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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 90 95
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -41
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 989 724 877
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.73% 2.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.99% 20.24% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 471 662
10th Percentile £359 £375 £406
25th Percentile £427 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £587 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.36% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £58.13 £45.88
25th Percentile £40.00 £65.63 £53.57
Median hourly rate £47.50 £71.25 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -1.04% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60.25 £80.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £89.75 £82.80
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £71.25 £67.25
% change year-on-year -17.89% +5.95% -3.93%

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 4,712 3,577 4,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.33% 13.50% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 2,208 3,178
10th Percentile £340 £340 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 61 200
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.00 £44.26
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.25 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 1 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins in England over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Jenkins in England

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 1 February 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 -25 421 £530 -13.82% 98
North of England +16 267 £490 -2.05% 77
Yorkshire +11 180 £500 -6.37% 37
Midlands +35 142 £525 +7.36% 20
West Midlands +44 130 £525 +7.36% 15
South East +19 93 £462 -7.70% 49
North West -19 71 £447 +11.75% 35
South West +8 53 £531 -11.46% 28
North East -2 19 £550 -13.21% 5
East of England -19 15 £477 +5.89% 16
East Midlands -20 12 £400 -14.35% 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
1 119 (12.03%) Confluence
2 59 (5.97%) SAS
3 19 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.52%) Apache
4 15 (1.52%) IIS
5 14 (1.42%) JBoss
6 13 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (1.31%) OpenStack
7 12 (1.21%) nginx
7 12 (1.21%) WebSphere
8 10 (1.01%) iPlanet
8 10 (1.01%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.30%) Mule
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) Finacle
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 513 (51.87%) AWS
2 336 (33.97%) GitHub
3 264 (26.69%) Azure
4 229 (23.15%) GCP
5 213 (21.54%) GitHub Actions
6 136 (13.75%) OpenShift
6 136 (13.75%) Serverless
7 113 (11.43%) Amazon S3
8 102 (10.31%) Amazon EC2
9 97 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
10 96 (9.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 96 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
11 93 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 80 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
13 79 (7.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 76 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
15 57 (5.76%) Datadog
16 52 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 35 (3.54%) Route 53
17 35 (3.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (6.67%) Firewall
2 64 (6.47%) DNS
3 30 (3.03%) VPN
4 25 (2.53%) Network Security
5 24 (2.43%) TCP/IP
6 22 (2.22%) HTTP
7 19 (1.92%) Kerberos
8 17 (1.72%) SSL
9 12 (1.21%) SSH
10 11 (1.11%) SMTP
11 10 (1.01%) FTP
12 7 (0.71%) IMAP
12 7 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
13 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.61%) Internet
13 6 (0.61%) WAN
14 5 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 3 (0.30%) SAN
16 2 (0.20%) NAS
16 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (15.47%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (10.11%) NoSQL
3 96 (9.71%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (5.46%) MongoDB
5 41 (4.15%) MySQL
6 39 (3.94%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.84%) Pentaho
8 35 (3.54%) Relational Database
9 32 (3.24%) Oracle Database
10 31 (3.13%) SQL Server
11 29 (2.93%) Redis
12 27 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
13 23 (2.33%) BigQuery
14 19 (1.92%) Big Data
15 14 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (1.31%) RDBMS
17 12 (1.21%) Tableau
18 11 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
18 11 (1.11%) SAS Enterprise Guide
19 10 (1.01%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 373 (37.71%) GitLab
2 309 (31.24%) Git
3 222 (22.45%) JIRA
4 97 (9.81%) Selenium
5 90 (9.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 89 (9.00%) JUnit
7 87 (8.80%) Cucumber
8 59 (5.97%) Bitbucket
9 57 (5.76%) Postman
10 50 (5.06%) Maven
11 47 (4.75%) SonarQube
12 40 (4.04%) Gradle
12 40 (4.04%) REST Assured
13 35 (3.54%) CircleCI
14 30 (3.03%) Artifactory
15 24 (2.43%) JMeter
16 22 (2.22%) Cypress.io
16 22 (2.22%) Liquibase
17 20 (2.02%) Gatling
18 16 (1.62%) Mockito
General
1 296 (29.93%) Social Skills
2 226 (22.85%) Finance
3 140 (14.16%) Banking
4 118 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 62 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.93%) Financial Institution
8 18 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.31%) Military
10 12 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.21%) Retail
11 10 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.71%) Front Office
12 7 (0.71%) Marketing
13 6 (0.61%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.61%) Games
13 6 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 172 (17.39%) Developer
2 168 (16.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 157 (15.87%) Senior
