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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 86 103
Rank change year-on-year +8 +17 -50
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 969 739 826
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.74% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.14% 20.57% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 498 621
10th Percentile £358 £380 £406
25th Percentile £416 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.73% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 £43.38
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £57.41
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%
75th Percentile £97.56 £80.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £89.75 £81.60
UK median hourly rate £58.61 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -17.74% +4.01% -2.14%

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 4,583 3,592 4,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.72% 13.33% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,164 2,240 3,097
10th Percentile £333 £337 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £538
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 65 192
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.73
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.90 £75.85 £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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -26 414 £525 -14.98% 127
North of England +10 251 £496 +9.61% 94
Yorkshire +6 164 £500 - 50
Midlands +53 137 £520 +9.01% 42
West Midlands +55 123 £525 +7.36% 20
South East +32 101 £474 -5.20% 107
North West -18 71 £448 +12.00% 34
South West +4 48 £538 -10.42% 59
North East +3 17 £575 -9.27% 10
East Midlands -14 14 £397 -0.88% 20
East of England -18 13 £478 +9.26% 45
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
1 116 (11.97%) Confluence
2 55 (5.68%) SAS
3 19 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.55%) Apache
5 15 (1.55%) IIS
5 15 (1.55%) JBoss
6 14 (1.44%) nginx
7 13 (1.34%) OpenStack
7 13 (1.34%) WebSphere
8 11 (1.14%) WebSphere Application Server
9 10 (1.03%) iPlanet
10 6 (0.62%) Mule
11 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.52%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.41%) CICS
12 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.31%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.31%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 11 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.93%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.21%) 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%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 503 (51.91%) AWS
2 315 (32.51%) GitHub
3 263 (27.14%) Azure
4 232 (23.94%) GCP
5 202 (20.85%) GitHub Actions
6 126 (13.00%) Serverless
7 120 (12.38%) OpenShift
8 116 (11.97%) Amazon S3
9 105 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
10 103 (10.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 95 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
12 91 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 88 (9.08%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (9.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 74 (7.64%) Amazon ECS
15 66 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
16 58 (5.99%) Datadog
17 46 (4.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 43 (4.44%) Amazon ELB
19 37 (3.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (8.98%) Firewall
2 78 (8.05%) DNS
3 38 (3.92%) VPN
4 36 (3.72%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.89%) HTTP
5 28 (2.89%) Network Security
6 26 (2.68%) SSL
7 19 (1.96%) Kerberos
8 18 (1.86%) SSH
9 16 (1.65%) SMTP
10 15 (1.55%) FTP
11 9 (0.93%) IMAP
11 9 (0.93%) OpenLDAP
12 7 (0.72%) Internet
13 6 (0.62%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.62%) WAN
14 5 (0.52%) SD-WAN
15 3 (0.31%) Multicast
15 3 (0.31%) tcpdump
16 2 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (16.51%) PostgreSQL
2 98 (10.11%) NoSQL
3 92 (9.49%) Amazon RDS
4 53 (5.47%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.92%) MySQL
6 36 (3.72%) DynamoDB
7 35 (3.61%) Pentaho
8 32 (3.30%) Oracle Database
8 32 (3.30%) SQL Server
9 30 (3.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 30 (3.10%) Redis
10 29 (2.99%) Relational Database
11 22 (2.27%) BigQuery
12 18 (1.86%) Big Data
13 14 (1.44%) RDBMS
14 13 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.14%) Hadoop
16 11 (1.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 11 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 348 (35.91%) GitLab
2 323 (33.33%) Git
3 228 (23.53%) JIRA
4 90 (9.29%) Selenium
5 88 (9.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 82 (8.46%) JUnit
7 81 (8.36%) Cucumber
8 63 (6.50%) Bitbucket
9 54 (5.57%) SonarQube
10 52 (5.37%) Postman
11 42 (4.33%) Maven
12 38 (3.92%) Gradle
13 34 (3.51%) REST Assured
14 33 (3.41%) CircleCI
15 31 (3.20%) Artifactory
16 27 (2.79%) Liquibase
17 26 (2.68%) Cypress.io
18 22 (2.27%) JMeter
19 18 (1.86%) TeamCity
20 16 (1.65%) MLflow
General
1 280 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 212 (21.88%) Finance
3 143 (14.76%) Banking
4 124 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 56 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 24 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.34%) Military
9 11 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.14%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.03%) Retail
11 7 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 7 (0.72%) Front Office
11 7 (0.72%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.72%) Marketing
12 6 (0.62%) Games
12 6 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.52%) Law
13 5 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 175 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 165 (17.03%) Senior
3 162 (16.72%) Developer
4 80 (8.26%) AWS Engineer
4 80 (8.26%) Lead
5 68 (7.02%) Architect
5 68 (7.02%) Java Developer
