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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 86 87
Rank change year-on-year -35 +1 -27
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 491 423 470
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.42% 3.12% 2.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.18% 20.17% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 282 348
10th Percentile £366 £368 £400
25th Percentile £447 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.09% -8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £673 £688
90th Percentile £652 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -7.76%
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% -14.06%
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% -3.78%

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 2,560 2,097 2,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.62% 15.45% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 1,431 1,599
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £440 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 24
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.69
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 8 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 8 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 -23 54 £550 -11.36% 16
South London -11 26 £500 -19.35% 4
West London -10 13 £608 +32.90% 8
East London -2 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 (6.92%) Confluence
2 19 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (3.46%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.04%) Apache
5 9 (1.83%) nginx
6 8 (1.63%) WebSphere
7 4 (0.81%) Camunda
8 3 (0.61%) CMS
8 3 (0.61%) IIS
8 3 (0.61%) JBoss
9 2 (0.41%) SAS
9 2 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.20%) MTS
10 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.63%) Chatbot
3 8 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.20%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Magento
2 2 (0.41%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.41%) Shopify
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 279 (56.82%) AWS
2 202 (41.14%) GitHub
3 192 (39.10%) Azure
4 166 (33.81%) GitHub Actions
5 99 (20.16%) Azure DevOps
6 86 (17.52%) GCP
7 76 (15.48%) Serverless
8 69 (14.05%) Amazon S3
9 67 (13.65%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (13.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 56 (11.41%) Amazon EC2
12 50 (10.18%) Amazon EKS
12 50 (10.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 36 (7.33%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (6.11%) Datadog
15 29 (5.91%) OpenShift
16 27 (5.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 21 (4.28%) Amazon SQS
18 19 (3.87%) Snowflake
19 16 (3.26%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.07%) Firewall
2 15 (3.05%) DNS
3 6 (1.22%) VPN
4 5 (1.02%) Network Security
4 5 (1.02%) SSL
5 4 (0.81%) HTTP
5 4 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.81%) WAN
6 3 (0.61%) Multicast
7 2 (0.41%) 4G
7 2 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.41%) Internet
7 2 (0.41%) Intranet
7 2 (0.41%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.41%) SAN
8 1 (0.20%) NFC
8 1 (0.20%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.20%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (6.31%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (6.11%) NoSQL
4 26 (5.30%) MongoDB
5 25 (5.09%) Relational Database
6 24 (4.89%) Amazon Aurora
7 18 (3.67%) Big Data
8 17 (3.46%) DynamoDB
8 17 (3.46%) SQL Server
9 16 (3.26%) Redis
10 12 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (2.04%) BigQuery
11 10 (2.04%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.22%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.22%) Metadata
14 5 (1.02%) Data Vault
14 5 (1.02%) Oracle Database
14 5 (1.02%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 175 (35.64%) GitLab
2 147 (29.94%) Git
3 76 (15.48%) JIRA
4 47 (9.57%) JUnit
5 36 (7.33%) Mockito
5 36 (7.33%) Selenium
6 32 (6.52%) Gradle
6 32 (6.52%) Maven
7 28 (5.70%) SonarQube
8 26 (5.30%) Bitbucket
8 26 (5.30%) Cucumber
9 25 (5.09%) REST Assured
10 24 (4.89%) Postman
11 19 (3.87%) Liquibase
12 17 (3.46%) JMeter
13 12 (2.44%) Cypress.io
14 11 (2.24%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (2.04%) Ant
15 10 (2.04%) Eclipse
15 10 (2.04%) Gatling
General
1 130 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 100 (20.37%) Finance
3 70 (14.26%) Public Sector
4 62 (12.63%) Banking
5 44 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.26%) Law
7 16 (3.26%) Retail
8 11 (2.24%) Marketing
9 10 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.43%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.22%) Front Office
13 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.81%) Police
15 3 (0.61%) Automotive
15 3 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 129 (26.27%) Developer
2 90 (18.33%) Senior
3 89 (18.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 69 (14.05%) Java Developer
5 41 (8.35%) Lead
6 34 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
7 30 (6.11%) Architect
7 30 (6.11%) Software Engineer
