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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 87 94
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -41
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 998 737 868
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 2.78% 2.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.03% 20.53% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 704 484 657
10th Percentile £358 £371 £404
25th Percentile £427 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £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 4,745 3,590 4,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.35% 13.53% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,291 2,219 3,176
10th Percentile £340 £340 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -4.74% -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 62 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.12 £44.68
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.64 £50.63
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 £76.15 £89.75
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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -31 425 £531 -13.27% 85
North of England +14 271 £492 -1.60% 68
Yorkshire +12 184 £500 -6.37% 32
Midlands +40 142 £525 +7.36% 21
West Midlands +40 130 £525 +7.36% 15
South East +12 93 £462 -7.70% 53
North West -23 71 £447 +11.75% 31
South West +12 54 £531 -11.46% 26
North East -3 19 £550 -13.21% 5
East of England -15 15 £477 +5.89% 17
East Midlands -19 12 £400 -14.35% 6
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 (12.22%) Confluence
2 59 (5.91%) SAS
3 19 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.50%) Apache
4 15 (1.50%) IIS
5 14 (1.40%) JBoss
6 13 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (1.30%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.30%) WebSphere
7 12 (1.20%) nginx
8 11 (1.10%) WebSphere Application Server
9 10 (1.00%) iPlanet
10 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
12 3 (0.30%) Mule
13 2 (0.20%) CICS
13 2 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 17 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (0.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) 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
1 519 (52.00%) AWS
2 338 (33.87%) GitHub
3 266 (26.65%) Azure
4 230 (23.05%) GCP
5 214 (21.44%) GitHub Actions
6 136 (13.63%) OpenShift
6 136 (13.63%) Serverless
7 116 (11.62%) Amazon S3
8 105 (10.52%) Amazon EC2
9 99 (9.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 97 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
10 97 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
11 94 (9.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 82 (8.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 80 (8.02%) Amazon ECS
14 77 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
15 57 (5.71%) Datadog
16 52 (5.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 35 (3.51%) Route 53
17 35 (3.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (7.11%) Firewall
2 67 (6.71%) DNS
3 33 (3.31%) VPN
4 28 (2.81%) TCP/IP
5 27 (2.71%) Network Security
6 22 (2.20%) HTTP
7 20 (2.00%) SSL
8 19 (1.90%) Kerberos
9 12 (1.20%) SSH
10 11 (1.10%) SMTP
11 10 (1.00%) FTP
12 7 (0.70%) IMAP
12 7 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
12 7 (0.70%) WAN
13 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.60%) Internet
14 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.40%) SAN
16 3 (0.30%) NAS
17 2 (0.20%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (15.43%) PostgreSQL
2 101 (10.12%) NoSQL
3 96 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
4 55 (5.51%) MongoDB
5 41 (4.11%) MySQL
6 39 (3.91%) DynamoDB
7 38 (3.81%) Pentaho
8 35 (3.51%) Relational Database
9 32 (3.21%) Oracle Database
9 32 (3.21%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.91%) Redis
11 27 (2.71%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.30%) BigQuery
13 19 (1.90%) Big Data
14 14 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.30%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.20%) Tableau
17 11 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
17 11 (1.10%) SAS Enterprise Guide
18 10 (1.00%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 379 (37.98%) GitLab
2 313 (31.36%) Git
3 225 (22.55%) JIRA
4 97 (9.72%) Selenium
5 91 (9.12%) Sonatype Nexus
6 89 (8.92%) JUnit
7 87 (8.72%) Cucumber
8 59 (5.91%) Bitbucket
9 58 (5.81%) Postman
10 50 (5.01%) Maven
11 48 (4.81%) SonarQube
12 40 (4.01%) Gradle
12 40 (4.01%) REST Assured
13 35 (3.51%) CircleCI
14 30 (3.01%) Artifactory
15 24 (2.40%) JMeter
16 22 (2.20%) Cypress.io
16 22 (2.20%) Liquibase
17 20 (2.00%) Gatling
18 16 (1.60%) Mockito
General
1 296 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 227 (22.75%) Finance
3 140 (14.03%) Banking
4 120 (12.02%) Public Sector
5 62 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.91%) Financial Institution
8 18 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.30%) Military
10 12 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.20%) Retail
11 10 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.70%) Front Office
12 7 (0.70%) Marketing
13 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.60%) Games
13 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (17.33%) Developer
2 169 (16.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 161 (16.13%) Senior
