Jenkins Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Jenkins (JenkinsCI)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Jenkins skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 31 62
Rank change year-on-year -43 +31 +27
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 247 250 125
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.30% 6.27% 3.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.36% 34.67% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 184 107
10th Percentile £353 £327 £381
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £470
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% -0.11% -8.29%
75th Percentile £523 £545 £570
90th Percentile £598 £646 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -4.11%

All Development Application Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 974 721 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.01% 18.08% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 545 363
10th Percentile £352 £322 £365
25th Percentile £400 £384 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -3.65% -6.34%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £575
90th Percentile £640 £625 £636
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 9 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £48.80 £29.91
25th Percentile £56.94 £52.18 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.16 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% +51.93% -
75th Percentile - £77.50 -
90th Percentile - £80.05 £50.55
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Jenkins relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Jenkins job vacancy trend in the North of England

Jenkins
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Jenkins.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in the North of England

Jenkins
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Jenkins.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Yorkshire -17 176 £475 -5.00% 16
North West -92 49 £425 +5.72% 31
North East -27 26 £450 -6.98% 13
Jenkins
England

Jenkins
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 33 (13.36%) Confluence
2 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.40%) CICS
4 1 (0.40%) CMS
4 1 (0.40%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (49.80%) GitHub
2 102 (41.30%) AWS
3 89 (36.03%) Azure
4 78 (31.58%) GCP
5 68 (27.53%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (9.31%) OpenShift
8 15 (6.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (4.45%) IaaS
10 10 (4.05%) Amazon SQS
10 10 (4.05%) OCI
10 10 (4.05%) Serverless
11 9 (3.64%) Firebase
12 8 (3.24%) Apigee
12 8 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.83%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.83%) dbt
13 7 (2.83%) Kong
14 6 (2.43%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.91%) DNS
2 20 (8.10%) Firewall
3 11 (4.45%) Network Security
4 10 (4.05%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.64%) BIG-IP
5 9 (3.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 9 (3.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 8 (3.24%) SSL
7 6 (2.43%) VLAN
8 5 (2.02%) SAN
8 5 (2.02%) VPN
9 3 (1.21%) NAS
10 2 (0.81%) BGP
10 2 (0.81%) HTTP
10 2 (0.81%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.81%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.81%) VSAN
10 2 (0.81%) WAN
11 1 (0.40%) Ethernet VPN
11 1 (0.40%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.17%) SQL Server
2 28 (11.34%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (10.53%) MongoDB
4 17 (6.88%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.45%) Redis
7 8 (3.24%) Metadata
7 8 (3.24%) RDBMS
8 7 (2.83%) Ataccama
9 5 (2.02%) Hazelcast
9 5 (2.02%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.62%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (1.21%) DTS
11 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.81%) MySQL
12 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.81%) Tableau
13 1 (0.40%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 67 (27.13%) Git
2 64 (25.91%) GitLab
3 44 (17.81%) JIRA
4 26 (10.53%) Maven
5 20 (8.10%) Gatling
6 19 (7.69%) Selenium
7 17 (6.88%) Gradle
7 17 (6.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (6.48%) SonarQube
9 14 (5.67%) Cucumber
9 14 (5.67%) Postman
10 12 (4.86%) REST Assured
11 8 (3.24%) fastlane
11 8 (3.24%) JUnit
11 8 (3.24%) Zephyr
12 7 (2.83%) Claude Code
12 7 (2.83%) JMeter
12 7 (2.83%) Serenity BDD
13 6 (2.43%) Flyway
13 6 (2.43%) LoadRunner
General
1 57 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 37 (14.98%) Finance
3 34 (13.77%) Banking
4 24 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.24%) Publishing
7 5 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.02%) Legal
7 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.81%) Law
9 2 (0.81%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (23.08%) Developer
2 53 (21.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (10.12%) Java Developer
4 23 (9.31%) Senior
5 21 (8.50%) Lead
6 18 (7.29%) Test Engineer
7 16 (6.48%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.07%) GCP DevOps
9 13 (5.26%) Architect
10 12 (4.86%) GCP Engineer
10 12 (4.86%) Network Engineer
