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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 105 125
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 -52
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 107 70 86
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.59% 1.71% 1.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.31% 13.13% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 53 61
10th Percentile £330 £368 £413
25th Percentile £384 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.29% -6.00%
75th Percentile £587 £538 £588
90th Percentile £619 £650 £650
England median daily rate £515 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -9.85% +3.86% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £41.68 £64.88 £66.63
25th Percentile £44.19 £66.56 £67.19
Median hourly rate £49.25 £71.25 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% +3.64% +26.15%
75th Percentile £55.19 £74.06 £69.69
90th Percentile £58.23 £74.63 £69.88
England median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -5.36% -3.45% +30.63%

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 459 533 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.10% 12.99% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 316 453
10th Percentile £260 £350 £396
25th Percentile £363 £396 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.05%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £655
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 32
10th Percentile £50.00 £51.23 £50.13
25th Percentile £51.00 £55.87 £54.47
Median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £89.63 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins in the South East over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in the South East

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins in the South East over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Jenkins in the South East

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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 27 November 2025. 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 +48 59 £500 -9.09% 6
Thames Valley +4 30 £506 +12.50% 13
Berkshire +3 24 £463 +2.78% 5
West Sussex -13 8 £295 -50.83% 2
Buckinghamshire -8 5 £575 +9.52% 5
East Sussex 0 4 £565 +38.65% 1
Surrey -11 3 £550 +10.00% 5
Middlesex - 3 £615 - 1
Oxfordshire -9 1 £300 +15.38% 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 13 (12.15%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.87%) JBoss
3 1 (0.93%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.12%) AWS
2 39 (36.45%) GitHub
3 34 (31.78%) Azure
4 29 (27.10%) GitHub Actions
4 29 (27.10%) OpenShift
5 11 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (10.28%) Serverless
6 10 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (9.35%) GCP
7 8 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (6.54%) Datadog
9 6 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.61%) Azure Functions
9 6 (5.61%) IaaS
9 6 (5.61%) OCI
10 4 (3.74%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.80%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.80%) Azure API Management
11 3 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.54%) DNS
2 5 (4.67%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.80%) SSL
4 2 (1.87%) Firewall
4 2 (1.87%) VPN
5 1 (0.93%) MQTT
5 1 (0.93%) SSH
5 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.91%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (21.50%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.35%) Couchbase
4 8 (7.48%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (6.54%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.54%) HBase
6 5 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.80%) Big Data
7 3 (2.80%) MySQL
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.93%) Parquet
8 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.93%) Redis
8 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (33.64%) Git
2 28 (26.17%) JIRA
3 25 (23.36%) Cucumber
4 21 (19.63%) JUnit
5 19 (17.76%) GitLab
6 17 (15.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (10.28%) Gradle
7 11 (10.28%) JMeter
8 9 (8.41%) Bitbucket
9 8 (7.48%) Artifactory
10 7 (6.54%) Selenium
11 5 (4.67%) REST Assured
11 5 (4.67%) Subversion
12 4 (3.74%) Gatling
12 4 (3.74%) SoapUI
13 3 (2.80%) Maven
13 3 (2.80%) Storybook
14 2 (1.87%) MLflow
14 2 (1.87%) Postman
14 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (19.63%) Finance
2 16 (14.95%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.74%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.80%) Automotive
6 3 (2.80%) Electronics
6 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.80%) Marketing
7 2 (1.87%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.87%) Billing
7 2 (1.87%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (28.97%) Developer
2 24 (22.43%) Senior
3 18 (16.82%) Java Developer
4 16 (14.95%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (14.02%) Architect
6 12 (11.21%) Senior Developer
7 10 (9.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (8.41%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Tester
10 7 (6.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Java Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.61%) Data Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) C++ Software Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Embedded C++ Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 5 (4.67%) Java Architect
12 5 (4.67%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.84%) Kafka
2 24 (22.43%) Spring
3 22 (20.56%) REST
4 16 (14.95%) RabbitMQ
5 15 (14.02%) Spring Boot
6 12 (11.21%) React
7 10 (9.35%) GraphQL
8 9 (8.41%) .NET
8 9 (8.41%) Middleware
9 8 (7.48%) Hibernate
9 8 (7.48%) RESTful
9 8 (7.48%) SOAP
10 5 (4.67%) .NET Core
10 5 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (4.67%) gRPC
11 4 (3.74%) XML
12 3 (2.80%) CSS
12 3 (2.80%) HTML
12 3 (2.80%) OpenID
12 3 (2.80%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.35%) Private Cloud
2 6 (5.61%) CAN bus
2 6 (5.61%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.67%) Replication
4 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.80%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.78%) Linux
2 9 (8.41%) Windows
3 5 (4.67%) Unix
4 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) VMS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (75.70%) CI/CD
2 41 (38.32%) Agile
3 38 (35.51%) DevOps
4 31 (28.97%) Test Automation
5 27 (25.23%) Microservices
6 26 (24.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (22.43%) Containerisation
8 19 (17.76%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (17.76%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (16.82%) Migration
9 18 (16.82%) Observability
10 17 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (15.89%) Software Engineering
10 17 (15.89%) TDD
11 16 (14.95%) Configuration Management
12 15 (14.02%) High Availability
13 14 (13.08%) Regression Testing
13 14 (13.08%) Software Testing
14 12 (11.21%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 48 (44.86%) Java
2 45 (42.06%) Python
3 26 (24.30%) C#
4 21 (19.63%) SQL
5 20 (18.69%) JavaScript
6 17 (15.89%) PowerShell
7 16 (14.95%) Bash
8 10 (9.35%) Go
9 8 (7.48%) Shell Script
10 7 (6.54%) C++
11 6 (5.61%) Embedded C++
12 5 (4.67%) PHP
13 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
14 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.93%) Groovy
15 1 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (42.06%) Security Cleared
2 27 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (8.41%) Degree
4 9 (8.41%) Oracle Certification
5 8 (7.48%) OCP
6 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.87%) RHCE
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) CCNA
8 1 (0.93%) CCNP
8 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.93%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.93%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) QA
2 4 (3.74%) NIST
3 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 35 (32.71%) Docker
2 9 (8.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.61%) VMware NSX
3 6 (5.61%) vSphere
4 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (48.60%) Kubernetes
2 39 (36.45%) Ansible
3 26 (24.30%) Terraform
4 10 (9.35%) Grafana
4 10 (9.35%) Progress Chef
5 7 (6.54%) Argo
6 6 (5.61%) vCenter Server
7 4 (3.74%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.93%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.93%) Istio
8 1 (0.93%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.93%) Puppet
8 1 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 18 (16.82%) Red Hat
2 15 (14.02%) VMware
3 12 (11.21%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.61%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.61%) Pure Storage
5 5 (4.67%) Confluent
5 5 (4.67%) IBM
5 5 (4.67%) Oracle
6 4 (3.74%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.80%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.80%) SAP
8 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.87%) Splunk
9 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.93%) Coverity
9 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.93%) Google
9 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.93%) Thales