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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 89 97
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -43
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,007 724 874
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.88% 2.80% 2.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.59% 20.92% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 485 647
10th Percentile £363 £363 £404
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £577 £688 £650
90th Percentile £679 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £507 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -7.82% +2.09% -10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 -
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +5.95% -3.93%
75th Percentile £62.31 £80.00 £75.75
90th Percentile £86.50 £89.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £71.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.89% +14.00% -10.71%

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 4,891 3,461 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.00% 13.39% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,201 3,093
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 59 204
10th Percentile £39.00 £41.50 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.62 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £82.85 £80.00 £87.43
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -30 423 £525 -14.98% 76
North of England +19 269 £482 -1.63% 48
Yorkshire +21 199 £500 -15.43% 24
Midlands +33 157 £520 +9.47% 33
West Midlands +38 142 £525 +10.06% 30
South East +6 93 £473 -5.40% 52
North West -33 56 £445 +13.81% 18
South West -2 49 £531 -7.61% 24
East of England -16 20 £477 +5.89% 13
North East -10 17 £538 -0.23% 6
East Midlands -26 14 £400 -2.32% 3
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
1 119 (11.82%) Confluence
2 62 (6.16%) SAS
3 21 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.29%) Apache
6 11 (1.09%) JBoss
6 11 (1.09%) nginx
7 10 (0.99%) IIS
7 10 (0.99%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.89%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.60%) iPlanet
9 6 (0.60%) WebSphere Application Server
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) Mule
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.099%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.099%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.099%) Actimize
3 1 (0.099%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.099%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.099%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 524 (52.04%) AWS
2 364 (36.15%) GitHub
3 266 (26.42%) Azure
4 224 (22.24%) GCP
5 222 (22.05%) GitHub Actions
6 147 (14.60%) OpenShift
7 132 (13.11%) Serverless
8 123 (12.21%) Amazon S3
9 107 (10.63%) Amazon EC2
10 104 (10.33%) Azure DevOps
11 96 (9.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 93 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
14 82 (8.14%) Amazon EKS
15 80 (7.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 71 (7.05%) Amazon ECS
17 55 (5.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 48 (4.77%) Datadog
19 33 (3.28%) Route 53
20 32 (3.18%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.95%) DNS
2 64 (6.36%) Firewall
3 33 (3.28%) VPN
4 23 (2.28%) Network Security
4 23 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.69%) HTTP
6 16 (1.59%) SSL
7 15 (1.49%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.60%) FTP
8 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.60%) Internet
8 6 (0.60%) SMTP
8 6 (0.60%) SSH
8 6 (0.60%) WAN
9 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.40%) IMAP
10 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.30%) SAN
12 2 (0.20%) NAS
13 1 (0.099%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 93 (9.24%) Amazon RDS
4 55 (5.46%) MongoDB
5 41 (4.07%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.57%) MySQL
7 32 (3.18%) Pentaho
8 31 (3.08%) SQL Server
9 29 (2.88%) Oracle Database
9 29 (2.88%) Relational Database
10 24 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 23 (2.28%) Redis
12 21 (2.09%) Big Data
13 17 (1.69%) BigQuery
14 16 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 12 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (1.19%) Tableau
17 10 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (0.99%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 396 (39.32%) GitLab
2 305 (30.29%) Git
3 222 (22.05%) JIRA
4 109 (10.82%) JUnit
5 108 (10.72%) Selenium
6 92 (9.14%) Cucumber
7 81 (8.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 62 (6.16%) Postman
9 53 (5.26%) Maven
10 52 (5.16%) Bitbucket
11 43 (4.27%) REST Assured
11 43 (4.27%) SonarQube
12 33 (3.28%) JMeter
13 30 (2.98%) Gradle
14 29 (2.88%) Artifactory
15 28 (2.78%) CircleCI
16 26 (2.58%) Liquibase
17 25 (2.48%) Cypress.io
18 24 (2.38%) Mockito
19 22 (2.18%) Gatling
General
1 310 (30.78%) Social Skills
2 218 (21.65%) Finance
3 129 (12.81%) Banking
4 122 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.88%) Financial Institution
8 21 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (1.49%) Military
10 11 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.09%) Retail
11 9 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.70%) Front Office
14 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.60%) Marketing
15 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 171 (16.98%) Developer
2 166 (16.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 158 (15.69%) Senior
4 88 (8.74%) Lead
5 87 (8.64%) Architect
6 77 (7.65%) Java Developer
7 66 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
8 63 (6.26%) Data Engineer
9 62 (6.16%) GCP Engineer
10 53 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 51 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
