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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 100 132
Rank change year-on-year -4 +32 -46
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 95 54 71
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.86% 1.79% 1.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.86% 13.99% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 36 45
10th Percentile £318 £353 £375
25th Percentile £363 £472 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.70% - -8.68%
75th Percentile £550 £578 £600
90th Percentile £598 £653 £656
England median daily rate £513 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -9.89% +3.41% -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 £47.50 £71.25 £56.25
% change year-on-year -33.33% +26.67% -19.64%

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 532 386 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.41% 12.76% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 220 363
10th Percentile £285 £350 £350
25th Percentile £363 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% -3.20%
75th Percentile £560 £591 £615
90th Percentile £648 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 37
10th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £46.25
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.16 £55.00
Median hourly rate £83.00 £57.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.72% -7.60% +12.61%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.00 £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 9 March 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 9 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Jenkins in the South East

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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 9 March 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 +1 39 £446 -28.79% 14
Thames Valley -14 38 £480 -4.00% 15
Berkshire -6 32 £425 -15.00% 13
West Sussex -8 7 £280 -20.00% 3
East Sussex +6 5 £463 +12.12% 2
Buckinghamshire -14 5 £575 -5.15%
Surrey -25 3 £550 +10.00% 3
Middlesex - 2 £552 - 7
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 9 (9.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) JBoss
2 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (53.68%) AWS
2 41 (43.16%) GitHub
3 34 (35.79%) Azure
4 31 (32.63%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (28.42%) OpenShift
6 15 (15.79%) GCP
7 14 (14.74%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (10.53%) Serverless
9 7 (7.37%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.37%) Datadog
10 6 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (6.32%) Azure Functions
10 6 (6.32%) IaaS
11 5 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.21%) Azure AKS
12 4 (4.21%) OCI
13 3 (3.16%) Azure API Management
13 3 (3.16%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) DNS
2 5 (5.26%) Kerberos
3 2 (2.11%) SSL
4 1 (1.05%) HTTP
4 1 (1.05%) Internet
4 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (37.89%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (24.21%) NoSQL
3 10 (10.53%) DynamoDB
4 8 (8.42%) HBase
4 8 (8.42%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.37%) Couchbase
6 6 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.16%) Big Data
9 3 (3.16%) MySQL
10 2 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (2.11%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.05%) RDBMS
11 1 (1.05%) Redis
11 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (37.89%) Git
2 24 (25.26%) JUnit
3 22 (23.16%) Cucumber
4 19 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (17.89%) JIRA
6 16 (16.84%) GitLab
7 11 (11.58%) Gradle
7 11 (11.58%) JMeter
8 8 (8.42%) Artifactory
9 5 (5.26%) HP UFT
10 4 (4.21%) Gatling
10 4 (4.21%) Storybook
10 4 (4.21%) Subversion
11 3 (3.16%) Android Studio
11 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
11 3 (3.16%) Postman
12 2 (2.11%) Maven
12 2 (2.11%) TestNG
13 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
13 1 (1.05%) Selenium
General
1 22 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.84%) Finance
4 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.16%) Electronics
5 3 (3.16%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.16%) Marketing
5 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.11%) Billing
7 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.05%) Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (36.84%) Developer
2 22 (23.16%) Senior
3 21 (22.11%) Java Developer
4 12 (12.63%) Architect
4 12 (12.63%) Senior Developer
5 11 (11.58%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 9 (9.47%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.47%) Java Engineer
8 8 (8.42%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (7.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) AWS Developer
10 6 (6.32%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (6.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Embedded C++ Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (30.53%) Spring
2 28 (29.47%) Kafka
3 20 (21.05%) Spring Boot
4 18 (18.95%) REST
5 13 (13.68%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (9.47%) Hibernate
7 8 (8.42%) GraphQL
8 6 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (6.32%) React
9 5 (5.26%) .NET
9 5 (5.26%) .NET Core
10 4 (4.21%) CSS
10 4 (4.21%) HTML
10 4 (4.21%) OAuth
10 4 (4.21%) OAuth2
10 4 (4.21%) RESTful
10 4 (4.21%) Vitest
11 3 (3.16%) ARM Templates
11 3 (3.16%) OpenID
11 3 (3.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) CAN bus
2 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.11%) Replication
4 2 (2.11%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (38.95%) Linux
2 7 (7.37%) Windows
3 3 (3.16%) Android
3 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 47 (49.47%) DevOps
3 33 (34.74%) Agile
4 29 (30.53%) Microservices
5 28 (29.47%) Test Automation
6 27 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (27.37%) Containerisation
8 22 (23.16%) Software Engineering
9 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (18.95%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (18.95%) Observability
11 17 (17.89%) Software Testing
12 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (11.58%) AI
13 11 (11.58%) Configuration Management
13 11 (11.58%) TDD
14 10 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (10.53%) RBAC
14 10 (10.53%) User Experience
15 9 (9.47%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 40 (42.11%) Java
2 30 (31.58%) Python
3 19 (20.00%) Bash
4 13 (13.68%) C#
5 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.53%) Go
6 10 (10.53%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.42%) SQL
8 7 (7.37%) C++
9 6 (6.32%) Embedded C++
10 5 (5.26%) PHP
10 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
10 5 (5.26%) VBScript
11 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
12 3 (3.16%) PL/SQL
13 1 (1.05%) Perl
13 1 (1.05%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 28 (29.47%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.58%) Oracle Certification
4 9 (9.47%) OCP
5 8 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (8.42%) Degree
6 7 (7.37%) RHCE
7 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.11%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) QA
2 4 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (37.89%) Docker
2 9 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.32%) VMware NSX
3 6 (6.32%) vSphere
4 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (50.53%) Kubernetes
2 29 (30.53%) Ansible
3 24 (25.26%) Terraform
4 14 (14.74%) Grafana
5 11 (11.58%) Progress Chef
6 8 (8.42%) Prometheus
7 6 (6.32%) Argo
7 6 (6.32%) vCenter Server
8 3 (3.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (2.11%) Puppet
10 1 (1.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (1.05%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (15.79%) Red Hat
1 15 (15.79%) VMware
2 9 (9.47%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.42%) Atlassian
4 6 (6.32%) Pure Storage
5 4 (4.21%) Google
5 4 (4.21%) Oracle
6 3 (3.16%) Coverity
6 3 (3.16%) SAP
6 3 (3.16%) Thales
7 2 (2.11%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.11%) Confluent
7 2 (2.11%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.11%) IBM
8 1 (1.05%) Databricks
8 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.05%) Splunk