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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 110 128
Rank change year-on-year +25 +18 -45
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 100 54 71
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.30% 1.62% 1.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.28% 12.50% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 37 56
10th Percentile £337 £376 £406
25th Percentile £385 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £573 £525 £575
90th Percentile £619 £620 £597
England median daily rate £515 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £48.75 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £54.38 -
Median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% - -
75th Percentile £51.63 £73.13 -
90th Percentile £56.80 £74.25 -
England median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%

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 470 432 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.82% 12.98% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 253 408
10th Percentile £259 £347 £377
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.76% -2.28%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £615
90th Percentile £650 £643 £672
England median daily rate £500 £517 £550
% change year-on-year -3.24% -6.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 29
10th Percentile £43.13 £51.23 £51.00
25th Percentile £53.75 £54.56 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.02 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.37% -5.57% -
75th Percentile £89.63 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £67.44 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 13 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins in the South East over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Jenkins in the South East

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 13 January 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
Hampshire +25 49 £462 -23.08% 7
Thames Valley +7 38 £500 +9.29% 29
Berkshire +14 32 £463 +18.59% 22
Buckinghamshire -6 5 £575 +6.73% 3
East Sussex +3 4 £565 +38.65% 2
West Sussex -9 4 £385 +18.46% 2
Surrey -18 3 £550 +10.00% 11
Middlesex - 2 £552 - 9
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 - 4
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 14 (14.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.00%) JBoss
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 50 (50.00%) AWS
2 39 (39.00%) GitHub
3 36 (36.00%) Azure
4 28 (28.00%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (26.00%) OpenShift
6 15 (15.00%) GCP
7 14 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (11.00%) Serverless
9 9 (9.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (7.00%) Datadog
10 7 (7.00%) OCI
11 6 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.00%) Azure Functions
11 6 (6.00%) IaaS
12 5 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
13 4 (4.00%) Azure AKS
14 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (3.00%) Azure API Management
14 3 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.00%) DNS
2 5 (5.00%) Kerberos
3 3 (3.00%) SSL
4 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.00%) Firewall
5 1 (1.00%) HTTP
5 1 (1.00%) Internet
5 1 (1.00%) SSH
5 1 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.00%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (23.00%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.00%) Couchbase
4 8 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (8.00%) HBase
4 8 (8.00%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.00%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.00%) Big Data
7 3 (3.00%) MySQL
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.00%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.00%) Parquet
9 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.00%) Redis
9 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (33.00%) Git
2 25 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 22 (22.00%) JIRA
3 22 (22.00%) JUnit
4 19 (19.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 18 (18.00%) GitLab
6 11 (11.00%) Gradle
6 11 (11.00%) JMeter
7 9 (9.00%) Bitbucket
8 8 (8.00%) Artifactory
9 7 (7.00%) Selenium
10 5 (5.00%) REST Assured
11 4 (4.00%) Gatling
11 4 (4.00%) Subversion
12 3 (3.00%) Android Studio
12 3 (3.00%) HP UFT
12 3 (3.00%) Postman
12 3 (3.00%) Storybook
13 2 (2.00%) MLflow
13 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (21.00%) Finance
2 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.00%) Automotive
6 3 (3.00%) Electronics
6 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.00%) Marketing
7 2 (2.00%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.00%) Billing
8 1 (1.00%) Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (31.00%) Developer
2 21 (21.00%) Senior
3 19 (19.00%) Java Developer
4 14 (14.00%) Architect
5 12 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (12.00%) Senior Developer
6 10 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Java Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) AWS Developer
9 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (28.00%) Kafka
2 25 (25.00%) Spring
3 16 (16.00%) REST
3 16 (16.00%) Spring Boot
4 12 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (9.00%) .NET
6 8 (8.00%) Hibernate
7 7 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (7.00%) RESTful
8 6 (6.00%) GraphQL
8 6 (6.00%) React
9 5 (5.00%) .NET Core
10 4 (4.00%) SOAP
11 3 (3.00%) CSS
11 3 (3.00%) HTML
11 3 (3.00%) Middleware
11 3 (3.00%) OAuth
11 3 (3.00%) OAuth2
11 3 (3.00%) OpenID
11 3 (3.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) CAN bus
3 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.00%) Replication
4 3 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.00%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.00%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.00%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (39.00%) Linux
2 9 (9.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.00%) Unix
4 3 (3.00%) Android
5 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.00%) VMS
6 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (77.00%) CI/CD
2 47 (47.00%) DevOps
3 34 (34.00%) Agile
4 30 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 27 (27.00%) Containerisation
6 25 (25.00%) Microservices
7 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (18.00%) Observability
10 16 (16.00%) Software Engineering
11 14 (14.00%) Software Testing
12 13 (13.00%) Configuration Management
12 13 (13.00%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (12.00%) High Availability
14 11 (11.00%) Regression Testing
14 11 (11.00%) TDD
15 10 (10.00%) Migration
15 10 (10.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.00%) Python
2 37 (37.00%) Java
3 20 (20.00%) C#
4 17 (17.00%) Bash
5 15 (15.00%) SQL
6 12 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 9 (9.00%) Shell Script
9 7 (7.00%) C++
10 6 (6.00%) Embedded C++
10 6 (6.00%) Go
11 5 (5.00%) PHP
12 3 (3.00%) PL/SQL
12 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
12 3 (3.00%) VBScript
13 1 (1.00%) Groovy
13 1 (1.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (37.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.00%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (9.00%) OCP
5 6 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.00%) Degree
6 5 (5.00%) RHCE
7 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.00%) OCA
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.00%) CCNA
9 1 (1.00%) CCNP
9 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.00%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) NIST
3 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.00%) GDPR
5 1 (1.00%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 33 (33.00%) Docker
2 9 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.00%) VMware NSX
3 6 (6.00%) vSphere
4 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (51.00%) Kubernetes
2 35 (35.00%) Ansible
3 29 (29.00%) Terraform
4 13 (13.00%) Grafana
5 11 (11.00%) Progress Chef
6 7 (7.00%) Argo
6 7 (7.00%) Prometheus
7 6 (6.00%) vCenter Server
8 3 (3.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (2.00%) Puppet
10 1 (1.00%) Istio
10 1 (1.00%) Kubeflow
10 1 (1.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) Red Hat
2 15 (15.00%) VMware
3 11 (11.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.00%) Atlassian
5 6 (6.00%) Oracle
5 6 (6.00%) Pure Storage
6 5 (5.00%) Confluent
6 5 (5.00%) IBM
7 3 (3.00%) Coverity
7 3 (3.00%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.00%) Google
7 3 (3.00%) SAP
7 3 (3.00%) Thales
8 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.00%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.00%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.00%) Splunk