OpenShift Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Red Hat OpenShift
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 114 114
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +26
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 18 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.77% 0.54% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.93% 1.30% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 9
10th Percentile £509 £400 £496
25th Percentile £538 £406 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £663
90th Percentile £768 £758 £825
Central London median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 933 767 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.82% 41.30% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 511 584
10th Percentile £363 £355 £383
25th Percentile £460 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £661 £675
90th Percentile £750 £756 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +27.13% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £31.54 £27.00
% change year-on-year +14.95% +16.80% -28.95%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in the City of London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the City of London

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) IaaS
3 3 (16.67%) PaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 4 (22.22%) DHCP
3 4 (22.22%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) SMTP
5 1 (5.56%) BGP
5 1 (5.56%) Multicast
5 1 (5.56%) Network Security
5 1 (5.56%) OSPF
5 1 (5.56%) VLAN
5 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Data Vault
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Banking Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Banking Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) eBPF
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Keycloak
2 1 (5.56%) Loki
2 1 (5.56%) Spring
2 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Clustering
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
1 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) DevOps
2 5 (27.78%) AI
2 5 (27.78%) Migration
2 5 (27.78%) Observability
3 4 (22.22%) Change Control
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 3 (16.67%) Microservices
4 3 (16.67%) Software Deployment
5 2 (11.11%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) ETL
5 2 (11.11%) ITSM
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) PromQL
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CCIE
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (16.67%) BitLocker
3 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (16.67%) Terminal Services
3 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
3 4 (22.22%) Terraform
4 3 (16.67%) Nagios
4 3 (16.67%) Puppet
4 3 (16.67%) vCenter Server
4 3 (16.67%) vMotion
5 2 (11.11%) Grafana
5 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (5.56%) Argo
6 1 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Google
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) Citrix
4 3 (16.67%) HP
4 3 (16.67%) Symantec
5 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.11%) Splunk
6 1 (5.56%) Arista
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco
6 1 (5.56%) F5
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto