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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 79 97
Rank change year-on-year -36 +18 -40
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 912 734 826
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.08% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.26% 22.23% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 510 624
10th Percentile £372 £357 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £581 £630 £675
90th Percentile £664 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 25
10th Percentile £42.50 £49.50 £50.03
25th Percentile £46.25 £54.38 £65.63
Median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -17.86% -5.41%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.13 -
90th Percentile £74.20 £68.75 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £60.36 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.98% -17.86% -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 4,995 3,302 4,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.03% 13.87% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,286 2,244 2,903
10th Percentile £350 £342 £350
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 60 199
10th Percentile £35.50 £27.35 £31.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.88 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.27% -7.50% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -11.35% +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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -47 406 £550 - 76
North of England -6 246 £475 - 64
Yorkshire +6 190 £485 -3.10% 22
Midlands -23 120 £488 +9.60% 15
West Midlands -1 109 £492 +9.36% 8
South East -70 64 £435 -13.00% 27
South West -14 51 £525 -8.70% 27
North West -60 40 £425 +5.99% 29
East of England -29 24 £478 -4.40% 11
North East -6 23 £425 -8.60% 13
East Midlands -51 9 £393 +5.79% 7
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
1 102 (11.18%) Confluence
2 33 (3.62%) SAS
3 24 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (1.10%) Apache
6 8 (0.88%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) nginx
9 3 (0.33%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
10 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) IIS
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) MTS
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Magento
2 2 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.22%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 470 (51.54%) AWS
2 377 (41.34%) GitHub
3 301 (33.00%) Azure
4 250 (27.41%) GitHub Actions
5 210 (23.03%) GCP
6 126 (13.82%) Amazon S3
7 112 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
8 107 (11.73%) Serverless
9 106 (11.62%) OpenShift
10 100 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
11 96 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
12 92 (10.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 84 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
14 75 (8.22%) AWS CloudFormation
15 58 (6.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 57 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 56 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
18 38 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
19 34 (3.73%) Route 53
20 33 (3.62%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.03%) DNS
2 48 (5.26%) Firewall
3 16 (1.75%) Network Security
4 15 (1.64%) VPN
5 14 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.88%) HTTP
7 7 (0.77%) SAN
7 7 (0.77%) SSL
8 4 (0.44%) NAS
8 4 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.33%) BGP
9 3 (0.33%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (0.33%) WAN
10 2 (0.22%) AMQP
10 2 (0.22%) Internet
10 2 (0.22%) LAN
10 2 (0.22%) Multicast
10 2 (0.22%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (15.13%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (5.81%) NoSQL
4 49 (5.37%) MongoDB
5 48 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 47 (5.15%) DynamoDB
7 42 (4.61%) Relational Database
8 39 (4.28%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.18%) Redis
10 25 (2.74%) Big Data
11 21 (2.30%) MySQL
11 21 (2.30%) Pentaho
12 16 (1.75%) BigQuery
13 15 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (1.32%) Metadata
15 10 (1.10%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (0.99%) DocumentDB
17 8 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 341 (37.39%) GitLab
2 275 (30.15%) Git
3 182 (19.96%) JIRA
4 103 (11.29%) JUnit
5 102 (11.18%) Selenium
6 72 (7.89%) Cucumber
7 62 (6.80%) Maven
8 55 (6.03%) Mockito
8 55 (6.03%) Postman
9 52 (5.70%) REST Assured
10 50 (5.48%) SonarQube
11 42 (4.61%) Bitbucket
12 37 (4.06%) Sonatype Nexus
13 35 (3.84%) Gatling
14 32 (3.51%) JMeter
15 31 (3.40%) Gradle
16 23 (2.52%) WebDriver
17 22 (2.41%) Liquibase
18 19 (2.08%) Artifactory
19 15 (1.64%) Serenity BDD
General
1 245 (26.86%) Social Skills
2 147 (16.12%) Finance
3 118 (12.94%) Public Sector
4 102 (11.18%) Banking
5 73 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.64%) Retail
10 13 (1.43%) Law
10 13 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (0.99%) Front Office
11 9 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.77%) Legal
14 6 (0.66%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.66%) Marketing
14 6 (0.66%) Military
15 5 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 179 (19.63%) Developer
2 151 (16.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 124 (13.60%) Senior
4 94 (10.31%) Java Developer
5 80 (8.77%) Architect
6 75 (8.22%) Lead
7 53 (5.81%) GCP Engineer
8 52 (5.70%) Software Engineer
9 48 (5.26%) Test Engineer
10 47 (5.15%) Data Engineer
11 39 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
13 34 (3.73%) Senior Developer
13 34 (3.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 34 (3.73%) Tester
