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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 81 99
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 -42
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 919 737 823
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.04% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.45% 22.10% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 509 622
10th Percentile £375 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £420 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -5.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £650 £675
90th Percentile £663 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £540
% change year-on-year -0.99% -6.48% -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 23
10th Percentile £42.50 £49.50 £47.95
25th Percentile £46.25 £54.38 £65.63
Median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.13 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £68.75 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £60.36 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.98% -17.86% -4.11%

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 4,980 3,335 4,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.08% 13.77% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 2,248 2,904
10th Percentile £346 £343 £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 £609 £638
90th Percentile £688 £728 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 62 194
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.54 £32.10
25th Percentile £57.94 £48.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -9.04% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -35 408 £550 - 92
North of England -1 245 £475 -0.52% 63
Yorkshire +4 188 £485 -3.10% 27
Midlands -12 122 £492 +14.69% 13
West Midlands +3 106 £498 +10.56% 5
South East -53 66 £435 -13.00% 51
South West -18 51 £531 -7.61% 31
North West -59 40 £425 -4.92% 23
North East -6 24 £425 -8.60% 13
East of England -17 24 £478 -4.40% 22
East Midlands -42 14 £402 +8.21% 8
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
1 104 (11.32%) Confluence
2 33 (3.59%) SAS
3 27 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.98%) Apache
6 8 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) nginx
9 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) IIS
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) MTS
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Magento
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 470 (51.14%) AWS
2 381 (41.46%) GitHub
3 307 (33.41%) Azure
4 255 (27.75%) GitHub Actions
5 209 (22.74%) GCP
6 130 (14.15%) Amazon S3
7 118 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
8 107 (11.64%) Serverless
9 105 (11.43%) OpenShift
10 99 (10.77%) Amazon EC2
11 94 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
12 86 (9.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 84 (9.14%) Amazon EKS
14 78 (8.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (6.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 58 (6.31%) Amazon ECS
17 57 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 38 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
18 38 (4.13%) Azure AKS
19 34 (3.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.66%) DNS
2 46 (5.01%) Firewall
3 16 (1.74%) Network Security
4 15 (1.63%) VPN
5 14 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.87%) HTTP
7 7 (0.76%) SAN
8 5 (0.54%) SSL
9 4 (0.44%) NAS
10 3 (0.33%) BGP
10 3 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.33%) WAN
11 2 (0.22%) AMQP
11 2 (0.22%) Internet
11 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.22%) LAN
11 2 (0.22%) Multicast
11 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
12 1 (0.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 1 (0.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (15.13%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.83%) Amazon RDS
3 54 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 49 (5.33%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 45 (4.90%) DynamoDB
7 43 (4.68%) Relational Database
8 39 (4.24%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.16%) Redis
10 25 (2.72%) Big Data
11 21 (2.29%) MySQL
11 21 (2.29%) Pentaho
12 16 (1.74%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (1.52%) Metadata
15 12 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (1.09%) Aerospike
17 9 (0.98%) Data Lake
17 9 (0.98%) DocumentDB
17 9 (0.98%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 348 (37.87%) GitLab
2 280 (30.47%) Git
3 179 (19.48%) JIRA
4 107 (11.64%) Selenium
5 104 (11.32%) JUnit
6 71 (7.73%) Cucumber
7 64 (6.96%) Maven
8 55 (5.98%) Postman
9 54 (5.88%) Mockito
9 54 (5.88%) SonarQube
10 50 (5.44%) REST Assured
11 44 (4.79%) Bitbucket
12 38 (4.13%) Sonatype Nexus
13 33 (3.59%) Gatling
13 33 (3.59%) JMeter
14 30 (3.26%) Gradle
15 23 (2.50%) WebDriver
16 21 (2.29%) Liquibase
17 20 (2.18%) Artifactory
18 15 (1.63%) Serenity BDD
General
1 245 (26.66%) Social Skills
2 151 (16.43%) Finance
3 124 (13.49%) Public Sector
4 101 (10.99%) Banking
5 79 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.63%) Retail
10 13 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.31%) Law
12 10 (1.09%) Front Office
13 9 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.76%) Legal
16 6 (0.65%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.65%) Marketing
16 6 (0.65%) Military
17 5 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 183 (19.91%) Developer
2 153 (16.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 129 (14.04%) Senior
4 94 (10.23%) Java Developer
5 82 (8.92%) Architect
6 77 (8.38%) Lead
7 54 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
