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 3 242 open positions listing Jenkins, 3 016 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. 34% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is measured Jenkins demand.
The Jenkins market currently has 3,242 open roles, 3,016 of them freshly observed. Median salary $6,431/mo. Observed candidate pool — 515.
34% of Jenkins postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the work format.
⚠ salary known for 196 of 3242 jobs; remote share from 2422 with a stated format; 3016 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Demand and observed supply
| Open demand | 3,242 |
| Observed supply | 515 |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution
One in ten earns under $3,360, one in ten over $15,625. Half the market falls between $4,470 and $9,510. Sample: 196.
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 | 782 |
| US | 585 |
| IN | 271 |
| RU | 214 |
| GB | 116 |
| SG | 109 |
| DE | 76 |
| CA | 69 |
| FR | 45 |
| HK | 44 |
The top country for Jenkins demand is Poland (782 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 | 1,108 |
| QA | 482 |
| Backend | 350 |
| Fullstack | 280 |
| Platform Engineer | 144 |
| Architect | 141 |
| Data | 94 |
| SRE | 77 |
| Security | 72 |
| Frontend | 66 |
⚠ the `Other` and `IT` buckets are excluded as non-roles
Demand by grade
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 1,158 |
| middle | 293 |
| lead | 133 |
| principal | 108 |
| junior | 107 |
Senior-and-above is about 78% of 1 799 graded Jenkins postings.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers
Demand is spread across 1,272 employers. The largest accounts for 4.5%, the top ten for 16.1%; the remaining 83.9% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 4.5% |
| top-3 | 8.5% |
| top-10 | 16.1% |
| long tail | 83.9% |
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 120 sources; the largest accounts for 16.2% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Jenkins postings arrive mostly from job boards & aggregators and ATS & career sites.
Recent openings
- Full Stack Developer · PL
- Tech Lead (Java), Cross-Border Payments and SWIFT Technology team · PL
- Senior Data Engineer (Azure Databricks & DevOps, Remote, US Project) · UZ
- Senior DevOps Engineer with AWS (f/m/x) · PL · $6,375
- Analityk Systemów Informatycznych (ds. Provisioningu) (k/m) · PL
- DevOps Engineer · PL
- Analityk Systemów Informatycznych (ds. Provisioningu) (k/m) · PL
- Devops Engineer · 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 2026-10-20
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 3 242 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.