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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 72 77
Rank change year-on-year -28 +5 -31
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 434 463 527
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.98% 3.33% 2.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.20% 24.04% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 317 388
10th Percentile £363 £412 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £614 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% +6.78% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £688
90th Percentile £775 £838 £765
England median daily rate £520 £571 £545
% change year-on-year -8.97% +4.82% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 £47.50 £71.25 £68.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +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 2,261 1,926 2,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.50% 13.84% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 1,255 1,754
10th Percentile £356 £345 £390
25th Percentile £421 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £569
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -5.98% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.70% -6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 19
10th Percentile £42.63 £22.25 £25.68
25th Percentile £45.19 £25.63 £33.75
Median hourly rate £73.25 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.26% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £64.38
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £73.67
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%

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 25 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 25 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 -21 52 £575 - 22
West London +13 35 £552 +6.06% 6
South London -7 15 £500 -7.06%
East London -2 1 £540 -4.00% 4
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 52 (11.98%) Confluence
2 17 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 13 (3.00%) nginx
4 6 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.92%) IIS
5 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.69%) Apache
6 3 (0.69%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.69%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.46%) CMS
7 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.23%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (1.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.46%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Fidessa
2 2 (0.46%) Shopify
3 1 (0.23%) Actimize
3 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 214 (49.31%) AWS
2 142 (32.72%) GitHub
3 123 (28.34%) Azure
4 106 (24.42%) GitHub Actions
5 95 (21.89%) GCP
6 63 (14.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 63 (14.52%) Amazon S3
7 54 (12.44%) Serverless
8 51 (11.75%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (11.52%) Amazon EC2
9 50 (11.52%) AWS Lambda
10 49 (11.29%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (11.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 44 (10.14%) Amazon ECS
13 41 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 31 (7.14%) Datadog
14 31 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 29 (6.68%) OpenShift
16 24 (5.53%) Route 53
16 24 (5.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (10.14%) Firewall
2 32 (7.37%) DNS
3 19 (4.38%) VPN
4 14 (3.23%) Network Security
5 13 (3.00%) HTTP
6 12 (2.76%) TCP/IP
7 11 (2.53%) SSL
8 10 (2.30%) SSH
9 9 (2.07%) SMTP
10 8 (1.84%) FTP
10 8 (1.84%) IMAP
10 8 (1.84%) OpenLDAP
11 5 (1.15%) SD-WAN
11 5 (1.15%) WAN
12 3 (0.69%) tcpdump
13 2 (0.46%) Kerberos
14 1 (0.23%) BGP
14 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
14 1 (0.23%) MPLS
14 1 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (12.21%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (9.22%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (8.53%) NoSQL
4 20 (4.61%) Amazon Aurora
4 20 (4.61%) SQL Server
5 18 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 18 (4.15%) MySQL
6 17 (3.92%) Redis
7 14 (3.23%) BigQuery
7 14 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.30%) Big Data
8 10 (2.30%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.30%) Tableau
9 8 (1.84%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.61%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.61%) Power BI
11 6 (1.38%) Relational Database
12 5 (1.15%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 137 (31.57%) GitLab
2 105 (24.19%) Git
3 77 (17.74%) JIRA
4 33 (7.60%) Selenium
5 31 (7.14%) JUnit
6 28 (6.45%) Cucumber
6 28 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 25 (5.76%) Bitbucket
7 25 (5.76%) Maven
8 21 (4.84%) Postman
8 21 (4.84%) SonarQube
9 15 (3.46%) TeamCity
10 14 (3.23%) Mockito
11 12 (2.76%) CircleCI
11 12 (2.76%) REST Assured
12 11 (2.53%) Cypress.io
12 11 (2.53%) Gradle
13 10 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (1.84%) Artifactory
14 8 (1.84%) Vagrant
General
1 118 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 116 (26.73%) Finance
3 69 (15.90%) Banking
4 32 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 8 (1.84%) Retail
10 7 (1.61%) Front Office
11 5 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.92%) Military
12 4 (0.92%) Publishing
12 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.69%) Marketing
13 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.46%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 94 (21.66%) Developer
