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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 73 89
Rank change year-on-year -55 +16 -9
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 995 933 842
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.14% 3.36% 2.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.72% 22.57% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 638 611
10th Percentile £358 £349 £390
25th Percentile £418 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 32
10th Percentile £64.20 £55.13 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -4.11%
75th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -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 5,314 4,134 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.45% 14.89% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,371 2,857 2,803
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £634
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 96 168
10th Percentile £35.00 £44.63 £37.31
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.94 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £81.50 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 September 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
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 September 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 -28 527 £525 -2.33% 439
North of England -45 235 £453 -3.41% 137
Yorkshire -24 161 £488 -2.50% 45
Midlands -56 96 £488 +2.63% 44
West Midlands -41 90 £490 -2.00% 24
South East -83 68 £460 -8.00% 62
South West -23 56 £550 - 72
North West -82 55 £425 -2.97% 71
North East -34 21 £450 -6.25% 21
East of England -21 18 £450 -10.00% 38
East Midlands -29 5 £347 -3.21% 20
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
1 101 (10.15%) Confluence
2 23 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.71%) nginx
4 13 (1.31%) SAS
5 11 (1.11%) Apache
6 10 (1.01%) Camunda
7 8 (0.80%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.80%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.60%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.40%) CMS
9 4 (0.40%) IIS
9 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.30%) CICS
10 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) Traefik
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
12 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.80%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Magento
2 5 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 526 (52.86%) AWS
2 405 (40.70%) GitHub
3 391 (39.30%) Azure
4 312 (31.36%) GitHub Actions
5 225 (22.61%) GCP
6 194 (19.50%) Azure DevOps
7 116 (11.66%) Serverless
8 108 (10.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.55%) Amazon S3
10 104 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
11 100 (10.05%) OpenShift
12 88 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
13 85 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
14 67 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
15 66 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
16 45 (4.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 44 (4.42%) Datadog
17 44 (4.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 42 (4.22%) Amazon SQS
19 25 (2.51%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.53%) DNS
1 55 (5.53%) Firewall
2 34 (3.42%) TCP/IP
3 25 (2.51%) Network Security
4 17 (1.71%) HTTP
4 17 (1.71%) SSL
5 14 (1.41%) BIG-IP
5 14 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 14 (1.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 13 (1.31%) VLAN
7 12 (1.21%) VPN
8 11 (1.11%) SAN
9 9 (0.90%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.80%) SSH
11 7 (0.70%) DHCP
11 7 (0.70%) WAN
12 6 (0.60%) 4G
12 6 (0.60%) OpenLDAP
13 5 (0.50%) 5G
14 3 (0.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (15.28%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (6.53%) MongoDB
3 60 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
3 60 (6.03%) Relational Database
3 60 (6.03%) SQL Server
4 58 (5.83%) NoSQL
5 40 (4.02%) Amazon Aurora
6 36 (3.62%) Redis
7 33 (3.32%) DynamoDB
8 28 (2.81%) MySQL
9 26 (2.61%) Big Data
10 19 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
11 17 (1.71%) Data Lake
12 15 (1.51%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.51%) Metadata
13 14 (1.41%) Pentaho
14 13 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (1.21%) RDBMS
16 11 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 369 (37.09%) GitLab
2 347 (34.87%) Git
3 173 (17.39%) JIRA
4 99 (9.95%) JUnit
5 96 (9.65%) Maven
6 87 (8.74%) Selenium
7 82 (8.24%) SonarQube
8 64 (6.43%) Gradle
9 58 (5.83%) Mockito
10 55 (5.53%) Bitbucket
11 53 (5.33%) Cucumber
12 49 (4.92%) REST Assured
13 45 (4.52%) Sonatype Nexus
14 38 (3.82%) Postman
15 37 (3.72%) JMeter
16 36 (3.62%) Gatling
17 25 (2.51%) WebDriver
18 20 (2.01%) Artifactory
19 18 (1.81%) TestNG
20 17 (1.71%) Zephyr
General
1 237 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 157 (15.78%) Finance
3 128 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 112 (11.26%) Banking
5 106 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (2.01%) Retail
8 18 (1.81%) Law
9 15 (1.51%) Publishing
9 15 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.31%) Marketing
11 10 (1.01%) Front Office
12 9 (0.90%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.80%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.80%) Legal
13 8 (0.80%) Military
14 7 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 254 (25.53%) Developer
2 187 (18.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 159 (15.98%) Senior
4 122 (12.26%) Java Developer
5 75 (7.54%) Lead
6 56 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (5.23%) Architect
8 50 (5.03%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.82%) Test Engineer
10 47 (4.72%) Software Engineer
11 43 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (3.72%) Software Developer
