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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 77 94
Rank change year-on-year -37 +17 -30
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 978 822 889
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.23% 3.22% 2.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.88% 22.73% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 568 658
10th Percentile £366 £358 £400
25th Percentile £419 £414 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £651 £706 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £546
% change year-on-year - -8.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 37
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.00 £53.75
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 -
90th Percentile - £69.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -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 5,179 3,616 4,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 14.18% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 2,458 3,012
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 76 234
10th Percentile £27.64 £28.18 £33.02
25th Percentile £56.94 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -36 447 £550 - 56
North of England -11 279 £453 -2.58% 46
Yorkshire -3 208 £493 -1.50% 17
Midlands -27 125 £481 +6.94% 7
West Midlands -2 117 £488 +2.63% 4
South East -87 58 £438 -12.50% 35
South West -12 50 £538 -6.52% 24
North West -72 50 £425 +8.14% 22
North East -13 28 £450 -3.23% 7
East of England -17 22 £475 -7.32% 6
East Midlands -45 6 £420 +16.67% 3
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
1 120 (12.27%) Confluence
2 33 (3.37%) SAS
3 24 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 10 (1.02%) Apache
6 10 (1.02%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.31%) Camunda
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 15 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Magento
2 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 491 (50.20%) AWS
2 403 (41.21%) GitHub
3 311 (31.80%) Azure
4 269 (27.51%) GitHub Actions
5 209 (21.37%) GCP
6 132 (13.50%) Amazon S3
7 127 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (12.27%) Serverless
9 106 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 105 (10.74%) Amazon EC2
11 104 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
12 99 (10.12%) OpenShift
13 94 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
14 77 (7.87%) AWS CloudFormation
15 63 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (6.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 50 (5.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 44 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.68%) Route 53
20 33 (3.37%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.52%) DNS
2 48 (4.91%) Firewall
3 18 (1.84%) Network Security
4 14 (1.43%) VPN
5 13 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.12%) SSL
7 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.82%) HTTP
9 7 (0.72%) SAN
9 7 (0.72%) VLAN
10 6 (0.61%) WAN
11 5 (0.51%) NAS
12 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.31%) BGP
13 3 (0.31%) Internet
13 3 (0.31%) Multicast
13 3 (0.31%) VSAN
14 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (14.31%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (7.77%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (5.83%) MongoDB
4 55 (5.62%) Relational Database
5 54 (5.52%) NoSQL
6 49 (5.01%) SQL Server
7 47 (4.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 47 (4.81%) DynamoDB
8 31 (3.17%) Redis
9 26 (2.66%) Big Data
10 23 (2.35%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (1.94%) MySQL
12 16 (1.64%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.43%) Metadata
14 13 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
15 11 (1.12%) Neo4j
16 10 (1.02%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 351 (35.89%) GitLab
2 292 (29.86%) Git
3 201 (20.55%) JIRA
4 115 (11.76%) JUnit
5 101 (10.33%) Selenium
6 72 (7.36%) Cucumber
7 68 (6.95%) Maven
8 60 (6.13%) Mockito
9 58 (5.93%) SonarQube
10 51 (5.21%) REST Assured
11 49 (5.01%) Postman
12 48 (4.91%) Bitbucket
13 40 (4.09%) Gradle
13 40 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
14 39 (3.99%) JMeter
15 37 (3.78%) Gatling
16 30 (3.07%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.45%) Liquibase
18 21 (2.15%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.53%) Serenity BDD
General
1 258 (26.38%) Social Skills
2 154 (15.75%) Finance
3 133 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 106 (10.84%) Banking
5 79 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 20 (2.04%) Law
9 19 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (1.43%) Retail
11 9 (0.92%) Legal
11 9 (0.92%) Publishing
12 8 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.72%) Front Office
13 7 (0.72%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.72%) Marketing
14 5 (0.51%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.51%) Military
15 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 204 (20.86%) Developer
2 168 (17.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 145 (14.83%) Senior
4 109 (11.15%) Java Developer
5 74 (7.57%) Architect
6 62 (6.34%) Software Engineer
7 61 (6.24%) Lead
8 54 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (4.91%) GCP Engineer
10 45 (4.60%) Test Engineer
11 44 (4.50%) Data Engineer
