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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 69 79
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 -31
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 421 473 496
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.94% 3.32% 2.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.96% 24.19% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 328 360
10th Percentile £353 £413 £412
25th Percentile £425 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.56% +11.73% -15.38%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £660
90th Percentile £735 £825 £750
England median daily rate £515 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -10.43% +6.48% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £73.80
25th Percentile £100.00 - £76.50
Median hourly rate £105.00 £95.00 £81.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +17.28% +15.71%
75th Percentile £110.00 - £85.50
90th Percentile - - £88.20
England median hourly rate £53.00 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -25.61% +4.01% -2.14%

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 2,221 1,955 2,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.50% 13.71% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,514 1,279 1,678
10th Percentile £356 £341 £384
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £733 £790 £786
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £42.55 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £110.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £87.88 £73.66
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 8 January 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 January 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 -19 55 £575 - 26
West London +13 35 £552 +11.41% 13
South London -8 17 £500 -7.06% 15
East London +2 2 £450 -20.00% 17
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 55 (13.06%) Confluence
2 16 (3.80%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.80%) nginx
3 8 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.95%) IIS
4 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.71%) Apache
5 3 (0.71%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.71%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.48%) CICS
6 2 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.24%) Camunda
7 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.24%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (2.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Fidessa
1 3 (0.71%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.48%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 204 (48.46%) AWS
2 136 (32.30%) GitHub
3 125 (29.69%) Azure
4 100 (23.75%) GitHub Actions
5 98 (23.28%) GCP
6 58 (13.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 57 (13.54%) Amazon S3
8 52 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (11.16%) Serverless
10 46 (10.93%) Amazon EC2
11 45 (10.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 42 (9.98%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (8.55%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (7.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 29 (6.89%) Datadog
18 25 (5.94%) SaaS
19 24 (5.70%) Amazon ELB
20 21 (4.99%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 49 (11.64%) Firewall
2 35 (8.31%) DNS
3 19 (4.51%) VPN
4 16 (3.80%) HTTP
5 13 (3.09%) Network Security
5 13 (3.09%) TCP/IP
6 12 (2.85%) SSH
7 11 (2.61%) SMTP
7 11 (2.61%) SSL
8 10 (2.38%) FTP
8 10 (2.38%) IMAP
8 10 (2.38%) OpenLDAP
9 5 (1.19%) SD-WAN
9 5 (1.19%) WAN
10 3 (0.71%) tcpdump
11 2 (0.48%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.48%) Multicast
12 1 (0.24%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.24%) MQTT
12 1 (0.24%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (8.55%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (7.60%) NoSQL
4 23 (5.46%) SQL Server
5 22 (5.23%) Amazon Aurora
6 16 (3.80%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.80%) Redis
7 15 (3.56%) BigQuery
8 14 (3.33%) MySQL
9 13 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.38%) Oracle Database
12 9 (2.14%) Hadoop
12 9 (2.14%) Tableau
13 8 (1.90%) Big Data
13 8 (1.90%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.43%) DB2
15 6 (1.43%) Power BI
16 5 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 120 (28.50%) GitLab
2 104 (24.70%) Git
3 80 (19.00%) JIRA
4 31 (7.36%) Selenium
5 27 (6.41%) Bitbucket
5 27 (6.41%) Cucumber
5 27 (6.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 26 (6.18%) JUnit
7 25 (5.94%) SonarQube
8 23 (5.46%) Maven
9 20 (4.75%) Postman
10 16 (3.80%) TeamCity
11 14 (3.33%) REST Assured
12 13 (3.09%) Cypress.io
13 11 (2.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (2.38%) Artifactory
14 10 (2.38%) CircleCI
14 10 (2.38%) Gradle
14 10 (2.38%) Mockito
14 10 (2.38%) Vagrant
General
1 106 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 105 (24.94%) Finance
3 70 (16.63%) Banking
4 35 (8.31%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.66%) Front Office
8 7 (1.66%) Retail
9 6 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.43%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.19%) Publishing
11 4 (0.95%) Military
11 4 (0.95%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Marketing
13 2 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (20.19%) Developer
2 80 (19.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (18.53%) Senior
4 36 (8.55%) Java Developer
