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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 82 106
Rank change year-on-year -12 +24 -52
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,005 729 828
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.73% 2.95% 2.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.98% 21.81% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 508 616
10th Percentile £363 £361 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £669
90th Percentile £663 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £539
% change year-on-year -7.02% -0.19% -10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile - £58.13 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £71.25 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +26.67% -19.64%
75th Percentile £60.25 £80.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £61.90 £89.75 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £51.07
% change year-on-year -25.61% +39.53% -27.05%

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 5,029 3,342 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 13.51% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,394 2,202 2,971
10th Percentile £338 £337 £358
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £689 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 62 183
10th Percentile £35.80 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.39
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.13 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -34 422 £525 -12.50% 84
North of England +11 255 £487 -2.60% 80
Yorkshire +14 195 £500 -9.09% 31
Midlands +19 155 £513 +8.00% 24
West Midlands +25 141 £515 +7.97% 18
South East -6 96 £462 -7.70% 57
South West -4 54 £525 -8.70% 40
North West -53 45 £430 +6.97% 31
East of England -22 23 £475 +5.56% 24
North East +2 20 £513 +1.49% 18
East Midlands -33 13 £401 -11.18% 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
1 127 (12.64%) Confluence
2 65 (6.47%) SAS
3 21 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.80%) Apache
7 7 (0.70%) nginx
8 5 (0.50%) JBoss
8 5 (0.50%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.30%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.100%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.100%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 1 (0.100%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.100%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 20 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.60%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.100%) 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%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.100%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 502 (49.95%) AWS
2 391 (38.91%) GitHub
3 277 (27.56%) Azure
4 235 (23.38%) GitHub Actions
5 226 (22.49%) GCP
6 143 (14.23%) OpenShift
7 128 (12.74%) Serverless
8 120 (11.94%) Amazon S3
9 115 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
10 102 (10.15%) Amazon EC2
11 95 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (8.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 80 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 71 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 66 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
17 61 (6.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 49 (4.88%) Datadog
19 34 (3.38%) Azure AKS
20 32 (3.18%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.97%) DNS
2 53 (5.27%) Firewall
3 27 (2.69%) VPN
4 18 (1.79%) Network Security
5 14 (1.39%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.09%) HTTP
7 9 (0.90%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.70%) SSL
8 7 (0.70%) WAN
9 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.60%) Internet
9 6 (0.60%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.50%) SAN
11 3 (0.30%) BGP
12 2 (0.20%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.20%) LAN
12 2 (0.20%) NAS
12 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
13 1 (0.100%) Multicast
13 1 (0.100%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (8.86%) NoSQL
3 88 (8.76%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (5.57%) MongoDB
5 45 (4.48%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.68%) MySQL
6 37 (3.68%) Relational Database
7 34 (3.38%) Pentaho
8 32 (3.18%) SQL Server
9 27 (2.69%) Redis
10 23 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 21 (2.09%) Big Data
12 18 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.79%) Oracle Database
13 15 (1.49%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.29%) Power BI
15 12 (1.19%) Tableau
16 11 (1.09%) Hadoop
16 11 (1.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 401 (39.90%) GitLab
2 313 (31.14%) Git
3 229 (22.79%) JIRA
4 123 (12.24%) JUnit
5 114 (11.34%) Selenium
6 98 (9.75%) Cucumber
7 70 (6.97%) Sonatype Nexus
8 63 (6.27%) Postman
9 54 (5.37%) Bitbucket
10 53 (5.27%) Maven
11 46 (4.58%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.18%) REST Assured
13 36 (3.58%) JMeter
14 35 (3.48%) Mockito
15 34 (3.38%) Gradle
16 26 (2.59%) Artifactory
16 26 (2.59%) CircleCI
17 22 (2.19%) Gatling
17 22 (2.19%) Liquibase
18 20 (1.99%) Cypress.io
General
1 310 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 208 (20.70%) Finance
3 127 (12.64%) Banking
4 126 (12.54%) Public Sector
5 77 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
8 22 (2.19%) Financial Institution
9 12 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.09%) Military
11 10 (1.00%) Retail
12 8 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.70%) Front Office
13 7 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.70%) Law
13 7 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.60%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 180 (17.91%) Developer
2 147 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 141 (14.03%) Senior
4 86 (8.56%) Architect
5 82 (8.16%) Lead
