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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 79 96
Rank change year-on-year -35 +17 -35
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 934 779 855
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.18% 2.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.41% 22.41% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 536 631
10th Percentile £371 £357 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £675
90th Percentile £663 £716 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 32
10th Percentile - £54.75 £50.63
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £66.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.25 -
UK median hourly rate £68.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% -3.45%

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 5,074 3,476 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.90% 14.18% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 2,356 2,988
10th Percentile £350 £338 £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 £600 £638
90th Percentile £680 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 68 217
10th Percentile £35.50 £27.06 £32.48
25th Percentile £59.13 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -36 417 £550 - 59
North of England -9 259 £467 +0.32% 47
Yorkshire -1 199 £488 -2.50% 18
Midlands -27 125 £481 +6.89% 11
West Midlands -5 115 £488 +2.63% 6
South East -84 61 £433 -13.50% 31
South West -10 51 £538 -6.52% 22
North West -64 40 £425 +8.70% 22
North East -14 27 £450 -3.23% 8
East of England -13 24 £478 -4.40% 8
East Midlands -49 8 £393 +8.12% 5
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
1 109 (11.67%) Confluence
2 33 (3.53%) SAS
3 25 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.07%) Apache
6 9 (0.96%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.86%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.43%) JBoss
9 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.32%) Camunda
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 474 (50.75%) AWS
2 394 (42.18%) GitHub
3 295 (31.58%) Azure
4 266 (28.48%) GitHub Actions
5 212 (22.70%) GCP
6 129 (13.81%) Amazon S3
7 114 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
8 112 (11.99%) Serverless
9 104 (11.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 101 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
11 98 (10.49%) AWS Lambda
12 97 (10.39%) OpenShift
13 92 (9.85%) Amazon EKS
14 76 (8.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
16 58 (6.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 57 (6.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 42 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (3.75%) Route 53
20 33 (3.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.32%) DNS
2 54 (5.78%) Firewall
3 17 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.71%) Network Security
5 14 (1.50%) VPN
6 10 (1.07%) SSL
7 8 (0.86%) BIG-IP
7 8 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 8 (0.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.86%) SAN
8 7 (0.75%) HTTP
9 6 (0.64%) VLAN
10 5 (0.54%) NAS
10 5 (0.54%) WAN
11 4 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.32%) BGP
12 3 (0.32%) VSAN
13 2 (0.21%) Internet
13 2 (0.21%) Multicast
13 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (15.31%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (5.57%) MongoDB
3 52 (5.57%) NoSQL
4 48 (5.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 48 (5.14%) DynamoDB
5 46 (4.93%) Relational Database
6 38 (4.07%) SQL Server
7 32 (3.43%) Redis
8 26 (2.78%) Big Data
9 24 (2.57%) MySQL
9 24 (2.57%) Pentaho
10 19 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.71%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.61%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (1.50%) Metadata
14 11 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.07%) Power BI
16 9 (0.96%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 350 (37.47%) GitLab
2 279 (29.87%) Git
3 196 (20.99%) JIRA
4 114 (12.21%) JUnit
5 104 (11.13%) Selenium
6 72 (7.71%) Cucumber
7 69 (7.39%) Maven
8 57 (6.10%) Mockito
9 53 (5.67%) SonarQube
10 51 (5.46%) REST Assured
11 47 (5.03%) Postman
12 43 (4.60%) Bitbucket
13 37 (3.96%) JMeter
14 36 (3.85%) Gatling
15 35 (3.75%) Gradle
16 34 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
17 31 (3.32%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.57%) Liquibase
19 19 (2.03%) Artifactory
20 15 (1.61%) Serenity BDD
General
1 249 (26.66%) Social Skills
2 145 (15.52%) Finance
3 125 (13.38%) Public Sector
4 101 (10.81%) Banking
5 73 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.36%) Law
9 19 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 16 (1.71%) Retail
11 15 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.86%) Legal
13 8 (0.86%) Publishing
14 7 (0.75%) Front Office
14 7 (0.75%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.64%) Marketing
15 6 (0.64%) Military
16 4 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 180 (19.27%) Developer
2 159 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 140 (14.99%) Senior
4 100 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 77 (8.24%) Architect
6 72 (7.71%) Lead
7 56 (6.00%) Software Engineer
8 54 (5.78%) GCP Engineer
9 48 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (5.14%) Test Engineer
10 46 (4.93%) Data Engineer
11 40 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 39 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
