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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 84 91
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -38
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,043 839 997
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 2.68% 2.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.23% 20.52% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 572 733
10th Percentile £350 £390 £406
25th Percentile £413 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £574 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +4.32% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £670 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -6.82% +0.46% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 24
10th Percentile £48.38 £66.00 £56.88
25th Percentile £57.88 - £65.94
Median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -3.45% +33.03%
75th Percentile £100.00 £70.31 £78.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £78.50 £83.99
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -5.36% -3.45% +33.03%

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 4,691 4,088 4,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.34% 13.07% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 2,544 3,543
10th Percentile £329 £348 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £646
90th Percentile £695 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 121 226
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £46.03
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 2025. 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 -23 437 £525 -14.29% 235
North of England +14 285 £478 +6.22% 80
Yorkshire +8 169 £500 +11.11% 21
Midlands +64 150 £513 +4.70% 32
West Midlands +68 136 £515 +5.10% 25
South East +29 107 £488 -2.50% 84
North West +7 98 £423 +5.63% 50
South West -9 48 £550 -8.33% 47
North East +8 19 £575 -7.07% 9
East Midlands -7 14 £350 -17.06% 7
East of England -12 10 £475 +5.56% 19
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
1 127 (12.18%) Confluence
2 54 (5.18%) SAS
3 26 (2.49%) JBoss
4 23 (2.21%) Apache
4 23 (2.21%) nginx
5 20 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (1.82%) WebSphere
7 17 (1.63%) Apache Spark
8 16 (1.53%) WebSphere Application Server
9 14 (1.34%) Tomcat
10 13 (1.25%) IIS
11 10 (0.96%) iPlanet
12 9 (0.86%) Mule
12 9 (0.86%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.58%) CICS
14 5 (0.48%) Anypoint
15 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
16 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
16 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 12 (1.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 11 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.096%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.096%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.58%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.29%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (0.29%) Shopify
4 1 (0.096%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.096%) Finacle
4 1 (0.096%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 522 (50.05%) AWS
2 295 (28.28%) GitHub
3 258 (24.74%) Azure
4 219 (21.00%) GCP
5 180 (17.26%) GitHub Actions
6 122 (11.70%) Amazon S3
7 120 (11.51%) Serverless
8 118 (11.31%) Amazon EC2
8 118 (11.31%) OpenShift
9 108 (10.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 92 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 91 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
12 90 (8.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 77 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
14 74 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
15 62 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
16 53 (5.08%) Datadog
17 50 (4.79%) Amazon ELB
18 43 (4.12%) AWS KMS
19 40 (3.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 100 (9.59%) Firewall
2 85 (8.15%) DNS
3 46 (4.41%) TCP/IP
4 38 (3.64%) VPN
5 33 (3.16%) HTTP
6 31 (2.97%) SSL
7 30 (2.88%) SSH
8 25 (2.40%) Network Security
8 25 (2.40%) SMTP
9 22 (2.11%) FTP
10 18 (1.73%) Kerberos
11 12 (1.15%) IMAP
11 12 (1.15%) OpenLDAP
12 7 (0.67%) Internet
13 6 (0.58%) WAN
14 5 (0.48%) HTTPS
14 5 (0.48%) NAS
14 5 (0.48%) SAN
14 5 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 4 (0.38%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (16.97%) PostgreSQL
2 104 (9.97%) NoSQL
3 102 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (5.37%) MongoDB
5 37 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 35 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 35 (3.36%) Oracle Database
7 34 (3.26%) Pentaho
8 32 (3.07%) DynamoDB
9 28 (2.68%) MySQL
10 26 (2.49%) SQL Server
11 24 (2.30%) Redis
12 19 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (1.73%) RDBMS
14 17 (1.63%) BigQuery
15 16 (1.53%) Big Data
16 15 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
17 13 (1.25%) Hadoop
18 11 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
18 11 (1.05%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 386 (37.01%) Git
2 330 (31.64%) GitLab
3 249 (23.87%) JIRA
4 100 (9.59%) JUnit
5 96 (9.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 77 (7.38%) Selenium
7 76 (7.29%) Cucumber
8 71 (6.81%) SonarQube
9 66 (6.33%) Bitbucket
10 61 (5.85%) Maven
11 56 (5.37%) Postman
12 49 (4.70%) Gradle
13 44 (4.22%) Artifactory
14 39 (3.74%) Liquibase
15 31 (2.97%) CircleCI
16 27 (2.59%) Vagrant
17 26 (2.49%) Cypress.io
18 25 (2.40%) REST Assured
19 24 (2.30%) TeamCity
20 22 (2.11%) JMeter
General
1 298 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 225 (21.57%) Finance
3 157 (15.05%) Banking
4 136 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 77 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.68%) Financial Institution
7 23 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.44%) Military
8 15 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.15%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.15%) Retail
10 11 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 10 (0.96%) Marketing
12 7 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.58%) Games
14 5 (0.48%) Front Office
14 5 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 197 (18.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 179 (17.16%) Developer
