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 3 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 75 90
Rank change year-on-year -45 +15 -25
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 462 442 415
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 3.32% 2.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.12% 23.62% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 302 321
10th Percentile £366 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £582 £597 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 21
10th Percentile £61.40 £53.63 £65.63
25th Percentile £62.00 £55.31 £66.25
Median hourly rate £68.50 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £60.94 -
90th Percentile £74.80 £64.88 -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.13% -17.86% -5.41%

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 2,549 1,871 2,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.37% 14.04% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,628 1,281 1,476
10th Percentile £357 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 40 101
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.36 £31.25
25th Percentile £61.19 £50.00 £56.49
Median hourly rate £68.00 £56.77 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.78% -12.66% -1.28%
75th Percentile £76.19 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.19 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £67.25 £55.52 £65.00
% change year-on-year +21.13% -14.58% +2.46%

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 3 months to 24 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
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 3 months to 24 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -31 215 £550 +4.76% 76
North of England -28 114 £450 -5.26% 67
Yorkshire -11 82 £483 -2.04% 25
Midlands -27 55 £461 +7.40% 15
West Midlands -10 51 £463 +2.78% 7
South West -6 34 £553 -3.91% 26
South East -56 34 £419 -11.84% 27
North West -51 21 £425 +5.99% 30
North East -11 16 £425 -10.05% 12
East of England -9 12 £463 -7.50% 9
East Midlands -26 3 £447 +23.14% 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 (11.28%) Confluence
2 33 (3.58%) SAS
3 25 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.08%) Apache
6 8 (0.87%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.65%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
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 (0.43%) 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
1 474 (51.41%) AWS
2 382 (41.43%) GitHub
3 307 (33.30%) Azure
4 254 (27.55%) GitHub Actions
5 208 (22.56%) GCP
6 129 (13.99%) Amazon S3
7 117 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
8 109 (11.82%) Serverless
9 106 (11.50%) OpenShift
10 100 (10.85%) Amazon EC2
11 98 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
12 92 (9.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 84 (9.11%) Amazon EKS
14 79 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 58 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
15 58 (6.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 57 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 38 (4.12%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.90%) Azure AKS
19 34 (3.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.97%) DNS
2 48 (5.21%) 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
7 7 (0.76%) SSL
8 4 (0.43%) NAS
9 3 (0.33%) BGP
9 3 (0.33%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (0.33%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.33%) WAN
10 2 (0.22%) AMQP
10 2 (0.22%) Internet
10 2 (0.22%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.22%) LAN
10 2 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (14.97%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (5.64%) NoSQL
4 49 (5.31%) DynamoDB
4 49 (5.31%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 42 (4.56%) Relational Database
7 39 (4.23%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.15%) Redis
9 26 (2.82%) Big Data
10 21 (2.28%) MySQL
10 21 (2.28%) Pentaho
11 16 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.74%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (1.41%) Metadata
14 10 (1.08%) Data Lake
15 9 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (0.98%) DocumentDB
16 8 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 348 (37.74%) GitLab
2 278 (30.15%) Git
3 184 (19.96%) JIRA
4 107 (11.61%) Selenium
5 104 (11.28%) JUnit
6 75 (8.13%) Cucumber
7 64 (6.94%) Maven
8 56 (6.07%) Postman
9 55 (5.97%) Mockito
10 54 (5.86%) SonarQube
11 53 (5.75%) REST Assured
12 44 (4.77%) Bitbucket
13 38 (4.12%) Sonatype Nexus
14 36 (3.90%) Gatling
15 33 (3.58%) JMeter
16 31 (3.36%) Gradle
17 23 (2.49%) WebDriver
18 22 (2.39%) Liquibase
19 20 (2.17%) Artifactory
20 15 (1.63%) Serenity BDD
General
1 247 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 148 (16.05%) Finance
3 120 (13.02%) Public Sector
4 103 (11.17%) Banking
5 77 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.63%) Retail
10 13 (1.41%) Law
10 13 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (0.98%) Front Office
11 9 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.87%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.76%) Legal
14 6 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.65%) Marketing
14 6 (0.65%) Military
15 5 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 182 (19.74%) Developer
2 150 (16.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 126 (13.67%) Senior
4 94 (10.20%) Java Developer
5 83 (9.00%) Architect
6 77 (8.35%) Lead
7 53 (5.75%) GCP Engineer
8 52 (5.64%) Software Engineer
9 50 (5.42%) Test Engineer
10 49 (5.31%) Data Engineer
