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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 106 117
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +20
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 12 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.62% 0.61% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 1.49% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 9
10th Percentile - £558 £443
25th Percentile £350 £566 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £630 £568
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.01% -23.67%
75th Percentile £538 £670 £675
90th Percentile £632 £701 £718
Central London median daily rate £525 £630 £568
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.01% -23.67%

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 800 738 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.64% 40.93% 37.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 464 645
10th Percentile £330 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £27.83 - £12.75
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +150.00% -55.81%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.86% +84.21% -45.71%

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 17 February 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 1 (8.33%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Hazelcast
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Gatling
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Banking
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 2 (16.67%) SIAM Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Spring
1 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Avro
2 2 (16.67%) JSON
2 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Micronaut
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth
2 2 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 2 (16.67%) OpenID
2 2 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (16.67%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
2 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) ITSM
2 4 (33.33%) Runbook
2 4 (33.33%) SIAM
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 4 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Secrets Management
4 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
2 2 (16.67%) ISO 20022
2 2 (16.67%) ISO 8583
2 2 (16.67%) PSD2
2 2 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Terraform
3 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (16.67%) Argo
4 2 (16.67%) Grafana
4 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Confluent
2 2 (16.67%) IBM