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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 88 89
Rank change year-on-year -33 +1 -29
Contract jobs citing Jenkins 499 416 463
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.48% 3.06% 2.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.65% 19.81% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 277 345
10th Percentile £363 £362 £400
25th Percentile £447 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £551
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.36% -8.25%
75th Percentile £598 £669 £688
90th Percentile £652 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -5.82%
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% -15.55%
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 2,540 2,100 2,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.61% 15.45% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,635 1,437 1,600
10th Percentile £363 £338 £363
25th Percentile £440 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 22
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.70% -33.93%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.81
England median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

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 12 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 12 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 -24 51 £550 -10.71% 13
South London -6 29 £513 -11.45% 4
West London -6 15 £611 +33.44% 6
East London +1 1 - - 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 35 (7.01%) Confluence
2 20 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.80%) Apache
4 9 (1.80%) nginx
5 8 (1.60%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.80%) Camunda
7 3 (0.60%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) IIS
7 3 (0.60%) JBoss
8 2 (0.40%) SAS
8 2 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) MTS
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 8 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Magento
2 2 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 287 (57.52%) AWS
2 205 (41.08%) GitHub
3 194 (38.88%) Azure
4 169 (33.87%) GitHub Actions
5 98 (19.64%) Azure DevOps
6 87 (17.43%) GCP
7 79 (15.83%) Serverless
8 73 (14.63%) Amazon S3
9 71 (14.23%) AWS Lambda
10 66 (13.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 58 (11.62%) Amazon EC2
12 52 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
13 48 (9.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (7.62%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (6.21%) Datadog
15 31 (6.21%) OpenShift
16 29 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 22 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
18 20 (4.01%) Snowflake
19 16 (3.21%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.21%) Firewall
2 15 (3.01%) DNS
3 6 (1.20%) Network Security
3 6 (1.20%) VPN
4 5 (1.00%) SSL
5 4 (0.80%) HTTP
5 4 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.80%) WAN
6 3 (0.60%) Multicast
7 2 (0.40%) 4G
7 2 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.40%) Internet
7 2 (0.40%) Intranet
7 2 (0.40%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.40%) SAN
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.03%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (7.01%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (6.21%) NoSQL
4 25 (5.01%) Amazon Aurora
4 25 (5.01%) MongoDB
4 25 (5.01%) Relational Database
5 18 (3.61%) Big Data
6 17 (3.41%) DynamoDB
6 17 (3.41%) SQL Server
7 16 (3.21%) Redis
8 12 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.80%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (1.20%) Metadata
12 6 (1.20%) Power BI
13 5 (1.00%) Data Vault
13 5 (1.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 177 (35.47%) GitLab
2 150 (30.06%) Git
3 74 (14.83%) JIRA
4 47 (9.42%) JUnit
5 36 (7.21%) Mockito
6 35 (7.01%) Selenium
7 32 (6.41%) Gradle
7 32 (6.41%) Maven
8 27 (5.41%) Bitbucket
8 27 (5.41%) SonarQube
9 25 (5.01%) Cucumber
10 24 (4.81%) Postman
11 23 (4.61%) REST Assured
12 19 (3.81%) Liquibase
13 17 (3.41%) JMeter
14 11 (2.20%) Cypress.io
14 11 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 10 (2.00%) Ant
15 10 (2.00%) Eclipse
15 10 (2.00%) Gatling
General
1 127 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 100 (20.04%) Finance
3 73 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 60 (12.02%) Banking
5 44 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.21%) Law
7 16 (3.21%) Retail
8 11 (2.20%) Marketing
9 9 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.40%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.20%) Front Office
11 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.80%) Police
14 3 (0.60%) Automotive
14 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 130 (26.05%) Developer
2 93 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 91 (18.24%) Senior
4 69 (13.83%) Java Developer
5 42 (8.42%) Lead
6 34 (6.81%) AWS Engineer
7 29 (5.81%) Architect
7 29 (5.81%) Software Engineer
8 25 (5.01%) Senior Developer
9 23 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
10 21 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 20 (4.01%) Automation Engineer
