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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 82 104
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 -50
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 959 746 809
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.44% 3.06% 2.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.10% 22.40% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 510 600
10th Percentile £363 £358 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £559
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% -4.52% -6.88%
75th Percentile £575 £673 £675
90th Percentile £663 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 6
10th Percentile - £52.50 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £56.25 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £67.50 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +32.18% -30.99%
75th Percentile £63.00 £73.13 £56.25
90th Percentile £69.00 £77.50 £65.63
UK median hourly rate £53.11 £67.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -21.31% +47.12% -37.15%

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 5,020 3,331 4,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.79% 13.65% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,366 2,229 2,892
10th Percentile £337 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 64 165
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.63 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.14 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.51 £87.25
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.40% +1.22%

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 16 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins in England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Jenkins in England

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 16 April 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 -43 415 £550 -8.33% 96
North of England 0 227 £476 -4.80% 64
Yorkshire +7 180 £485 -11.91% 20
Midlands +6 146 £499 +9.74% 20
West Midlands +16 131 £500 +8.11% 14
South East -26 89 £433 -13.50% 36
South West -11 51 £538 -6.52% 24
North West -58 36 £425 -10.53% 32
East of England -28 24 £475 -5.00% 14
North East -12 15 £425 -8.60% 12
East Midlands -38 14 £402 -10.96% 6
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
1 109 (11.37%) Confluence
2 68 (7.09%) SAS
3 27 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.94%) Apache
5 9 (0.94%) OpenStack
6 7 (0.73%) nginx
7 6 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.42%) JBoss
8 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.31%) IIS
10 2 (0.21%) CMS
10 2 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.21%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 470 (49.01%) AWS
2 378 (39.42%) GitHub
3 303 (31.60%) Azure
4 243 (25.34%) GitHub Actions
5 201 (20.96%) GCP
6 141 (14.70%) OpenShift
7 130 (13.56%) Amazon S3
8 117 (12.20%) Serverless
9 116 (12.10%) Azure DevOps
10 101 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
11 99 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
12 90 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
13 82 (8.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 77 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 61 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
15 61 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 56 (5.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 39 (4.07%) Azure AKS
17 39 (4.07%) Datadog
18 35 (3.65%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.74%) DNS
2 43 (4.48%) Firewall
3 17 (1.77%) Network Security
3 17 (1.77%) VPN
4 13 (1.36%) HTTP
5 10 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.73%) SAN
7 5 (0.52%) HTTPS
7 5 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 5 (0.52%) SSL
8 4 (0.42%) Internet
8 4 (0.42%) NAS
9 3 (0.31%) BGP
10 2 (0.21%) AMQP
10 2 (0.21%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.21%) LAN
10 2 (0.21%) Multicast
10 2 (0.21%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.21%) WAN
11 1 (0.10%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (15.95%) PostgreSQL
2 83 (8.65%) Amazon RDS
3 66 (6.88%) NoSQL
4 45 (4.69%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.28%) MongoDB
6 40 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 40 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 38 (3.96%) Amazon Aurora
8 37 (3.86%) Pentaho
9 31 (3.23%) MySQL
10 27 (2.82%) Big Data
11 24 (2.50%) Redis
12 16 (1.67%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.56%) Metadata
14 14 (1.46%) Tableau
15 13 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.36%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.36%) Power BI
16 11 (1.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 361 (37.64%) GitLab
2 303 (31.60%) Git
3 201 (20.96%) JIRA
4 123 (12.83%) JUnit
5 113 (11.78%) Selenium
6 86 (8.97%) Cucumber
7 59 (6.15%) Maven
8 58 (6.05%) Postman
9 53 (5.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 47 (4.90%) Bitbucket
11 46 (4.80%) SonarQube
12 41 (4.28%) Mockito
12 41 (4.28%) REST Assured
13 34 (3.55%) JMeter
14 28 (2.92%) Gatling
15 26 (2.71%) Gradle
16 25 (2.61%) Artifactory
17 21 (2.19%) WebDriver
18 20 (2.09%) CircleCI
19 15 (1.56%) Liquibase
General
1 281 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 181 (18.87%) Finance
3 117 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 102 (10.64%) Banking
5 73 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (1.15%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.04%) Front Office
9 10 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (0.94%) Retail
11 8 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.83%) Law
12 7 (0.73%) Aerospace
12 7 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.73%) Military
