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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 77 91
Rank change year-on-year -39 +14 -25
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 988 875 881
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.21% 3.22% 2.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.80% 22.74% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 606 655
10th Percentile £363 £356 £394
25th Percentile £424 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £604 £675
90th Percentile £650 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 38
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.38 £54.38
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.56 -
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -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 5,255 3,848 4,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.74% 14.16% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 2,627 3,031
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
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 235 91 228
10th Percentile £28.08 £30.75 £32.61
25th Percentile £57.63 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 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 16 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 -35 465 £550 +3.77% 66
North of England -18 272 £453 -2.16% 56
Yorkshire -3 206 £488 -2.50% 15
Midlands -24 127 £481 +6.89% 10
West Midlands -1 120 £481 +1.32% 9
South East -88 59 £460 -8.10% 37
South West -16 49 £538 -6.52% 26
North West -82 49 £425 +8.14% 32
North East -24 24 £450 -3.23% 10
East of England -15 19 £475 -7.32% 6
East Midlands -42 5 £447 +24.17% 1
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
1 115 (11.64%) Confluence
2 30 (3.04%) 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%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.40%) Camunda
8 4 (0.40%) CMS
8 4 (0.40%) OpenStack
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 17 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.52%) 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
Cloud Services
1 504 (51.01%) AWS
2 417 (42.21%) GitHub
3 326 (33.00%) Azure
4 283 (28.64%) GitHub Actions
5 209 (21.15%) GCP
6 146 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
7 131 (13.26%) Amazon S3
8 122 (12.35%) Serverless
9 105 (10.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.63%) Amazon EC2
9 105 (10.63%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (10.32%) OpenShift
11 93 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 64 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
14 55 (5.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 45 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
15 45 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 36 (3.64%) Datadog
17 31 (3.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 50 (5.06%) DNS
2 46 (4.66%) Firewall
3 15 (1.52%) Network Security
3 15 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.42%) VPN
5 12 (1.21%) SSL
6 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 9 (0.91%) SAN
7 8 (0.81%) HTTP
8 7 (0.71%) VLAN
9 6 (0.61%) WAN
10 5 (0.51%) NAS
11 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.30%) BGP
12 3 (0.30%) Internet
12 3 (0.30%) Multicast
12 3 (0.30%) VSAN
13 2 (0.20%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.68%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (7.09%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (5.67%) Relational Database
4 55 (5.57%) MongoDB
5 54 (5.47%) SQL Server
6 44 (4.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 43 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 42 (4.25%) DynamoDB
9 26 (2.63%) Big Data
10 25 (2.53%) Redis
11 21 (2.13%) Pentaho
12 19 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (1.72%) Data Lake
14 16 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
14 16 (1.62%) Metadata
15 14 (1.42%) MySQL
16 11 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
16 11 (1.11%) BigQuery
17 9 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 343 (34.72%) GitLab
2 309 (31.28%) Git
3 198 (20.04%) JIRA
4 115 (11.64%) JUnit
5 98 (9.92%) Selenium
6 71 (7.19%) Maven
7 69 (6.98%) Cucumber
8 64 (6.48%) SonarQube
9 60 (6.07%) Mockito
10 49 (4.96%) REST Assured
11 47 (4.76%) Gradle
12 46 (4.66%) Bitbucket
13 43 (4.35%) Postman
14 37 (3.74%) JMeter
15 35 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
16 34 (3.44%) Gatling
17 31 (3.14%) WebDriver
18 24 (2.43%) Liquibase
19 21 (2.13%) Artifactory
20 16 (1.62%) Zephyr
General
1 263 (26.62%) Social Skills
2 153 (15.49%) Finance
3 137 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 106 (10.73%) Banking
5 84 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 26 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 20 (2.02%) Law
10 19 (1.92%) Retail
11 11 (1.11%) Legal
11 11 (1.11%) Publishing
12 10 (1.01%) Marketing
13 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.61%) Front Office
14 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.51%) Military
16 4 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 212 (21.46%) Developer
2 180 (18.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 146 (14.78%) Senior
4 113 (11.44%) Java Developer
5 67 (6.78%) Lead
6 63 (6.38%) Architect
7 61 (6.17%) Software Engineer
8 58 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
9 46 (4.66%) GCP Engineer
10 44 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
10 44 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
11 43 (4.35%) Senior Developer
12 42 (4.25%) Data Engineer
