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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 94 121
Rank change year-on-year -50 +27 -35
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 71 66 85
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.22% 2.19% 1.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.71% 18.49% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 34 62
10th Percentile £280 £365 £389
25th Percentile £331 £466 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -16.67% +1.27%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £647
90th Percentile £583 £626 £688
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -8.33%
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 £54.75 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -15.77% -7.14% -3.78%

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 518 357 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.88% 11.86% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 215 334
10th Percentile £280 £361 £325
25th Percentile £364 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £568 £586 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.41% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 20 33
10th Percentile £54.25 £47.25 £38.65
25th Percentile £70.00 £49.50 £50.75
Median hourly rate £83.00 £56.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.56% -10.00% +11.14%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £65.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.40% -3.85% +5.97%

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 1 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 1 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 -42 34 £425 -15.00% 8
Berkshire -34 27 £425 -15.00% 4
Hampshire -27 22 £435 -19.96% 3
West Sussex -5 7 £280 -20.00%
Buckinghamshire -23 7 £395 -31.39%
Surrey -26 4 £481 -3.75% 3
Middlesex - 2 £552 -
East Sussex +2 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 3 (4.23%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (2.82%) WebSphere
2 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.82%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) AWS
2 29 (40.85%) Azure
3 23 (32.39%) GitHub
4 17 (23.94%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (23.94%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (22.54%) OpenShift
6 13 (18.31%) GCP
7 6 (8.45%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.04%) Serverless
9 4 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.63%) Azure AKS
10 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.82%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.82%) Firebase
11 2 (2.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) DNS
1 3 (4.23%) Firewall
1 3 (4.23%) HTTP
1 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.82%) SSL
3 1 (1.41%) BGP
3 1 (1.41%) Internet
3 1 (1.41%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.41%) LAN
3 1 (1.41%) Network Security
3 1 (1.41%) OSPF
3 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.80%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (18.31%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.04%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.23%) HBase
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.82%) Big Data
6 2 (2.82%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.82%) MySQL
6 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (45.07%) Git
2 17 (23.94%) JUnit
3 16 (22.54%) GitLab
4 12 (16.90%) Cucumber
5 10 (14.08%) JIRA
5 10 (14.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (9.86%) Gradle
7 6 (8.45%) Bitbucket
7 6 (8.45%) Selenium
8 5 (7.04%) HP UFT
8 5 (7.04%) JMeter
9 4 (5.63%) Android Studio
9 4 (5.63%) WebDriver
10 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
10 3 (4.23%) Postman
10 3 (4.23%) SpecFlow
10 3 (4.23%) Storybook
10 3 (4.23%) Subversion
10 3 (4.23%) TeamCity
10 3 (4.23%) TestNG
General
1 16 (22.54%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Finance
3 10 (14.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.82%) Electronics
4 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.82%) Marketing
4 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Military
5 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Developer
2 15 (21.13%) Senior
3 13 (18.31%) Java Developer
4 8 (11.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (11.27%) Software Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Test Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Architect
5 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Java Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Android Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Lead
7 4 (5.63%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.94%) Spring
2 14 (19.72%) Kafka
3 12 (16.90%) REST
3 12 (16.90%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.04%) Hibernate
4 5 (7.04%) React
4 5 (7.04%) RESTful
5 4 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (5.63%) GraphQL
5 4 (5.63%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.23%) CSS
6 3 (4.23%) HTML
6 3 (4.23%) Vitest
7 2 (2.82%) .NET
7 2 (2.82%) ADO
7 2 (2.82%) JDBC
7 2 (2.82%) JMS
7 2 (2.82%) Middleware
7 2 (2.82%) SOAP
7 2 (2.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.04%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Clustering
5 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.82%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (28.17%) Linux
2 5 (7.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.63%) Android
3 4 (5.63%) Windows
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (2.82%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.82%) Unix
5 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (88.73%) CI/CD
2 40 (56.34%) DevOps
3 25 (35.21%) Agile
4 24 (33.80%) Test Automation
5 19 (26.76%) Containerisation
5 19 (26.76%) Software Engineering
6 18 (25.35%) Microservices
7 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (15.49%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (15.49%) Software Testing
8 11 (15.49%) Validation
9 10 (14.08%) Code Quality
10 9 (12.68%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (12.68%) Secure Coding
10 9 (12.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (11.27%) AI
11 8 (11.27%) Unit Testing
12 7 (9.86%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 33 (46.48%) Java
2 16 (22.54%) Python
3 12 (16.90%) Bash
4 11 (15.49%) SQL
5 10 (14.08%) PowerShell
6 7 (9.86%) Go
7 6 (8.45%) JavaScript
8 5 (7.04%) C#
8 5 (7.04%) VBScript
9 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.82%) Jython
10 2 (2.82%) Perl
10 2 (2.82%) PHP
10 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.82%) Scala
11 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (39.44%) Security Cleared
2 22 (30.99%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.27%) RHCE
4 6 (8.45%) Oracle Certification
5 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (7.04%) Degree
6 4 (5.63%) OCP
7 3 (4.23%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.82%) OCA
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.08%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
2 2 (2.82%) WCAG
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
3 1 (1.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 19 (26.76%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (42.25%) Kubernetes
2 17 (23.94%) Ansible
3 11 (15.49%) Terraform
4 9 (12.68%) Grafana
5 8 (11.27%) Prometheus
6 7 (9.86%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.23%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (2.82%) CA Wily
8 2 (2.82%) Puppet
8 2 (2.82%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 12 (16.90%) Red Hat
2 6 (8.45%) Google
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.04%) VMware
4 4 (5.63%) Oracle
5 3 (4.23%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.23%) Coverity
5 3 (4.23%) Thales
6 2 (2.82%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.82%) Databricks
6 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.82%) IBM
6 2 (2.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.41%) Apple
7 1 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.41%) Splunk