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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 119 139
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 +28
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 7 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.52% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 1.30% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 17
10th Percentile - £496 £600
25th Percentile £400 £550 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £775
90th Percentile £703 £825 £810
Central London median daily rate £625 £625 £675
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.82%

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 708 847 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.16% 40.37% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 562 846
10th Percentile £339 £388 £325
25th Percentile £435 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.10% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £751 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £563
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.63
25th Percentile £26.23 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +30.12% -38.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%

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
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 18 September 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Maximo Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Big Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Scala Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Loki
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) EAM
3 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stress Testing
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) CodeQL
4 1 (14.29%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Argo
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kustomize
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) ForgeRock
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Ping Identity