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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 93 63
Rank change year-on-year +17 -30 -15
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 1,000 1,021 1,971
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.25% 2.37% 3.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.26% 19.24% 25.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 747 1,394
10th Percentile £357 £400 £425
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -5.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £688
90th Percentile £700 £747 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 38 57
10th Percentile £54.38 £48.76 £51.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £66.25 £60.55
Median hourly rate £60.00 £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -3.45% +24.73%
75th Percentile £66.56 - £77.50
90th Percentile £68.75 - £85.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% -3.45% +48.72%

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 4,492 5,306 7,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.29% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,999 3,522 5,519
10th Percentile £331 £353 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £590 £625 £650
90th Percentile £695 £725 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 251 232
10th Percentile £20.86 £31.25 £46.19
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £86.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +17 831 £500 -9.09% 2,184
UK excluding London +30 467 £475 -8.65% 1,433
London 0 415 £547 -4.96% 992
Work from Home +31 330 £525 +2.44% 1,108
North of England +32 179 £465 -3.13% 352
North West +53 86 £393 -20.61% 215
Yorkshire +8 86 £500 +5.26% 118
Midlands +58 85 £450 -3.23% 166
South East +42 84 £500 -16.67% 360
Scotland +11 69 £497 +3.76% 134
West Midlands +43 49 £475 -11.55% 102
East Midlands +20 36 £360 -19.10% 62
South West -25 34 £575 -4.17% 191
East of England +30 13 £513 +5.67% 150
North East +6 7 £465 -15.45% 19
Wales +10 6 £263 -52.27% 35
Northern Ireland -6 3 £325 - 48

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 81 (8.10%) Confluence
2 34 (3.40%) Apache
3 28 (2.80%) JBoss
4 23 (2.30%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.90%) Tomcat
6 15 (1.50%) nginx
7 13 (1.30%) WebSphere
8 9 (0.90%) Anypoint
9 7 (0.70%) CICS
9 7 (0.70%) Mule
9 7 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
10 6 (0.60%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.50%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.40%) Camunda
13 3 (0.30%) CMS
13 3 (0.30%) IIS
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle Service Bus
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.10%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 17 (1.70%) Oracle BPM
2 14 (1.40%) FLEXCUBE
3 6 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.40%) Shopify
5 3 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.10%) Summit
7 1 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 475 (47.50%) AWS
2 251 (25.10%) Azure
3 219 (21.90%) GitHub
4 127 (12.70%) GCP
5 114 (11.40%) GitHub Actions
6 111 (11.10%) Azure DevOps
7 106 (10.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 100 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 100 (10.00%) Serverless
9 86 (8.60%) OpenShift
10 82 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
11 81 (8.10%) Amazon EC2
12 79 (7.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 61 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
14 42 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
15 37 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (2.80%) AWS CodePipeline
16 28 (2.80%) AWS KMS
17 26 (2.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.60%) DNS
2 53 (5.30%) Firewall
3 35 (3.50%) HTTP
4 34 (3.40%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.60%) SAN
6 15 (1.50%) SSL
6 15 (1.50%) VPN
7 12 (1.20%) NAS
7 12 (1.20%) Network Security
8 11 (1.10%) Internet
8 11 (1.10%) SSH
9 8 (0.80%) SMTP
10 7 (0.70%) DHCP
10 7 (0.70%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.50%) DSL
11 5 (0.50%) FTP
11 5 (0.50%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.40%) Calico
12 4 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (0.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 70 (7.00%) Amazon RDS
4 58 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 55 (5.50%) MongoDB
6 47 (4.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 38 (3.80%) MySQL
8 37 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
9 32 (3.20%) DynamoDB
10 27 (2.70%) Big Data
11 23 (2.30%) SQL Server
12 22 (2.20%) Oracle Database
13 19 (1.90%) RDBMS
14 15 (1.50%) Hadoop
15 14 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (1.40%) Redis
16 10 (1.00%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.80%) DB2
18 7 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
19 5 (0.50%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 359 (35.90%) Git
2 264 (26.40%) GitLab
3 195 (19.50%) JIRA
4 114 (11.40%) JUnit
5 105 (10.50%) Maven
6 94 (9.40%) Selenium
7 86 (8.60%) Gradle
8 76 (7.60%) SonarQube
9 74 (7.40%) Cucumber
10 68 (6.80%) Bitbucket
11 60 (6.00%) Mockito
12 56 (5.60%) Postman
12 56 (5.60%) REST Assured
13 53 (5.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 48 (4.80%) Liquibase
15 46 (4.60%) Cypress.io
15 46 (4.60%) TeamCity
16 42 (4.20%) Artifactory
17 35 (3.50%) JMeter
18 30 (3.00%) Subversion
General
1 246 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 209 (20.90%) Finance
3 154 (15.40%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (12.40%) Banking
5 111 (11.10%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.20%) Marketing
7 31 (3.10%) Investment Banking
8 27 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 22 (2.20%) Electronics
9 22 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.70%) Retail
12 15 (1.50%) Military
13 12 (1.20%) Law
14 11 (1.10%) Front Office
15 10 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.50%) Back Office
17 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 278 (27.80%) Developer
2 167 (16.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 134 (13.40%) Senior
4 118 (11.80%) Java Developer
5 72 (7.20%) Architect
6 70 (7.00%) Lead
7 64 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
