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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 105 132
Rank change year-on-year +27 +27 -56
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 104 67 88
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.63% 1.63% 1.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.27% 12.69% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 51 63
10th Percentile £329 £363 £413
25th Percentile £380 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.12% -6.00%
75th Percentile £584 £546 £588
90th Percentile £619 £650 £645
England median daily rate £513 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -9.29% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £41.68 £64.88 £66.63
25th Percentile £44.19 £66.56 £67.19
Median hourly rate £49.25 £71.25 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% +3.64% +26.15%
75th Percentile £55.19 £74.06 £69.69
90th Percentile £58.23 £74.63 £69.88
England median hourly rate £66.25 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -5.36% -3.45% +33.03%

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 447 528 684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.33% 12.88% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 319 458
10th Percentile £260 £350 £398
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.76% -2.28%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £613
90th Percentile £630 £650 £654
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 £49.25 £51.25 £50.63
25th Percentile £50.50 £55.87 £54.47
Median hourly rate £58.50 £62.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +5.04% -6.67%
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 - - +5.97%

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 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in the South East

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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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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins in the South East over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

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 17 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 +51 63 £474 +2.49% 8
Thames Valley +1 25 £525 +16.61% 25
Berkshire +3 19 £513 +13.89% 10
West Sussex -11 8 £288 -52.00% 3
Buckinghamshire -2 5 £575 +9.52% 10
East Sussex -1 4 £565 +38.65% 2
Surrey -9 2 £580 +16.00% 13
Middlesex - 2 £635 - 2
Oxfordshire -10 1 £300 +15.38% 6
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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.92%) JBoss
3 1 (0.96%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (41.35%) AWS
2 35 (33.65%) GitHub
3 31 (29.81%) Azure
4 28 (26.92%) OpenShift
5 25 (24.04%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.58%) Serverless
7 8 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (7.69%) GCP
8 7 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.73%) Datadog
9 6 (5.77%) Amazon S3
9 6 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.77%) IaaS
10 5 (4.81%) OCI
11 4 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.88%) Azure API Management
12 3 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.73%) DNS
2 5 (4.81%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.88%) SSL
4 2 (1.92%) Firewall
4 2 (1.92%) VPN
5 1 (0.96%) MQTT
5 1 (0.96%) SSH
5 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (31.73%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (24.04%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.62%) Couchbase
4 8 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (7.69%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.73%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.73%) HBase
6 6 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.81%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.88%) Big Data
8 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.88%) MySQL
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.96%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.96%) Parquet
9 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.96%) Redis
9 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (28.85%) Git
2 29 (27.88%) JIRA
3 25 (24.04%) Cucumber
4 21 (20.19%) JUnit
5 18 (17.31%) GitLab
6 17 (16.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (10.58%) Gradle
7 11 (10.58%) JMeter
8 8 (7.69%) Artifactory
8 8 (7.69%) Bitbucket
9 7 (6.73%) Selenium
10 5 (4.81%) REST Assured
10 5 (4.81%) SoapUI
10 5 (4.81%) Subversion
11 4 (3.85%) Gatling
12 3 (2.88%) Maven
12 3 (2.88%) Storybook
13 2 (1.92%) Postman
13 2 (1.92%) TestNG
13 2 (1.92%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (20.19%) Finance
2 17 (16.35%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.88%) Automotive
6 3 (2.88%) Banking
6 3 (2.88%) Electronics
6 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.88%) Marketing
6 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.92%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.92%) Billing
7 2 (1.92%) Retail
8 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (28.85%) Developer
2 24 (23.08%) Senior
3 19 (18.27%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (16.35%) Java Developer
5 15 (14.42%) Architect
6 11 (10.58%) Senior Developer
7 10 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (8.65%) Tester
9 8 (7.69%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Java Engineer
11 6 (5.77%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Software Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) C++ Software Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Embedded C++ Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 5 (4.81%) Java Architect
12 5 (4.81%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (35.58%) Kafka
2 23 (22.12%) Spring
3 21 (20.19%) REST
4 17 (16.35%) RabbitMQ
5 14 (13.46%) Spring Boot
6 13 (12.50%) React
7 10 (9.62%) Middleware
8 9 (8.65%) GraphQL
8 9 (8.65%) SOAP
9 8 (7.69%) Hibernate
9 8 (7.69%) RESTful
10 7 (6.73%) .NET
11 6 (5.77%) gRPC
12 5 (4.81%) XML
13 4 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
14 3 (2.88%) .NET Core
14 3 (2.88%) ARM Templates
14 3 (2.88%) CSS
14 3 (2.88%) HTML
14 3 (2.88%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.58%) Private Cloud
2 6 (5.77%) CAN bus
2 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.81%) Replication
3 5 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.96%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.96%) IoT
5 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (32.69%) Linux
2 9 (8.65%) Windows
3 5 (4.81%) Unix
4 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.96%) VMS
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (74.04%) CI/CD
2 41 (39.42%) Agile
3 35 (33.65%) DevOps
4 29 (27.88%) Test Automation
5 25 (24.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (23.08%) Microservices
7 20 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 19 (18.27%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (18.27%) Migration
9 18 (17.31%) TDD
10 17 (16.35%) Observability
10 17 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (15.38%) Configuration Management
12 15 (14.42%) Regression Testing
12 15 (14.42%) Software Engineering
13 14 (13.46%) Software Testing
14 13 (12.50%) High Availability
15 12 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
16 11 (10.58%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 50 (48.08%) Java
2 46 (44.23%) Python
3 25 (24.04%) C#
4 24 (23.08%) SQL
5 19 (18.27%) JavaScript
6 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
7 13 (12.50%) Bash
8 11 (10.58%) Go
9 8 (7.69%) Shell Script
10 7 (6.73%) C++
11 6 (5.77%) Embedded C++
12 3 (2.88%) PHP
12 3 (2.88%) Scala
12 3 (2.88%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.96%) Groovy
13 1 (0.96%) Perl
13 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (39.42%) Security Cleared
2 25 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (10.58%) Degree
3 11 (10.58%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.69%) OCP
4 8 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
5 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.96%) CCNA
7 1 (0.96%) CCNP
7 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.96%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.81%) QA
3 3 (2.88%) NIST
4 2 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.96%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 34 (32.69%) Docker
2 9 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.77%) VMware NSX
3 6 (5.77%) vSphere
4 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 50 (48.08%) Kubernetes
2 36 (34.62%) Ansible
3 22 (21.15%) Terraform
4 9 (8.65%) Grafana
4 9 (8.65%) Progress Chef
5 7 (6.73%) Argo
6 6 (5.77%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.96%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.96%) Istio
8 1 (0.96%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 17 (16.35%) Red Hat
2 15 (14.42%) VMware
3 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.77%) Pure Storage
5 5 (4.81%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.81%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (4.81%) Confluent
5 5 (4.81%) IBM
6 4 (3.85%) Oracle
7 3 (2.88%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.88%) SAP
8 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.96%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.96%) Splunk