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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 72 87
Rank change year-on-year -61 +15 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 980 935 855
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.11% 3.35% 2.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.50% 22.27% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 643 615
10th Percentile £355 £350 £392
25th Percentile £425 £411 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £664
90th Percentile £650 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 33
10th Percentile £64.20 £54.75 £66.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 -
90th Percentile - £110.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -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 5,296 4,198 4,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 15.03% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,350 2,905 2,797
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £631
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 238 94 169
10th Percentile £24.19 £42.33 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.81 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.23 £76.75 £74.00
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 26 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 26 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 -20 529 £525 -2.78% 414
North of England -54 223 £453 -3.82% 155
Yorkshire -22 147 £477 -4.70% 46
Midlands -59 90 £490 +3.16% 57
West Midlands -36 86 £490 -2.00% 34
South East -93 66 £464 -7.25% 64
North West -84 58 £453 +4.02% 85
South West -18 57 £550 - 79
North East -37 20 £450 -13.25% 24
East of England -27 17 £475 -5.00% 42
East Midlands -40 3 £347 -2.12% 23
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 97 (9.90%) Confluence
2 27 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.84%) nginx
5 13 (1.33%) SAS
6 12 (1.22%) Apache
7 11 (1.12%) Camunda
8 8 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.82%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.41%) CICS
10 4 (0.41%) CMS
10 4 (0.41%) IIS
11 3 (0.31%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.20%) Traefik
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.10%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.10%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.82%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.10%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.10%) S-PLUS
4 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.82%) Magento
2 6 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.10%) Shopify
5 1 (0.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 526 (53.67%) AWS
2 393 (40.10%) GitHub
3 376 (38.37%) Azure
4 305 (31.12%) GitHub Actions
5 219 (22.35%) GCP
6 190 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
7 118 (12.04%) Serverless
8 109 (11.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 105 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 105 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
10 98 (10.00%) OpenShift
11 93 (9.49%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
13 68 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
14 67 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
15 44 (4.49%) Datadog
15 44 (4.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 44 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (2.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.71%) Firewall
2 52 (5.31%) DNS
3 33 (3.37%) TCP/IP
4 24 (2.45%) Network Security
5 17 (1.73%) SSL
6 15 (1.53%) BIG-IP
6 15 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 15 (1.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 15 (1.53%) HTTP
7 13 (1.33%) VLAN
8 12 (1.22%) VPN
9 11 (1.12%) SAN
10 9 (0.92%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.82%) SSH
12 7 (0.71%) DHCP
12 7 (0.71%) WAN
13 6 (0.61%) 4G
13 6 (0.61%) OpenLDAP
14 5 (0.51%) 5G
15 3 (0.31%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (7.04%) MongoDB
3 59 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (6.02%) NoSQL
4 58 (5.92%) Relational Database
5 52 (5.31%) SQL Server
6 38 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 36 (3.67%) Redis
8 32 (3.27%) DynamoDB
9 30 (3.06%) MySQL
10 25 (2.55%) Big Data
11 19 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (1.73%) Data Lake
13 14 (1.43%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.43%) Pentaho
14 12 (1.22%) Metadata
14 12 (1.22%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 11 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 371 (37.86%) GitLab
2 351 (35.82%) Git
3 170 (17.35%) JIRA
4 99 (10.10%) JUnit
5 95 (9.69%) Selenium
6 89 (9.08%) Maven
7 78 (7.96%) SonarQube
8 66 (6.73%) Gradle
9 63 (6.43%) Cucumber
10 58 (5.92%) Mockito
11 53 (5.41%) REST Assured
12 52 (5.31%) Bitbucket
13 43 (4.39%) Sonatype Nexus
14 42 (4.29%) Postman
15 39 (3.98%) JMeter
16 35 (3.57%) Gatling
17 24 (2.45%) WebDriver
18 21 (2.14%) TestNG
19 19 (1.94%) Cypress.io
20 18 (1.84%) Zephyr
General
1 229 (23.37%) Social Skills
2 155 (15.82%) Finance
3 128 (13.06%) Public Sector
4 113 (11.53%) Banking
5 106 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (2.14%) Retail
9 16 (1.63%) Law
10 15 (1.53%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.33%) Publishing
12 12 (1.22%) Marketing
13 10 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.92%) Military
15 8 (0.82%) Front Office
15 8 (0.82%) Legal
15 8 (0.82%) Local Government
16 7 (0.71%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 251 (25.61%) Developer
2 177 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 152 (15.51%) Senior
4 119 (12.14%) Java Developer
5 71 (7.24%) Lead
6 53 (5.41%) Architect
6 53 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
7 52 (5.31%) Test Engineer
8 46 (4.69%) Senior Developer
9 43 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
9 43 (4.39%) Software Engineer
10 37 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
