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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 79 100
Rank change year-on-year -34 +21 -43
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 927 758 831
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.15% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.31% 22.35% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 522 627
10th Percentile £371 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £414 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £675
90th Percentile £657 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 27
10th Percentile £43.13 £54.75 £52.10
25th Percentile £49.94 £56.25 £65.94
Median hourly rate £64.50 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.25 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% -7.14% -4.11%

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 5,064 3,391 4,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 14.11% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,317 2,300 2,913
10th Percentile £348 £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 £610 £638
90th Percentile £681 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 62 206
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.54 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.94 £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 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £77.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -40 410 £550 - 63
North of England -6 257 £475 - 51
Yorkshire 0 198 £487 -2.60% 20
Midlands -21 123 £488 +8.33% 15
West Midlands -9 112 £492 +3.58% 6
South East -73 60 £430 -14.00% 27
South West -18 51 £538 -6.52% 29
North West -69 41 £425 +6.25% 21
North East -6 25 £425 -8.60% 11
East of England -25 24 £478 -4.40% 8
East Midlands -46 9 £393 +6.79% 9
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
1 104 (11.22%) Confluence
2 33 (3.56%) SAS
3 26 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.08%) Apache
6 8 (0.86%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.65%) nginx
8 5 (0.54%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.43%) JBoss
9 4 (0.43%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.32%) Camunda
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.76%) 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 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 480 (51.78%) AWS
2 394 (42.50%) GitHub
3 305 (32.90%) Azure
4 264 (28.48%) GitHub Actions
5 212 (22.87%) GCP
6 128 (13.81%) Amazon S3
7 114 (12.30%) Azure DevOps
8 112 (12.08%) Serverless
9 104 (11.22%) OpenShift
10 102 (11.00%) Amazon EC2
11 101 (10.90%) AWS Lambda
12 99 (10.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 90 (9.71%) Amazon EKS
14 76 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (6.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 57 (6.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 56 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
18 38 (4.10%) Amazon SQS
19 36 (3.88%) Route 53
20 33 (3.56%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (6.36%) DNS
2 53 (5.72%) Firewall
3 16 (1.73%) Network Security
3 16 (1.73%) VPN
4 15 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.08%) SSL
6 8 (0.86%) SAN
7 6 (0.65%) BIG-IP
7 6 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 6 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 6 (0.65%) HTTP
8 5 (0.54%) NAS
9 4 (0.43%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.43%) WAN
10 3 (0.32%) BGP
10 3 (0.32%) VLAN
10 3 (0.32%) VSAN
11 2 (0.22%) AMQP
11 2 (0.22%) Multicast
11 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (15.53%) PostgreSQL
2 74 (7.98%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 49 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.18%) Amazon Aurora
5 48 (5.18%) DynamoDB
6 43 (4.64%) Relational Database
7 41 (4.42%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.13%) Redis
9 27 (2.91%) Big Data
10 21 (2.27%) MySQL
10 21 (2.27%) Pentaho
11 17 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.83%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
13 12 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.29%) Metadata
14 9 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (0.97%) DocumentDB
15 8 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 352 (37.97%) GitLab
2 275 (29.67%) Git
3 191 (20.60%) JIRA
4 109 (11.76%) JUnit
5 107 (11.54%) Selenium
6 78 (8.41%) Cucumber
7 65 (7.01%) Maven
8 57 (6.15%) Mockito
9 54 (5.83%) Postman
10 53 (5.72%) REST Assured
11 52 (5.61%) SonarQube
12 41 (4.42%) Bitbucket
13 37 (3.99%) Sonatype Nexus
14 36 (3.88%) Gatling
15 35 (3.78%) JMeter
16 34 (3.67%) Gradle
17 27 (2.91%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.59%) Liquibase
19 20 (2.16%) Artifactory
20 15 (1.62%) Serenity BDD
General
1 253 (27.29%) Social Skills
2 142 (15.32%) Finance
3 121 (13.05%) Public Sector
4 98 (10.57%) Banking
5 73 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (1.73%) Law
10 15 (1.62%) Retail
11 14 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.86%) Front Office
13 8 (0.86%) Legal
14 7 (0.76%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.65%) Marketing
15 6 (0.65%) Military
15 6 (0.65%) Publishing
16 3 (0.32%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 177 (19.09%) Developer
2 157 (16.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 131 (14.13%) Senior
4 94 (10.14%) Java Developer
5 79 (8.52%) Architect
6 77 (8.31%) Lead
7 54 (5.83%) Software Engineer
8 53 (5.72%) GCP Engineer
9 47 (5.07%) Test Engineer
10 45 (4.85%) Data Engineer
11 44 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (3.99%) Tester
