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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 82 103
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 -49
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 951 751 811
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.42% 3.07% 2.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.90% 22.55% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 512 602
10th Percentile £365 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £566
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -6.36% -5.67%
75th Percentile £575 £670 £675
90th Percentile £663 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £550
% change year-on-year -5.12% -4.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 6
10th Percentile - £52.50 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +32.18% -30.99%
75th Percentile £63.00 £73.13 £56.25
90th Percentile £69.00 £77.50 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £53.11 £67.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -21.31% +47.12% -37.15%

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 5,032 3,331 4,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.79% 13.63% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,371 2,234 2,895
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.36%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 62 166
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.38 £29.86
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +3.16%
75th Percentile £76.31 £75.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -46 414 £550 -7.17% 97
North of England -5 226 £476 -4.80% 64
Yorkshire +7 177 £487 -11.45% 23
Midlands +2 147 £499 +9.74% 23
West Midlands +20 132 £500 +8.11% 17
South East -36 84 £425 -15.00% 43
South West -16 50 £538 -6.52% 22
North West -58 36 £425 -9.57% 31
East of England -21 24 £475 -5.00% 15
North East -11 17 £425 -8.60% 10
East Midlands -37 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
1 107 (11.25%) Confluence
2 68 (7.15%) SAS
3 27 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.95%) Apache
5 9 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.74%) nginx
7 6 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.42%) JBoss
9 3 (0.32%) IIS
9 3 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.21%) CMS
10 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.11%) Camunda
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Actimize
3 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 462 (48.58%) AWS
2 375 (39.43%) GitHub
3 300 (31.55%) Azure
4 242 (25.45%) GitHub Actions
5 201 (21.14%) GCP
6 136 (14.30%) OpenShift
7 128 (13.46%) Amazon S3
8 115 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (11.99%) Serverless
10 100 (10.52%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (10.09%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
13 79 (8.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 75 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 61 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
16 58 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 57 (5.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 40 (4.21%) Azure AKS
19 36 (3.79%) Datadog
19 36 (3.79%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.26%) DNS
2 41 (4.31%) Firewall
3 17 (1.79%) Network Security
3 17 (1.79%) VPN
4 13 (1.37%) HTTP
5 10 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.74%) SAN
7 5 (0.53%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.53%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.53%) SSL
8 4 (0.42%) Internet
8 4 (0.42%) NAS
9 3 (0.32%) BGP
10 2 (0.21%) AMQP
10 2 (0.21%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.21%) LAN
10 2 (0.21%) Multicast
10 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.21%) WAN
11 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (8.62%) Amazon RDS
3 66 (6.94%) NoSQL
4 46 (4.84%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.31%) MongoDB
6 40 (4.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 40 (4.21%) Relational Database
7 39 (4.10%) SQL Server
8 37 (3.89%) Pentaho
9 30 (3.15%) MySQL
10 27 (2.84%) Big Data
11 25 (2.63%) Redis
12 16 (1.68%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.58%) Metadata
14 14 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.37%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.37%) Tableau
16 12 (1.26%) Power BI
17 11 (1.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 358 (37.64%) GitLab
2 303 (31.86%) Git
3 200 (21.03%) JIRA
4 124 (13.04%) JUnit
5 113 (11.88%) Selenium
6 86 (9.04%) Cucumber
7 59 (6.20%) Maven
8 58 (6.10%) Postman
9 51 (5.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 47 (4.94%) Bitbucket
11 46 (4.84%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.42%) Mockito
12 42 (4.42%) REST Assured
13 34 (3.58%) JMeter
14 28 (2.94%) Gatling
15 26 (2.73%) Gradle
16 24 (2.52%) Artifactory
17 21 (2.21%) WebDriver
18 20 (2.10%) CircleCI
19 15 (1.58%) Liquibase
General
1 277 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 178 (18.72%) Finance
3 118 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 98 (10.30%) Banking
5 73 (7.68%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.05%) Front Office
9 10 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (0.95%) Retail
11 8 (0.84%) Law
11 8 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.74%) Military
12 7 (0.74%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.63%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 183 (19.24%) Developer
2 138 (14.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 131 (13.77%) Senior
4 91 (9.57%) Java Developer
5 84 (8.83%) Architect
6 74 (7.78%) Lead
7 66 (6.94%) Data Engineer
8 53 (5.57%) GCP Engineer