8 26 (5.30%) Senior Developer
9 23 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
10 21 (4.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 20 (4.07%) Automation Engineer
12 18 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (3.67%) Tester
13 17 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (3.46%) Senior DevOps
13 17 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.26%) Senior Java Developer
14 16 (3.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 15 (3.05%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (18.94%) Kafka
2 92 (18.74%) Spring
3 78 (15.89%) Spring Boot
4 68 (13.85%) REST
5 66 (13.44%) React
6 64 (13.03%) RESTful
7 57 (11.61%) Node.js
8 39 (7.94%) HTML
9 31 (6.31%) Playwright
10 27 (5.50%) CSS
11 24 (4.89%) AngularJS
12 23 (4.68%) SOAP
12 23 (4.68%) Swagger
13 22 (4.48%) Web Services
14 20 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (3.67%) GraphQL
16 16 (3.26%) OpenAPI
17 15 (3.05%) Jakarta EE
18 14 (2.85%) Hibernate
18 14 (2.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.65%) AI Agents
6 10 (2.04%) Replication
7 8 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.63%) Hedge funds
7 8 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.22%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 4 (0.81%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 105 (21.38%) Linux
2 36 (7.33%) Unix
3 24 (4.89%) Windows
4 18 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.43%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.02%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.61%) Android
7 3 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (83.30%) CI/CD
2 321 (65.38%) DevOps
3 245 (49.90%) Agile
4 179 (36.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 144 (29.33%) Containerisation
6 142 (28.92%) Test Automation
7 137 (27.90%) Microservices
8 91 (18.53%) Scrum
9 90 (18.33%) Observability
10 84 (17.11%) Software Engineering
11 77 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 66 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (12.83%) AI
13 63 (12.83%) TDD
14 60 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
15 57 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
16 53 (10.79%) Event-Driven
17 52 (10.59%) Mentoring
18 48 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
19 47 (9.57%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 204 (41.55%) Python
2 191 (38.90%) Java
3 119 (24.24%) SQL
4 91 (18.53%) Bash
5 66 (13.44%) JavaScript
6 56 (11.41%) TypeScript
7 46 (9.37%) PowerShell
8 33 (6.72%) C#
9 22 (4.48%) PL/SQL
10 21 (4.28%) Shell Script
11 19 (3.87%) Go
12 16 (3.26%) Groovy
12 16 (3.26%) Perl
13 14 (2.85%) Scala
14 10 (2.04%) C++
15 9 (1.83%) Apex Code
16 8 (1.63%) Bicep
16 8 (1.63%) Ruby
16 8 (1.63%) SOQL
16 8 (1.63%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 191 (38.90%) Security Cleared
2 171 (34.83%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.70%) Degree
4 25 (5.09%) AWS Certification
5 20 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 18 (3.67%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.02%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.61%) CISSP
12 3 (0.61%) GIAC
13 2 (0.41%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.41%) PMP
14 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.20%) SAFe Agilist
14 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (15.89%) QA
2 21 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.02%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.02%) SEPA
5 4 (0.81%) NIST
5 4 (0.81%) PSD2
6 3 (0.61%) GDPR
6 3 (0.61%) SLA
7 2 (0.41%) WCAG
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 244 (49.69%) Docker
2 9 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.43%) Postfix
5 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.81%) Varnish
6 3 (0.61%) GridGain
6 3 (0.61%) HDFS
6 3 (0.61%) NFS
6 3 (0.61%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 2 (0.41%) 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
1 239 (48.68%) Kubernetes
2 194 (39.51%) Terraform
3 98 (19.96%) Ansible
4 91 (18.53%) Grafana
5 88 (17.92%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.26%) Puppet
7 13 (2.65%) Progress Chef
8 10 (2.04%) Argo
8 10 (2.04%) Kibana
9 8 (1.63%) Control-M
10 6 (1.22%) Packer
11 5 (1.02%) HP Fortify
11 5 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
12 4 (0.81%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.81%) Kustomize
12 4 (0.81%) Podman
13 3 (0.61%) Consul
13 3 (0.61%) Istio
13 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.61%) systemd
Vendors
1 42 (8.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.15%) Oracle
3 29 (5.91%) Splunk
4 27 (5.50%) Google
5 22 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 21 (4.28%) Dynatrace
7 17 (3.46%) IBM
8 15 (3.05%) Databricks
9 11 (2.24%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.83%) ForgeRock
10 9 (1.83%) New Relic
10 9 (1.83%) Okta
10 9 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.83%) VMware
11 7 (1.43%) Sybase
12 6 (1.22%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.22%) Veracode
13 5 (1.02%) Jaspersoft
14 4 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.81%) SAP