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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 87 104
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -52
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,003 710 842
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.77% 2.87% 2.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.20% 21.26% 19.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 487 619
10th Percentile £363 £359 £400
25th Percentile £425 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% +3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £669
90th Percentile £663 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -10.42%
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 4,966 3,340 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.72% 13.49% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,367 2,174 3,010
10th Percentile £338 £334 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% -3.34% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 64 191
10th Percentile £34.13 £26.10 £37.50
25th Percentile £54.06 £51.95 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -34 415 £530 -14.17% 95
North of England +19 258 £492 -5.75% 69
Yorkshire +20 196 £500 -14.16% 27
Midlands +19 159 £515 +8.42% 27
West Midlands +20 144 £518 +8.49% 23
South East -5 94 £462 -7.70% 77
South West -3 54 £525 -8.70% 42
North West -41 47 £446 +10.26% 27
East of England -26 21 £477 +5.89% 32
North East -1 20 £500 -0.99% 15
East Midlands -33 14 £400 -9.91% 4
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
1 126 (12.56%) Confluence
2 70 (6.98%) SAS
3 20 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.90%) Apache
7 7 (0.70%) JBoss
7 7 (0.70%) nginx
8 6 (0.60%) IIS
9 5 (0.50%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.20%) iPlanet
12 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.100%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.100%) Oracle SOA Suite
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
1 500 (49.85%) AWS
2 384 (38.29%) GitHub
3 273 (27.22%) Azure
4 232 (23.13%) GitHub Actions
5 224 (22.33%) GCP
6 147 (14.66%) OpenShift
7 127 (12.66%) Serverless
8 118 (11.76%) Amazon S3
9 114 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
10 101 (10.07%) Amazon EC2
11 92 (9.17%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
13 87 (8.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 81 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 71 (7.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 64 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
17 59 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 50 (4.99%) Datadog
19 36 (3.59%) Azure AKS
20 31 (3.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 57 (5.68%) DNS
2 50 (4.99%) Firewall
3 26 (2.59%) VPN
4 17 (1.69%) Network Security
5 13 (1.30%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.10%) Kerberos
7 10 (1.00%) HTTP
8 7 (0.70%) WAN
9 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.60%) Internet
9 6 (0.60%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.60%) SSL
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 (16.45%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (8.87%) NoSQL
3 88 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
4 59 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 43 (4.29%) DynamoDB
6 39 (3.89%) MySQL
6 39 (3.89%) Pentaho
7 34 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 32 (3.19%) SQL Server
9 26 (2.59%) Redis
10 23 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (2.29%) Oracle Database
11 19 (1.89%) Big Data
12 17 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (1.50%) BigQuery
14 13 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
14 13 (1.30%) Power BI
14 13 (1.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 12 (1.20%) Tableau
16 11 (1.10%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 395 (39.38%) GitLab
2 312 (31.11%) Git
3 232 (23.13%) JIRA
4 117 (11.67%) JUnit
5 112 (11.17%) Selenium
6 99 (9.87%) Cucumber
7 75 (7.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 63 (6.28%) Postman
9 55 (5.48%) Bitbucket
10 53 (5.28%) Maven
11 46 (4.59%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.19%) REST Assured
13 37 (3.69%) JMeter
14 30 (2.99%) Gradle
15 29 (2.89%) Mockito
16 28 (2.79%) CircleCI
17 27 (2.69%) Artifactory
18 22 (2.19%) Gatling
19 20 (1.99%) Cypress.io
20 19 (1.89%) Liquibase
General
1 306 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 209 (20.84%) Finance
3 128 (12.76%) Banking
4 125 (12.46%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 22 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.10%) Military
9 11 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.00%) Retail
11 8 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.60%) Front Office
13 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.50%) Law
14 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.40%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 181 (18.05%) Developer
2 152 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 141 (14.06%) Senior
4 83 (8.28%) Architect
4 83 (8.28%) Java Developer
5 82 (8.18%) Lead
6 65 (6.48%) GCP Engineer
7 62 (6.18%) Data Engineer
8 59 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (4.99%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (4.79%) Software Engineer
