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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 85 99
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -46
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 983 737 817
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.75% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.18% 20.57% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 496 613
10th Percentile £358 £380 £406
25th Percentile £419 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £638
90th Percentile £675 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.36% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 £43.38
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £57.41
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%
75th Percentile £97.56 £80.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £89.75 £81.60
UK median hourly rate £58.61 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -17.74% +4.01% -2.14%

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 4,641 3,583 4,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.66% 13.38% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,206 2,237 3,065
10th Percentile £333 £335 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 65 193
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.75 £75.85 £90.00
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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -29 420 £528 -14.57% 123
North of England +8 256 £490 +7.64% 88
Yorkshire +4 167 £500 - 44
Midlands +50 139 £520 +9.01% 39
West Midlands +50 125 £525 +8.70% 22
South East +21 99 £474 -5.20% 95
North West -15 71 £448 +12.00% 36
South West +2 50 £538 -10.42% 54
North East +2 19 £575 -9.27% 8
East Midlands -15 14 £397 -0.88% 15
East of England -15 14 £478 +9.26% 34
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 (12.21%) Confluence
2 55 (5.60%) SAS
3 19 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.53%) Apache
5 15 (1.53%) IIS
5 15 (1.53%) JBoss
6 14 (1.42%) nginx
7 13 (1.32%) OpenStack
7 13 (1.32%) WebSphere
8 11 (1.12%) WebSphere Application Server
9 10 (1.02%) iPlanet
10 6 (0.61%) Mule
11 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.41%) CICS
12 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
13 3 (0.31%) Ethereum
13 3 (0.31%) Hyperledger
14 2 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
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%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 513 (52.19%) AWS
2 320 (32.55%) GitHub
3 267 (27.16%) Azure
4 236 (24.01%) GCP
5 205 (20.85%) GitHub Actions
6 127 (12.92%) Serverless
7 121 (12.31%) OpenShift
8 120 (12.21%) Amazon S3
9 109 (11.09%) Amazon EC2
10 104 (10.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 96 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
12 93 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 90 (9.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 89 (9.05%) AWS Lambda
15 77 (7.83%) Amazon ECS
16 68 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
17 60 (6.10%) Datadog
18 47 (4.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 43 (4.37%) Amazon ELB
20 37 (3.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (8.85%) Firewall
2 78 (7.93%) DNS
3 38 (3.87%) VPN
4 36 (3.66%) TCP/IP
5 28 (2.85%) HTTP
5 28 (2.85%) Network Security
6 26 (2.64%) SSL
7 19 (1.93%) Kerberos
8 18 (1.83%) SSH
9 16 (1.63%) SMTP
10 15 (1.53%) FTP
11 9 (0.92%) IMAP
11 9 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
12 7 (0.71%) Internet
13 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.61%) WAN
14 5 (0.51%) SD-WAN
15 3 (0.31%) Multicast
15 3 (0.31%) tcpdump
16 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (16.17%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (10.17%) NoSQL
3 94 (9.56%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (5.49%) MongoDB
5 39 (3.97%) MySQL
6 36 (3.66%) DynamoDB
7 35 (3.56%) Pentaho
8 32 (3.26%) Oracle Database
8 32 (3.26%) SQL Server
9 30 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 30 (3.05%) Redis
10 29 (2.95%) Relational Database
11 22 (2.24%) BigQuery
12 19 (1.93%) Big Data
13 14 (1.42%) RDBMS
14 13 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.12%) Hadoop
16 11 (1.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 11 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 358 (36.42%) GitLab
2 326 (33.16%) Git
3 233 (23.70%) JIRA
4 92 (9.36%) Selenium
4 92 (9.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 84 (8.55%) JUnit
6 82 (8.34%) Cucumber
7 63 (6.41%) Bitbucket
8 56 (5.70%) Postman
9 54 (5.49%) SonarQube
10 44 (4.48%) Maven
11 38 (3.87%) Gradle
12 35 (3.56%) REST Assured
13 34 (3.46%) CircleCI
14 31 (3.15%) Artifactory
15 27 (2.75%) Liquibase
16 25 (2.54%) Cypress.io
17 24 (2.44%) JMeter
18 18 (1.83%) TeamCity
19 16 (1.63%) MLflow
General
1 286 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 215 (21.87%) Finance
3 147 (14.95%) Banking
4 124 (12.61%) Public Sector
5 56 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
6 29 (2.95%) Financial Institution
7 25 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.32%) Military
8 13 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.12%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.02%) Retail
11 8 (0.81%) Front Office
12 7 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.71%) Marketing
13 6 (0.61%) Games
13 6 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.61%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 180 (18.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 166 (16.89%) Senior
3 165 (16.79%) Developer
4 81 (8.24%) Lead
5 79 (8.04%) AWS Engineer
6 71 (7.22%) Java Developer
7 69 (7.02%) Architect
8 62 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
9 59 (6.00%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.29%) GCP Engineer
11 51 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
