OpenShift Contract Job Trends in Central London

Red Hat OpenShift
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 118 131
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 +13
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 15 8 10
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.73% 0.38% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 0.91% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 9
10th Percentile - £563 £443
25th Percentile £350 £569 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £568
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.93% -22.39%
75th Percentile £538 £654 £675
90th Percentile £675 £664 £718
London median daily rate £595 £740 £650
% change year-on-year -19.59% +13.85% -7.14%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

OpenShift falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 847 878 1,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.02% 41.20% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 573 739
10th Percentile £350 £365 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £671
90th Percentile £749 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 14
10th Percentile £18.87 £26.75 £14.03
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% -11.70%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £34.44
90th Percentile £47.50 - £49.80
London median hourly rate £28.88 £31.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year -7.86% +2.77% -

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in Central London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Central London over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in Central London

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 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
City of London 0 15 £525 -14.29% 4
OpenShift
London

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 1 (6.67%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Hazelcast
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Gatling
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SIAM Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Spring
1 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Loki
2 2 (13.33%) Micronaut
2 2 (13.33%) OAuth
2 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
2 2 (13.33%) OpenID
2 2 (13.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (13.33%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) Compliance Audit
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Customer Experience
4 4 (26.67%) ITIL
4 4 (26.67%) ITSM
4 4 (26.67%) Runbook
4 4 (26.67%) SIAM
4 4 (26.67%) Supplier Management
4 4 (26.67%) Trend Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (20.00%) Observability
6 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
6 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
6 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven Programming
6 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
2 2 (13.33%) ISO 20022
2 2 (13.33%) ISO 8583
2 2 (13.33%) PSD2
2 2 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Ansible
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) Argo
3 4 (26.67%) Grafana
3 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (13.33%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Confluent
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock
3 1 (6.67%) Ping Identity