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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 80 81
Rank change year-on-year -38 +1 -36
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 415 407 486
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.31% 3.25% 2.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.74% 22.18% 20.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 287 358
10th Percentile £400 £387 £405
25th Percentile £464 £440 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% -9.28%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £769 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.80% -5.50% -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 2,339 1,835 2,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.03% 14.67% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,549 1,250 1,653
10th Percentile £354 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £528
% change year-on-year - -5.30% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 26
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.00 £38.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +6.16% -47.86%
75th Percentile £72.88 £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 18 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 18 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 -25 50 £575 - 28
West London -12 18 £552 +20.55% 4
South London -14 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 25 (6.02%) Confluence
2 19 (4.58%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.17%) Apache
5 5 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 3 (0.72%) IIS
6 3 (0.72%) 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 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.72%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Magento
2 2 (0.48%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.48%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 222 (53.49%) AWS
2 163 (39.28%) GitHub
3 148 (35.66%) Azure
4 131 (31.57%) GitHub Actions
5 74 (17.83%) GCP
6 71 (17.11%) Amazon S3
7 67 (16.14%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (14.94%) Serverless
9 59 (14.22%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (12.53%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (11.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 49 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 47 (11.33%) Amazon EKS
13 38 (9.16%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (7.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (7.23%) OpenShift
16 22 (5.30%) Datadog
17 20 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 17 (4.10%) AWS CodePipeline
19 14 (3.37%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.82%) Firewall
2 16 (3.86%) DNS
3 8 (1.93%) Network Security
4 4 (0.96%) VPN
5 3 (0.72%) 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 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 32 (7.71%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (6.51%) Amazon Aurora
5 21 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.58%) Big Data
7 16 (3.86%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.86%) SQL Server
8 15 (3.61%) Redis
9 12 (2.89%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.89%) DynamoDB
10 11 (2.65%) MySQL
11 8 (1.93%) Tableau
12 7 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.45%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.45%) Power BI
14 5 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 150 (36.14%) GitLab
2 94 (22.65%) Git
3 57 (13.73%) JIRA
4 41 (9.88%) JUnit
5 34 (8.19%) Mockito
6 31 (7.47%) Selenium
7 26 (6.27%) Postman
8 25 (6.02%) Cucumber
9 21 (5.06%) Maven
10 17 (4.10%) Gradle
11 15 (3.61%) Liquibase
11 15 (3.61%) REST Assured
12 13 (3.13%) JMeter
13 12 (2.89%) Bitbucket
13 12 (2.89%) SonarQube
14 8 (1.93%) CircleCI
14 8 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (1.69%) Ant
15 7 (1.69%) Gatling
15 7 (1.69%) MLflow
General
1 109 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 90 (21.69%) Finance
3 53 (12.77%) Banking
4 50 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.34%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.89%) Retail
9 10 (2.41%) Front Office
10 8 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.69%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.45%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.45%) Law
12 6 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.20%) Marketing
14 3 (0.72%) Automotive
14 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.72%) Police
15 2 (0.48%) Local Government
15 2 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 104 (25.06%) Developer
2 66 (15.90%) Senior
3 63 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (11.81%) Java Developer
5 42 (10.12%) Architect
6 30 (7.23%) Lead
