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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 83 102
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 -48
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 963 748 821
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 3.07% 2.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.05% 22.53% 19.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 514 613
10th Percentile £363 £359 £400
25th Percentile £425 £432 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% -2.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £663 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile - £51.75 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £57.81 £45.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +32.18% -29.57%
75th Percentile £52.31 £74.06 £56.25
90th Percentile £58.73 £79.25 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -29.63% +47.12% -35.61%

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 5,054 3,320 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.92% 13.63% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,378 2,226 2,909
10th Percentile £338 £344 £358
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £692 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 64 160
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.63 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.95 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +3.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.51 £83.13
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -42 405 £530 -11.67% 85
North of England +1 235 £480 -4.00% 84
Yorkshire +5 185 £487 -15.30% 31
Midlands +7 148 £500 +10.01% 19
West Midlands +22 133 £500 +8.11% 13
South East -25 90 £428 -14.50% 49
South West -9 52 £525 -8.70% 43
North West -54 36 £425 -15.00% 36
East of England -24 28 £475 -5.00% 18
North East -8 18 £425 -8.60% 17
East Midlands -36 14 £402 -10.96% 6
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 (11.73%) Confluence
2 68 (7.06%) SAS
3 18 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.83%) Apache
7 7 (0.73%) nginx
8 6 (0.62%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.42%) JBoss
9 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.31%) IIS
11 2 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.62%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 465 (48.29%) AWS
2 383 (39.77%) GitHub
3 299 (31.05%) Azure
4 244 (25.34%) GitHub Actions
5 205 (21.29%) GCP
6 145 (15.06%) OpenShift
7 122 (12.67%) Amazon S3
8 119 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
9 117 (12.15%) Serverless
10 103 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
11 94 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
12 92 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
13 84 (8.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 75 (7.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 63 (6.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 59 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
17 55 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 39 (4.05%) Azure AKS
18 39 (4.05%) Datadog
19 34 (3.53%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.82%) DNS
2 45 (4.67%) Firewall
3 20 (2.08%) VPN
4 17 (1.77%) Network Security
5 13 (1.35%) HTTP
6 10 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.73%) SAN
8 6 (0.62%) Kerberos
9 5 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 5 (0.52%) Internet
9 5 (0.52%) SSL
10 4 (0.42%) NAS
11 3 (0.31%) BGP
12 2 (0.21%) AMQP
12 2 (0.21%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.21%) LAN
12 2 (0.21%) Multicast
12 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
12 2 (0.21%) WAN
13 1 (0.10%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (15.16%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (8.72%) Amazon RDS
3 66 (6.85%) NoSQL
4 44 (4.57%) Relational Database
5 43 (4.47%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.84%) Pentaho
6 37 (3.84%) SQL Server
7 35 (3.63%) MongoDB
7 35 (3.63%) MySQL
8 29 (3.01%) Amazon Aurora
9 24 (2.49%) Redis
10 20 (2.08%) Big Data
11 16 (1.66%) Oracle Database
12 15 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.56%) Metadata
13 13 (1.35%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.35%) Power BI
14 12 (1.25%) Tableau
15 11 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 366 (38.01%) GitLab
2 307 (31.88%) Git
3 206 (21.39%) JIRA
4 123 (12.77%) JUnit
5 112 (11.63%) Selenium
6 88 (9.14%) Cucumber
7 58 (6.02%) Postman
8 57 (5.92%) Maven
8 57 (5.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 48 (4.98%) Bitbucket
10 44 (4.57%) SonarQube
11 42 (4.36%) REST Assured
12 39 (4.05%) Mockito
13 37 (3.84%) JMeter
14 28 (2.91%) Gradle
15 25 (2.60%) Artifactory
15 25 (2.60%) Gatling
16 21 (2.18%) WebDriver
17 20 (2.08%) CircleCI
18 16 (1.66%) Liquibase
General
1 287 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 184 (19.11%) Finance
3 116 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 108 (11.21%) Banking
5 67 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 10 (1.04%) Front Office
8 10 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (0.93%) Retail
10 8 (0.83%) Law
10 8 (0.83%) Military
11 7 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 7 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 177 (18.38%) Developer
2 140 (14.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 132 (13.71%) Senior
4 89 (9.24%) Architect
5 83 (8.62%) Java Developer
6 73 (7.58%) Lead
7 62 (6.44%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.40%) GCP Engineer
9 46 (4.78%) Software Engineer
10 45 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
11 43 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
