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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 108 130
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 -47
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 97 53 70
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.21% 1.57% 1.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.68% 12.21% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 36 55
10th Percentile £331 £373 £405
25th Percentile £380 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £558 £528 £575
90th Percentile £619 £625 £598
England median daily rate £515 £575 £548
% change year-on-year -10.43% +5.02% -8.75%
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 £68.50
% change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%

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 469 434 594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.66% 12.88% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 253 401
10th Percentile £260 £347 £381
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -9.77% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £615
90th Percentile £650 £643 £672
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 31
10th Percentile £41.88 £51.23 £51.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £55.19 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £59.13 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -5.40% -
75th Percentile £80.25 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £98.50 £67.44 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +22 47 £462 -23.08% 8
Thames Valley 0 37 £463 +1.09% 28
Berkshire +11 31 £425 +8.97% 22
Buckinghamshire -6 5 £575 +6.73% 2
East Sussex +3 4 £565 +38.65% 2
West Sussex -8 4 £385 +18.46% 2
Surrey -17 3 £550 +10.00% 2
Middlesex - 2 £552 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 - 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 14 (14.43%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) JBoss
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 50 (51.55%) AWS
2 38 (39.18%) GitHub
3 35 (36.08%) Azure
4 28 (28.87%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (25.77%) OpenShift
6 14 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (14.43%) GCP
7 11 (11.34%) Serverless
8 9 (9.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (7.22%) Datadog
9 7 (7.22%) OCI
10 6 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.19%) Azure Functions
10 6 (6.19%) IaaS
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.09%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.22%) DNS
2 5 (5.15%) Kerberos
3 2 (2.06%) SSL
4 1 (1.03%) Firewall
4 1 (1.03%) HTTP
4 1 (1.03%) Internet
4 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.87%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (22.68%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.31%) Couchbase
4 8 (8.25%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (8.25%) HBase
4 8 (8.25%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.22%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (5.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.09%) MySQL
8 2 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.06%) Big Data
8 2 (2.06%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.03%) Redis
9 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (32.99%) Git
2 25 (25.77%) Cucumber
3 22 (22.68%) JIRA
3 22 (22.68%) JUnit
4 19 (19.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (17.53%) GitLab
6 11 (11.34%) Gradle
6 11 (11.34%) JMeter
7 9 (9.28%) Bitbucket
8 8 (8.25%) Artifactory
9 7 (7.22%) Selenium
10 5 (5.15%) REST Assured
11 4 (4.12%) Gatling
11 4 (4.12%) HP UFT
11 4 (4.12%) Subversion
12 3 (3.09%) Android Studio
12 3 (3.09%) Postman
12 3 (3.09%) Storybook
13 2 (2.06%) TestNG
13 2 (2.06%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (21.65%) Finance
2 16 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.09%) Automotive
5 3 (3.09%) Electronics
5 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.09%) Marketing
5 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.06%) Billing
7 1 (1.03%) Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (31.96%) Developer
2 21 (21.65%) Senior
3 19 (19.59%) Java Developer
4 12 (12.37%) Architect
4 12 (12.37%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (9.28%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Java Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (7.22%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) AWS Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (6.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (5.15%) Embedded C++ Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (28.87%) Kafka
2 25 (25.77%) Spring
3 16 (16.49%) REST
3 16 (16.49%) Spring Boot
4 12 (12.37%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (9.28%) .NET
6 8 (8.25%) Hibernate
7 7 (7.22%) RESTful
8 6 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (6.19%) GraphQL
9 5 (5.15%) .NET Core
9 5 (5.15%) React
10 4 (4.12%) SOAP
11 3 (3.09%) ARM Templates
11 3 (3.09%) CSS
11 3 (3.09%) HTML
11 3 (3.09%) OAuth
11 3 (3.09%) OAuth2
11 3 (3.09%) OpenID
11 3 (3.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) CAN bus
1 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.15%) Replication
3 3 (3.09%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.09%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.06%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.06%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (1.03%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 38 (39.18%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Windows
3 5 (5.15%) Unix
4 3 (3.09%) Android
5 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (78.35%) CI/CD
2 46 (47.42%) DevOps
3 34 (35.05%) Agile
4 31 (31.96%) Test Automation
5 25 (25.77%) Containerisation
5 25 (25.77%) Microservices
6 22 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (20.62%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (18.56%) Observability
10 16 (16.49%) Software Engineering
11 15 (15.46%) Software Testing
12 12 (12.37%) Configuration Management
12 12 (12.37%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (11.34%) High Availability
13 11 (11.34%) Regression Testing
13 11 (11.34%) TDD
14 10 (10.31%) RBAC
15 9 (9.28%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.11%) Java
1 36 (37.11%) Python
2 19 (19.59%) C#
3 16 (16.49%) Bash
4 12 (12.37%) SQL
5 11 (11.34%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.28%) PowerShell
6 9 (9.28%) Shell Script
7 7 (7.22%) C++
8 6 (6.19%) Embedded C++
8 6 (6.19%) Go
9 5 (5.15%) PHP
10 4 (4.12%) VBScript
11 3 (3.09%) PL/SQL
11 3 (3.09%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.03%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.34%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (9.28%) OCP
5 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.19%) Degree
6 5 (5.15%) RHCE
7 4 (4.12%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.12%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.06%) OCA
9 1 (1.03%) CCNA
9 1 (1.03%) CCNP
9 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.03%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.09%) NIST
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (32.99%) Docker
2 9 (9.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.19%) VMware NSX
3 6 (6.19%) vSphere
4 2 (2.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (48.45%) Kubernetes
2 33 (34.02%) Ansible
3 27 (27.84%) Terraform
4 13 (13.40%) Grafana
5 11 (11.34%) Progress Chef
6 7 (7.22%) Prometheus
7 6 (6.19%) Argo
7 6 (6.19%) vCenter Server
8 3 (3.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (2.06%) Puppet
10 1 (1.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.03%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (15.46%) VMware
2 14 (14.43%) Red Hat
3 10 (10.31%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.25%) Atlassian
5 6 (6.19%) Oracle
5 6 (6.19%) Pure Storage
6 5 (5.15%) Confluent
6 5 (5.15%) IBM
7 3 (3.09%) Coverity
7 3 (3.09%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.09%) Google
7 3 (3.09%) SAP
7 3 (3.09%) Thales
8 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.03%) Splunk