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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 88 100
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -45
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 986 723 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.88% 2.82% 2.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.56% 20.94% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 480 639
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £586 £688 £650
90th Percentile £688 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -6.82% +3.29% -11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 8
10th Percentile £40.00 £58.13 -
25th Percentile £41.56 £65.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.61% +5.95% -3.93%
75th Percentile £62.31 £80.00 £75.75
90th Percentile £86.50 £89.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £71.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.89% +14.00% -10.71%

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 4,795 3,452 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.98% 13.46% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,300 2,163 3,081
10th Percentile £338 £338 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.16% -7.39%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 60 209
10th Percentile £30.11 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £48.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £80.30 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -32 423 £525 -14.98% 84
North of England +17 265 £485 -3.10% 47
Yorkshire +26 194 £500 -16.67% 26
Midlands +24 136 £525 +10.53% 37
West Midlands +26 122 £525 +10.06% 34
South East +11 92 £473 -5.40% 50
North West -31 58 £446 +14.07% 16
South West -2 52 £525 -8.70% 23
East of England -18 20 £477 +5.89% 12
North East -4 16 £575 +6.73% 5
East Midlands -25 13 £397 -3.17% 3
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
1 118 (11.97%) Confluence
2 48 (4.87%) SAS
3 19 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (1.32%) Apache
6 12 (1.22%) JBoss
7 11 (1.12%) IIS
7 11 (1.12%) nginx
8 10 (1.01%) OpenStack
8 10 (1.01%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.71%) iPlanet
9 7 (0.71%) WebSphere Application Server
10 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.30%) Ethereum
12 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
13 2 (0.20%) CMS
13 2 (0.20%) Mule
13 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 19 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.61%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.51%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.10%) Actimize
3 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.10%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 516 (52.33%) AWS
2 357 (36.21%) GitHub
3 259 (26.27%) Azure
4 219 (22.21%) GitHub Actions
5 218 (22.11%) GCP
6 143 (14.50%) OpenShift
7 130 (13.18%) Serverless
8 118 (11.97%) Amazon S3
9 103 (10.45%) Amazon EC2
10 101 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
11 93 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 91 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (9.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 82 (8.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 81 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
16 70 (7.10%) Amazon ECS
17 53 (5.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 48 (4.87%) Datadog
19 31 (3.14%) Azure AKS
19 31 (3.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (7.00%) DNS
2 63 (6.39%) Firewall
3 32 (3.25%) VPN
4 25 (2.54%) Network Security
5 23 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.72%) HTTP
6 17 (1.72%) SSL
7 16 (1.62%) Kerberos
8 6 (0.61%) FTP
8 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
8 6 (0.61%) Internet
8 6 (0.61%) SMTP
8 6 (0.61%) SSH
8 6 (0.61%) WAN
9 5 (0.51%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.41%) IMAP
10 4 (0.41%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.30%) SAN
12 2 (0.20%) NAS
12 2 (0.20%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
2 92 (9.33%) NoSQL
3 88 (8.92%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (5.68%) MongoDB
5 38 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.65%) MySQL
7 30 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 29 (2.94%) Oracle Database
8 29 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.54%) Pentaho
10 23 (2.33%) Redis
11 21 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
12 20 (2.03%) Big Data
13 18 (1.83%) BigQuery
14 16 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 12 (1.22%) Tableau
16 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
17 10 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (1.01%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 390 (39.55%) GitLab
2 281 (28.50%) Git
3 216 (21.91%) JIRA
4 102 (10.34%) Selenium
5 95 (9.63%) JUnit
6 89 (9.03%) Cucumber
7 82 (8.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 61 (6.19%) Postman
9 54 (5.48%) Bitbucket
10 50 (5.07%) Maven
11 44 (4.46%) REST Assured
12 39 (3.96%) SonarQube
13 30 (3.04%) Artifactory
13 30 (3.04%) CircleCI
13 30 (3.04%) Gradle
14 28 (2.84%) JMeter
15 25 (2.54%) Cypress.io
15 25 (2.54%) Liquibase
16 22 (2.23%) Gatling
17 20 (2.03%) Mockito
General
1 303 (30.73%) Social Skills
2 217 (22.01%) Finance
3 129 (13.08%) Banking
4 118 (11.97%) Public Sector
5 65 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.94%) Financial Institution
8 21 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (1.42%) Military
10 12 (1.22%) Retail
11 10 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.71%) Front Office
14 7 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.61%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.61%) Marketing
16 5 (0.51%) Games
16 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (17.34%) Developer
2 164 (16.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 156 (15.82%) Senior
