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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 79 91
Rank change year-on-year -39 +12 -20
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 988 873 836
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.18% 2.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.72% 22.26% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 610 622
10th Percentile £363 £350 £382
25th Percentile £415 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £642 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 36
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £60.94
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £69.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
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 5,279 3,922 4,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.29% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,366 2,705 2,884
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
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 237 93 205
10th Percentile £28.97 £40.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £73.90
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 28 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 28 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 -35 468 £530 - 127
North of England -27 263 £452 -2.43% 81
Yorkshire -4 195 £488 -0.79% 22
Midlands -16 128 £477 +6.00% 24
West Midlands +3 120 £481 +1.26% 20
South East -98 62 £460 -8.10% 48
South West -22 50 £544 -5.43% 30
North West -84 49 £425 +5.99% 44
North East -27 26 £450 -3.23% 16
East of England -13 18 £463 -7.50% 15
East Midlands -41 6 £447 +24.86% 4
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
1 116 (11.74%) Confluence
2 31 (3.14%) SAS
3 24 (2.43%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.11%) nginx
6 10 (1.01%) Apache
6 10 (1.01%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.40%) Camunda
8 4 (0.40%) CMS
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 13 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.11%) 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
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 507 (51.32%) AWS
2 421 (42.61%) GitHub
3 338 (34.21%) Azure
4 290 (29.35%) GitHub Actions
5 219 (22.17%) GCP
6 159 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
7 123 (12.45%) Amazon S3
8 115 (11.64%) Serverless
9 103 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 100 (10.12%) AWS Lambda
11 97 (9.82%) Amazon EC2
12 95 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
13 93 (9.41%) OpenShift
14 74 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
18 43 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 42 (4.25%) Datadog
20 31 (3.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.47%) DNS
2 49 (4.96%) Firewall
3 18 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.72%) VPN
5 15 (1.52%) Network Security
5 15 (1.52%) SSL
6 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.81%) HTTP
7 8 (0.81%) VLAN
8 7 (0.71%) SAN
8 7 (0.71%) WAN
9 4 (0.40%) BGP
9 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.30%) Internet
10 3 (0.30%) Multicast
10 3 (0.30%) NAS
10 3 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.78%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
3 58 (5.87%) MongoDB
4 57 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 55 (5.57%) Relational Database
6 47 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 44 (4.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 43 (4.35%) DynamoDB
9 25 (2.53%) Big Data
9 25 (2.53%) Redis
10 22 (2.23%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (1.62%) Metadata
14 15 (1.52%) MySQL
15 13 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (1.21%) BigQuery
17 10 (1.01%) Power BI
17 10 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 346 (35.02%) GitLab
2 320 (32.39%) Git
3 196 (19.84%) JIRA
4 113 (11.44%) JUnit
5 94 (9.51%) Selenium
6 75 (7.59%) Maven
7 68 (6.88%) SonarQube
8 65 (6.58%) Cucumber
9 58 (5.87%) Mockito
10 51 (5.16%) Bitbucket
11 47 (4.76%) Gradle
12 45 (4.55%) REST Assured
13 40 (4.05%) Postman
14 39 (3.95%) JMeter
15 35 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
16 34 (3.44%) Gatling
17 29 (2.94%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.43%) Liquibase
19 23 (2.33%) Artifactory
20 17 (1.72%) Zephyr
General
1 252 (25.51%) Social Skills
2 143 (14.47%) Finance
3 140 (14.17%) Public Sector
4 105 (10.63%) Banking
5 85 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.02%) Law
8 17 (1.72%) Retail
9 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.42%) Publishing
10 11 (1.11%) Legal
10 11 (1.11%) Marketing
11 10 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.61%) Front Office
13 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.61%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 225 (22.77%) Developer
2 181 (18.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 149 (15.08%) Senior
4 117 (11.84%) Java Developer
5 68 (6.88%) Lead
6 62 (6.28%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.67%) Architect
7 56 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (4.86%) Senior Developer
9 47 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
10 43 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
