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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 75 90
Rank change year-on-year -50 +15 -18
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 992 912 835
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.30% 2.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.66% 22.83% 19.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 642 625
10th Percentile £363 £351 £384
25th Percentile £414 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -7.76%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £669
90th Percentile £638 £700 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 35
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £60.00
25th Percentile £64.00 £56.25 £68.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -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 5,317 3,994 4,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.47% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,384 2,771 2,848
10th Percentile £352 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £629
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 243 95 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £51.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -35 479 £525 -2.78% 226
North of England -32 247 £450 -3.02% 111
Yorkshire -11 178 £488 -0.79% 36
Midlands -27 129 £477 +6.00% 35
West Midlands -4 122 £479 +0.84% 24
South East -87 66 £460 -8.05% 50
South West -34 52 £550 -4.35% 55
North West -87 48 £425 +6.25% 57
North East -29 25 £450 -3.23% 19
East of England -8 18 £450 -10.00% 20
East Midlands -37 5 £459 +28.07% 11
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
1 113 (11.39%) Confluence
2 34 (3.43%) SAS
3 25 (2.52%) Apache Spark
4 23 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.21%) Apache
5 12 (1.21%) nginx
6 10 (1.01%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.50%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.40%) Camunda
9 4 (0.40%) CMS
10 3 (0.30%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) JBoss
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 512 (51.61%) AWS
2 415 (41.83%) GitHub
3 355 (35.79%) Azure
4 300 (30.24%) GitHub Actions
5 221 (22.28%) GCP
6 174 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
7 128 (12.90%) Amazon S3
8 115 (11.59%) Serverless
9 108 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 102 (10.28%) Amazon EC2
10 102 (10.28%) AWS Lambda
11 95 (9.58%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (8.47%) OpenShift
13 77 (7.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 63 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
15 51 (5.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 49 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
17 44 (4.44%) Datadog
18 42 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 31 (3.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.44%) DNS
2 51 (5.14%) Firewall
3 21 (2.12%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.81%) Network Security
5 16 (1.61%) SSL
6 15 (1.51%) VPN
7 11 (1.11%) HTTP
8 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (0.81%) VLAN
10 7 (0.71%) SAN
10 7 (0.71%) WAN
11 4 (0.40%) 4G
11 4 (0.40%) BGP
11 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.30%) DHCP
12 3 (0.30%) Internet
12 3 (0.30%) Multicast
12 3 (0.30%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (15.02%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 61 (6.15%) MongoDB
4 54 (5.44%) SQL Server
5 53 (5.34%) NoSQL
5 53 (5.34%) Relational Database
6 44 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 43 (4.33%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.92%) Redis
9 26 (2.62%) Big Data
9 26 (2.62%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.92%) MySQL
11 18 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.81%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.81%) Metadata
12 14 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 13 (1.31%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.21%) Power BI
15 10 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 350 (35.28%) GitLab
2 337 (33.97%) Git
3 193 (19.46%) JIRA
4 111 (11.19%) JUnit
5 89 (8.97%) Selenium
6 79 (7.96%) Maven
7 70 (7.06%) SonarQube
8 62 (6.25%) Cucumber
9 58 (5.85%) Mockito
10 53 (5.34%) Bitbucket
11 51 (5.14%) Gradle
12 42 (4.23%) REST Assured
13 37 (3.73%) JMeter
14 36 (3.63%) Postman
14 36 (3.63%) Sonatype Nexus
15 32 (3.23%) Gatling
16 30 (3.02%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.42%) Liquibase
18 22 (2.22%) Artifactory
19 17 (1.71%) Zephyr
General
1 252 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 143 (14.42%) Finance
3 137 (13.81%) Public Sector
4 102 (10.28%) Banking
5 88 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
7 26 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.02%) Law
9 18 (1.81%) Retail
10 16 (1.61%) Publishing
11 15 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.21%) Marketing
13 11 (1.11%) Legal
14 10 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.91%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.60%) Front Office
16 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 234 (23.59%) Developer
2 175 (17.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 155 (15.63%) Senior
4 119 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 70 (7.06%) Lead
6 66 (6.65%) Software Engineer
7 53 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
8 49 (4.94%) Architect
8 49 (4.94%) Senior Developer
9 46 (4.64%) Data Engineer