8 52 (5.66%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.66%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.44%) Test Engineer
10 41 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
11 38 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
12 34 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (3.70%) Senior Developer
13 32 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 31 (3.37%) Tester
15 28 (3.05%) AWS DevOps
16 27 (2.94%) Senior Java Developer
16 27 (2.94%) Test Automation Engineer
17 26 (2.83%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (16.97%) Spring
2 133 (14.47%) Kafka
3 132 (14.36%) Spring Boot
4 120 (13.06%) REST
5 92 (10.01%) Node.js
6 89 (9.68%) RESTful
7 64 (6.96%) Playwright
8 58 (6.31%) React
9 56 (6.09%) AngularJS
10 50 (5.44%) Elastic Stack
11 49 (5.33%) OpenTelemetry
12 44 (4.79%) LDAP
13 40 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
14 38 (4.13%) SOAP
14 38 (4.13%) Web Services
15 36 (3.92%) HTML
15 36 (3.92%) OpenID
16 32 (3.48%) JPA
16 32 (3.48%) YAML
17 31 (3.37%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 187 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 80 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 14 (1.52%) Replication
8 13 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (0.98%) Private Cloud
11 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
13 6 (0.65%) AI Agents
13 6 (0.65%) Derivative
13 6 (0.65%) Equities
13 6 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 174 (18.93%) Linux
2 44 (4.79%) Unix
3 39 (4.24%) Windows
4 36 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.74%) VMS
6 12 (1.31%) CentOS
7 11 (1.20%) Android
8 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.54%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.33%) AIX
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.22%) zOS
12 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (86.18%) CI/CD
2 623 (67.79%) DevOps
3 382 (41.57%) Agile
4 315 (34.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 288 (31.34%) Test Automation
6 282 (30.69%) Containerisation
7 221 (24.05%) Microservices
8 170 (18.50%) Observability
9 167 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
10 154 (16.76%) Scrum
11 143 (15.56%) Software Engineering
12 139 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 103 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
14 99 (10.77%) Migration
15 88 (9.58%) TDD
16 80 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
17 79 (8.60%) Event-Driven
17 79 (8.60%) Mentoring
17 79 (8.60%) Validation
18 77 (8.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 380 (41.35%) Python
2 314 (34.17%) Java
3 210 (22.85%) SQL
4 160 (17.41%) Bash
5 83 (9.03%) PowerShell
6 75 (8.16%) JavaScript
7 66 (7.18%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.77%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.79%) Go
10 40 (4.35%) C#
11 37 (4.03%) Groovy
11 37 (4.03%) Scala
12 18 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 14 (1.52%) Bicep
14 11 (1.20%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.20%) PHP
15 10 (1.09%) Perl
15 10 (1.09%) Ruby
16 8 (0.87%) C++
16 8 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 356 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 299 (32.54%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.68%) Degree
4 34 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.50%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (1.09%) RHCE
9 10 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (0.98%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.76%) OCP
13 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.44%) PMP
14 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (10.66%) QA
2 44 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.83%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.07%) SLA
6 18 (1.96%) NIST
7 14 (1.52%) NCSC
8 9 (0.98%) GDPR
8 9 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.98%) WCAG
9 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.44%) PSD2
11 4 (0.44%) SEPA
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 426 (46.35%) Docker
2 22 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.07%) vSphere
4 18 (1.96%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.74%) Active Directory
6 14 (1.52%) Postfix
7 12 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.54%) HDFS
9 5 (0.54%) NFS
10 3 (0.33%) GridGain
10 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.33%) SRDF
10 3 (0.33%) Varnish
11 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.11%) KVM
12 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 470 (51.14%) Kubernetes
2 373 (40.59%) Terraform
3 229 (24.92%) Ansible
4 201 (21.87%) Grafana
5 166 (18.06%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.68%) Argo
7 34 (3.70%) Puppet
8 31 (3.37%) Istio
9 28 (3.05%) Progress Chef
10 19 (2.07%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.74%) Kibana
12 15 (1.63%) Podman
13 13 (1.41%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.20%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.87%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.65%) Consul
17 5 (0.54%) Packer
17 5 (0.54%) Rancher
18 4 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 90 (9.79%) Splunk
2 79 (8.60%) Google
3 65 (7.07%) Red Hat
4 59 (6.42%) Microsoft
5 50 (5.44%) Oracle
6 39 (4.24%) ServiceNow
6 39 (4.24%) VMware
7 35 (3.81%) Databricks
8 27 (2.94%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.39%) Atlassian
9 22 (2.39%) Talend
10 21 (2.29%) Denodo
11 19 (2.07%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.96%) Jaspersoft
12 18 (1.96%) Sonatype
13 17 (1.85%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.52%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.41%) Okta
16 12 (1.31%) IBM
17 11 (1.20%) ForgeRock