12 19 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (3.61%) Tester
14 17 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
14 17 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
14 17 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 17 (3.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 16 (3.21%) Senior Java Developer
15 16 (3.21%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (20.04%) Kafka
2 93 (18.64%) Spring
3 78 (15.63%) Spring Boot
4 68 (13.63%) REST
5 65 (13.03%) RESTful
6 64 (12.83%) React
7 57 (11.42%) Node.js
8 39 (7.82%) HTML
9 28 (5.61%) Playwright
10 27 (5.41%) CSS
11 24 (4.81%) AngularJS
12 23 (4.61%) SOAP
12 23 (4.61%) Swagger
13 22 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (4.21%) Web Services
15 17 (3.41%) GraphQL
16 16 (3.21%) OpenAPI
17 15 (3.01%) FastAPI
17 15 (3.01%) Flask
17 15 (3.01%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 90 (18.04%) Cloud Native
2 43 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.61%) AI Agents
6 11 (2.20%) Replication
7 8 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.60%) Hedge funds
7 8 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.40%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.40%) Private Cloud
9 6 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
9 6 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 114 (22.85%) Linux
2 39 (7.82%) Unix
3 24 (4.81%) Windows
4 20 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.60%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (1.40%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.60%) Android
8 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (83.37%) CI/CD
2 328 (65.73%) DevOps
3 244 (48.90%) Agile
4 185 (37.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 149 (29.86%) Containerisation
6 143 (28.66%) Test Automation
7 137 (27.45%) Microservices
8 94 (18.84%) Observability
9 89 (17.84%) Scrum
10 84 (16.83%) Software Engineering
11 81 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 63 (12.63%) AI
12 63 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
13 62 (12.42%) TDD
14 60 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
14 60 (12.02%) Platform Engineering
15 56 (11.22%) Event-Driven
16 52 (10.42%) Mentoring
17 51 (10.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 49 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 206 (41.28%) Python
2 194 (38.88%) Java
3 121 (24.25%) SQL
4 95 (19.04%) Bash
5 65 (13.03%) JavaScript
6 54 (10.82%) TypeScript
7 47 (9.42%) PowerShell
8 30 (6.01%) C#
9 22 (4.41%) PL/SQL
10 21 (4.21%) Go
10 21 (4.21%) Shell Script
11 19 (3.81%) Perl
12 18 (3.61%) Groovy
13 13 (2.61%) Scala
14 11 (2.20%) C++
15 9 (1.80%) Apex Code
16 8 (1.60%) Bicep
16 8 (1.60%) Ruby
16 8 (1.60%) SOQL
16 8 (1.60%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 198 (39.68%) Security Cleared
2 179 (35.87%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.61%) Degree
4 27 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 21 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.81%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.60%) CISSP
12 3 (0.60%) GIAC
13 2 (0.40%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.40%) PMP
14 1 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.20%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (15.23%) QA
2 21 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.20%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.00%) SEPA
6 4 (0.80%) NIST
6 4 (0.80%) PSD2
7 3 (0.60%) GDPR
7 3 (0.60%) SLA
8 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.40%) WCAG
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 253 (50.70%) Docker
2 9 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.40%) Postfix
5 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.80%) Varnish
7 3 (0.60%) GridGain
7 3 (0.60%) NFS
7 3 (0.60%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.40%) HDFS
8 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.20%) Squid
9 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 248 (49.70%) Kubernetes
2 202 (40.48%) Terraform
3 98 (19.64%) Ansible
4 97 (19.44%) Grafana
5 93 (18.64%) Prometheus
6 18 (3.61%) Puppet
7 15 (3.01%) Progress Chef
8 13 (2.61%) Kibana
9 11 (2.20%) Argo
10 8 (1.60%) Control-M
11 7 (1.40%) Packer
12 6 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
13 5 (1.00%) HP Fortify
14 4 (0.80%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.80%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.80%) Podman
15 3 (0.60%) Consul
15 3 (0.60%) Istio
15 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 43 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.22%) Oracle
3 31 (6.21%) Splunk
4 29 (5.81%) Google
5 22 (4.41%) Dynatrace
5 22 (4.41%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.61%) IBM
7 17 (3.41%) Databricks
8 14 (2.81%) Red Hat
9 10 (2.00%) New Relic
9 10 (2.00%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.80%) ForgeRock
10 9 (1.80%) Okta
10 9 (1.80%) VMware
11 7 (1.40%) Sybase
12 6 (1.20%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.20%) Veracode
13 5 (1.00%) Jaspersoft
13 5 (1.00%) SaltStack
14 4 (0.80%) Confluent