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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 76 88
Rank change year-on-year -53 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 984 922 846
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 3.32% 2.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.82% 22.54% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 647 625
10th Percentile £358 £343 £390
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £690 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 34
10th Percentile £64.20 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -6.67%
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% -3.78%

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 5,228 4,090 4,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 14.74% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,834 2,825
10th Percentile £357 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £628
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 97 181
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.35 £33.07
25th Percentile £58.44 £51.06 £54.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +2.46%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -28 504 £525 -0.94% 98
North of England -41 237 £450 -4.05% 54
Yorkshire -16 166 £475 -5.00% 18
Midlands -41 100 £469 -1.26% 23
West Midlands -26 93 £482 +1.37% 15
South East -83 69 £460 -8.05% 33
South West -19 57 £550 -4.35% 42
North West -89 50 £425 +5.72% 26
North East -28 25 £450 -6.98% 11
East of England -17 17 £438 -12.50% 8
East Midlands -34 6 £358 - 8
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 98 (9.96%) Confluence
2 24 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.24%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.83%) SAS
5 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 9 (0.91%) Apache
7 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.41%) Camunda
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 4 (0.41%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) IIS
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
13 1 (0.10%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 525 (53.35%) AWS
2 410 (41.67%) GitHub
3 385 (39.13%) Azure
4 313 (31.81%) GitHub Actions
5 228 (23.17%) GCP
6 191 (19.41%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (12.40%) Serverless
8 117 (11.89%) Amazon S3
9 106 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
10 103 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 91 (9.25%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (9.15%) Amazon EC2
13 81 (8.23%) OpenShift
14 71 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
15 62 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
16 50 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 45 (4.57%) Datadog
18 44 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
19 41 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 29 (2.95%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.39%) Firewall
2 50 (5.08%) DNS
3 26 (2.64%) TCP/IP
4 22 (2.24%) Network Security
5 17 (1.73%) SSL
6 16 (1.63%) VPN
7 12 (1.22%) HTTP
7 12 (1.22%) VLAN
8 9 (0.91%) BIG-IP
8 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 9 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 8 (0.81%) WAN
10 7 (0.71%) SAN
11 5 (0.51%) DHCP
12 4 (0.41%) 4G
12 4 (0.41%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.41%) SSH
13 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.84%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (6.50%) MongoDB
3 59 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 58 (5.89%) SQL Server
5 57 (5.79%) Relational Database
6 38 (3.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 36 (3.66%) DynamoDB
7 36 (3.66%) Redis
8 26 (2.64%) Big Data
9 22 (2.24%) MySQL
10 19 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (1.83%) Pentaho
12 17 (1.73%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.73%) Metadata
13 14 (1.42%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 363 (36.89%) GitLab
2 327 (33.23%) Git
3 173 (17.58%) JIRA
4 92 (9.35%) JUnit
5 86 (8.74%) Selenium
6 74 (7.52%) Maven
7 65 (6.61%) SonarQube
8 57 (5.79%) Gradle
9 56 (5.69%) Cucumber
10 55 (5.59%) Bitbucket
11 52 (5.28%) Mockito
12 39 (3.96%) JMeter
12 39 (3.96%) Postman
12 39 (3.96%) REST Assured
13 36 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
14 34 (3.46%) Gatling
15 29 (2.95%) WebDriver
16 22 (2.24%) Artifactory
17 20 (2.03%) Liquibase
18 16 (1.63%) Zephyr
General
1 235 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 150 (15.24%) Finance
3 128 (13.01%) Public Sector
4 105 (10.67%) Banking
5 95 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.03%) Law
9 18 (1.83%) Retail
10 16 (1.63%) Publishing
11 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.32%) Marketing
13 12 (1.22%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.02%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.02%) Legal
15 9 (0.91%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.71%) Front Office
16 7 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 241 (24.49%) Developer
2 180 (18.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 158 (16.06%) Senior
4 114 (11.59%) Java Developer
5 70 (7.11%) Lead
6 63 (6.40%) Software Engineer
7 55 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
8 47 (4.78%) Architect
9 45 (4.57%) Senior Developer
10 44 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
11 42 (4.27%) Test Engineer