13 36 (3.62%) Automation Engineer
13 36 (3.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.42%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (3.42%) Senior Java Developer
15 32 (3.22%) GCP Engineer
16 30 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
17 27 (2.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 397 (39.90%) Terraform
2 186 (18.69%) Kafka
3 180 (18.09%) Spring
4 164 (16.48%) Spring Boot
5 159 (15.98%) REST
6 126 (12.66%) RESTful
7 102 (10.25%) React
8 78 (7.84%) Node.js
9 73 (7.34%) HTML
10 61 (6.13%) Playwright
11 59 (5.93%) Hibernate
12 54 (5.43%) AngularJS
12 54 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
12 54 (5.43%) JPA
13 53 (5.33%) SOAP
14 50 (5.03%) CSS
15 46 (4.62%) Web Services
16 38 (3.82%) JSON
17 36 (3.62%) .NET
18 31 (3.12%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 177 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 82 (8.24%) Product Ownership
3 64 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 29 (2.91%) Replication
8 26 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (2.01%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.91%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.91%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.71%) Onboarding
12 17 (1.71%) Private Cloud
13 15 (1.51%) Distributed Architecture
13 15 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.41%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.21%) Algorithms
16 11 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 218 (21.91%) Linux
2 61 (6.13%) Unix
3 52 (5.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 47 (4.72%) Windows
5 16 (1.61%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.01%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (1.01%) CentOS
8 8 (0.80%) Android
8 8 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.50%) zOS
10 4 (0.40%) VMS
11 3 (0.30%) AIX
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.20%) Rocky
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 840 (84.42%) CI/CD
2 673 (67.64%) DevOps
3 480 (48.24%) Agile
4 365 (36.68%) Infrastructure as Code
5 323 (32.46%) Test Automation
6 304 (30.55%) Containerisation
7 268 (26.93%) Microservices
8 222 (22.31%) Observability
9 179 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 177 (17.79%) Scrum
11 171 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
12 158 (15.88%) Software Engineering
13 146 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
14 110 (11.06%) Deployment Automation
15 105 (10.55%) Event-Driven
16 104 (10.45%) DevSecOps
17 103 (10.35%) AI
17 103 (10.35%) TDD
18 98 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
19 90 (9.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 428 (43.02%) Python
2 388 (38.99%) Java
3 247 (24.82%) SQL
4 198 (19.90%) Bash
5 118 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 117 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 77 (7.74%) TypeScript
8 59 (5.93%) Groovy
9 58 (5.83%) C#
10 51 (5.13%) Go
11 49 (4.92%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.92%) PL/SQL
13 29 (2.91%) Scala
14 27 (2.71%) Perl
15 19 (1.91%) Bicep
16 18 (1.81%) Kotlin
17 14 (1.41%) ActionScript
18 12 (1.21%) C++
19 11 (1.11%) Korn
20 10 (1.01%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 406 (40.80%) Security Cleared
2 333 (33.47%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.83%) DV Cleared
4 57 (5.73%) Degree
5 51 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 39 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.81%) Azure Certification
9 17 (1.71%) ISTQB
10 15 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 15 (1.51%) CISSP
11 12 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (0.90%) SAFe Agilist
13 7 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.50%) GCIH
15 5 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (14.17%) QA
2 36 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.51%) NIST
5 14 (1.41%) WCAG
6 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
6 10 (1.01%) NCSC
7 9 (0.90%) GDPR
7 9 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.60%) SEPA
9 5 (0.50%) PSD2
9 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.40%) SLA
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.10%) GRC
12 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 483 (48.54%) Docker
2 24 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (2.11%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.01%) Postfix
6 8 (0.80%) vSphere
7 7 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.60%) NFS
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Squid
9 4 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
9 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.30%) Varnish
10 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.20%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 496 (49.85%) Kubernetes
2 232 (23.32%) Ansible
3 223 (22.41%) Grafana
4 187 (18.79%) Prometheus
5 38 (3.82%) Progress Chef
5 38 (3.82%) Puppet
6 37 (3.72%) Argo
7 23 (2.31%) Kibana
8 17 (1.71%) Control-M
9 16 (1.61%) HAProxy
10 14 (1.41%) Istio
11 13 (1.31%) Packer
12 10 (1.01%) Kustomize
12 10 (1.01%) Podman
13 9 (0.90%) vCenter Server
14 8 (0.80%) Consul
15 7 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
15 7 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.50%) CASB
16 5 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 94 (9.45%) Google
1 94 (9.45%) Oracle
2 91 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 86 (8.64%) Splunk
4 68 (6.83%) Dynatrace
5 44 (4.42%) Red Hat
6 37 (3.72%) IBM
7 34 (3.42%) VMware
8 31 (3.12%) Salesforce
9 26 (2.61%) Databricks
10 25 (2.51%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.51%) F5
11 15 (1.51%) New Relic
11 15 (1.51%) Talend
12 12 (1.21%) Sonatype
12 12 (1.21%) Veracode
13 11 (1.11%) Denodo
13 11 (1.11%) NetApp
14 10 (1.01%) Jaspersoft
14 10 (1.01%) SAP