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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 88 93
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -39
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,005 715 871
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 2.74% 2.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.15% 20.27% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 469 657
10th Percentile £359 £368 £406
25th Percentile £427 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £584 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £778 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -6.36% +2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile - £58.13 £45.88
25th Percentile £40.00 £65.63 £57.41
Median hourly rate £47.50 £71.25 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -3.06% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60.25 £80.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £90.10 £89.75 £81.60
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £71.25 £72.00
% change year-on-year -17.89% -1.04% +2.86%

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 4,751 3,528 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.25% 13.51% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,289 2,182 3,125
10th Percentile £340 £340 £368
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -5.35% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £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 129 61 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £45.00 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.63 £51.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.60 £76.25 £89.88
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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -30 424 £534 -13.31% 102
North of England +18 277 £496 -0.80% 64
Yorkshire +15 188 £500 -14.16% 32
Midlands +37 144 £525 +8.70% 20
West Midlands +40 131 £525 +7.36% 16
South East +11 93 £462 -7.70% 38
North West -18 73 £447 +11.75% 27
South West +14 53 £531 -11.46% 28
North East 0 19 £550 -13.21% 5
East of England -25 16 £478 +6.22% 15
East Midlands -24 13 £397 -10.70% 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
1 120 (11.94%) Confluence
2 60 (5.97%) SAS
3 18 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.49%) Apache
4 15 (1.49%) IIS
5 14 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (1.39%) JBoss
6 12 (1.19%) nginx
6 12 (1.19%) OpenStack
7 11 (1.09%) WebSphere
8 10 (1.00%) iPlanet
8 10 (1.00%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.30%) Mule
11 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
Applications
1 18 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.100%) Actimize
3 1 (0.100%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.100%) Finacle
3 1 (0.100%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.100%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.100%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 516 (51.34%) AWS
2 344 (34.23%) GitHub
3 263 (26.17%) Azure
4 230 (22.89%) GCP
5 215 (21.39%) GitHub Actions
6 143 (14.23%) OpenShift
7 138 (13.73%) Serverless
8 114 (11.34%) Amazon S3
9 103 (10.25%) Amazon EC2
10 98 (9.75%) AWS Lambda
11 96 (9.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 94 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
13 91 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 80 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (7.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 77 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
16 56 (5.57%) Datadog
17 52 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 35 (3.48%) Route 53
18 35 (3.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (6.57%) DNS
1 66 (6.57%) Firewall
2 31 (3.08%) VPN
3 25 (2.49%) Network Security
4 24 (2.39%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.19%) HTTP
6 19 (1.89%) Kerberos
7 17 (1.69%) SSL
8 12 (1.19%) SSH
9 11 (1.09%) SMTP
10 10 (1.00%) FTP
11 7 (0.70%) IMAP
11 7 (0.70%) OpenLDAP
12 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.60%) Internet
12 6 (0.60%) WAN
13 5 (0.50%) SD-WAN
14 3 (0.30%) SAN
15 2 (0.20%) NAS
15 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (9.95%) NoSQL
3 95 (9.45%) Amazon RDS
4 54 (5.37%) MongoDB
5 41 (4.08%) DynamoDB
5 41 (4.08%) MySQL
6 38 (3.78%) Pentaho
7 35 (3.48%) Relational Database
8 33 (3.28%) Oracle Database
9 31 (3.08%) SQL Server
10 30 (2.99%) Redis
11 27 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
12 23 (2.29%) BigQuery
13 19 (1.89%) Big Data
14 16 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
15 13 (1.29%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.19%) SAS Enterprise Guide
16 12 (1.19%) Tableau
17 11 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
18 10 (1.00%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 383 (38.11%) GitLab
2 311 (30.95%) Git
3 227 (22.59%) JIRA
4 99 (9.85%) Selenium
5 90 (8.96%) JUnit
6 89 (8.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 88 (8.76%) Cucumber
8 58 (5.77%) Postman
9 56 (5.57%) Bitbucket
10 48 (4.78%) Maven
11 46 (4.58%) SonarQube
12 41 (4.08%) REST Assured
13 39 (3.88%) Gradle
14 33 (3.28%) CircleCI
15 29 (2.89%) Artifactory
16 26 (2.59%) JMeter
17 22 (2.19%) Liquibase
18 21 (2.09%) Cypress.io
19 20 (1.99%) Gatling
20 17 (1.69%) Mockito
General
1 300 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 229 (22.79%) Finance
3 138 (13.73%) Banking
4 122 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 62 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.89%) Financial Institution
8 18 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.29%) Military
10 12 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.19%) Retail
11 10 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.70%) Front Office
12 7 (0.70%) Marketing
13 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.60%) Games
13 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (17.21%) Developer
