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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 74 86
Rank change year-on-year -56 +12 -7
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 980 930 837
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.10% 3.34% 2.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.42% 22.32% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 640 602
10th Percentile £354 £350 £390
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 33
10th Percentile £64.20 £54.75 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -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 5,319 4,166 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 14.97% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,884 2,772
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £419 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 93 169
10th Percentile £24.87 £42.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.75 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -17 527 £525 -2.55% 417
North of England -50 225 £452 -4.95% 145
Yorkshire -20 151 £477 -4.70% 45
Midlands -56 92 £489 +2.89% 50
West Midlands -36 88 £490 -2.00% 30
South East -81 67 £464 -7.25% 65
South West -16 56 £550 - 74
North West -87 56 £428 -4.36% 76
North East -42 20 £450 -13.25% 24
East of England -23 17 £475 -5.00% 45
East Midlands -43 3 £347 -2.12% 20
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 96 (9.80%) Confluence
2 28 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.84%) nginx
5 13 (1.33%) SAS
6 12 (1.22%) Apache
7 10 (1.02%) Camunda
8 8 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.82%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.41%) CICS
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 4 (0.41%) IIS
10 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) Traefik
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.10%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Magento
2 5 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 524 (53.47%) AWS
2 389 (39.69%) GitHub
3 380 (38.78%) Azure
4 302 (30.82%) GitHub Actions
5 223 (22.76%) GCP
6 190 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (11.84%) Serverless
8 110 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 104 (10.61%) Amazon S3
9 104 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
10 97 (9.90%) OpenShift
11 91 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
13 68 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 67 (6.84%) Amazon ECS
15 44 (4.49%) Datadog
15 44 (4.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 44 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 43 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
17 25 (2.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (5.82%) Firewall
2 53 (5.41%) DNS
3 34 (3.47%) TCP/IP
4 24 (2.45%) Network Security
5 18 (1.84%) SSL
6 16 (1.63%) HTTP
7 15 (1.53%) BIG-IP
7 15 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 15 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 13 (1.33%) VLAN
9 12 (1.22%) VPN
10 11 (1.12%) SAN
11 9 (0.92%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.82%) SSH
13 7 (0.71%) DHCP
13 7 (0.71%) WAN
14 6 (0.61%) 4G
14 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
15 5 (0.51%) 5G
16 3 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.90%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (6.84%) MongoDB
3 60 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (5.92%) NoSQL
4 58 (5.92%) Relational Database
5 51 (5.20%) SQL Server
6 39 (3.98%) Amazon Aurora
7 36 (3.67%) Redis
8 33 (3.37%) DynamoDB
9 30 (3.06%) MySQL
10 27 (2.76%) Big Data
11 19 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
13 15 (1.53%) Metadata
14 14 (1.43%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
14 14 (1.43%) Pentaho
15 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 367 (37.45%) GitLab
2 352 (35.92%) Git
3 169 (17.24%) JIRA
4 100 (10.20%) JUnit
5 95 (9.69%) Selenium
6 91 (9.29%) Maven
7 81 (8.27%) SonarQube
8 64 (6.53%) Gradle
9 60 (6.12%) Cucumber
10 59 (6.02%) Mockito
11 52 (5.31%) Bitbucket
12 51 (5.20%) REST Assured
13 42 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 41 (4.18%) Postman
15 38 (3.88%) JMeter
16 34 (3.47%) Gatling
17 24 (2.45%) WebDriver
18 21 (2.14%) TestNG
19 18 (1.84%) Zephyr
20 17 (1.73%) Artifactory
General
1 228 (23.27%) Social Skills
2 150 (15.31%) Finance
3 128 (13.06%) Public Sector
4 112 (11.43%) Banking
5 106 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.04%) Retail
9 17 (1.73%) Law
10 15 (1.53%) Publishing
10 15 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.33%) Marketing
12 10 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.82%) Front Office
13 8 (0.82%) Legal
13 8 (0.82%) Local Government
13 8 (0.82%) Military
14 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 251 (25.61%) Developer
2 177 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 154 (15.71%) Senior
4 120 (12.24%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.35%) Lead
6 53 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (5.31%) Architect
8 51 (5.20%) Test Engineer
9 47 (4.80%) Senior Developer
10 43 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
11 42 (4.29%) Software Engineer
12 38 (3.88%) Automation Engineer
13 37 (3.78%) Software Developer
14 36 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 33 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
16 32 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
16 32 (3.27%) Senior Java Developer
17 30 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (3.06%) GCP Engineer
18 28 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 379 (38.67%) Terraform
2 189 (19.29%) Kafka
3 179 (18.27%) Spring
4 164 (16.73%) Spring Boot
5 160 (16.33%) REST
6 123 (12.55%) RESTful
7 102 (10.41%) React
8 75 (7.65%) HTML
9 74 (7.55%) Node.js
10 60 (6.12%) Hibernate
10 60 (6.12%) Playwright
11 55 (5.61%) JPA
12 54 (5.51%) SOAP
13 51 (5.20%) CSS
13 51 (5.20%) Elastic Stack
14 50 (5.10%) AngularJS
15 47 (4.80%) Web Services
16 40 (4.08%) JSON
17 35 (3.57%) .NET
18 31 (3.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 169 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.27%) Product Ownership
3 62 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 36 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.96%) Replication
7 27 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 27 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 24 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 20 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 19 (1.94%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.84%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 14 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
13 12 (1.22%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 214 (21.84%) Linux
2 56 (5.71%) Unix
3 53 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (5.00%) Windows
5 16 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.12%) CentOS
8 10 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.82%) Android
10 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.61%) zOS
11 4 (0.41%) VMS
12 3 (0.31%) AIX
12 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
13 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.20%) Rocky
13 2 (0.20%) Solaris
13 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (84.69%) CI/CD
2 652 (66.53%) DevOps
3 476 (48.57%) Agile
4 355 (36.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 330 (33.67%) Test Automation
6 302 (30.82%) Containerisation
7 264 (26.94%) Microservices
8 219 (22.35%) Observability
9 182 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 175 (17.86%) Scrum
11 172 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
12 150 (15.31%) Software Engineering
13 135 (13.78%) Platform Engineering
14 113 (11.53%) Deployment Automation
15 106 (10.82%) AI
16 102 (10.41%) DevSecOps
17 101 (10.31%) TDD
18 100 (10.20%) Event-Driven
19 98 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
20 94 (9.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 424 (43.27%) Python
2 384 (39.18%) Java
3 245 (25.00%) SQL
4 190 (19.39%) Bash
5 121 (12.35%) JavaScript
6 115 (11.73%) PowerShell
7 76 (7.76%) TypeScript
8 59 (6.02%) Groovy
9 57 (5.82%) C#
10 52 (5.31%) Go
11 47 (4.80%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.98%) PL/SQL
13 30 (3.06%) Scala
14 28 (2.86%) Perl
15 17 (1.73%) Kotlin
16 15 (1.53%) ActionScript
16 15 (1.53%) Bicep
17 13 (1.33%) C++
18 11 (1.12%) Korn
19 10 (1.02%) C
Qualifications
1 404 (41.22%) Security Cleared
2 331 (33.78%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.45%) DV Cleared
4 58 (5.92%) Degree
5 52 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 40 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.73%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.43%) CISSP
12 12 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) GCFA
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (14.80%) QA
2 36 (3.67%) Accessibility
2 36 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 17 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.73%) NIST
4 12 (1.22%) WCAG
5 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
5 10 (1.02%) NCSC
5 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.92%) GDPR
7 6 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.61%) SEPA
8 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.51%) PSD2
9 4 (0.41%) SLA
10 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.20%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 477 (48.67%) Docker
2 22 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 6 (0.61%) NFS
7 5 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.41%) vSphere
9 3 (0.31%) HDFS
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.31%) RACF
9 3 (0.31%) Varnish
9 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 482 (49.18%) Kubernetes
2 229 (23.37%) Ansible
3 221 (22.55%) Grafana
4 183 (18.67%) Prometheus
5 34 (3.47%) Argo
5 34 (3.47%) Progress Chef
6 33 (3.37%) Puppet
7 28 (2.86%) Kibana
8 17 (1.73%) Control-M
9 13 (1.33%) Packer
10 12 (1.22%) HAProxy
10 12 (1.22%) Istio
11 10 (1.02%) Kustomize
11 10 (1.02%) Podman
12 8 (0.82%) Consul
13 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.51%) CASB
14 5 (0.51%) Rancher
14 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (9.59%) Google
2 91 (9.29%) Oracle
3 85 (8.67%) Microsoft
4 83 (8.47%) Splunk
5 69 (7.04%) Dynatrace
6 41 (4.18%) IBM
7 37 (3.78%) Red Hat
8 31 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 31 (3.16%) VMware
9 25 (2.55%) ServiceNow
10 22 (2.24%) Databricks
11 16 (1.63%) F5
11 16 (1.63%) New Relic
12 15 (1.53%) Talend
13 12 (1.22%) Sonatype
13 12 (1.22%) Veracode
14 11 (1.12%) Denodo
14 11 (1.12%) NetApp
15 10 (1.02%) Okta
15 10 (1.02%) SAP