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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 115 127
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +43
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 6 15 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.72% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 1.81% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 19
10th Percentile - £510 £450
25th Percentile £400 £563 £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £635 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -5.93% -7.69%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £725
90th Percentile £703 £795 £805
Central London median daily rate £625 £635 £675
% change year-on-year -1.57% -5.93% -7.69%

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 715 827 1,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.86% 39.47% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 535 785
10th Percentile £349 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £678
90th Percentile £750 £766 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £16.53
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £46.06
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £54.63
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -7.32%

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 9 November 2025.

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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Maximo Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Big Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Scala Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) EAM
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stress Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) CodeQL
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Argo
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Kustomize
2 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) ForgeRock
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Ping Identity