13 39 (3.95%) Tester
14 38 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
14 38 (3.85%) Test Engineer
15 35 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.14%) Automation Engineer
17 30 (3.04%) Senior Java Developer
18 29 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (17.81%) Spring
2 155 (15.69%) Kafka
3 152 (15.38%) Spring Boot
4 150 (15.18%) REST
5 103 (10.43%) RESTful
6 90 (9.11%) React
7 84 (8.50%) Node.js
8 60 (6.07%) Playwright
9 52 (5.26%) SOAP
10 49 (4.96%) Web Services
11 48 (4.86%) AngularJS
12 45 (4.55%) Hibernate
13 44 (4.45%) Elastic Stack
13 44 (4.45%) JPA
14 43 (4.35%) HTML
15 34 (3.44%) Spring Cloud
16 31 (3.14%) CSS
16 31 (3.14%) OpenTelemetry
16 31 (3.14%) Swagger
17 30 (3.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 189 (19.13%) Cloud Native
2 90 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (6.28%) Product Ownership
4 28 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 23 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.13%) Replication
9 19 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 19 (1.92%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.42%) Mobile App
12 13 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.11%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.11%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
15 8 (0.81%) Hedge funds
15 8 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 187 (18.93%) Linux
2 49 (4.96%) Unix
3 44 (4.45%) Windows
4 40 (4.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.11%) Android
6 9 (0.91%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.81%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.61%) CentOS
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
9 3 (0.30%) Ubuntu
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
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (84.11%) CI/CD
2 668 (67.61%) DevOps
3 460 (46.56%) Agile
4 335 (33.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 305 (30.87%) Test Automation
6 271 (27.43%) Containerisation
7 254 (25.71%) Microservices
8 188 (19.03%) Observability
9 182 (18.42%) Scrum
10 167 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 161 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
12 148 (14.98%) Software Engineering
13 130 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
14 110 (11.13%) TDD
15 93 (9.41%) Migration
16 88 (8.91%) Event-Driven
17 87 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
18 85 (8.60%) Deployment Automation
19 84 (8.50%) Validation
20 78 (7.89%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 410 (41.50%) Python
2 340 (34.41%) Java
3 237 (23.99%) SQL
4 191 (19.33%) Bash
5 108 (10.93%) PowerShell
6 84 (8.50%) JavaScript
7 67 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 47 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 45 (4.55%) Go
10 44 (4.45%) C#
10 44 (4.45%) Groovy
11 31 (3.14%) PL/SQL
12 29 (2.94%) Scala
13 18 (1.82%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.52%) Bicep
15 14 (1.42%) Perl
16 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.91%) Ruby
17 8 (0.81%) Apex Code
17 8 (0.81%) Swift
Qualifications
1 373 (37.75%) Security Cleared
2 320 (32.39%) SC Cleared
3 47 (4.76%) Degree
4 44 (4.45%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 29 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.83%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.72%) 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%) Master's Degree
18 4 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
18 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (11.44%) QA
2 42 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.34%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.42%) NIST
6 12 (1.21%) WCAG
7 11 (1.11%) NCSC
8 8 (0.81%) SLA
9 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.40%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.30%) GDPR
11 3 (0.30%) SEPA
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 442 (44.74%) Docker
2 27 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.13%) vSphere
4 19 (1.92%) VMware NSX
5 18 (1.82%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.52%) Postfix
7 14 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.71%) NFS
9 6 (0.61%) HDFS
10 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.40%) SRDF
11 4 (0.40%) Varnish
12 3 (0.30%) GridGain
12 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
13 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.20%) Squid
13 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 464 (46.96%) Kubernetes
2 387 (39.17%) Terraform
3 233 (23.58%) Ansible
4 213 (21.56%) Grafana
5 182 (18.42%) Prometheus
6 46 (4.66%) Argo
7 36 (3.64%) Puppet
8 28 (2.83%) Progress Chef
9 24 (2.43%) Istio
10 21 (2.13%) vCenter Server
11 15 (1.52%) Control-M
12 14 (1.42%) HAProxy
13 12 (1.21%) Kibana
14 10 (1.01%) Packer
15 9 (0.91%) NetBackup
15 9 (0.91%) Podman
16 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.61%) Consul
17 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
18 5 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 89 (9.01%) Splunk
2 82 (8.30%) Google
3 81 (8.20%) Oracle
4 78 (7.89%) Microsoft
5 56 (5.67%) Red Hat
6 45 (4.55%) Dynatrace
7 39 (3.95%) VMware
8 28 (2.83%) Salesforce
9 22 (2.23%) Talend
10 21 (2.13%) Databricks
10 21 (2.13%) IBM
10 21 (2.13%) ServiceNow
11 20 (2.02%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.82%) Atlassian
12 18 (1.82%) CyberArk
12 18 (1.82%) Denodo
12 18 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
13 17 (1.72%) Sonatype
14 13 (1.32%) Okta
15 11 (1.11%) ForgeRock