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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 74 90
Rank change year-on-year -57 +16 -14
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 972 900 838
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.13% 3.31% 2.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.72% 22.20% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 621 621
10th Percentile £356 £345 £390
25th Percentile £413 £410 £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 £643 £693 £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 5,192 4,054 4,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.89% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,313 2,810 2,807
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £631
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 229 94 173
10th Percentile £37.05 £43.63 £36.35
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.06 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.99 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - -

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 4 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 4 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 -30 510 £521 -1.65% 420
North of England -48 231 £450 -3.23% 104
Yorkshire -18 159 £478 -3.71% 32
Midlands -48 97 £487 +2.47% 42
West Midlands -30 90 £488 - 27
South East -85 67 £460 -8.00% 60
South West -20 54 £550 -4.35% 75
North West -93 51 £425 +2.41% 64
North East -27 23 £450 -6.25% 8
East of England -11 16 £425 -15.00% 31
East Midlands -41 6 £358 - 15
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
1 102 (10.49%) Confluence
2 23 (2.37%) Apache Spark
3 21 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 14 (1.44%) nginx
5 13 (1.34%) SAS
6 10 (1.03%) Camunda
7 8 (0.82%) Apache
8 7 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.72%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 4 (0.41%) IIS
9 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (0.93%) 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 (0.21%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 518 (53.29%) AWS
2 402 (41.36%) GitHub
3 389 (40.02%) Azure
4 311 (32.00%) GitHub Actions
5 218 (22.43%) GCP
6 193 (19.86%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (12.24%) Serverless
8 110 (11.32%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
10 103 (10.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (9.47%) OpenShift
12 85 (8.74%) Amazon EC2
13 82 (8.44%) Amazon EKS
14 68 (7.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 63 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 41 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
17 41 (4.22%) Datadog
18 39 (4.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 24 (2.47%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.66%) Firewall
2 51 (5.25%) DNS
3 32 (3.29%) TCP/IP
4 23 (2.37%) Network Security
5 17 (1.75%) HTTP
5 17 (1.75%) SSL
6 13 (1.34%) VLAN
7 12 (1.23%) VPN
8 11 (1.13%) SAN
9 9 (0.93%) BIG-IP
9 9 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 8 (0.82%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.82%) WAN
11 7 (0.72%) DHCP
11 7 (0.72%) SSH
12 6 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (0.51%) 4G
14 4 (0.41%) 5G
14 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (15.43%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
2 60 (6.17%) MongoDB
2 60 (6.17%) SQL Server
3 59 (6.07%) Relational Database
4 56 (5.76%) NoSQL
5 41 (4.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 37 (3.81%) Redis
7 36 (3.70%) DynamoDB
8 26 (2.67%) Big Data
9 24 (2.47%) MySQL
10 19 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.75%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.65%) Metadata
13 14 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.44%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.44%) Pentaho
14 13 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.23%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 364 (37.45%) GitLab
2 335 (34.47%) Git
3 174 (17.90%) JIRA
4 103 (10.60%) JUnit
5 88 (9.05%) Maven
6 87 (8.95%) Selenium
7 78 (8.02%) SonarQube
8 66 (6.79%) Gradle
9 61 (6.28%) Mockito
10 55 (5.66%) Bitbucket
10 55 (5.66%) Cucumber
11 47 (4.84%) REST Assured
12 45 (4.63%) Sonatype Nexus
13 40 (4.12%) JMeter
14 39 (4.01%) Postman
15 35 (3.60%) Gatling
16 28 (2.88%) WebDriver
17 21 (2.16%) Liquibase
18 20 (2.06%) Artifactory
19 16 (1.65%) Zephyr
General
1 240 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 152 (15.64%) Finance
3 123 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 107 (11.01%) Banking
5 100 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (1.95%) Law
8 18 (1.85%) Retail
9 15 (1.54%) Publishing
10 14 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.34%) Marketing
12 10 (1.03%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.93%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.93%) Legal
14 7 (0.72%) Front Office
15 6 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 248 (25.51%) Developer
2 175 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 151 (15.53%) Senior
4 115 (11.83%) Java Developer
5 73 (7.51%) Lead
6 54 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 50 (5.14%) Software Engineer
8 48 (4.94%) Architect
9 47 (4.84%) Senior Developer
10 46 (4.73%) Test Engineer
