Jenkins salary: $166K median
From 164 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. Advertised ranges, not verified pay.
$166Kmedian advertised salary
$138K – $200Kmiddle half of roles
$173Kaverage advertised salary
164roles counted
Jenkins salary by level
Lead roles advertise a median of $188K, 2% more than senior roles ($185K). The level comes from the job title; titles without a level word are counted separately.
| Level | Median salary | Middle half | Roles |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | $185K | $162K–$210K | 55 |
| Lead and above | $188K | $162K–$223K | 22 |
| No level in title | $148K | $122K–$180K | 85 |
Jenkins salary by location
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area | $200K | 40 |
| 🇺🇸California | $200K | 54 |
| 🇺🇸United States | $170K | 149 |
| 🇺🇸Washington, DC | $136K | 22 |
Top-paying companies
| Name | Median salary | Roles counted |
|---|---|---|
| Zoox | $225K | 5 |
| Zip | $220K | 3 |
| 1X | $210K | 3 |
| Illumio | $185K | 5 |
| GRVTY | $171K | 6 |
| JFrog | $165K | 4 |
| RapidFort, Inc. | $150K | 5 |
| Accenture Federal Services | $150K | 34 |
| FormativGroup | $148K | 3 |
| SpaceX | $145K | 3 |
| Snyk | $138K | 4 |
| Datadog | $118K | 6 |
| Constructor | $100K | 3 |
Highest-paying open Jenkins roles
All Jenkins jobs- Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer ProductivityAnthropic · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA$405K - $625KLeadRustPythonDocker
- EDA Cloud & Developer Infrastructure EngineerOpenAI · 🇺🇸San Francisco$287K - $485KPythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Member of Technical Staff — Reliability-CI InfrastructureRadixark · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$200K - $400KPythonDockerLLM
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer - StorageLambda · 🇺🇸San Francisco Office (Fremont St)$267K - $356KSeniorGoPythonSQL
- Cloud Platform EngineerBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KTerraformMachine LearningLLM
- Engineering Manager, Cloud PlatformBaseten · 🇺🇸San Francisco$165K - $330KTerraformMachine LearningCI/CD
- Cloud Platform ArchitectSambaNova · 🇺🇸Austin, Texas, United States; San Jose, California, Unite…$245K - $325KRustGoPython
- DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & SecurityScale AI · 🇺🇸Washington, DC$149K - $311KPythonDockerTerraform
- Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SREDdn · 🇺🇸Remote - North Carolina$250K - $300KRemoteLeadDockerTerraformCI/CD
- MTS - EngineeringCollinear Ai · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California$150K - $300KPythonJavaScriptReact
- Senior Security & Infrastructure EngineerStarbridge · 🇺🇸New York City$200K - $300KSeniorPythonPostgreSQLTerraform
- Engineering Manager, App SW - EmbeddedWayve · 🇺🇸Sunnyvale, California USA$276K - $294KPythonC++Docker
- Cloud Platform Engineer| St. Louis, MO (Onsite or Weekly Travel Required)Accenture Federal Services · 🇺🇸St. Louis, MO$149K - $294KDockerTerraformAzure
- Sr. Engineering Manager - Full StackIllumio · 🇺🇸HQ - Sunnyvale (Office)$238K - $285KSeniorGoPythonJava
- Firmware Validation & Integration EngineerDoorDash USA · 🇺🇸San Francisco, CA; Oakland, CA$194K - $285KPythonC++Linux
- Software Engineer, Backend (All Levels)Zip · 🇺🇸San Francisco$160K - $280KPythonJavaScriptReact
- Senior Backend Programmer (SCM & CI/CD)Epic Games · BLANK,BLANK,Multiple Locations$173K - $279KSeniorGoPythonTerraform
- Staff Software Engineer, BillingDocker · 🇺🇸Seattle, WA$170K - $276KRemoteLeadPostgreSQLTerraformCI/CD
- Staff Control Platform and Verification EngineerRidealso · 🇺🇸Palo Alto$225K - $275KLeadPythonCI/CDJenkins
- Senior Software Engineer, Continuous IntegrationZoox · 🇺🇸Foster City, CA$219K - $271KSeniorTerraformKubernetesAWS
Questions about Jenkins pay
- What is the average Jenkins salary?
- $173K a year on average and $166K at the median, across 164 open Jenkins postings at tech companies that state pay (November 2026). The median is the better guide: a few very high offers pull the average up.
- What is the typical range?
- The middle half of the postings offer $138K to $200K a year. A quarter offer less and a quarter offer more.
- Which companies advertise the highest Jenkins pay?
- Zoox ($225K), Zip ($220K), 1X ($210K), by the median of their open postings that state pay (three postings or more).
- Where do these figures come from?
- From the pay ranges employers print in their own job postings, read from their careers pages every hour. The midpoint of each range is counted. These are advertised ranges for open roles, mostly in the United States and in US dollars, not what people are actually paid.
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The median advertised salary for Jenkins roles at tech companies is $166K a year, and the middle half of postings offer $138K to $200K. Counted from 164 open job postings that state pay, November 2026. Source: Hiring Right Now, https://jobseveryhour.com/salaries/jenkins/
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