7 21 (5.06%) Software Engineer
8 19 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (4.34%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.10%) Senior Developer
11 16 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
13 14 (3.37%) Python Developer
14 13 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) CyberArk Architect
14 13 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
14 13 (3.13%) Test Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (20.00%) Spring
2 76 (18.31%) Spring Boot
3 75 (18.07%) Kafka
4 55 (13.25%) RESTful
5 53 (12.77%) Node.js
6 45 (10.84%) React
7 39 (9.40%) REST
8 33 (7.95%) AngularJS
8 33 (7.95%) Playwright
9 28 (6.75%) HTML
10 27 (6.51%) OpenTelemetry
11 23 (5.54%) CSS
11 23 (5.54%) Swagger
12 20 (4.82%) YAML
13 19 (4.58%) OpenID
14 18 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (4.34%) GraphQL
14 18 (4.34%) Web Services
15 17 (4.10%) Pandas
16 16 (3.86%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 94 (22.65%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.47%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.54%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.93%) Replication
7 7 (1.69%) Derivative
7 7 (1.69%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.45%) Equities
8 6 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.96%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.72%) NHS
11 3 (0.72%) PACS
11 3 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 74 (17.83%) Linux
2 26 (6.27%) Unix
3 18 (4.34%) Windows
4 13 (3.13%) VMS
5 5 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.48%) Android
8 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (87.47%) CI/CD
2 278 (66.99%) DevOps
3 175 (42.17%) Agile
4 167 (40.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 125 (30.12%) Containerisation
6 106 (25.54%) Test Automation
7 104 (25.06%) Microservices
8 78 (18.80%) Observability
9 65 (15.66%) Scrum
9 65 (15.66%) Software Engineering
10 56 (13.49%) Problem-Solving
11 52 (12.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (12.05%) Mentoring
13 47 (11.33%) Full-Stack Development
14 41 (9.88%) TDD
15 40 (9.64%) AI
15 40 (9.64%) Migration
16 39 (9.40%) Event-Driven
16 39 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
17 36 (8.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 162 (39.04%) Python
2 143 (34.46%) Java
3 97 (23.37%) SQL
4 54 (13.01%) Bash
5 42 (10.12%) TypeScript
6 38 (9.16%) JavaScript
7 31 (7.47%) PowerShell
8 30 (7.23%) C#
9 22 (5.30%) Shell Script
10 17 (4.10%) Scala
11 13 (3.13%) Go
12 11 (2.65%) Groovy
13 9 (2.17%) Perl
14 8 (1.93%) Bicep
14 8 (1.93%) C++
14 8 (1.93%) Ruby
15 5 (1.20%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (36.39%) Security Cleared
2 134 (32.29%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.30%) Azure Certification
4 20 (4.82%) Degree
5 18 (4.34%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.72%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 3 (0.72%) PhD
11 2 (0.48%) CSSLP
12 1 (0.24%) CISSP
12 1 (0.24%) GWAPT
12 1 (0.24%) OCP
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.49%) QA
2 18 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 17 (4.10%) NIST
4 13 (3.13%) NCSC
5 9 (2.17%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.69%) GDPR
7 5 (1.20%) ISO 20022
7 5 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.96%) PSD2
8 4 (0.96%) SEPA
9 3 (0.72%) 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
1 215 (51.81%) Docker
2 5 (1.20%) Postfix
3 4 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.72%) GridGain
4 3 (0.72%) NFS
4 3 (0.72%) Sendmail
4 3 (0.72%) Varnish
4 3 (0.72%) 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
1 225 (54.22%) Kubernetes
2 168 (40.48%) Terraform
3 83 (20.00%) Ansible
4 72 (17.35%) Prometheus
5 71 (17.11%) Grafana
6 15 (3.61%) Argo
7 11 (2.65%) Istio
8 10 (2.41%) Kibana
9 8 (1.93%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.69%) Puppet
11 3 (0.72%) HAProxy
11 3 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.72%) Karpenter
11 3 (0.72%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.72%) Rancher
12 2 (0.48%) Consul
12 2 (0.48%) Packer
12 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.24%) linkerd
Vendors
1 36 (8.67%) Splunk
2 30 (7.23%) Google
2 30 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.82%) Databricks
4 18 (4.34%) Oracle
5 13 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 13 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.17%) ForgeRock
7 9 (2.17%) Okta
8 7 (1.69%) Confluent
8 7 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.69%) New Relic
8 7 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.69%) Sybase
9 6 (1.45%) IBM
10 5 (1.20%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.20%) Solace
11 4 (0.96%) Jaspersoft
11 4 (0.96%) VMware