10 43 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 43 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
11 39 (3.95%) Tester
12 37 (3.74%) Test Engineer
13 35 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.44%) Automation Engineer
14 34 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.44%) Senior Java Developer
15 29 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (17.91%) Spring
2 158 (15.99%) Kafka
3 151 (15.28%) REST
4 150 (15.18%) Spring Boot
5 104 (10.53%) RESTful
6 90 (9.11%) React
7 87 (8.81%) Node.js
8 59 (5.97%) Playwright
9 56 (5.67%) SOAP
10 50 (5.06%) Web Services
11 49 (4.96%) AngularJS
12 47 (4.76%) Hibernate
13 46 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
14 45 (4.55%) HTML
15 43 (4.35%) JPA
16 34 (3.44%) Spring Cloud
17 32 (3.24%) CSS
17 32 (3.24%) Swagger
18 31 (3.14%) YAML
19 30 (3.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 179 (18.12%) Cloud Native
2 91 (9.21%) Distributed Systems
3 66 (6.68%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.02%) Replication
10 19 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.62%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.52%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
13 14 (1.42%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (1.11%) AI Agents
15 11 (1.11%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.91%) Private Cloud
17 8 (0.81%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 188 (19.03%) Linux
2 50 (5.06%) Unix
3 44 (4.45%) Windows
4 39 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.11%) Android
6 10 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
9 5 (0.51%) CentOS
9 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.30%) AIX
10 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.30%) zOS
11 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.20%) Solaris
11 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (83.50%) CI/CD
2 667 (67.51%) DevOps
3 482 (48.79%) Agile
4 328 (33.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 307 (31.07%) Test Automation
6 276 (27.94%) Containerisation
7 263 (26.62%) Microservices
8 192 (19.43%) Observability
9 190 (19.23%) Scrum
10 177 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 162 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
12 151 (15.28%) Software Engineering
13 138 (13.97%) Platform Engineering
14 118 (11.94%) TDD
15 92 (9.31%) Deployment Automation
16 90 (9.11%) Event-Driven
17 86 (8.70%) Migration
18 85 (8.60%) Validation
19 84 (8.50%) AI
20 81 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 410 (41.50%) Python
2 352 (35.63%) Java
3 241 (24.39%) SQL
4 198 (20.04%) Bash
5 112 (11.34%) PowerShell
6 87 (8.81%) JavaScript
7 71 (7.19%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.96%) Go
9 47 (4.76%) C#
10 46 (4.66%) Groovy
11 44 (4.45%) Shell Script
12 36 (3.64%) PL/SQL
13 29 (2.94%) Scala
14 18 (1.82%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.62%) Bicep
16 15 (1.52%) Perl
17 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
18 9 (0.91%) Ruby
19 8 (0.81%) C++
Qualifications
1 377 (38.16%) Security Cleared
2 316 (31.98%) SC Cleared
3 48 (4.86%) Degree
4 45 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.25%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.83%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.21%) 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%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.51%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.40%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.84%) QA
2 44 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 32 (3.24%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.32%) WCAG
5 7 (0.71%) SLA
6 5 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.51%) SEPA
7 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.40%) NIST
7 4 (0.40%) PSD2
8 3 (0.30%) GDPR
9 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 454 (45.95%) Docker
2 30 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.13%) vSphere
4 20 (2.02%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.62%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.52%) Postfix
7 7 (0.71%) NFS
8 6 (0.61%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.40%) SRDF
9 4 (0.40%) Varnish
9 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 471 (47.67%) Kubernetes
2 389 (39.37%) Terraform
3 242 (24.49%) Ansible
4 216 (21.86%) Grafana
5 178 (18.02%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.06%) Argo
7 38 (3.85%) Puppet
8 27 (2.73%) Progress Chef
9 21 (2.13%) vCenter Server
10 20 (2.02%) Istio
11 17 (1.72%) Control-M
12 14 (1.42%) HAProxy
13 11 (1.11%) Kibana
14 10 (1.01%) Packer
14 10 (1.01%) Podman
15 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.61%) Consul
18 5 (0.51%) linkerd
18 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (8.70%) Google
2 84 (8.50%) Oracle
3 82 (8.30%) Microsoft
4 80 (8.10%) Splunk
5 53 (5.36%) Red Hat
6 52 (5.26%) Dynatrace
7 42 (4.25%) VMware
8 31 (3.14%) Salesforce
9 23 (2.33%) Talend
10 22 (2.23%) Databricks
10 22 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.13%) IBM
12 20 (2.02%) Pure Storage
13 19 (1.92%) Denodo
14 18 (1.82%) Atlassian
14 18 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
15 13 (1.32%) Okta
15 13 (1.32%) Sonatype
16 12 (1.21%) F5
17 11 (1.11%) ForgeRock