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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 119 127
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +35
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 11 7 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.61% 0.33% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 0.79% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 29
10th Percentile £487 £515 £604
25th Percentile £561 £559 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £631 £725
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -12.93% +5.45%
75th Percentile £722 £658 £800
90th Percentile £825 £744 -
Central London median daily rate £650 £631 £725
% change year-on-year +2.97% -12.93% +5.45%

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 773 885 1,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.52% 41.49% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 617 930
10th Percentile £363 £363 £299
25th Percentile £461 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.83%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 10
10th Percentile £24.02 - £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £12.75 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £27.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.87% -60.00% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 - £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £40.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +28.33% -48.57% +26.51%

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in the City of London

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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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Big Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Endur Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 1 (9.09%) OpenLink Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) ZK
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Microservices
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) TDD
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (18.18%) Pricing Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) SOLID
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) Go
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) C
5 1 (9.09%) CodeQL
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Ansible
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
4 1 (9.09%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Karpenter
4 1 (9.09%) Kibana
4 1 (9.09%) logstash
4 1 (9.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Google
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Splunk
2 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
2 1 (9.09%) OpenLink
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat