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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 76 95
Rank change year-on-year -38 +19 -31
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 977 815 892
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 3.23% 2.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.91% 22.66% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 561 657
10th Percentile £367 £358 £400
25th Percentile £419 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £651 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £543
% change year-on-year - -7.83% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 37
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - £69.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -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 5,167 3,596 4,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.89% 14.23% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,340 2,445 3,015
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £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 £688 £712 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 76 234
10th Percentile £27.19 £27.72 £33.02
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.50 £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 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +4.00%

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 27 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 27 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 -35 445 £550 - 61
North of England -11 276 £453 -2.37% 46
Yorkshire +1 205 £493 -1.50% 15
Midlands -27 127 £481 +6.94% 9
West Midlands -6 118 £488 +2.63% 4
South East -78 59 £444 -11.25% 35
South West -19 50 £538 -6.52% 24
North West -77 50 £425 +8.14% 24
North East -15 28 £450 -3.23% 8
East of England -17 23 £475 -7.32% 6
East Midlands -40 7 £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
1 120 (12.28%) Confluence
2 34 (3.48%) SAS
3 24 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.13%) nginx
6 10 (1.02%) Apache
6 10 (1.02%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.31%) Camunda
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 15 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Magento
2 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 491 (50.26%) AWS
2 402 (41.15%) GitHub
3 309 (31.63%) Azure
4 268 (27.43%) GitHub Actions
5 206 (21.08%) GCP
6 132 (13.51%) Amazon S3
7 126 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (12.28%) Serverless
9 106 (10.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 105 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
11 104 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
12 100 (10.24%) OpenShift
13 94 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
14 77 (7.88%) AWS CloudFormation
15 63 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 50 (5.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 44 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.68%) Route 53
20 33 (3.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.53%) DNS
2 48 (4.91%) Firewall
3 17 (1.74%) Network Security
4 14 (1.43%) VPN
5 13 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.13%) SSL
7 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.82%) HTTP
8 8 (0.82%) SAN
9 7 (0.72%) VLAN
10 6 (0.61%) WAN
11 5 (0.51%) NAS
12 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.31%) BGP
13 3 (0.31%) Internet
13 3 (0.31%) Multicast
13 3 (0.31%) VSAN
14 2 (0.20%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.78%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (5.83%) MongoDB
4 54 (5.53%) NoSQL
4 54 (5.53%) Relational Database
5 48 (4.91%) DynamoDB
5 48 (4.91%) SQL Server
6 47 (4.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 32 (3.28%) Redis
8 26 (2.66%) Big Data
9 24 (2.46%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (1.94%) MySQL
11 16 (1.64%) Data Lake
12 14 (1.43%) Metadata
13 13 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.13%) Neo4j
15 10 (1.02%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 354 (36.23%) GitLab
2 293 (29.99%) Git
3 201 (20.57%) JIRA
4 115 (11.77%) JUnit
5 100 (10.24%) Selenium
6 71 (7.27%) Cucumber
7 67 (6.86%) Maven
8 60 (6.14%) Mockito
9 58 (5.94%) SonarQube
10 50 (5.12%) REST Assured
11 48 (4.91%) Bitbucket
11 48 (4.91%) Postman
12 40 (4.09%) Gradle
12 40 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
13 39 (3.99%) JMeter
14 37 (3.79%) Gatling
15 29 (2.97%) WebDriver
16 24 (2.46%) Liquibase
17 21 (2.15%) Artifactory
18 15 (1.54%) Serenity BDD
General
1 257 (26.31%) Social Skills
2 155 (15.86%) Finance
3 132 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 106 (10.85%) Banking
5 78 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (2.05%) Law
9 19 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (1.33%) Retail
11 9 (0.92%) Legal
11 9 (0.92%) Publishing
12 8 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.72%) Front Office
13 7 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.72%) Marketing
14 6 (0.61%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.51%) Military
16 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 203 (20.78%) Developer
2 168 (17.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 146 (14.94%) Senior
4 109 (11.16%) Java Developer
5 74 (7.57%) Architect
6 62 (6.35%) Software Engineer
7 61 (6.24%) Lead
