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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 74 94
Rank change year-on-year -40 +20 -29
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 985 844 898
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.24% 3.20% 2.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.99% 22.59% 19.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 582 667
10th Percentile £366 £356 £400
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 £611 £675
90th Percentile £652 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 38
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £54.38
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 5,186 3,736 4,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.79% 14.18% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,338 2,550 3,058
10th Percentile £350 £332 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £707 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 79 231
10th Percentile £28.08 £28.32 £33.00
25th Percentile £57.63 £50.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +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 4 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 4 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 -32 454 £550 +1.57% 109
North of England -10 279 £453 -2.16% 70
Yorkshire -2 208 £496 -0.75% 27
Midlands -25 126 £488 +8.33% 17
West Midlands -3 119 £490 +3.11% 8
South East -83 58 £455 -9.10% 50
South West -15 51 £538 -6.52% 41
North West -69 50 £425 +8.14% 35
North East -15 28 £450 -3.23% 9
East of England -22 20 £473 -7.80% 8
East Midlands -46 5 £447 +24.17% 9
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 (12.18%) Confluence
2 33 (3.35%) SAS
3 24 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 10 (1.02%) Apache
6 10 (1.02%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.30%) Camunda
9 3 (0.30%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
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 16 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.91%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 6 (0.61%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 499 (50.66%) AWS
2 409 (41.52%) GitHub
3 320 (32.49%) Azure
4 274 (27.82%) GitHub Actions
5 212 (21.52%) GCP
6 136 (13.81%) Azure DevOps
7 131 (13.30%) Amazon S3
8 118 (11.98%) Serverless
9 107 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
10 105 (10.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 103 (10.46%) OpenShift
12 102 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
13 93 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
14 77 (7.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 62 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
16 58 (5.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 49 (4.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 41 (4.16%) Amazon SQS
19 35 (3.55%) Datadog
20 33 (3.35%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.18%) DNS
2 45 (4.57%) Firewall
3 16 (1.62%) Network Security
4 14 (1.42%) VPN
5 13 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.22%) SSL
7 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.81%) HTTP
9 7 (0.71%) SAN
9 7 (0.71%) VLAN
10 6 (0.61%) WAN
11 5 (0.51%) NAS
12 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
13 3 (0.30%) BGP
13 3 (0.30%) Internet
13 3 (0.30%) Multicast
13 3 (0.30%) VSAN
14 2 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (13.81%) PostgreSQL
2 73 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (5.79%) MongoDB
4 55 (5.58%) Relational Database
5 50 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 49 (4.97%) SQL Server
7 44 (4.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 43 (4.37%) DynamoDB
9 26 (2.64%) Big Data
9 26 (2.64%) Redis
10 23 (2.34%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.62%) Data Lake
12 16 (1.62%) MySQL
13 15 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.52%) Metadata
14 12 (1.22%) Neo4j
15 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (1.02%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 353 (35.84%) GitLab
2 296 (30.05%) Git
3 204 (20.71%) JIRA
4 115 (11.68%) JUnit
5 102 (10.36%) Selenium
6 72 (7.31%) Cucumber
7 68 (6.90%) Maven
8 60 (6.09%) Mockito
9 58 (5.89%) SonarQube
10 51 (5.18%) REST Assured
11 50 (5.08%) Postman
12 47 (4.77%) Bitbucket
13 41 (4.16%) Gradle
14 40 (4.06%) JMeter
14 40 (4.06%) Sonatype Nexus
15 37 (3.76%) Gatling
16 30 (3.05%) WebDriver
17 24 (2.44%) Liquibase
18 21 (2.13%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 264 (26.80%) Social Skills
2 158 (16.04%) Finance
3 134 (13.60%) Public Sector
4 108 (10.96%) Banking
5 81 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (2.03%) Law
9 20 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
10 17 (1.73%) Retail
11 11 (1.12%) Legal
11 11 (1.12%) Publishing
12 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.81%) Marketing
13 8 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.71%) Front Office
15 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.51%) Military
17 4 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 203 (20.61%) Developer
2 175 (17.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 147 (14.92%) Senior
4 109 (11.07%) Java Developer
5 70 (7.11%) Architect
6 64 (6.50%) Lead
7 62 (6.29%) Software Engineer
8 55 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
9 47 (4.77%) GCP Engineer
10 45 (4.57%) Test Engineer
11 44 (4.47%) Data Engineer
12 43 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