12 42 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.29%) Senior Developer
13 41 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
14 38 (3.89%) Tester
15 37 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 30 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
19 28 (2.86%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (18.00%) Spring
2 149 (15.24%) Kafka
2 149 (15.24%) Spring Boot
3 143 (14.62%) REST
4 106 (10.84%) RESTful
5 80 (8.18%) React
6 79 (8.08%) Node.js
7 64 (6.54%) Playwright
8 50 (5.11%) AngularJS
8 50 (5.11%) SOAP
9 45 (4.60%) JPA
9 45 (4.60%) Web Services
10 43 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
10 43 (4.40%) Hibernate
10 43 (4.40%) HTML
11 39 (3.99%) Spring Cloud
12 37 (3.78%) OpenTelemetry
13 34 (3.48%) LDAP
14 31 (3.17%) CSS
14 31 (3.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 196 (20.04%) Cloud Native
2 91 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 28 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 19 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 18 (1.84%) Replication
10 14 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.02%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.92%) Algorithms
15 7 (0.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 185 (18.92%) Linux
2 48 (4.91%) Unix
3 43 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 42 (4.29%) Windows
5 10 (1.02%) Android
6 9 (0.92%) CentOS
7 8 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.51%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
10 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.31%) zOS
11 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (84.36%) CI/CD
2 651 (66.56%) DevOps
3 435 (44.48%) Agile
4 325 (33.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 306 (31.29%) Test Automation
6 273 (27.91%) Containerisation
7 250 (25.56%) Microservices
8 181 (18.51%) Observability
9 175 (17.89%) Scrum
10 157 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 157 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
11 147 (15.03%) Software Engineering
12 127 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
13 104 (10.63%) TDD
14 99 (10.12%) Migration
15 93 (9.51%) Event-Driven
16 89 (9.10%) Validation
17 80 (8.18%) Deployment Automation
17 80 (8.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 80 (8.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 406 (41.51%) Python
2 347 (35.48%) Java
3 238 (24.34%) SQL
4 180 (18.40%) Bash
5 97 (9.92%) PowerShell
6 78 (7.98%) JavaScript
7 69 (7.06%) TypeScript
8 48 (4.91%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.50%) Go
10 43 (4.40%) C#
11 39 (3.99%) Groovy
12 34 (3.48%) Scala
13 27 (2.76%) PL/SQL
14 17 (1.74%) Kotlin
15 13 (1.33%) Bicep
16 11 (1.12%) Perl
17 9 (0.92%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.92%) Ruby
18 8 (0.82%) MATLAB
18 8 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 369 (37.73%) Security Cleared
2 319 (32.62%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.29%) Degree
4 39 (3.99%) AWS Certification
5 34 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 27 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.66%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.23%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.82%) RHCE
15 7 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.61%) OCP
17 5 (0.51%) CISSP
17 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.41%) GIAC
18 4 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (11.66%) QA
2 43 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.94%) NIST
6 13 (1.33%) NCSC
7 12 (1.23%) WCAG
8 11 (1.12%) SLA
9 9 (0.92%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.41%) GDPR
11 4 (0.41%) SEPA
12 3 (0.31%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.10%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 433 (44.27%) Docker
2 27 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.15%) vSphere
4 19 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 18 (1.84%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.53%) Postfix
7 12 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.72%) NFS
9 5 (0.51%) HDFS
9 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.41%) SRDF
10 4 (0.41%) Varnish
11 3 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.31%) GridGain
11 3 (0.31%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 463 (47.34%) Kubernetes
2 383 (39.16%) Terraform
3 232 (23.72%) Ansible
4 204 (20.86%) Grafana
5 177 (18.10%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.40%) Argo
7 32 (3.27%) Puppet
8 26 (2.66%) Istio
8 26 (2.66%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.15%) vCenter Server
10 14 (1.43%) HAProxy
11 12 (1.23%) Control-M
12 11 (1.12%) Kibana
12 11 (1.12%) Podman
13 9 (0.92%) NetBackup
13 9 (0.92%) Packer
14 8 (0.82%) Check_MK
14 8 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
15 6 (0.61%) Consul
15 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 84 (8.59%) Splunk
2 83 (8.49%) Google
3 74 (7.57%) Oracle
4 72 (7.36%) Microsoft
5 62 (6.34%) Red Hat
6 43 (4.40%) Dynatrace
7 41 (4.19%) VMware
8 26 (2.66%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.45%) Talend
10 21 (2.15%) Databricks
11 20 (2.04%) Atlassian
11 20 (2.04%) Denodo
11 20 (2.04%) IBM
11 20 (2.04%) Pure Storage
11 20 (2.04%) Sonatype
12 18 (1.84%) CyberArk
12 18 (1.84%) Jaspersoft
13 13 (1.33%) Okta
14 11 (1.12%) ForgeRock