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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 74 80
Rank change year-on-year -27 +6 -32
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 430 476 510
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.99% 3.31% 2.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.23% 24.14% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 330 369
10th Percentile £356 £413 £412
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.56% +11.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £643 £725 £675
90th Percentile £731 £825 £750
England median daily rate £515 £575 £543
% change year-on-year -10.43% +5.99% -9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £73.80
25th Percentile £100.00 - £76.50
Median hourly rate £105.00 £95.00 £81.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +17.28% +15.71%
75th Percentile £110.00 - £85.50
90th Percentile - - £88.20
England median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%

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 2,236 1,972 2,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.54% 13.70% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 1,285 1,722
10th Percentile £356 £341 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £732 £788 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 21
10th Percentile £42.63 £22.25 £25.75
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.63 £31.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.05% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £98.44 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.65
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 3 January 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 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -16 57 £575 - 51
West London +14 35 £552 +11.41% 29
South London -12 17 £500 -7.06% 38
East London +4 3 £540 -4.00% 72
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 55 (12.79%) Confluence
2 16 (3.72%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.72%) nginx
3 8 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.93%) IIS
4 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.70%) Apache
5 3 (0.70%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.70%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.47%) CICS
6 2 (0.47%) CMS
6 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.23%) Camunda
7 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (2.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.70%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.47%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Actimize
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 208 (48.37%) AWS
2 138 (32.09%) GitHub
3 131 (30.47%) Azure
4 102 (23.72%) GitHub Actions
5 99 (23.02%) GCP
6 58 (13.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 57 (13.26%) Amazon S3
8 53 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (10.93%) Serverless
10 46 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (10.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 42 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (7.67%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (7.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 29 (6.74%) Datadog
18 25 (5.81%) SaaS
19 24 (5.58%) Amazon ELB
20 21 (4.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 49 (11.40%) Firewall
2 36 (8.37%) DNS
3 19 (4.42%) VPN
4 17 (3.95%) HTTP
5 13 (3.02%) Network Security
5 13 (3.02%) TCP/IP
6 12 (2.79%) SSH
7 11 (2.56%) SMTP
7 11 (2.56%) SSL
8 10 (2.33%) FTP
8 10 (2.33%) IMAP
8 10 (2.33%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.16%) SD-WAN
9 5 (1.16%) WAN
10 3 (0.70%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.47%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.47%) Multicast
12 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.23%) MQTT
12 1 (0.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.65%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.37%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (7.44%) NoSQL
4 24 (5.58%) SQL Server
5 22 (5.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 18 (4.19%) Redis
7 16 (3.72%) MongoDB
8 15 (3.49%) BigQuery
9 14 (3.26%) MySQL
10 13 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (2.79%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.09%) Hadoop
12 9 (2.09%) Tableau
13 8 (1.86%) Big Data
13 8 (1.86%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.40%) DB2
15 6 (1.40%) Power BI
16 5 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 122 (28.37%) GitLab
2 109 (25.35%) Git
3 82 (19.07%) JIRA
4 33 (7.67%) Selenium
5 29 (6.74%) JUnit
6 28 (6.51%) Cucumber
7 27 (6.28%) Bitbucket
7 27 (6.28%) SonarQube
7 27 (6.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 26 (6.05%) Maven
9 24 (5.58%) Postman
10 17 (3.95%) REST Assured
11 16 (3.72%) TeamCity
12 14 (3.26%) Cypress.io
13 13 (3.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (2.79%) CircleCI
14 12 (2.79%) Mockito
15 11 (2.56%) Gradle
16 10 (2.33%) Artifactory
16 10 (2.33%) Vagrant
General
1 110 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 109 (25.35%) Finance
3 72 (16.74%) Banking
4 36 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (1.86%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.63%) Front Office
8 7 (1.63%) Retail
9 6 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.16%) Publishing
11 4 (0.93%) Marketing
11 4 (0.93%) Military
11 4 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (20.47%) Developer
2 80 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (18.14%) Senior
4 38 (8.84%) Java Developer
