Jenkins Job Trends

Jenkins (JenkinsCI)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Jenkins skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 177 103
Rank change year-on-year -59 -74 -30
Permanent jobs citing Jenkins 587 1,029 1,646
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.12% 1.53% 3.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.93% 17.46% 23.88%
Number of salaries quoted 321 453 1,277
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £61,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.37% -5.77% +4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,686 5,895 6,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.04% 8.75% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,351 3,261 5,575
10th Percentile £30,500 £37,574 £42,415
25th Percentile £44,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.17%
75th Percentile £78,250 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.76% +5.00%

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Jenkins job vacancy trend in the UK

Jenkins
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Jenkins.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Jenkins over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Jenkins in the UK

Jenkins
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Jenkins within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -72 484 £72,500 +3.57% 549
UK excluding London -32 348 £72,500 +18.37% 329
London -44 228 £78,750 -1.56% 286
Work from Home -120 162 £70,000 +3.70% 334
South East -64 107 £75,000 +38.25% 86
Scotland +5 65 £90,000 +157.14% 25
North of England -14 64 £65,000 - 89
Midlands +80 63 £72,500 +11.54% 44
West Midlands +62 53 £72,500 +20.83% 35
South West -11 41 £67,500 -6.90% 51
North West +13 37 £62,500 -12.28% 55
Yorkshire +2 24 £75,000 +15.38% 27
East Midlands +35 10 £58,000 -29.70% 9
East of England -32 8 £65,000 -1.89% 17
Wales +3 5 £55,200 -18.22% 11
North East +3 3 £65,000 +12.14% 7
Northern Ireland +3 1 - - 9
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 59 (10.05%) Confluence
2 11 (1.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 10 (1.70%) Apache
3 10 (1.70%) nginx
4 9 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.53%) JBoss
5 6 (1.02%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.85%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.68%) Apache Synapse
7 4 (0.68%) Camunda
7 4 (0.68%) IIS
7 4 (0.68%) Red Hat Fuse
8 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (1.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.68%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.68%) Windchill
3 3 (0.51%) Simulink
4 1 (0.17%) Doxygen
4 1 (0.17%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 23 (3.92%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.51%) Shopify
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.34%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 362 (61.67%) AWS
2 193 (32.88%) Azure
3 158 (26.92%) GitHub
4 114 (19.42%) Amazon EC2
5 106 (18.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 102 (17.38%) Amazon S3
6 102 (17.38%) Serverless
7 93 (15.84%) GitHub Actions
8 91 (15.50%) Azure DevOps
9 86 (14.65%) Amazon ECS
9 86 (14.65%) Amazon EKS
10 67 (11.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 61 (10.39%) GCP
11 61 (10.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 57 (9.71%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (7.84%) AWS KMS
14 42 (7.16%) OpenShift
15 39 (6.64%) Amazon ELB
16 34 (5.79%) Datadog
17 30 (5.11%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 47 (8.01%) Firewall
2 41 (6.98%) DNS
3 32 (5.45%) HTTP
4 25 (4.26%) FTP
4 25 (4.26%) SMTP
4 25 (4.26%) SSH
5 18 (3.07%) Broadband
6 9 (1.53%) Fibre Channel
6 9 (1.53%) Network Security
7 8 (1.36%) IMAP
7 8 (1.36%) OpenLDAP
8 7 (1.19%) WAN
9 6 (1.02%) AMQP
9 6 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.02%) VPN
10 5 (0.85%) BGP
10 5 (0.85%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.68%) VLAN
12 3 (0.51%) Cisco IOS
12 3 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (18.57%) PostgreSQL
2 75 (12.78%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (8.35%) Relational Database
4 34 (5.79%) NoSQL
5 29 (4.94%) MongoDB
6 27 (4.60%) SQL Server
7 21 (3.58%) RDBMS
8 19 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
9 15 (2.56%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.39%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (2.04%) Power BI
12 11 (1.87%) Tableau
13 10 (1.70%) MySQL
14 9 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.53%) Big Data
15 8 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
16 7 (1.19%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 220 (37.48%) Git
2 153 (26.06%) GitLab
3 136 (23.17%) JIRA
4 64 (10.90%) JUnit
5 62 (10.56%) Selenium
6 48 (8.18%) JMeter
7 40 (6.81%) Cucumber
8 39 (6.64%) Maven
9 38 (6.47%) SonarQube
9 38 (6.47%) Vagrant
10 33 (5.62%) Mockito
11 28 (4.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (3.92%) Bitbucket
12 23 (3.92%) Cypress.io
12 23 (3.92%) Oracle Forms
12 23 (3.92%) Postman
13 21 (3.58%) CircleCI
14 20 (3.41%) TeamCity
15 19 (3.24%) REST Assured
16 11 (1.87%) TestRail
General
1 181 (30.83%) Finance
2 148 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 77 (13.12%) Public Sector
4 72 (12.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (11.58%) Banking
6 64 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
7 58 (9.88%) Law
8 49 (8.35%) Marketing
9 34 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.58%) Games
11 19 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (2.56%) Financial Institution
12 15 (2.56%) Telecoms
13 13 (2.21%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.02%) Advertising
16 5 (0.85%) Front Office
16 5 (0.85%) Private Banking
17 4 (0.68%) Electronics
17 4 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 110 (18.74%) Developer
