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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 80 96
Rank change year-on-year -75 +16 +25
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 69 86 85
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.04% 2.46% 1.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.27% 22.11% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 52 74
10th Percentile £316 £293 £390
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £546 £600 £619
90th Percentile £651 £624 £684
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £67.93 £53.25 -
25th Percentile £69.90 £54.38 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% - -
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +9.80% -8.93% -4.11%

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 520 389 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.85% 11.15% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 268 349
10th Percentile £275 £274 £325
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £603
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 22 33
10th Percentile £47.50 - £45.74
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £54.63
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -15.38% +11.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £88.97 £73.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -46 30 £460 -8.09% 10
Berkshire -21 26 £465 -7.09% 5
Hampshire -55 17 £550 +10.00% 15
West Sussex -19 13 £438 +54.73% 7
Surrey -14 8 £460 -27.56% 3
Buckinghamshire -27 4 £210 -47.57%
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 (2.90%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.45%) CICS
2 1 (1.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (1.45%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.45%) WebSphere Portal
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.83%) AWS
2 32 (46.38%) Azure
3 27 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (36.23%) GitHub
5 23 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (28.99%) OpenShift
7 14 (20.29%) GCP
8 9 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (13.04%) Serverless
9 8 (11.59%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
13 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
13 3 (4.35%) Apigee
13 3 (4.35%) Azure API Management
13 3 (4.35%) Datadog
13 3 (4.35%) Entra ID
14 2 (2.90%) Amazon ECR
14 2 (2.90%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) DNS
2 1 (1.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) HTTP
2 1 (1.45%) SSL
2 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (8.70%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.25%) Data Lake
3 5 (7.25%) MySQL
3 5 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.80%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (5.80%) Couchbase
4 4 (5.80%) Power BI
5 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.90%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.45%) Big Data
7 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.45%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (50.72%) GitLab
2 25 (36.23%) Git
3 8 (11.59%) JIRA
4 7 (10.14%) JUnit
5 5 (7.25%) Selenium
6 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (4.35%) SpecFlow
6 3 (4.35%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.35%) WebDriver
7 2 (2.90%) fastlane
7 2 (2.90%) MSTest
7 2 (2.90%) NUnit
7 2 (2.90%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.45%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.45%) Introscope
8 1 (1.45%) Mockito
8 1 (1.45%) Subversion
8 1 (1.45%) Xcode
General
1 8 (11.59%) Banking
1 8 (11.59%) Finance
2 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Aerospace
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.35%) Publishing
5 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.45%) German Language
7 1 (1.45%) Military
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Senior
2 11 (15.94%) Developer
3 8 (11.59%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Architect
7 4 (5.80%) AWS Database Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Database Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Apigee Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Lead
8 3 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (44.93%) Terraform
2 10 (14.49%) RESTful
3 9 (13.04%) REST
4 6 (8.70%) JWT
4 6 (8.70%) OAuth
4 6 (8.70%) SOAP
4 6 (8.70%) Spring
4 6 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 5 (7.25%) CSS
5 5 (7.25%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (7.25%) GraphQL
5 5 (7.25%) HTML
5 5 (7.25%) OAuth2
6 4 (5.80%) ARM Templates
6 4 (5.80%) Hibernate
6 4 (5.80%) JPA
6 4 (5.80%) jQuery
6 4 (5.80%) SAML
6 4 (5.80%) Spring MVC
7 3 (4.35%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) Clustering
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.19%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.25%) Unix
4 4 (5.80%) CentOS
4 4 (5.80%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.90%) Windows
6 1 (1.45%) Android
6 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (89.86%) CI/CD
2 48 (69.57%) DevOps
3 28 (40.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (37.68%) Containerisation
5 25 (36.23%) Agile
6 20 (28.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (27.54%) Test Automation
8 17 (24.64%) Microservices
9 14 (20.29%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (20.29%) Software Engineering
10 12 (17.39%) Observability
10 12 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
11 11 (15.94%) Cloud Security
11 11 (15.94%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (14.49%) Analytics
12 10 (14.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (13.04%) DevSecOps
13 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
13 9 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.93%) Python
2 21 (30.43%) Bash
3 18 (26.09%) Java
4 17 (24.64%) PowerShell
4 17 (24.64%) SQL
5 10 (14.49%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.70%) Bicep
6 6 (8.70%) PL/SQL
6 6 (8.70%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.35%) C#
7 3 (4.35%) Go
7 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.90%) Groovy
9 1 (1.45%) COBOL
9 1 (1.45%) JCL
9 1 (1.45%) Jython
9 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.45%) Perl
9 1 (1.45%) Swift
9 1 (1.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 24 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.25%) RHCE
5 4 (5.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) CEH
5 4 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.80%) CISSP
5 4 (5.80%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (5.80%) ISTQB
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.94%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (7.25%) NIST
3 4 (5.80%) NCSC
4 3 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.90%) WCAG
6 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.45%) GDPR
6 1 (1.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 20 (28.99%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.45%) RACF
3 1 (1.45%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (55.07%) Kubernetes
2 25 (36.23%) Ansible
3 11 (15.94%) Grafana
4 7 (10.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.90%) Argo
5 2 (2.90%) Kibana
5 2 (2.90%) logstash
5 2 (2.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (1.45%) CA Wily
6 1 (1.45%) Packer
6 1 (1.45%) Podman
6 1 (1.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) Google
2 11 (15.94%) Oracle
2 11 (15.94%) Red Hat
3 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.25%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.80%) Splunk
6 3 (4.35%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.35%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.35%) IBM
6 3 (4.35%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.45%) Apple
7 1 (1.45%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.45%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.45%) Talend
7 1 (1.45%) VMware