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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 77 97
Rank change year-on-year -88 +20 +8
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 72 89 91
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.07% 2.51% 1.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.59% 22.19% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 53 75
10th Percentile £280 £294 £400
25th Percentile £358 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £501 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -12.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £644 £626 £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 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -4.11%

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 572 401 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.49% 11.31% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 273 355
10th Percentile £280 £295 £323
25th Percentile £402 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £603
90th Percentile £650 £618 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 26 37
10th Percentile £51.25 £48.75 £41.39
25th Percentile £62.50 £50.00 £54.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88.00 £69.56 £70.00
90th Percentile - £86.32 £74.25
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -33 35 £460 -8.09% 8
Berkshire -14 32 £460 -8.09% 6
West Sussex -15 16 £319 +12.82% 2
Hampshire -59 14 £541 +1.93% 3
Surrey -18 4 £413 -35.04% 4
Buckinghamshire -38 3 £210 -63.48% 1
East Sussex 0 1 £323 -
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 (2.78%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (2.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (2.78%) WebSphere
1 2 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (2.78%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (44.44%) AWS
2 31 (43.06%) Azure
3 26 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (36.11%) GitHub
4 22 (30.56%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (23.61%) OpenShift
6 15 (20.83%) GCP
7 7 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (9.72%) Amazon S3
7 7 (9.72%) Serverless
8 6 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
11 3 (4.17%) Apigee
11 3 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (4.17%) Azure API Management
11 3 (4.17%) Datadog
12 2 (2.78%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) DNS
1 3 (4.17%) Firewall
2 2 (2.78%) HTTP
2 2 (2.78%) SSL
2 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.39%) BGP
3 1 (1.39%) LAN
3 1 (1.39%) Network Security
3 1 (1.39%) OSPF
3 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.39%) VPN
3 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.28%) NoSQL
3 7 (9.72%) Data Lake
4 6 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.94%) MySQL
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (5.56%) Couchbase
6 4 (5.56%) Power BI
6 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.17%) Big Data
7 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.39%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 32 (44.44%) GitLab
2 26 (36.11%) Git
3 11 (15.28%) JIRA
4 8 (11.11%) JUnit
5 5 (6.94%) Selenium
6 3 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.17%) SpecFlow
6 3 (4.17%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.17%) WebDriver
7 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.78%) fastlane
7 2 (2.78%) Introscope
7 2 (2.78%) Mockito
7 2 (2.78%) MSTest
7 2 (2.78%) NUnit
7 2 (2.78%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.39%) Subversion
8 1 (1.39%) Xcode
General
1 12 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Banking
4 5 (6.94%) Aerospace
4 5 (6.94%) Finance
4 5 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Publishing
5 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Senior
2 14 (19.44%) Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Apigee Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Lead
9 3 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
9 3 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) AWS Architect
10 2 (2.78%) AWS Developer
10 2 (2.78%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) REST
2 11 (15.28%) RESTful
3 8 (11.11%) Kafka
3 8 (11.11%) Spring
3 8 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 7 (9.72%) GraphQL
4 7 (9.72%) JWT
4 7 (9.72%) OAuth
4 7 (9.72%) SOAP
5 6 (8.33%) OAuth2
6 5 (6.94%) CSS
6 5 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (6.94%) HTML
7 4 (5.56%) Hibernate
7 4 (5.56%) JPA
7 4 (5.56%) jQuery
7 4 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.56%) SAML
7 4 (5.56%) Spring MVC
8 3 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.78%) Clustering
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.83%) Linux
2 11 (15.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (8.33%) Unix
4 4 (5.56%) Windows
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (2.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.39%) Android
6 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.39%) CentOS
6 1 (1.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 45 (62.50%) DevOps
3 29 (40.28%) Agile
4 22 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (29.17%) Containerisation
5 21 (29.17%) Microservices
6 20 (27.78%) Software Engineering
6 20 (27.78%) Test Automation
7 17 (23.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (23.61%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (19.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 13 (18.06%) Observability
10 12 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
11 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (13.89%) Cloud Security
12 10 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (13.89%) DevSecOps
12 10 (13.89%) Runbook
13 9 (12.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 28 (38.89%) Python
2 24 (33.33%) Java
3 22 (30.56%) Bash
4 21 (29.17%) PowerShell
5 19 (26.39%) SQL
6 10 (13.89%) JavaScript
7 8 (11.11%) Go
8 6 (8.33%) Bicep
9 5 (6.94%) PL/SQL
9 5 (6.94%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.17%) C#
10 3 (4.17%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.78%) Jython
11 2 (2.78%) Perl
11 2 (2.78%) Scala
12 1 (1.39%) Groovy
12 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.39%) Swift
12 1 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (48.61%) Security Cleared
2 28 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) RHCE
4 4 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (5.56%) CEH
4 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.56%) CISSP
4 4 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (5.56%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.17%) Degree
5 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.28%) QA
2 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.94%) NIST
3 4 (5.56%) NCSC
4 3 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.78%) WCAG
6 1 (1.39%) GDPR
6 1 (1.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (27.78%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (30.56%) Terraform
3 20 (27.78%) Ansible
4 12 (16.67%) Grafana
5 8 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.78%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.78%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.39%) Kibana
7 1 (1.39%) logstash
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Google
1 13 (18.06%) Red Hat
2 11 (15.28%) Oracle
3 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.94%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.56%) AppDynamics
5 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.56%) Splunk
6 3 (4.17%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.78%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.78%) Databricks
7 2 (2.78%) IBM
8 1 (1.39%) Apple
8 1 (1.39%) Talend
8 1 (1.39%) VMware