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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 77 96
Rank change year-on-year -33 +19 -32
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,000 870 897
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.22% 2.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.91% 22.82% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 603 666
10th Percentile £364 £358 £400
25th Percentile £416 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 38
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £54.38
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.56 -
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -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 5,287 3,813 4,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.80% 14.11% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,407 2,609 3,065
10th Percentile £350 £330 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 87 234
10th Percentile £28.97 £29.81 £33.02
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.25 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.20% -3.85% +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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -36 460 £550 +2.09% 97
North of England -13 283 £450 -3.02% 74
Yorkshire +1 212 £488 -2.50% 20
Midlands -23 127 £488 +8.33% 20
West Midlands -8 120 £490 +3.11% 11
South East -85 59 £459 -8.20% 38
South West -13 52 £531 -7.61% 54
North West -73 50 £425 +8.14% 40
North East -18 28 £450 -3.23% 14
East of England -25 20 £473 -7.80% 6
East Midlands -45 5 £447 +24.17% 9
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
1 122 (12.20%) Confluence
2 33 (3.30%) SAS
3 24 (2.40%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) nginx
6 10 (1.00%) Apache
6 10 (1.00%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.30%) Camunda
9 3 (0.30%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
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 17 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.90%) Chatbot
4 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 7 (0.70%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 510 (51.00%) AWS
2 415 (41.50%) GitHub
3 332 (33.20%) Azure
4 278 (27.80%) GitHub Actions
5 214 (21.40%) GCP
6 141 (14.10%) Azure DevOps
7 132 (13.20%) Amazon S3
8 119 (11.90%) Serverless
9 108 (10.80%) Amazon EC2
10 105 (10.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 102 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
11 102 (10.20%) OpenShift
12 93 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 62 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
15 58 (5.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 49 (4.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 42 (4.20%) Amazon SQS
18 35 (3.50%) Datadog
19 32 (3.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.00%) DNS
2 46 (4.60%) Firewall
3 17 (1.70%) Network Security
4 14 (1.40%) VPN
5 13 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.20%) SSL
7 9 (0.90%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.80%) HTTP
9 7 (0.70%) SAN
9 7 (0.70%) VLAN
10 6 (0.60%) WAN
11 5 (0.50%) NAS
12 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.30%) BGP
13 3 (0.30%) Internet
13 3 (0.30%) Multicast
13 3 (0.30%) VSAN
14 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (7.30%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (5.70%) MongoDB
3 57 (5.70%) Relational Database
4 53 (5.30%) SQL Server
5 49 (4.90%) NoSQL
6 44 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 42 (4.20%) DynamoDB
8 26 (2.60%) Big Data
8 26 (2.60%) Redis
9 23 (2.30%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.60%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (1.50%) Metadata
12 15 (1.50%) MySQL
13 12 (1.20%) Neo4j
14 11 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
15 10 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 9 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 353 (35.30%) GitLab
2 303 (30.30%) Git
3 206 (20.60%) JIRA
4 118 (11.80%) JUnit
5 102 (10.20%) Selenium
6 70 (7.00%) Cucumber
6 70 (7.00%) Maven
7 61 (6.10%) Mockito
8 59 (5.90%) SonarQube
9 50 (5.00%) Postman
9 50 (5.00%) REST Assured
10 47 (4.70%) Bitbucket
11 44 (4.40%) Gradle
12 41 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
13 40 (4.00%) JMeter
14 37 (3.70%) Gatling
15 31 (3.10%) WebDriver
16 24 (2.40%) Liquibase
17 21 (2.10%) Artifactory
18 15 (1.50%) Zephyr
General
1 271 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 159 (15.90%) Finance
3 135 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 110 (11.00%) Banking
5 83 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (2.00%) Law
11 18 (1.80%) Retail
12 11 (1.10%) Legal
12 11 (1.10%) Publishing
13 9 (0.90%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.90%) Marketing
14 8 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.70%) Front Office
16 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.50%) Military
18 4 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 210 (21.00%) Developer
2 179 (17.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 149 (14.90%) Senior
4 113 (11.30%) Java Developer
5 68 (6.80%) Architect
6 65 (6.50%) Lead
7 62 (6.20%) Software Engineer
8 56 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
10 45 (4.50%) Data Engineer
11 44 (4.40%) Test Engineer
12 43 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