13 38 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
13 38 (4.07%) Senior Developer
14 37 (3.96%) Tester
15 32 (3.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 30 (3.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
18 27 (2.89%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (17.88%) Spring
2 140 (14.99%) Spring Boot
3 136 (14.56%) Kafka
4 133 (14.24%) REST
5 97 (10.39%) RESTful
6 78 (8.35%) Node.js
7 66 (7.07%) React
8 54 (5.78%) Playwright
9 52 (5.57%) AngularJS
10 45 (4.82%) SOAP
11 44 (4.71%) LDAP
12 43 (4.60%) JPA
12 43 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
13 42 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
13 42 (4.50%) HTML
14 41 (4.39%) Web Services
15 40 (4.28%) Spring Cloud
16 37 (3.96%) Hibernate
17 36 (3.85%) OpenID
18 31 (3.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 187 (20.02%) Cloud Native
2 86 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.43%) Onboarding
5 31 (3.32%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.82%) Replication
10 14 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (0.96%) AI Agents
13 9 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.96%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.75%) Clustering
14 7 (0.75%) Hedge funds
15 6 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.64%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 182 (19.49%) Linux
2 50 (5.35%) Unix
3 45 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.50%) Windows
5 12 (1.28%) CentOS
6 11 (1.18%) Android
6 11 (1.18%) VMS
7 7 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.64%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.32%) AIX
11 3 (0.32%) zOS
12 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.21%) Solaris
12 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 803 (85.97%) CI/CD
2 622 (66.60%) DevOps
3 398 (42.61%) Agile
4 319 (34.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 295 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 273 (29.23%) Containerisation
7 238 (25.48%) Microservices
8 183 (19.59%) Observability
9 169 (18.09%) Scrum
10 151 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
11 143 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 141 (15.10%) Software Engineering
13 114 (12.21%) Platform Engineering
14 103 (11.03%) Migration
15 94 (10.06%) TDD
16 90 (9.64%) Validation
17 85 (9.10%) Event-Driven
18 84 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 76 (8.14%) Mentoring
19 76 (8.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 393 (42.08%) Python
2 335 (35.87%) Java
3 223 (23.88%) SQL
4 172 (18.42%) Bash
5 85 (9.10%) PowerShell
6 75 (8.03%) JavaScript
7 56 (6.00%) Shell Script
7 56 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 45 (4.82%) Go
9 36 (3.85%) Groovy
9 36 (3.85%) Scala
10 31 (3.32%) C#
11 17 (1.82%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.71%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.18%) Bicep
13 11 (1.18%) MATLAB
13 11 (1.18%) Perl
14 9 (0.96%) Ruby
15 8 (0.86%) ActionScript
16 7 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 357 (38.22%) Security Cleared
2 307 (32.87%) SC Cleared
3 39 (4.18%) AWS Certification
3 39 (4.18%) Degree
4 29 (3.10%) Azure Certification
5 26 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 25 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.50%) ISTQB
9 13 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.75%) RHCE
13 6 (0.64%) OCP
14 5 (0.54%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.43%) PMP
15 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.13%) QA
2 44 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.03%) SLA
6 18 (1.93%) NIST
7 14 (1.50%) NCSC
8 12 (1.28%) WCAG
9 8 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.43%) GDPR
11 4 (0.43%) PSD2
11 4 (0.43%) SEPA
12 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 412 (44.11%) Docker
2 26 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.25%) vSphere
4 19 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.82%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.61%) Postfix
7 13 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.75%) NFS
9 6 (0.64%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.43%) HDFS
11 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.43%) SRDF
11 4 (0.43%) Varnish
12 3 (0.32%) GridGain
12 3 (0.32%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.21%) Squid
13 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 451 (48.29%) Kubernetes
2 377 (40.36%) Terraform
3 222 (23.77%) Ansible
4 204 (21.84%) Grafana
5 172 (18.42%) Prometheus
6 47 (5.03%) Argo
7 31 (3.32%) Istio
8 29 (3.10%) Puppet
9 24 (2.57%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.25%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.50%) HAProxy
11 14 (1.50%) Podman
12 12 (1.28%) Kibana
13 11 (1.18%) Check_MK
13 11 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (0.96%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.86%) Packer
16 6 (0.64%) Consul
16 6 (0.64%) Control-M
16 6 (0.64%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 86 (9.21%) Google
2 83 (8.89%) Splunk
3 66 (7.07%) Oracle
4 64 (6.85%) Red Hat
5 57 (6.10%) Microsoft
6 43 (4.60%) VMware
7 35 (3.75%) Dynatrace
8 34 (3.64%) ServiceNow
9 25 (2.68%) Databricks
9 25 (2.68%) Talend
10 21 (2.25%) Atlassian
10 21 (2.25%) Denodo
11 20 (2.14%) Pure Storage
11 20 (2.14%) Salesforce
12 19 (2.03%) Sonatype
13 18 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
14 17 (1.82%) IBM
15 15 (1.61%) CyberArk
16 13 (1.39%) Okta
17 11 (1.18%) ForgeRock