4 86 (8.70%) Lead
5 84 (8.49%) Architect
6 71 (7.18%) AWS Engineer
6 71 (7.18%) Java Developer
7 56 (5.66%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
8 52 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
9 47 (4.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 44 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
11 43 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 42 (4.25%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.25%) Software Engineer
13 39 (3.94%) Test Engineer
14 36 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 35 (3.54%) Senior Developer
16 34 (3.44%) Automation Engineer
17 32 (3.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (15.07%) REST
2 141 (14.26%) Kafka
3 119 (12.03%) Spring
4 107 (10.82%) Node.js
5 97 (9.81%) Spring Boot
6 96 (9.71%) RESTful
7 91 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
8 70 (7.08%) Playwright
9 55 (5.56%) LDAP
9 55 (5.56%) React
10 54 (5.46%) OpenID
11 53 (5.36%) GraphQL
12 45 (4.55%) JSON
13 43 (4.35%) HTML
14 41 (4.15%) OAuth
15 39 (3.94%) .NET
16 38 (3.84%) SAML
17 37 (3.74%) YAML
18 36 (3.64%) AngularJS
18 36 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 185 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.85%) Public Cloud
4 44 (4.45%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.03%) Replication
7 20 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.21%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.11%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.01%) NHS
13 9 (0.91%) Derivative
13 9 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 231 (23.36%) Linux
2 71 (7.18%) Windows
3 44 (4.45%) Unix
4 25 (2.53%) VMS
5 22 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (2.02%) Windows Server
7 13 (1.31%) Amazon Linux
7 13 (1.31%) Android
7 13 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.21%) CentOS
9 10 (1.01%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.10%) Solaris
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
10 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (83.22%) CI/CD
2 660 (66.73%) DevOps
3 381 (38.52%) Agile
4 336 (33.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 301 (30.43%) Containerisation
6 281 (28.41%) Test Automation
7 244 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
8 215 (21.74%) Microservices
9 149 (15.07%) Observability
10 132 (13.35%) Software Engineering
11 131 (13.25%) Scrum
12 128 (12.94%) Mentoring
13 111 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 91 (9.20%) Migration
15 87 (8.80%) DevSecOps
16 86 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
17 85 (8.59%) Deployment Automation
18 83 (8.39%) Analytics
18 83 (8.39%) Continuous Integration
19 79 (7.99%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 439 (44.39%) Python
2 292 (29.52%) Java
3 186 (18.81%) SQL
4 148 (14.96%) Bash
5 105 (10.62%) JavaScript
6 88 (8.90%) TypeScript
7 85 (8.59%) Go
8 82 (8.29%) PowerShell
9 66 (6.67%) Shell Script
10 50 (5.06%) C#
11 45 (4.55%) Groovy
12 26 (2.63%) Scala
13 21 (2.12%) C++
14 16 (1.62%) Ruby
15 14 (1.42%) Kotlin
16 13 (1.31%) PHP
17 11 (1.11%) C
18 10 (1.01%) Perl
18 10 (1.01%) Swift
19 8 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 343 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 269 (27.20%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.18%) Degree
4 55 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 47 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (3.54%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.63%) Azure Certification
9 16 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.01%) OCP
13 7 (0.71%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.51%) OCA
15 5 (0.51%) RHCE
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (9.40%) QA
2 52 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.22%) NIST
5 21 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.92%) NCSC
7 15 (1.52%) SLA
8 8 (0.81%) GDPR
9 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) WCAG
11 3 (0.30%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.30%) IEC 62304
11 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.30%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
12 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 492 (49.75%) Docker
2 28 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.11%) VMware NSX
4 11 (1.11%) vSphere
5 10 (1.01%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.81%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 7 (0.71%) Dovecot
7 7 (0.71%) Postfix
7 7 (0.71%) Squid
8 6 (0.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.40%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.20%) GridGain
10 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.10%) KVM
11 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 511 (51.67%) Kubernetes
2 401 (40.55%) Terraform
3 274 (27.70%) Ansible
4 182 (18.40%) Grafana
5 159 (16.08%) Prometheus
6 57 (5.76%) Progress Chef
7 35 (3.54%) Argo
8 29 (2.93%) Istio
9 23 (2.33%) Puppet
10 19 (1.92%) Podman
11 15 (1.52%) Kibana
12 11 (1.11%) CA Single Sign-On
12 11 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
12 11 (1.11%) Packer
12 11 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (1.11%) vCenter Server
13 10 (1.01%) CA Wily
13 10 (1.01%) Proxmox
14 8 (0.81%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.81%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 125 (12.64%) Splunk
2 95 (9.61%) Oracle
3 86 (8.70%) Google
4 76 (7.68%) Microsoft
5 49 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 47 (4.75%) Red Hat
7 46 (4.65%) VMware
8 38 (3.84%) Denodo
8 38 (3.84%) Talend
9 30 (3.03%) Databricks
10 29 (2.93%) Atlassian
11 24 (2.43%) Dynatrace
12 21 (2.12%) Sonatype
13 19 (1.92%) AppDynamics
14 18 (1.82%) CyberArk
14 18 (1.82%) F5
15 17 (1.72%) CheckPoint
15 17 (1.72%) IBM
15 17 (1.72%) Palo Alto
16 13 (1.31%) Solace