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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 79 99
Rank change year-on-year -30 +20 -39
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 935 774 840
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.22% 3.20% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.54% 22.60% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 533 622
10th Percentile £373 £356 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £656 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £541
% change year-on-year - -7.62% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 31
10th Percentile - £54.75 £56.25
25th Percentile £61.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £68.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £69.25 -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% -7.14% -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 5,042 3,425 4,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.95% 14.17% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 2,311 2,928
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £638
90th Percentile £680 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 65 211
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.68 £31.71
25th Percentile £57.38 £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 £79.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +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 6 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 6 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 -47 410 £550 - 92
North of England -10 261 £475 +2.15% 75
Yorkshire 0 201 £488 -2.50% 30
Midlands -20 128 £481 +6.89% 21
West Midlands -7 117 £488 +2.63% 9
South East -69 63 £435 -13.00% 34
South West -10 51 £538 -6.52% 31
North West -72 41 £425 +8.14% 34
North East -7 26 £438 -5.91% 12
East of England -18 24 £478 -4.40% 10
East Midlands -49 9 £393 +8.12% 12
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
1 108 (11.55%) Confluence
2 33 (3.53%) SAS
3 25 (2.67%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.07%) Apache
6 8 (0.86%) nginx
6 8 (0.86%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.32%) Camunda
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.32%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Magento
2 2 (0.21%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 482 (51.55%) AWS
2 395 (42.25%) GitHub
3 300 (32.09%) Azure
4 267 (28.56%) GitHub Actions
5 218 (23.32%) GCP
6 131 (14.01%) Amazon S3
7 116 (12.41%) Serverless
8 111 (11.87%) Azure DevOps
9 105 (11.23%) Amazon EC2
10 103 (11.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 103 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
11 100 (10.70%) OpenShift
12 94 (10.05%) Amazon EKS
13 76 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 61 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 58 (6.20%) Amazon ECS
16 57 (6.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 40 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
18 36 (3.85%) Route 53
19 33 (3.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.42%) DNS
2 54 (5.78%) Firewall
3 17 (1.82%) Network Security
4 16 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.60%) VPN
6 10 (1.07%) SSL
7 8 (0.86%) SAN
8 7 (0.75%) BIG-IP
8 7 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 7 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 7 (0.75%) HTTP
9 5 (0.53%) NAS
9 5 (0.53%) VLAN
10 4 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (0.43%) WAN
11 3 (0.32%) BGP
11 3 (0.32%) VSAN
12 2 (0.21%) Internet
12 2 (0.21%) Multicast
12 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (15.51%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.13%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 50 (5.35%) MongoDB
5 49 (5.24%) DynamoDB
6 48 (5.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 45 (4.81%) Relational Database
8 40 (4.28%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.32%) Redis
10 27 (2.89%) Big Data
11 26 (2.78%) MySQL
12 24 (2.57%) Pentaho
13 19 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.71%) BigQuery
14 16 (1.71%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (1.50%) Metadata
16 11 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (1.07%) Power BI
18 9 (0.96%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 351 (37.54%) GitLab
2 278 (29.73%) Git
3 192 (20.53%) JIRA
4 112 (11.98%) JUnit
5 106 (11.34%) Selenium
6 74 (7.91%) Cucumber
7 67 (7.17%) Maven
8 56 (5.99%) Mockito
8 56 (5.99%) SonarQube
9 52 (5.56%) REST Assured
10 50 (5.35%) Postman
11 43 (4.60%) Bitbucket
12 37 (3.96%) JMeter
13 36 (3.85%) Gatling
14 35 (3.74%) Gradle
14 35 (3.74%) Sonatype Nexus
15 29 (3.10%) WebDriver
16 24 (2.57%) Liquibase
17 20 (2.14%) Artifactory
18 15 (1.60%) Serenity BDD
General
1 251 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 143 (15.29%) Finance
3 121 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 102 (10.91%) Banking
5 71 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (1.93%) Law
10 15 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (1.60%) Retail
11 9 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
12 8 (0.86%) Legal
12 8 (0.86%) Publishing
13 7 (0.75%) Front Office
13 7 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.64%) Marketing
14 6 (0.64%) Military
15 3 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 178 (19.04%) Developer
2 158 (16.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 137 (14.65%) Senior
4 97 (10.37%) Java Developer
5 78 (8.34%) Architect
6 75 (8.02%) Lead
7 54 (5.78%) Software Engineer
8 53 (5.67%) GCP Engineer
9 50 (5.35%) Test Engineer
10 47 (5.03%) Data Engineer
11 44 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