6 63 (6.50%) Platform Engineer
7 59 (6.09%) Data Engineer
8 52 (5.37%) GCP Engineer
9 50 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (5.06%) AWS DevOps
11 48 (4.95%) Senior DevOps
11 48 (4.95%) Software Engineer
12 46 (4.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 42 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 37 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
15 35 (3.61%) Senior Developer
16 31 (3.20%) Test Engineer
17 28 (2.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (14.86%) REST
2 141 (14.55%) Kafka
3 99 (10.22%) Node.js
4 98 (10.11%) Spring
5 91 (9.39%) RESTful
6 89 (9.18%) Elastic Stack
7 80 (8.26%) Spring Boot
8 63 (6.50%) Playwright
9 55 (5.68%) React
10 53 (5.47%) GraphQL
11 41 (4.23%) HTML
11 41 (4.23%) JSON
12 40 (4.13%) LDAP
12 40 (4.13%) OAuth
13 39 (4.02%) OpenID
14 38 (3.92%) .NET
15 35 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
16 34 (3.51%) Vitest
17 33 (3.41%) CSS
17 33 (3.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 160 (16.51%) Cloud Native
2 80 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 43 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 35 (3.61%) Replication
6 23 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 19 (1.96%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 16 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 15 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 12 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (1.14%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.03%) Derivative
14 10 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.93%) NHS
16 7 (0.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 234 (24.15%) Linux
2 74 (7.64%) Windows
3 47 (4.85%) Unix
4 31 (3.20%) VMS
5 22 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 18 (1.86%) Amazon Linux
6 18 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (1.34%) Android
7 13 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.14%) CentOS
8 11 (1.14%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.31%) zOS
10 2 (0.21%) Solaris
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.10%) MVS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (80.91%) CI/CD
2 648 (66.87%) DevOps
3 388 (40.04%) Agile
4 333 (34.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 284 (29.31%) Containerisation
6 264 (27.24%) Test Automation
7 224 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
8 207 (21.36%) Microservices
9 140 (14.45%) Software Engineering
10 134 (13.83%) Observability
11 132 (13.62%) Scrum
12 125 (12.90%) Mentoring
13 103 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
14 93 (9.60%) Continuous Integration
15 88 (9.08%) Configuration Management
15 88 (9.08%) High Availability
16 85 (8.77%) DevSecOps
16 85 (8.77%) Migration
17 84 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
18 83 (8.57%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 457 (47.16%) Python
2 281 (29.00%) Java
3 181 (18.68%) SQL
4 169 (17.44%) Bash
5 105 (10.84%) JavaScript
6 94 (9.70%) Go
7 86 (8.88%) PowerShell
8 82 (8.46%) TypeScript
9 67 (6.91%) Shell Script
10 52 (5.37%) C#
11 49 (5.06%) Groovy
12 24 (2.48%) C++
13 20 (2.06%) Scala
14 17 (1.75%) Perl
14 17 (1.75%) Ruby
15 14 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.44%) PHP
16 11 (1.14%) C
17 10 (1.03%) Swift
18 8 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 329 (33.95%) Security Cleared
2 254 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.05%) Degree
4 53 (5.47%) AWS Certification
4 53 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (3.72%) Master's Degree
6 29 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.79%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.55%) Oracle Certification
10 14 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.03%) OCP
12 7 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.52%) OCA
13 5 (0.52%) RHCE
14 4 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.80%) QA
2 47 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.44%) SLA
6 12 (1.24%) NIST
7 8 (0.83%) NCSC
7 8 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.72%) GDPR
9 5 (0.52%) WCAG
10 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.31%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.31%) IEC 62304
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.21%) MiFID
12 2 (0.21%) PSD2
12 2 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 489 (50.46%) Docker
2 30 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.55%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.93%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.93%) Postfix
6 9 (0.93%) Squid
6 9 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.93%) vSphere
7 8 (0.83%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 4 (0.41%) HDFS
8 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.21%) GridGain
10 2 (0.21%) KVM
11 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.10%) SRDF
11 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 490 (50.57%) Kubernetes
2 405 (41.80%) Terraform
3 289 (29.82%) Ansible
4 175 (18.06%) Grafana
5 147 (15.17%) Prometheus
6 55 (5.68%) Progress Chef
7 35 (3.61%) Argo
8 29 (2.99%) Istio
9 27 (2.79%) Puppet
10 20 (2.06%) Podman
11 16 (1.65%) Kibana
12 12 (1.24%) ITRS Geneos
12 12 (1.24%) Packer
12 12 (1.24%) Proxmox
13 11 (1.14%) CA Single Sign-On
13 11 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (1.03%) CA Wily
14 10 (1.03%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.93%) Nessus
15 9 (0.93%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (11.25%) Splunk
2 94 (9.70%) Oracle
3 89 (9.18%) Google
4 80 (8.26%) Microsoft
5 51 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 50 (5.16%) ServiceNow
7 44 (4.54%) VMware
8 35 (3.61%) Denodo
8 35 (3.61%) Talend
9 31 (3.20%) Databricks
10 29 (2.99%) Atlassian
11 28 (2.89%) F5
12 27 (2.79%) Dynatrace
12 27 (2.79%) Palo Alto
13 26 (2.68%) CheckPoint
14 20 (2.06%) AppDynamics
15 19 (1.96%) IBM
16 13 (1.34%) Confluent
17 11 (1.14%) Broadcom
17 11 (1.14%) Veritas