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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 87 103
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 -50
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,001 721 836
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.75% 2.93% 2.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.09% 21.57% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 496 614
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £667
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 4,982 3,342 4,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.68% 13.56% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,369 2,184 2,997
10th Percentile £337 £334 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -4.52% -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 176 63 187
10th Percentile £37.00 £26.08 £39.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.72 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £76.94 £71.25 £73.70
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.50 £85.00
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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -31 417 £530 -13.47% 99
North of England +13 254 £487 -4.51% 84
Yorkshire +14 195 £500 -13.04% 39
Midlands +17 155 £513 +7.77% 30
West Midlands +19 141 £515 +7.97% 24
South East -7 96 £462 -7.70% 62
South West +2 54 £525 -8.70% 39
North West -46 45 £440 +0.06% 27
East of England -18 23 £475 +5.56% 23
North East -2 19 £500 -0.99% 18
East Midlands -36 13 £401 -11.18% 6
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 (12.59%) Confluence
2 65 (6.49%) SAS
3 21 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.10%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.90%) Apache
7 7 (0.70%) nginx
8 6 (0.60%) JBoss
9 5 (0.50%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.100%) IBM HTTP Server
13 1 (0.100%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.100%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 20 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.70%) 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
1 503 (50.25%) AWS
2 392 (39.16%) GitHub
3 276 (27.57%) Azure
4 236 (23.58%) GitHub Actions
5 227 (22.68%) GCP
6 147 (14.69%) OpenShift
7 125 (12.49%) Serverless
8 116 (11.59%) Amazon S3
9 113 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
10 99 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
11 93 (9.29%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (8.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 86 (8.59%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 72 (7.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 64 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
16 60 (5.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 50 (5.00%) Datadog
18 35 (3.50%) Azure AKS
19 31 (3.10%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.09%) DNS
2 53 (5.29%) Firewall
3 27 (2.70%) VPN
4 17 (1.70%) Network Security
5 14 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.10%) HTTP
7 10 (1.00%) Kerberos
8 7 (0.70%) SSL
8 7 (0.70%) WAN
9 6 (0.60%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.60%) Internet
9 6 (0.60%) SD-WAN
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%) OSPF
13 1 (0.100%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
2 89 (8.89%) NoSQL
3 86 (8.59%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (5.79%) MongoDB
5 42 (4.20%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.70%) MySQL
7 34 (3.40%) Pentaho
7 34 (3.40%) Relational Database
8 30 (3.00%) SQL Server
9 27 (2.70%) Redis
10 23 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
11 20 (2.00%) Big Data
12 19 (1.90%) Oracle Database
13 17 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (1.50%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
15 13 (1.30%) Power BI
16 12 (1.20%) Tableau
17 11 (1.10%) Hadoop
17 11 (1.10%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 401 (40.06%) GitLab
2 306 (30.57%) Git
3 229 (22.88%) JIRA
4 122 (12.19%) JUnit
5 114 (11.39%) Selenium
6 100 (9.99%) Cucumber
7 74 (7.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 62 (6.19%) Postman
9 55 (5.49%) Bitbucket
10 53 (5.29%) Maven
11 46 (4.60%) SonarQube
12 42 (4.20%) REST Assured
13 40 (4.00%) JMeter
14 31 (3.10%) Gradle
14 31 (3.10%) Mockito
15 26 (2.60%) Artifactory
15 26 (2.60%) CircleCI
16 22 (2.20%) Gatling
17 20 (2.00%) Cypress.io
18 19 (1.90%) WebDriver
General
1 309 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 208 (20.78%) Finance
3 127 (12.69%) Banking
4 123 (12.29%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 22 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.10%) Military
11 10 (1.00%) Retail
12 8 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (0.60%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.60%) Front Office
14 6 (0.60%) Law
14 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.50%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 182 (18.18%) Developer
2 148 (14.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 143 (14.29%) Senior
4 84 (8.39%) Architect
4 84 (8.39%) Java Developer
5 82 (8.19%) Lead
6 66 (6.59%) GCP Engineer
7 63 (6.29%) Data Engineer
8 58 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
9 52 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 49 (4.90%) Software Engineer
