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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 73 89
Rank change year-on-year -52 +16 -9
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 987 933 842
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 3.36% 2.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.75% 22.57% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 638 611
10th Percentile £357 £349 £390
25th Percentile £417 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 32
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -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 5,263 4,134 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.89% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 2,857 2,803
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £634
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 96 168
10th Percentile £34.90 £44.63 £37.31
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.94 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £81.50 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -31 521 £525 -2.33% 552
North of England -42 235 £453 -3.41% 186
Yorkshire -25 161 £488 -2.50% 61
Midlands -49 96 £488 +2.63% 58
West Midlands -39 90 £490 -2.00% 36
South East -81 68 £460 -8.00% 70
South West -27 55 £550 - 88
North West -85 55 £425 -2.97% 101
North East -32 21 £450 -6.25% 24
East of England -15 17 £450 -10.00% 50
East Midlands -32 5 £347 -3.21% 22
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
1 100 (10.13%) Confluence
2 23 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.72%) nginx
5 13 (1.32%) SAS
6 11 (1.11%) Apache
7 10 (1.01%) Camunda
8 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.81%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.61%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 4 (0.41%) IIS
10 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) CICS
11 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) Traefik
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 520 (52.68%) AWS
2 403 (40.83%) GitHub
3 388 (39.31%) Azure
4 310 (31.41%) GitHub Actions
5 222 (22.49%) GCP
6 194 (19.66%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (11.75%) Serverless
8 108 (10.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.64%) Amazon S3
10 104 (10.54%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (10.03%) OpenShift
12 88 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
13 85 (8.61%) Amazon EC2
14 67 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
15 66 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 43 (4.36%) Datadog
17 43 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 42 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
19 25 (2.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.57%) DNS
1 55 (5.57%) Firewall
2 34 (3.44%) TCP/IP
3 25 (2.53%) Network Security
4 17 (1.72%) HTTP
4 17 (1.72%) SSL
5 14 (1.42%) BIG-IP
5 14 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 14 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 13 (1.32%) VLAN
7 12 (1.22%) VPN
8 11 (1.11%) SAN
9 9 (0.91%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.81%) SSH
11 7 (0.71%) DHCP
11 7 (0.71%) WAN
12 6 (0.61%) 4G
12 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (0.51%) 5G
14 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (15.40%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (6.59%) MongoDB
3 60 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (6.08%) Relational Database
3 60 (6.08%) SQL Server
4 58 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 40 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
6 36 (3.65%) Redis
7 33 (3.34%) DynamoDB
8 28 (2.84%) MySQL
9 26 (2.63%) Big Data
10 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.52%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.52%) Metadata
13 14 (1.42%) Pentaho
14 13 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 366 (37.08%) GitLab
2 346 (35.06%) Git
3 172 (17.43%) JIRA
4 99 (10.03%) JUnit
5 96 (9.73%) Maven
6 87 (8.81%) Selenium
7 82 (8.31%) SonarQube
8 64 (6.48%) Gradle
9 58 (5.88%) Mockito
10 54 (5.47%) Bitbucket
11 53 (5.37%) Cucumber
12 49 (4.96%) REST Assured
13 44 (4.46%) Sonatype Nexus
14 38 (3.85%) Postman
15 37 (3.75%) JMeter
16 36 (3.65%) Gatling
17 25 (2.53%) WebDriver
18 20 (2.03%) Artifactory
19 18 (1.82%) TestNG
20 16 (1.62%) Cypress.io
General
1 236 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 157 (15.91%) Finance
3 127 (12.87%) Public Sector
4 112 (11.35%) Banking
5 105 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.03%) Retail
8 18 (1.82%) Law
9 15 (1.52%) Publishing
9 15 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.32%) Marketing
11 10 (1.01%) Front Office
12 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.81%) Legal
14 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.71%) Military
15 6 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 253 (25.63%) Developer
2 185 (18.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 156 (15.81%) Senior
4 122 (12.36%) Java Developer
5 75 (7.60%) Lead
6 56 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (5.27%) Architect
8 50 (5.07%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.86%) Test Engineer
10 46 (4.66%) Software Engineer
11 43 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
