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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 76 90
Rank change year-on-year -41 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 982 883 834
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.19% 3.21% 2.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.83% 22.35% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 620 621
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £418 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £675
90th Percentile £649 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 36
10th Percentile £61.00 £54.75 £60.94
25th Percentile £62.00 £56.25 £69.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
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% -3.45%

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 5,215 3,950 4,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.63% 14.36% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,731 2,859
10th Percentile £350 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £590 £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 236 92 205
10th Percentile £28.53 £40.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £55.94 £51.05 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 29 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 29 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 -33 466 £532 -1.02% 123
North of England -29 257 £450 -2.76% 74
Yorkshire -7 190 £488 -0.79% 21
Midlands -19 129 £477 +6.00% 24
West Midlands 0 121 £481 +1.26% 19
South East -93 62 £460 -8.00% 48
South West -25 50 £544 -5.43% 27
North West -86 47 £425 +5.99% 38
North East -34 25 £450 -3.23% 16
East of England -11 18 £463 -7.50% 15
East Midlands -40 6 £447 +24.86% 5
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
1 116 (11.81%) Confluence
2 32 (3.26%) SAS
3 24 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 10 (1.02%) Apache
6 10 (1.02%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.41%) Camunda
8 4 (0.41%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) IIS
9 3 (0.31%) 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 12 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.92%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.81%) Magento
2 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.20%) Shopify
4 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 503 (51.22%) AWS
2 417 (42.46%) GitHub
3 339 (34.52%) Azure
4 291 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
5 221 (22.51%) GCP
6 158 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
7 124 (12.63%) Amazon S3
8 114 (11.61%) Serverless
9 103 (10.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 100 (10.18%) AWS Lambda
11 98 (9.98%) Amazon EC2
12 95 (9.67%) Amazon EKS
13 90 (9.16%) OpenShift
14 74 (7.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 60 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (4.89%) Amazon SQS
18 44 (4.48%) Datadog
18 44 (4.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 31 (3.16%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (5.30%) DNS
2 49 (4.99%) Firewall
3 18 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.73%) VPN
5 15 (1.53%) Network Security
5 15 (1.53%) SSL
6 9 (0.92%) BIG-IP
6 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 9 (0.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 8 (0.81%) HTTP
7 8 (0.81%) VLAN
8 7 (0.71%) SAN
8 7 (0.71%) WAN
9 4 (0.41%) BGP
9 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.31%) DHCP
10 3 (0.31%) Internet
10 3 (0.31%) Multicast
10 3 (0.31%) NAS
10 3 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (5.70%) MongoDB
4 55 (5.60%) SQL Server
5 53 (5.40%) Relational Database
6 47 (4.79%) NoSQL
7 44 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 43 (4.38%) DynamoDB
9 25 (2.55%) Big Data
9 25 (2.55%) Redis
10 23 (2.34%) Pentaho
11 19 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (1.63%) Metadata
14 15 (1.53%) MySQL
15 14 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
16 12 (1.22%) BigQuery
17 10 (1.02%) Power BI
17 10 (1.02%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 342 (34.83%) GitLab
2 321 (32.69%) Git
3 196 (19.96%) JIRA
4 113 (11.51%) JUnit
5 91 (9.27%) Selenium
6 75 (7.64%) Maven
7 68 (6.92%) SonarQube
8 64 (6.52%) Cucumber
9 58 (5.91%) Mockito
10 52 (5.30%) Bitbucket
11 47 (4.79%) Gradle
12 42 (4.28%) REST Assured
13 40 (4.07%) Postman
14 39 (3.97%) JMeter
15 35 (3.56%) Sonatype Nexus
16 32 (3.26%) Gatling
17 29 (2.95%) WebDriver
18 23 (2.34%) Artifactory
18 23 (2.34%) Liquibase
19 18 (1.83%) Zephyr
General
1 247 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 143 (14.56%) Finance
3 138 (14.05%) Public Sector
4 103 (10.49%) Banking
5 84 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.04%) Law
8 17 (1.73%) Retail
9 14 (1.43%) Publishing
10 13 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.12%) Legal
11 11 (1.12%) Marketing
12 10 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.61%) Front Office
14 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.61%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 223 (22.71%) Developer
2 178 (18.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 149 (15.17%) Senior
4 117 (11.91%) Java Developer
5 66 (6.72%) Lead
6 62 (6.31%) Software Engineer
7 56 (5.70%) Architect
8 54 (5.50%) AWS Engineer
9 48 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
9 48 (4.89%) Senior Developer
10 44 (4.48%) Data Engineer
11 42 (4.28%) GCP Engineer
12 41 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
