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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 112 137
Rank change year-on-year +27 +25 -53
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 103 56 65
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.36% 1.62% 1.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.64% 12.50% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 39 50
10th Percentile £331 £383 £411
25th Percentile £384 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -8.59%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £563
90th Percentile £622 £610 £594
England median daily rate £515 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -10.43% +6.48% -10.00%
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 £53.00 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%

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 476 448 589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.90% 12.99% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 262 400
10th Percentile £256 £350 £381
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 £589 £615
90th Percentile £643 £650 £672
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 29
10th Percentile £43.75 £51.23 £51.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.56 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £59.02 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -5.57% -1.96%
75th Percentile £89.63 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £97.00 £67.44 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 6 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins in the South East over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

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 6 January 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
Hampshire +27 50 £462 -23.08% 9
Thames Valley +9 38 £500 +9.29% 31
Berkshire +9 32 £463 +18.59% 21
Buckinghamshire -4 5 £575 +6.73% 5
West Sussex -12 5 £295 -50.83% 3
East Sussex +4 4 £565 +38.65% 4
Surrey -22 3 £550 +10.00% 14
Middlesex - 3 £594 - 9
Oxfordshire - 1 £300 - 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 14 (13.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.94%) JBoss
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 50 (48.54%) AWS
2 39 (37.86%) GitHub
3 36 (34.95%) Azure
4 28 (27.18%) GitHub Actions
5 26 (25.24%) OpenShift
6 15 (14.56%) GCP
7 14 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (10.68%) Serverless
9 9 (8.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (6.80%) Datadog
10 7 (6.80%) OCI
11 6 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (5.83%) Azure Functions
11 6 (5.83%) IaaS
12 5 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.88%) Azure AKS
14 3 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (2.91%) Azure API Management
14 3 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) DNS
2 5 (4.85%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.91%) SSL
4 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.97%) Firewall
5 1 (0.97%) HTTP
5 1 (0.97%) Internet
5 1 (0.97%) MQTT
5 1 (0.97%) SSH
5 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.13%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (22.33%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.71%) Couchbase
4 8 (7.77%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (7.77%) HBase
4 8 (7.77%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.80%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.85%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.91%) Big Data
7 3 (2.91%) MySQL
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.94%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.97%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.97%) Parquet
9 1 (0.97%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.97%) Redis
9 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 35 (33.98%) Git
2 25 (24.27%) Cucumber
3 23 (22.33%) JIRA
4 22 (21.36%) JUnit
5 19 (18.45%) GitLab
5 19 (18.45%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (11.65%) Gradle
7 11 (10.68%) JMeter
8 9 (8.74%) Bitbucket
9 8 (7.77%) Artifactory
10 7 (6.80%) Selenium
11 5 (4.85%) REST Assured
11 5 (4.85%) Subversion
12 4 (3.88%) Gatling
13 3 (2.91%) Android Studio
13 3 (2.91%) HP UFT
13 3 (2.91%) Postman
13 3 (2.91%) Storybook
14 2 (1.94%) TestNG
14 2 (1.94%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (20.39%) Finance
2 17 (16.50%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.59%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.91%) Automotive
6 3 (2.91%) Electronics
6 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.91%) Marketing
7 2 (1.94%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.94%) Billing
8 1 (0.97%) Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (32.04%) Developer
2 21 (20.39%) Senior
3 20 (19.42%) Java Developer
4 15 (14.56%) Architect
5 12 (11.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) Senior Developer
6 10 (9.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (9.71%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Java Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (6.80%) Software Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.83%) AWS Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (5.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) C++ Software Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Embedded Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.13%) Kafka
2 25 (24.27%) Spring
3 17 (16.50%) REST
4 16 (15.53%) Spring Boot
5 13 (12.62%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (8.74%) .NET
7 8 (7.77%) Hibernate
8 7 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (6.80%) GraphQL
8 7 (6.80%) RESTful
9 6 (5.83%) React
10 5 (4.85%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.88%) SOAP
12 3 (2.91%) CSS
12 3 (2.91%) HTML
12 3 (2.91%) Middleware
12 3 (2.91%) OAuth
12 3 (2.91%) OAuth2
12 3 (2.91%) OpenID
12 3 (2.91%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.83%) CAN bus
3 5 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.85%) Replication
4 3 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.91%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.94%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (0.97%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.97%) IoT
6 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (37.86%) Linux
2 9 (8.74%) Windows
3 5 (4.85%) Unix
4 3 (2.91%) Android
5 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.97%) VMS
6 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (76.70%) CI/CD
2 47 (45.63%) DevOps
3 35 (33.98%) Agile
4 30 (29.13%) Test Automation
5 27 (26.21%) Containerisation
5 27 (26.21%) Microservices
6 22 (21.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (20.39%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (17.48%) Observability
8 18 (17.48%) Software Engineering
9 14 (13.59%) Software Testing
10 13 (12.62%) Configuration Management
10 13 (12.62%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (12.62%) TDD
11 12 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (11.65%) High Availability
11 12 (11.65%) Regression Testing
12 10 (9.71%) Migration
12 10 (9.71%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.86%) Java
1 39 (37.86%) Python
2 20 (19.42%) C#
3 17 (16.50%) Bash
4 15 (14.56%) SQL
5 12 (11.65%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.71%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.74%) Shell Script
8 7 (6.80%) C++
8 7 (6.80%) Go
9 6 (5.83%) Embedded C++
10 5 (4.85%) PHP
11 3 (2.91%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.91%) VBScript
12 1 (0.97%) Groovy
12 1 (0.97%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (36.89%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.24%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.68%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (8.74%) OCP
5 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.80%) Degree
6 5 (4.85%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.85%) RHCE
7 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.94%) OCA
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.97%) CCNA
9 1 (0.97%) CCNP
9 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.97%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) NIST
3 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.97%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 35 (33.98%) Docker
2 9 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.83%) VMware NSX
3 6 (5.83%) vSphere
4 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (50.49%) Kubernetes
2 35 (33.98%) Ansible
3 29 (28.16%) Terraform
4 14 (13.59%) Grafana
5 11 (10.68%) Progress Chef
6 8 (7.77%) Prometheus
7 7 (6.80%) Argo
8 6 (5.83%) vCenter Server
9 3 (2.91%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (1.94%) Puppet
11 1 (0.97%) Istio
11 1 (0.97%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.97%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (15.53%) Red Hat
2 15 (14.56%) VMware
3 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
4 8 (7.77%) Atlassian
5 6 (5.83%) Oracle
5 6 (5.83%) Pure Storage
6 5 (4.85%) Confluent
6 5 (4.85%) IBM
7 3 (2.91%) Coverity
7 3 (2.91%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.91%) Google
7 3 (2.91%) SAP
7 3 (2.91%) Thales
8 2 (1.94%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.97%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.97%) Splunk