Jenkins Contract Job Trends in London

Jenkins (JenkinsCI)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Jenkins skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 93 84
Rank change year-on-year -24 -9 -23
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 497 411 479
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.48% 3.06% 2.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.71% 19.54% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 277 358
10th Percentile £363 £359 £404
25th Percentile £443 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £566
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -6.36% -5.67%
75th Percentile £598 £660 £693
90th Percentile £655 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £66.25 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £71.88 £65.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £85.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% +23.64% -15.55%
75th Percentile £73.00 £99.38 £71.88
90th Percentile - £105.75 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% -4.11%

All Development Application Skills
London

Jenkins falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,521 2,103 2,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.56% 15.64% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,442 1,588
10th Percentile £375 £340 £363
25th Percentile £448 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 20
10th Percentile £18.75 £26.98 £22.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £73.56 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.29 £84.50 £71.31
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

Jenkins
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Jenkins job vacancy trend in London

Jenkins
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Jenkins.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jenkins in London over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jenkins in London

Jenkins
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Jenkins.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Jenkins

Jenkins
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Jenkins within the London region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -15 50 £550 -6.38% 10
South London -7 24 £530 -1.40% 4
West London -13 15 £611 +33.44% 7
East London -5 1 - - 2
Jenkins
England

Jenkins
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 34 (6.84%) Confluence
2 21 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.22%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.81%) Apache
5 8 (1.61%) nginx
6 5 (1.01%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.80%) Camunda
8 3 (0.60%) CMS
8 3 (0.60%) IIS
9 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.40%) SAS
9 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.20%) JBoss
10 1 (0.20%) MTS
10 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.61%) Magento
2 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 287 (57.75%) AWS
2 203 (40.85%) Azure
3 198 (39.84%) GitHub
4 163 (32.80%) GitHub Actions
5 105 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
6 91 (18.31%) GCP
7 77 (15.49%) Serverless
8 69 (13.88%) Amazon S3
8 69 (13.88%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (12.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 54 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (9.86%) Amazon EKS
12 44 (8.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 35 (7.04%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (6.64%) OpenShift
15 31 (6.24%) Datadog
16 26 (5.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
18 21 (4.23%) Snowflake
19 16 (3.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.23%) Firewall
2 15 (3.02%) DNS
3 7 (1.41%) Network Security
3 7 (1.41%) VPN
4 5 (1.01%) SSL
4 5 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.80%) HTTP
5 4 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (0.80%) WAN
6 3 (0.60%) Multicast
7 2 (0.40%) 4G
7 2 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.40%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.40%) Internet
7 2 (0.40%) Intranet
7 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.40%) SAN
7 2 (0.40%) VLAN
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.84%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (6.84%) NoSQL
3 27 (5.43%) Relational Database
4 26 (5.23%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 19 (3.82%) Redis
7 18 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.42%) Big Data
9 16 (3.22%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.01%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.21%) Metadata
14 6 (1.21%) Power BI
15 5 (1.01%) Data Vault
15 5 (1.01%) MySQL
15 5 (1.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 179 (36.02%) GitLab
2 152 (30.58%) Git
3 73 (14.69%) JIRA
4 45 (9.05%) JUnit
5 36 (7.24%) Selenium
6 35 (7.04%) Mockito
7 33 (6.64%) Gradle
8 30 (6.04%) Maven
9 29 (5.84%) Bitbucket
10 26 (5.23%) SonarQube
11 23 (4.63%) Cucumber
11 23 (4.63%) REST Assured
12 22 (4.43%) Postman
13 19 (3.82%) JMeter
14 16 (3.22%) Liquibase
15 12 (2.41%) Cypress.io
16 11 (2.21%) Gatling
16 11 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
17 10 (2.01%) Eclipse
18 9 (1.81%) TestNG
General
1 125 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 104 (20.93%) Finance
3 71 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 62 (12.47%) Banking
5 46 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.22%) Law
7 16 (3.22%) Retail
8 11 (2.21%) Marketing
9 8 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.21%) Front Office
12 5 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.01%) Police
12 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Local Government
13 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.60%) Automotive
