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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 81 116
Rank change year-on-year -62 +35 -22
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 67 72 83
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.12% 2.45% 1.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.91% 20.57% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 38 63
10th Percentile £280 £332 £390
25th Percentile £345 £401 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £549 £525 £644
90th Percentile £649 £599 £688
England median daily rate £500 £501 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -9.00% -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 £62.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.83% -17.86% -6.67%

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 519 350 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.68% 11.93% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 221 335
10th Percentile £280 £350 £325
25th Percentile £368 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £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 54 20 37
10th Percentile £56.50 £47.25 £42.45
25th Percentile £70.00 £49.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -15.38% +14.07%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £63.88 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.14% -11.35% +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 24 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 24 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 -41 32 £425 -15.00% 5
Berkshire -24 27 £460 -8.00% 3
Hampshire -38 16 £550 +15.79% 4
West Sussex -13 10 £280 -2.78% 1
Surrey -19 5 £481 -3.75% 3
Buckinghamshire -39 5 £212 -63.13% 1
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 3 (4.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (2.99%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.99%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.99%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) AWS
2 26 (38.81%) Azure
3 17 (25.37%) GitHub
4 16 (23.88%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (22.39%) OpenShift
6 13 (19.40%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (14.93%) GCP
8 8 (11.94%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.96%) Serverless
10 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (5.97%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (4.48%) Azure AKS
13 2 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (2.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) DNS
2 3 (4.48%) Firewall
2 3 (4.48%) HTTP
2 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.99%) SSL
4 1 (1.49%) BGP
4 1 (1.49%) Internet
4 1 (1.49%) LAN
4 1 (1.49%) Network Security
4 1 (1.49%) OSPF
4 1 (1.49%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.49%) VPN
4 1 (1.49%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (16.42%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.96%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.99%) Big Data
6 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.49%) HBase
Development Applications
1 27 (40.30%) Git
2 22 (32.84%) GitLab
3 11 (16.42%) JIRA
4 6 (8.96%) Bitbucket
4 6 (8.96%) JUnit
5 5 (7.46%) HP UFT
5 5 (7.46%) Selenium
5 5 (7.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (5.97%) Android Studio
7 3 (4.48%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.48%) SpecFlow
7 3 (4.48%) Subversion
7 3 (4.48%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.48%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.99%) fastlane
8 2 (2.99%) Introscope
8 2 (2.99%) Mockito
8 2 (2.99%) MSTest
8 2 (2.99%) NUnit
General
1 13 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.49%) Finance
5 1 (1.49%) Military
5 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Developer
2 13 (19.40%) Senior
3 8 (11.94%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Software Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Test Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Architect
5 6 (8.96%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Android Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) AWS Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Lead
8 3 (4.48%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Data Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) REST
2 7 (10.45%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (10.45%) Kafka
3 6 (8.96%) RESTful
3 6 (8.96%) Spring
3 6 (8.96%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.46%) GraphQL
5 4 (5.97%) SOAP
6 3 (4.48%) JWT
6 3 (4.48%) OAuth
6 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.48%) React
7 2 (2.99%) ADO
7 2 (2.99%) JDBC
7 2 (2.99%) JMS
7 2 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (2.99%) PySpark
7 2 (2.99%) Web Services
7 2 (2.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.46%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.99%) Clustering
5 2 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.99%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.37%) Linux
2 7 (10.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.97%) Android
3 4 (5.97%) Windows
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.99%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.99%) Unix
5 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (88.06%) CI/CD
2 43 (64.18%) DevOps
3 22 (32.84%) Test Automation
4 20 (29.85%) Agile
4 20 (29.85%) Software Engineering
5 19 (28.36%) Containerisation
6 17 (25.37%) Microservices
7 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (20.90%) Code Quality
8 14 (20.90%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (17.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (16.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (16.42%) Validation
11 9 (13.43%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (11.94%) Software Testing
13 7 (10.45%) Configuration Management
13 7 (10.45%) Scrum
13 7 (10.45%) Task Automation
13 7 (10.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.84%) Java
2 18 (26.87%) Python
3 13 (19.40%) SQL
4 12 (17.91%) Bash
5 11 (16.42%) PowerShell
6 7 (10.45%) Go
7 5 (7.46%) VBScript
8 3 (4.48%) C#
8 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.99%) Jython
9 2 (2.99%) Perl
9 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.99%) Scala
10 1 (1.49%) Bicep
10 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (49.25%) Security Cleared
2 27 (40.30%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.93%) RHCE
4 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.46%) Degree
5 3 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.48%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.48%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.99%) OCA
7 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.49%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) GDPR
2 2 (2.99%) WCAG
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.49%) NIST
3 1 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (22.39%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (41.79%) Kubernetes
2 15 (22.39%) Ansible
2 15 (22.39%) Terraform
3 13 (19.40%) Grafana
4 12 (17.91%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (2.99%) CA Wily
6 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.99%) Puppet
6 2 (2.99%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.49%) Podman
Vendors
1 17 (25.37%) Red Hat
2 6 (8.96%) Oracle
3 5 (7.46%) Google
4 3 (4.48%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.48%) Coverity
4 3 (4.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.48%) Thales
5 2 (2.99%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.99%) Databricks
5 2 (2.99%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.99%) IBM
6 1 (1.49%) Apple
6 1 (1.49%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.49%) Splunk