12 46 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
12 46 (4.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 44 (4.37%) Software Engineer
14 43 (4.27%) Test Engineer
15 35 (3.48%) AWS DevOps
15 35 (3.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 32 (3.18%) Senior Developer
17 31 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
18 30 (2.98%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (15.69%) REST
2 144 (14.30%) Kafka
3 135 (13.41%) Spring
4 114 (11.32%) Node.js
5 100 (9.93%) Spring Boot
6 87 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
6 87 (8.64%) RESTful
7 76 (7.55%) Playwright
8 58 (5.76%) React
9 49 (4.87%) LDAP
9 49 (4.87%) OpenID
10 47 (4.67%) GraphQL
11 43 (4.27%) AngularJS
11 43 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
12 41 (4.07%) JSON
12 41 (4.07%) pytest
13 39 (3.87%) YAML
14 38 (3.77%) HTML
15 37 (3.67%) OAuth
16 36 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 199 (19.76%) Cloud Native
2 95 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (4.97%) Public Cloud
4 35 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.18%) Replication
8 17 (1.69%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 10 (0.99%) Algorithms
11 10 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (0.99%) Management Information System
12 9 (0.89%) Derivative
13 8 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 8 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (0.79%) NHS
14 7 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 238 (23.63%) Linux
2 58 (5.76%) Windows
3 39 (3.87%) Unix
4 26 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.09%) VMS
6 12 (1.19%) Android
6 12 (1.19%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.09%) CentOS
8 10 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
9 9 (0.89%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.70%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.099%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 851 (84.51%) CI/CD
2 678 (67.33%) DevOps
3 397 (39.42%) Agile
4 343 (34.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 312 (30.98%) Containerisation
6 290 (28.80%) Test Automation
7 245 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
8 220 (21.85%) Microservices
9 154 (15.29%) Observability
10 134 (13.31%) Scrum
11 125 (12.41%) Software Engineering
12 124 (12.31%) Mentoring
13 120 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 98 (9.73%) Migration
15 91 (9.04%) Deployment Automation
16 90 (8.94%) Analytics
17 88 (8.74%) Data Pipeline
18 86 (8.54%) High Availability
19 83 (8.24%) Continuous Integration
19 83 (8.24%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 447 (44.39%) Python
2 285 (28.30%) Java
3 187 (18.57%) SQL
4 154 (15.29%) Bash
5 104 (10.33%) JavaScript
6 89 (8.84%) TypeScript
7 86 (8.54%) Go
8 73 (7.25%) PowerShell
9 63 (6.26%) Shell Script
10 52 (5.16%) C#
11 38 (3.77%) Groovy
12 25 (2.48%) Scala
13 19 (1.89%) C++
14 14 (1.39%) PHP
15 11 (1.09%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.09%) Ruby
16 9 (0.89%) Perl
17 8 (0.79%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.70%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 352 (34.96%) Security Cleared
2 285 (28.30%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.05%) Degree
4 50 (4.97%) AWS Certification
4 50 (4.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.48%) Master's Degree
6 27 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 25 (2.48%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
9 14 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.19%) OCP
11 11 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.70%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.60%) RHCE
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.50%) OCA
16 4 (0.40%) CISSP
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (9.83%) QA
2 51 (5.06%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.18%) NIST
6 18 (1.79%) NCSC
7 15 (1.49%) SLA
8 9 (0.89%) GDPR
9 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.40%) WCAG
12 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.20%) HL7
13 2 (0.20%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.20%) MiFID
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 485 (48.16%) Docker
2 26 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.09%) VMware NSX
3 21 (2.09%) vSphere
4 14 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.89%) Postfix
6 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 6 (0.60%) DFS Replication
7 5 (0.50%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 4 (0.40%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.40%) Squid
8 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.30%) HDFS
10 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 1 (0.099%) KVM
11 1 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 533 (52.93%) Kubernetes
2 413 (41.01%) Terraform
3 287 (28.50%) Ansible
4 198 (19.66%) Grafana
5 159 (15.79%) Prometheus
6 49 (4.87%) Progress Chef
7 45 (4.47%) Argo
8 31 (3.08%) Istio
9 24 (2.38%) Puppet
10 21 (2.09%) vCenter Server
11 18 (1.79%) Podman
12 14 (1.39%) Kibana
13 11 (1.09%) Packer
13 11 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.70%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.70%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
16 6 (0.60%) CA Single Sign-On
16 6 (0.60%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 122 (12.12%) Splunk
2 87 (8.64%) Google
3 81 (8.04%) Oracle
4 67 (6.65%) Microsoft
5 52 (5.16%) Red Hat
5 52 (5.16%) VMware
6 48 (4.77%) ServiceNow
7 35 (3.48%) Databricks
8 34 (3.38%) Atlassian
9 32 (3.18%) Denodo
9 32 (3.18%) Talend
10 22 (2.18%) Dynatrace
10 22 (2.18%) Sonatype
11 21 (2.09%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.79%) CyberArk
13 17 (1.69%) IBM
14 16 (1.59%) CheckPoint
14 16 (1.59%) F5
15 15 (1.49%) Palo Alto
16 14 (1.39%) AppDynamics