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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 75 87
Rank change year-on-year -49 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 997 910 844
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.18% 3.30% 2.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.87% 22.46% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 639 633
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £669
90th Percentile £638 £700 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 34
10th Percentile £64.20 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
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 5,284 4,051 4,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.58% 14.68% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 2,807 2,834
10th Percentile £356 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
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 245 96 183
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £33.01
25th Percentile £58.25 £51.05 £54.18
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -26 499 £525 -0.94% 165
North of England -38 244 £450 -4.05% 67
Yorkshire -21 172 £475 -5.00% 22
Midlands -40 106 £469 -1.26% 27
West Midlands -23 99 £473 -0.42% 20
South East -69 73 £460 -8.05% 42
South West -11 58 £550 -4.35% 37
North West -82 50 £425 +5.72% 33
North East -26 26 £450 -6.98% 13
East of England -13 17 £438 -12.50% 15
East Midlands -40 6 £447 +24.86% 7
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
1 101 (10.13%) Confluence
2 24 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 23 (2.31%) SAS
4 11 (1.10%) nginx
5 9 (0.90%) Apache
6 8 (0.80%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.40%) Camunda
9 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.30%) IIS
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%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.80%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 529 (53.06%) AWS
2 411 (41.22%) GitHub
3 385 (38.62%) Azure
4 312 (31.29%) GitHub Actions
5 227 (22.77%) GCP
6 190 (19.06%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (12.04%) Serverless
8 119 (11.94%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
10 104 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 92 (9.23%) Amazon EKS
12 91 (9.13%) Amazon EC2
13 83 (8.32%) OpenShift
14 71 (7.12%) AWS CloudFormation
15 62 (6.22%) Amazon ECS
16 49 (4.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 46 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
18 45 (4.51%) Datadog
19 40 (4.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 30 (3.01%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.22%) Firewall
2 50 (5.02%) DNS
3 27 (2.71%) TCP/IP
4 22 (2.21%) Network Security
5 17 (1.71%) SSL
6 16 (1.60%) VPN
7 12 (1.20%) HTTP
7 12 (1.20%) VLAN
8 9 (0.90%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 9 (0.90%) SAN
9 8 (0.80%) WAN
10 5 (0.50%) DHCP
11 4 (0.40%) 4G
11 4 (0.40%) BGP
11 4 (0.40%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.40%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (14.84%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.22%) MongoDB
3 61 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (5.72%) SQL Server
5 56 (5.62%) NoSQL
5 56 (5.62%) Relational Database
6 39 (3.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 36 (3.61%) DynamoDB
7 36 (3.61%) Redis
8 26 (2.61%) Big Data
9 22 (2.21%) Pentaho
10 21 (2.11%) MySQL
11 19 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (1.81%) Metadata
13 17 (1.71%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.40%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.30%) Power BI
16 12 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
17 11 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 367 (36.81%) GitLab
2 330 (33.10%) Git
3 173 (17.35%) JIRA
4 94 (9.43%) JUnit
5 83 (8.32%) Selenium
6 75 (7.52%) Maven
7 67 (6.72%) SonarQube
8 56 (5.62%) Bitbucket
8 56 (5.62%) Cucumber
8 56 (5.62%) Gradle
9 54 (5.42%) Mockito
10 38 (3.81%) JMeter
10 38 (3.81%) Postman
10 38 (3.81%) REST Assured
11 37 (3.71%) Sonatype Nexus
12 34 (3.41%) Gatling
13 28 (2.81%) WebDriver
14 22 (2.21%) Artifactory
15 20 (2.01%) Liquibase
16 15 (1.50%) Zephyr
General
1 239 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 151 (15.15%) Finance
3 133 (13.34%) Public Sector
4 105 (10.53%) Banking
5 97 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.01%) Law
9 18 (1.81%) Retail
10 16 (1.60%) Publishing
11 14 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.20%) Marketing
12 12 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.10%) Legal
14 10 (1.00%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.90%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.60%) Front Office
17 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 242 (24.27%) Developer
2 180 (18.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 156 (15.65%) Senior
4 116 (11.63%) Java Developer
5 69 (6.92%) Lead
6 64 (6.42%) Software Engineer
7 57 (5.72%) AWS Engineer
8 47 (4.71%) Architect
9 45 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
9 45 (4.51%) Senior Developer
10 42 (4.21%) Test Engineer
11 39 (3.91%) Data Engineer
12 38 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
15 33 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
