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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 76 86
Rank change year-on-year -46 +10 -16
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,006 912 841
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 3.28% 2.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.96% 22.55% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 641 634
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £415 £408 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £638 £700 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 34
10th Percentile £63.80 £54.75 £65.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -3.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £86.00 -
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 5,306 4,045 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.61% 14.55% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,797 2,845
10th Percentile £355 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 95 183
10th Percentile £36.25 £40.90 £33.01
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.03 £54.18
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 August 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 August 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 -28 491 £525 -0.94% 259
North of England -39 247 £450 -4.15% 98
Yorkshire -15 176 £475 -5.00% 25
Midlands -22 124 £476 +0.21% 37
West Midlands -11 117 £481 +1.26% 25
South East -77 71 £460 -8.09% 54
South West -14 57 £550 -4.35% 53
North West -84 49 £425 +5.72% 57
North East -30 26 £450 -6.98% 17
East of England -15 16 £438 -12.50% 20
East Midlands -39 6 £447 +24.86% 12
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
1 106 (10.54%) Confluence
2 34 (3.38%) SAS
3 24 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 10 (0.99%) Apache
4 10 (0.99%) nginx
5 7 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.40%) Camunda
7 4 (0.40%) CMS
7 4 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.099%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.80%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.099%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.80%) Magento
2 3 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.099%) Shopify
4 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 529 (52.58%) AWS
2 418 (41.55%) GitHub
3 378 (37.57%) Azure
4 316 (31.41%) GitHub Actions
5 234 (23.26%) GCP
6 182 (18.09%) Azure DevOps
7 122 (12.13%) Amazon S3
8 120 (11.93%) Serverless
9 107 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
10 106 (10.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 94 (9.34%) Amazon EC2
12 91 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
13 87 (8.65%) OpenShift
14 73 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 64 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
16 49 (4.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (4.77%) Amazon SQS
18 45 (4.47%) Datadog
19 42 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 29 (2.88%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.37%) Firewall
2 53 (5.27%) DNS
3 25 (2.49%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.09%) Network Security
5 17 (1.69%) SSL
5 17 (1.69%) VPN
6 12 (1.19%) HTTP
6 12 (1.19%) VLAN
7 9 (0.89%) BIG-IP
7 9 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 9 (0.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (0.80%) WAN
9 7 (0.70%) SAN
10 5 (0.50%) DHCP
11 4 (0.40%) 4G
11 4 (0.40%) BGP
11 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
11 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.30%) Internet
12 3 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (15.01%) PostgreSQL
2 65 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
3 59 (5.86%) MongoDB
4 57 (5.67%) SQL Server
5 56 (5.57%) Relational Database
6 55 (5.47%) NoSQL
7 41 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 39 (3.88%) DynamoDB
9 32 (3.18%) Redis
10 27 (2.68%) Big Data
10 27 (2.68%) Pentaho
11 20 (1.99%) MySQL
12 19 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (1.79%) Metadata
14 17 (1.69%) Data Lake
15 14 (1.39%) BigQuery
16 13 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
16 13 (1.29%) Power BI
17 11 (1.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 367 (36.48%) GitLab
2 344 (34.19%) Git
3 182 (18.09%) JIRA
4 105 (10.44%) JUnit
5 90 (8.95%) Selenium
6 76 (7.55%) Maven
7 68 (6.76%) SonarQube
8 60 (5.96%) Cucumber
9 55 (5.47%) Mockito
10 54 (5.37%) Gradle
11 53 (5.27%) Bitbucket
12 41 (4.08%) JMeter
13 38 (3.78%) Postman
14 37 (3.68%) Sonatype Nexus
15 35 (3.48%) REST Assured
16 33 (3.28%) Gatling
17 31 (3.08%) WebDriver
18 21 (2.09%) Artifactory
19 20 (1.99%) Liquibase
20 15 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 243 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 147 (14.61%) Finance
3 133 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 103 (10.24%) Banking
5 97 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (1.99%) Law
9 18 (1.79%) Retail
10 16 (1.59%) Publishing
11 14 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (1.19%) Marketing
13 11 (1.09%) Legal
13 11 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.89%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.70%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.60%) Front Office
16 6 (0.60%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 239 (23.76%) Developer
2 177 (17.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 161 (16.00%) Senior
4 119 (11.83%) Java Developer
5 70 (6.96%) Lead
6 65 (6.46%) Software Engineer
7 57 (5.67%) AWS Engineer
8 48 (4.77%) Architect
8 48 (4.77%) Senior Developer
9 46 (4.57%) Data Engineer
10 45 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
11 41 (4.08%) Test Engineer
12 39 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
13 37 (3.68%) Tester
