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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 92 88
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 -27
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 499 409 481
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.49% 3.04% 2.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.70% 19.41% 21.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 274 361
10th Percentile £363 £359 £405
25th Percentile £440 £448 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £567
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -6.53% -5.50%
75th Percentile £595 £659 £694
90th Percentile £653 £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 2,533 2,107 2,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.63% 15.69% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,637 1,445 1,582
10th Percentile £375 £343 £363
25th Percentile £447 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -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 20 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 20 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 -16 49 £550 -4.35% 14
South London -6 24 £530 -1.40% 5
West London -10 15 £611 +33.44% 7
East London -1 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 (6.81%) Confluence
2 21 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.80%) Apache
4 9 (1.80%) nginx
5 5 (1.00%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.80%) Camunda
7 3 (0.60%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) IIS
8 2 (0.40%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.40%) SAS
8 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) MTS
9 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.60%) 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
1 286 (57.31%) AWS
2 204 (40.88%) Azure
3 196 (39.28%) GitHub
4 162 (32.46%) GitHub Actions
5 106 (21.24%) Azure DevOps
6 89 (17.84%) GCP
7 76 (15.23%) Serverless
8 67 (13.43%) Amazon S3
8 67 (13.43%) AWS Lambda
9 62 (12.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 52 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (9.82%) Amazon EKS
12 43 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 33 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
13 33 (6.61%) OpenShift
14 31 (6.21%) Datadog
15 26 (5.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (4.41%) Snowflake
17 15 (3.01%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.01%) Firewall
2 14 (2.81%) DNS
3 7 (1.40%) Network Security
3 7 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.40%) VPN
4 5 (1.00%) SSL
5 4 (0.80%) HTTP
5 4 (0.80%) Kerberos
5 4 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (0.80%) SAN
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%) VLAN
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (14.03%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (6.61%) NoSQL
3 32 (6.41%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 27 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 24 (4.81%) Amazon Aurora
6 20 (4.01%) Redis
7 18 (3.61%) SQL Server
8 17 (3.41%) Big Data
9 15 (3.01%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.00%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.80%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.20%) Metadata
14 6 (1.20%) MySQL
14 6 (1.20%) Power BI
15 5 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (1.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 182 (36.47%) GitLab
2 153 (30.66%) Git
3 73 (14.63%) JIRA
4 44 (8.82%) JUnit
5 36 (7.21%) Mockito
5 36 (7.21%) Selenium
6 34 (6.81%) Gradle
7 30 (6.01%) Maven
8 29 (5.81%) Bitbucket
9 27 (5.41%) SonarQube
10 23 (4.61%) Cucumber
10 23 (4.61%) REST Assured
11 22 (4.41%) Postman
12 19 (3.81%) JMeter
13 17 (3.41%) Liquibase
14 12 (2.40%) Cypress.io
15 11 (2.20%) Gatling
15 11 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (2.00%) Eclipse
17 9 (1.80%) TestNG
General
1 126 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 105 (21.04%) Finance
3 71 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 62 (12.42%) Banking
5 47 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.21%) Law
7 16 (3.21%) Retail
8 11 (2.20%) Marketing
9 8 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.40%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.20%) Front Office
11 6 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.00%) Police
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 (26.65%) Developer
2 95 (19.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (18.04%) Senior
4 67 (13.43%) Java Developer
5 41 (8.22%) Lead
6 34 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (5.61%) Software Engineer
8 27 (5.41%) Architect
9 23 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
10 22 (4.41%) Automation Engineer
10 22 (4.41%) Senior Developer
11 21 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 19 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (3.81%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (3.61%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 18 (3.61%) Tester
