Jenkins Contract Job Trends

Jenkins (JenkinsCI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Jenkins skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 79 99
Rank change year-on-year -27 +20 -43
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,097 895 966
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.28% 3.07% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.89% 21.51% 18.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 615 697
10th Percentile £375 £356 £400
25th Percentile £425 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -6.38%
75th Percentile £578 £629 £650
90th Percentile £663 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £490 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.55% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 23
10th Percentile £38.50 £50.25 £45.88
25th Percentile £44.69 £55.31 £60.94
Median hourly rate £60.36 £61.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -12.50% -5.41%
75th Percentile £73.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £80.25 £76.63 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -17.39% -17.86% -3.45%

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 5,807 4,161 5,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.09% 14.28% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,801 2,791 3,442
10th Percentile £349 £335 £353
25th Percentile £408 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 71 205
10th Percentile £35.13 £25.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £59.06 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.69 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £79.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +5.69%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Jenkins relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Jenkins job vacancy trend in the UK

Jenkins
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Jenkins.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in the UK

Jenkins
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Jenkins.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Jenkins over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Jenkins in the UK

Jenkins
Top 15 Contract Job 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 16 May 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
England -28 921 £500 -3.85% 261
UK excluding London -25 535 £476 -2.86% 182
London -40 420 £550 -1.79% 94
Work from Home -21 318 £500 -6.28% 360
North of England -5 237 £475 -0.52% 83
Yorkshire +7 180 £485 -3.10% 34
Midlands -11 125 £498 +11.05% 18
West Midlands +5 110 £500 +11.11% 7
South East -73 61 £428 -14.50% 38
Scotland -14 53 £425 -9.57% 9
South West -25 48 £525 -8.70% 27
North West -57 40 £436 -7.23% 35
East of England -22 24 £478 -4.40% 6
North East -6 22 £425 -8.60% 14
East Midlands -40 14 £402 +9.39% 11