12 43 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
12 43 (4.30%) Senior Developer
13 39 (3.90%) Tester
14 38 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
16 31 (3.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 30 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (17.70%) Spring
2 150 (15.00%) Kafka
2 150 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 148 (14.80%) REST
4 107 (10.70%) RESTful
5 86 (8.60%) React
6 84 (8.40%) Node.js
7 66 (6.60%) Playwright
8 54 (5.40%) SOAP
9 51 (5.10%) AngularJS
10 48 (4.80%) Elastic Stack
11 47 (4.70%) Web Services
12 44 (4.40%) HTML
13 42 (4.20%) JPA
14 41 (4.10%) Hibernate
15 35 (3.50%) Spring Cloud
16 32 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
17 31 (3.10%) CSS
17 31 (3.10%) LDAP
17 31 (3.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 194 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 89 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (6.20%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 26 (2.60%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.10%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.00%) Replication
9 19 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
10 17 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
11 14 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.10%) AI Agents
15 9 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.90%) Management Information System
16 8 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 191 (19.10%) Linux
2 48 (4.80%) Unix
3 44 (4.40%) Windows
4 41 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.00%) Android
6 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.70%) CentOS
8 6 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
9 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.30%) 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
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (84.20%) CI/CD
2 671 (67.10%) DevOps
3 456 (45.60%) Agile
4 334 (33.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 311 (31.10%) Test Automation
6 283 (28.30%) Containerisation
7 253 (25.30%) Microservices
8 189 (18.90%) Observability
9 183 (18.30%) Scrum
10 167 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
11 166 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 147 (14.70%) Software Engineering
13 130 (13.00%) Platform Engineering
14 109 (10.90%) TDD
15 97 (9.70%) Migration
16 91 (9.10%) Event-Driven
17 90 (9.00%) Validation
18 86 (8.60%) Deployment Automation
19 84 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
20 78 (7.80%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 415 (41.50%) Python
2 348 (34.80%) Java
3 236 (23.60%) SQL
4 185 (18.50%) Bash
5 104 (10.40%) PowerShell
6 85 (8.50%) JavaScript
7 71 (7.10%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.90%) Shell Script
9 46 (4.60%) Go
10 45 (4.50%) C#
11 44 (4.40%) Groovy
12 35 (3.50%) Scala
13 28 (2.80%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.80%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.50%) Bicep
16 12 (1.20%) Perl
17 9 (0.90%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.90%) Ruby
18 8 (0.80%) Apex Code
18 8 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 380 (38.00%) Security Cleared
2 326 (32.60%) SC Cleared
3 45 (4.50%) Degree
4 41 (4.10%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.80%) RHCE
14 7 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.60%) CISSP
15 6 (0.60%) OCP
16 5 (0.50%) Master's Degree
17 4 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
17 4 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.20%) QA
2 44 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 17 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.40%) NIST
6 12 (1.20%) NCSC
6 12 (1.20%) WCAG
7 9 (0.90%) SLA
8 5 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.40%) GDPR
9 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) SEPA
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
11 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 447 (44.70%) Docker
2 27 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.10%) vSphere
4 19 (1.90%) Active Directory
4 19 (1.90%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.50%) Postfix
6 12 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.70%) NFS
8 5 (0.50%) HDFS
8 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.40%) SRDF
9 4 (0.40%) Varnish
10 3 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 477 (47.70%) Kubernetes
2 391 (39.10%) Terraform
3 238 (23.80%) Ansible
4 213 (21.30%) Grafana
5 185 (18.50%) Prometheus
6 44 (4.40%) Argo
7 34 (3.40%) Puppet
8 28 (2.80%) Progress Chef
9 25 (2.50%) Istio
10 21 (2.10%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.40%) HAProxy
12 13 (1.30%) Control-M
13 11 (1.10%) Kibana
14 10 (1.00%) Packer
15 9 (0.90%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.90%) Podman
16 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.60%) Check_MK
17 6 (0.60%) Consul
17 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (8.90%) Splunk
2 84 (8.40%) Google
3 79 (7.90%) Oracle
4 74 (7.40%) Microsoft
5 59 (5.90%) Red Hat
6 44 (4.40%) Dynatrace
7 40 (4.00%) VMware
8 27 (2.70%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.40%) Talend
10 21 (2.10%) Databricks
11 20 (2.00%) Denodo
11 20 (2.00%) IBM
11 20 (2.00%) Pure Storage
11 20 (2.00%) Sonatype
12 19 (1.90%) Atlassian
13 18 (1.80%) CyberArk
13 18 (1.80%) Jaspersoft
14 13 (1.30%) Okta
15 11 (1.10%) ForgeRock