12 35 (3.56%) Automation Engineer
12 35 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 35 (3.56%) Data Engineer
12 35 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
13 33 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
13 33 (3.35%) GCP Engineer
13 33 (3.35%) Tester
14 32 (3.25%) Software Developer
15 31 (3.15%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (39.33%) Terraform
2 184 (18.70%) Kafka
3 172 (17.48%) Spring
4 157 (15.96%) REST
5 148 (15.04%) Spring Boot
6 114 (11.59%) RESTful
7 95 (9.65%) React
8 84 (8.54%) Node.js
9 60 (6.10%) HTML
9 60 (6.10%) Playwright
10 51 (5.18%) Elastic Stack
11 47 (4.78%) AngularJS
12 46 (4.67%) SOAP
13 41 (4.17%) CSS
14 40 (4.07%) Hibernate
15 38 (3.86%) Web Services
16 37 (3.76%) JPA
16 37 (3.76%) JSON
17 33 (3.35%) YAML
18 32 (3.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 166 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 75 (7.62%) Product Ownership
3 72 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (2.34%) Replication
9 20 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
11 17 (1.73%) AI Agents
12 16 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 15 (1.52%) Data Structures
14 14 (1.42%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.42%) Private Cloud
15 12 (1.22%) Public Cloud
16 11 (1.12%) Virtual Team
17 10 (1.02%) Algorithms
18 9 (0.91%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 198 (20.12%) Linux
2 61 (6.20%) Unix
3 44 (4.47%) Windows
4 40 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.02%) Android
6 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
8 7 (0.71%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.61%) CentOS
10 3 (0.30%) AIX
10 3 (0.30%) VMS
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
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (83.43%) CI/CD
2 661 (67.17%) DevOps
3 467 (47.46%) Agile
4 350 (35.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 312 (31.71%) Test Automation
6 272 (27.64%) Containerisation
7 261 (26.52%) Microservices
8 211 (21.44%) Observability
9 176 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 172 (17.48%) Scrum
11 164 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 148 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
13 138 (14.02%) Platform Engineering
14 106 (10.77%) Deployment Automation
15 103 (10.47%) TDD
16 101 (10.26%) Event-Driven
17 98 (9.96%) DevSecOps
18 95 (9.65%) AI
19 94 (9.55%) Validation
20 87 (8.84%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 417 (42.38%) Python
2 371 (37.70%) Java
3 251 (25.51%) SQL
4 200 (20.33%) Bash
5 129 (13.11%) PowerShell
6 105 (10.67%) JavaScript
7 78 (7.93%) TypeScript
8 56 (5.69%) C#
9 53 (5.39%) Groovy
10 49 (4.98%) Shell Script
11 48 (4.88%) Go
12 38 (3.86%) PL/SQL
13 27 (2.74%) Scala
14 25 (2.54%) Perl
15 21 (2.13%) Bicep
16 18 (1.83%) Kotlin
17 12 (1.22%) C++
18 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
19 9 (0.91%) ActionScript
20 8 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 392 (39.84%) Security Cleared
2 328 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 50 (5.08%) Degree
3 50 (5.08%) DV Cleared
4 47 (4.78%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 27 (2.74%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 16 (1.63%) ISTQB
10 14 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.42%) CISSP
11 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 9 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.61%) RHCE
14 5 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (13.11%) QA
2 41 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.32%) WCAG
5 11 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.12%) NIST
6 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
6 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.81%) GDPR
8 7 (0.71%) SLA
9 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.51%) SEPA
10 4 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.41%) NCSC
10 4 (0.41%) PSD2
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 474 (48.17%) Docker
2 25 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.02%) Postfix
6 9 (0.91%) vSphere
7 8 (0.81%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.71%) NFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) HDFS
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) Varnish
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 481 (48.88%) Kubernetes
2 229 (23.27%) Ansible
3 209 (21.24%) Grafana
4 180 (18.29%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.86%) Argo
6 37 (3.76%) Puppet
7 36 (3.66%) Progress Chef
8 18 (1.83%) Control-M
8 18 (1.83%) Kibana
9 16 (1.63%) Istio
10 14 (1.42%) HAProxy
11 11 (1.12%) Packer
12 9 (0.91%) Kustomize
12 9 (0.91%) Podman
12 9 (0.91%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.71%) Consul
13 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
14 6 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.51%) CASB
15 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 92 (9.35%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.04%) Oracle
3 86 (8.74%) Google
4 84 (8.54%) Splunk
5 60 (6.10%) Dynatrace
6 44 (4.47%) Red Hat
7 32 (3.25%) Salesforce
7 32 (3.25%) VMware
8 27 (2.74%) Databricks
8 27 (2.74%) IBM
9 25 (2.54%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.93%) Talend
11 15 (1.52%) Denodo
12 14 (1.42%) New Relic
13 13 (1.32%) Sonatype
14 12 (1.22%) Okta
15 11 (1.12%) F5
15 11 (1.12%) ForgeRock
16 10 (1.02%) CyberArk
17 9 (0.91%) Jaspersoft