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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 76 88
Rank change year-on-year -55 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 980 907 849
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 3.29% 2.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.85% 22.19% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 633 630
10th Percentile £356 £341 £388
25th Percentile £413 £408 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 32
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -5.41%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -3.78%

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 5,199 4,087 4,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.82% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,834 2,844
10th Percentile £356 £325 £355
25th Percentile £414 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 96 172
10th Percentile £36.75 £42.38 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.58 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £73.19 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.36 £82.98 £71.84
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 1 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 1 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 -28 512 £525 -0.94% 412
North of England -43 237 £450 -3.23% 120
Yorkshire -14 165 £475 -3.34% 37
Midlands -49 95 £487 +2.47% 39
West Midlands -35 88 £488 - 23
South East -73 70 £460 -8.00% 59
South West -19 51 £550 -4.35% 76
North West -96 51 £425 +5.72% 70
North East -33 25 £450 -6.25% 14
East of England -16 15 £438 -12.50% 34
East Midlands -35 6 £358 - 16
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 99 (10.10%) Confluence
2 22 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.43%) nginx
5 13 (1.33%) SAS
6 9 (0.92%) Camunda
6 9 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.82%) Apache
8 7 (0.71%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 4 (0.41%) IIS
9 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 8 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Magento
2 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 523 (53.37%) AWS
2 405 (41.33%) GitHub
3 389 (39.69%) Azure
4 310 (31.63%) GitHub Actions
5 221 (22.55%) GCP
6 192 (19.59%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (12.45%) Serverless
8 115 (11.73%) Amazon S3
9 104 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (10.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 93 (9.49%) OpenShift
12 88 (8.98%) Amazon EC2
13 84 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
14 69 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
15 65 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
16 48 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 45 (4.59%) Amazon SQS
18 41 (4.18%) Datadog
19 40 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 24 (2.45%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.51%) Firewall
2 50 (5.10%) DNS
3 32 (3.27%) TCP/IP
4 23 (2.35%) Network Security
5 17 (1.73%) HTTP
5 17 (1.73%) SSL
6 13 (1.33%) VLAN
7 12 (1.22%) VPN
8 11 (1.12%) SAN
9 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 8 (0.82%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.82%) WAN
11 7 (0.71%) SSH
12 6 (0.61%) DHCP
12 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (0.51%) 4G
14 4 (0.41%) 5G
14 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (15.31%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.33%) MongoDB
2 62 (6.33%) SQL Server
3 60 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (6.02%) NoSQL
4 59 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 40 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 38 (3.88%) Redis
7 36 (3.67%) DynamoDB
8 26 (2.65%) Big Data
9 24 (2.45%) MySQL
10 19 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.73%) Metadata
12 15 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.43%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.43%) Pentaho
14 12 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 363 (37.04%) GitLab
2 331 (33.78%) Git
3 169 (17.24%) JIRA
4 96 (9.80%) JUnit
5 87 (8.88%) Selenium
6 83 (8.47%) Maven
7 75 (7.65%) SonarQube
8 64 (6.53%) Gradle
9 55 (5.61%) Bitbucket
9 55 (5.61%) Mockito
10 54 (5.51%) Cucumber
11 46 (4.69%) REST Assured
12 44 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
13 40 (4.08%) Postman
14 38 (3.88%) JMeter
15 34 (3.47%) Gatling
16 28 (2.86%) WebDriver
17 22 (2.24%) Artifactory
18 20 (2.04%) Liquibase
19 16 (1.63%) Zephyr
General
1 239 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 154 (15.71%) Finance
3 123 (12.55%) Public Sector
4 108 (11.02%) Banking
5 98 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (1.94%) Law
9 18 (1.84%) Retail
10 16 (1.63%) Publishing
11 13 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.33%) Marketing
11 13 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.02%) Legal
13 9 (0.92%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.71%) Front Office
14 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 246 (25.10%) Developer
2 175 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 150 (15.31%) Senior
4 111 (11.33%) Java Developer
5 73 (7.45%) Lead
6 55 (5.61%) Software Engineer
7 52 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (4.90%) Architect
9 45 (4.59%) Test Engineer
10 44 (4.49%) Senior Developer
11 43 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.67%) Automation Engineer
