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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 100 57
Rank change year-on-year +23 -43 -8
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 928 966 2,108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.20% 2.25% 3.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.94% 18.74% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 710 1,514
10th Percentile £358 £400 £430
25th Percentile £413 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £541 £583
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% -7.16% -2.83%
75th Percentile £607 £650 £700
90th Percentile £700 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.19% +2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 28 50
10th Percentile £54.75 £45.88 £51.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £65.63 £55.45
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% +18.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £77.38
90th Percentile £69.25 £70.56 £85.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% -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 4,229 5,155 8,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.59% 12.02% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,818 3,453 5,672
10th Percentile £340 £351 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 221 224
10th Percentile £20.85 £26.24 £44.75
25th Percentile £47.21 £46.18 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +5.69% +17.14%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £81.78 £77.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +17 768 £500 -9.09% 2,622
UK excluding London +39 417 £475 -9.52% 2,413
London -2 397 £550 -4.14% 571
Work from Home +28 319 £530 +2.42% 1,626
North of England +22 149 £471 -3.49% 563
Midlands +50 80 £450 -0.55% 425
South East +32 72 £500 -16.67% 649
North West +44 71 £393 -21.40% 284
Yorkshire +4 71 £500 +4.17% 222
Scotland +7 61 £471 -2.43% 109
West Midlands +48 46 £475 -22.45% 228
South West -7 37 £575 -4.17% 287
East Midlands +27 34 £367 -17.53% 171
East of England +37 16 £500 +1.52% 320
North East +4 7 £465 -15.45% 57
Northern Ireland -5 5 £325 - 54
Wales +6 3 £405 -11.23% 67

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 72 (7.76%) Confluence
2 31 (3.34%) Apache
3 23 (2.48%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.26%) JBoss
5 14 (1.51%) nginx
5 14 (1.51%) Tomcat
6 13 (1.40%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.75%) WebSphere Application Server
8 6 (0.65%) CICS
8 6 (0.65%) WebLogic
9 5 (0.54%) Anypoint
9 5 (0.54%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.43%) Camunda
10 4 (0.43%) Mule
11 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.32%) CMS
11 3 (0.32%) IIS
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Service Bus
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.11%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 15 (1.62%) Oracle BPM
2 12 (1.29%) FLEXCUBE
3 6 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.43%) Shopify
5 3 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 435 (46.88%) AWS
2 234 (25.22%) Azure
3 197 (21.23%) GitHub
4 119 (12.82%) GCP
5 102 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 98 (10.56%) Amazon S3
8 97 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
8 97 (10.45%) Serverless
9 80 (8.62%) OpenShift
10 79 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
11 78 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
12 75 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 50 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
14 38 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
14 38 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
15 29 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
15 29 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (2.80%) AWS KMS
16 26 (2.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (5.50%) DNS
2 49 (5.28%) Firewall
3 32 (3.45%) TCP/IP
4 30 (3.23%) HTTP
5 17 (1.83%) SAN
5 17 (1.83%) VPN
6 13 (1.40%) NAS
6 13 (1.40%) Network Security
6 13 (1.40%) SSL
7 11 (1.19%) Internet
8 8 (0.86%) HTTPS
8 8 (0.86%) SSH
9 6 (0.65%) DHCP
10 5 (0.54%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.43%) Calico
11 4 (0.43%) SMTP
11 4 (0.43%) SNMP
12 3 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (0.32%) Software-Defined Radio
12 3 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (14.66%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.76%) Relational Database
3 63 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (6.03%) NoSQL
5 51 (5.50%) MongoDB
6 45 (4.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 37 (3.99%) MySQL
8 36 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
9 32 (3.45%) DynamoDB
10 27 (2.91%) Big Data
11 25 (2.69%) SQL Server
12 22 (2.37%) Oracle Database
13 19 (2.05%) Hadoop
13 19 (2.05%) RDBMS
14 16 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (1.29%) Redis
16 11 (1.19%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.75%) DB2
18 6 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
19 5 (0.54%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 312 (33.62%) Git
2 244 (26.29%) GitLab
3 173 (18.64%) JIRA
4 104 (11.21%) JUnit
5 100 (10.78%) Maven
6 98 (10.56%) Selenium
7 80 (8.62%) Gradle
8 70 (7.54%) SonarQube
9 67 (7.22%) Cucumber
10 61 (6.57%) Bitbucket
10 61 (6.57%) Mockito
10 61 (6.57%) REST Assured
11 57 (6.14%) Postman
12 46 (4.96%) Cypress.io
12 46 (4.96%) TeamCity
13 43 (4.63%) Liquibase
14 42 (4.53%) Sonatype Nexus
15 39 (4.20%) Artifactory
16 36 (3.88%) JMeter
17 32 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 226 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 194 (20.91%) Finance
3 144 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (12.82%) Banking
5 106 (11.42%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.45%) Marketing
7 30 (3.23%) Investment Banking
8 29 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 24 (2.59%) Electronics
9 24 (2.59%) Manufacturing
10 21 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.62%) Front Office
13 14 (1.51%) Military
14 13 (1.40%) Law
14 13 (1.40%) Retail
15 8 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.65%) Back Office
16 6 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.54%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 267 (28.77%) Developer
