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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 103 132
Rank change year-on-year -1 +29 -42
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 94 59 72
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.92% 1.87% 1.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.07% 14.39% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 41 49
10th Percentile £331 £355 £375
25th Percentile £396 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £551 £563 £600
90th Percentile £616 £650 £671
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +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 £54.19
% change year-on-year -25.61% +31.48% -22.59%

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 493 410 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.08% 12.99% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 237 361
10th Percentile £292 £350 £355
25th Percentile £363 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £615
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £505 £535
% change year-on-year -0.99% -5.61% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 35
10th Percentile £47.38 £47.95 £46.25
25th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £54.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% +11.87%
75th Percentile £82.44 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £91.40 £71.63 £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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -2 40 £462 -26.28% 7
Thames Valley -6 40 £443 -11.50% 8
Berkshire -8 34 £425 -5.56% 5
East Sussex +5 5 £463 +12.12%
Buckinghamshire -14 5 £575 -9.80% 1
West Sussex -10 4 £385 +10.00% 3
Surrey -19 3 £550 +10.00% 3
Middlesex - 2 £552 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 - 2
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 9 (9.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) JBoss
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (55.32%) AWS
2 39 (41.49%) GitHub
3 35 (37.23%) Azure
4 30 (31.91%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (28.72%) OpenShift
6 15 (15.96%) GCP
7 14 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (11.70%) Serverless
9 9 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (7.45%) Datadog
10 7 (7.45%) OCI
11 6 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.38%) Azure Functions
11 6 (6.38%) IaaS
12 4 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.26%) Azure AKS
13 3 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.19%) Azure API Management
13 3 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.45%) DNS
2 5 (5.32%) Kerberos
3 2 (2.13%) SSL
4 1 (1.06%) Firewall
4 1 (1.06%) HTTP
4 1 (1.06%) Internet
4 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (32.98%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (23.40%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.64%) Couchbase
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (8.51%) DynamoDB
5 8 (8.51%) HBase
5 8 (8.51%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.19%) MySQL
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.13%) Big Data
8 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (32.98%) Git
2 24 (25.53%) JUnit
3 21 (22.34%) Cucumber
4 19 (20.21%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (18.09%) JIRA
6 16 (17.02%) GitLab
7 11 (11.70%) Gradle
7 11 (11.70%) JMeter
8 8 (8.51%) Artifactory
9 5 (5.32%) HP UFT
10 4 (4.26%) Gatling
10 4 (4.26%) Storybook
10 4 (4.26%) Subversion
11 3 (3.19%) Android Studio
11 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
11 3 (3.19%) Postman
12 2 (2.13%) Maven
12 2 (2.13%) TestNG
13 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
13 1 (1.06%) Selenium
General
1 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.02%) Finance
4 10 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.19%) Electronics
5 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.19%) Marketing
5 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.13%) Billing
7 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.06%) Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.06%) Military
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (36.17%) Developer
2 21 (22.34%) Senior
3 20 (21.28%) Java Developer
4 12 (12.77%) Architect
4 12 (12.77%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (11.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (10.64%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Java Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (7.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) AWS Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) C++ Software Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (30.85%) Kafka
2 27 (28.72%) Spring
3 18 (19.15%) Spring Boot
4 14 (14.89%) REST
5 13 (13.83%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (9.57%) Hibernate
7 7 (7.45%) GraphQL
8 5 (5.32%) .NET
8 5 (5.32%) .NET Core
8 5 (5.32%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.32%) React
9 4 (4.26%) CSS
9 4 (4.26%) HTML
9 4 (4.26%) Vitest
10 3 (3.19%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.19%) OAuth
10 3 (3.19%) OAuth2
10 3 (3.19%) OpenID
10 3 (3.19%) RESTful
10 3 (3.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.38%) CAN bus
3 5 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.32%) Replication
4 3 (3.19%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.19%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.13%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (43.62%) Linux
2 7 (7.45%) Windows
3 5 (5.32%) Unix
4 3 (3.19%) Android
4 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (80.85%) CI/CD
2 48 (51.06%) DevOps
3 32 (34.04%) Agile
4 27 (28.72%) Microservices
4 27 (28.72%) Test Automation
5 25 (26.60%) Containerisation
5 25 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (19.15%) Observability
8 17 (18.09%) Software Engineering
8 17 (18.09%) Software Testing
9 13 (13.83%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (13.83%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (11.70%) Configuration Management
11 10 (10.64%) High Availability
11 10 (10.64%) RBAC
11 10 (10.64%) TDD
11 10 (10.64%) User Experience
12 9 (9.57%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.17%) Java
2 33 (35.11%) Python
3 19 (20.21%) Bash
4 13 (13.83%) C#
5 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.64%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.51%) Shell Script
8 7 (7.45%) C++
8 7 (7.45%) Go
8 7 (7.45%) SQL
9 6 (6.38%) Embedded C++
10 5 (5.32%) PHP
10 5 (5.32%) VBScript
11 4 (4.26%) TypeScript
12 3 (3.19%) PL/SQL
13 1 (1.06%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 29 (30.85%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.70%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (9.57%) OCP
5 8 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (8.51%) Degree
6 7 (7.45%) RHCE
7 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.13%) OCA
10 1 (1.06%) CCNA
10 1 (1.06%) CCNP
10 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.06%) JNCIP
10 1 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.19%) NIST
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (38.30%) Docker
2 9 (9.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.38%) VMware NSX
3 6 (6.38%) vSphere
4 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (52.13%) Kubernetes
2 31 (32.98%) Ansible
3 28 (29.79%) Terraform
4 14 (14.89%) Grafana
5 11 (11.70%) Progress Chef
6 8 (8.51%) Prometheus
7 6 (6.38%) Argo
7 6 (6.38%) vCenter Server
8 3 (3.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (2.13%) Puppet
10 1 (1.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.06%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) Red Hat
1 15 (15.96%) VMware
2 9 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.51%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.38%) Pure Storage
5 5 (5.32%) Confluent
5 5 (5.32%) IBM
6 4 (4.26%) Google
6 4 (4.26%) Oracle
7 3 (3.19%) Coverity
7 3 (3.19%) SAP
7 3 (3.19%) Thales
8 2 (2.13%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.13%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.06%) Splunk