Jenkins Contracts

Jenkins (JenkinsCI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Jenkins skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Jenkins over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 97 54
Rank change year-on-year +18 -43 -6
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 886 1,003 2,466
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.03% 2.30% 4.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.62% 19.38% 27.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 715 1,800
10th Percentile £358 £400 £438
25th Percentile £429 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £699
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -6.98% -0.46% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 47
10th Percentile £51.00 £45.88 £51.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.66 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £69.38 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -4.31% +27.75%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £76.75
90th Percentile £76.00 £70.94 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% - +27.27%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Jenkins as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Jenkins in the UK

Jenkins
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Jenkins.

Daily rate trend for Jenkins in the UK

Jenkins
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in the UK

Jenkins
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Jenkins.

Hourly rate trend for Jenkins in the UK

Jenkins
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Jenkins in the UK

Jenkins
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jenkins within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +20 734 £530 -4.07% 509
London +4 420 £575 - 247
UK excluding London +27 342 £500 -6.98% 308
Work from Home +29 307 £538 +2.38% 358
North of England +27 125 £500 - 93
South East +25 65 £500 -16.67% 70
North West +17 62 £470 -10.48% 55
Yorkshire +11 53 £531 +11.84% 31
Scotland -22 52 £497 -2.17% 25
Midlands +48 46 £459 +10.60% 30
South West +10 35 £575 -8.00% 47
West Midlands +30 26 £450 -26.53% 10
East Midlands +22 20 £475 +32.22% 18
East of England +37 16 £513 +5.67% 18
North East +9 10 £465 -15.45% 8
Northern Ireland -5 5 £325 - 12
Wales +4 2 £405 +11.72% 14