2 179 (17.16%) Senior
3 93 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
4 89 (8.53%) Java Developer
5 81 (7.77%) Platform Engineer
6 68 (6.52%) Lead
7 60 (5.75%) AWS DevOps
8 59 (5.66%) Architect
9 57 (5.47%) Data Engineer
10 55 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 53 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 51 (4.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 47 (4.51%) GCP Engineer
13 47 (4.51%) Senior DevOps
14 45 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 41 (3.93%) Tester
16 38 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
16 38 (3.64%) Senior Developer
17 35 (3.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (16.11%) REST
2 155 (14.86%) Kafka
3 111 (10.64%) RESTful
4 106 (10.16%) Spring
5 96 (9.20%) Elastic Stack
6 91 (8.72%) Spring Boot
7 77 (7.38%) Node.js
8 71 (6.81%) React
9 54 (5.18%) Playwright
10 53 (5.08%) HTML
11 52 (4.99%) GraphQL
11 52 (4.99%) SOAP
12 44 (4.22%) CSS
13 39 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
14 37 (3.55%) OAuth
15 36 (3.45%) JSON
16 35 (3.36%) Hibernate
17 34 (3.26%) AngularJS
18 31 (2.97%) XML
19 30 (2.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 143 (13.71%) Cloud Native
2 84 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 42 (4.03%) Replication
5 40 (3.84%) Public Cloud
6 19 (1.82%) Mobile App
6 19 (1.82%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.73%) Private Cloud
8 16 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
9 13 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.15%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (0.86%) PKI
13 8 (0.77%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 280 (26.85%) Linux
2 94 (9.01%) Windows
3 61 (5.85%) Unix
4 29 (2.78%) Amazon Linux
4 29 (2.78%) VMS
5 27 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (2.40%) Windows Server
7 17 (1.63%) Android
7 17 (1.63%) Apple iOS
8 14 (1.34%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.15%) CentOS
10 6 (0.58%) Solaris
11 3 (0.29%) AIX
11 3 (0.29%) Debian
11 3 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.29%) zOS
12 1 (0.096%) MVS
12 1 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.096%) SUSE
12 1 (0.096%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (76.61%) CI/CD
2 673 (64.53%) DevOps
3 452 (43.34%) Agile
4 325 (31.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 294 (28.19%) Containerisation
6 251 (24.07%) Test Automation
7 237 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
8 236 (22.63%) Microservices
9 163 (15.63%) Scrum
10 144 (13.81%) Software Engineering
11 127 (12.18%) Configuration Management
12 125 (11.98%) Observability
13 124 (11.89%) Mentoring
14 121 (11.60%) Continuous Integration
15 107 (10.26%) Migration
16 105 (10.07%) Infrastructure Automation
17 101 (9.68%) TDD
18 98 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
19 92 (8.82%) Deployment Automation
20 91 (8.72%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 526 (50.43%) Python
2 321 (30.78%) Java
3 192 (18.41%) SQL
4 184 (17.64%) Bash
5 124 (11.89%) JavaScript
6 109 (10.45%) PowerShell
7 106 (10.16%) Go
8 73 (7.00%) Shell Script
8 73 (7.00%) TypeScript
9 66 (6.33%) Groovy
10 63 (6.04%) C#
11 33 (3.16%) Perl
12 32 (3.07%) C++
13 20 (1.92%) Scala
14 15 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 15 (1.44%) Ruby
15 11 (1.05%) C
15 11 (1.05%) Swift
16 9 (0.86%) Objective-C
16 9 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 355 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 273 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.01%) Degree
4 68 (6.52%) AWS Certification
4 68 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 38 (3.64%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 22 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 18 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
11 11 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (0.86%) OCP
13 8 (0.77%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.58%) CISSP
15 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.38%) CISM
16 4 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (9.11%) QA
2 47 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.05%) NCSC
5 10 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.58%) NIST
6 6 (0.58%) WCAG
7 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.38%) SLA
8 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.29%) GDPR
8 3 (0.29%) IEC 61508
8 3 (0.29%) IEC 62304
8 3 (0.29%) ISO 26262
9 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.19%) SEPA
10 1 (0.096%) HL7
10 1 (0.096%) JSP 440
System Software
1 519 (49.76%) Docker
2 46 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 22 (2.11%) DFS Replication
5 16 (1.53%) Postfix
6 14 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.34%) vSphere
7 12 (1.15%) Dovecot
7 12 (1.15%) Squid
8 10 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (0.77%) Tivoli Directory Server
10 7 (0.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.29%) HDFS
12 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.19%) GridGain
13 2 (0.19%) KVM
13 2 (0.19%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.096%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 497 (47.65%) Kubernetes
2 410 (39.31%) Terraform
3 317 (30.39%) Ansible
4 170 (16.30%) Grafana
5 151 (14.48%) Prometheus
6 61 (5.85%) Progress Chef
7 49 (4.70%) Puppet
8 40 (3.84%) Argo
9 26 (2.49%) Istio
10 22 (2.11%) Kibana
11 18 (1.73%) Packer
12 16 (1.53%) vCenter Server
13 15 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
14 14 (1.34%) Nessus
14 14 (1.34%) Podman
14 14 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
15 13 (1.25%) Proxmox
16 11 (1.05%) CA Single Sign-On
17 10 (0.96%) CA Wily
17 10 (0.96%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 117 (11.22%) Splunk
2 100 (9.59%) Oracle
3 98 (9.40%) Microsoft
4 85 (8.15%) Google
5 64 (6.14%) VMware
6 58 (5.56%) Red Hat
7 39 (3.74%) ServiceNow
8 36 (3.45%) Talend
9 34 (3.26%) Denodo
9 34 (3.26%) Dynatrace
10 33 (3.16%) F5
11 31 (2.97%) Atlassian
12 27 (2.59%) Palo Alto
13 26 (2.49%) CheckPoint
13 26 (2.49%) Databricks
14 24 (2.30%) IBM
15 21 (2.01%) MuleSoft
16 20 (1.92%) AppDynamics
17 16 (1.53%) Jaspersoft
18 15 (1.44%) Solace