9 47 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
10 46 (4.84%) Software Engineer
11 44 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
12 41 (4.31%) Test Engineer
13 39 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 34 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 32 (3.36%) Tester
16 30 (3.15%) Senior Developer
17 29 (3.05%) AWS DevOps
17 29 (3.05%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (15.67%) Spring
2 141 (14.83%) REST
3 134 (14.09%) Kafka
4 120 (12.62%) Spring Boot
5 110 (11.57%) Node.js
6 78 (8.20%) RESTful
7 71 (7.47%) Playwright
8 59 (6.20%) React
9 55 (5.78%) Elastic Stack
10 52 (5.47%) AngularJS
11 49 (5.15%) OpenTelemetry
12 46 (4.84%) pytest
13 41 (4.31%) YAML
14 40 (4.21%) LDAP
14 40 (4.21%) OpenID
15 37 (3.89%) GraphQL
16 34 (3.58%) Hibernate
16 34 (3.58%) HTML
16 34 (3.58%) JSON
17 33 (3.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 181 (19.03%) Cloud Native
2 74 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 18 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.26%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.16%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.05%) Replication
12 9 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
13 7 (0.74%) Equities
13 7 (0.74%) Fixed Income
13 7 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.74%) Private Cloud
14 6 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 182 (19.14%) Linux
2 43 (4.52%) Windows
3 42 (4.42%) Unix
4 30 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.79%) VMS
6 11 (1.16%) Android
7 9 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.95%) CentOS
8 7 (0.74%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (84.65%) CI/CD
2 628 (66.04%) DevOps
3 404 (42.48%) Agile
4 307 (32.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 297 (31.23%) Containerisation
6 296 (31.13%) Test Automation
7 213 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
8 207 (21.77%) Microservices
9 158 (16.61%) Scrum
10 155 (16.30%) Observability
11 132 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (13.56%) Software Engineering
13 103 (10.83%) Migration
14 101 (10.62%) Analytics
15 94 (9.88%) Mentoring
16 91 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
17 89 (9.36%) Data Pipeline
18 88 (9.25%) Deployment Automation
18 88 (9.25%) Platform Engineering
19 85 (8.94%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 415 (43.64%) Python
2 306 (32.18%) Java
3 221 (23.24%) SQL
4 155 (16.30%) Bash
5 91 (9.57%) JavaScript
6 77 (8.10%) TypeScript
7 72 (7.57%) PowerShell
8 54 (5.68%) Shell Script
9 48 (5.05%) C#
10 45 (4.73%) Go
11 40 (4.21%) Scala
12 29 (3.05%) Groovy
13 15 (1.58%) Bicep
14 14 (1.47%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.47%) PHP
15 12 (1.26%) Ruby
16 9 (0.95%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.95%) Perl
16 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 362 (38.07%) Security Cleared
2 305 (32.07%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.63%) Degree
4 36 (3.79%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.15%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (2.21%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.26%) OCP
12 11 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.95%) RHCE
15 8 (0.84%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.53%) OCA
17 4 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 3 (0.32%) AWS Certified Developer
18 3 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 3 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.73%) QA
2 56 (5.89%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.00%) NIST
5 18 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.79%) SLA
7 15 (1.58%) NCSC
8 10 (1.05%) GDPR
9 9 (0.95%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.63%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.42%) WCAG
13 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.21%) HL7
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.21%) MiFID
13 2 (0.21%) PSD2
13 2 (0.21%) SEPA
13 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 458 (48.16%) Docker
2 29 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.31%) vSphere
4 21 (2.21%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.37%) Active Directory
6 12 (1.26%) Postfix
7 8 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.63%) HDFS
9 3 (0.32%) GridGain
9 3 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.32%) NFS
9 3 (0.32%) 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 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 522 (54.89%) Kubernetes
2 369 (38.80%) Terraform
3 236 (24.82%) Ansible
4 192 (20.19%) Grafana
5 148 (15.56%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.84%) Argo
7 37 (3.89%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.47%) Istio
9 30 (3.15%) Puppet
10 22 (2.31%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.79%) Kibana
12 14 (1.47%) Podman
13 11 (1.16%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.95%) Check_MK
14 9 (0.95%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.84%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.84%) Rancher
16 6 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
16 6 (0.63%) Packer
17 5 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 98 (10.30%) Splunk
2 75 (7.89%) Google
3 71 (7.47%) Oracle
4 64 (6.73%) Red Hat
5 61 (6.41%) Microsoft
6 49 (5.15%) VMware
7 39 (4.10%) Databricks
8 38 (4.00%) Talend
9 37 (3.89%) Denodo
9 37 (3.89%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.94%) Atlassian
11 22 (2.31%) Pure Storage
12 21 (2.21%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.21%) Sonatype
13 15 (1.58%) CyberArk
13 15 (1.58%) Jaspersoft
14 11 (1.16%) IBM
14 11 (1.16%) Salesforce
15 10 (1.05%) AppDynamics
15 10 (1.05%) Okta