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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 82 97
Rank change year-on-year -75 +15 +10
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 68 87 86
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.02% 2.48% 1.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.83% 22.25% 15.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 51 76
10th Percentile £280 £288 £390
25th Percentile £419 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.30% -4.13%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £620
90th Percentile £630 £625 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £67.93 £53.25 -
25th Percentile £69.90 £54.38 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% - -
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -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 530 391 547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.97% 11.16% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 269 349
10th Percentile £275 £279 £325
25th Percentile £400 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -4.78% -4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £603
90th Percentile £658 £616 £651
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 22 32
10th Percentile £47.50 - £45.12
25th Percentile £54.37 £50.00 £54.56
Median hourly rate £68.22 £55.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% -16.03% +13.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.95 £88.97 £73.38
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -36 31 £460 -8.09% 11
Berkshire -22 27 £463 -7.59% 4
Hampshire -60 16 £541 +8.25% 11
West Sussex -22 13 £438 +54.73% 3
Surrey -19 7 £460 -27.56% 3
Buckinghamshire -33 4 £210 -47.57% 3
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 (2.94%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (1.47%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.00%) AWS
2 31 (45.59%) Azure
3 26 (38.24%) GitHub
4 25 (36.76%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (33.82%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (26.47%) OpenShift
7 15 (22.06%) GCP
8 9 (13.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (13.24%) Serverless
9 8 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (7.35%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
12 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
13 3 (4.41%) Apigee
13 3 (4.41%) Azure API Management
13 3 (4.41%) Datadog
13 3 (4.41%) Entra ID
14 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
14 2 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (1.47%) Firewall
2 1 (1.47%) HTTP
2 1 (1.47%) SSL
2 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (10.29%) DynamoDB
3 6 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (8.82%) Data Lake
3 6 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.35%) MySQL
5 4 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (5.88%) Couchbase
5 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.88%) Power BI
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.94%) Big Data
7 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.47%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.47%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 34 (50.00%) GitLab
2 24 (35.29%) Git
3 8 (11.76%) JIRA
3 8 (11.76%) JUnit
4 5 (7.35%) Selenium
5 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
5 3 (4.41%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (4.41%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.41%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.41%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.94%) fastlane
6 2 (2.94%) Mockito
6 2 (2.94%) MSTest
6 2 (2.94%) NUnit
6 2 (2.94%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.47%) HP UFT
7 1 (1.47%) Introscope
7 1 (1.47%) Subversion
7 1 (1.47%) Xcode
General
1 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.29%) Banking
2 7 (10.29%) Finance
3 6 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.35%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.41%) Publishing
6 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.47%) German Language
8 1 (1.47%) Military
8 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (25.00%) Senior
2 12 (17.65%) Developer
3 8 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 8 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.88%) Architect
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Database Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Database Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (5.88%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Apigee Developer
7 3 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Lead
7 3 (4.41%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.18%) Terraform
2 10 (14.71%) RESTful
3 9 (13.24%) REST
4 6 (8.82%) JWT
4 6 (8.82%) OAuth
4 6 (8.82%) SOAP
4 6 (8.82%) Spring
4 6 (8.82%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.35%) CSS
5 5 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (7.35%) GraphQL
5 5 (7.35%) HTML
5 5 (7.35%) OAuth2
6 4 (5.88%) ARM Templates
6 4 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 4 (5.88%) JPA
6 4 (5.88%) jQuery
6 4 (5.88%) Kafka
6 4 (5.88%) SAML
6 4 (5.88%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.24%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.47%) Clustering
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.59%) Linux
2 10 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.35%) Unix
4 2 (2.94%) CentOS
4 2 (2.94%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.94%) Windows
5 1 (1.47%) Android
5 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (1.47%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (91.18%) CI/CD
2 45 (66.18%) DevOps
3 27 (39.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (36.76%) Agile
5 24 (35.29%) Containerisation
6 20 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (27.94%) Test Automation
8 18 (26.47%) Microservices
9 16 (23.53%) Software Engineering
10 15 (22.06%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (17.65%) Observability
11 12 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
12 11 (16.18%) Cloud Security
12 11 (16.18%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (16.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (14.71%) Analytics
14 9 (13.24%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (13.24%) Design Patterns
14 9 (13.24%) Runbook
14 9 (13.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (44.12%) Python
2 20 (29.41%) Bash
3 19 (27.94%) Java
3 19 (27.94%) SQL
4 18 (26.47%) PowerShell
5 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.82%) Bicep
6 6 (8.82%) PL/SQL
6 6 (8.82%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.41%) C#
8 3 (4.41%) Go
9 1 (1.47%) Groovy
9 1 (1.47%) Jython
9 1 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.47%) Perl
9 1 (1.47%) Scala
9 1 (1.47%) Swift
9 1 (1.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (51.47%) Security Cleared
2 25 (36.76%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.35%) RHCE
4 4 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (5.88%) CEH
4 4 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.88%) CISSP
4 4 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.88%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.94%) Degree
6 2 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.35%) NIST
3 4 (5.88%) NCSC
4 3 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.94%) WCAG
6 1 (1.47%) GDPR
6 1 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (27.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (52.94%) Kubernetes
2 22 (32.35%) Ansible
3 12 (17.65%) Grafana
4 8 (11.76%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.94%) Kibana
5 2 (2.94%) logstash
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.47%) Argo
6 1 (1.47%) CA Wily
6 1 (1.47%) Podman
6 1 (1.47%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Google
2 11 (16.18%) Oracle
2 11 (16.18%) Red Hat
3 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.35%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.88%) Splunk
6 3 (4.41%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.41%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.41%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.94%) IBM
8 1 (1.47%) Apple
8 1 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.47%) Databricks
8 1 (1.47%) Talend
8 1 (1.47%) VMware