12 42 (4.36%) Test Engineer
13 40 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
14 35 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 33 (3.43%) Tester
16 31 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
16 31 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.12%) AWS DevOps
18 29 (3.01%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (15.37%) Spring
2 142 (14.75%) REST
3 134 (13.91%) Kafka
4 115 (11.94%) Spring Boot
5 110 (11.42%) Node.js
6 74 (7.68%) RESTful
7 67 (6.96%) Playwright
8 59 (6.13%) React
9 58 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
10 50 (5.19%) AngularJS
11 49 (5.09%) OpenTelemetry
12 46 (4.78%) pytest
13 41 (4.26%) LDAP
13 41 (4.26%) YAML
14 40 (4.15%) OpenID
15 37 (3.84%) GraphQL
16 34 (3.53%) JSON
17 33 (3.43%) Hibernate
17 33 (3.43%) OAuth
18 31 (3.22%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 182 (18.90%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 25 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.97%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.04%) Replication
12 9 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
13 8 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.73%) Equities
14 7 (0.73%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.73%) Private Cloud
15 6 (0.62%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (19.83%) Linux
2 48 (4.98%) Windows
3 37 (3.84%) Unix
4 29 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.77%) VMS
6 11 (1.14%) Android
7 9 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.93%) CentOS
7 9 (0.93%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
8 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 813 (84.42%) CI/CD
2 646 (67.08%) DevOps
3 391 (40.60%) Agile
4 308 (31.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 302 (31.36%) Containerisation
6 294 (30.53%) Test Automation
7 222 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
8 207 (21.50%) Microservices
9 157 (16.30%) Observability
10 150 (15.58%) Scrum
11 132 (13.71%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (12.46%) Software Engineering
13 112 (11.63%) Migration
14 100 (10.38%) Analytics
15 93 (9.66%) Deployment Automation
16 92 (9.55%) Mentoring
17 89 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
18 87 (9.03%) Data Pipeline
18 87 (9.03%) Platform Engineering
19 84 (8.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 417 (43.30%) Python
2 291 (30.22%) Java
3 212 (22.01%) SQL
4 165 (17.13%) Bash
5 82 (8.52%) JavaScript
6 77 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 74 (7.68%) PowerShell
8 55 (5.71%) Shell Script
9 49 (5.09%) C#
10 47 (4.88%) Go
11 31 (3.22%) Groovy
12 29 (3.01%) Scala
13 15 (1.56%) Bicep
14 14 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.35%) PHP
16 12 (1.25%) Ruby
17 9 (0.93%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.93%) Perl
17 9 (0.93%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 361 (37.49%) Security Cleared
2 302 (31.36%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.98%) Degree
4 39 (4.05%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (3.12%) Azure Certification
7 23 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
10 12 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 12 (1.25%) OCP
11 11 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.83%) ISTQB
12 8 (0.83%) RHCE
13 5 (0.52%) OCA
14 4 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.31%) CISSP
15 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.49%) QA
2 55 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.08%) NIST
5 17 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.77%) SLA
6 15 (1.56%) NCSC
7 10 (1.04%) GDPR
8 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.42%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.42%) WCAG
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.21%) HL7
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.21%) MiFID
11 2 (0.21%) PSD2
11 2 (0.21%) SEPA
11 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 459 (47.66%) Docker
2 35 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.80%) vSphere
4 26 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.45%) Active Directory
6 10 (1.04%) Postfix
7 9 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.62%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.62%) HDFS
9 3 (0.31%) GridGain
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.31%) NFS
9 3 (0.31%) SRDF
10 2 (0.21%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.21%) Varnish
10 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.10%) KVM
Systems Management
1 527 (54.72%) Kubernetes
2 377 (39.15%) Terraform
3 258 (26.79%) Ansible
4 187 (19.42%) Grafana
5 151 (15.68%) Prometheus
6 52 (5.40%) Argo
7 42 (4.36%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.43%) Istio
9 32 (3.32%) Puppet
10 27 (2.80%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.77%) Podman
12 12 (1.25%) Kibana
13 9 (0.93%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.93%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.83%) Rancher
15 7 (0.73%) HAProxy
15 7 (0.73%) Packer
16 6 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
17 5 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 95 (9.87%) Splunk
2 74 (7.68%) Google
3 71 (7.37%) Oracle
4 68 (7.06%) Red Hat
5 61 (6.33%) Microsoft
6 57 (5.92%) VMware
7 38 (3.95%) Databricks
7 38 (3.95%) Talend
8 37 (3.84%) Denodo
8 37 (3.84%) ServiceNow
9 27 (2.80%) Pure Storage
10 26 (2.70%) Atlassian
11 24 (2.49%) Sonatype
12 21 (2.18%) Dynatrace
13 15 (1.56%) CyberArk
14 12 (1.25%) Jaspersoft
15 11 (1.14%) Salesforce
16 10 (1.04%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.04%) IBM
17 9 (0.93%) Veritas