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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 86 110
Rank change year-on-year -53 +24 -21
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 66 66 82
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.11% 2.22% 1.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.72% 19.13% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 33 62
10th Percentile £280 £340 £389
25th Percentile £341 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £549 £525 £647
90th Percentile £638 £618 £688
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.80% -5.50% -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 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.83% -17.86% -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 519 345 533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.72% 11.60% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 213 329
10th Percentile £280 £350 £312
25th Percentile £370 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 20 36
10th Percentile £56.50 £47.25 £41.50
25th Percentile £70.00 £49.50 £53.94
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -13.73% +12.89%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £66.25
90th Percentile - £63.88 £71.88
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.16% -9.04% +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 21 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 21 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 -40 33 £425 -15.00% 9
Berkshire -23 28 £425 -15.00% 5
Hampshire -29 16 £550 +4.76% 5
West Sussex -8 8 £280 -2.78% 2
Surrey -27 5 £481 -3.75% 11
Buckinghamshire -33 5 £212 -63.13% 1
Middlesex - 2 £552 - 7
East Sussex +1 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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 2 (3.03%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (3.03%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (3.03%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.03%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.03%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.52%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (42.42%) Azure
2 24 (36.36%) AWS
3 18 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (27.27%) GitHub
4 14 (21.21%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (21.21%) OpenShift
5 11 (16.67%) GCP
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
6 7 (10.61%) Serverless
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (7.58%) Azure AKS
8 4 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) DNS
2 3 (4.55%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) HTTP
2 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.03%) SSL
4 1 (1.52%) BGP
4 1 (1.52%) Internet
4 1 (1.52%) LAN
4 1 (1.52%) Network Security
4 1 (1.52%) OSPF
4 1 (1.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.52%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.58%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.58%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.03%) Big Data
5 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.52%) HBase
Development Applications
1 30 (45.45%) Git
2 20 (30.30%) GitLab
3 9 (13.64%) JIRA
4 6 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 6 (9.09%) JUnit
5 5 (7.58%) HP UFT
5 5 (7.58%) Selenium
5 5 (7.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (6.06%) Android Studio
7 3 (4.55%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.55%) SpecFlow
7 3 (4.55%) Subversion
7 3 (4.55%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.55%) WebDriver
8 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
8 2 (3.03%) Gradle
8 2 (3.03%) Introscope
8 2 (3.03%) Mockito
8 2 (3.03%) MSTest
8 2 (3.03%) NUnit
General
1 12 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Finance
5 1 (1.52%) Military
5 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) Senior
2 14 (21.21%) Developer
3 8 (12.12%) Software Engineer
3 8 (12.12%) Test Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Architect
4 7 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Android Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Lead
8 3 (4.55%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Middleware Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) REST
2 7 (10.61%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (10.61%) Kafka
3 6 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.09%) Spring
3 6 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.58%) RESTful
5 3 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.55%) React
5 3 (4.55%) SOAP
6 2 (3.03%) .NET
6 2 (3.03%) ADO
6 2 (3.03%) JDBC
6 2 (3.03%) JMS
6 2 (3.03%) Middleware
6 2 (3.03%) OAuth
6 2 (3.03%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.03%) Web Services
6 2 (3.03%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.58%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.03%) Clustering
5 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.03%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.24%) Linux
2 6 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.06%) Android
3 4 (6.06%) Windows
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (3.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (3.03%) Unix
5 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (87.88%) CI/CD
2 43 (65.15%) DevOps
3 22 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 21 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 20 (30.30%) Agile
5 20 (30.30%) Test Automation
6 17 (25.76%) Microservices
7 16 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (21.21%) Code Quality
9 13 (19.70%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (16.67%) Validation
12 10 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (12.12%) Software Testing
14 8 (12.12%) Unit Testing
15 7 (10.61%) Configuration Management
15 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (10.61%) Scrum
15 7 (10.61%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.33%) Java
2 17 (25.76%) Python
3 13 (19.70%) Bash
4 12 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 10 (15.15%) SQL
6 7 (10.61%) Go
7 5 (7.58%) C#
7 5 (7.58%) VBScript
8 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.03%) Jython
10 2 (3.03%) Perl
10 2 (3.03%) PHP
10 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
10 2 (3.03%) Scala
11 1 (1.52%) Bicep
11 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (46.97%) Security Cleared
2 24 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.64%) RHCE
4 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.58%) Degree
5 3 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (3.03%) OCA
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.52%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.64%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.03%) GDPR
2 2 (3.03%) WCAG
3 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.52%) NIST
3 1 (1.52%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 18 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (22.73%) Ansible
2 15 (22.73%) Terraform
3 13 (19.70%) Grafana
4 12 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (3.03%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.03%) Puppet
6 2 (3.03%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (24.24%) Red Hat
2 6 (9.09%) Google
3 4 (6.06%) Oracle
4 3 (4.55%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.55%) Coverity
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.55%) Thales
5 2 (3.03%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.03%) Databricks
5 2 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.52%) Apple
6 1 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.52%) Splunk