OpenShift Contracts in Central London

Red Hat OpenShift
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring OpenShift skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenShift over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 130 141
Rank change year-on-year +13 +11 +29
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 11 7 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.55% 0.29% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 0.71% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 30
10th Percentile £487 £515 £588
25th Percentile £561 £559 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £631 £725
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -12.93% +5.45%
75th Percentile £722 £658 £797
90th Percentile £825 £744 £800
London median daily rate £675 £550 £713
% change year-on-year +22.73% -22.81% +14.00%

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 845 985 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.04% 41.49% 41.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 696 1,017
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £653 £695
90th Percentile £750 £757 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £24.30 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.45 £14.88 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.25 £38.63 -
London median hourly rate £30.75 £26.49 £56.25
% change year-on-year +16.10% -52.92% +30.36%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in Central London.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in Central London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in Central London over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +12 11 £650 +2.97% 10
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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) C Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Endur Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 1 (9.09%) OpenLink Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Senior C Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) ZK
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Microservices
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) TDD
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Greeks
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) SOLID
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) Go
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) C
5 1 (9.09%) CodeQL
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Karpenter
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
4 1 (9.09%) logstash
4 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
2 1 (9.09%) OpenLink
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat