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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 99 121
Rank change year-on-year -25 +22 -44
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 82 64 86
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.44% 2.14% 1.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.53% 18.03% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 35 63
10th Percentile £280 £370 £390
25th Percentile £350 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £553 £550 £644
90th Percentile £607 £626 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £553
% change year-on-year -5.66% -4.07% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile - £48.00 -
25th Percentile - £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% - -
75th Percentile £44.38 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £47.00 £68.75 -
England median hourly rate £47.50 £66.25 £51.07
% change year-on-year -28.30% +29.74% -30.99%

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 528 355 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.29% 11.85% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 218 343
10th Percentile £285 £350 £325
25th Percentile £363 £423 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 18 32
10th Percentile £54.00 £46.75 £37.70
25th Percentile £66.25 £48.77 £52.81
Median hourly rate £83.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £66.88 £70.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +4.17%

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 April 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

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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 April 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 38 £425 -15.00% 12
Berkshire -26 31 £425 -15.00% 7
Hampshire -18 27 £454 -16.47% 2
West Sussex -5 8 £280 -20.00%
Buckinghamshire -17 6 £575 -
Surrey -24 5 £525 +5.00% 8
Middlesex - 2 £552 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 - 5
East Sussex - 1 £323 -
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 5 (6.10%) Confluence
2 2 (2.44%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (2.44%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.44%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 40 (48.78%) AWS
2 34 (41.46%) Azure
3 33 (40.24%) GitHub
4 25 (30.49%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (23.17%) OpenShift
6 18 (21.95%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (18.29%) GCP
8 8 (9.76%) Serverless
9 7 (8.54%) Amazon S3
10 6 (7.32%) Azure Functions
11 5 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (4.88%) Azure AKS
13 3 (3.66%) AWS CodePipeline
13 3 (3.66%) Azure API Management
13 3 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (3.66%) Datadog
13 3 (3.66%) Entra ID
14 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) DNS
1 4 (4.88%) SSL
2 3 (3.66%) Firewall
2 3 (3.66%) HTTP
2 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.44%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.22%) BGP
4 1 (1.22%) Internet
4 1 (1.22%) LAN
4 1 (1.22%) Network Security
4 1 (1.22%) OSPF
4 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (35.37%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (21.95%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.76%) DynamoDB
4 6 (7.32%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.10%) HBase
6 4 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.88%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.66%) Big Data
7 3 (3.66%) MySQL
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.22%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (37.80%) Git
2 21 (25.61%) JUnit
3 19 (23.17%) GitLab
4 15 (18.29%) Cucumber
5 13 (15.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (13.41%) JIRA
7 9 (10.98%) Gradle
8 8 (9.76%) JMeter
9 5 (6.10%) Artifactory
9 5 (6.10%) HP UFT
10 4 (4.88%) Android Studio
10 4 (4.88%) Bitbucket
10 4 (4.88%) Gatling
10 4 (4.88%) Selenium
10 4 (4.88%) Storybook
11 3 (3.66%) Postman
11 3 (3.66%) Subversion
11 3 (3.66%) TestNG
12 2 (2.44%) Introscope
12 2 (2.44%) Maven
General
1 22 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.85%) Finance
4 12 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.66%) Electronics
5 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.66%) Marketing
5 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.44%) Billing
7 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Military
7 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (34.15%) Developer
2 20 (24.39%) Senior
3 16 (19.51%) Java Developer
4 10 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (10.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.76%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Software Engineer
7 7 (8.54%) Architect
7 7 (8.54%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Java Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (7.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) Test Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) Lead
9 5 (6.10%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.88%) Android Developer
11 3 (3.66%) Kafka Developer
11 3 (3.66%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.83%) Spring
2 18 (21.95%) Kafka
3 16 (19.51%) REST
3 16 (19.51%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.54%) GraphQL
4 7 (8.54%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (8.54%) React
5 6 (7.32%) Hibernate
5 6 (7.32%) RESTful
6 5 (6.10%) .NET
6 5 (6.10%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.88%) CSS
7 4 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (4.88%) HTML
7 4 (4.88%) OAuth
7 4 (4.88%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.88%) Vitest
8 3 (3.66%) Middleware
8 3 (3.66%) OpenID
8 3 (3.66%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.10%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.44%) Clustering
4 2 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.44%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (28.05%) Linux
2 5 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.88%) Android
3 4 (4.88%) Windows
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.44%) Unix
5 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (87.80%) CI/CD
2 44 (53.66%) DevOps
3 28 (34.15%) Agile
4 27 (32.93%) Test Automation
5 23 (28.05%) Microservices
5 23 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (26.83%) Containerisation
7 20 (24.39%) Software Engineering
8 18 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (15.85%) Software Testing
10 12 (14.63%) AI
10 12 (14.63%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
10 12 (14.63%) User Experience
11 11 (13.41%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (13.41%) Observability
11 11 (13.41%) Secure Coding
11 11 (13.41%) Validation
12 10 (12.20%) Code Quality
12 10 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (47.56%) Java
2 23 (28.05%) Python
3 17 (20.73%) Bash
4 14 (17.07%) PowerShell
5 11 (13.41%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.41%) SQL
6 8 (9.76%) Go
7 7 (8.54%) C#
8 5 (6.10%) PHP
8 5 (6.10%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.10%) VBScript
9 2 (2.44%) Jython
9 2 (2.44%) Perl
9 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.44%) Scala
10 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.49%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.76%) Oracle Certification
3 8 (9.76%) RHCE
4 6 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.32%) Degree
4 6 (7.32%) OCP
5 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.44%) OCA
7 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) QA
2 5 (6.10%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.44%) GDPR
3 2 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.44%) NIST
3 2 (2.44%) WCAG
4 1 (1.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 22 (26.83%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (46.34%) Kubernetes
2 21 (25.61%) Ansible
3 17 (20.73%) Terraform
4 12 (14.63%) Grafana
5 9 (10.98%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.76%) Progress Chef
7 3 (3.66%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (2.44%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.44%) Puppet
8 2 (2.44%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.22%) Argo
9 1 (1.22%) Podman
9 1 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (17.07%) Red Hat
2 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.54%) VMware
4 6 (7.32%) Google
5 4 (4.88%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.88%) Oracle
6 3 (3.66%) Coverity
6 3 (3.66%) SAP
6 3 (3.66%) Thales
7 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.44%) Databricks
7 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.44%) IBM
8 1 (1.22%) Apple
8 1 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.22%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.22%) Splunk