2 77 (17.74%) Senior
3 74 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 39 (8.99%) Java Developer
5 38 (8.76%) Architect
6 28 (6.45%) Lead
7 25 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (5.30%) GCP Engineer
8 23 (5.30%) Platform Engineer
9 19 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (4.38%) Data Engineer
9 19 (4.38%) Senior Developer
10 18 (4.15%) Consultant
11 16 (3.69%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (3.69%) Python Engineer
11 16 (3.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (3.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
14 13 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (17.51%) Kafka
2 64 (14.75%) Node.js
2 64 (14.75%) Spring
3 52 (11.98%) Spring Boot
4 49 (11.29%) Playwright
5 39 (8.99%) GraphQL
6 38 (8.76%) REST
7 37 (8.53%) RESTful
8 36 (8.29%) React
9 31 (7.14%) Vitest
10 29 (6.68%) AngularJS
11 26 (5.99%) YAML
12 25 (5.76%) HTML
13 24 (5.53%) JSON
13 24 (5.53%) OpenID
14 23 (5.30%) CSS
14 23 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
14 23 (5.30%) OpenTelemetry
15 21 (4.84%) LDAP
16 18 (4.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 31 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.38%) Replication
5 18 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.46%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.61%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.61%) Derivative
9 7 (1.61%) Equities
9 7 (1.61%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.15%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.98%) Linux
2 23 (5.30%) Windows
3 20 (4.61%) VMS
4 18 (4.15%) Unix
5 9 (2.07%) Ubuntu
6 8 (1.84%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (1.84%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.38%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.92%) Android
9 3 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.23%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (84.79%) CI/CD
2 308 (70.97%) DevOps
3 167 (38.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 164 (37.79%) Agile
5 117 (26.96%) Containerisation
6 98 (22.58%) Test Automation
7 87 (20.05%) Microservices
7 87 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
8 80 (18.43%) Observability
9 69 (15.90%) Mentoring
10 55 (12.67%) Software Engineering
11 47 (10.83%) Scrum
12 46 (10.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (9.22%) Performance Tuning
14 39 (8.99%) Design Patterns
15 38 (8.76%) AI
16 37 (8.53%) TDD
17 36 (8.29%) Full-Stack Development
17 36 (8.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 35 (8.06%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 184 (42.40%) Python
2 134 (30.88%) Java
3 83 (19.12%) SQL
4 60 (13.82%) Bash
5 56 (12.90%) TypeScript
6 44 (10.14%) JavaScript
7 37 (8.53%) PowerShell
8 25 (5.76%) C#
9 24 (5.53%) Go
10 20 (4.61%) Groovy
11 16 (3.69%) Scala
12 10 (2.30%) Ruby
13 9 (2.07%) Shell Script
14 8 (1.84%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.38%) C++
15 6 (1.38%) R
15 6 (1.38%) Swift
16 5 (1.15%) Perl
16 5 (1.15%) Rust
17 4 (0.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 92 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.68%) AWS Certification
4 24 (5.53%) Degree
5 21 (4.84%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.61%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.69%) PhD
12 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.46%) GPEN
12 2 (0.46%) GWAPT
12 2 (0.46%) MCP
12 2 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.60%) QA
2 19 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (4.15%) NIST
4 16 (3.69%) Data Quality
5 13 (3.00%) NCSC
6 9 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.15%) GDPR
9 4 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.46%) HL7
11 2 (0.46%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.46%) MiFID
11 2 (0.46%) PSD2
11 2 (0.46%) SEPA
11 2 (0.46%) WCAG
12 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 237 (54.61%) Docker
2 8 (1.84%) DFS Replication
2 8 (1.84%) Dovecot
2 8 (1.84%) Postfix
2 8 (1.84%) Squid
3 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.69%) HDFS
3 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.46%) GridGain
4 2 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.46%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.46%) vSphere
5 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 230 (53.00%) Kubernetes
2 163 (37.56%) Terraform
3 89 (20.51%) Ansible
4 56 (12.90%) Prometheus
5 54 (12.44%) Grafana
6 14 (3.23%) Argo
6 14 (3.23%) Istio
7 13 (3.00%) Kibana
8 11 (2.53%) ITRS Geneos
8 11 (2.53%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.84%) Nessus
9 8 (1.84%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.38%) Puppet
10 6 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.15%) logstash
11 5 (1.15%) Rancher
12 3 (0.69%) Karpenter
13 2 (0.46%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.46%) rkt
13 2 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (11.75%) Google
2 39 (8.99%) Splunk
3 27 (6.22%) Microsoft
4 24 (5.53%) ServiceNow
5 22 (5.07%) Databricks
6 20 (4.61%) Dynatrace
6 20 (4.61%) Oracle
7 14 (3.23%) CyberArk
8 13 (3.00%) Palo Alto
8 13 (3.00%) Solace
9 12 (2.76%) CheckPoint
9 12 (2.76%) F5
10 10 (2.30%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.84%) Confluent
11 8 (1.84%) Jaspersoft
12 7 (1.61%) Cisco
12 7 (1.61%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.61%) VMware
13 6 (1.38%) Adobe
14 5 (1.15%) TIBCO