14 34 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.47%) Software Developer
15 33 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
16 31 (3.16%) Tester
17 30 (3.06%) Data Engineer
17 30 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
17 30 (3.06%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (39.69%) Terraform
2 190 (19.39%) Kafka
3 172 (17.55%) Spring
4 156 (15.92%) REST
5 153 (15.61%) Spring Boot
6 117 (11.94%) RESTful
7 107 (10.92%) React
8 88 (8.98%) Node.js
9 69 (7.04%) HTML
10 58 (5.92%) Playwright
11 52 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
12 49 (5.00%) CSS
13 48 (4.90%) AngularJS
14 47 (4.80%) Hibernate
15 43 (4.39%) JPA
15 43 (4.39%) SOAP
16 41 (4.18%) Web Services
17 39 (3.98%) JSON
18 36 (3.67%) .NET
19 33 (3.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 170 (17.35%) Cloud Native
2 77 (7.86%) Product Ownership
3 69 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
5 29 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.65%) Replication
6 26 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.14%) Data Centre
9 20 (2.04%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
12 17 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.63%) Mobile App
14 15 (1.53%) Private Cloud
15 14 (1.43%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.22%) Public Cloud
17 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
18 10 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 207 (21.12%) Linux
2 63 (6.43%) Unix
3 46 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 45 (4.59%) Windows
5 15 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.02%) Android
6 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.92%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.61%) CentOS
9 5 (0.51%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
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
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (83.88%) CI/CD
2 660 (67.35%) DevOps
3 467 (47.65%) Agile
4 352 (35.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 314 (32.04%) Test Automation
6 275 (28.06%) Containerisation
7 268 (27.35%) Microservices
8 213 (21.73%) Observability
9 176 (17.96%) Scrum
10 169 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 157 (16.02%) Software Engineering
12 149 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
13 141 (14.39%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (11.02%) TDD
15 103 (10.51%) Deployment Automation
16 102 (10.41%) DevSecOps
17 101 (10.31%) Event-Driven
18 95 (9.69%) AI
19 94 (9.59%) Validation
20 89 (9.08%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 418 (42.65%) Python
2 379 (38.67%) Java
3 251 (25.61%) SQL
4 195 (19.90%) Bash
5 122 (12.45%) PowerShell
6 111 (11.33%) JavaScript
7 77 (7.86%) TypeScript
8 57 (5.82%) C#
9 56 (5.71%) Groovy
10 51 (5.20%) Shell Script
11 50 (5.10%) Go
12 39 (3.98%) PL/SQL
13 29 (2.96%) Perl
14 27 (2.76%) Scala
15 18 (1.84%) Bicep
15 18 (1.84%) Kotlin
16 12 (1.22%) C++
17 11 (1.12%) Korn
18 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
19 9 (0.92%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 389 (39.69%) Security Cleared
2 324 (33.06%) SC Cleared
3 55 (5.61%) Degree
3 55 (5.61%) DV Cleared
4 47 (4.80%) AWS Certification
5 36 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (2.65%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.73%) ISTQB
9 15 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 15 (1.53%) CISSP
10 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.51%) GCIH
15 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (13.27%) QA
2 38 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.53%) NIST
5 14 (1.43%) WCAG
6 13 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
7 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.82%) GDPR
9 6 (0.61%) NCSC
10 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) SEPA
11 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.41%) PSD2
11 4 (0.41%) SLA
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.10%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 472 (48.16%) Docker
2 25 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 9 (0.92%) vSphere
7 8 (0.82%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.61%) NFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) Squid
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) GridGain
10 3 (0.31%) Varnish
10 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) HDFS
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 481 (49.08%) Kubernetes
2 224 (22.86%) Ansible
3 203 (20.71%) Grafana
4 174 (17.76%) Prometheus
5 36 (3.67%) Argo
5 36 (3.67%) Progress Chef
6 35 (3.57%) Puppet
7 19 (1.94%) Kibana
8 18 (1.84%) Control-M
9 15 (1.53%) Istio
10 13 (1.33%) HAProxy
11 11 (1.12%) Packer
12 10 (1.02%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.92%) Podman
13 9 (0.92%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.71%) Consul
14 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 91 (9.29%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.18%) Oracle
3 87 (8.88%) Google
4 82 (8.37%) Splunk
5 63 (6.43%) Dynatrace
6 45 (4.59%) Red Hat
7 33 (3.37%) IBM
7 33 (3.37%) VMware
8 32 (3.27%) Salesforce
9 28 (2.86%) Databricks
10 27 (2.76%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.53%) Talend
12 14 (1.43%) New Relic
13 13 (1.33%) Sonatype
14 12 (1.22%) Veracode
15 11 (1.12%) Denodo
15 11 (1.12%) NetApp
16 10 (1.02%) CyberArk
16 10 (1.02%) F5
16 10 (1.02%) Jaspersoft