5 29 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
5 29 (6.74%) Lead
6 27 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
7 25 (5.81%) GCP Engineer
8 24 (5.58%) Architect
9 22 (5.12%) AWS DevOps
9 22 (5.12%) Data Engineer
10 20 (4.65%) Consultant
11 18 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 18 (4.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (4.19%) Senior Developer
12 16 (3.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 15 (3.49%) GCP DevOps
13 15 (3.49%) GCP DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (18.14%) Kafka
2 61 (14.19%) Node.js
3 54 (12.56%) Spring
4 51 (11.86%) Playwright
5 45 (10.47%) Spring Boot
6 43 (10.00%) REST
7 40 (9.30%) GraphQL
8 34 (7.91%) React
9 32 (7.44%) RESTful
10 31 (7.21%) Vitest
11 29 (6.74%) AngularJS
12 27 (6.28%) HTML
13 25 (5.81%) CSS
13 25 (5.81%) JSON
13 25 (5.81%) YAML
14 23 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
15 22 (5.12%) OpenTelemetry
16 18 (4.19%) XML
17 16 (3.72%) SOAP
18 15 (3.49%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 95 (22.09%) Cloud Native
2 34 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.88%) Replication
4 19 (4.42%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.02%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.86%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.86%) Derivative
7 8 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.86%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.63%) Equities
9 6 (1.40%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.40%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.58%) Linux
2 23 (5.35%) Unix
2 23 (5.35%) Windows
3 22 (5.12%) VMS
4 11 (2.56%) Ubuntu
5 10 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (1.86%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.63%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.93%) Android
8 4 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (83.02%) CI/CD
2 304 (70.70%) DevOps
3 175 (40.70%) Agile
4 153 (35.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 109 (25.35%) Containerisation
6 99 (23.02%) Test Automation
7 89 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
8 86 (20.00%) Microservices
9 80 (18.60%) Observability
10 68 (15.81%) Mentoring
11 58 (13.49%) Software Engineering
12 47 (10.93%) Scrum
13 45 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (10.23%) TDD
15 40 (9.30%) Performance Tuning
16 37 (8.60%) AI
16 37 (8.60%) High Availability
16 37 (8.60%) Infrastructure Automation
17 36 (8.37%) SDLC
18 35 (8.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 189 (43.95%) Python
2 130 (30.23%) Java
3 88 (20.47%) SQL
4 63 (14.65%) Bash
5 58 (13.49%) TypeScript
6 46 (10.70%) JavaScript
7 39 (9.07%) PowerShell
8 27 (6.28%) Go
9 26 (6.05%) Groovy
10 23 (5.35%) C#
11 15 (3.49%) Scala
12 14 (3.26%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.33%) Ruby
14 8 (1.86%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.63%) Perl
16 6 (1.40%) C++
16 6 (1.40%) Swift
17 5 (1.16%) PL/SQL
17 5 (1.16%) R
17 5 (1.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 99 (23.02%) Security Cleared
2 83 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.74%) Degree
4 27 (6.28%) AWS Certification
5 22 (5.12%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.40%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.70%) PhD
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.47%) GPEN
11 2 (0.47%) GWAPT
11 2 (0.47%) MCP
11 2 (0.47%) OSCP
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (10.00%) QA
2 15 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.09%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.40%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.16%) NIST
6 4 (0.93%) GDPR
7 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.70%) WCAG
8 2 (0.47%) HL7
8 2 (0.47%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.47%) MiFID
8 2 (0.47%) PSD2
8 2 (0.47%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 238 (55.35%) Docker
2 10 (2.33%) DFS Replication
2 10 (2.33%) Dovecot
2 10 (2.33%) Postfix
2 10 (2.33%) Squid
3 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.70%) HDFS
3 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.47%) GridGain
4 2 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.47%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.47%) vSphere
5 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 217 (50.47%) Kubernetes
2 164 (38.14%) Terraform
3 93 (21.63%) Ansible
4 60 (13.95%) Grafana
5 53 (12.33%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.72%) Kibana
7 14 (3.26%) Argo
8 13 (3.02%) Istio
8 13 (3.02%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (2.33%) Nessus
9 10 (2.33%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.33%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.63%) logstash
11 6 (1.40%) Puppet
11 6 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (1.40%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.16%) Rancher
13 3 (0.70%) Ambari
13 3 (0.70%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.47%) rkt
Vendors
1 54 (12.56%) Google
2 30 (6.98%) Splunk
3 26 (6.05%) Microsoft
3 26 (6.05%) ServiceNow
4 25 (5.81%) Dynatrace
4 25 (5.81%) Oracle
5 23 (5.35%) Databricks
6 13 (3.02%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.79%) CheckPoint
7 12 (2.79%) F5
7 12 (2.79%) Solace
8 11 (2.56%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.86%) Confluent
10 8 (1.86%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.63%) Cisco
11 7 (1.63%) VMware
12 5 (1.16%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.16%) Cloudera
12 5 (1.16%) TIBCO