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

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 113 115
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +22
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 20 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 0.35% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.22% 0.85% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 9
10th Percentile £512 - £496
25th Percentile £563 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.41%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £663
90th Percentile £768 £703 £825
Central London median daily rate £625 £625 £625
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £10.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £10.00 - -

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.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 902 707 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.11% 41.22% 39.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 515 550
10th Percentile £360 £344 £393
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £672 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £17.40 £21.58 £32.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.00 £39.63
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% -39.29% +148.89%
75th Percentile £31.00 £58.96 £76.13
90th Percentile £46.00 £72.53 £85.95
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +55.56%

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 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the City of London

OpenShift Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS55.0%11
2GCP35.0%7
3Azure25.0%5
4Amazon ECS15.0%3
4Amazon EKS15.0%3
4IaaS15.0%3
4PaaS15.0%3
8Azure DevOps10.0%2
9Apigee5.0%1
9GitHub5.0%1
9Power Platform5.0%1