10 43 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
11 41 (4.13%) AWS DevOps
12 38 (3.83%) GCP Engineer
13 37 (3.73%) Tester
14 35 (3.53%) Senior Java Developer
14 35 (3.53%) Test Engineer
15 34 (3.43%) Cloud Engineer
16 32 (3.23%) Automation Engineer
16 32 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (18.15%) Spring
2 160 (16.13%) Kafka
3 154 (15.52%) REST
4 152 (15.32%) Spring Boot
5 108 (10.89%) RESTful
6 92 (9.27%) React
7 89 (8.97%) Node.js
8 60 (6.05%) Playwright
9 55 (5.54%) SOAP
10 50 (5.04%) AngularJS
11 49 (4.94%) HTML
12 48 (4.84%) Hibernate
12 48 (4.84%) Web Services
13 46 (4.64%) Elastic Stack
14 43 (4.33%) JPA
15 36 (3.63%) CSS
16 32 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
16 32 (3.23%) Swagger
16 32 (3.23%) YAML
17 31 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 173 (17.44%) Cloud Native
2 85 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (7.06%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 20 (2.02%) Replication
10 19 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.61%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.51%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.41%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.41%) Public Cloud
14 13 (1.31%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.21%) Private Cloud
16 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
16 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
17 9 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 190 (19.15%) Linux
2 53 (5.34%) Unix
3 42 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 42 (4.23%) Windows
4 12 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.91%) Android
5 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.60%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.50%) CentOS
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
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
1 831 (83.77%) CI/CD
2 668 (67.34%) DevOps
3 487 (49.09%) Agile
4 334 (33.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 316 (31.85%) Test Automation
6 268 (27.02%) Containerisation
7 262 (26.41%) Microservices
8 196 (19.76%) Scrum
9 195 (19.66%) Observability
10 181 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 157 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
11 157 (15.83%) Software Engineering
12 137 (13.81%) Platform Engineering
13 118 (11.90%) TDD
14 105 (10.58%) Deployment Automation
15 92 (9.27%) AI
16 90 (9.07%) Event-Driven
17 89 (8.97%) Validation
18 85 (8.57%) DevSecOps
18 85 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 410 (41.33%) Python
2 357 (35.99%) Java
3 256 (25.81%) SQL
4 200 (20.16%) Bash
5 121 (12.20%) PowerShell
6 91 (9.17%) JavaScript
7 74 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 48 (4.84%) C#
8 48 (4.84%) Groovy
8 48 (4.84%) Shell Script
9 47 (4.74%) Go
10 39 (3.93%) PL/SQL
11 29 (2.92%) Scala
12 19 (1.92%) Perl
13 18 (1.81%) Bicep
13 18 (1.81%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
14 10 (1.01%) C++
15 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 385 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 325 (32.76%) SC Cleared
3 53 (5.34%) Degree
4 46 (4.64%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.23%) DV Cleared
6 33 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.72%) Azure Certification
8 21 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.31%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.11%) CISSP
11 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.81%) RHCE
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
16 5 (0.50%) OCP
17 4 (0.40%) CCNP
17 4 (0.40%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (12.00%) QA
2 51 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.31%) WCAG
5 8 (0.81%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.71%) GDPR
6 7 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.71%) SLA
7 6 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.60%) NIST
8 5 (0.50%) SEPA
9 4 (0.40%) PSD2
9 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.20%) NCSC
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.10%) HL7
11 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 465 (46.88%) Docker
2 27 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.61%) Active Directory
4 15 (1.51%) Postfix
5 14 (1.41%) vSphere
6 13 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.71%) NFS
8 6 (0.60%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.40%) SRDF
9 4 (0.40%) Varnish
9 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 466 (46.98%) Kubernetes
2 381 (38.41%) Terraform
3 238 (23.99%) Ansible
4 207 (20.87%) Grafana
5 175 (17.64%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.13%) Argo
6 41 (4.13%) Puppet
7 33 (3.33%) Progress Chef
8 19 (1.92%) Istio
9 18 (1.81%) Control-M
10 14 (1.41%) HAProxy
10 14 (1.41%) vCenter Server
11 10 (1.01%) Kibana
11 10 (1.01%) Packer
11 10 (1.01%) Podman
12 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.60%) Consul
15 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 89 (8.97%) Oracle
2 88 (8.87%) Google
3 85 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 75 (7.56%) Splunk
5 56 (5.65%) Dynatrace
6 49 (4.94%) Red Hat
7 36 (3.63%) VMware
8 31 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 27 (2.72%) Talend
10 24 (2.42%) Databricks
10 24 (2.42%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.32%) Denodo
12 21 (2.12%) IBM
13 18 (1.81%) Jaspersoft
14 14 (1.41%) Atlassian
14 14 (1.41%) Sonatype
15 13 (1.31%) Okta
15 13 (1.31%) Pure Storage
16 12 (1.21%) F5
17 11 (1.11%) ForgeRock