14 36 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 35 (3.48%) GCP Engineer
15 35 (3.48%) Senior Java Developer
16 34 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
17 33 (3.28%) Automation Engineer
18 31 (3.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (17.89%) Kafka
1 180 (17.89%) Spring
2 152 (15.11%) REST
3 151 (15.01%) Spring Boot
4 112 (11.13%) RESTful
5 91 (9.05%) React
6 86 (8.55%) Node.js
7 58 (5.77%) Playwright
8 55 (5.47%) HTML
9 50 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
9 50 (4.97%) SOAP
10 46 (4.57%) AngularJS
11 43 (4.27%) Hibernate
12 41 (4.08%) Web Services
13 40 (3.98%) JPA
14 37 (3.68%) CSS
15 35 (3.48%) JSON
16 33 (3.28%) YAML
17 30 (2.98%) Swagger
18 28 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 174 (17.30%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.05%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (7.16%) Product Ownership
4 32 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
6 25 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.09%) Replication
8 19 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 19 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 17 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 16 (1.59%) Data Structures
11 15 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.49%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.39%) Private Cloud
13 13 (1.29%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.29%) Public Cloud
14 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.99%) Algorithms
16 9 (0.89%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 198 (19.68%) Linux
2 62 (6.16%) Unix
3 44 (4.37%) Windows
4 42 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 9 (0.89%) Android
6 9 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.60%) CentOS
9 3 (0.30%) AIX
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.30%) zOS
10 2 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 842 (83.70%) CI/CD
2 676 (67.20%) DevOps
3 484 (48.11%) Agile
4 353 (35.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 326 (32.41%) Test Automation
6 279 (27.73%) Containerisation
7 265 (26.34%) Microservices
8 209 (20.78%) Observability
9 187 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 183 (18.19%) Scrum
11 167 (16.60%) Software Engineering
12 155 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
13 135 (13.42%) Platform Engineering
14 114 (11.33%) TDD
15 113 (11.23%) Deployment Automation
16 98 (9.74%) Event-Driven
16 98 (9.74%) Validation
17 95 (9.44%) AI
18 94 (9.34%) DevSecOps
19 88 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 417 (41.45%) Python
2 368 (36.58%) Java
3 264 (26.24%) SQL
4 203 (20.18%) Bash
5 126 (12.52%) PowerShell
6 98 (9.74%) JavaScript
7 75 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 51 (5.07%) C#
8 51 (5.07%) Groovy
9 49 (4.87%) Go
10 48 (4.77%) Shell Script
11 39 (3.88%) PL/SQL
12 28 (2.78%) Scala
13 22 (2.19%) Perl
14 19 (1.89%) Bicep
15 18 (1.79%) Kotlin
16 12 (1.19%) C++
17 10 (0.99%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.89%) ActionScript
19 8 (0.80%) C
Qualifications
1 404 (40.16%) Security Cleared
2 341 (33.90%) SC Cleared
3 49 (4.87%) Degree
4 48 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 46 (4.57%) AWS Certification
6 30 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.58%) Azure Certification
8 25 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.29%) CISSP
11 13 (1.29%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.09%) SAFe Agilist
13 9 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.80%) RHCE
15 5 (0.50%) GCFA
15 5 (0.50%) GCIH
15 5 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (12.03%) QA
2 51 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.29%) WCAG
5 10 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (0.99%) NIST
5 10 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 9 (0.89%) GDPR
7 7 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 7 (0.70%) SLA
8 6 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.50%) SEPA
10 4 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.40%) PSD2
11 3 (0.30%) NCSC
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.099%) HL7
13 1 (0.099%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.099%) NIST 800
System Software
1 482 (47.91%) Docker
2 27 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.19%) Postfix
4 12 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.99%) vSphere
6 9 (0.89%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.70%) NFS
8 5 (0.50%) HDFS
9 4 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.40%) SRDF
9 4 (0.40%) Varnish
9 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) GridGain
10 3 (0.30%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.30%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.20%) Squid
11 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 496 (49.30%) Kubernetes
2 390 (38.77%) Terraform
3 235 (23.36%) Ansible
4 213 (21.17%) Grafana
5 181 (17.99%) Prometheus
6 41 (4.08%) Puppet
7 39 (3.88%) Argo
8 38 (3.78%) Progress Chef
9 18 (1.79%) Control-M
10 17 (1.69%) Istio
11 15 (1.49%) Kibana
12 14 (1.39%) HAProxy
13 12 (1.19%) Packer
14 10 (0.99%) vCenter Server
15 9 (0.89%) Kustomize
15 9 (0.89%) Podman
16 7 (0.70%) Consul
16 7 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
16 7 (0.70%) NetBackup
17 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (9.24%) Oracle
2 89 (8.85%) Microsoft
3 88 (8.75%) Google
4 81 (8.05%) Splunk
5 61 (6.06%) Dynatrace
6 47 (4.67%) Red Hat
7 34 (3.38%) VMware
8 31 (3.08%) Salesforce
9 28 (2.78%) Talend
10 26 (2.58%) Databricks
10 26 (2.58%) IBM
11 25 (2.49%) ServiceNow
12 24 (2.39%) Denodo
13 14 (1.39%) Jaspersoft
13 14 (1.39%) New Relic
13 14 (1.39%) Sonatype
14 12 (1.19%) F5
14 12 (1.19%) Okta
15 11 (1.09%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.09%) ForgeRock