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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 115 129
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 16 11 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.61% 0.57% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.34% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 3
10th Percentile £350 £487 £566
25th Percentile £408 £561 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% -12.07%
75th Percentile £638 £722 £644
90th Percentile £680 £825 -
London median daily rate £575 £681 £600
% change year-on-year -15.60% +13.54% -14.29%

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 1,008 820 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.56% 42.62% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 524 691
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.23% -6.84%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £749 £750 £763
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 7
10th Percentile £23.16 £22.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £31.38 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.31% +41.60% -57.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.51 £27.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £94.38 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
% change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -48.32%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -2 16 £600 -7.69% 1
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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) GCP
2 3 (18.75%) IaaS
2 3 (18.75%) PaaS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) dbt
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DHCP
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
1 3 (18.75%) SMTP
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (18.75%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (12.50%) Hazelcast
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Redis
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.25%) Data Vault
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Gatling
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Spring
1 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Avro
3 2 (12.50%) JSON
3 2 (12.50%) Micronaut
3 2 (12.50%) OAuth
3 2 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 2 (12.50%) OpenID
3 2 (12.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (12.50%) PySpark
3 2 (12.50%) Quarkus
4 1 (6.25%) Keycloak
4 1 (6.25%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (18.75%) AI
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
4 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Software Deployment
5 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Programming
5 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
5 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 2 (12.50%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) PromQL
3 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO 20022
1 2 (12.50%) ISO 8583
1 2 (12.50%) PSD2
1 2 (12.50%) QA
1 2 (12.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) BitLocker
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (18.75%) Terminal Services
2 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
2 9 (56.25%) Ansible
3 6 (37.50%) Terraform
4 3 (18.75%) Argo
4 3 (18.75%) Grafana
4 3 (18.75%) Nagios
4 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 3 (18.75%) Puppet
4 3 (18.75%) vCenter Server
4 3 (18.75%) vMotion
5 1 (6.25%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Citrix
2 3 (18.75%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) HP
2 3 (18.75%) Symantec
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Confluent
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk