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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 124 122
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 19 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.77% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 0.66% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 9
10th Percentile £505 - £496
25th Percentile £550 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -18.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £663
90th Percentile £788 £690 £825
London median daily rate £625 £550 £644
% change year-on-year +13.64% -14.60% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £10.00 - -
London median hourly rate £10.00 - -

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 1,017 763 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.34% 39.80% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 528 628
10th Percentile £339 £332 £387
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £561
Median % change year-on-year - -2.00% +2.00%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
London median daily rate £545 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +2.83% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £20.33 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.11 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £55.60 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £81.80 £69.50
London median hourly rate £29.28 £30.25 £30.59
% change year-on-year -3.22% -1.11% -21.56%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -9 18 £625 +21.95% 10
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 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) GCP
3 4 (21.05%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (15.79%) IaaS
4 3 (15.79%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.26%) Apigee
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) Firewall
3 4 (21.05%) DHCP
3 4 (21.05%) VPN
4 3 (15.79%) SMTP
5 1 (5.26%) BGP
5 1 (5.26%) Multicast
5 1 (5.26%) Network Security
5 1 (5.26%) OSPF
5 1 (5.26%) VLAN
5 1 (5.26%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Big Data
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) GitLab
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
2 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.26%) eBPF
4 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) Keycloak
4 1 (5.26%) Loki
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) PySpark
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Onboarding
3 3 (15.79%) Clustering
3 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.79%) PKI
3 3 (15.79%) Public Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) AI Agents
4 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 6 (31.58%) Observability
3 5 (26.32%) AI
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) Migration
4 4 (21.05%) Change Control
4 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
5 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 3 (15.79%) Software Deployment
6 2 (10.53%) Build Automation
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Korn
4 1 (5.26%) PromQL
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
4 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 1 (5.26%) CCIE
5 1 (5.26%) CCNP
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.26%) RHCE
5 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) GRC
1 1 (5.26%) PSD2
1 1 (5.26%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.79%) BitLocker
3 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (15.79%) Terminal Services
3 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (10.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
3 3 (15.79%) Grafana
3 3 (15.79%) Nagios
3 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
3 3 (15.79%) Puppet
3 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server
3 3 (15.79%) vMotion
4 1 (5.26%) Argo
4 1 (5.26%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Google
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) Citrix
3 3 (15.79%) HP
3 3 (15.79%) Symantec
4 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.53%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) Arista
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) F5
5 1 (5.26%) FIS
5 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.26%) Murex
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle
5 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.26%) SAP