11 42 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
14 35 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.60%) Software Developer
15 34 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
16 33 (3.40%) Senior Java Developer
17 30 (3.09%) Tester
18 29 (2.98%) Full-Stack Developer
18 29 (2.98%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 385 (39.61%) Terraform
2 187 (19.24%) Kafka
3 176 (18.11%) Spring
4 158 (16.26%) Spring Boot
5 153 (15.74%) REST
6 121 (12.45%) RESTful
7 104 (10.70%) React
8 80 (8.23%) Node.js
9 70 (7.20%) HTML
10 57 (5.86%) Playwright
11 53 (5.45%) Hibernate
12 50 (5.14%) AngularJS
13 49 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
13 49 (5.04%) JPA
14 48 (4.94%) CSS
15 47 (4.84%) SOAP
16 44 (4.53%) Web Services
17 38 (3.91%) JSON
18 35 (3.60%) .NET
19 34 (3.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 173 (17.80%) Cloud Native
2 77 (7.92%) Product Ownership
3 66 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 27 (2.78%) Replication
7 24 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (2.16%) Data Centre
9 20 (2.06%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.95%) AI Agents
11 18 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
12 16 (1.65%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.54%) Private Cloud
14 14 (1.44%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.34%) Public Cloud
16 12 (1.23%) Algorithms
17 11 (1.13%) Virtual Team
18 10 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 205 (21.09%) Linux
2 63 (6.48%) Unix
3 47 (4.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 46 (4.73%) Windows
5 16 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.03%) Android
6 10 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.72%) 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 (0.21%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.21%) Solaris
11 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (84.36%) CI/CD
2 655 (67.39%) DevOps
3 469 (48.25%) Agile
4 350 (36.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 319 (32.82%) Test Automation
6 282 (29.01%) Containerisation
7 265 (27.26%) Microservices
8 212 (21.81%) Observability
9 177 (18.21%) Scrum
10 173 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 153 (15.74%) Software Engineering
12 152 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
13 143 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (11.11%) TDD
15 105 (10.80%) Deployment Automation
16 102 (10.49%) DevSecOps
16 102 (10.49%) Event-Driven
17 94 (9.67%) AI
18 92 (9.47%) Validation
19 88 (9.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 412 (42.39%) Python
2 379 (38.99%) Java
3 246 (25.31%) SQL
4 193 (19.86%) Bash
5 121 (12.45%) PowerShell
6 111 (11.42%) JavaScript
7 78 (8.02%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.97%) C#
9 56 (5.76%) Groovy
10 49 (5.04%) Shell Script
11 47 (4.84%) Go
12 39 (4.01%) PL/SQL
13 28 (2.88%) Perl
14 27 (2.78%) Scala
15 19 (1.95%) Kotlin
16 17 (1.75%) Bicep
17 12 (1.23%) C++
18 11 (1.13%) Korn
19 10 (1.03%) Apex Code
20 9 (0.93%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 392 (40.33%) Security Cleared
2 326 (33.54%) SC Cleared
3 59 (6.07%) DV Cleared
4 55 (5.66%) Degree
5 47 (4.84%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.67%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.75%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.54%) CISSP
11 14 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (13.58%) QA
2 38 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.40%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.54%) NIST
5 14 (1.44%) WCAG
6 13 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.03%) ISO 20022
7 10 (1.03%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.82%) GDPR
9 6 (0.62%) 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%) SOC 2
System Software
1 468 (48.15%) Docker
2 25 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.06%) Active Directory
4 15 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.03%) Postfix
6 9 (0.93%) vSphere
7 8 (0.82%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.62%) 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 (0.21%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.21%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.21%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 477 (49.07%) Kubernetes
2 223 (22.94%) Ansible
3 207 (21.30%) Grafana
4 177 (18.21%) Prometheus
5 36 (3.70%) Argo
5 36 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 34 (3.50%) Puppet
7 19 (1.95%) Kibana
8 18 (1.85%) Control-M
9 14 (1.44%) Istio
10 13 (1.34%) HAProxy
11 11 (1.13%) Packer
12 10 (1.03%) Kustomize
13 9 (0.93%) Podman
13 9 (0.93%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.72%) Consul
14 7 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.51%) CASB
16 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 91 (9.36%) Microsoft
1 91 (9.36%) Oracle
2 88 (9.05%) Google
3 82 (8.44%) Splunk
4 64 (6.58%) Dynatrace
5 44 (4.53%) Red Hat
6 34 (3.50%) IBM
7 33 (3.40%) VMware
8 32 (3.29%) Salesforce
9 28 (2.88%) Databricks
10 27 (2.78%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.54%) Talend
12 14 (1.44%) New Relic
13 13 (1.34%) Veracode
14 12 (1.23%) Sonatype
15 11 (1.13%) Denodo
15 11 (1.13%) NetApp
16 10 (1.03%) CyberArk
16 10 (1.03%) F5
16 10 (1.03%) Jaspersoft