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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 106 128
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 -52
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 108 66 77
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.48% 1.79% 1.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.13% 13.61% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 48 58
10th Percentile £330 £390 £413
25th Percentile £384 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.29% -6.00%
75th Percentile £577 £542 £588
90th Percentile £619 £652 £644
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £48.75 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £54.38 -
Median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% - -
75th Percentile £51.63 £73.13 -
90th Percentile £56.80 £74.25 -
England median hourly rate £58.50 £70.00 £72.25
% change year-on-year -16.43% -3.11% +3.21%

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 467 485 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.70% 13.14% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 291 432
10th Percentile £216 £330 £382
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 23 27
10th Percentile £44.38 £51.05 £52.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £54.49 £55.00
Median hourly rate £73.00 £60.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.66% -3.20% -
75th Percentile £89.63 £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.50 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 21 December 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 +33 57 £473 -21.17% 10
Thames Valley -3 33 £500 +10.19% 11
Berkshire +10 27 £500 +11.11% 4
West Sussex -11 7 £295 -43.81%
Buckinghamshire -2 5 £575 +4.07% 5
East Sussex +5 4 £565 +38.65% 1
Middlesex - 4 £594 -
Surrey -15 3 £550 +10.00% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 - 2
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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.85%) JBoss
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (47.22%) AWS
2 40 (37.04%) GitHub
3 37 (34.26%) Azure
4 30 (27.78%) OpenShift
5 29 (26.85%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (13.89%) GCP
7 11 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (10.19%) Serverless
8 10 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (6.48%) Datadog
10 7 (6.48%) OCI
11 6 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (5.56%) Azure Functions
11 6 (5.56%) IaaS
12 4 (3.70%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.70%) Azure AKS
13 3 (2.78%) Azure API Management
13 3 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) DNS
2 5 (4.63%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.78%) SSL
4 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.93%) Firewall
5 1 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.93%) Internet
5 1 (0.93%) MQTT
5 1 (0.93%) SSH
5 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.26%) Couchbase
4 8 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (7.41%) HBase
4 8 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.48%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.63%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.78%) Big Data
7 3 (2.78%) MySQL
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.93%) Parquet
9 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.93%) Redis
9 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (36.11%) Git
2 26 (24.07%) Cucumber
3 25 (23.15%) JIRA
4 22 (20.37%) JUnit
5 20 (18.52%) GitLab
6 18 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (11.11%) Gradle
8 11 (10.19%) JMeter
9 8 (7.41%) Artifactory
10 7 (6.48%) Bitbucket
10 7 (6.48%) Selenium
11 5 (4.63%) REST Assured
12 4 (3.70%) Gatling
12 4 (3.70%) Subversion
13 3 (2.78%) Postman
13 3 (2.78%) Storybook
14 2 (1.85%) Maven
14 2 (1.85%) MLflow
14 2 (1.85%) SonarQube
14 2 (1.85%) TestNG
General
1 21 (19.44%) Finance
2 17 (15.74%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.78%) Automotive
6 3 (2.78%) Electronics
6 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.78%) Marketing
7 2 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.85%) Billing
8 1 (0.93%) Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (29.63%) Developer
2 22 (20.37%) Senior
3 20 (18.52%) Java Developer
4 17 (15.74%) Architect
5 15 (13.89%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 11 (10.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (9.26%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (7.41%) Java Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (6.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (6.48%) Software Engineer
12 6 (5.56%) AWS Developer
12 6 (5.56%) Data Engineer
13 5 (4.63%) C++ Software Engineer
13 5 (4.63%) Embedded Engineer
13 5 (4.63%) Embedded Software Engineer
13 5 (4.63%) Senior DevOps
13 5 (4.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (29.63%) Kafka
2 25 (23.15%) Spring
3 20 (18.52%) REST
4 16 (14.81%) Spring Boot
5 15 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (9.26%) React
7 9 (8.33%) .NET
7 9 (8.33%) GraphQL
8 8 (7.41%) Hibernate
8 8 (7.41%) RESTful
9 7 (6.48%) Middleware
10 6 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (4.63%) .NET Core
11 5 (4.63%) SOAP
12 4 (3.70%) gRPC
13 3 (2.78%) ARM Templates
13 3 (2.78%) CSS
13 3 (2.78%) HTML
13 3 (2.78%) SAML
13 3 (2.78%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.41%) Cloud Native
1 8 (7.41%) Private Cloud
2 6 (5.56%) CAN bus
3 5 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.63%) Replication
4 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.85%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (0.93%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (36.11%) Linux
2 9 (8.33%) Windows
3 5 (4.63%) Unix
4 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) VMS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (76.85%) CI/CD
2 44 (40.74%) DevOps
3 39 (36.11%) Agile
4 29 (26.85%) Containerisation
4 29 (26.85%) Microservices
4 29 (26.85%) Test Automation
5 27 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (16.67%) Observability
8 18 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 16 (14.81%) Configuration Management
10 15 (13.89%) Migration
10 15 (13.89%) TDD
11 14 (12.96%) High Availability
12 13 (12.04%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (12.04%) Regression Testing
13 12 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.52%) Java
2 44 (40.74%) Python
3 24 (22.22%) C#
4 20 (18.52%) SQL
5 18 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 17 (15.74%) Bash
7 15 (13.89%) PowerShell
8 9 (8.33%) Go
8 9 (8.33%) Shell Script
9 7 (6.48%) C++
10 6 (5.56%) Embedded C++
11 5 (4.63%) PHP
12 3 (2.78%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.78%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.93%) Groovy
13 1 (0.93%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (39.81%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.85%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.19%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (8.33%) OCP
5 8 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.41%) Degree
5 8 (7.41%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.63%) RHCE
7 4 (3.70%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.85%) OCA
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.93%) CCNA
9 1 (0.93%) CCNP
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.93%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) QA
2 4 (3.70%) NIST
3 3 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 37 (34.26%) Docker
2 9 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.56%) VMware NSX
3 6 (5.56%) vSphere
4 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 57 (52.78%) Kubernetes
2 40 (37.04%) Ansible
3 29 (26.85%) Terraform
4 13 (12.04%) Grafana
5 11 (10.19%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.48%) Argo
6 7 (6.48%) Prometheus
7 6 (5.56%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.85%) Puppet
9 1 (0.93%) Istio
9 1 (0.93%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.93%) Podman
9 1 (0.93%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 21 (19.44%) Red Hat
2 15 (13.89%) VMware
3 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.56%) Oracle
4 6 (5.56%) Pure Storage
5 5 (4.63%) Confluent
5 5 (4.63%) IBM
6 3 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.78%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.78%) Google
6 3 (2.78%) SAP
7 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.93%) Coverity
8 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.93%) Splunk
8 1 (0.93%) Thales