2 102 (17.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 86 (14.65%) Senior
4 77 (13.12%) Lead
5 70 (11.93%) Java Developer
6 57 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 49 (8.35%) Software Engineer
8 44 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (6.30%) Architect
11 35 (5.96%) Applications Engineer
12 32 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
13 29 (4.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 27 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (4.60%) Java Engineer
15 24 (4.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 24 (4.09%) Software Developer
16 23 (3.92%) Test Engineer
17 21 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (18.06%) REST
2 101 (17.21%) Spring
3 84 (14.31%) Spring Boot
4 73 (12.44%) RESTful
5 58 (9.88%) Kafka
6 56 (9.54%) SOAP
7 53 (9.03%) Elastic Stack
8 52 (8.86%) HTML
9 44 (7.50%) JSON
10 43 (7.33%) Node.js
10 43 (7.33%) Web Services
11 41 (6.98%) Hibernate
11 41 (6.98%) XML
12 40 (6.81%) React
13 33 (5.62%) Playwright
14 31 (5.28%) ActiveMQ
15 30 (5.11%) Apache Camel
16 28 (4.77%) jQuery
17 27 (4.60%) .NET
18 26 (4.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.24%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 29 (4.94%) Public Cloud
4 28 (4.77%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (4.60%) Replication
6 24 (4.09%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.90%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
10 9 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.19%) Equities
11 7 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.02%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.02%) Derivative
12 6 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.02%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 163 (27.77%) Linux
2 88 (14.99%) Windows
3 46 (7.84%) VMS
4 24 (4.09%) Ubuntu
5 23 (3.92%) Amazon Linux
6 14 (2.39%) Unix
7 11 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (1.70%) Windows Server
9 9 (1.53%) Debian
9 9 (1.53%) zOS
10 7 (1.19%) Android
11 6 (1.02%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.51%) CentOS
13 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
13 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (65.59%) CI/CD
2 342 (58.26%) DevOps
3 244 (41.57%) Agile
4 160 (27.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 130 (22.15%) Test Automation
6 121 (20.61%) Containerisation
7 118 (20.10%) Microservices
8 113 (19.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 110 (18.74%) Configuration Management
9 110 (18.74%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (17.89%) Software Engineering
11 85 (14.48%) TDD
12 82 (13.97%) Cloud Security
12 82 (13.97%) Continuous Integration
13 78 (13.29%) Scrum
14 76 (12.95%) BDD
15 73 (12.44%) SDLC
16 71 (12.10%) Observability
17 66 (11.24%) Mentoring
18 64 (10.90%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 325 (55.37%) Python
2 230 (39.18%) Java
3 124 (21.12%) Bash
4 117 (19.93%) PowerShell
5 111 (18.91%) SQL
6 98 (16.70%) JavaScript
7 61 (10.39%) Shell Script
8 49 (8.35%) Groovy
9 41 (6.98%) TypeScript
10 35 (5.96%) C#
11 27 (4.60%) PL/SQL
12 25 (4.26%) Go
13 19 (3.24%) C++
14 18 (3.07%) Perl
15 17 (2.90%) Apex Code
15 17 (2.90%) SOQL
16 16 (2.73%) Bicep
17 15 (2.56%) SOSL
18 12 (2.04%) Ruby
19 10 (1.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 158 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 96 (16.35%) SC Cleared
3 80 (13.63%) Degree
4 50 (8.52%) AWS Certification
5 36 (6.13%) Azure Certification
6 27 (4.60%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.73%) ISTQB
9 10 (1.70%) CISSP
9 10 (1.70%) CREST Certified
9 10 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.70%) SANS
10 9 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.19%) PhD
12 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.85%) ISEB
13 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (11.75%) QA
2 30 (5.11%) Def Stans
3 18 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.56%) GDPR
5 9 (1.53%) SLA
6 8 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (1.19%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.51%) SEPA
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.17%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.17%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 242 (41.23%) Docker
2 57 (9.71%) Active Directory
3 25 (4.26%) DFS Replication
4 11 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (1.70%) Squid
6 9 (1.53%) Postfix
6 9 (1.53%) Time Sharing Option
7 8 (1.36%) Dovecot
8 5 (0.85%) vCloud
9 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.34%) NFS
10 2 (0.34%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.34%) vSphere
11 1 (0.17%) Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) iptables
11 1 (0.17%) KVM
Systems Management
1 240 (40.89%) Kubernetes
2 238 (40.55%) Terraform
3 151 (25.72%) Ansible
4 135 (23.00%) Grafana
5 120 (20.44%) Prometheus
6 34 (5.79%) Kibana
7 25 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (2.90%) Puppet
9 14 (2.39%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.87%) Nessus
11 8 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (1.36%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.85%) Argo
13 4 (0.68%) Nagios
13 4 (0.68%) Rancher
13 4 (0.68%) Rundeck
13 4 (0.68%) Salt
13 4 (0.68%) SCOM
13 4 (0.68%) vRealize
14 3 (0.51%) logstash
Vendors
1 78 (13.29%) Splunk
2 74 (12.61%) Oracle
3 36 (6.13%) ServiceNow
4 34 (5.79%) Dynatrace
5 33 (5.62%) Microsoft
6 23 (3.92%) Atlassian
7 21 (3.58%) Google
7 21 (3.58%) VMware
8 17 (2.90%) Salesforce
9 14 (2.39%) Juniper
10 13 (2.21%) Databricks
10 13 (2.21%) IBM
10 13 (2.21%) Okta
10 13 (2.21%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.87%) Dell
12 10 (1.70%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (1.53%) Broadcom
14 8 (1.36%) AppDynamics
14 8 (1.36%) Cisco
15 7 (1.19%) SAP