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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 74 80
Rank change year-on-year -41 +6 -35
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 419 439 504
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.49% 3.48% 2.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.48% 24.47% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 308 362
10th Percentile £400 £380 £405
25th Percentile £450 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £736 £688
90th Percentile £773 £838 £775
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
England median hourly rate £43.75 £67.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -35.19% +20.00% -21.05%

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 2,397 1,794 2,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.23% 14.21% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,612 1,224 1,655
10th Percentile £355 £345 £363
25th Percentile £422 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £783
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 23
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -24 49 £575 +6.98% 23
West London -1 25 £552 - 4
South London -16 12 £500 +31.58%
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 35 (8.35%) Confluence
2 15 (3.58%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.43%) Apache
4 6 (1.43%) nginx
5 4 (0.95%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.72%) IIS
6 3 (0.72%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Adobe XD
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.48%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 212 (50.60%) AWS
2 163 (38.90%) GitHub
3 138 (32.94%) Azure
4 120 (28.64%) GitHub Actions
5 84 (20.05%) GCP
6 70 (16.71%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (15.75%) Serverless
8 63 (15.04%) Amazon S3
9 58 (13.84%) AWS Lambda
10 57 (13.60%) Amazon EKS
11 53 (12.65%) Amazon EC2
12 49 (11.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 45 (10.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 41 (9.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 38 (9.07%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (7.40%) Datadog
16 31 (7.40%) OpenShift
17 23 (5.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 18 (4.30%) Route 53
19 16 (3.82%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.73%) Firewall
2 19 (4.53%) DNS
3 13 (3.10%) VPN
4 9 (2.15%) Network Security
5 5 (1.19%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.19%) WAN
6 4 (0.95%) HTTP
7 3 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.48%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.48%) Multicast
8 2 (0.48%) SSL
9 1 (0.24%) DSL
9 1 (0.24%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (11.22%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (8.83%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (8.35%) NoSQL
4 19 (4.53%) SQL Server
5 18 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.30%) MySQL
6 15 (3.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (3.58%) Redis
7 14 (3.34%) Big Data
8 13 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.10%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.63%) DynamoDB
10 10 (2.39%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.39%) Tableau
11 8 (1.91%) Power BI
12 7 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.43%) Metadata
14 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.19%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 161 (38.42%) GitLab
2 103 (24.58%) Git
3 69 (16.47%) JIRA
4 40 (9.55%) JUnit
5 34 (8.11%) Selenium
6 31 (7.40%) Cucumber
7 26 (6.21%) Maven
7 26 (6.21%) Mockito
8 24 (5.73%) Postman
9 22 (5.25%) Bitbucket
10 17 (4.06%) REST Assured
11 14 (3.34%) Gradle
11 14 (3.34%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (2.39%) CircleCI
12 10 (2.39%) SonarQube
13 9 (2.15%) Liquibase
14 8 (1.91%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.91%) MLflow
15 7 (1.67%) Cypress.io
15 7 (1.67%) Gatling
General
1 117 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 97 (23.15%) Finance
3 58 (13.84%) Banking
4 42 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (5.01%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (4.53%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.39%) Front Office
9 8 (1.91%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.91%) Retail
10 7 (1.67%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Law
14 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.48%) Marketing
15 2 (0.48%) Police
15 2 (0.48%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 102 (24.34%) Developer
2 67 (15.99%) Senior
3 59 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 42 (10.02%) Architect
4 42 (10.02%) Java Developer
5 29 (6.92%) Lead
6 20 (4.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (4.53%) Senior Developer
8 18 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (4.30%) Data Engineer
9 17 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (4.06%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (3.82%) Software Engineer
11 14 (3.34%) GCP Engineer
11 14 (3.34%) Python Engineer
