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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 113 134
Rank change year-on-year +28 +21 -63
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 98 66 81
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.58% 1.60% 1.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.43% 12.74% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 51 59
10th Percentile £335 £363 £413
25th Percentile £402 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% -8.29%
75th Percentile £596 £564 £588
90th Percentile £619 £650 £630
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £66.63
25th Percentile £56.75 - £67.19
Median hourly rate £58.50 £75.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +9.09% +10.44%
75th Percentile £60.25 - £69.69
90th Percentile - - £69.88
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -3.45% +16.23%

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 437 518 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.51% 12.53% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 313 462
10th Percentile £260 £347 £393
25th Percentile £369 £390 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -10.59% -1.16%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £627 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 31 36
10th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £46.30
25th Percentile £50.50 £55.87 £52.19
Median hourly rate £58.50 £66.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +14.78% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 3 November 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
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 3 November 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 +52 56 £500 +33.33% 6
Thames Valley -3 25 £525 +15.65% 65
Berkshire +11 19 £513 +13.89% 41
West Sussex -10 8 £288 -52.00% 6
Buckinghamshire -1 5 £575 +4.07% 17
East Sussex -1 4 £565 +38.65% 1
Surrey -8 3 £580 +16.00% 10
Middlesex - 2 £635 - 2
Oxfordshire -10 1 £300 +15.38% 7
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 (12.24%) Confluence
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.04%) JBoss
4 1 (1.02%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.02%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) AWS
2 33 (33.67%) Azure
3 27 (27.55%) GitHub
4 24 (24.49%) OpenShift
5 20 (20.41%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (13.27%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (11.22%) Serverless
8 8 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (8.16%) GCP
9 7 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.12%) Amazon S3
10 6 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.12%) Datadog
10 6 (6.12%) IaaS
11 5 (5.10%) OCI
12 3 (3.06%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.06%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (3.06%) Entra ID
12 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) DNS
2 4 (4.08%) Kerberos
3 3 (3.06%) SSL
4 2 (2.04%) Firewall
4 2 (2.04%) VPN
5 1 (1.02%) MQTT
5 1 (1.02%) SSH
5 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (25.51%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (22.45%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.20%) Couchbase
4 8 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 6 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.12%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (5.10%) HBase
8 4 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.06%) Big Data
9 3 (3.06%) MySQL
10 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.02%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.02%) Parquet
10 1 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (29.59%) Git
1 29 (29.59%) JIRA
2 18 (18.37%) GitLab
3 15 (15.31%) Cucumber
4 12 (12.24%) JUnit
5 9 (9.18%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (8.16%) Bitbucket
7 6 (6.12%) Artifactory
7 6 (6.12%) Gradle
7 6 (6.12%) JMeter
7 6 (6.12%) Selenium
7 6 (6.12%) SoapUI
8 5 (5.10%) Subversion
9 4 (4.08%) REST Assured
10 3 (3.06%) Storybook
11 2 (2.04%) Gatling
11 2 (2.04%) Maven
11 2 (2.04%) MLflow
12 1 (1.02%) LoadRunner
12 1 (1.02%) NUnit
General
1 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (13.27%) Finance
1 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.08%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.06%) Automotive
4 3 (3.06%) Banking
4 3 (3.06%) Electronics
4 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.06%) Marketing
4 3 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.04%) Billing
5 2 (2.04%) Retail
6 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (25.51%) Senior
2 22 (22.45%) Developer
3 21 (21.43%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (15.31%) Architect
5 10 (10.20%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.20%) Tester
6 9 (9.18%) Data Engineer
6 9 (9.18%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Tester
8 6 (6.12%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Embedded C++ Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Embedded Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Java Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.61%) Kafka
2 20 (20.41%) REST
3 16 (16.33%) RabbitMQ
4 15 (15.31%) React
5 14 (14.29%) Spring
6 12 (12.24%) Middleware
7 10 (10.20%) SOAP
7 10 (10.20%) Spring Boot
8 9 (9.18%) GraphQL
9 8 (8.16%) RESTful
10 7 (7.14%) .NET
11 6 (6.12%) gRPC
11 6 (6.12%) XML
12 4 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (4.08%) Hibernate
13 3 (3.06%) CSS
13 3 (3.06%) HTML
13 3 (3.06%) OAuth
13 3 (3.06%) OpenID
13 3 (3.06%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.27%) Private Cloud
2 6 (6.12%) CAN bus
2 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.10%) Replication
4 4 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.06%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.02%) IoT
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (29.59%) Linux
2 9 (9.18%) Windows
3 5 (5.10%) Unix
4 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.02%) VMS
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 38 (38.78%) Agile
3 34 (34.69%) DevOps
4 28 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (25.51%) Test Automation
6 23 (23.47%) Microservices
7 21 (21.43%) Migration
8 20 (20.41%) Containerisation
9 19 (19.39%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (19.39%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (18.37%) Configuration Management
11 17 (17.35%) TDD
12 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (15.31%) Software Engineering
14 14 (14.29%) Observability
14 14 (14.29%) Regression Testing
14 14 (14.29%) Software Testing
15 13 (13.27%) High Availability
16 11 (11.22%) Open Source
16 11 (11.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 49 (50.00%) Python
2 42 (42.86%) Java
3 27 (27.55%) C#
3 27 (27.55%) SQL
4 21 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 17 (17.35%) PowerShell
6 13 (13.27%) Bash
7 11 (11.22%) Go
8 8 (8.16%) Shell Script
9 7 (7.14%) C++
10 6 (6.12%) Embedded C++
11 3 (3.06%) PHP
11 3 (3.06%) Scala
11 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
12 1 (1.02%) Groovy
12 1 (1.02%) Perl
12 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (43.88%) Security Cleared
2 26 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.24%) DV Cleared
4 11 (11.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (11.22%) Degree
5 6 (6.12%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.10%) OCP
6 5 (5.10%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.02%) CCNA
8 1 (1.02%) CCNP
8 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.02%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.06%) NIST
2 3 (3.06%) QA
3 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 33 (33.67%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.12%) VMware NSX
2 6 (6.12%) vSphere
3 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (48.98%) Kubernetes
2 33 (33.67%) Ansible
3 23 (23.47%) Terraform
4 8 (8.16%) Grafana
5 7 (7.14%) Argo
6 6 (6.12%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.08%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.02%) CloudHub
9 1 (1.02%) Istio
9 1 (1.02%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 19 (19.39%) Red Hat
2 10 (10.20%) VMware
3 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.12%) Pure Storage
5 5 (5.10%) Atlassian
5 5 (5.10%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (5.10%) Confluent
5 5 (5.10%) IBM
6 4 (4.08%) Oracle
7 3 (3.06%) CyberArk
7 3 (3.06%) SAP
8 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.02%) Splunk