8 54 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (4.91%) GCP Engineer
10 45 (4.61%) Data Engineer
11 44 (4.50%) Test Engineer
12 42 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.30%) Senior Developer
13 41 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (3.89%) Tester
15 37 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 30 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
19 28 (2.87%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (17.81%) Spring
2 150 (15.35%) Kafka
3 147 (15.05%) Spring Boot
4 141 (14.43%) REST
5 106 (10.85%) RESTful
6 80 (8.19%) Node.js
6 80 (8.19%) React
7 63 (6.45%) Playwright
8 50 (5.12%) AngularJS
8 50 (5.12%) SOAP
9 45 (4.61%) JPA
9 45 (4.61%) Web Services
10 44 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
11 43 (4.40%) Hibernate
11 43 (4.40%) HTML
12 39 (3.99%) Spring Cloud
13 37 (3.79%) OpenTelemetry
14 35 (3.58%) LDAP
15 31 (3.17%) CSS
15 31 (3.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 197 (20.16%) Cloud Native
2 92 (9.42%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.97%) Data Centre
4 29 (2.97%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (1.84%) Replication
10 14 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.23%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.92%) Algorithms
16 7 (0.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 186 (19.04%) Linux
2 47 (4.81%) Unix
3 44 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (4.20%) Windows
5 10 (1.02%) Android
5 10 (1.02%) CentOS
6 8 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.51%) VMS
9 3 (0.31%) AIX
9 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.31%) zOS
10 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (84.44%) CI/CD
2 650 (66.53%) DevOps
3 434 (44.42%) Agile
4 324 (33.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 306 (31.32%) Test Automation
6 274 (28.05%) Containerisation
7 247 (25.28%) Microservices
8 181 (18.53%) Observability
9 175 (17.91%) Scrum
10 158 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
11 157 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 146 (14.94%) Software Engineering
13 126 (12.90%) Platform Engineering
14 103 (10.54%) TDD
15 100 (10.24%) Migration
16 93 (9.52%) Event-Driven
17 89 (9.11%) Validation
18 81 (8.29%) Deployment Automation
19 79 (8.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 79 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 405 (41.45%) Python
2 344 (35.21%) Java
3 235 (24.05%) SQL
4 180 (18.42%) Bash
5 96 (9.83%) PowerShell
6 78 (7.98%) JavaScript
7 68 (6.96%) TypeScript
8 49 (5.02%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.50%) Go
10 43 (4.40%) C#
11 39 (3.99%) Groovy
12 34 (3.48%) Scala
13 27 (2.76%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.74%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.23%) Bicep
16 11 (1.13%) Perl
17 9 (0.92%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.92%) MATLAB
18 8 (0.82%) Ruby
18 8 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 371 (37.97%) Security Cleared
2 321 (32.86%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.30%) Degree
4 39 (3.99%) AWS Certification
5 34 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.23%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.82%) RHCE
15 7 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.61%) OCP
17 5 (0.51%) CISSP
17 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.41%) GIAC
18 4 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.67%) QA
2 44 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.94%) NIST
6 13 (1.33%) NCSC
7 12 (1.23%) SLA
7 12 (1.23%) WCAG
8 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.51%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.41%) GDPR
10 4 (0.41%) SEPA
11 3 (0.31%) PSD2
12 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.10%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 432 (44.22%) Docker
2 27 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.15%) vSphere
4 19 (1.94%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.54%) Postfix
6 12 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.72%) NFS
8 5 (0.51%) HDFS
8 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) SRDF
9 4 (0.41%) Varnish
10 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.31%) GridGain
10 3 (0.31%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 465 (47.59%) Kubernetes
2 382 (39.10%) Terraform
3 232 (23.75%) Ansible
4 205 (20.98%) Grafana
5 178 (18.22%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.40%) Argo
7 32 (3.28%) Puppet
8 26 (2.66%) Istio
8 26 (2.66%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.15%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.43%) HAProxy
11 12 (1.23%) Control-M
11 12 (1.23%) Podman
12 11 (1.13%) Kibana
13 9 (0.92%) Check_MK
13 9 (0.92%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.92%) Packer
13 9 (0.92%) Red Hat Satellite
14 6 (0.61%) Consul
14 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (8.60%) Splunk
2 81 (8.29%) Google
3 74 (7.57%) Oracle
4 72 (7.37%) Microsoft
5 63 (6.45%) Red Hat
6 43 (4.40%) Dynatrace
7 42 (4.30%) VMware
8 26 (2.66%) Salesforce
9 25 (2.56%) Talend
10 24 (2.46%) ServiceNow
11 22 (2.25%) Databricks
12 21 (2.15%) Denodo
13 20 (2.05%) Atlassian
13 20 (2.05%) Pure Storage
13 20 (2.05%) Sonatype
14 19 (1.94%) IBM
15 18 (1.84%) CyberArk
15 18 (1.84%) Jaspersoft
16 13 (1.33%) Okta
17 11 (1.13%) ForgeRock