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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 81 110
Rank change year-on-year -69 +29 -11
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 63 72 84
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.05% 2.44% 1.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.95% 21.05% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 39 65
10th Percentile £280 £334 £393
25th Percentile £350 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% -16.67% -0.41%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £638
90th Percentile £588 £626 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £68.50 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +5.38% -7.14% -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 527 342 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.77% 11.59% 9.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 222 329
10th Percentile £280 £350 £312
25th Percentile £366 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -6.98% -1.56%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £619
90th Percentile £650 £625 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 20 37
10th Percentile £60.00 £47.50 £42.45
25th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -15.38% +15.11%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £64.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins in the South East over the 6 months to 6 June 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 6 June 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 -47 28 £425 -15.00% 8
Berkshire -36 23 £443 -11.50% 4
West Sussex -9 15 £319 +10.76% 1
Hampshire -39 14 £533 +12.11% 7
Buckinghamshire -39 5 £212 -63.13%
Surrey -27 3 £413 -17.50% 5
East Sussex -3 1 £323 -
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 3 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) IBM HTTP Server
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (3.17%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.17%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (36.51%) Azure
2 21 (33.33%) AWS
3 16 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (25.40%) GitHub
4 12 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (19.05%) OpenShift
5 11 (17.46%) GCP
6 8 (12.70%) Amazon S3
7 6 (9.52%) Serverless
8 5 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
10 3 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon Macie
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) DNS
1 3 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) HTTP
2 2 (3.17%) SSL
2 2 (3.17%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.59%) BGP
3 1 (1.59%) LAN
3 1 (1.59%) Network Security
3 1 (1.59%) OSPF
3 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.59%) VPN
3 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (17.46%) NoSQL
3 7 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.52%) DynamoDB
5 5 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (7.94%) MySQL
5 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (6.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (6.35%) Couchbase
6 4 (6.35%) Power BI
7 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.76%) Big Data
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.59%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 26 (41.27%) Git
2 22 (34.92%) GitLab
3 10 (15.87%) JIRA
4 9 (14.29%) JUnit
5 5 (7.94%) Bitbucket
5 5 (7.94%) HP UFT
5 5 (7.94%) Selenium
6 4 (6.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.76%) Android Studio
7 3 (4.76%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.76%) SpecFlow
7 3 (4.76%) TeamCity
7 3 (4.76%) WebDriver
8 2 (3.17%) fastlane
8 2 (3.17%) Introscope
8 2 (3.17%) Mockito
8 2 (3.17%) MSTest
8 2 (3.17%) NUnit
8 2 (3.17%) Subversion
8 2 (3.17%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Finance
5 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Military
6 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Senior
2 13 (20.63%) Developer
3 9 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Test Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.94%) Java Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Architect
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Android Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Lead
9 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) AWS Developer
10 2 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Middleware Engineer
10 2 (3.17%) Senior Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.46%) REST
2 9 (14.29%) Spring
2 9 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 8 (12.70%) RESTful
4 7 (11.11%) Kafka
5 6 (9.52%) GraphQL
6 5 (7.94%) CSS
6 5 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (7.94%) Hibernate
6 5 (7.94%) HTML
6 5 (7.94%) JPA
6 5 (7.94%) SOAP
7 4 (6.35%) jQuery
7 4 (6.35%) Spring MVC
8 3 (4.76%) JWT
8 3 (4.76%) OAuth
8 3 (4.76%) OAuth2
8 3 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (4.76%) React
9 2 (3.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.17%) Clustering
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.05%) Linux
2 8 (12.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (9.52%) Unix
4 4 (6.35%) Windows
5 3 (4.76%) Android
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (3.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 35 (55.56%) DevOps
3 19 (30.16%) Agile
3 19 (30.16%) Test Automation
4 17 (26.98%) Microservices
4 17 (26.98%) Software Engineering
5 13 (20.63%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (19.05%) Code Quality
6 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 12 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (17.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 9 (14.29%) Design Patterns
8 9 (14.29%) Scrum
8 9 (14.29%) Validation
9 8 (12.70%) AI
9 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (12.70%) Software Testing
10 7 (11.11%) System Testing
10 7 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) Java
2 17 (26.98%) Python
2 17 (26.98%) SQL
3 12 (19.05%) Bash
4 11 (17.46%) PowerShell
5 7 (11.11%) Go
6 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.94%) VBScript
8 4 (6.35%) PL/SQL
8 4 (6.35%) Shell Script
8 4 (6.35%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.76%) C#
10 2 (3.17%) Jython
10 2 (3.17%) Perl
10 2 (3.17%) Scala
11 1 (1.59%) Bicep
11 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.59%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (50.79%) Security Cleared
2 25 (39.68%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.11%) RHCE
4 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.35%) Degree
4 4 (6.35%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.76%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.17%) WCAG
4 1 (1.59%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (17.46%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (20.63%) Grafana
3 12 (19.05%) Prometheus
4 8 (12.70%) Ansible
5 7 (11.11%) Terraform
6 2 (3.17%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (3.17%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Red Hat
2 9 (14.29%) Oracle
3 8 (12.70%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.17%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.17%) Coverity
4 2 (3.17%) Databricks
4 2 (3.17%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.17%) IBM
4 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.17%) Thales
5 1 (1.59%) Apple
5 1 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.59%) Talend