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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 79 85
Rank change year-on-year -40 +6 -38
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 415 403 483
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.33% 3.26% 2.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.71% 22.45% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 285 348
10th Percentile £400 £388 £406
25th Percentile £463 £447 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.41% -9.28%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -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 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% -7.14% -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 2,343 1,795 2,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.16% 14.52% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 1,217 1,643
10th Percentile £351 £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 £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 25
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -3.13% -40.30%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.63
England median hourly rate £67.75 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.45% -7.31% +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 14 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 14 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 51 £575 - 28
West London -10 18 £552 +20.55% 5
South London -15 15 £500 -13.76% 1
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 26 (6.27%) Confluence
2 20 (4.82%) 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
1 3 (0.72%) Shopify
2 2 (0.48%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 223 (53.73%) AWS
2 161 (38.80%) GitHub
3 146 (35.18%) Azure
4 130 (31.33%) GitHub Actions
5 74 (17.83%) Amazon S3
6 73 (17.59%) GCP
7 66 (15.90%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (15.90%) Serverless
8 63 (15.18%) AWS Lambda
9 54 (13.01%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (12.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 50 (12.05%) Amazon EKS
12 48 (11.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (10.12%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (8.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (7.23%) OpenShift
16 25 (6.02%) Datadog
17 20 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 17 (4.10%) AWS CodePipeline
19 14 (3.37%) Route 53
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 57 (13.73%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (8.19%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (7.71%) NoSQL
4 27 (6.51%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (5.30%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.82%) Big Data
7 16 (3.86%) SQL Server
8 15 (3.61%) Redis
8 15 (3.61%) Relational Database
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
13 6 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.45%) Power BI
14 5 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (1.20%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.20%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 151 (36.39%) GitLab
2 94 (22.65%) Git
3 56 (13.49%) JIRA
4 42 (10.12%) JUnit
5 34 (8.19%) Mockito
6 30 (7.23%) Selenium
7 25 (6.02%) Cucumber
8 24 (5.78%) Postman
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%) SonarQube
13 12 (2.89%) JMeter
14 11 (2.65%) Bitbucket
15 8 (1.93%) CircleCI
15 8 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
16 7 (1.69%) Ant
16 7 (1.69%) Gatling
16 7 (1.69%) MLflow
General
1 109 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 94 (22.65%) Finance
3 53 (12.77%) Banking
4 49 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.78%) 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%) Law
12 6 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
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 65 (15.66%) Senior
3 63 (15.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (11.81%) Java Developer
5 43 (10.36%) Architect
6 32 (7.71%) Lead
7 20 (4.82%) Software Engineer
8 19 (4.58%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (4.34%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (4.10%) Senior Developer
11 16 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 13 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.13%) CyberArk Architect
12 13 (3.13%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
12 13 (3.13%) Site Engineer
13 12 (2.89%) 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 54 (13.01%) Node.js
6 47 (11.33%) React
7 39 (9.40%) REST
8 34 (8.19%) Playwright
9 33 (7.95%) AngularJS
10 29 (6.99%) HTML
11 27 (6.51%) OpenTelemetry
12 24 (5.78%) CSS
13 21 (5.06%) Swagger
14 20 (4.82%) YAML
15 19 (4.58%) OpenID
16 18 (4.34%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (4.34%) GraphQL
16 18 (4.34%) Web Services
17 16 (3.86%) LDAP
17 16 (3.86%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 94 (22.65%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.54%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.34%) Onboarding
5 11 (2.65%) Public Cloud
6 8 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.93%) Replication
7 7 (1.69%) Hedge funds
8 6 (1.45%) Derivative
8 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.45%) Equities
8 6 (1.45%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.20%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.96%) Equity Derivative
10 4 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.72%) NHS
11 3 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 77 (18.55%) Linux
2 25 (6.02%) 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
1 364 (87.71%) CI/CD
2 279 (67.23%) DevOps
3 173 (41.69%) Agile
4 169 (40.72%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (30.84%) Containerisation
6 107 (25.78%) Microservices
7 104 (25.06%) Test Automation
8 79 (19.04%) Observability
9 65 (15.66%) Software Engineering
10 63 (15.18%) Scrum
11 57 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (11.81%) Mentoring
14 47 (11.33%) Full-Stack Development
15 41 (9.88%) TDD
16 40 (9.64%) AI
16 40 (9.64%) Migration
17 39 (9.40%) Design Patterns
18 38 (9.16%) Event-Driven
18 38 (9.16%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 162 (39.04%) Python
2 146 (35.18%) Java
3 93 (22.41%) SQL
4 56 (13.49%) Bash
5 44 (10.60%) TypeScript
6 39 (9.40%) JavaScript
7 30 (7.23%) C#
7 30 (7.23%) PowerShell
8 22 (5.30%) Shell Script
9 17 (4.10%) Scala
10 13 (3.13%) Go
11 11 (2.65%) Groovy
12 9 (2.17%) Perl
13 8 (1.93%) Bicep
13 8 (1.93%) Ruby
14 7 (1.69%) C++
15 5 (1.20%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.96%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.72%) Apex Code
17 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 134 (32.29%) SC Cleared
3 22 (5.30%) Azure Certification
4 21 (5.06%) Degree
5 20 (4.82%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.69%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.96%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.72%) PhD
12 2 (0.48%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.24%) GWAPT
13 1 (0.24%) OSCP
13 1 (0.24%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.25%) QA
2 18 (4.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (4.10%) NIST
4 16 (3.86%) Data Quality
5 13 (3.13%) NCSC
6 9 (2.17%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.69%) GDPR
8 5 (1.20%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.96%) PSD2
9 4 (0.96%) SEPA
10 3 (0.72%) SLA
11 2 (0.48%) HL7
11 2 (0.48%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.48%) MiFID
11 2 (0.48%) WCAG
12 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 218 (52.53%) 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
1 226 (54.46%) Kubernetes
2 171 (41.20%) Terraform
3 82 (19.76%) Ansible
4 71 (17.11%) Prometheus
5 70 (16.87%) 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 6 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.72%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.72%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.72%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.72%) Rancher
13 2 (0.48%) Consul
13 2 (0.48%) Packer
13 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.48%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
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%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.96%) VMware