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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 119 139
Rank change year-on-year -4 +20 +43
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 5 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.26% 0.47% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.65% 1.16% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 18
10th Percentile - £496 £588
25th Percentile £400 £550 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £772
90th Percentile £690 £825 £808
London median daily rate £550 £644 £725
% change year-on-year -14.60% -11.17% +11.54%

All Cloud 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 770 952 1,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.71% 40.81% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 640 941
10th Percentile £331 £375 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £768 £788
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 6
10th Percentile £20.33 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.11 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -17.00%
75th Percentile £55.60 - £34.44
90th Percentile £81.80 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.30 £40.50
% change year-on-year +2.33% -25.20% +15.71%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025. 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 +4 5 £513 -18.00% 9
OpenShift
London

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Maximo Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Big Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) EAM
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) CodeQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Argo
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Kustomize
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Ping Identity