Jenkins: market
Jenkins is the most widespread self-hosted CI/CD server: build, test and deploy pipelines are described in a Jenkinsfile, and hundreds of plugins connect it to any stack. We track 3 584 open positions listing Jenkins, 3 331 of them fresh. Jenkins is especially strong in enterprise perimeters where pipelines must run inside one's own infrastructure. Most of the demand comes from DevOps, QA and Backend roles. It most often appears next to Java, Docker and Kubernetes. 31% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Jenkins demand.
The Jenkins market currently has 3,584 open roles, 3,331 of them freshly observed. Median salary $7,092/mo. Observed candidate pool — 522.
31% of Jenkins postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 262 of 3584 jobs; remote share from 2704 with a stated format; 3331 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Jenkins postings appeared each week since 10 Aug, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 158
New sources connected: 17 Aug +18 · 24 Aug +17 · 31 Aug +7 · 7 Sept +16 · 14 Sept +12 · 21 Sept +18 · 28 Sept +11 · 5 Oct +8 · 12 Oct +15
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses. A posting belongs to the technology by its stack tag; the series starts on 10 Aug 2026 — earlier tags were assigned differently and are not comparable. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Salaries over time
Median Jenkins salary per week, USD per month.
Median salary, USD per month
Only postings with a USD salary and a known period (month or year), $500–$50,000 per month. Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank — that means no data, not zero.
Remote work over time
Share of Jenkins postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Jenkins postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 3,584 |
| Observed supply | 522 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $3,713, one in ten over $15,625. Half the market falls between $4,701 and $11,250. Sample: 262.
The range histogram for Jenkins postings uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| PL | 869 |
| US | 646 |
| IN | 305 |
| RU | 245 |
| GB | 133 |
| SG | 109 |
| DE | 82 |
| CA | 66 |
| HK | 58 |
| FR | 53 |
The top country for Jenkins demand is Poland (869 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
Jenkins most often appears next to Java, Docker and Kubernetes. Java tops the neighbours — Jenkins historically grew out of the JVM world.
Roles that use it
| role | jobs |
|---|---|
| DevOps | 1,208 |
| QA | 544 |
| Backend | 386 |
| Fullstack | 302 |
| Platform Engineer | 165 |
| Architect | 120 |
| Data | 115 |
| SRE | 92 |
| Security | 89 |
| Frontend | 73 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 1,312 |
| middle | 336 |
| lead | 169 |
| junior | 124 |
| principal | 114 |
Senior-and-above is about 78% of 2 055 graded Jenkins postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 1,435 employers. The largest accounts for 2.8%, the top ten for 14.3%; the remaining 85.7% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 2.8% |
| top-3 | 6.7% |
| top-10 | 14.3% |
| long tail | 85.7% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 125 sources; the largest accounts for 15.9% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Jenkins postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings
- Test Manager (Defence & Security) · PL · $4,000
- Senior Software Configuration Management (ICAM) and Mission Assurance Analyst · US
- DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer · PL · $5,625
- Test Automation Architect · RU
- Senior Software Engineer, Advanced Development · US · $9,717
- Senior C# Engineer · PL · $9,500
- DevSecOps Inżynier/Inżynierka · PL
- Senior Java Engineer (Kraków - praca hybrydowa) · PL
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 7.
Data as of 2026-10-25
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Jenkins market — short answers from the same data slice.
What is asked about Jenkins in interviews?
Declarative and scripted pipelines, shared libraries, agents and their scaling (including on Kubernetes), secrets management, integration with version control and artifact storage.
Is Jenkins outdated compared with GitLab CI and GitHub Actions?
No, although new projects more often pick built-in CI. The slice tracks 3 584 open Jenkins positions: the huge volume of existing pipelines needs maintenance and migration, and experience moving off Jenkins is valued on its own.
Who needs Jenkins besides DevOps?
QA automation engineers — to run test suites in the pipeline; backend developers — to read and edit their own build jobs.