12 43 (4.37%) Platform Engineer
13 42 (4.26%) Senior Developer
14 38 (3.86%) Tester
15 37 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
16 34 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 30 (3.05%) Senior Java Developer
19 29 (2.94%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (17.46%) Spring
2 146 (14.82%) Kafka
3 145 (14.72%) REST
3 145 (14.72%) Spring Boot
4 105 (10.66%) RESTful
5 81 (8.22%) Node.js
6 80 (8.12%) React
7 65 (6.60%) Playwright
8 54 (5.48%) SOAP
9 50 (5.08%) AngularJS
10 48 (4.87%) Elastic Stack
11 45 (4.57%) Web Services
12 43 (4.37%) HTML
13 42 (4.26%) JPA
14 40 (4.06%) Hibernate
15 36 (3.65%) Spring Cloud
16 33 (3.35%) LDAP
16 33 (3.35%) OpenTelemetry
17 31 (3.15%) CSS
17 31 (3.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 195 (19.80%) Cloud Native
2 89 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (6.09%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 26 (2.64%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.13%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
7 19 (1.93%) Replication
8 15 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
9 14 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 13 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 12 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 9 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.91%) Management Information System
15 8 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 189 (19.19%) Linux
2 48 (4.87%) Unix
3 42 (4.26%) Windows
4 41 (4.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.02%) Android
6 8 (0.81%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.71%) CentOS
7 7 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
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
1 831 (84.37%) CI/CD
2 661 (67.11%) DevOps
3 444 (45.08%) Agile
4 330 (33.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 309 (31.37%) Test Automation
6 281 (28.53%) Containerisation
7 249 (25.28%) Microservices
8 184 (18.68%) Observability
9 176 (17.87%) Scrum
10 163 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
11 162 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 146 (14.82%) Software Engineering
13 130 (13.20%) Platform Engineering
14 106 (10.76%) TDD
15 96 (9.75%) Migration
16 91 (9.24%) Event-Driven
17 89 (9.04%) Validation
18 83 (8.43%) Stakeholder Management
19 81 (8.22%) Deployment Automation
20 78 (7.92%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 409 (41.52%) Python
2 343 (34.82%) Java
3 235 (23.86%) SQL
4 185 (18.78%) Bash
5 102 (10.36%) PowerShell
6 80 (8.12%) JavaScript
7 70 (7.11%) TypeScript
8 46 (4.67%) Go
8 46 (4.67%) Shell Script
9 43 (4.37%) C#
10 40 (4.06%) Groovy
11 34 (3.45%) Scala
12 27 (2.74%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.83%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.52%) Bicep
15 11 (1.12%) Perl
16 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.91%) Ruby
17 8 (0.81%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 374 (37.97%) Security Cleared
2 322 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.47%) Degree
4 38 (3.86%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 23 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 12 (1.22%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.12%) 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%) OCP
17 5 (0.51%) CISSP
17 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.41%) GIAC
18 4 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (11.37%) QA
2 43 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.62%) NIST
6 13 (1.32%) NCSC
7 12 (1.22%) WCAG
8 9 (0.91%) SLA
9 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.41%) GDPR
10 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.30%) SEPA
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
12 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 438 (44.47%) Docker
2 27 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.13%) vSphere
4 19 (1.93%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.62%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.52%) Postfix
7 12 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.71%) NFS
9 5 (0.51%) 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%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 3 (0.30%) GridGain
11 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
12 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
12 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 469 (47.61%) Kubernetes
2 388 (39.39%) Terraform
3 234 (23.76%) Ansible
4 211 (21.42%) Grafana
5 183 (18.58%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.37%) Argo
7 34 (3.45%) Puppet
8 28 (2.84%) Progress Chef
9 25 (2.54%) Istio
10 21 (2.13%) vCenter Server
11 14 (1.42%) HAProxy
12 12 (1.22%) Control-M
13 11 (1.12%) Kibana
14 10 (1.02%) Packer
15 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.91%) Podman
16 6 (0.61%) Check_MK
16 6 (0.61%) Consul
16 6 (0.61%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 89 (9.04%) Splunk
2 83 (8.43%) Google
3 75 (7.61%) Oracle
4 71 (7.21%) Microsoft
5 60 (6.09%) Red Hat
6 44 (4.47%) Dynatrace
7 39 (3.96%) VMware
8 27 (2.74%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.44%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.44%) Talend
10 20 (2.03%) Databricks
10 20 (2.03%) Denodo
10 20 (2.03%) IBM
10 20 (2.03%) Pure Storage
10 20 (2.03%) Sonatype
11 19 (1.93%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.83%) CyberArk
12 18 (1.83%) Jaspersoft
13 13 (1.32%) Okta
14 11 (1.12%) ForgeRock