14 35 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (3.67%) Senior Developer
16 33 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 31 (3.34%) AWS DevOps
18 28 (3.02%) Automation Engineer
19 27 (2.91%) GCP DevOps
19 27 (2.91%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (17.04%) Spring
2 132 (14.24%) Kafka
3 130 (14.02%) Spring Boot
4 125 (13.48%) REST
5 93 (10.03%) RESTful
6 87 (9.39%) Node.js
7 64 (6.90%) Playwright
8 63 (6.80%) React
9 53 (5.72%) AngularJS
10 48 (5.18%) Elastic Stack
10 48 (5.18%) OpenTelemetry
11 45 (4.85%) LDAP
12 41 (4.42%) SOAP
13 39 (4.21%) Spring Cloud
14 38 (4.10%) Web Services
15 37 (3.99%) OpenID
16 36 (3.88%) JPA
17 35 (3.78%) HTML
18 32 (3.45%) YAML
19 31 (3.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 186 (20.06%) Cloud Native
2 80 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.24%) Data Centre
6 28 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.83%) Replication
9 16 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
10 12 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.29%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.29%) Mobile App
11 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.86%) Private Cloud
13 7 (0.76%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.76%) Clustering
13 7 (0.76%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (19.20%) Linux
2 43 (4.64%) Unix
3 42 (4.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 41 (4.42%) Windows
5 15 (1.62%) VMS
6 12 (1.29%) CentOS
7 10 (1.08%) Android
8 7 (0.76%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.32%) AIX
11 3 (0.32%) zOS
12 2 (0.22%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (86.19%) CI/CD
2 622 (67.10%) DevOps
3 391 (42.18%) Agile
4 324 (34.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 298 (32.15%) Test Automation
6 273 (29.45%) Containerisation
7 228 (24.60%) Microservices
8 182 (19.63%) Observability
9 161 (17.37%) Scrum
10 157 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
11 143 (15.43%) Software Engineering
12 138 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 109 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
14 106 (11.43%) Migration
15 94 (10.14%) TDD
16 84 (9.06%) Validation
17 82 (8.85%) Event-Driven
18 81 (8.74%) Mentoring
19 80 (8.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 79 (8.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 394 (42.50%) Python
2 323 (34.84%) Java
3 217 (23.41%) SQL
4 170 (18.34%) Bash
5 88 (9.49%) PowerShell
6 76 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 66 (7.12%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.72%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.75%) Go
10 39 (4.21%) Scala
11 38 (4.10%) Groovy
12 35 (3.78%) C#
13 17 (1.83%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.29%) Bicep
15 11 (1.19%) MATLAB
15 11 (1.19%) Ruby
16 10 (1.08%) Perl
17 9 (0.97%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.86%) PHP
19 6 (0.65%) C++
Qualifications
1 351 (37.86%) Security Cleared
2 301 (32.47%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.31%) Degree
4 35 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.29%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
10 9 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 8 (0.86%) RHCE
12 7 (0.76%) OCP
13 6 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (0.43%) PMP
14 4 (0.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (11.54%) QA
2 43 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 27 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.05%) SLA
5 17 (1.83%) NIST
6 14 (1.51%) NCSC
7 10 (1.08%) WCAG
8 7 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.65%) GDPR
9 6 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.43%) PSD2
10 4 (0.43%) SEPA
11 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 419 (45.20%) Docker
2 24 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.27%) vSphere
4 19 (2.05%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.83%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.62%) Postfix
7 14 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.76%) NFS
9 6 (0.65%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 5 (0.54%) HDFS
11 4 (0.43%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.43%) SRDF
11 4 (0.43%) Varnish
11 4 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.32%) GridGain
12 3 (0.32%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.22%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.22%) Squid
13 2 (0.22%) Time Sharing Option
14 1 (0.11%) KVM
Systems Management
1 464 (50.05%) Kubernetes
2 378 (40.78%) Terraform
3 229 (24.70%) Ansible
4 208 (22.44%) Grafana
5 174 (18.77%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.96%) Argo
7 32 (3.45%) Puppet
8 30 (3.24%) Istio
9 28 (3.02%) Progress Chef
10 21 (2.27%) vCenter Server
11 16 (1.73%) Kibana
11 16 (1.73%) Podman
12 14 (1.51%) HAProxy
13 11 (1.19%) Check_MK
13 11 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
14 9 (0.97%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.76%) Packer
16 6 (0.65%) Consul
17 5 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 86 (9.28%) Splunk
2 79 (8.52%) Google
3 65 (7.01%) Red Hat
4 59 (6.36%) Microsoft
5 55 (5.93%) Oracle
6 41 (4.42%) VMware
7 35 (3.78%) ServiceNow
8 29 (3.13%) Databricks
9 28 (3.02%) Dynatrace
10 22 (2.37%) Talend
11 21 (2.27%) Atlassian
11 21 (2.27%) Denodo
12 20 (2.16%) Pure Storage
12 20 (2.16%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.94%) Jaspersoft
14 17 (1.83%) Sonatype
15 15 (1.62%) CyberArk
16 14 (1.51%) IBM
17 13 (1.40%) Okta
18 11 (1.19%) ForgeRock