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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 148 110
Rank change year-on-year -76 -38 -33
Permanent jobs citing Jenkins 580 1,059 1,565
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.98% 2.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.91% 19.26% 23.98%
Number of salaries quoted 320 445 1,214
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,250 £46,267
25th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +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 3,645 5,498 6,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.08% 10.27% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,384 3,157 5,244
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,544 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,279 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.77% -4.35% +4.55%

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 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Jenkins in the UK

Jenkins
Top 16 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 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -87 491 £75,000 +7.14% 372
UK excluding London -72 324 £70,000 +7.69% 319
London -47 230 £80,000 - 119
Work from Home -90 203 £70,000 +3.70% 212
North of England -3 91 £65,000 -10.34% 82
South East -94 89 £77,500 +29.17% 96
Scotland +2 59 £90,000 +157.14% 15
South West -5 50 £73,750 +1.72% 52
Yorkshire +3 49 £75,000 -12.03% 41
North West -5 35 £65,000 -10.34% 33
Midlands +11 30 £54,600 -22.00% 37
West Midlands +7 23 £51,500 -26.43% 20
East of England -18 10 £62,500 -23.08% 32
North East +9 7 £62,500 -3.85% 8
East Midlands -4 7 £56,600 -16.15% 15
Wales +4 3 £55,200 -18.22% 9