Jenkins
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 70 (7.90%) Confluence
2 38 (4.29%) Apache
3 35 (3.95%) nginx
4 25 (2.82%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.58%) JBoss
6 12 (1.35%) Traefik
7 8 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.90%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.79%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.45%) CICS
9 4 (0.45%) CMS
9 4 (0.45%) IIS
9 4 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.34%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.34%) Camunda
11 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.23%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (0.79%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
2 5 (0.56%) Shopify
3 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 421 (47.52%) AWS
2 202 (22.80%) Azure
3 154 (17.38%) GitHub
4 112 (12.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 109 (12.30%) GCP
6 89 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (9.14%) Amazon S3
8 79 (8.92%) Serverless
9 77 (8.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 77 (8.69%) OpenShift
10 69 (7.79%) GitHub Actions
11 65 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
12 63 (7.11%) Amazon EC2
13 50 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
14 44 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (3.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
17 26 (2.93%) PaaS
18 25 (2.82%) Datadog
19 23 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (7.00%) DNS
2 38 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 37 (4.18%) Firewall
4 27 (3.05%) HTTP
5 19 (2.14%) SAN
6 16 (1.81%) VPN
7 15 (1.69%) NAS
8 10 (1.13%) Network Security
9 9 (1.02%) DHCP
10 7 (0.79%) Internet
11 6 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
11 6 (0.68%) SSL
12 5 (0.56%) VLAN
13 4 (0.45%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.45%) SNMP
13 4 (0.45%) Wireless
14 3 (0.34%) DOCSIS
14 3 (0.34%) Kerberos
14 3 (0.34%) SSH
14 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (12.75%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (7.45%) Relational Database
3 58 (6.55%) MongoDB
4 48 (5.42%) NoSQL
5 47 (5.30%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
7 32 (3.61%) MySQL
8 30 (3.39%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.27%) Big Data
10 26 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
11 24 (2.71%) Hadoop
12 22 (2.48%) RDBMS
13 21 (2.37%) DynamoDB
14 16 (1.81%) Oracle Database
15 14 (1.58%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (1.35%) Redis
17 11 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
18 8 (0.90%) BigQuery
19 7 (0.79%) Apache Hive
19 7 (0.79%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 259 (29.23%) GitLab
2 255 (28.78%) Git
3 172 (19.41%) JIRA
4 92 (10.38%) Selenium
5 79 (8.92%) Bitbucket
6 76 (8.58%) JUnit
7 69 (7.79%) Maven
8 59 (6.66%) Gradle
9 57 (6.43%) Cucumber
9 57 (6.43%) SonarQube
10 54 (6.09%) REST Assured
11 53 (5.98%) TeamCity
12 49 (5.53%) Postman
13 47 (5.30%) Mockito
14 38 (4.29%) Cypress.io
15 37 (4.18%) Liquibase
16 34 (3.84%) Artifactory
16 34 (3.84%) Sonatype Nexus
17 32 (3.61%) JMeter
18 23 (2.60%) Subversion
General
1 194 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 185 (20.88%) Finance
3 126 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (12.98%) Banking
5 107 (12.08%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.74%) Investment Banking
7 37 (4.18%) Telecoms
8 35 (3.95%) Marketing
9 30 (3.39%) Electronics
10 29 (3.27%) Manufacturing
11 24 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.48%) Front Office
13 19 (2.14%) Financial Institution
14 18 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.58%) Military
16 13 (1.47%) Law
17 10 (1.13%) Retail
18 8 (0.90%) Back Office
19 6 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 241 (27.20%) Developer
2 182 (20.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 149 (16.82%) Senior
4 77 (8.69%) Java Developer
5 65 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
6 64 (7.22%) Software Engineer
7 58 (6.55%) Senior DevOps
8 56 (6.32%) Architect
8 56 (6.32%) Lead
9 51 (5.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 49 (5.53%) Python Developer
11 47 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
12 42 (4.74%) Test Engineer
13 40 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 37 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
15 36 (4.06%) Java Engineer
16 34 (3.84%) Python Engineer
17 32 (3.61%) Senior Developer
18 31 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
19 29 (3.27%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (13.77%) Kafka
2 117 (13.21%) React
3 113 (12.75%) Spring Boot
4 112 (12.64%) Spring
5 110 (12.42%) REST
6 60 (6.77%) .NET
7 56 (6.32%) RESTful
8 55 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
9 53 (5.98%) HTML
10 48 (5.42%) Node.js
11 43 (4.85%) Swagger
12 42 (4.74%) AngularJS
12 42 (4.74%) SOAP
13 38 (4.29%) OpenAPI
14 37 (4.18%) CSS
15 36 (4.06%) Web Services
16 35 (3.95%) Hibernate
17 34 (3.84%) Django
17 34 (3.84%) FastAPI
18 25 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 40 (4.51%) Public Cloud
3 30 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 19 (2.14%) PKI
6 18 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.24%) Equities
12 10 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.13%) Derivative
12 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 253 (28.56%) Linux
2 91 (10.27%) Windows
3 90 (10.16%) Unix
4 76 (8.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (4.85%) Windows Server
6 37 (4.18%) CentOS
7 13 (1.47%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.90%) Android
9 7 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.79%) VMS
10 6 (0.68%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.45%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.34%) Rocky
12 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.34%) zOS
13 2 (0.23%) Debian
14 1 (0.11%) AIX
14 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (68.40%) CI/CD
2 526 (59.37%) DevOps
3 358 (40.41%) Agile
4 221 (24.94%) Test Automation
5 208 (23.48%) Containerisation
6 197 (22.23%) Microservices
7 195 (22.01%) Infrastructure as Code
8 191 (21.56%) Continuous Integration
9 188 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
10 156 (17.61%) Software Engineering
11 113 (12.75%) TDD
12 100 (11.29%) Configuration Management
13 99 (11.17%) Scrum
14 92 (10.38%) SDLC
15 91 (10.27%) Deployment Automation
16 85 (9.59%) Observability
17 81 (9.14%) Infrastructure Automation
17 81 (9.14%) Migration
18 77 (8.69%) High Availability
19 69 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 393 (44.36%) Python
2 336 (37.92%) Java
3 183 (20.65%) SQL
4 136 (15.35%) Bash
5 130 (14.67%) TypeScript
6 118 (13.32%) JavaScript
7 77 (8.69%) C#
8 69 (7.79%) PowerShell
9 61 (6.88%) Go
10 53 (5.98%) Shell Script
11 43 (4.85%) C++
12 37 (4.18%) Groovy
13 27 (3.05%) Perl
14 14 (1.58%) Scala
15 13 (1.47%) Ruby
16 12 (1.35%) PHP
17 11 (1.24%) Kotlin
17 11 (1.24%) PL/SQL
18 8 (0.90%) Bicep
19 6 (0.68%) JCL
Qualifications
1 255 (28.78%) Security Cleared
2 219 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.55%) Degree
4 41 (4.63%) AWS Certification
5 33 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.61%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.37%) Oracle Certification
8 15 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 14 (1.58%) RHCE
10 13 (1.47%) CCNP
10 13 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.35%) RHCA
12 11 (1.24%) ISTQB
12 11 (1.24%) OCP
13 10 (1.13%) OCA
14 7 (0.79%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.68%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.67%) QA
2 19 (2.14%) NCSC
3 10 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.79%) GDPR
5 6 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (0.56%) NIST
6 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.45%) EMIR
7 4 (0.45%) MiFID
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) GxP
9 2 (0.23%) COBIT
9 2 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 352 (39.73%) Docker
2 33 (3.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (2.93%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.81%) vSphere
5 10 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.68%) Firmware
7 5 (0.56%) Postfix
8 4 (0.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.34%) Lustre
9 3 (0.34%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.34%) vCloud
9 3 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.23%) NFS
10 2 (0.23%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.23%) OpenDJ
10 2 (0.23%) OpenIDM
10 2 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.11%) HDFS
11 1 (0.11%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 380 (42.89%) Kubernetes
2 310 (34.99%) Terraform
3 265 (29.91%) Ansible
4 103 (11.63%) Grafana
5 82 (9.26%) Prometheus
6 66 (7.45%) Puppet
7 63 (7.11%) Progress Chef
8 42 (4.74%) Packer
9 38 (4.29%) Kibana
10 26 (2.93%) Consul
11 24 (2.71%) Istio
12 18 (2.03%) ZABBIX
13 17 (1.92%) Rancher
14 16 (1.81%) HAProxy
15 15 (1.69%) linkerd
16 14 (1.58%) Jamf Pro
17 13 (1.47%) Podman
17 13 (1.47%) vCenter Server
18 12 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
19 11 (1.24%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 83 (9.37%) Splunk
2 63 (7.11%) Oracle
3 55 (6.21%) Google
4 53 (5.98%) Microsoft
5 44 (4.97%) SAP
6 42 (4.74%) Red Hat
6 42 (4.74%) VMware
7 29 (3.27%) Atlassian
8 25 (2.82%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.48%) AppDynamics
9 22 (2.48%) Databricks
10 17 (1.92%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.69%) Okta
12 14 (1.58%) IBM
12 14 (1.58%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.47%) Cisco
14 12 (1.35%) Apple
14 12 (1.35%) ESET
15 11 (1.24%) Veritas
16 9 (1.02%) Cloudera