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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 79 116
Rank change year-on-year -63 +37 -24
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 61 68 80
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.04% 2.29% 1.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.89% 19.21% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 35 60
10th Percentile £280 £343 £386
25th Percentile £329 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £541 £531 £650
90th Percentile £607 £626 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £40.63 £47.25 -
25th Percentile £41.56 £50.63 -
Median hourly rate £43.75 £56.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - -
75th Percentile £46.56 £60.31 -
90th Percentile £47.88 £63.13 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £61.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.22% -12.50% -6.67%

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 513 354 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.71% 11.93% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 218 328
10th Percentile £280 £350 £311
25th Percentile £365 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £619
90th Percentile £652 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 20 34
10th Percentile £58.00 £47.25 £39.60
25th Percentile £70.00 £49.50 £51.81
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -12.00% +10.68%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £63.88 £70.00
England median hourly rate £67.75 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.45% -7.31% +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

Jenkins
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

Jenkins
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins in the South East over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in the South East

Jenkins
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

Jenkins
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 15 May 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 -47 33 £425 -15.00% 9
Berkshire -26 28 £425 -15.00% 4
Hampshire -34 12 £550 +3.58% 6
West Sussex -12 7 £280 -2.78% 7
Surrey -24 5 £481 -3.75% 5
Buckinghamshire -33 5 £212 -63.13% 1
Middlesex - 2 £552 -
East Sussex 0 1 £323 -
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 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (3.28%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.28%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.28%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (45.90%) Azure
2 22 (36.07%) AWS
3 18 (29.51%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (21.31%) GitHub
5 11 (18.03%) GCP
5 11 (18.03%) OpenShift
6 10 (16.39%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (9.84%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.20%) Azure AKS
8 5 (8.20%) Serverless
9 4 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.92%) Azure Functions
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.28%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.28%) Firebase
11 2 (3.28%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) DNS
2 3 (4.92%) Firewall
2 3 (4.92%) HTTP
2 3 (4.92%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.28%) SSL
4 1 (1.64%) BGP
4 1 (1.64%) Internet
4 1 (1.64%) LAN
4 1 (1.64%) Network Security
4 1 (1.64%) OSPF
4 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.64%) VPN
4 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.95%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (16.39%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.20%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.56%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.28%) Big Data
6 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.64%) HBase
Development Applications
1 30 (49.18%) Git
2 17 (27.87%) GitLab
3 9 (14.75%) JIRA
4 6 (9.84%) Bitbucket
4 6 (9.84%) JUnit
5 5 (8.20%) HP UFT
5 5 (8.20%) Selenium
6 4 (6.56%) Android Studio
7 3 (4.92%) SpecFlow
7 3 (4.92%) Subversion
7 3 (4.92%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.92%) WebDriver
8 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.28%) fastlane
8 2 (3.28%) Gradle
8 2 (3.28%) Introscope
8 2 (3.28%) Mockito
8 2 (3.28%) MSTest
8 2 (3.28%) NUnit
8 2 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Finance
5 1 (1.64%) Military
5 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Senior
2 13 (21.31%) Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Software Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) Test Engineer
4 7 (11.48%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Architect
5 6 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Java Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.56%) Android Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Lead
8 3 (4.92%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Middleware Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) REST
2 7 (11.48%) Kafka
3 6 (9.84%) Spring
3 6 (9.84%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.56%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.92%) React
5 3 (4.92%) RESTful
6 2 (3.28%) .NET
6 2 (3.28%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.28%) ADO
6 2 (3.28%) JDBC
6 2 (3.28%) JMS
6 2 (3.28%) Middleware
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (3.28%) SOAP
6 2 (3.28%) Web Services
6 2 (3.28%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (3.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.28%) Clustering
4 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.28%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.23%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.56%) Android
3 4 (6.56%) Windows
4 2 (3.28%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (3.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (3.28%) Unix
5 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (86.89%) CI/CD
2 39 (63.93%) DevOps
3 19 (31.15%) Agile
3 19 (31.15%) Containerisation
3 19 (31.15%) Software Engineering
3 19 (31.15%) Test Automation
4 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (24.59%) Microservices
6 12 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (19.67%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (18.03%) Validation
8 10 (16.39%) Code Quality
8 10 (16.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (14.75%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (13.11%) Software Testing
10 8 (13.11%) Unit Testing
11 7 (11.48%) Scrum
11 7 (11.48%) Secure Coding
12 6 (9.84%) Fintech
12 6 (9.84%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (34.43%) Java
2 17 (27.87%) Python
3 13 (21.31%) Bash
4 12 (19.67%) PowerShell
5 9 (14.75%) SQL
6 7 (11.48%) Go
7 5 (8.20%) C#
7 5 (8.20%) VBScript
8 4 (6.56%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.28%) Jython
9 2 (3.28%) Perl
9 2 (3.28%) PHP
9 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.28%) Scala
9 2 (3.28%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.64%) Bicep
10 1 (1.64%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (44.26%) Security Cleared
2 21 (34.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.75%) RHCE
4 5 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (8.20%) Degree
5 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (3.28%) OCA
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.64%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) QA
2 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.28%) GDPR
2 2 (3.28%) WCAG
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) NIST
3 1 (1.64%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (29.51%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (42.62%) Kubernetes
2 12 (19.67%) Ansible
2 12 (19.67%) Terraform
3 9 (14.75%) Grafana
4 8 (13.11%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (3.28%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.28%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.28%) Puppet
6 2 (3.28%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.64%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Red Hat
2 6 (9.84%) Google
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.92%) Coverity
4 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.92%) Thales
5 2 (3.28%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.28%) Databricks
5 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.28%) IBM
6 1 (1.64%) Apple
6 1 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) Splunk