2 148 (15.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 134 (14.44%) Senior
4 103 (11.10%) Java Developer
5 68 (7.33%) Architect
6 63 (6.79%) Lead
7 62 (6.68%) AWS Engineer
7 62 (6.68%) Software Engineer
8 50 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
9 43 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
10 41 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
11 40 (4.31%) Test Engineer
12 38 (4.09%) Java Engineer
12 38 (4.09%) Tester
13 34 (3.66%) Python Developer
13 34 (3.66%) Python Engineer
13 34 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
14 33 (3.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
15 32 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (15.73%) Spring
2 142 (15.30%) Spring Boot
3 131 (14.12%) REST
4 126 (13.58%) React
5 121 (13.04%) Kafka
6 79 (8.51%) RESTful
7 61 (6.57%) SOAP
8 58 (6.25%) HTML
8 58 (6.25%) Web Services
9 52 (5.60%) Node.js
10 51 (5.50%) AngularJS
10 51 (5.50%) Hibernate
11 50 (5.39%) .NET
12 49 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
13 47 (5.06%) Swagger
14 42 (4.53%) CSS
15 40 (4.31%) OpenAPI
16 34 (3.66%) JPA
17 32 (3.45%) OAuth
18 30 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.03%) Cloud Native
2 43 (4.63%) Public Cloud
3 38 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (3.56%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 20 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (2.16%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.51%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.29%) Equities
8 12 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.08%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.08%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.08%) Private Cloud
10 9 (0.97%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 236 (25.43%) Linux
2 94 (10.13%) Windows
3 64 (6.90%) Unix
4 48 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (4.20%) Windows Server
6 19 (2.05%) Android
7 13 (1.40%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.19%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.19%) CentOS
9 10 (1.08%) VMS
10 5 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.43%) Solaris
12 3 (0.32%) AIX
12 3 (0.32%) Rocky
12 3 (0.32%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.32%) zOS
13 2 (0.22%) Debian
13 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (67.56%) CI/CD
2 531 (57.22%) DevOps
3 410 (44.18%) Agile
4 230 (24.78%) Microservices
5 229 (24.68%) Containerisation
6 222 (23.92%) Test Automation
7 217 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
8 198 (21.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 178 (19.18%) Continuous Integration
10 153 (16.49%) Software Engineering
11 144 (15.52%) TDD
12 117 (12.61%) Scrum
13 114 (12.28%) Configuration Management
14 102 (10.99%) Migration
15 88 (9.48%) Deployment Automation
16 85 (9.16%) SDLC
17 84 (9.05%) Infrastructure Automation
18 78 (8.41%) Observability
19 71 (7.65%) Mentoring
20 69 (7.44%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 399 (43.00%) Java
2 380 (40.95%) Python
3 206 (22.20%) SQL
4 136 (14.66%) JavaScript
5 120 (12.93%) Bash
5 120 (12.93%) TypeScript
6 78 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 74 (7.97%) C#
8 56 (6.03%) Shell Script
9 44 (4.74%) C++
10 37 (3.99%) Groovy
11 36 (3.88%) Perl
12 30 (3.23%) Go
13 20 (2.16%) Kotlin
14 19 (2.05%) PL/SQL
14 19 (2.05%) Scala
15 16 (1.72%) Ruby
16 9 (0.97%) Bicep
16 9 (0.97%) Erlang
16 9 (0.97%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 269 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 227 (24.46%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.11%) Degree
4 33 (3.56%) AWS Certification
4 33 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.34%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (2.26%) Oracle Certification
7 15 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 14 (1.51%) ISTQB
9 13 (1.40%) CCNP
9 13 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.19%) OCP
10 11 (1.19%) RHCE
11 10 (1.08%) OCA
12 9 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.97%) RHCA
13 8 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.86%) Azure Certification
14 6 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.87%) QA
2 20 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.51%) GDPR
4 11 (1.19%) WCAG
5 9 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 9 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.65%) NCSC
8 5 (0.54%) NIST
8 5 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.32%) GxP
10 3 (0.32%) SEPA
11 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.22%) EMIR
11 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.22%) MiFID
11 2 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 374 (40.30%) Docker
2 45 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 16 (1.72%) vSphere
5 10 (1.08%) Postfix
6 8 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 4 (0.43%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.32%) Firmware
9 3 (0.32%) Lustre
9 3 (0.32%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.32%) OpenDJ
9 3 (0.32%) OpenIDM
9 3 (0.32%) Platform Symphony
9 3 (0.32%) vCloud
9 3 (0.32%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.22%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.22%) NFS
10 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 371 (39.98%) Kubernetes
2 278 (29.96%) Terraform
3 258 (27.80%) Ansible
4 92 (9.91%) Grafana
5 78 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 75 (8.08%) Puppet
7 57 (6.14%) Progress Chef
8 39 (4.20%) Kibana
9 16 (1.72%) Podman
10 14 (1.51%) Argo
10 14 (1.51%) vCenter Server
11 13 (1.40%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (1.29%) Istio
12 12 (1.29%) Packer
13 10 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (0.86%) Consul
14 8 (0.86%) NetBackup
14 8 (0.86%) Oracle RMAN
15 7 (0.75%) Nessus
16 6 (0.65%) Control-M
Vendors
1 85 (9.16%) Oracle
2 69 (7.44%) Microsoft
2 69 (7.44%) Splunk
3 54 (5.82%) Google
4 53 (5.71%) VMware
5 51 (5.50%) Red Hat
6 39 (4.20%) SAP
7 28 (3.02%) Atlassian
8 26 (2.80%) Dynatrace
9 23 (2.48%) Databricks
10 21 (2.26%) AppDynamics
11 20 (2.16%) IBM
11 20 (2.16%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.72%) MuleSoft
13 14 (1.51%) Cisco
14 13 (1.40%) Salesforce
15 12 (1.29%) CA Agile Central
16 11 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
17 9 (0.97%) Cloudera
18 8 (0.86%) Veritas