OpenShift Contracts in the City of London

Red Hat OpenShift
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 125 133
Rank change year-on-year +20 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 14 1 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.046% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 0.12% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 33
10th Percentile £523 - £593
25th Percentile £563 £563 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £575 £738
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -22.03% +17.06%
75th Percentile £688 £588 £800
90th Percentile £811 - £889
Central London median daily rate £631 £575 £734
% change year-on-year +9.78% -21.64% +16.47%

All Cloud 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 762 856 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.37% 38.96% 38.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 610 937
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £674 £713
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £554 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +3.01% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in the City of London

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in the City of London

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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the City of London

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.14%) Cloud Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) C Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Endur Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) OpenLink Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior C Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
2 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (14.29%) ZK
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
3 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Microservices
4 4 (28.57%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) TDD
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 2 (14.29%) SOLID
6 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) Bash
4 3 (21.43%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) Go
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (7.14%) C
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (50.00%) Ansible
3 5 (35.71%) Terraform
4 2 (14.29%) Karpenter
4 2 (14.29%) Podman
5 1 (7.14%) Grafana
5 1 (7.14%) Kibana
5 1 (7.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
2 2 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.14%) OpenLink