11 36 (3.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 36 (3.67%) Software Developer
12 33 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
13 32 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
13 32 (3.27%) Platform Engineer
14 31 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
15 30 (3.06%) GCP Engineer
16 29 (2.96%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 376 (38.37%) Terraform
2 190 (19.39%) Kafka
3 177 (18.06%) Spring
4 164 (16.73%) REST
4 164 (16.73%) Spring Boot
5 123 (12.55%) RESTful
6 105 (10.71%) React
7 76 (7.76%) HTML
8 71 (7.24%) Node.js
9 62 (6.33%) Playwright
10 60 (6.12%) Hibernate
11 55 (5.61%) JPA
12 54 (5.51%) SOAP
13 53 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
14 52 (5.31%) CSS
15 48 (4.90%) AngularJS
16 46 (4.69%) Web Services
17 37 (3.78%) .NET
17 37 (3.78%) JSON
18 32 (3.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 172 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.27%) Product Ownership
3 62 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 36 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (2.96%) Replication
7 27 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 27 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 22 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 20 (2.04%) AI Agents
10 20 (2.04%) Public Cloud
11 19 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.84%) Private Cloud
13 14 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
13 14 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 12 (1.22%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 214 (21.84%) Linux
2 55 (5.61%) Unix
3 52 (5.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 49 (5.00%) Windows
5 16 (1.63%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.12%) CentOS
8 10 (1.02%) Amazon Linux
9 9 (0.92%) Android
10 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.61%) zOS
12 4 (0.41%) VMS
13 3 (0.31%) AIX
13 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.20%) Rocky
14 2 (0.20%) Solaris
14 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 832 (84.90%) CI/CD
2 650 (66.33%) DevOps
3 475 (48.47%) Agile
4 355 (36.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 331 (33.78%) Test Automation
6 302 (30.82%) Containerisation
7 269 (27.45%) Microservices
8 224 (22.86%) Observability
9 183 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 176 (17.96%) Scrum
11 174 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
12 153 (15.61%) Software Engineering
13 136 (13.88%) Platform Engineering
14 113 (11.53%) Deployment Automation
15 105 (10.71%) AI
16 102 (10.41%) TDD
17 101 (10.31%) DevSecOps
17 101 (10.31%) Event-Driven
18 97 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
19 96 (9.80%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 422 (43.06%) Python
2 383 (39.08%) Java
3 245 (25.00%) SQL
4 190 (19.39%) Bash
5 125 (12.76%) JavaScript
6 113 (11.53%) PowerShell
7 77 (7.86%) TypeScript
8 59 (6.02%) C#
9 57 (5.82%) Groovy
10 53 (5.41%) Go
11 46 (4.69%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.98%) PL/SQL
13 30 (3.06%) Scala
14 27 (2.76%) Perl
15 18 (1.84%) Kotlin
16 15 (1.53%) ActionScript
16 15 (1.53%) Bicep
17 13 (1.33%) C++
18 11 (1.12%) Korn
19 10 (1.02%) C
Qualifications
1 405 (41.33%) Security Cleared
2 332 (33.88%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.45%) DV Cleared
4 59 (6.02%) Degree
5 54 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 41 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (2.45%) Azure Certification
9 18 (1.84%) ISTQB
10 16 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (1.43%) CISSP
12 12 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.82%) SAFe Agilist
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 6 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.51%) GCFA
16 5 (0.51%) GCIH
16 5 (0.51%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (14.69%) QA
2 38 (3.88%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.73%) NIST
5 12 (1.22%) WCAG
6 10 (1.02%) ISO 20022
6 10 (1.02%) NCSC
6 10 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 9 (0.92%) GDPR
8 6 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.61%) SEPA
9 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.51%) PSD2
10 4 (0.41%) SLA
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.20%) GRC
13 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 479 (48.88%) Docker
2 22 (2.24%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.92%) Postfix
6 6 (0.61%) NFS
7 5 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
8 4 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.41%) Squid
8 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.41%) vSphere
9 3 (0.31%) HDFS
9 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.31%) RACF
9 3 (0.31%) Varnish
9 3 (0.31%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.20%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.20%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.20%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 480 (48.98%) Kubernetes
2 227 (23.16%) Ansible
3 221 (22.55%) Grafana
4 182 (18.57%) Prometheus
5 34 (3.47%) Argo
5 34 (3.47%) Progress Chef
6 33 (3.37%) Puppet
7 30 (3.06%) Kibana
8 17 (1.73%) Control-M
9 13 (1.33%) Packer
10 12 (1.22%) HAProxy
10 12 (1.22%) Istio
11 10 (1.02%) Kustomize
11 10 (1.02%) Podman
12 8 (0.82%) Consul
13 7 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.51%) Rancher
14 5 (0.51%) vCenter Server
14 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 95 (9.69%) Google
2 90 (9.18%) Oracle
3 86 (8.78%) Microsoft
4 85 (8.67%) Splunk
5 70 (7.14%) Dynatrace
6 42 (4.29%) IBM
7 36 (3.67%) Red Hat
8 31 (3.16%) VMware
9 29 (2.96%) Salesforce
10 25 (2.55%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.35%) Databricks
12 16 (1.63%) F5
12 16 (1.63%) New Relic
13 14 (1.43%) Talend
14 13 (1.33%) Veracode
15 11 (1.12%) Denodo
15 11 (1.12%) NetApp
15 11 (1.12%) SAP
16 10 (1.02%) Okta
16 10 (1.02%) Sonatype