11 43 (4.29%) Test Engineer
12 38 (3.79%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 35 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
15 34 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
16 32 (3.19%) Automation Engineer
16 32 (3.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (16.85%) REST
2 146 (14.56%) Spring
3 144 (14.36%) Kafka
4 108 (10.77%) Spring Boot
5 106 (10.57%) Node.js
6 83 (8.28%) Elastic Stack
7 76 (7.58%) RESTful
8 70 (6.98%) Playwright
9 52 (5.18%) React
10 46 (4.59%) AngularJS
11 45 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
12 43 (4.29%) OpenID
13 42 (4.19%) pytest
14 41 (4.09%) GraphQL
14 41 (4.09%) LDAP
15 40 (3.99%) JSON
16 37 (3.69%) Hibernate
16 37 (3.69%) YAML
17 35 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
17 35 (3.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 183 (18.25%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.39%) Public Cloud
4 34 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 29 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
9 11 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.10%) Replication
10 10 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.90%) Data Structures
11 9 (0.90%) Derivative
11 9 (0.90%) Management Information System
11 9 (0.90%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.80%) Equities
12 8 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 224 (22.33%) Linux
2 55 (5.48%) Windows
3 36 (3.59%) Unix
4 28 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.60%) VMS
6 12 (1.20%) Android
6 12 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.00%) CentOS
8 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.100%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (84.55%) CI/CD
2 673 (67.10%) DevOps
3 404 (40.28%) Agile
4 337 (33.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 303 (30.21%) Containerisation
6 302 (30.11%) Test Automation
7 248 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
8 221 (22.03%) Microservices
9 162 (16.15%) Observability
10 145 (14.46%) Scrum
11 134 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (12.56%) Software Engineering
13 109 (10.87%) Mentoring
14 104 (10.37%) Migration
15 97 (9.67%) Analytics
16 93 (9.27%) Deployment Automation
17 87 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
18 86 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
19 81 (8.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 78 (7.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 447 (44.57%) Python
2 289 (28.81%) Java
3 206 (20.54%) SQL
4 162 (16.15%) Bash
5 94 (9.37%) JavaScript
6 78 (7.78%) TypeScript
7 77 (7.68%) Go
7 77 (7.68%) PowerShell
8 54 (5.38%) Shell Script
9 51 (5.08%) C#
10 29 (2.89%) Groovy
11 25 (2.49%) Scala
12 17 (1.69%) C++
13 14 (1.40%) PHP
14 12 (1.20%) Ruby
15 11 (1.10%) Kotlin
16 10 (1.00%) Bicep
16 10 (1.00%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.90%) Perl
18 7 (0.70%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 359 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 294 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 66 (6.58%) Degree
4 47 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (4.09%) AWS Certification
6 29 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
9 16 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 14 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 11 (1.10%) OCP
13 9 (0.90%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.80%) RHCE
15 6 (0.60%) OCA
16 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
17 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (9.97%) QA
2 55 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.99%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.99%) NIST
5 18 (1.79%) NCSC
5 18 (1.79%) SLA
6 9 (0.90%) GDPR
7 8 (0.80%) 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 (46.56%) Docker
2 30 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.09%) VMware NSX
3 21 (2.09%) vSphere
4 15 (1.50%) Active Directory
5 14 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
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
9 2 (0.20%) Tivoli Directory Server
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 (53.24%) Kubernetes
2 397 (39.58%) Terraform
3 287 (28.61%) Ansible
4 204 (20.34%) Grafana
5 161 (16.05%) Prometheus
6 49 (4.89%) Progress Chef
7 48 (4.79%) Argo
8 33 (3.29%) Istio
9 30 (2.99%) Puppet
10 21 (2.09%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.69%) Podman
12 13 (1.30%) Kibana
13 11 (1.10%) Packer
14 8 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
14 8 (0.80%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.70%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.70%) Red Hat Satellite
16 6 (0.60%) Rancher
16 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
17 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 117 (11.67%) Splunk
2 82 (8.18%) Google
3 76 (7.58%) Oracle
4 63 (6.28%) Microsoft
5 55 (5.48%) VMware
6 54 (5.38%) Red Hat
7 41 (4.09%) ServiceNow
8 39 (3.89%) Denodo
8 39 (3.89%) Talend
9 35 (3.49%) Databricks
10 33 (3.29%) Atlassian
11 24 (2.39%) Sonatype
12 23 (2.29%) Dynatrace
13 21 (2.09%) Pure Storage
14 17 (1.69%) CyberArk
15 11 (1.10%) AppDynamics
16 10 (1.00%) Cisco
16 10 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
17 9 (0.90%) Okta
17 9 (0.90%) Veritas