14 33 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
15 28 (3.07%) AWS DevOps
15 28 (3.07%) Site Engineer
16 27 (2.96%) Automation Engineer
16 27 (2.96%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (16.89%) Spring
2 129 (14.14%) Spring Boot
3 127 (13.93%) Kafka
4 120 (13.16%) REST
5 93 (10.20%) RESTful
6 88 (9.65%) Node.js
7 63 (6.91%) Playwright
8 58 (6.36%) React
9 53 (5.81%) AngularJS
10 48 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
10 48 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 45 (4.93%) LDAP
12 40 (4.39%) SOAP
12 40 (4.39%) Spring Cloud
13 38 (4.17%) Web Services
14 36 (3.95%) OpenID
15 34 (3.73%) HTML
16 33 (3.62%) JPA
17 31 (3.40%) YAML
18 29 (3.18%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 181 (19.85%) Cloud Native
2 77 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.29%) Onboarding
5 27 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 22 (2.41%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.64%) Replication
9 13 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
10 12 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 7 (0.77%) Hedge funds
15 6 (0.66%) AI Agents
15 6 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
16 5 (0.55%) Derivative
16 5 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 175 (19.19%) Linux
2 44 (4.82%) Unix
3 40 (4.39%) Windows
4 38 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.64%) VMS
6 12 (1.32%) CentOS
7 11 (1.21%) Android
8 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.66%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.55%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.33%) AIX
12 2 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.22%) zOS
13 1 (0.11%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 783 (85.86%) CI/CD
2 615 (67.43%) DevOps
3 377 (41.34%) Agile
4 313 (34.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 288 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 273 (29.93%) Containerisation
7 218 (23.90%) Microservices
8 173 (18.97%) Observability
9 155 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
10 154 (16.89%) Scrum
11 141 (15.46%) Software Engineering
12 138 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
13 103 (11.29%) Migration
14 102 (11.18%) Platform Engineering
15 88 (9.65%) TDD
16 80 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 79 (8.66%) Event-Driven
18 77 (8.44%) Stakeholder Management
19 76 (8.33%) Validation
20 75 (8.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 382 (41.89%) Python
2 310 (33.99%) Java
3 212 (23.25%) SQL
4 160 (17.54%) Bash
5 82 (8.99%) PowerShell
6 74 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 62 (6.80%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.81%) Shell Script
9 45 (4.93%) Go
10 39 (4.28%) Scala
11 37 (4.06%) C#
11 37 (4.06%) Groovy
12 17 (1.86%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.43%) Bicep
14 11 (1.21%) MATLAB
14 11 (1.21%) Perl
14 11 (1.21%) Ruby
15 8 (0.88%) PHP
15 8 (0.88%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.77%) C++
Qualifications
1 353 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 302 (33.11%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.39%) Degree
4 33 (3.62%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.29%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (2.41%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.21%) RHCE
11 10 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 10 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
13 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.77%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.77%) OCP
15 4 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.44%) PMP
16 3 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (11.07%) QA
2 43 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (2.08%) SLA
5 17 (1.86%) NIST
6 14 (1.54%) NCSC
7 9 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.99%) WCAG
8 8 (0.88%) GDPR
9 6 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.44%) PSD2
11 4 (0.44%) SEPA
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 414 (45.39%) Docker
2 22 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.08%) vSphere
4 18 (1.97%) VMware NSX
5 16 (1.75%) Active Directory
6 15 (1.64%) Postfix
7 11 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.66%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.55%) HDFS
9 5 (0.55%) NFS
10 4 (0.44%) Varnish
11 3 (0.33%) GridGain
11 3 (0.33%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.33%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.33%) SRDF
12 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.11%) KVM
13 1 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.11%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 459 (50.33%) Kubernetes
2 372 (40.79%) Terraform
3 227 (24.89%) Ansible
4 204 (22.37%) Grafana
5 169 (18.53%) Prometheus
6 43 (4.71%) Argo
7 31 (3.40%) Puppet
8 28 (3.07%) Istio
8 28 (3.07%) Progress Chef
9 19 (2.08%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.75%) Kibana
11 15 (1.64%) Podman
12 14 (1.54%) HAProxy
13 11 (1.21%) Check_MK
13 11 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.88%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.66%) Consul
16 5 (0.55%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.55%) Packer
16 5 (0.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 90 (9.87%) Splunk
2 78 (8.55%) Google
3 67 (7.35%) Red Hat
4 59 (6.47%) Microsoft
5 53 (5.81%) Oracle
6 39 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 39 (4.28%) VMware
7 31 (3.40%) Databricks
8 28 (3.07%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.41%) Atlassian
9 22 (2.41%) Talend
10 21 (2.30%) Denodo
11 19 (2.08%) Pure Storage
12 18 (1.97%) Jaspersoft
12 18 (1.97%) Sonatype
13 17 (1.86%) Salesforce
14 14 (1.54%) CyberArk
15 13 (1.43%) Okta
16 12 (1.32%) IBM
17 11 (1.21%) ForgeRock