6 81 (8.06%) Java Developer
7 66 (6.57%) GCP Engineer
8 64 (6.37%) Data Engineer
9 57 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
10 52 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 51 (5.07%) Software Engineer
12 42 (4.18%) Test Engineer
13 38 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (3.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 34 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
15 34 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 33 (3.28%) Automation Engineer
16 33 (3.28%) Tester
17 32 (3.18%) AWS DevOps
18 31 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (17.11%) REST
2 152 (15.12%) Spring
3 148 (14.73%) Kafka
4 115 (11.44%) Spring Boot
5 108 (10.75%) Node.js
6 79 (7.86%) Elastic Stack
7 77 (7.66%) RESTful
8 69 (6.87%) Playwright
9 55 (5.47%) React
10 48 (4.78%) AngularJS
11 46 (4.58%) OpenTelemetry
12 43 (4.28%) pytest
13 42 (4.18%) OpenID
14 41 (4.08%) GraphQL
15 40 (3.98%) JSON
16 39 (3.88%) LDAP
17 38 (3.78%) YAML
18 37 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
19 35 (3.48%) SOAP
20 34 (3.38%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 186 (18.51%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (4.28%) Public Cloud
4 36 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 31 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.59%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.29%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (1.00%) Replication
11 9 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.90%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.90%) Derivative
11 9 (0.90%) Equities
11 9 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (0.90%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.90%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 217 (21.59%) Linux
2 54 (5.37%) Windows
3 34 (3.38%) Unix
4 28 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (1.69%) VMS
6 13 (1.29%) Android
7 10 (1.00%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.00%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.90%) CentOS
9 4 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.100%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.100%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 845 (84.08%) CI/CD
2 671 (66.77%) DevOps
3 404 (40.20%) Agile
4 333 (33.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 305 (30.35%) Containerisation
6 303 (30.15%) Test Automation
7 246 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
8 225 (22.39%) Microservices
9 159 (15.82%) Observability
10 144 (14.33%) Scrum
11 132 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (12.84%) Software Engineering
13 108 (10.75%) Migration
14 106 (10.55%) Mentoring
15 92 (9.15%) Analytics
16 89 (8.86%) Deployment Automation
17 88 (8.76%) Stakeholder Management
18 85 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
18 85 (8.46%) TDD
19 83 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 449 (44.68%) Python
2 296 (29.45%) Java
3 208 (20.70%) SQL
4 164 (16.32%) Bash
5 92 (9.15%) JavaScript
6 81 (8.06%) TypeScript
7 78 (7.76%) PowerShell
8 75 (7.46%) Go
9 51 (5.07%) Shell Script
10 50 (4.98%) C#
11 28 (2.79%) Groovy
12 27 (2.69%) Scala
13 16 (1.59%) C++
14 14 (1.39%) PHP
15 13 (1.29%) Kotlin
16 12 (1.19%) Ruby
17 10 (1.00%) Bicep
17 10 (1.00%) Perl
17 10 (1.00%) PL/SQL
18 9 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 357 (35.52%) Security Cleared
2 290 (28.86%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.47%) Degree
4 47 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 27 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
9 14 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.09%) OCP
12 9 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.80%) RHCE
14 6 (0.60%) OCA
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.15%) QA
2 51 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.99%) NIST
5 17 (1.69%) NCSC
5 17 (1.69%) SLA
6 10 (1.00%) GDPR
7 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.20%) HL7
10 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.20%) MiFID
10 2 (0.20%) PSD2
10 2 (0.20%) SEPA
10 2 (0.20%) WCAG
11 1 (0.100%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 467 (46.47%) Docker
2 28 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.19%) VMware NSX
3 22 (2.19%) vSphere
4 14 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (1.19%) Active Directory
6 7 (0.70%) Postfix
7 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.60%) HDFS
8 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.20%) SRDF
10 1 (0.100%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.100%) KVM
10 1 (0.100%) NFS
10 1 (0.100%) Sendmail
10 1 (0.100%) Varnish
10 1 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 534 (53.13%) Kubernetes
2 397 (39.50%) Terraform
3 283 (28.16%) Ansible
4 205 (20.40%) Grafana
5 161 (16.02%) Prometheus
6 48 (4.78%) Argo
7 41 (4.08%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.28%) Istio
9 28 (2.79%) Puppet
10 22 (2.19%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.69%) Podman
12 13 (1.29%) Kibana
13 10 (1.00%) Packer
14 8 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.80%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.70%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.70%) Rancher
15 7 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
17 4 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 115 (11.44%) Splunk
2 84 (8.36%) Google
3 70 (6.97%) Oracle
4 62 (6.17%) Microsoft
5 56 (5.57%) Red Hat
6 52 (5.17%) VMware
7 41 (4.08%) ServiceNow
8 37 (3.68%) Databricks
9 34 (3.38%) Denodo
9 34 (3.38%) Talend
10 32 (3.18%) Atlassian
11 24 (2.39%) Dynatrace
11 24 (2.39%) Sonatype
12 22 (2.19%) Pure Storage
13 17 (1.69%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.00%) AppDynamics
14 10 (1.00%) Cisco
14 10 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
15 9 (0.90%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.90%) Veritas