5 29 (6.89%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (6.65%) Lead
7 27 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
8 25 (5.94%) GCP Engineer
9 24 (5.70%) Architect
10 22 (5.23%) AWS DevOps
10 22 (5.23%) Data Engineer
11 20 (4.75%) Consultant
12 18 (4.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 18 (4.28%) Senior Developer
13 16 (3.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (3.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (3.56%) GCP DevOps
14 15 (3.56%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (17.81%) Kafka
2 60 (14.25%) Node.js
3 51 (12.11%) Playwright
3 51 (12.11%) Spring
4 42 (9.98%) Spring Boot
5 40 (9.50%) GraphQL
6 38 (9.03%) REST
7 33 (7.84%) React
8 31 (7.36%) RESTful
8 31 (7.36%) Vitest
9 25 (5.94%) AngularJS
9 25 (5.94%) YAML
10 24 (5.70%) JSON
11 22 (5.23%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (5.23%) HTML
11 22 (5.23%) OpenTelemetry
12 20 (4.75%) CSS
13 17 (4.04%) XML
14 14 (3.33%) .NET
15 13 (3.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 95 (22.57%) Cloud Native
2 32 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.99%) Replication
4 19 (4.51%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.09%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.90%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.90%) Derivative
7 8 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.66%) Equities
9 6 (1.43%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.43%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (15.91%) Linux
2 23 (5.46%) Windows
3 22 (5.23%) VMS
4 21 (4.99%) Unix
5 11 (2.61%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.38%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (1.90%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.66%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.95%) Android
9 4 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.24%) CentOS
10 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (83.14%) CI/CD
2 301 (71.50%) DevOps
3 169 (40.14%) Agile
4 153 (36.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 109 (25.89%) Containerisation
6 96 (22.80%) Test Automation
7 83 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
8 82 (19.48%) Microservices
9 79 (18.76%) Observability
10 66 (15.68%) Mentoring
11 58 (13.78%) Software Engineering
12 45 (10.69%) Scrum
13 43 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (9.50%) Performance Tuning
14 40 (9.50%) TDD
15 37 (8.79%) AI
15 37 (8.79%) High Availability
16 35 (8.31%) Migration
16 35 (8.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 34 (8.08%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 187 (44.42%) Python
2 124 (29.45%) Java
3 84 (19.95%) SQL
4 63 (14.96%) Bash
5 56 (13.30%) TypeScript
6 41 (9.74%) JavaScript
7 39 (9.26%) PowerShell
8 27 (6.41%) Go
9 24 (5.70%) Groovy
10 22 (5.23%) C#
11 15 (3.56%) Scala
12 12 (2.85%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.38%) Ruby
14 8 (1.90%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.66%) Perl
16 6 (1.43%) C++
16 6 (1.43%) Swift
17 5 (1.19%) R
17 5 (1.19%) Rust
18 4 (0.95%) XPath
Qualifications
1 99 (23.52%) Security Cleared
2 83 (19.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.41%) AWS Certification
3 27 (6.41%) Degree
4 22 (5.23%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.43%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.71%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.71%) PhD
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.48%) GPEN
10 2 (0.48%) GWAPT
10 2 (0.48%) MCP
10 2 (0.48%) OSCP
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.74%) QA
2 14 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.43%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.19%) NIST
6 4 (0.95%) GDPR
7 3 (0.71%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.48%) HL7
8 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.48%) MiFID
8 2 (0.48%) PSD2
8 2 (0.48%) SEPA
8 2 (0.48%) WCAG
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 235 (55.82%) Docker
2 10 (2.38%) DFS Replication
2 10 (2.38%) Dovecot
2 10 (2.38%) Postfix
2 10 (2.38%) Squid
3 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.71%) HDFS
3 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.48%) GridGain
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 214 (50.83%) Kubernetes
2 164 (38.95%) Terraform
3 92 (21.85%) Ansible
4 60 (14.25%) Grafana
5 53 (12.59%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.56%) Kibana
7 14 (3.33%) Argo
8 13 (3.09%) Istio
8 13 (3.09%) ITRS Geneos
9 10 (2.38%) Nessus
9 10 (2.38%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.38%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.43%) logstash
10 6 (1.43%) Puppet
10 6 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.43%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.19%) Rancher
12 3 (0.71%) Ambari
12 3 (0.71%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.48%) rkt
Vendors
1 53 (12.59%) Google
2 28 (6.65%) Splunk
3 26 (6.18%) Microsoft
3 26 (6.18%) ServiceNow
4 23 (5.46%) Databricks
4 23 (5.46%) Dynatrace
5 22 (5.23%) Oracle
6 13 (3.09%) Palo Alto
7 12 (2.85%) CheckPoint
7 12 (2.85%) F5
7 12 (2.85%) Solace
8 11 (2.61%) Atlassian
9 10 (2.38%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.90%) Confluent
10 8 (1.90%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.66%) Cisco
11 7 (1.66%) VMware
12 5 (1.19%) Aruba
12 5 (1.19%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.19%) TIBCO