12 7 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.63%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 181 (18.87%) Developer
2 137 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 133 (13.87%) Senior
4 90 (9.38%) Architect
5 88 (9.18%) Java Developer
6 74 (7.72%) Lead
7 66 (6.88%) Data Engineer
8 51 (5.32%) GCP Engineer
9 46 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (4.80%) Platform Engineer
9 46 (4.80%) Software Engineer
10 41 (4.28%) Test Engineer
11 39 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (3.55%) Full-Stack Developer
13 33 (3.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 32 (3.34%) Tester
15 31 (3.23%) Senior Developer
16 30 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
16 30 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 28 (2.92%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (15.64%) Spring
2 142 (14.81%) REST
3 133 (13.87%) Kafka
4 120 (12.51%) Spring Boot
5 110 (11.47%) Node.js
6 77 (8.03%) RESTful
7 71 (7.40%) Playwright
8 59 (6.15%) React
9 55 (5.74%) Elastic Stack
10 52 (5.42%) AngularJS
11 49 (5.11%) OpenTelemetry
12 46 (4.80%) pytest
13 41 (4.28%) YAML
14 40 (4.17%) LDAP
14 40 (4.17%) OpenID
15 37 (3.86%) GraphQL
16 34 (3.55%) HTML
16 34 (3.55%) JSON
17 33 (3.44%) Hibernate
17 33 (3.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 182 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
11 9 (0.94%) Replication
12 7 (0.73%) Equities
12 7 (0.73%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (0.73%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 188 (19.60%) Linux
2 44 (4.59%) Windows
3 42 (4.38%) Unix
4 30 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.77%) VMS
6 11 (1.15%) Android
7 9 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.94%) CentOS
8 7 (0.73%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.21%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (84.98%) CI/CD
2 636 (66.32%) DevOps
3 402 (41.92%) Agile
4 311 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 304 (31.70%) Containerisation
6 295 (30.76%) Test Automation
7 218 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
8 207 (21.58%) Microservices
9 157 (16.37%) Scrum
10 155 (16.16%) Observability
11 132 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (13.24%) Software Engineering
13 111 (11.57%) Migration
14 102 (10.64%) Analytics
15 92 (9.59%) Mentoring
16 90 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
16 90 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
17 89 (9.28%) Data Pipeline
17 89 (9.28%) Deployment Automation
18 84 (8.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 421 (43.90%) Python
2 303 (31.60%) Java
3 220 (22.94%) SQL
4 163 (17.00%) Bash
5 91 (9.49%) JavaScript
6 78 (8.13%) TypeScript
7 74 (7.72%) PowerShell
8 54 (5.63%) Shell Script
9 48 (5.01%) C#
10 46 (4.80%) Go
11 40 (4.17%) Scala
12 27 (2.82%) Groovy
13 15 (1.56%) Bicep
14 14 (1.46%) Kotlin
14 14 (1.46%) PHP
15 12 (1.25%) Ruby
16 9 (0.94%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.94%) Perl
16 9 (0.94%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.94%) Swift
Qualifications
1 366 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 308 (32.12%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.59%) Degree
4 37 (3.86%) AWS Certification
5 29 (3.02%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 21 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
9 16 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.25%) OCP
11 11 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.94%) RHCE
14 8 (0.83%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.52%) OCA
16 4 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 3 (0.31%) CCNP
17 3 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.64%) QA
2 56 (5.84%) Data Quality
3 23 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.98%) NIST
5 17 (1.77%) SLA
6 15 (1.56%) NCSC
7 10 (1.04%) GDPR
8 9 (0.94%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.63%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.52%) WCAG
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.21%) HL7
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.21%) MiFID
11 2 (0.21%) PSD2
11 2 (0.21%) SEPA
11 2 (0.21%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 465 (48.49%) Docker
2 34 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.82%) vSphere
4 26 (2.71%) VMware NSX
5 13 (1.36%) Active Directory
6 11 (1.15%) Postfix
7 8 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.63%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.63%) HDFS
9 3 (0.31%) GridGain
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.31%) NFS
9 3 (0.31%) SRDF
10 2 (0.21%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.21%) Varnish
10 2 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.10%) KVM
Systems Management
1 527 (54.95%) Kubernetes
2 378 (39.42%) Terraform
3 248 (25.86%) Ansible
4 192 (20.02%) Grafana
5 149 (15.54%) Prometheus
6 51 (5.32%) Argo
7 37 (3.86%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.44%) Istio
9 30 (3.13%) Puppet
10 27 (2.82%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.88%) Kibana
12 15 (1.56%) Podman
13 11 (1.15%) HAProxy
14 9 (0.94%) Check_MK
14 9 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
15 8 (0.83%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.73%) Packer
16 7 (0.73%) Rancher
17 6 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
18 5 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 98 (10.22%) Splunk
2 74 (7.72%) Google
3 71 (7.40%) Oracle
4 68 (7.09%) Red Hat
5 63 (6.57%) Microsoft
6 55 (5.74%) VMware
7 39 (4.07%) Databricks
8 38 (3.96%) Talend
9 37 (3.86%) Denodo
10 36 (3.75%) ServiceNow
11 27 (2.82%) Atlassian
11 27 (2.82%) Pure Storage
12 23 (2.40%) Sonatype
13 20 (2.09%) Dynatrace
14 15 (1.56%) CyberArk
15 14 (1.46%) Jaspersoft
16 11 (1.15%) IBM
16 11 (1.15%) Salesforce
17 10 (1.04%) AppDynamics
18 8 (0.83%) Veritas