Jenkins
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 118 (10.76%) Confluence
2 40 (3.65%) SAS
3 29 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.09%) Apache
6 11 (1.00%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.73%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.46%) JBoss
8 5 (0.46%) nginx
9 4 (0.36%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.27%) IIS
10 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Portal
12 1 (0.091%) Apache TomEE
12 1 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.091%) Traefik
Applications
1 14 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.27%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.091%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.27%) Magento
1 3 (0.27%) Shopify
2 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.091%) Actimize
3 1 (0.091%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 540 (49.23%) AWS
2 467 (42.57%) GitHub
3 393 (35.82%) Azure
4 320 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
5 257 (23.43%) GCP
6 155 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (12.85%) Amazon S3
8 122 (11.12%) Serverless
9 120 (10.94%) OpenShift
10 108 (9.85%) Amazon EC2
11 105 (9.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 104 (9.48%) Amazon EKS
12 104 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
13 100 (9.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 74 (6.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 71 (6.47%) Amazon ECS
16 63 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 52 (4.74%) Azure AKS
18 37 (3.37%) AWS CodePipeline
19 34 (3.10%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (4.74%) DNS
2 49 (4.47%) Firewall
3 22 (2.01%) Network Security
4 19 (1.73%) VPN
5 16 (1.46%) SAN
6 14 (1.28%) HTTP
7 13 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.91%) NAS
9 3 (0.27%) BGP
9 3 (0.27%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.27%) SSL
10 2 (0.18%) AMQP
10 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.18%) Internet
10 2 (0.18%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.18%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.18%) LAN
10 2 (0.18%) Multicast
10 2 (0.18%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (7.38%) Amazon RDS
3 64 (5.83%) NoSQL
4 63 (5.74%) MongoDB
5 55 (5.01%) Relational Database
6 45 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 45 (4.10%) DynamoDB
7 42 (3.83%) SQL Server
8 31 (2.83%) Redis
9 28 (2.55%) Pentaho
10 27 (2.46%) Big Data
10 27 (2.46%) MySQL
11 19 (1.73%) BigQuery
12 16 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (1.37%) Metadata
14 14 (1.28%) Power BI
15 12 (1.09%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (0.91%) Aerospike
17 9 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 419 (38.20%) GitLab
2 318 (28.99%) Git
3 210 (19.14%) JIRA
4 119 (10.85%) Selenium
5 108 (9.85%) JUnit
6 82 (7.47%) Cucumber
7 70 (6.38%) Postman
8 66 (6.02%) Maven
9 60 (5.47%) REST Assured
10 57 (5.20%) Mockito
11 56 (5.10%) SonarQube
12 49 (4.47%) Bitbucket
13 44 (4.01%) JMeter
14 42 (3.83%) Gatling
15 40 (3.65%) Sonatype Nexus
16 33 (3.01%) Gradle
17 31 (2.83%) WebDriver
18 23 (2.10%) Artifactory
19 21 (1.91%) Liquibase
20 19 (1.73%) Snyk
General
1 289 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 172 (15.68%) Finance
3 145 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 104 (9.48%) Banking
5 98 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.19%) Retail
10 12 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.00%) Front Office
12 10 (0.91%) Law
13 8 (0.73%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.73%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.64%) Military
15 5 (0.46%) Legal
15 5 (0.46%) Marketing
15 5 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 217 (19.78%) Developer
2 179 (16.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 143 (13.04%) Senior
4 100 (9.12%) Java Developer
5 88 (8.02%) Architect
6 86 (7.84%) Lead
7 74 (6.75%) GCP Engineer
8 62 (5.65%) Data Engineer
9 58 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (4.92%) Software Engineer
10 54 (4.92%) Test Engineer
11 47 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
12 45 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 40 (3.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 38 (3.46%) Automation Engineer
15 37 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 35 (3.19%) Tester
17 34 (3.10%) Site Engineer
18 33 (3.01%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (15.95%) Spring
2 157 (14.31%) REST
3 150 (13.67%) Spring Boot
4 148 (13.49%) Kafka
5 113 (10.30%) Node.js
6 103 (9.39%) RESTful
7 75 (6.84%) React
8 72 (6.56%) Playwright
9 65 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
10 54 (4.92%) AngularJS
11 51 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
12 46 (4.19%) LDAP
13 41 (3.74%) OpenID
14 40 (3.65%) HTML
14 40 (3.65%) Spring Cloud
15 37 (3.37%) pytest
16 36 (3.28%) Web Services
16 36 (3.28%) YAML
17 35 (3.19%) JSON
17 35 (3.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 209 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 90 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 32 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.46%) Data Centre
7 16 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.37%) Replication
9 14 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 11 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
13 9 (0.82%) Private Cloud
13 9 (0.82%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.64%) Derivative
14 7 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.64%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.64%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 204 (18.60%) Linux
2 56 (5.10%) Unix
3 50 (4.56%) Windows
4 38 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.46%) VMS
6 12 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 11 (1.00%) Android
7 11 (1.00%) CentOS
8 6 (0.55%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.36%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.27%) AIX
11 3 (0.27%) zOS
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.091%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 956 (87.15%) CI/CD
2 739 (67.37%) DevOps
3 454 (41.39%) Agile
4 393 (35.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 339 (30.90%) Test Automation
6 336 (30.63%) Containerisation
7 246 (22.42%) Microservices
8 206 (18.78%) Observability
9 204 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
10 177 (16.13%) Scrum
11 162 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 159 (14.49%) Software Engineering
13 113 (10.30%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (9.85%) Migration
15 96 (8.75%) Mentoring
15 96 (8.75%) TDD
16 94 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 87 (7.93%) Validation
18 86 (7.84%) DevSecOps
19 84 (7.66%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 477 (43.48%) Python
2 358 (32.63%) Java
3 228 (20.78%) SQL
4 176 (16.04%) Bash
5 97 (8.84%) JavaScript
6 93 (8.48%) PowerShell
7 80 (7.29%) TypeScript
8 65 (5.93%) Shell Script
9 51 (4.65%) C#
9 51 (4.65%) Go
10 45 (4.10%) Groovy
11 42 (3.83%) Scala
12 22 (2.01%) Perl
13 19 (1.73%) Bicep
14 17 (1.55%) Kotlin
15 12 (1.09%) Ruby
16 11 (1.00%) MATLAB
16 11 (1.00%) PHP
16 11 (1.00%) PL/SQL
17 10 (0.91%) C++
Qualifications
1 398 (36.28%) Security Cleared
2 337 (30.72%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.01%) Degree
4 39 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (3.46%) AWS Certification
6 32 (2.92%) Azure Certification
7 25 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.09%) ISTQB
9 12 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
10 11 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (0.91%) RHCE
11 10 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
12 9 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.73%) OCP
14 7 (0.64%) CISSP
15 6 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
16 5 (0.46%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (10.48%) QA
2 51 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 32 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 23 (2.10%) NIST
5 20 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.73%) SLA
7 16 (1.46%) NCSC
8 10 (0.91%) GDPR
8 10 (0.91%) WCAG
9 9 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.55%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.36%) PSD2
12 4 (0.36%) SEPA
13 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.18%) HL7
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.18%) MiFID
13 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.091%) JSP 440
System Software
1 501 (45.67%) Docker
2 26 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.82%) vSphere
4 19 (1.73%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.37%) Active Directory
6 13 (1.19%) Postfix
7 11 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.55%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 6 (0.55%) HDFS
9 5 (0.46%) NFS
10 3 (0.27%) GridGain
10 3 (0.27%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.27%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.27%) SRDF
10 3 (0.27%) Varnish
11 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.091%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.091%) KVM
12 1 (0.091%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.091%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 562 (51.23%) Kubernetes
2 461 (42.02%) Terraform
3 265 (24.16%) Ansible
4 236 (21.51%) Grafana
5 196 (17.87%) Prometheus
6 50 (4.56%) Argo
7 47 (4.28%) Istio
8 37 (3.37%) Puppet
9 32 (2.92%) Progress Chef
10 20 (1.82%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.73%) Kibana
12 17 (1.55%) NetBackup
12 17 (1.55%) Podman
13 13 (1.19%) HAProxy
14 11 (1.00%) Check_MK
14 11 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
15 7 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
16 6 (0.55%) Rancher
17 4 (0.36%) linkerd
Vendors
1 103 (9.39%) Google
2 97 (8.84%) Splunk
3 67 (6.11%) Red Hat
4 64 (5.83%) Microsoft
5 62 (5.65%) Oracle
6 45 (4.10%) VMware
7 42 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 39 (3.56%) Databricks
9 31 (2.83%) Dynatrace
10 29 (2.64%) Talend
11 28 (2.55%) Denodo
12 20 (1.82%) Pure Storage
12 20 (1.82%) Sonatype
13 19 (1.73%) Atlassian
13 19 (1.73%) Okta
13 19 (1.73%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.64%) ForgeRock
15 17 (1.55%) Veritas
16 15 (1.37%) Jaspersoft
17 14 (1.28%) CyberArk