13 36 (3.85%) Senior Developer
14 35 (3.74%) Tester
15 34 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
16 33 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 28 (2.99%) GCP DevOps
18 27 (2.89%) Java Engineer
18 27 (2.89%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (17.75%) Spring
2 137 (14.65%) Spring Boot
3 131 (14.01%) Kafka
4 130 (13.90%) REST
5 93 (9.95%) RESTful
6 83 (8.88%) Node.js
7 63 (6.74%) React
8 58 (6.20%) Playwright
9 52 (5.56%) AngularJS
10 46 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
11 45 (4.81%) LDAP
11 45 (4.81%) OpenTelemetry
12 44 (4.71%) SOAP
13 42 (4.49%) JPA
14 40 (4.28%) HTML
14 40 (4.28%) Web Services
15 39 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
16 37 (3.96%) OpenID
17 35 (3.74%) Hibernate
18 31 (3.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 188 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 84 (8.98%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.21%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 17 (1.82%) Replication
9 13 (1.39%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.86%) AI Agents
13 8 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.75%) Clustering
14 7 (0.75%) Hedge funds
14 7 (0.75%) Private Cloud
15 6 (0.64%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 186 (19.89%) Linux
2 50 (5.35%) Unix
3 43 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 43 (4.60%) Windows
4 14 (1.50%) VMS
5 12 (1.28%) CentOS
6 10 (1.07%) Android
7 7 (0.75%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.64%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.32%) AIX
11 3 (0.32%) zOS
12 2 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.21%) Solaris
12 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 804 (85.99%) CI/CD
2 623 (66.63%) DevOps
3 392 (41.93%) Agile
4 326 (34.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 296 (31.66%) Test Automation
6 273 (29.20%) Containerisation
7 234 (25.03%) Microservices
8 184 (19.68%) Observability
9 164 (17.54%) Scrum
10 148 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
11 144 (15.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 144 (15.40%) Software Engineering
12 111 (11.87%) Platform Engineering
13 108 (11.55%) Migration
14 94 (10.05%) TDD
15 87 (9.30%) Validation
16 83 (8.88%) Event-Driven
17 81 (8.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 80 (8.56%) DevSecOps
19 78 (8.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 389 (41.60%) Python
2 328 (35.08%) Java
3 224 (23.96%) SQL
4 168 (17.97%) Bash
5 86 (9.20%) PowerShell
6 78 (8.34%) JavaScript
7 61 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 57 (6.10%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.60%) Go
10 36 (3.85%) Groovy
10 36 (3.85%) Scala
11 31 (3.32%) C#
12 17 (1.82%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.60%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.28%) Bicep
15 11 (1.18%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.18%) Perl
16 9 (0.96%) Ruby
17 8 (0.86%) PHP
18 7 (0.75%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 360 (38.50%) Security Cleared
2 308 (32.94%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.39%) Degree
4 38 (4.06%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.50%) ISTQB
9 13 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 11 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
11 9 (0.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 8 (0.86%) RHCE
13 7 (0.75%) Oracle Certification
14 6 (0.64%) OCP
15 5 (0.53%) Master's Degree
16 4 (0.43%) PMP
16 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.32%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (11.12%) QA
2 43 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (2.03%) SLA
6 18 (1.93%) NIST
7 14 (1.50%) NCSC
8 11 (1.18%) WCAG
9 8 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.43%) GDPR
11 4 (0.43%) PSD2
11 4 (0.43%) SEPA
12 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 416 (44.49%) Docker
2 26 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.25%) vSphere
4 19 (2.03%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.82%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.60%) Postfix
7 14 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.75%) NFS
9 6 (0.64%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.53%) HDFS
10 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.43%) SRDF
11 4 (0.43%) Varnish
12 3 (0.32%) GridGain
12 3 (0.32%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.21%) Squid
13 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.21%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 457 (48.88%) Kubernetes
2 381 (40.75%) Terraform
3 226 (24.17%) Ansible
4 205 (21.93%) Grafana
5 171 (18.29%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.92%) Argo
7 30 (3.21%) Istio
7 30 (3.21%) Puppet
8 26 (2.78%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.25%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.60%) Kibana
10 15 (1.60%) Podman
11 14 (1.50%) HAProxy
12 11 (1.18%) Check_MK
12 11 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (0.96%) NetBackup
14 7 (0.75%) Packer
15 6 (0.64%) Consul
16 5 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
16 5 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 86 (9.20%) Google
2 82 (8.77%) Splunk
3 65 (6.95%) Oracle
4 64 (6.84%) Red Hat
5 58 (6.20%) Microsoft
6 43 (4.60%) VMware
7 35 (3.74%) ServiceNow
8 30 (3.21%) Dynatrace
9 27 (2.89%) Databricks
10 25 (2.67%) Talend
11 21 (2.25%) Atlassian
11 21 (2.25%) Denodo
11 21 (2.25%) Salesforce
12 20 (2.14%) Pure Storage
13 19 (2.03%) Sonatype
14 18 (1.93%) Jaspersoft
15 16 (1.71%) IBM
16 15 (1.60%) CyberArk
17 13 (1.39%) Okta
18 11 (1.18%) ForgeRock