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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 108 123
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 -52
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 100 69 85
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.47% 1.67% 1.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.47% 12.92% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 52 61
10th Percentile £332 £365 £413
25th Percentile £382 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £517
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -5.71% -6.00%
75th Percentile £590 £542 £588
90th Percentile £619 £650 £650
England median daily rate £515 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -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 445 534 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.98% 12.96% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 318 446
10th Percentile £260 £350 £397
25th Percentile £363 £400 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £613
90th Percentile £638 £650 £654
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 33
10th Percentile £50.00 £51.23 £50.25
25th Percentile £51.00 £55.87 £54.50
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

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 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 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 +39 58 £500 -9.09% 7
Thames Valley -11 26 £513 +13.89% 16
Berkshire +2 20 £469 +4.17% 7
West Sussex -13 7 £309 -48.54% 2
Buckinghamshire -9 5 £575 +9.52% 5
East Sussex +2 4 £565 +38.65% 2
Middlesex - 3 £615 - 1
Surrey -12 2 £580 +16.00% 7
Oxfordshire -9 1 £300 +15.38% 5
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 12 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.00%) JBoss
3 1 (1.00%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.00%) AWS
2 36 (36.00%) GitHub
3 31 (31.00%) Azure
4 27 (27.00%) OpenShift
5 26 (26.00%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (10.00%) Serverless
7 9 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.00%) GCP
9 7 (7.00%) Datadog
10 6 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.00%) IaaS
11 5 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.00%) Azure Functions
11 5 (5.00%) OCI
12 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.00%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.00%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
13 2 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.00%) DNS
2 5 (5.00%) Kerberos
3 3 (3.00%) SSL
4 2 (2.00%) Firewall
4 2 (2.00%) VPN
5 1 (1.00%) MQTT
5 1 (1.00%) SSH
5 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (32.00%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (23.00%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.00%) Couchbase
4 8 (8.00%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.00%) DynamoDB
5 7 (7.00%) HBase
6 6 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.00%) Big Data
8 3 (3.00%) MySQL
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.00%) Parquet
9 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.00%) Redis
9 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (32.00%) Git
2 27 (27.00%) JIRA
3 25 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 21 (21.00%) JUnit
5 17 (17.00%) GitLab
5 17 (17.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (11.00%) Gradle
6 11 (11.00%) JMeter
7 8 (8.00%) Artifactory
7 8 (8.00%) Bitbucket
8 7 (7.00%) Selenium
9 5 (5.00%) REST Assured
10 4 (4.00%) Gatling
10 4 (4.00%) SoapUI
10 4 (4.00%) Subversion
11 3 (3.00%) Maven
11 3 (3.00%) Storybook
12 2 (2.00%) MLflow
12 2 (2.00%) Postman
12 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (21.00%) Finance
2 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.00%) Automotive
6 3 (3.00%) Electronics
6 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.00%) Marketing
7 2 (2.00%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.00%) Billing
7 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Banking
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (30.00%) Developer
2 23 (23.00%) Senior
3 18 (18.00%) Java Developer
4 16 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (13.00%) Architect
6 12 (12.00%) Senior Developer
7 10 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) Tester
9 7 (7.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (7.00%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Java Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) AWS Developer
11 5 (5.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Java Architect
11 5 (5.00%) Java Solutions Architect
11 5 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (33.00%) Kafka
2 23 (23.00%) Spring
3 22 (22.00%) REST
4 16 (16.00%) RabbitMQ
5 14 (14.00%) Spring Boot
6 12 (12.00%) React
7 10 (10.00%) GraphQL
8 9 (9.00%) .NET
8 9 (9.00%) Middleware
9 8 (8.00%) Hibernate
9 8 (8.00%) RESTful
9 8 (8.00%) SOAP
10 5 (5.00%) .NET Core
10 5 (5.00%) gRPC
11 4 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (4.00%) XML
12 3 (3.00%) CSS
12 3 (3.00%) HTML
12 3 (3.00%) OAuth
12 3 (3.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 6 (6.00%) CAN bus
3 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.00%) Replication
4 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.00%) IoT
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.00%) Linux
2 9 (9.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.00%) Unix
4 2 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.00%) VMS
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (74.00%) CI/CD
2 39 (39.00%) Agile
3 33 (33.00%) DevOps
4 29 (29.00%) Test Automation
5 23 (23.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (23.00%) Microservices
6 20 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 19 (19.00%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (18.00%) Migration
9 17 (17.00%) Observability
9 17 (17.00%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (17.00%) TDD
10 15 (15.00%) Configuration Management
10 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 14 (14.00%) Regression Testing
12 13 (13.00%) High Availability
12 13 (13.00%) Software Testing
13 12 (12.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (11.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 47 (47.00%) Java
2 44 (44.00%) Python
3 26 (26.00%) C#
4 20 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 20 (20.00%) SQL
5 16 (16.00%) PowerShell
6 15 (15.00%) Bash
7 10 (10.00%) Go
8 8 (8.00%) Shell Script
9 7 (7.00%) C++
10 6 (6.00%) Embedded C++
11 5 (5.00%) PHP
12 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
13 1 (1.00%) Groovy
13 1 (1.00%) Perl
13 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (41.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.00%) Degree
4 8 (8.00%) OCP
4 8 (8.00%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.00%) CCNA
6 1 (1.00%) CCNP
6 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.00%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) QA
2 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.00%) NIST
3 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 33 (33.00%) Docker
2 9 (9.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.00%) VMware NSX
3 6 (6.00%) vSphere
4 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (48.00%) Kubernetes
2 35 (35.00%) Ansible
3 21 (21.00%) Terraform
4 9 (9.00%) Grafana
4 9 (9.00%) Progress Chef
5 7 (7.00%) Argo
6 6 (6.00%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.00%) CloudHub
8 1 (1.00%) Istio
8 1 (1.00%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 16 (16.00%) Red Hat
2 15 (15.00%) VMware
3 11 (11.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.00%) Pure Storage
5 5 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 5 (5.00%) Confluent
5 5 (5.00%) IBM
6 4 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (4.00%) Oracle
7 3 (3.00%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.00%) SAP
8 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.00%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.00%) Google
9 1 (1.00%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.00%) Splunk