12 13 (3.10%) CyberArk Architect
12 13 (3.10%) Senior Java Developer
12 13 (3.10%) Site Engineer
13 12 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (17.90%) Kafka
2 74 (17.66%) Spring
3 69 (16.47%) Node.js
4 64 (15.27%) Spring Boot
5 48 (11.46%) Playwright
6 42 (10.02%) React
7 41 (9.79%) REST
7 41 (9.79%) RESTful
8 34 (8.11%) AngularJS
9 31 (7.40%) OpenTelemetry
10 29 (6.92%) GraphQL
10 29 (6.92%) YAML
11 24 (5.73%) CSS
11 24 (5.73%) Vitest
12 23 (5.49%) Elastic Stack
13 22 (5.25%) HTML
14 21 (5.01%) OpenID
15 18 (4.30%) JSON
16 17 (4.06%) SAML
17 14 (3.34%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 95 (22.67%) Cloud Native
2 28 (6.68%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.30%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.58%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (1.67%) Equities
7 7 (1.67%) Fixed Income
7 7 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.43%) Derivative
8 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.43%) Replication
9 5 (1.19%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.95%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.72%) CMDB
11 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.72%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.47%) Linux
2 20 (4.77%) Unix
3 16 (3.82%) Windows
4 14 (3.34%) VMS
5 6 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.72%) Android
8 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (86.40%) CI/CD
2 282 (67.30%) DevOps
3 174 (41.53%) Agile
4 166 (39.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 119 (28.40%) Containerisation
6 103 (24.58%) Test Automation
7 99 (23.63%) Microservices
8 81 (19.33%) Observability
9 72 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
10 60 (14.32%) Mentoring
11 56 (13.37%) Scrum
12 48 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (11.46%) Software Engineering
13 44 (10.50%) AI
14 42 (10.02%) TDD
15 41 (9.79%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (9.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 37 (8.83%) Design Patterns
17 37 (8.83%) Event-Driven
18 36 (8.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 169 (40.33%) Python
2 135 (32.22%) Java
3 91 (21.72%) SQL
4 57 (13.60%) Bash
5 51 (12.17%) TypeScript
6 33 (7.88%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.16%) C#
8 23 (5.49%) PowerShell
9 17 (4.06%) Go
9 17 (4.06%) Shell Script
10 16 (3.82%) Scala
11 8 (1.91%) Bicep
11 8 (1.91%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.91%) Ruby
12 6 (1.43%) C++
12 6 (1.43%) Groovy
12 6 (1.43%) Perl
12 6 (1.43%) Swift
13 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.95%) R
Qualifications
1 131 (31.26%) Security Cleared
2 114 (27.21%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.77%) AWS Certification
4 19 (4.53%) Azure Certification
4 19 (4.53%) Degree
5 11 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.19%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.72%) PhD
12 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.24%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.24%) OSCP
13 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (13.60%) QA
2 17 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (4.06%) NIST
3 16 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.10%) NCSC
5 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.91%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.67%) GDPR
7 5 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.72%) SLA
9 2 (0.48%) HL7
9 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.48%) MiFID
9 2 (0.48%) PSD2
9 2 (0.48%) SEPA
10 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 216 (51.55%) Docker
2 4 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.95%) VMware NSX
2 4 (0.95%) vSphere
3 3 (0.72%) GridGain
4 2 (0.48%) HDFS
4 2 (0.48%) Postfix
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) NFS
5 1 (0.24%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.24%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 233 (55.61%) Kubernetes
2 170 (40.57%) Terraform
3 80 (19.09%) Ansible
4 64 (15.27%) Prometheus
5 63 (15.04%) Grafana
6 18 (4.30%) Argo
7 12 (2.86%) Istio
8 9 (2.15%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.91%) Puppet
10 7 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (1.67%) Kibana
11 6 (1.43%) Rancher
12 4 (0.95%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.72%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.48%) Opsgenie
15 1 (0.24%) CloudHub
15 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
15 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 1 (0.24%) linkerd
Vendors
1 37 (8.83%) Splunk
2 33 (7.88%) Google
3 26 (6.21%) Microsoft
4 25 (5.97%) Databricks
5 21 (5.01%) Oracle
6 14 (3.34%) CyberArk
7 12 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.39%) Dynatrace
9 9 (2.15%) Atlassian
9 9 (2.15%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.91%) Solace
10 8 (1.91%) Sybase
11 6 (1.43%) Confluent
11 6 (1.43%) IBM
11 6 (1.43%) New Relic
11 6 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.43%) VMware
12 5 (1.19%) Aruba
12 5 (1.19%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.19%) Cisco