12 36 (3.65%) Automation Engineer
12 36 (3.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 36 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
12 36 (3.65%) Software Developer
13 34 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
13 34 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
14 32 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
15 30 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
16 27 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 394 (39.92%) Terraform
2 186 (18.84%) Kafka
3 180 (18.24%) Spring
4 164 (16.62%) Spring Boot
5 159 (16.11%) REST
6 126 (12.77%) RESTful
7 102 (10.33%) React
8 78 (7.90%) Node.js
9 73 (7.40%) HTML
10 61 (6.18%) Playwright
11 59 (5.98%) Hibernate
12 54 (5.47%) AngularJS
12 54 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
12 54 (5.47%) JPA
13 53 (5.37%) SOAP
14 50 (5.07%) CSS
15 46 (4.66%) Web Services
16 38 (3.85%) JSON
17 36 (3.65%) .NET
18 31 (3.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 176 (17.83%) Cloud Native
2 79 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (2.94%) Replication
8 26 (2.63%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.03%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.93%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.72%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.72%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.42%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 11 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 217 (21.99%) Linux
2 61 (6.18%) Unix
3 51 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (4.66%) Windows
5 16 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (1.01%) CentOS
8 8 (0.81%) Android
8 8 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.51%) zOS
10 4 (0.41%) VMS
11 3 (0.30%) AIX
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.20%) Rocky
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 835 (84.60%) CI/CD
2 670 (67.88%) DevOps
3 475 (48.13%) Agile
4 362 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 320 (32.42%) Test Automation
6 298 (30.19%) Containerisation
7 267 (27.05%) Microservices
8 220 (22.29%) Observability
9 179 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 177 (17.93%) Scrum
11 169 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
12 156 (15.81%) Software Engineering
13 144 (14.59%) Platform Engineering
14 109 (11.04%) Deployment Automation
15 105 (10.64%) Event-Driven
16 103 (10.44%) DevSecOps
16 103 (10.44%) TDD
17 101 (10.23%) AI
18 98 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
19 90 (9.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 424 (42.96%) Python
2 386 (39.11%) Java
3 244 (24.72%) SQL
4 197 (19.96%) Bash
5 117 (11.85%) JavaScript
5 117 (11.85%) PowerShell
6 77 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 58 (5.88%) Groovy
8 57 (5.78%) C#
9 49 (4.96%) Go
9 49 (4.96%) Shell Script
10 39 (3.95%) PL/SQL
11 27 (2.74%) Perl
12 26 (2.63%) Scala
13 19 (1.93%) Bicep
14 18 (1.82%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.42%) ActionScript
16 12 (1.22%) C++
17 11 (1.11%) Korn
18 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 400 (40.53%) Security Cleared
2 328 (33.23%) SC Cleared
3 67 (6.79%) DV Cleared
4 57 (5.78%) Degree
5 51 (5.17%) AWS Certification
6 39 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.72%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.52%) CISSP
11 12 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.51%) GCIH
15 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (14.18%) QA
2 36 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.55%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.52%) NIST
5 14 (1.42%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
7 9 (0.91%) GDPR
7 9 (0.91%) NCSC
7 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.61%) SEPA
9 5 (0.51%) PSD2
9 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.41%) SLA
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 477 (48.33%) Docker
2 24 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.13%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.01%) Postfix
6 8 (0.81%) vSphere
7 7 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.61%) NFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Squid
9 4 (0.41%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.30%) Varnish
10 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 492 (49.85%) Kubernetes
2 230 (23.30%) Ansible
3 218 (22.09%) Grafana
4 186 (18.84%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 38 (3.85%) Puppet
6 37 (3.75%) Argo
7 20 (2.03%) Kibana
8 17 (1.72%) Control-M
9 16 (1.62%) HAProxy
10 14 (1.42%) Istio
11 13 (1.32%) Packer
12 10 (1.01%) Kustomize
12 10 (1.01%) Podman
13 9 (0.91%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.81%) Consul
15 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (9.52%) Oracle
2 91 (9.22%) Google
2 91 (9.22%) Microsoft
3 84 (8.51%) Splunk
4 67 (6.79%) Dynatrace
5 44 (4.46%) Red Hat
6 37 (3.75%) IBM
7 34 (3.44%) VMware
8 31 (3.14%) Salesforce
9 26 (2.63%) Databricks
10 25 (2.53%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.52%) F5
11 15 (1.52%) New Relic
11 15 (1.52%) Talend
12 12 (1.22%) Sonatype
12 12 (1.22%) Veracode
13 11 (1.11%) Denodo
13 11 (1.11%) NetApp
14 10 (1.01%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.01%) SAP