4 86 (8.62%) Lead
5 85 (8.52%) Architect
6 72 (7.21%) Java Developer
7 71 (7.11%) AWS Engineer
8 58 (5.81%) Data Engineer
9 52 (5.21%) GCP Engineer
9 52 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
10 47 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 44 (4.41%) Senior DevOps
12 43 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 42 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
13 42 (4.21%) Software Engineer
14 39 (3.91%) Test Engineer
15 36 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
15 36 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 36 (3.61%) Senior Developer
16 32 (3.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (14.93%) REST
2 142 (14.23%) Kafka
3 119 (11.92%) Spring
4 107 (10.72%) Node.js
5 97 (9.72%) Spring Boot
6 96 (9.62%) RESTful
7 91 (9.12%) Elastic Stack
8 70 (7.01%) Playwright
9 56 (5.61%) LDAP
10 55 (5.51%) React
11 54 (5.41%) OpenID
12 53 (5.31%) GraphQL
13 45 (4.51%) JSON
14 43 (4.31%) HTML
15 41 (4.11%) OAuth
16 39 (3.91%) .NET
17 38 (3.81%) SAML
18 37 (3.71%) YAML
19 36 (3.61%) AngularJS
19 36 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 185 (18.54%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.81%) Public Cloud
4 46 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.11%) Replication
7 20 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.20%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.00%) NHS
13 9 (0.90%) Derivative
13 9 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 232 (23.25%) Linux
2 73 (7.31%) Windows
3 44 (4.41%) Unix
4 25 (2.51%) VMS
5 22 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (2.00%) Windows Server
7 13 (1.30%) Amazon Linux
7 13 (1.30%) Android
7 13 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.20%) CentOS
9 10 (1.00%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) zOS
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.10%) MVS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (83.07%) CI/CD
2 668 (66.93%) DevOps
3 382 (38.28%) Agile
4 339 (33.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 302 (30.26%) Containerisation
6 283 (28.36%) Test Automation
7 244 (24.45%) Problem-Solving
8 216 (21.64%) Microservices
9 149 (14.93%) Observability
10 133 (13.33%) Scrum
10 133 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 129 (12.93%) Mentoring
12 111 (11.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 91 (9.12%) Migration
14 88 (8.82%) DevSecOps
15 86 (8.62%) Data Pipeline
16 85 (8.52%) Deployment Automation
17 84 (8.42%) Continuous Integration
18 83 (8.32%) Analytics
18 83 (8.32%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 446 (44.69%) Python
2 294 (29.46%) Java
3 187 (18.74%) SQL
4 153 (15.33%) Bash
5 105 (10.52%) JavaScript
6 88 (8.82%) TypeScript
7 85 (8.52%) Go
8 82 (8.22%) PowerShell
9 66 (6.61%) Shell Script
10 50 (5.01%) C#
11 45 (4.51%) Groovy
12 26 (2.61%) Scala
13 21 (2.10%) C++
14 16 (1.60%) Ruby
15 14 (1.40%) Kotlin
16 13 (1.30%) PHP
17 11 (1.10%) C
18 10 (1.00%) Perl
18 10 (1.00%) Swift
19 8 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 345 (34.57%) Security Cleared
2 271 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.11%) Degree
4 55 (5.51%) AWS Certification
5 47 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (3.51%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.91%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.61%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 15 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.00%) OCP
13 7 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.50%) OCA
15 5 (0.50%) RHCE
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (9.42%) QA
2 52 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.20%) NIST
5 21 (2.10%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.90%) NCSC
7 15 (1.50%) SLA
8 8 (0.80%) GDPR
9 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.50%) 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
1 496 (49.70%) Docker
2 29 (2.91%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.10%) VMware NSX
4 11 (1.10%) vSphere
5 10 (1.00%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.80%) Tivoli Directory Server
7 7 (0.70%) Dovecot
7 7 (0.70%) Postfix
7 7 (0.70%) Squid
8 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.40%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 2 (0.20%) KVM
12 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 513 (51.40%) Kubernetes
2 407 (40.78%) Terraform
3 282 (28.26%) Ansible
4 183 (18.34%) Grafana
5 160 (16.03%) Prometheus
6 57 (5.71%) Progress Chef
7 35 (3.51%) Argo
8 30 (3.01%) Istio
9 26 (2.61%) Puppet
10 19 (1.90%) Podman
11 15 (1.50%) Kibana
12 11 (1.10%) CA Single Sign-On
12 11 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
12 11 (1.10%) Packer
12 11 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (1.10%) vCenter Server
13 10 (1.00%) CA Wily
13 10 (1.00%) NetBackup
13 10 (1.00%) Proxmox
14 8 (0.80%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 125 (12.53%) Splunk
2 96 (9.62%) Oracle
3 87 (8.72%) Google
4 79 (7.92%) Microsoft
5 49 (4.91%) Red Hat
5 49 (4.91%) ServiceNow
6 48 (4.81%) VMware
7 38 (3.81%) Denodo
7 38 (3.81%) Talend
8 30 (3.01%) Databricks
9 29 (2.91%) Atlassian
10 24 (2.40%) Dynatrace
11 22 (2.20%) F5
12 21 (2.10%) Sonatype
13 20 (2.00%) CheckPoint
13 20 (2.00%) Palo Alto
14 19 (1.90%) AppDynamics
15 18 (1.80%) CyberArk
15 18 (1.80%) IBM
16 13 (1.30%) Solace