12 49 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
14 47 (4.78%) Software Engineer
15 46 (4.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 42 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 37 (3.76%) Automation Engineer
18 36 (3.66%) Senior Developer
19 33 (3.36%) Test Engineer
20 29 (2.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (14.75%) REST
2 142 (14.45%) Kafka
3 102 (10.38%) Spring
4 99 (10.07%) Node.js
5 92 (9.36%) Elastic Stack
5 92 (9.36%) RESTful
6 82 (8.34%) Spring Boot
7 65 (6.61%) Playwright
8 54 (5.49%) React
9 52 (5.29%) GraphQL
10 43 (4.37%) HTML
10 43 (4.37%) LDAP
11 41 (4.17%) JSON
11 41 (4.17%) OpenID
12 40 (4.07%) OAuth
13 39 (3.97%) .NET
14 34 (3.46%) CSS
14 34 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
14 34 (3.46%) Vitest
15 33 (3.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 162 (16.48%) Cloud Native
2 80 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 43 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 35 (3.56%) Replication
6 24 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 21 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.32%) Private Cloud
11 12 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
12 11 (1.12%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 11 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.02%) Derivative
13 10 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.02%) Management Information System
14 9 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 239 (24.31%) Linux
2 76 (7.73%) Windows
3 47 (4.78%) Unix
4 31 (3.15%) VMS
5 22 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 20 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (1.83%) Amazon Linux
8 13 (1.32%) Android
8 13 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.22%) CentOS
10 11 (1.12%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.31%) zOS
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
13 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.10%) MVS
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (80.67%) CI/CD
2 657 (66.84%) DevOps
3 390 (39.67%) Agile
4 335 (34.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 291 (29.60%) Containerisation
6 269 (27.37%) Test Automation
7 226 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
8 208 (21.16%) Microservices
9 139 (14.14%) Software Engineering
10 138 (14.04%) Observability
11 132 (13.43%) Scrum
12 127 (12.92%) Mentoring
13 106 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
14 94 (9.56%) Continuous Integration
15 91 (9.26%) Configuration Management
16 88 (8.95%) High Availability
17 87 (8.85%) DevSecOps
18 85 (8.65%) Migration
19 84 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
19 84 (8.55%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 464 (47.20%) Python
2 288 (29.30%) Java
3 183 (18.62%) SQL
4 170 (17.29%) Bash
5 105 (10.68%) JavaScript
6 95 (9.66%) Go
7 85 (8.65%) PowerShell
8 84 (8.55%) TypeScript
9 69 (7.02%) Shell Script
10 51 (5.19%) C#
11 50 (5.09%) Groovy
12 24 (2.44%) C++
13 22 (2.24%) Scala
14 17 (1.73%) Perl
14 17 (1.73%) Ruby
15 14 (1.42%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.42%) PHP
16 11 (1.12%) C
17 10 (1.02%) Swift
18 8 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 336 (34.18%) Security Cleared
2 261 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.83%) Degree
4 54 (5.49%) AWS Certification
5 52 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.66%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 27 (2.75%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.53%) Oracle Certification
11 14 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.02%) OCP
13 8 (0.81%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.51%) OCA
14 5 (0.51%) RHCE
15 4 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.31%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (9.97%) QA
2 48 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.53%) SLA
5 12 (1.22%) NIST
6 8 (0.81%) GDPR
6 8 (0.81%) NCSC
6 8 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.51%) WCAG
8 3 (0.31%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.31%) IEC 62304
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.31%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.20%) PSD2
9 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 495 (50.36%) Docker
2 31 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.53%) DFS Replication
5 10 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.92%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.92%) Postfix
6 9 (0.92%) Squid
6 9 (0.92%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 8 (0.81%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 5 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.41%) HDFS
9 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 2 (0.20%) KVM
12 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.10%) SRDF
12 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 499 (50.76%) Kubernetes
2 410 (41.71%) Terraform
3 296 (30.11%) Ansible
4 178 (18.11%) Grafana
5 153 (15.56%) Prometheus
6 58 (5.90%) Progress Chef
7 35 (3.56%) Argo
8 29 (2.95%) Istio
8 29 (2.95%) Puppet
9 21 (2.14%) Podman
10 16 (1.63%) Kibana
11 12 (1.22%) ITRS Geneos
11 12 (1.22%) Packer
11 12 (1.22%) Proxmox
12 11 (1.12%) CA Single Sign-On
12 11 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (1.02%) CA Wily
13 10 (1.02%) NetBackup
14 9 (0.92%) Nessus
14 9 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 110 (11.19%) Splunk
2 94 (9.56%) Oracle
3 90 (9.16%) Google
4 81 (8.24%) Microsoft
5 52 (5.29%) Red Hat
5 52 (5.29%) ServiceNow
6 45 (4.58%) VMware
7 35 (3.56%) Denodo
7 35 (3.56%) Talend
8 31 (3.15%) Databricks
9 29 (2.95%) Atlassian
10 28 (2.85%) F5
11 27 (2.75%) Dynatrace
11 27 (2.75%) Palo Alto
12 26 (2.64%) CheckPoint
13 20 (2.03%) AppDynamics
14 19 (1.93%) IBM
15 13 (1.32%) Confluent
15 13 (1.32%) Solace
16 11 (1.12%) Sonatype