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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 92 119
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 -48
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 86 85 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.47% 1.85% 1.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.11% 15.48% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 74 66
10th Percentile £293 £390 £413
25th Percentile £400 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £544
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.15% -5.43%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £624 £684 £750
England median daily rate £500 £545 £575
% change year-on-year -8.26% -5.22% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £53.25 - £60.25
25th Percentile £54.38 - £68.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £58.75 - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.75 £70.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year -8.93% -4.11% +17.26%

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 389 549 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.17% 11.94% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 348 461
10th Percentile £274 £329 £363
25th Percentile £375 £400 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £506 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -5.81% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £615
90th Percentile £613 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 33 40
10th Percentile - £45.74 £47.66
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -9.16%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.97 £73.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Jenkins as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Jenkins 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +46 45 £500 -14.35% 15
Thames Valley -3 29 £501 -9.00% 18
Berkshire +16 27 £501 -12.96% 10
West Sussex -6 7 £283 -46.14% 9
Surrey -6 2 £635 +15.45% 6
Buckinghamshire -10 2 £401 -23.71% 5
Middlesex - 2 £635 -
East Sussex -2 1 - - 2
Jenkins
England

Jenkins
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.14%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.16%) JBoss
4 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 32 (37.21%) AWS
1 32 (37.21%) Azure
2 15 (17.44%) Amazon EKS
3 13 (15.12%) OpenShift
4 10 (11.63%) Serverless
5 8 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (8.14%) GitHub
7 5 (5.81%) Amazon S3
7 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.81%) OCI
8 4 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.65%) GCP
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (3.49%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.33%) Route 53
10 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) HTTP
1 3 (3.49%) SNMP
1 3 (3.49%) Software-Defined Radio
2 2 (2.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.33%) SSL
2 2 (2.33%) VPN
3 1 (1.16%) DNS
3 1 (1.16%) IPFIX
3 1 (1.16%) MQTT
3 1 (1.16%) Network Security
3 1 (1.16%) SSH
3 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (8.14%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.81%) Couchbase
6 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.16%) Big Data
8 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.16%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 39 (45.35%) JIRA
2 24 (27.91%) GitLab
3 23 (26.74%) Git
4 19 (22.09%) Cucumber
4 19 (22.09%) Selenium
5 17 (19.77%) REST Assured
6 11 (12.79%) SoapUI
6 11 (12.79%) SonarQube
7 9 (10.47%) Bitbucket
8 6 (6.98%) Subversion
9 4 (4.65%) JUnit
10 3 (3.49%) GoogleTest
10 3 (3.49%) JMeter
10 3 (3.49%) Maven
10 3 (3.49%) Mockito
10 3 (3.49%) Robot Framework
11 2 (2.33%) MLflow
12 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
12 1 (1.16%) Gradle
12 1 (1.16%) Poetry
General
1 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.30%) Law
4 6 (6.98%) Finance
4 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Police
6 3 (3.49%) Automotive
6 3 (3.49%) Banking
6 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (23.26%) Platform Engineer
2 18 (20.93%) Senior
3 15 (17.44%) Developer
4 13 (15.12%) Tester
5 9 (10.47%) Architect
5 9 (10.47%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.47%) Java Developer
5 9 (10.47%) Java Engineer
5 9 (10.47%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (10.47%) Software Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Senior Tester
7 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Java Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Java Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (33.72%) REST
2 18 (20.93%) Kafka
3 16 (18.60%) SOAP
4 13 (15.12%) Java EE
4 13 (15.12%) XML
5 11 (12.79%) Middleware
5 11 (12.79%) React
6 9 (10.47%) ARM Templates
7 7 (8.14%) GraphQL
7 7 (8.14%) gRPC
7 7 (8.14%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (6.98%) RESTful
9 5 (5.81%) HTML
10 4 (4.65%) .NET
10 4 (4.65%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.65%) Node.js
10 4 (4.65%) Spring
11 3 (3.49%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (3.49%) CSS
11 3 (3.49%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Private Cloud
2 8 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.81%) Replication
5 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.16%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) IoT
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.60%) Linux
2 5 (5.81%) Unix
3 3 (3.49%) Windows
4 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.16%) VMS
4 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.98%) CI/CD
2 36 (41.86%) Agile
3 35 (40.70%) Test Automation
4 31 (36.05%) DevOps
4 31 (36.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (27.91%) Configuration Management
6 23 (26.74%) Continuous Integration
7 22 (25.58%) Containerisation
8 21 (24.42%) Software Engineering
9 19 (22.09%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (19.77%) Waterfall
11 16 (18.60%) Migration
11 16 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (17.44%) TDD
13 14 (16.28%) Software Testing
14 13 (15.12%) BDD
14 13 (15.12%) Mentoring
14 13 (15.12%) Microservices
14 13 (15.12%) Software Architecture
14 13 (15.12%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.67%) Java
2 37 (43.02%) Python
3 23 (26.74%) SQL
4 16 (18.60%) C#
4 16 (18.60%) JavaScript
5 13 (15.12%) PowerShell
6 8 (9.30%) Shell Script
7 7 (8.14%) Go
8 3 (3.49%) Scala
9 2 (2.33%) Bash
10 1 (1.16%) C++
10 1 (1.16%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 49 (56.98%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.56%) SC Cleared
3 17 (19.77%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (9.30%) Degree
5 5 (5.81%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.16%) CCNA
7 1 (1.16%) CCNP
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.16%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.33%) NIST
2 2 (2.33%) QA
3 1 (1.16%) EU AI Act
3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (32.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Firmware
3 1 (1.16%) Postfix
3 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (45.35%) Kubernetes
2 30 (34.88%) Ansible
3 22 (25.58%) Terraform
4 9 (10.47%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (10.47%) Podman
5 3 (3.49%) Grafana
5 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.33%) Kibana
7 1 (1.16%) Argo
7 1 (1.16%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.16%) Istio
7 1 (1.16%) Kubeflow
7 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.16%) QRadar
Vendors
1 13 (15.12%) Red Hat
2 6 (6.98%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (5.81%) Confluent
3 5 (5.81%) IBM
3 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.65%) Splunk
5 3 (3.49%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.33%) Oracle
6 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.16%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.16%) Google
7 1 (1.16%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.16%) VMware