON
17 36 (3.68%) .NET
18 34 (3.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 173 (17.71%) Cloud Native
2 77 (7.88%) Product Ownership
3 69 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (2.66%) Replication
7 24 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.15%) AI Agents
8 21 (2.15%) Data Centre
9 19 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 18 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.64%) Mobile App
12 15 (1.54%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.43%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.23%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.23%) Public Cloud
15 11 (1.13%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 204 (20.88%) Linux
2 63 (6.45%) Unix
3 46 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (4.61%) Windows
5 15 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.02%) Android
6 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.61%) CentOS
9 5 (0.51%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.31%) 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%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (84.14%) CI/CD
2 655 (67.04%) DevOps
3 471 (48.21%) Agile
4 349 (35.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 316 (32.34%) Test Automation
6 278 (28.45%) Containerisation
7 270 (27.64%) Microservices
8 212 (21.70%) Observability
9 180 (18.42%) Scrum
10 173 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 155 (15.86%) Software Engineering
12 152 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
13 141 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
14 112 (11.46%) TDD
15 104 (10.64%) Deployment Automation
16 102 (10.44%) Event-Driven
17 100 (10.24%) DevSecOps
18 96 (9.83%) AI
19 94 (9.62%) Validation
20 89 (9.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 415 (42.48%) Python
2 382 (39.10%) Java
3 251 (25.69%) SQL
4 194 (19.86%) Bash
5 123 (12.59%) PowerShell
6 112 (11.46%) JavaScript
7 81 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.94%) C#
9 54 (5.53%) Groovy
10 49 (5.02%) Go
10 49 (5.02%) Shell Script
11 39 (3.99%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.97%) Perl
13 28 (2.87%) Scala
14 19 (1.94%) Kotlin
15 18 (1.84%) Bicep
16 12 (1.23%) C++
17 11 (1.13%) Korn
18 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
19 9 (0.92%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 388 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 324 (33.16%) SC Cleared
3 56 (5.73%) Degree
4 55 (5.63%) DV Cleared
5 47 (4.81%) AWS Certification
6 37 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.66%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.74%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.54%) CISSP
11 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (13.31%) QA
2 38 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.54%) NIST
5 14 (1.43%) WCAG
6 13 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.82%) GDPR
9 6 (0.61%) NCSC
10 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) SEPA
11 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.41%) PSD2
11 4 (0.41%) SLA
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 472 (48.31%) Docker
2 25 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.05%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 8 (0.82%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.61%) NFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) Squid
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) GridGain
10 3 (0.31%) Varnish
10 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 479 (49.03%) Kubernetes
2 223 (22.82%) Ansible
3 205 (20.98%) Grafana
4 176 (18.01%) Prometheus
5 36 (3.68%) Argo
5 36 (3.68%) Progress Chef
6 35 (3.58%) Puppet
7 19 (1.94%) Kibana
8 18 (1.84%) Control-M
9 15 (1.54%) Istio
10 13 (1.33%) HAProxy
11 11 (1.13%) Packer
12 10 (1.02%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.92%) Podman
13 9 (0.92%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.72%) Consul
14 7 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 91 (9.31%) Microsoft
1 91 (9.31%) Oracle
2 87 (8.90%) Google
3 82 (8.39%) Splunk
4 63 (6.45%) Dynatrace
5 45 (4.61%) Red Hat
6 33 (3.38%) IBM
6 33 (3.38%) VMware
7 32 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.97%) Databricks
9 27 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.54%) Talend
11 14 (1.43%) New Relic
12 12 (1.23%) Sonatype
12 12 (1.23%) Veracode
13 11 (1.13%) Denodo
13 11 (1.13%) NetApp
14 10 (1.02%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.02%) F5
14 10 (1.02%) Jaspersoft