14 17 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 17 (3.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 16 (3.21%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (40.08%) Terraform
2 104 (20.84%) Kafka
3 90 (18.04%) Spring
4 77 (15.43%) Spring Boot
5 74 (14.83%) REST
6 68 (13.63%) RESTful
7 65 (13.03%) React
8 57 (11.42%) Node.js
9 40 (8.02%) HTML
10 29 (5.81%) Playwright
11 28 (5.61%) CSS
12 24 (4.81%) AngularJS
12 24 (4.81%) Swagger
13 23 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (4.41%) SOAP
15 18 (3.61%) Web Services
16 17 (3.41%) Flask
16 17 (3.41%) GraphQL
16 17 (3.41%) OpenAPI
17 16 (3.21%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 89 (17.84%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.61%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.20%) Replication
7 10 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.60%) Hedge funds
9 8 (1.60%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.40%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.40%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
11 6 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.20%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 4 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.80%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 122 (24.45%) Linux
2 42 (8.42%) Unix
3 29 (5.81%) Windows
4 21 (4.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.40%) Amazon Linux
7 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.60%) Android
8 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.60%) VMS
8 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (83.77%) CI/CD
2 337 (67.54%) DevOps
3 241 (48.30%) Agile
4 186 (37.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 153 (30.66%) Containerisation
6 143 (28.66%) Test Automation
7 142 (28.46%) Microservices
8 97 (19.44%) Observability
9 85 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 84 (16.83%) Scrum
10 84 (16.83%) Software Engineering
11 71 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (12.42%) AI
12 62 (12.42%) Full-Stack Development
13 61 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
13 61 (12.22%) TDD
14 60 (12.02%) Event-Driven
15 53 (10.62%) Mentoring
15 53 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 50 (10.02%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 212 (42.48%) Python
2 192 (38.48%) Java
3 123 (24.65%) SQL
4 100 (20.04%) Bash
5 66 (13.23%) JavaScript
6 55 (11.02%) TypeScript
7 50 (10.02%) PowerShell
8 33 (6.61%) C#
9 22 (4.41%) Go
9 22 (4.41%) PL/SQL
10 21 (4.21%) Perl
11 20 (4.01%) Shell Script
12 19 (3.81%) Groovy
13 13 (2.61%) Scala
14 12 (2.40%) C++
15 9 (1.80%) Apex Code
15 9 (1.80%) Bicep
16 8 (1.60%) Ruby
16 8 (1.60%) SOQL
16 8 (1.60%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 203 (40.68%) Security Cleared
2 182 (36.47%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.61%) AWS Certification
3 28 (5.61%) Degree
4 24 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.01%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.60%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.60%) CISSP
11 3 (0.60%) GIAC
11 3 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.40%) CSSLP
12 2 (0.40%) ISEB
12 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.40%) PMP
13 1 (0.20%) GWAPT
13 1 (0.20%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (16.23%) QA
2 21 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.60%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.00%) NIST
6 5 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.00%) 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
1 254 (50.90%) Docker
2 9 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.40%) Postfix
4 5 (1.00%) 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
1 254 (50.90%) Kubernetes
2 101 (20.24%) Grafana
3 97 (19.44%) Ansible
4 95 (19.04%) Prometheus
5 18 (3.61%) Puppet
6 16 (3.21%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.01%) Kibana
8 12 (2.40%) Argo
9 8 (1.60%) Control-M
10 7 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (1.40%) Packer
11 5 (1.00%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.80%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.80%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.80%) Podman
13 3 (0.60%) Consul
13 3 (0.60%) Istio
13 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.60%) systemd
14 2 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 44 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.22%) Oracle
3 36 (7.21%) Splunk
4 28 (5.61%) Google
5 23 (4.61%) Dynatrace
6 22 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 17 (3.41%) Databricks
8 14 (2.81%) IBM
8 14 (2.81%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.20%) VMware
10 10 (2.00%) New Relic
10 10 (2.00%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.80%) ForgeRock
11 9 (1.80%) Okta
12 7 (1.40%) Veracode
13 6 (1.20%) OpenAI
14 5 (1.00%) Checkmarx
14 5 (1.00%) SaltStack
14 5 (1.00%) Sybase
15 4 (0.80%) SAP