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 33 (5.69%) Confluence
2 18 (3.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 13 (2.24%) OpenStack
4 8 (1.38%) Apache
4 8 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.03%) IIS
5 6 (1.03%) nginx
5 6 (1.03%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.69%) Camunda
8 3 (0.52%) JBoss
9 2 (0.34%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.34%) Moodle
9 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
10 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (2.07%) MS Visio
2 9 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (0.69%) Windchill
4 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.34%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.17%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 37 (6.38%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.52%) SAP CX
3 3 (0.52%) Shopify
4 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.17%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 332 (57.24%) AWS
2 220 (37.93%) Azure
3 207 (35.69%) GitHub
4 127 (21.90%) GitHub Actions
5 123 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (19.31%) Serverless
7 91 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (13.62%) GCP
9 78 (13.45%) Amazon ECS
9 78 (13.45%) Amazon S3
10 77 (13.28%) AWS Lambda
11 71 (12.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 68 (11.72%) Amazon EKS
13 61 (10.52%) Amazon EC2
14 44 (7.59%) OpenShift
15 38 (6.55%) OCI
16 31 (5.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (5.17%) AWS Step Functions
17 30 (5.17%) Datadog
18 27 (4.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 39 (6.72%) Broadband
2 26 (4.48%) DNS
3 22 (3.79%) Firewall
4 16 (2.76%) HTTP
5 11 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.55%) FTP
6 9 (1.55%) SMTP
6 9 (1.55%) SSH
7 6 (1.03%) AMQP
7 6 (1.03%) Fibre Channel
7 6 (1.03%) VPN
8 5 (0.86%) Network Security
9 4 (0.69%) DSL
9 4 (0.69%) IMAP
9 4 (0.69%) OpenLDAP
9 4 (0.69%) VLAN
10 3 (0.52%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.34%) BGP
11 2 (0.34%) MQTT
11 2 (0.34%) RTMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (16.90%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (7.59%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (7.24%) NoSQL
4 41 (7.07%) SQL Server
5 39 (6.72%) Relational Database
6 33 (5.69%) DynamoDB
7 32 (5.52%) MongoDB
8 20 (3.45%) Power BI
8 20 (3.45%) Tableau
9 19 (3.28%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.41%) DB2
11 12 (2.07%) MySQL
11 12 (2.07%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.38%) InfluxDB
14 7 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.86%) Big Data
15 5 (0.86%) CockroachDB
15 5 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 177 (30.52%) Git
2 176 (30.34%) GitLab
3 105 (18.10%) JIRA
4 58 (10.00%) Selenium
5 52 (8.97%) SonarQube
6 46 (7.93%) Cucumber
7 45 (7.76%) Cypress.io
8 40 (6.90%) TeamCity
9 39 (6.72%) JUnit
10 37 (6.38%) Oracle Forms
11 36 (6.21%) JMeter
12 34 (5.86%) Maven
13 33 (5.69%) Bitbucket
14 20 (3.45%) CircleCI
15 19 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
16 18 (3.10%) Mockito
16 18 (3.10%) Postman
16 18 (3.10%) REST Assured
17 13 (2.24%) TestRail
18 9 (1.55%) Vagrant
General
1 145 (25.00%) Finance
2 128 (22.07%) Social Skills
3 49 (8.45%) Banking
4 43 (7.41%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (5.52%) Organisational Skills
7 29 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 26 (4.48%) Marketing
9 21 (3.62%) Games
9 21 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.24%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.90%) Advertising
11 11 (1.90%) Electronics
11 11 (1.90%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.90%) Law
12 7 (1.21%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.69%) Retail
15 3 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 131 (22.59%) Developer
2 108 (18.62%) Senior
3 79 (13.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 70 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
5 69 (11.90%) Lead
6 67 (11.55%) Java Developer
7 50 (8.62%) Applications Engineer
8 43 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (7.24%) Architect
10 34 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
11 30 (5.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 29 (5.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 25 (4.31%) Senior Developer
13 25 (4.31%) Software Developer
14 24 (4.14%) Software Engineer
15 20 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
16 18 (3.10%) Test Engineer
17 16 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
17 16 (2.76%) GCP Engineer
18 14 (2.41%) GCP DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (15.00%) REST
2 84 (14.48%) Spring Boot
3 82 (14.14%) RESTful
3 82 (14.14%) Spring
4 72 (12.41%) Elastic Stack
5 71 (12.24%) Node.js
6 63 (10.86%) React
7 57 (9.83%) HTML
8 52 (8.97%) Kafka
9 47 (8.10%) SOAP
10 44 (7.59%) CSS
11 41 (7.07%) JSON
12 39 (6.72%) AngularJS
13 37 (6.38%) XML
14 31 (5.34%) Gherkin
15 29 (5.00%) Jest
16 25 (4.31%) OAuth
16 25 (4.31%) Web Services
17 24 (4.14%) .NET
18 23 (3.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 86 (14.83%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 41 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (4.66%) Product Ownership
5 25 (4.31%) Public Cloud
6 23 (3.97%) Over-the-Top Content
6 23 (3.97%) Video\Live Streaming
7 18 (3.10%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 8 (1.38%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.21%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.21%) Replication
13 6 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 122 (21.03%) Linux
2 66 (11.38%) Windows
3 15 (2.59%) VMS
4 12 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 10 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.72%) Unix
6 8 (1.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.21%) Amazon Linux
8 6 (1.03%) zOS
9 5 (0.86%) CentOS
9 5 (0.86%) Debian
9 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.52%) SUSE
11 2 (0.34%) Android
11 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (71.21%) CI/CD
2 358 (61.72%) DevOps
3 260 (44.83%) Agile
4 186 (32.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 137 (23.62%) Test Automation
6 127 (21.90%) Containerisation
7 121 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 118 (20.34%) Microservices
9 101 (17.41%) Scrum
10 98 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
11 82 (14.14%) Continuous Integration
12 79 (13.62%) Full-Stack Development
13 77 (13.28%) Observability
14 72 (12.41%) TDD
15 70 (12.07%) Mentoring
16 69 (11.90%) Configuration Management
17 68 (11.72%) Software Engineering
18 61 (10.52%) Analytics
18 61 (10.52%) Cloud Security
19 58 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 288 (49.66%) Python
2 220 (37.93%) Java
3 154 (26.55%) Bash
4 127 (21.90%) SQL
5 118 (20.34%) JavaScript
6 88 (15.17%) PowerShell
7 85 (14.66%) TypeScript
8 55 (9.48%) Shell Script
9 38 (6.55%) C#
10 37 (6.38%) PL/SQL
11 32 (5.52%) Groovy
12 30 (5.17%) Go
13 29 (5.00%) Scala
14 17 (2.93%) Bicep
15 16 (2.76%) Apex Code
16 15 (2.59%) SOQL
16 15 (2.59%) SOSL
17 12 (2.07%) C++
18 8 (1.38%) Delphi
19 7 (1.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 136 (23.45%) Security Cleared
2 75 (12.93%) Degree
3 66 (11.38%) SC Cleared
4 48 (8.28%) AWS Certification
5 33 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 25 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.10%) Azure Certification
8 15 (2.59%) CISSP
9 13 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 13 (2.24%) SANS
10 12 (2.07%) CREST Certified
10 12 (2.07%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.86%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (10.86%) QA
2 30 (5.17%) Def Stans
3 21 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.24%) GDPR
5 9 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.55%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.69%) SLA
9 3 (0.52%) SEPA
10 2 (0.34%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.17%) IEC 62304
11 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 265 (45.69%) Docker
2 35 (6.03%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.03%) Time Sharing Option
5 5 (0.86%) Squid
6 4 (0.69%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.69%) Dovecot
6 4 (0.69%) Postfix
6 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.52%) vCloud
8 2 (0.34%) Firmware
8 2 (0.34%) iptables
8 2 (0.34%) NFS
8 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 257 (44.31%) Kubernetes
2 237 (40.86%) Terraform
3 135 (23.28%) Ansible
4 98 (16.90%) Grafana
5 85 (14.66%) Prometheus
6 37 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (3.79%) Kibana
8 20 (3.45%) HP Fortify
9 13 (2.24%) Progress Chef
9 13 (2.24%) Puppet
10 9 (1.55%) Argo
11 8 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
11 8 (1.38%) Rancher
12 7 (1.21%) Nessus
13 4 (0.69%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.69%) vRealize
14 3 (0.52%) Kubeflow
14 3 (0.52%) Nagios
15 2 (0.34%) SCOM
15 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 82 (14.14%) Oracle
2 60 (10.34%) Splunk
3 41 (7.07%) Microsoft
4 26 (4.48%) Google
5 24 (4.14%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.97%) Atlassian
7 21 (3.62%) VMware
8 20 (3.45%) Okta
9 18 (3.10%) Dynatrace
10 14 (2.41%) Red Hat
11 13 (2.24%) SAP
12 10 (1.72%) IBM
13 7 (1.21%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.03%) AppDynamics
14 6 (1.03%) Broadcom
14 6 (1.03%) Dell
15 5 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
15 5 (0.86%) Databricks
15 5 (0.86%) MuleSoft
15 5 (0.86%) SolarWinds