14 3 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 133 (26.76%) Developer
2 93 (18.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 92 (18.51%) Senior
4 68 (13.68%) Java Developer
5 42 (8.45%) Lead
6 34 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (5.63%) Software Engineer
8 27 (5.43%) Architect
9 24 (4.83%) Senior Developer
10 23 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
11 21 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 20 (4.02%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (3.82%) Full-Stack Developer
14 18 (3.62%) Tester
15 17 (3.42%) SC Cleared Java Developer
15 17 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
15 17 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 17 (3.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 16 (3.22%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (20.93%) Kafka
2 91 (18.31%) Spring
3 78 (15.69%) Spring Boot
4 73 (14.69%) REST
5 69 (13.88%) RESTful
6 64 (12.88%) React
7 57 (11.47%) Node.js
8 39 (7.85%) HTML
9 29 (5.84%) Playwright
10 27 (5.43%) CSS
11 24 (4.83%) AngularJS
12 23 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (4.63%) Swagger
13 22 (4.43%) SOAP
14 18 (3.62%) Web Services
15 17 (3.42%) GraphQL
16 16 (3.22%) Flask
16 16 (3.22%) OpenAPI
17 15 (3.02%) .NET
18 14 (2.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.62%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.21%) Replication
7 10 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.61%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (1.61%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.41%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.41%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.41%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.21%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.80%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 118 (23.74%) Linux
2 42 (8.45%) Unix
3 28 (5.63%) Windows
4 19 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.60%) Android
8 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.40%) VMS
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (83.70%) CI/CD
2 336 (67.61%) DevOps
3 241 (48.49%) Agile
4 186 (37.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 151 (30.38%) Containerisation
6 143 (28.77%) Microservices
7 142 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 97 (19.52%) Observability
9 84 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 84 (16.90%) Scrum
9 84 (16.90%) Software Engineering
10 69 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
11 63 (12.68%) AI
12 62 (12.47%) TDD
13 61 (12.27%) Event-Driven
13 61 (12.27%) Full-Stack Development
14 58 (11.67%) Platform Engineering
15 52 (10.46%) Mentoring
15 52 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 50 (10.06%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 208 (41.85%) Python
2 193 (38.83%) Java
3 124 (24.95%) SQL
4 97 (19.52%) Bash
5 66 (13.28%) JavaScript
6 54 (10.87%) TypeScript
7 49 (9.86%) PowerShell
8 32 (6.44%) C#
9 22 (4.43%) Go
9 22 (4.43%) PL/SQL
10 19 (3.82%) Perl
10 19 (3.82%) Shell Script
11 18 (3.62%) Groovy
12 13 (2.62%) Scala
13 12 (2.41%) C++
14 9 (1.81%) Apex Code
15 8 (1.61%) Bicep
15 8 (1.61%) Ruby
15 8 (1.61%) SOQL
15 8 (1.61%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 202 (40.64%) Security Cleared
2 181 (36.42%) SC Cleared
3 29 (5.84%) AWS Certification
4 27 (5.43%) Degree
5 24 (4.83%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.82%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.61%) ISTQB
11 7 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.60%) CISSP
12 3 (0.60%) GIAC
12 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.40%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.40%) ISEB
13 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.40%) PMP
14 1 (0.20%) GWAPT
14 1 (0.20%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (16.10%) QA
2 21 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.61%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.01%) NIST
6 5 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.01%) SEPA
7 4 (0.80%) PSD2
8 3 (0.60%) SLA
9 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.40%) GDPR
9 2 (0.40%) WCAG
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 15022
10 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 252 (50.70%) Docker
2 9 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.41%) Postfix
4 5 (1.01%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.80%) Varnish
6 3 (0.60%) GridGain
6 3 (0.60%) NFS
6 3 (0.60%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.40%) HDFS
7 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.20%) Squid
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 255 (51.31%) Kubernetes
2 200 (40.24%) Terraform
3 100 (20.12%) Grafana
4 96 (19.32%) Ansible
5 95 (19.11%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.62%) Puppet
7 16 (3.22%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.82%) Kibana
9 12 (2.41%) Argo
10 8 (1.61%) Control-M
11 7 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (1.41%) Packer
12 5 (1.01%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.80%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.80%) Kustomize
13 4 (0.80%) Podman
14 3 (0.60%) Consul
14 3 (0.60%) Istio
14 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 43 (8.65%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.25%) Oracle
3 36 (7.24%) Splunk
4 30 (6.04%) Google
5 23 (4.63%) Dynatrace
6 22 (4.43%) Salesforce
7 16 (3.22%) Databricks
8 14 (2.82%) IBM
8 14 (2.82%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.21%) ServiceNow
9 11 (2.21%) VMware
10 10 (2.01%) New Relic
11 9 (1.81%) ForgeRock
11 9 (1.81%) Okta
12 7 (1.41%) Sybase
13 6 (1.21%) OpenAI
13 6 (1.21%) Veracode
14 5 (1.01%) SaltStack
15 4 (0.80%) Confluent
15 4 (0.80%) Jaspersoft