8 61 (6.10%) Software Engineer
9 54 (5.40%) Platform Engineer
10 47 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
10 47 (4.70%) Tester
11 44 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
12 38 (3.80%) Java Engineer
13 36 (3.60%) Python Engineer
14 35 (3.50%) Test Engineer
15 33 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.20%) Automation Engineer
16 32 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
16 32 (3.20%) Python Developer
17 31 (3.10%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (16.10%) Spring
2 159 (15.90%) Spring Boot
3 148 (14.80%) REST
4 143 (14.30%) Kafka
5 137 (13.70%) React
6 97 (9.70%) RESTful
7 74 (7.40%) SOAP
8 59 (5.90%) HTML
9 57 (5.70%) Web Services
10 56 (5.60%) Elastic Stack
11 55 (5.50%) Node.js
12 54 (5.40%) AngularJS
13 51 (5.10%) Hibernate
14 49 (4.90%) Swagger
15 44 (4.40%) CSS
16 42 (4.20%) OpenAPI
17 41 (4.10%) .NET
18 38 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
19 36 (3.60%) OAuth
20 35 (3.50%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 69 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 49 (4.90%) Public Cloud
3 43 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.10%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.60%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 14 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.10%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 10 (1.00%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.90%) Equities
14 9 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 257 (25.70%) Linux
2 107 (10.70%) Windows
3 72 (7.20%) Unix
4 50 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (4.00%) Windows Server
6 20 (2.00%) Android
7 15 (1.50%) CentOS
7 15 (1.50%) VMS
8 13 (1.30%) Ubuntu
9 12 (1.20%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.50%) Debian
12 4 (0.40%) Solaris
13 3 (0.30%) AIX
13 3 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.30%) Rocky
13 3 (0.30%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.30%) zOS
14 2 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (67.70%) CI/CD
2 571 (57.10%) DevOps
3 457 (45.70%) Agile
4 258 (25.80%) Microservices
5 248 (24.80%) Containerisation
6 236 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
7 231 (23.10%) Test Automation
8 217 (21.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 194 (19.40%) Continuous Integration
10 159 (15.90%) TDD
11 157 (15.70%) Software Engineering
12 133 (13.30%) Configuration Management
12 133 (13.30%) Scrum
13 118 (11.80%) Migration
14 104 (10.40%) Deployment Automation
15 94 (9.40%) SDLC
16 90 (9.00%) Infrastructure Automation
17 85 (8.50%) Observability
18 79 (7.90%) Mentoring
19 69 (6.90%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 434 (43.40%) Java
2 426 (42.60%) Python
3 221 (22.10%) SQL
4 150 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 137 (13.70%) Bash
6 125 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 95 (9.50%) PowerShell
8 80 (8.00%) C#
9 61 (6.10%) Shell Script
10 48 (4.80%) Perl
11 44 (4.40%) Go
12 39 (3.90%) C++
13 38 (3.80%) Groovy
14 21 (2.10%) PL/SQL
14 21 (2.10%) Scala
15 20 (2.00%) Kotlin
16 16 (1.60%) Ruby
17 9 (0.90%) Erlang
17 9 (0.90%) PHP
17 9 (0.90%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 294 (29.40%) Security Cleared
2 240 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.20%) Degree
4 39 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 37 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 36 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (2.10%) Oracle Certification
9 17 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 13 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.30%) ISTQB
11 12 (1.20%) CCNP
11 12 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.10%) OCP
13 10 (1.00%) OCA
13 10 (1.00%) RHCE
14 9 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.90%) RHCA
15 7 (0.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 7 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (8.60%) QA
2 22 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.60%) GDPR
4 12 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.20%) WCAG
5 11 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.70%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.60%) NCSC
9 5 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.40%) NIST
10 4 (0.40%) SEPA
11 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.30%) GxP
12 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.20%) EMIR
12 2 (0.20%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.20%) MiFID
12 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 406 (40.60%) Docker
2 53 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (3.50%) Active Directory
4 18 (1.80%) vSphere
5 11 (1.10%) Postfix
6 8 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.70%) Firmware
7 7 (0.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 6 (0.60%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.50%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 5 (0.50%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.30%) Lustre
10 3 (0.30%) OpenAM
10 3 (0.30%) OpenDJ
10 3 (0.30%) OpenIDM
10 3 (0.30%) Platform Symphony
10 3 (0.30%) vCloud
10 3 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 404 (40.40%) Kubernetes
2 309 (30.90%) Terraform
3 280 (28.00%) Ansible
4 98 (9.80%) Grafana
5 89 (8.90%) Prometheus
6 86 (8.60%) Puppet
7 66 (6.60%) Progress Chef
8 40 (4.00%) Kibana
9 17 (1.70%) vCenter Server
10 16 (1.60%) Podman
11 15 (1.50%) Argo
12 14 (1.40%) Packer
13 13 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
14 12 (1.20%) Istio
15 10 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
16 9 (0.90%) Nessus
17 8 (0.80%) Consul
17 8 (0.80%) logstash
17 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
18 7 (0.70%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 93 (9.30%) Oracle
2 83 (8.30%) Microsoft
3 75 (7.50%) Splunk
4 62 (6.20%) VMware
5 56 (5.60%) Google
5 56 (5.60%) Red Hat
6 37 (3.70%) SAP
7 28 (2.80%) Atlassian
8 27 (2.70%) Dynatrace
8 27 (2.70%) MuleSoft
9 23 (2.30%) AppDynamics
9 23 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 22 (2.20%) Databricks
11 20 (2.00%) IBM
12 15 (1.50%) Salesforce
13 14 (1.40%) CA Agile Central
14 13 (1.30%) Cisco
15 12 (1.20%) Jaspersoft
16 10 (1.00%) Cloudera
17 8 (0.80%) New Relic