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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 76 94
Rank change year-on-year -37 +18 -30
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 987 875 869
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.21% 2.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.70% 22.67% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 609 645
10th Percentile £363 £356 £394
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 37
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £56.25
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.56 -
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -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 5,278 3,859 4,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.73% 14.17% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,382 2,646 2,994
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 90 220
10th Percentile £26.29 £35.70 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.08 £73.78
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% +4.00%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -32 467 £540 +1.79% 65
North of England -22 269 £450 -3.02% 52
Yorkshire -4 203 £488 -2.50% 15
Midlands -20 127 £479 +6.44% 10
West Midlands -3 120 £481 +1.29% 9
South East -87 59 £460 -8.10% 33
South West -25 50 £538 -6.52% 19
North West -86 49 £425 +6.25% 27
North East -20 24 £450 -3.23% 11
East of England -13 18 £463 -7.50% 6
East Midlands -43 5 £447 +24.86% 1
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
1 115 (11.65%) Confluence
2 29 (2.94%) SAS
3 24 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.11%) nginx
6 10 (1.01%) Apache
6 10 (1.01%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.41%) Camunda
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
8 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 17 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (0.91%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 503 (50.96%) AWS
2 416 (42.15%) GitHub
3 329 (33.33%) Azure
4 284 (28.77%) GitHub Actions
5 207 (20.97%) GCP
6 148 (14.99%) Azure DevOps
7 131 (13.27%) Amazon S3
8 121 (12.26%) Serverless
9 105 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
9 105 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
10 103 (10.44%) OpenShift
11 91 (9.22%) Amazon EKS
12 74 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 63 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
14 55 (5.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 46 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (4.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 35 (3.55%) Datadog
18 31 (3.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.17%) DNS
2 46 (4.66%) Firewall
3 16 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.52%) Network Security
4 15 (1.52%) VPN
5 12 (1.22%) SSL
6 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 9 (0.91%) SAN
7 8 (0.81%) HTTP
7 8 (0.81%) VLAN
8 6 (0.61%) WAN
9 5 (0.51%) NAS
10 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.30%) BGP
11 3 (0.30%) Internet
11 3 (0.30%) Multicast
11 3 (0.30%) VSAN
12 2 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.69%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (6.99%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (5.67%) MongoDB
3 56 (5.67%) Relational Database
4 55 (5.57%) SQL Server
5 44 (4.46%) Amazon Aurora
6 43 (4.36%) NoSQL
7 42 (4.26%) DynamoDB
8 25 (2.53%) Big Data
8 25 (2.53%) Redis
9 20 (2.03%) Pentaho
10 19 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (1.62%) Metadata
13 15 (1.52%) MySQL
14 11 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (1.11%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.01%) Power BI
16 9 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 339 (34.35%) GitLab
2 311 (31.51%) Git
3 198 (20.06%) JIRA
4 115 (11.65%) JUnit
5 97 (9.83%) Selenium
6 71 (7.19%) Maven
7 68 (6.89%) Cucumber
8 64 (6.48%) SonarQube
9 60 (6.08%) Mockito
10 49 (4.96%) Bitbucket
10 49 (4.96%) REST Assured
11 47 (4.76%) Gradle
12 42 (4.26%) Postman
13 37 (3.75%) JMeter
14 35 (3.55%) Sonatype Nexus
15 34 (3.44%) Gatling
16 31 (3.14%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.43%) Liquibase
18 22 (2.23%) Artifactory
19 16 (1.62%) Zephyr
General
1 261 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 152 (15.40%) Finance
3 135 (13.68%) Public Sector
4 106 (10.74%) Banking
5 84 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.03%) Law
9 19 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
9 19 (1.93%) Retail
10 11 (1.11%) Legal
10 11 (1.11%) Publishing
11 10 (1.01%) Marketing
12 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.61%) Front Office
13 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.51%) Military
14 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 215 (21.78%) Developer
2 179 (18.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 146 (14.79%) Senior
4 115 (11.65%) Java Developer
5 67 (6.79%) Lead
6 61 (6.18%) Architect
6 61 (6.18%) Software Engineer
7 57 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (4.56%) Senior Developer
9 44 (4.46%) GCP Engineer
9 44 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
10 43 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
11 41 (4.15%) Data Engineer
12 40 (4.05%) Tester
13 38 (3.85%) Test Engineer
14 36 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.24%) Automation Engineer
16 32 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
17 29 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (18.14%) Spring
2 155 (15.70%) Kafka
3 153 (15.50%) Spring Boot
4 149 (15.10%) REST
5 104 (10.54%) RESTful
6 90 (9.12%) React
7 85 (8.61%) Node.js
8 60 (6.08%) Playwright
9 52 (5.27%) SOAP
10 49 (4.96%) Web Services
11 48 (4.86%) AngularJS
12 45 (4.56%) Hibernate
13 44 (4.46%) JPA
14 43 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
14 43 (4.36%) HTML
15 34 (3.44%) Spring Cloud
16 32 (3.24%) OpenTelemetry
17 31 (3.14%) CSS
17 31 (3.14%) Swagger
18 30 (3.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 187 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 89 (9.02%) Distributed Systems
3 65 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 29 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (2.43%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.13%) Replication
9 19 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 19 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.72%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.52%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.11%) AI Agents
14 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.81%) Hedge funds
16 8 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 186 (18.84%) Linux
2 49 (4.96%) Unix
3 43 (4.36%) Windows
4 39 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.11%) Android
6 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.91%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.51%) CentOS
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
9 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.30%) zOS
10 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 830 (84.09%) CI/CD
2 667 (67.58%) DevOps
3 463 (46.91%) Agile
4 332 (33.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 305 (30.90%) Test Automation
6 270 (27.36%) Containerisation
7 256 (25.94%) Microservices
8 189 (19.15%) Observability
9 183 (18.54%) Scrum
10 167 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 163 (16.51%) Problem-Solving
12 150 (15.20%) Software Engineering
13 132 (13.37%) Platform Engineering
14 111 (11.25%) TDD
15 93 (9.42%) Migration
16 86 (8.71%) Event-Driven
16 86 (8.71%) Stakeholder Management
17 85 (8.61%) Validation
18 84 (8.51%) Deployment Automation
19 78 (7.90%) AI
Programming Languages
1 410 (41.54%) Python
2 342 (34.65%) Java
3 238 (24.11%) SQL
4 193 (19.55%) Bash
5 109 (11.04%) PowerShell
6 84 (8.51%) JavaScript
7 68 (6.89%) TypeScript
8 47 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 45 (4.56%) C#
9 45 (4.56%) Go
9 45 (4.56%) Groovy
10 33 (3.34%) PL/SQL
11 29 (2.94%) Scala
12 18 (1.82%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.52%) Bicep
14 14 (1.42%) Perl
15 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.91%) Ruby
16 8 (0.81%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 371 (37.59%) Security Cleared
2 317 (32.12%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.76%) Degree
4 43 (4.36%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.84%) Azure Certification
8 24 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.22%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.81%) RHCE
15 7 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.61%) CISSP
16 6 (0.61%) OCP
17 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
18 4 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.35%) QA
2 42 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.32%) NIST
6 12 (1.22%) WCAG
7 10 (1.01%) NCSC
8 7 (0.71%) SLA
9 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.30%) GDPR
11 3 (0.30%) SEPA
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 445 (45.09%) Docker
2 27 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.13%) vSphere
4 19 (1.93%) VMware NSX
5 17 (1.72%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.52%) Postfix
6 15 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.71%) NFS
8 6 (0.61%) HDFS
9 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.41%) SRDF
10 4 (0.41%) Varnish
11 3 (0.30%) GridGain
11 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.20%) Squid
12 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 464 (47.01%) Kubernetes
2 384 (38.91%) Terraform
3 236 (23.91%) Ansible
4 215 (21.78%) Grafana
5 182 (18.44%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.76%) Argo
7 35 (3.55%) Puppet
8 27 (2.74%) Progress Chef
9 22 (2.23%) Istio
10 21 (2.13%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.52%) Control-M
12 14 (1.42%) HAProxy
13 12 (1.22%) Kibana
14 10 (1.01%) Packer
15 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.91%) Podman
16 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.61%) Consul
17 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
18 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 89 (9.02%) Splunk
2 84 (8.51%) Oracle
3 80 (8.11%) Google
4 78 (7.90%) Microsoft
5 55 (5.57%) Red Hat
6 46 (4.66%) Dynatrace
7 38 (3.85%) VMware
8 28 (2.84%) Salesforce
9 22 (2.23%) Databricks
9 22 (2.23%) ServiceNow
10 21 (2.13%) IBM
10 21 (2.13%) Talend
11 20 (2.03%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.82%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
13 17 (1.72%) CyberArk
13 17 (1.72%) Denodo
13 17 (1.72%) Sonatype
14 13 (1.32%) Okta
15 11 (1.11%) ForgeRock