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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 97 78
Rank change year-on-year -21 -19 -8
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 533 414 499
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.62% 3.07% 3.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.59% 19.23% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 263 362
10th Percentile £360 £359 £413
25th Percentile £425 £447 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -8.51% -2.08%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £700
90th Percentile £675 £710 £782
England median daily rate £500 £500 £536
% change year-on-year - -6.76% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £100.00 £65.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £105.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% +52.73% -16.98%
75th Percentile £73.00 £110.00 £71.88
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +15.70% -13.57% -3.45%

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 2,589 2,153 2,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.72% 15.98% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,457 1,587
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £41.69 £27.30
Median hourly rate £56.25 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -2.70% -31.48%
75th Percentile £77.27 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.63 £107.88 £71.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -31 50 £544 -5.39% 30
South London -5 30 £535 -0.47% 2
West London -25 13 £608 +32.90% 17
East London +1 1 - - 1
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 42 (7.88%) Confluence
2 26 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (3.19%) Apache Spark
4 14 (2.63%) nginx
5 7 (1.31%) Camunda
6 6 (1.13%) Apache
7 5 (0.94%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.75%) IIS
8 4 (0.75%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.56%) CMS
9 3 (0.56%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.56%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.38%) CICS
11 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.19%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.19%) MTS
11 1 (0.19%) SAS
11 1 (0.19%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.19%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.50%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.19%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Magento
2 5 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 308 (57.79%) AWS
2 208 (39.02%) Azure
3 203 (38.09%) GitHub
4 171 (32.08%) GitHub Actions
5 110 (20.64%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (18.57%) GCP
7 78 (14.63%) Serverless
8 74 (13.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 71 (13.32%) AWS Lambda
10 67 (12.57%) Amazon S3
11 65 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
13 45 (8.44%) OpenShift
14 44 (8.26%) Amazon ECS
14 44 (8.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (5.63%) Datadog
16 26 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (4.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 18 (3.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.50%) Firewall
2 19 (3.56%) DNS
3 14 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.50%) HTTP
4 8 (1.50%) Kerberos
4 8 (1.50%) Network Security
4 8 (1.50%) SAN
4 8 (1.50%) VPN
5 7 (1.31%) SSL
6 6 (1.13%) OpenLDAP
7 5 (0.94%) SSH
8 4 (0.75%) 4G
8 4 (0.75%) WAN
9 3 (0.56%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.38%) FTP
10 2 (0.38%) IMAP
10 2 (0.38%) Intranet
10 2 (0.38%) Multicast
10 2 (0.38%) SMTP
10 2 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (16.70%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 38 (7.13%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (6.75%) MongoDB
5 29 (5.44%) Relational Database
6 28 (5.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 24 (4.50%) Redis
8 20 (3.75%) SQL Server
9 17 (3.19%) Big Data
10 16 (3.00%) DynamoDB
10 16 (3.00%) MySQL
11 14 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (2.25%) Data Lake
13 10 (1.88%) BigQuery
14 9 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.69%) SQLite
15 6 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (1.13%) Data Vault
15 6 (1.13%) Oracle Database
15 6 (1.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 193 (36.21%) Git
2 192 (36.02%) GitLab
3 80 (15.01%) JIRA
4 54 (10.13%) Selenium
5 49 (9.19%) JUnit
6 41 (7.69%) Gradle
7 39 (7.32%) Maven
8 37 (6.94%) Cucumber
9 34 (6.38%) Bitbucket
9 34 (6.38%) Mockito
9 34 (6.38%) SonarQube
10 32 (6.00%) REST Assured
11 27 (5.07%) Postman
12 26 (4.88%) JMeter
13 15 (2.81%) Cypress.io
14 14 (2.63%) Gatling
14 14 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
14 14 (2.63%) TestNG
15 13 (2.44%) Liquibase
16 10 (1.88%) Artifactory
General
1 134 (25.14%) Social Skills
2 107 (20.08%) Finance
3 70 (13.13%) Banking
3 70 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 63 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (3.56%) Retail
6 18 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.44%) Law
9 11 (2.06%) Marketing
10 10 (1.88%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.50%) Front Office
12 7 (1.31%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.31%) Local Government
13 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.75%) Police
16 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (25.70%) Developer
2 105 (19.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 102 (19.14%) Senior
4 67 (12.57%) Java Developer
5 43 (8.07%) Lead
6 34 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
7 33 (6.19%) Architect
8 27 (5.07%) Automation Engineer
9 25 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