2 168 (16.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 157 (15.62%) Senior
4 87 (8.66%) Architect
5 86 (8.56%) Lead
6 71 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
6 71 (7.06%) Java Developer
7 57 (5.67%) Data Engineer
8 56 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
9 55 (5.47%) GCP Engineer
10 48 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
11 43 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
11 43 (4.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 42 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.18%) Software Engineer
13 39 (3.88%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.48%) Senior Developer
15 34 (3.38%) Automation Engineer
16 33 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (15.02%) REST
2 144 (14.33%) Kafka
3 120 (11.94%) Spring
4 108 (10.75%) Node.js
5 98 (9.75%) Spring Boot
6 97 (9.65%) RESTful
7 91 (9.05%) Elastic Stack
8 70 (6.97%) Playwright
9 55 (5.47%) LDAP
9 55 (5.47%) OpenID
9 55 (5.47%) React
10 53 (5.27%) GraphQL
11 44 (4.38%) JSON
12 43 (4.28%) HTML
13 41 (4.08%) OAuth
14 39 (3.88%) .NET
14 39 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
15 38 (3.78%) SAML
16 37 (3.68%) YAML
17 36 (3.58%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.20%) Cloud Native
2 85 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.78%) Public Cloud
4 44 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.89%) Replication
7 22 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.59%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.09%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.09%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.90%) Derivative
13 9 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (0.90%) NHS
14 7 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 234 (23.28%) Linux
2 73 (7.26%) Windows
3 44 (4.38%) Unix
4 25 (2.49%) VMS
5 22 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.99%) Windows Server
7 13 (1.29%) Amazon Linux
7 13 (1.29%) Android
7 13 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.19%) CentOS
9 10 (1.00%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.100%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.100%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (83.18%) CI/CD
2 672 (66.87%) DevOps
3 387 (38.51%) Agile
4 341 (33.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 310 (30.85%) Containerisation
6 283 (28.16%) Test Automation
7 247 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
8 219 (21.79%) Microservices
9 152 (15.12%) Observability
10 132 (13.13%) Scrum
11 130 (12.94%) Software Engineering
12 128 (12.74%) Mentoring
13 113 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 98 (9.75%) Migration
15 88 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
16 87 (8.66%) DevSecOps
17 86 (8.56%) Analytics
17 86 (8.56%) Deployment Automation
18 84 (8.36%) Continuous Integration
19 81 (8.06%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 450 (44.78%) Python
2 292 (29.05%) Java
3 188 (18.71%) SQL
4 152 (15.12%) Bash
5 105 (10.45%) JavaScript
6 88 (8.76%) TypeScript
7 87 (8.66%) Go
8 82 (8.16%) PowerShell
9 67 (6.67%) Shell Script
10 51 (5.07%) C#
11 47 (4.68%) Groovy
12 26 (2.59%) Scala
13 22 (2.19%) C++
14 17 (1.69%) Ruby
15 14 (1.39%) Kotlin
16 13 (1.29%) PHP
17 11 (1.09%) C
18 10 (1.00%) Perl
18 10 (1.00%) Swift
19 8 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 348 (34.63%) Security Cleared
2 273 (27.16%) SC Cleared
3 69 (6.87%) Degree
4 56 (5.57%) AWS Certification
5 46 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (3.48%) Master's Degree
7 29 (2.89%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.59%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.09%) OCP
13 8 (0.80%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.50%) OCA
15 5 (0.50%) RHCE
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 3 (0.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (9.65%) QA
2 52 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 22 (2.19%) NIST
5 19 (1.89%) NCSC
6 15 (1.49%) SLA
7 8 (0.80%) GDPR
8 7 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.50%) WCAG
10 3 (0.30%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.30%) IEC 62304
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.30%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.20%) PSD2
11 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 499 (49.65%) Docker
2 27 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.39%) VMware NSX
4 14 (1.39%) vSphere
5 13 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (1.00%) DFS Replication
7 8 (0.80%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 7 (0.70%) Dovecot
8 7 (0.70%) Postfix
8 7 (0.70%) Squid
9 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.40%) HDFS
10 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.20%) GridGain
12 1 (0.100%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.100%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 526 (52.34%) Kubernetes
2 407 (40.50%) Terraform
3 278 (27.66%) Ansible
4 185 (18.41%) Grafana
5 161 (16.02%) Prometheus
6 56 (5.57%) Progress Chef
7 39 (3.88%) Argo
8 30 (2.99%) Istio
9 22 (2.19%) Puppet
10 18 (1.79%) Podman
11 15 (1.49%) Kibana
12 14 (1.39%) vCenter Server
13 11 (1.09%) CA Single Sign-On
13 11 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
13 11 (1.09%) Packer
13 11 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (1.00%) CA Wily
14 10 (1.00%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.80%) NetBackup
15 8 (0.80%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 124 (12.34%) Splunk
2 96 (9.55%) Oracle
3 89 (8.86%) Google
4 76 (7.56%) Microsoft
5 50 (4.98%) Red Hat
5 50 (4.98%) ServiceNow
6 48 (4.78%) VMware
7 38 (3.78%) Denodo
7 38 (3.78%) Talend
8 30 (2.99%) Atlassian
8 30 (2.99%) Databricks
9 23 (2.29%) Dynatrace
10 21 (2.09%) Sonatype
11 19 (1.89%) AppDynamics
12 18 (1.79%) CyberArk
13 17 (1.69%) CheckPoint
13 17 (1.69%) F5
13 17 (1.69%) IBM
13 17 (1.69%) Palo Alto
14 14 (1.39%) Pure Storage