16 32 (3.21%) GCP Engineer
16 32 (3.21%) Senior Java Developer
16 32 (3.21%) Software Developer
16 32 (3.21%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 389 (39.02%) Terraform
2 182 (18.25%) Kafka
3 172 (17.25%) Spring
4 157 (15.75%) REST
5 148 (14.84%) Spring Boot
6 113 (11.33%) RESTful
7 93 (9.33%) React
8 85 (8.53%) Node.js
9 59 (5.92%) Playwright
10 56 (5.62%) HTML
11 51 (5.12%) Elastic Stack
12 48 (4.81%) SOAP
13 46 (4.61%) AngularJS
14 41 (4.11%) Hibernate
15 40 (4.01%) Web Services
16 38 (3.81%) CSS
16 38 (3.81%) JPA
17 35 (3.51%) JSON
18 34 (3.41%) YAML
19 31 (3.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 168 (16.85%) Cloud Native
2 75 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (7.12%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.11%) Replication
8 20 (2.01%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 17 (1.71%) Distributed Architecture
10 16 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.50%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.40%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.30%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.20%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 10 (1.00%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.90%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 204 (20.46%) Linux
2 65 (6.52%) Unix
3 47 (4.71%) Windows
4 44 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.90%) Android
6 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.60%) CentOS
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
9 3 (0.30%) VMS
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
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (83.45%) CI/CD
2 672 (67.40%) DevOps
3 470 (47.14%) Agile
4 353 (35.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 314 (31.49%) Test Automation
6 276 (27.68%) Containerisation
7 262 (26.28%) Microservices
8 209 (20.96%) Observability
9 180 (18.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 176 (17.65%) Scrum
11 167 (16.75%) Software Engineering
12 152 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
13 140 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
14 109 (10.93%) Deployment Automation
15 106 (10.63%) TDD
16 100 (10.03%) DevSecOps
16 100 (10.03%) Event-Driven
17 94 (9.43%) AI
18 92 (9.23%) Validation
19 88 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 424 (42.53%) Python
2 369 (37.01%) Java
3 254 (25.48%) SQL
4 207 (20.76%) Bash
5 130 (13.04%) PowerShell
6 100 (10.03%) JavaScript
7 76 (7.62%) TypeScript
8 56 (5.62%) C#
9 52 (5.22%) Groovy
9 52 (5.22%) Shell Script
10 49 (4.91%) Go
11 40 (4.01%) PL/SQL
12 27 (2.71%) Scala
13 24 (2.41%) Perl
14 21 (2.11%) Bicep
15 18 (1.81%) Kotlin
16 12 (1.20%) C++
17 10 (1.00%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.90%) ActionScript
19 8 (0.80%) C
Qualifications
1 399 (40.02%) Security Cleared
2 334 (33.50%) SC Cleared
3 51 (5.12%) Degree
3 51 (5.12%) DV Cleared
4 47 (4.71%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.71%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.60%) ISTQB
10 14 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.40%) CISSP
11 11 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.80%) RHCE
14 6 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (12.74%) QA
2 43 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.30%) WCAG
5 11 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.10%) NIST
6 10 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.90%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.80%) GDPR
9 7 (0.70%) SLA
10 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.50%) SEPA
11 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.40%) NCSC
11 4 (0.40%) PSD2
12 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 478 (47.94%) Docker
2 28 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.81%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.10%) Postfix
6 9 (0.90%) vSphere
7 8 (0.80%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.70%) NFS
9 5 (0.50%) HDFS
10 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.40%) SRDF
10 4 (0.40%) Varnish
10 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.30%) GridGain
11 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.20%) Squid
12 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 487 (48.85%) Kubernetes
2 238 (23.87%) Ansible
3 210 (21.06%) Grafana
4 178 (17.85%) Prometheus
5 40 (4.01%) Puppet
6 38 (3.81%) Argo
6 38 (3.81%) Progress Chef
7 18 (1.81%) Control-M
7 18 (1.81%) Kibana
8 17 (1.71%) Istio
9 14 (1.40%) HAProxy
10 12 (1.20%) Packer
11 9 (0.90%) Kustomize
11 9 (0.90%) Podman
11 9 (0.90%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.70%) Consul
12 7 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
13 6 (0.60%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.50%) CASB
Vendors
1 91 (9.13%) Microsoft
2 88 (8.83%) Oracle
3 85 (8.53%) Google
4 84 (8.43%) Splunk
5 61 (6.12%) Dynatrace
6 46 (4.61%) Red Hat
7 35 (3.51%) VMware
8 31 (3.11%) Salesforce
9 27 (2.71%) Databricks
10 26 (2.61%) IBM
11 25 (2.51%) ServiceNow
12 23 (2.31%) Talend
13 19 (1.91%) Denodo
14 14 (1.40%) New Relic
14 14 (1.40%) Sonatype
15 12 (1.20%) F5
15 12 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
15 12 (1.20%) Okta
16 11 (1.10%) ForgeRock
17 10 (1.00%) CyberArk