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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 83 119
Rank change year-on-year -65 +36 -22
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 63 71 82
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.05% 2.44% 1.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.12% 20.70% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 37 63
10th Percentile £280 £330 £390
25th Percentile £350 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% -16.67% -0.41%
75th Percentile £549 £525 £644
90th Percentile £640 £603 £688
England median daily rate £500 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £40.63 £47.25 -
25th Percentile £41.56 £50.63 -
Median hourly rate £43.75 £56.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - -
75th Percentile £46.56 £60.31 -
90th Percentile £47.88 £63.13 -
England median hourly rate £64.50 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.17% -17.86% -5.41%

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 520 343 537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.66% 11.79% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 219 330
10th Percentile £280 £350 £324
25th Percentile £366 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £555 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 20 37
10th Percentile £55.50 £47.25 £42.45
25th Percentile £68.13 £49.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -15.38% +15.11%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £63.88 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.13 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.27% -7.50% +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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -48 29 £425 -15.00% 5
Berkshire -33 24 £443 -11.50% 2
Hampshire -36 16 £533 +12.11% 6
West Sussex -11 10 £280 -2.78% 1
Buckinghamshire -36 5 £212 -63.13% 1
Surrey -29 4 £413 -15.38% 2
East Sussex 0 1 £323 -
Middlesex - 1 £509 - 1
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 (3.17%) Confluence
1 2 (3.17%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (3.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (3.17%) WebSphere
1 2 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (3.17%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) AWS
1 25 (39.68%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) GitHub
3 16 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (20.63%) OpenShift
5 12 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (15.87%) GCP
7 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 6 (9.52%) Serverless
9 5 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (3.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (3.17%) Amazon Macie
12 2 (3.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
12 2 (3.17%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) DNS
2 3 (4.76%) Firewall
2 3 (4.76%) HTTP
2 3 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.17%) SSL
4 1 (1.59%) BGP
4 1 (1.59%) Internet
4 1 (1.59%) LAN
4 1 (1.59%) Network Security
4 1 (1.59%) OSPF
4 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.59%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (19.05%) NoSQL
3 6 (9.52%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (4.76%) Big Data
6 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.59%) HBase
Development Applications
1 24 (38.10%) Git
2 22 (34.92%) GitLab
3 10 (15.87%) JIRA
4 6 (9.52%) JUnit
5 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket
5 5 (7.94%) HP UFT
5 5 (7.94%) Selenium
5 5 (7.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.76%) Android Studio
6 3 (4.76%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.76%) SpecFlow
6 3 (4.76%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.76%) WebDriver
7 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.17%) Gradle
7 2 (3.17%) Introscope
7 2 (3.17%) Mockito
7 2 (3.17%) MSTest
7 2 (3.17%) Subversion
7 2 (3.17%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.59%) Finance
5 1 (1.59%) Military
5 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Developer
2 13 (20.63%) Senior
3 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Software Engineer
3 8 (12.70%) Test Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Architect
6 5 (7.94%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Android Developer
8 3 (4.76%) AWS Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Lead
8 3 (4.76%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) REST
2 8 (12.70%) Kafka
2 8 (12.70%) RESTful
3 6 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (9.52%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.52%) Spring
3 6 (9.52%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.35%) SOAP
5 3 (4.76%) JWT
5 3 (4.76%) OAuth
5 3 (4.76%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.76%) React
6 2 (3.17%) Apollo GraphQL
6 2 (3.17%) JDBC
6 2 (3.17%) JMS
6 2 (3.17%) PySpark
6 2 (3.17%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (3.17%) Web Services
6 2 (3.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.17%) Clustering
5 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.59%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.22%) Linux
2 7 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (6.35%) Windows
4 3 (4.76%) Android
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (3.17%) Unix
6 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (87.30%) CI/CD
2 39 (61.90%) DevOps
3 21 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 20 (31.75%) Agile
5 19 (30.16%) Software Engineering
6 16 (25.40%) Containerisation
6 16 (25.40%) Microservices
7 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.63%) Code Quality
9 12 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (15.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (15.87%) Validation
11 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (14.29%) Scrum
12 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (11.11%) Software Testing
12 7 (11.11%) Task Automation
12 7 (11.11%) Unit Testing
13 6 (9.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) Java
2 17 (26.98%) Python
3 13 (20.63%) SQL
4 11 (17.46%) Bash
5 10 (15.87%) PowerShell
6 7 (11.11%) Go
7 5 (7.94%) VBScript
8 4 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.76%) C#
10 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
10 2 (3.17%) Jython
10 2 (3.17%) Perl
10 2 (3.17%) Scala
11 1 (1.59%) Bicep
11 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 26 (41.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) RHCE
4 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.35%) Degree
5 3 (4.76%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.59%) OCA
7 1 (1.59%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.05%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.17%) WCAG
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (41.27%) Kubernetes
2 14 (22.22%) Grafana
3 13 (20.63%) Prometheus
4 11 (17.46%) Ansible
5 10 (15.87%) Terraform
6 2 (3.17%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (3.17%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.59%) Podman
7 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (23.81%) Red Hat
2 5 (7.94%) Google
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle
3 2 (3.17%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.17%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.17%) Coverity
3 2 (3.17%) Databricks
3 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.17%) IBM
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.17%) Thales
4 1 (1.59%) Apple
4 1 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow