Jenkins Contract Job Trends in the South East

Jenkins (JenkinsCI)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Jenkins skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 76 108
Rank change year-on-year -78 +32 -7
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 59 79 91
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.95% 2.57% 1.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.26% 21.76% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 45 70
10th Percentile £280 £326 £386
25th Percentile £350 £402 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% -16.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £528 £537 £650
90th Percentile £606 £616 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% -17.86% -4.11%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 524 363 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.39% 11.79% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 237 343
10th Percentile £282 £345 £325
25th Percentile £393 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £619
90th Percentile £661 £626 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 25 44
10th Percentile £55.13 £47.50 £39.07
25th Percentile £63.44 £50.00 £53.94
Median hourly rate £81.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.18% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £75.10 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Jenkins job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Jenkins.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Jenkins

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins in the South East over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Jenkins.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Jenkins

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jenkins within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 June 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
Thames Valley -54 25 £443 -11.50% 8
Berkshire -37 20 £460 -8.00% 4
West Sussex -12 15 £319 +10.76% 1
Hampshire -51 13 £533 +6.50% 6
Buckinghamshire -34 5 £212 -63.13% 3
Surrey -28 3 £413 -15.38% 3
East Sussex -2 1 £323 -
Sussex - 1 £600 -
Jenkins
England

Jenkins
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (3.39%) Confluence
1 2 (3.39%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (3.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (3.39%) WebSphere
1 2 (3.39%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (3.39%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.59%) AWS
2 18 (30.51%) Azure
3 16 (27.12%) GitHub
4 13 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (22.03%) OpenShift
5 12 (20.34%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (16.95%) GCP
7 8 (13.56%) Amazon S3
8 6 (10.17%) Serverless
9 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
11 3 (5.08%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon Macie
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (3.39%) Firebase
12 2 (3.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) DNS
1 3 (5.08%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) HTTP
2 2 (3.39%) SSL
2 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.69%) BGP
3 1 (1.69%) LAN
3 1 (1.69%) Network Security
3 1 (1.69%) OSPF
3 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.69%) VPN
3 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (27.12%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.64%) NoSQL
3 7 (11.86%) Data Lake
4 6 (10.17%) DynamoDB
5 5 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.47%) MySQL
5 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (6.78%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (6.78%) Couchbase
6 4 (6.78%) Power BI
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.08%) Big Data
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.69%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 23 (38.98%) Git
2 20 (33.90%) GitLab
3 10 (16.95%) JIRA
3 10 (16.95%) JUnit
4 5 (8.47%) Selenium
5 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (5.08%) HP UFT
6 3 (5.08%) Mockito
6 3 (5.08%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.08%) SpecFlow
6 3 (5.08%) TeamCity
6 3 (5.08%) WebDriver
7 2 (3.39%) Android Studio
7 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.39%) fastlane
7 2 (3.39%) Introscope
7 2 (3.39%) MSTest
7 2 (3.39%) NUnit
7 2 (3.39%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.78%) Banking
3 4 (6.78%) Finance
3 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Military
5 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Publishing
5 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Senior
2 14 (23.73%) Developer
3 9 (15.25%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Java Developer
4 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Test Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (6.78%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Architect
8 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Architect
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Developer
9 2 (3.39%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) QA Tester
9 2 (3.39%) Senior Middleware Engineer
9 2 (3.39%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.39%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) REST
2 10 (16.95%) Spring
2 10 (16.95%) Spring Boot
3 9 (15.25%) RESTful
4 7 (11.86%) Kafka
5 6 (10.17%) CSS
5 6 (10.17%) GraphQL
5 6 (10.17%) HTML
5 6 (10.17%) SOAP
6 5 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (8.47%) Hibernate
6 5 (8.47%) JPA
6 5 (8.47%) JWT
7 4 (6.78%) jQuery
7 4 (6.78%) OAuth
7 4 (6.78%) OAuth2
7 4 (6.78%) React
7 4 (6.78%) Spring MVC
8 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (3.39%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.08%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.39%) Clustering
5 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Linux
2 9 (15.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.17%) Unix
4 4 (6.78%) Windows
5 2 (3.39%) Android
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (88.14%) CI/CD
2 33 (55.93%) DevOps
3 20 (33.90%) Agile
4 18 (30.51%) Microservices
4 18 (30.51%) Test Automation
5 16 (27.12%) Software Engineering
6 13 (22.03%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (18.64%) Code Quality
7 11 (18.64%) Containerisation
7 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (18.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (15.25%) Design Patterns
9 8 (13.56%) AI
9 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (13.56%) Scrum
9 8 (13.56%) Validation
10 7 (11.86%) Analytics
10 7 (11.86%) Runbook
10 7 (11.86%) System Testing
10 7 (11.86%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) Java
2 18 (30.51%) SQL
3 17 (28.81%) Python
4 12 (20.34%) Bash
4 12 (20.34%) PowerShell
5 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.86%) Go
7 4 (6.78%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.78%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.08%) C#
8 3 (5.08%) VBScript
9 2 (3.39%) Jython
9 2 (3.39%) Perl
9 2 (3.39%) Scala
10 1 (1.69%) Bicep
10 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 29 (49.15%) Security Cleared
2 24 (40.68%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) RHCE
4 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.78%) Degree
4 4 (6.78%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.39%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) WCAG
4 1 (1.69%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (35.59%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.64%) Grafana
3 10 (16.95%) Prometheus
4 6 (10.17%) Ansible
4 6 (10.17%) Terraform
5 2 (3.39%) CA Wily
5 2 (3.39%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.69%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Red Hat
2 9 (15.25%) Oracle
3 8 (13.56%) Google
4 2 (3.39%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.39%) Databricks
4 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.39%) IBM
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Apple
5 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.69%) Coverity
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.69%) Talend
5 1 (1.69%) Thales