4 91 (9.23%) Lead
5 85 (8.62%) Architect
6 73 (7.40%) Java Developer
7 65 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
8 59 (5.98%) GCP Engineer
9 53 (5.38%) Data Engineer
10 52 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 50 (5.07%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
12 45 (4.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 43 (4.36%) Software Engineer
13 43 (4.36%) Test Engineer
14 35 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
14 35 (3.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 32 (3.25%) Automation Engineer
16 31 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
16 31 (3.14%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (15.62%) REST
2 142 (14.40%) Kafka
3 127 (12.88%) Spring
4 110 (11.16%) Node.js
5 97 (9.84%) Spring Boot
6 86 (8.72%) Elastic Stack
7 85 (8.62%) RESTful
8 76 (7.71%) Playwright
9 56 (5.68%) React
10 51 (5.17%) OpenID
11 50 (5.07%) LDAP
12 47 (4.77%) GraphQL
13 45 (4.56%) OpenTelemetry
14 42 (4.26%) JSON
15 39 (3.96%) AngularJS
16 38 (3.85%) OAuth
16 38 (3.85%) YAML
17 36 (3.65%) HTML
17 36 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
18 35 (3.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 193 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 86 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.97%) Public Cloud
4 34 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 33 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.23%) Replication
8 17 (1.72%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.12%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.91%) Derivative
13 9 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.81%) NHS
15 7 (0.71%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 235 (23.83%) Linux
2 61 (6.19%) Windows
3 41 (4.16%) Unix
4 26 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.13%) VMS
6 14 (1.42%) Windows Server
7 12 (1.22%) Android
7 12 (1.22%) CentOS
8 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
8 10 (1.01%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.71%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (83.87%) CI/CD
2 664 (67.34%) DevOps
3 374 (37.93%) Agile
4 340 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 305 (30.93%) Containerisation
6 274 (27.79%) Test Automation
7 238 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
8 214 (21.70%) Microservices
9 152 (15.42%) Observability
10 125 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 125 (12.68%) Software Engineering
11 124 (12.58%) Scrum
12 110 (11.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 94 (9.53%) Migration
14 85 (8.62%) DevSecOps
15 84 (8.52%) High Availability
16 81 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
17 79 (8.01%) Deployment Automation
18 77 (7.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 76 (7.71%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 445 (45.13%) Python
2 283 (28.70%) Java
3 166 (16.84%) SQL
4 150 (15.21%) Bash
5 104 (10.55%) JavaScript
6 88 (8.92%) TypeScript
7 87 (8.82%) Go
8 73 (7.40%) PowerShell
9 65 (6.59%) Shell Script
10 53 (5.38%) C#
11 39 (3.96%) Groovy
12 25 (2.54%) Scala
13 19 (1.93%) C++
14 14 (1.42%) PHP
15 12 (1.22%) Ruby
16 11 (1.12%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.91%) Perl
18 7 (0.71%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 333 (33.77%) Security Cleared
2 267 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.30%) Degree
4 50 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (4.97%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.65%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.43%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
10 16 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.22%) OCP
13 11 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.91%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
16 5 (0.51%) OCA
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
17 4 (0.41%) CISSP
17 4 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (10.34%) QA
2 41 (4.16%) Data Quality
3 26 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 22 (2.23%) NIST
6 19 (1.93%) NCSC
7 15 (1.52%) SLA
8 8 (0.81%) GDPR
9 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.51%) WCAG
11 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) HL7
12 2 (0.20%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.20%) MiFID
12 2 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 471 (47.77%) Docker
2 26 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 20 (2.03%) VMware NSX
4 20 (2.03%) vSphere
5 14 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.71%) Postfix
7 6 (0.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 6 (0.61%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.61%) Tivoli Directory Server
8 4 (0.41%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.30%) HDFS
10 2 (0.20%) GridGain
11 1 (0.10%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 513 (52.03%) Kubernetes
2 410 (41.58%) Terraform
3 285 (28.90%) Ansible
4 192 (19.47%) Grafana
5 156 (15.82%) Prometheus
6 50 (5.07%) Progress Chef
7 44 (4.46%) Argo
8 30 (3.04%) Istio
9 24 (2.43%) Puppet
10 20 (2.03%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.93%) Podman
12 14 (1.42%) Kibana
13 11 (1.12%) Packer
13 11 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.71%) CA Single Sign-On
15 7 (0.71%) CA Wily
15 7 (0.71%) Check_MK
15 7 (0.71%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 123 (12.47%) Splunk
2 87 (8.82%) Google
3 76 (7.71%) Oracle
4 68 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 53 (5.38%) VMware
6 51 (5.17%) Red Hat
7 46 (4.67%) ServiceNow
8 33 (3.35%) Atlassian
8 33 (3.35%) Databricks
9 25 (2.54%) Denodo
9 25 (2.54%) Talend
10 22 (2.23%) Sonatype
11 21 (2.13%) Dynatrace
12 20 (2.03%) Pure Storage
13 18 (1.83%) CheckPoint
13 18 (1.83%) CyberArk
13 18 (1.83%) IBM
14 17 (1.72%) F5
14 17 (1.72%) Palo Alto
15 15 (1.52%) AppDynamics