13 38 (3.87%) Tester
14 35 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
15 34 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
15 34 (3.46%) Senior Java Developer
15 34 (3.46%) Test Engineer
16 32 (3.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (17.82%) Spring
2 155 (15.78%) Kafka
3 148 (15.07%) REST
3 148 (15.07%) Spring Boot
4 104 (10.59%) RESTful
5 90 (9.16%) React
6 86 (8.76%) Node.js
7 57 (5.80%) Playwright
8 55 (5.60%) SOAP
9 49 (4.99%) AngularJS
9 49 (4.99%) Web Services
10 47 (4.79%) Hibernate
11 45 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
11 45 (4.58%) HTML
12 43 (4.38%) JPA
13 32 (3.26%) CSS
13 32 (3.26%) Spring Cloud
13 32 (3.26%) Swagger
14 31 (3.16%) YAML
15 29 (2.95%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 176 (17.92%) Cloud Native
2 89 (9.06%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.24%) Data Centre
8 21 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (2.04%) Replication
10 19 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
11 16 (1.63%) Data Structures
12 14 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.43%) Public Cloud
13 13 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.32%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.22%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.12%) AI Agents
15 11 (1.12%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.12%) Private Cloud
16 8 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 189 (19.25%) Linux
2 52 (5.30%) Unix
3 43 (4.38%) Windows
4 41 (4.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.12%) Android
6 10 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (0.61%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.51%) CentOS
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.31%) 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
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (83.40%) CI/CD
2 660 (67.21%) DevOps
3 480 (48.88%) Agile
4 328 (33.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 307 (31.26%) Test Automation
6 270 (27.49%) Containerisation
7 259 (26.37%) Microservices
8 192 (19.55%) Scrum
9 191 (19.45%) Observability
10 180 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 158 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
12 150 (15.27%) Software Engineering
13 138 (14.05%) Platform Engineering
14 118 (12.02%) TDD
15 94 (9.57%) Deployment Automation
16 89 (9.06%) Event-Driven
17 85 (8.66%) AI
18 84 (8.55%) Validation
19 82 (8.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 81 (8.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 411 (41.85%) Python
2 351 (35.74%) Java
3 240 (24.44%) SQL
4 198 (20.16%) Bash
5 113 (11.51%) PowerShell
6 87 (8.86%) JavaScript
7 71 (7.23%) TypeScript
8 49 (4.99%) Go
9 48 (4.89%) Groovy
10 47 (4.79%) C#
11 44 (4.48%) Shell Script
12 36 (3.67%) PL/SQL
13 29 (2.95%) Scala
14 18 (1.83%) Kotlin
14 18 (1.83%) Perl
15 17 (1.73%) Bicep
16 10 (1.02%) Apex Code
16 10 (1.02%) C++
17 9 (0.92%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 375 (38.19%) Security Cleared
2 315 (32.08%) SC Cleared
3 46 (4.68%) Degree
4 44 (4.48%) AWS Certification
5 42 (4.28%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.22%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.81%) RHCE
15 7 (0.71%) CISSP
15 7 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
16 6 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.61%) OCP
17 4 (0.41%) CCNP
17 4 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.91%) QA
2 45 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.32%) WCAG
5 7 (0.71%) SLA
6 6 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.51%) NIST
7 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.51%) SEPA
8 4 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.41%) PSD2
9 3 (0.31%) GDPR
10 1 (0.10%) NCSC
10 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.10%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 452 (46.03%) Docker
2 30 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.93%) vSphere
4 18 (1.83%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.63%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (1.53%) Postfix
7 7 (0.71%) NFS
8 6 (0.61%) HDFS
9 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.41%) SRDF
9 4 (0.41%) Varnish
9 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) GridGain
10 3 (0.31%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 470 (47.86%) Kubernetes
2 384 (39.10%) Terraform
3 239 (24.34%) Ansible
4 212 (21.59%) Grafana
5 176 (17.92%) Prometheus
6 47 (4.79%) Argo
7 40 (4.07%) Puppet
8 29 (2.95%) Progress Chef
9 20 (2.04%) Istio
10 19 (1.93%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.73%) Control-M
12 14 (1.43%) HAProxy
13 11 (1.12%) Kibana
14 10 (1.02%) Packer
14 10 (1.02%) Podman
15 9 (0.92%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.71%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.61%) Consul
18 5 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
18 5 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 88 (8.96%) Google
2 83 (8.45%) Oracle
3 81 (8.25%) Microsoft
4 76 (7.74%) Splunk
5 53 (5.40%) Dynatrace
6 52 (5.30%) Red Hat
7 41 (4.18%) VMware
8 31 (3.16%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.44%) Talend
10 22 (2.24%) Databricks
10 22 (2.24%) ServiceNow
11 21 (2.14%) IBM
12 20 (2.04%) Denodo
13 18 (1.83%) Atlassian
13 18 (1.83%) Jaspersoft
13 18 (1.83%) Pure Storage
14 13 (1.32%) Okta
15 12 (1.22%) F5
15 12 (1.22%) Sonatype
16 11 (1.12%) ForgeRock