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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 70 102
Rank change year-on-year -96 +32 +6
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 60 94 96
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.91% 2.76% 1.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.87% 23.10% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 58 75
10th Percentile £280 £330 £400
25th Percentile £354 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -15.61% -8.85%
75th Percentile £543 £600 £625
90th Percentile £608 £625 £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 £70.00 £60.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -3.45%

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 552 407 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.40% 11.95% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 271 352
10th Percentile £280 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £613
90th Percentile £650 £625 £656
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 29 39
10th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £42.94
25th Percentile £64.38 £50.00 £56.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £88.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £84.33 £75.50
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -49 25 £460 -8.05% 6
Berkshire -36 20 £460 -8.00% 1
West Sussex -17 16 £319 +10.76% 4
Hampshire -63 13 £550 +3.58% 7
Buckinghamshire -33 5 £212 -63.13% 3
Surrey -25 3 £413 -17.50% 6
East Sussex 0 1 £323 -
Sussex - 1 £600 - 1
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 2 (3.33%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (3.33%) WebSphere
1 2 (3.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (3.33%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) AWS
2 21 (35.00%) Azure
3 19 (31.67%) GitHub
4 15 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 14 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (21.67%) GCP
7 12 (20.00%) OpenShift
8 8 (13.33%) Amazon S3
9 6 (10.00%) Serverless
10 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
12 3 (5.00%) Apigee
12 3 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (5.00%) Azure API Management
13 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
13 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
13 2 (3.33%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) DNS
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) HTTP
2 2 (3.33%) SSL
2 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) BGP
3 1 (1.67%) LAN
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
3 1 (1.67%) OSPF
3 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (11.67%) Data Lake
4 6 (10.00%) DynamoDB
5 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (8.33%) MySQL
5 5 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (6.67%) Couchbase
6 4 (6.67%) Power BI
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.00%) Big Data
7 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.67%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 24 (40.00%) Git
2 20 (33.33%) GitLab
3 11 (18.33%) JIRA
4 10 (16.67%) JUnit
5 5 (8.33%) Selenium
6 3 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 3 (5.00%) Mockito
6 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 3 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (5.00%) SpecFlow
6 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 3 (5.00%) WebDriver
7 2 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.33%) fastlane
7 2 (3.33%) Introscope
7 2 (3.33%) MSTest
7 2 (3.33%) NUnit
7 2 (3.33%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.67%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.67%) Subversion
General
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Publishing
5 3 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Developer
2 15 (25.00%) Senior
3 10 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Java Developer
4 7 (11.67%) Software Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Apigee Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Architect
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Developer
9 2 (3.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Middleware Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.67%) REST
2 11 (18.33%) RESTful
3 10 (16.67%) Spring
3 10 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 8 (13.33%) Kafka
4 8 (13.33%) SOAP
5 7 (11.67%) GraphQL
5 7 (11.67%) JWT
6 6 (10.00%) CSS
6 6 (10.00%) HTML
6 6 (10.00%) OAuth
6 6 (10.00%) OAuth2
7 5 (8.33%) Hibernate
7 5 (8.33%) JPA
8 4 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (6.67%) jQuery
8 4 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (6.67%) React
8 4 (6.67%) Spring MVC
9 3 (5.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.33%) Clustering
5 2 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Linux
2 9 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.00%) Unix
4 5 (8.33%) Windows
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (3.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.67%) Android
6 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (86.67%) CI/CD
2 33 (55.00%) DevOps
3 23 (38.33%) Agile
4 21 (35.00%) Microservices
5 16 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 16 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 14 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (18.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (15.00%) Analytics
10 9 (15.00%) Code Quality
10 9 (15.00%) Design Patterns
10 9 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (15.00%) Scrum
11 8 (13.33%) AI
12 7 (11.67%) System Testing
12 7 (11.67%) TDD
12 7 (11.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (43.33%) Java
2 19 (31.67%) Python
3 18 (30.00%) SQL
4 14 (23.33%) PowerShell
5 13 (21.67%) Bash
6 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 8 (13.33%) Go
8 4 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 4 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (5.00%) C#
10 2 (3.33%) Bicep
10 2 (3.33%) Jython
10 2 (3.33%) Perl
10 2 (3.33%) Scala
11 1 (1.67%) Groovy
11 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.67%) Swift
11 1 (1.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (45.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) RHCE
4 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.67%) Degree
4 4 (6.67%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.33%) WCAG
4 1 (1.67%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.33%) Grafana
3 10 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 9 (15.00%) Terraform
5 8 (13.33%) Ansible
6 2 (3.33%) CA Wily
6 2 (3.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (16.67%) Google
2 10 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (3.33%) Databricks
4 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.33%) IBM
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.67%) Apple
5 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.67%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) Talend
5 1 (1.67%) VMware