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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 79 81
Rank change year-on-year -40 +2 -34
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 420 401 475
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.33% 3.23% 2.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.83% 22.15% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 285 346
10th Percentile £400 £386 £406
25th Percentile £466 £440 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £567
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -1.23% -9.28%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £774 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £65.75 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £70.63 £65.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £80.00 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +16.36% -14.06%
75th Percentile £73.00 £88.13 £71.88
90th Percentile - £92.25 -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £61.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.22% -12.50% -6.67%

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 2,356 1,810 2,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.09% 14.60% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 1,234 1,637
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £672 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 26
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +6.16% -46.72%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -18 51 £575 - 28
West London -10 18 £552 +20.55% 5
South London -16 16 £500 -13.76%
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 26 (6.19%) Confluence
2 20 (4.76%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.14%) Apache
5 5 (1.19%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.71%) IIS
6 3 (0.71%) JBoss
7 2 (0.48%) Camunda
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.24%) MTS
8 1 (0.24%) nginx
8 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) SAS
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.71%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Magento
1 3 (0.71%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 225 (53.57%) AWS
2 164 (39.05%) GitHub
3 148 (35.24%) Azure
4 132 (31.43%) GitHub Actions
5 75 (17.86%) Amazon S3
6 74 (17.62%) GCP
7 67 (15.95%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (15.71%) Serverless
9 63 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
10 55 (13.10%) Amazon EC2
11 53 (12.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 51 (12.14%) Amazon EKS
13 49 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 42 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
15 34 (8.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (7.14%) OpenShift
17 25 (5.95%) Datadog
18 20 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 17 (4.05%) AWS CodePipeline
20 14 (3.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.76%) Firewall
2 16 (3.81%) DNS
3 8 (1.90%) Network Security
4 4 (0.95%) VPN
5 3 (0.71%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.48%) HTTP
6 2 (0.48%) Multicast
7 1 (0.24%) DSL
7 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (7.86%) NoSQL
4 27 (6.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 21 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.76%) Big Data
7 16 (3.81%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.81%) SQL Server
8 15 (3.57%) Redis
9 12 (2.86%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.86%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.62%) MySQL
11 8 (1.90%) Tableau
12 7 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.43%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.43%) Power BI
14 5 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.19%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 154 (36.67%) GitLab
2 95 (22.62%) Git
3 58 (13.81%) JIRA
4 42 (10.00%) JUnit
5 34 (8.10%) Mockito
6 31 (7.38%) Selenium
7 26 (6.19%) Cucumber
7 26 (6.19%) Postman
8 21 (5.00%) Maven
9 17 (4.05%) Gradle
10 15 (3.57%) Liquibase
10 15 (3.57%) REST Assured
11 13 (3.10%) SonarQube
12 12 (2.86%) Bitbucket
12 12 (2.86%) JMeter
13 8 (1.90%) CircleCI
13 8 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (1.67%) Ant
14 7 (1.67%) Gatling
14 7 (1.67%) MLflow
General
1 110 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 94 (22.38%) Finance
3 54 (12.86%) Banking
4 50 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.86%) Retail
9 10 (2.38%) Front Office
10 8 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.67%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.43%) Law
12 6 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.19%) Marketing
14 3 (0.71%) Automotive
14 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.71%) Police
15 2 (0.48%) Local Government
15 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 105 (25.00%) Developer
2 66 (15.71%) Senior
3 63 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (11.67%) Java Developer
5 43 (10.24%) Architect
6 32 (7.62%) Lead
7 21 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 19 (4.52%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (4.29%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.05%) Senior Developer