11 11 (4.45%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (4.05%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.64%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.64%) Test Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.24%) Lead Test Engineer
14 8 (3.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (21.86%) Kafka
2 36 (14.57%) REST
3 35 (14.17%) Spring
4 34 (13.77%) Spring Boot
5 25 (10.12%) Playwright
6 24 (9.72%) JSON
7 18 (7.29%) React
8 14 (5.67%) .NET
8 14 (5.67%) Node.js
8 14 (5.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 14 (5.67%) RESTful
9 12 (4.86%) YAML
10 11 (4.45%) Hibernate
10 11 (4.45%) OAuth
11 10 (4.05%) JWT
12 9 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (3.64%) OAuth2
12 9 (3.64%) Redux
13 8 (3.24%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.24%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.96%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.10%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.07%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.07%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (6.07%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.05%) Replication
6 9 (3.64%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.64%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 7 (2.83%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.62%) EMC VMAX
9 4 (1.62%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.62%) PKI
10 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.21%) Autonomous Agent
10 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.21%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.50%) Linux
2 7 (2.83%) Unix
2 7 (2.83%) Windows
3 5 (2.02%) Android
3 5 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.21%) AIX
4 3 (1.21%) zOS
5 2 (0.81%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) CentOS
6 1 (0.40%) Solaris
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (80.16%) CI/CD
2 172 (69.64%) DevOps
3 90 (36.44%) Agile
4 78 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (31.58%) Test Automation
5 57 (23.08%) Observability
6 49 (19.84%) Microservices
7 39 (15.79%) Containerisation
8 34 (13.77%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (13.77%) Software Engineering
9 30 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (11.34%) Cloud Security
11 26 (10.53%) High Availability
12 24 (9.72%) Data Protection
12 24 (9.72%) DevSecOps
13 23 (9.31%) Deployment Automation
13 23 (9.31%) Event-Driven
14 22 (8.91%) Migration
15 21 (8.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 123 (49.80%) Python
2 95 (38.46%) Java
3 55 (22.27%) SQL
4 52 (21.05%) Bash
5 36 (14.57%) PowerShell
6 23 (9.31%) Groovy
7 15 (6.07%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.07%) Shell Script
8 14 (5.67%) TypeScript
9 12 (4.86%) Kotlin
10 11 (4.45%) C#
10 11 (4.45%) Scala
11 9 (3.64%) ActionScript
11 9 (3.64%) Go
11 9 (3.64%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.02%) Bicep
12 5 (2.02%) JCL
12 5 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (2.02%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (2.02%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 37 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.45%) Degree
4 10 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.43%) CISSP
7 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.02%) GCFA
7 5 (2.02%) GCIH
8 4 (1.62%) OCP
8 4 (1.62%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.81%) NCDA
10 2 (0.81%) NCIE
10 2 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.40%) GIAC
11 1 (0.40%) GSEC
11 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.88%) QA
2 14 (5.67%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.24%) WCAG
4 5 (2.02%) GDPR
4 5 (2.02%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.40%) HL7
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 87 (35.22%) Docker
2 12 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.64%) vSphere
4 8 (3.24%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.43%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.62%) NFS
6 4 (1.62%) SRDF
7 2 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.81%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.81%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.40%) KVM
Systems Management
1 104 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 98 (39.68%) Terraform
3 68 (27.53%) Ansible
4 48 (19.43%) Grafana
5 36 (14.57%) Prometheus
6 23 (9.31%) Argo
7 10 (4.05%) Control-M
7 10 (4.05%) HAProxy
8 9 (3.64%) vCenter Server
9 8 (3.24%) Progress Chef
9 8 (3.24%) Puppet
10 7 (2.83%) Istio
11 6 (2.43%) NetBackup
12 5 (2.02%) CASB
13 4 (1.62%) Consul
13 4 (1.62%) Packer
14 3 (1.21%) CA Endevor
14 3 (1.21%) Foglight
14 3 (1.21%) Rancher
14 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (13.36%) Microsoft
2 32 (12.96%) Splunk
3 27 (10.93%) Google
4 26 (10.53%) Dynatrace
5 14 (5.67%) Oracle
5 14 (5.67%) VMware
6 12 (4.86%) F5
6 12 (4.86%) Red Hat
7 9 (3.64%) IBM
7 9 (3.64%) Pure Storage
7 9 (3.64%) Sonatype
8 8 (3.24%) Cisco
8 8 (3.24%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.43%) Databricks
9 6 (2.43%) Dell
10 5 (2.02%) Brocade
10 5 (2.02%) Centrify
10 5 (2.02%) Cribl.io
10 5 (2.02%) CyberArk
10 5 (2.02%) Salesforce