9 25 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (4.69%) Senior Developer
10 24 (4.50%) Software Engineer
11 23 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 23 (4.32%) Test Engineer
12 21 (3.94%) Tester
13 20 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
14 19 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
14 19 (3.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
15 16 (3.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (39.40%) Terraform
2 123 (23.08%) Kafka
3 98 (18.39%) Spring
4 96 (18.01%) REST
5 86 (16.14%) Spring Boot
6 75 (14.07%) RESTful
7 70 (13.13%) React
8 54 (10.13%) HTML
9 50 (9.38%) Node.js
10 37 (6.94%) CSS
11 34 (6.38%) Playwright
12 33 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
13 28 (5.25%) SOAP
14 25 (4.69%) Swagger
15 23 (4.32%) .NET
15 23 (4.32%) AngularJS
15 23 (4.32%) Web Services
16 21 (3.94%) Flask
16 21 (3.94%) Hibernate
17 20 (3.75%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 98 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.44%) Product Ownership
3 43 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.75%) Replication
4 20 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (2.25%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (2.06%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.88%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
9 9 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 8 (1.50%) Enterprise Storage
10 8 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 7 (1.31%) PKI
12 5 (0.94%) FMCG
12 5 (0.94%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 139 (26.08%) Linux
2 38 (7.13%) Unix
2 38 (7.13%) Windows
3 28 (5.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (2.06%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.88%) Amazon Linux
6 6 (1.13%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.75%) Android
8 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.56%) VMS
8 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.38%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.38%) zOS
10 1 (0.19%) CentOS
10 1 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 442 (82.93%) CI/CD
2 352 (66.04%) DevOps
3 272 (51.03%) Agile
4 201 (37.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 184 (34.52%) Containerisation
6 183 (34.33%) Test Automation
7 156 (29.27%) Microservices
8 120 (22.51%) Observability
9 97 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (17.26%) Scrum
12 86 (16.14%) Software Engineering
13 74 (13.88%) AI
14 70 (13.13%) Event-Driven
14 70 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 68 (12.76%) Platform Engineering
16 60 (11.26%) Deployment Automation
16 60 (11.26%) Technical Leadership
17 58 (10.88%) TDD
18 56 (10.51%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 231 (43.34%) Python
2 215 (40.34%) Java
3 132 (24.77%) SQL
4 113 (21.20%) Bash
5 89 (16.70%) JavaScript
6 49 (9.19%) PowerShell
6 49 (9.19%) TypeScript
7 34 (6.38%) C#
8 30 (5.63%) Go
9 28 (5.25%) Groovy
10 26 (4.88%) Perl
11 24 (4.50%) PL/SQL
11 24 (4.50%) Scala
12 17 (3.19%) Shell Script
13 14 (2.63%) C++
14 11 (2.06%) Korn
15 10 (1.88%) C
16 9 (1.69%) Apex Code
17 8 (1.50%) SOQL
17 8 (1.50%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 231 (43.34%) Security Cleared
2 209 (39.21%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.32%) Degree
4 37 (6.94%) AWS Certification
5 36 (6.75%) DV Cleared
6 27 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (3.94%) Azure Certification
8 19 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.88%) ISTQB
10 9 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.56%) CISSP
13 3 (0.56%) ISEB
13 3 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.38%) GIAC
14 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (17.45%) QA
2 20 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.69%) ISO 20022
6 8 (1.50%) NIST
7 6 (1.13%) SEPA
8 5 (0.94%) PSD2
9 4 (0.75%) NCSC
10 3 (0.56%) GDPR
10 3 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.38%) WCAG
12 1 (0.19%) GRC
12 1 (0.19%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 280 (52.53%) Docker
2 11 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.13%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.13%) Postfix
5 3 (0.56%) HDFS
5 3 (0.56%) Squid
6 2 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.38%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.38%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.38%) RACF
6 2 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.38%) Varnish
7 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.19%) NFS
7 1 (0.19%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 274 (51.41%) Kubernetes
2 131 (24.58%) Grafana
3 109 (20.45%) Prometheus
4 103 (19.32%) Ansible
5 28 (5.25%) Kibana
6 21 (3.94%) Puppet
7 18 (3.38%) Progress Chef
8 16 (3.00%) Argo
9 7 (1.31%) Control-M
9 7 (1.31%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (1.31%) Packer
10 4 (0.75%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.75%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.75%) Podman
10 4 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.56%) Cilium
11 3 (0.56%) Consul
11 3 (0.56%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.56%) Rancher
11 3 (0.56%) systemd
Vendors
1 47 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.63%) Oracle
3 45 (8.44%) Splunk
4 42 (7.88%) Google
5 36 (6.75%) Dynatrace
6 24 (4.50%) IBM
7 20 (3.75%) Salesforce
8 19 (3.56%) Databricks
9 16 (3.00%) Red Hat
9 16 (3.00%) ServiceNow
10 14 (2.63%) VMware
11 11 (2.06%) New Relic
12 9 (1.69%) SaltStack
12 9 (1.69%) Veracode
13 8 (1.50%) ION Trading
13 8 (1.50%) NetApp
13 8 (1.50%) SAP
14 6 (1.13%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.94%) Checkmarx
15 5 (0.94%) Okta