11 16 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (3.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 14 (3.33%) Python Developer
13 13 (3.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (3.10%) CyberArk Architect
13 13 (3.10%) Python Engineer
13 13 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
13 13 (3.10%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (19.76%) Spring
2 76 (18.10%) Kafka
2 76 (18.10%) Spring Boot
3 55 (13.10%) RESTful
4 54 (12.86%) Node.js
5 46 (10.95%) React
6 39 (9.29%) REST
7 34 (8.10%) Playwright
8 33 (7.86%) AngularJS
9 29 (6.90%) HTML
10 27 (6.43%) OpenTelemetry
11 24 (5.71%) CSS
12 22 (5.24%) Swagger
13 20 (4.76%) YAML
14 19 (4.52%) OpenID
15 18 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (4.29%) GraphQL
15 18 (4.29%) Web Services
16 17 (4.05%) Pandas
17 16 (3.81%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 94 (22.38%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.62%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.90%) Replication
7 7 (1.67%) Derivative
7 7 (1.67%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.43%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.43%) Equities
8 6 (1.43%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.95%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.71%) NHS
11 3 (0.71%) PACS
11 3 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 78 (18.57%) Linux
2 26 (6.19%) Unix
3 18 (4.29%) Windows
4 13 (3.10%) VMS
5 5 (1.19%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.71%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.48%) Android
8 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (87.62%) CI/CD
2 281 (66.90%) DevOps
3 177 (42.14%) Agile
4 170 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 127 (30.24%) Containerisation
6 108 (25.71%) Test Automation
7 107 (25.48%) Microservices
8 81 (19.29%) Observability
9 67 (15.95%) Software Engineering
10 65 (15.48%) Scrum
11 59 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (11.90%) Mentoring
14 47 (11.19%) Full-Stack Development
15 43 (10.24%) TDD
16 41 (9.76%) AI
17 40 (9.52%) Event-Driven
17 40 (9.52%) Migration
18 39 (9.29%) Stakeholder Management
19 38 (9.05%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 166 (39.52%) Python
2 147 (35.00%) Java
3 97 (23.10%) SQL
4 56 (13.33%) Bash
5 43 (10.24%) TypeScript
6 39 (9.29%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.14%) C#
7 30 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 22 (5.24%) Shell Script
9 17 (4.05%) Scala
10 13 (3.10%) Go
11 11 (2.62%) Groovy
12 9 (2.14%) Perl
12 9 (2.14%) Ruby
13 8 (1.90%) Bicep
13 8 (1.90%) C++
14 5 (1.19%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.71%) Apex Code
16 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (35.95%) Security Cleared
2 134 (31.90%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.24%) Azure Certification
4 21 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 21 (5.00%) Degree
5 11 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.71%) PhD
11 2 (0.48%) CSSLP
12 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.24%) GWAPT
12 1 (0.24%) OSCP
12 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.33%) QA
2 18 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.05%) NIST
4 13 (3.10%) NCSC
5 9 (2.14%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.67%) GDPR
7 5 (1.19%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.95%) PSD2
8 4 (0.95%) SEPA
9 3 (0.71%) SLA
10 2 (0.48%) HL7
10 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.48%) MiFID
10 2 (0.48%) WCAG
11 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 218 (51.90%) Docker
2 5 (1.19%) Postfix
3 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.71%) GridGain
4 3 (0.71%) NFS
4 3 (0.71%) Sendmail
4 3 (0.71%) Varnish
4 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.48%) HDFS
5 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 227 (54.05%) Kubernetes
2 172 (40.95%) Terraform
3 82 (19.52%) Ansible
4 71 (16.90%) Prometheus
5 70 (16.67%) Grafana
6 15 (3.57%) Argo
7 11 (2.62%) Istio
8 10 (2.38%) Kibana
9 8 (1.90%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.67%) Puppet
11 6 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.71%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.71%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.71%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.71%) Rancher
13 2 (0.48%) Consul
13 2 (0.48%) Packer
13 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.24%) linkerd
Vendors
1 36 (8.57%) Splunk
2 30 (7.14%) Google
2 30 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.00%) Databricks
4 18 (4.29%) Oracle
5 13 (3.10%) CyberArk
5 13 (3.10%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.14%) ForgeRock
7 9 (2.14%) Okta
8 7 (1.67%) Confluent
8 7 (1.67%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.67%) New Relic
8 7 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.67%) Sybase
9 6 (1.43%) IBM
10 5 (1.19%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.19%) Solace
11 4 (0.95%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.95%) VMware