11 39 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
12 34 (3.69%) Senior Developer
13 33 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 33 (3.58%) Tester
14 28 (3.04%) Automation Engineer
14 28 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
15 27 (2.93%) Senior Java Developer
15 27 (2.93%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (17.03%) Spring
2 133 (14.43%) Spring Boot
3 129 (13.99%) Kafka
4 119 (12.91%) REST
5 94 (10.20%) RESTful
6 92 (9.98%) Node.js
7 66 (7.16%) Playwright
8 57 (6.18%) React
9 55 (5.97%) AngularJS
10 51 (5.53%) Elastic Stack
11 49 (5.31%) OpenTelemetry
12 44 (4.77%) LDAP
13 40 (4.34%) SOAP
13 40 (4.34%) Spring Cloud
14 38 (4.12%) Web Services
15 36 (3.90%) OpenID
16 35 (3.80%) HTML
17 32 (3.47%) JPA
17 32 (3.47%) YAML
18 30 (3.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 185 (20.07%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.35%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 29 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.71%) Data Centre
7 22 (2.39%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.52%) Replication
9 13 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
10 12 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.98%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.65%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.54%) Derivative
15 5 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 177 (19.20%) Linux
2 45 (4.88%) Unix
3 40 (4.34%) Windows
4 38 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.74%) VMS
6 12 (1.30%) CentOS
7 11 (1.19%) Android
8 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.33%) AIX
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.22%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (85.90%) CI/CD
2 623 (67.57%) DevOps
3 384 (41.65%) Agile
4 316 (34.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 292 (31.67%) Test Automation
6 279 (30.26%) Containerisation
7 221 (23.97%) Microservices
8 173 (18.76%) Observability
9 163 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
10 155 (16.81%) Scrum
11 143 (15.51%) Software Engineering
12 140 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 105 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
14 101 (10.95%) Migration
15 89 (9.65%) TDD
16 80 (8.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 80 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 80 (8.68%) Validation
17 79 (8.57%) Event-Driven
17 79 (8.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 381 (41.32%) Python
2 317 (34.38%) Java
3 213 (23.10%) SQL
4 162 (17.57%) Bash
5 83 (9.00%) PowerShell
6 74 (8.03%) JavaScript
7 65 (7.05%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.75%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.77%) Go
10 39 (4.23%) Scala
11 38 (4.12%) C#
12 37 (4.01%) Groovy
13 18 (1.95%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.52%) Bicep
15 11 (1.19%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.19%) Perl
15 11 (1.19%) Ruby
16 9 (0.98%) PHP
17 8 (0.87%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.76%) C++
Qualifications
1 355 (38.50%) Security Cleared
2 301 (32.65%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.56%) Degree
4 34 (3.69%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.25%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.49%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.19%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.19%) RHCE
10 10 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
11 8 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 7 (0.76%) OCP
13 4 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.43%) PMP
14 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (11.39%) QA
2 44 (4.77%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.06%) SLA
6 18 (1.95%) 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 (0.43%) PSD2
11 4 (0.43%) 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
1 422 (45.77%) Docker
2 22 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.06%) vSphere
4 18 (1.95%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.74%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.63%) Postfix
7 12 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.54%) HDFS
9 5 (0.54%) NFS
10 4 (0.43%) Varnish
11 3 (0.33%) GridGain
11 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.33%) SRDF
12 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.11%) KVM
13 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 467 (50.65%) Kubernetes
2 373 (40.46%) Terraform
3 231 (25.05%) Ansible
4 203 (22.02%) Grafana
5 168 (18.22%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.66%) Argo
7 34 (3.69%) Puppet
8 30 (3.25%) Istio
9 29 (3.15%) Progress Chef
10 19 (2.06%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.74%) Kibana
12 15 (1.63%) Podman
13 14 (1.52%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.19%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.19%) 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 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 90 (9.76%) Splunk
2 77 (8.35%) Google
3 67 (7.27%) Red Hat
4 60 (6.51%) Microsoft
5 52 (5.64%) Oracle
6 39 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 39 (4.23%) VMware
7 31 (3.36%) Databricks
8 27 (2.93%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.39%) Atlassian
9 22 (2.39%) Talend
10 21 (2.28%) Denodo
11 19 (2.06%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.95%) Jaspersoft
12 18 (1.95%) Sonatype
13 17 (1.84%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.52%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.41%) Okta
16 12 (1.30%) IBM
17 11 (1.19%) ForgeRock