11 42 (4.20%) Test Engineer
12 38 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 35 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 33 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
15 33 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
15 33 (3.30%) Tester
16 32 (3.20%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (17.08%) REST
2 150 (14.99%) Spring
3 149 (14.89%) Kafka
4 110 (10.99%) Spring Boot
5 106 (10.59%) Node.js
6 81 (8.09%) Elastic Stack
7 77 (7.69%) RESTful
8 69 (6.89%) Playwright
9 52 (5.19%) React
10 47 (4.70%) AngularJS
11 46 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
12 43 (4.30%) pytest
13 42 (4.20%) OpenID
14 41 (4.10%) GraphQL
15 40 (4.00%) JSON
15 40 (4.00%) LDAP
16 37 (3.70%) Hibernate
16 37 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
16 37 (3.70%) YAML
17 34 (3.40%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 186 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 91 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (4.40%) Public Cloud
4 35 (3.50%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 30 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.20%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.10%) Replication
10 10 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
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 (22.38%) Linux
2 55 (5.49%) Windows
3 36 (3.60%) Unix
4 29 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.60%) VMS
6 12 (1.20%) Android
7 11 (1.10%) Windows Server
8 10 (1.00%) CentOS
9 9 (0.90%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.100%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.100%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (84.22%) CI/CD
2 668 (66.73%) DevOps
3 400 (39.96%) Agile
4 335 (33.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 303 (30.27%) Containerisation
6 301 (30.07%) Test Automation
7 245 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
8 222 (22.18%) Microservices
9 162 (16.18%) Observability
10 140 (13.99%) Scrum
11 131 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (12.59%) Software Engineering
13 107 (10.69%) Mentoring
14 105 (10.49%) Migration
15 91 (9.09%) Analytics
16 89 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
17 87 (8.69%) Stakeholder Management
18 83 (8.29%) Data Pipeline
18 83 (8.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 81 (8.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 446 (44.56%) Python
2 292 (29.17%) Java
3 203 (20.28%) SQL
4 162 (16.18%) Bash
5 91 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 78 (7.79%) PowerShell
7 77 (7.69%) Go
7 77 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 53 (5.29%) Shell Script
9 48 (4.80%) C#
10 28 (2.80%) Groovy
11 25 (2.50%) Scala
12 16 (1.60%) C++
13 14 (1.40%) PHP
14 12 (1.20%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.20%) Ruby
15 10 (1.00%) Bicep
15 10 (1.00%) Perl
15 10 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 355 (35.46%) Security Cleared
2 290 (28.97%) SC Cleared
3 65 (6.49%) Degree
4 46 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 28 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.50%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
9 14 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 11 (1.10%) OCP
12 9 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.80%) RHCE
14 6 (0.60%) OCA
15 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (10.09%) QA
2 50 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 24 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (2.00%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.00%) NIST
5 18 (1.80%) NCSC
5 18 (1.80%) SLA
6 10 (1.00%) GDPR
7 9 (0.90%) 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%) JSP 440
System Software
1 460 (45.95%) Docker
2 31 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.20%) VMware NSX
3 22 (2.20%) vSphere
4 14 (1.40%) Active Directory
4 14 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.70%) Postfix
6 6 (0.60%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 6 (0.60%) HDFS
7 4 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.20%) SRDF
9 1 (0.100%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.100%) KVM
9 1 (0.100%) NFS
9 1 (0.100%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.100%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 1 (0.100%) Varnish
9 1 (0.100%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 533 (53.25%) Kubernetes
2 395 (39.46%) Terraform
3 288 (28.77%) Ansible
4 206 (20.58%) Grafana
5 162 (16.18%) Prometheus
6 49 (4.90%) Argo
7 46 (4.60%) Progress Chef
8 33 (3.30%) Istio
9 28 (2.80%) Puppet
10 22 (2.20%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.70%) 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
17 5 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 117 (11.69%) Splunk
2 85 (8.49%) Google
3 71 (7.09%) Oracle
4 62 (6.19%) Microsoft
5 56 (5.59%) Red Hat
5 56 (5.59%) VMware
6 41 (4.10%) ServiceNow
7 36 (3.60%) Databricks
8 34 (3.40%) Denodo
8 34 (3.40%) Talend
9 33 (3.30%) Atlassian
10 24 (2.40%) Sonatype
11 23 (2.30%) Dynatrace
12 22 (2.20%) Pure Storage
13 17 (1.70%) CyberArk
14 11 (1.10%) AppDynamics
15 10 (1.00%) Cisco
15 10 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
16 9 (0.90%) Okta
16 9 (0.90%) Veritas