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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 112 122
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +35
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 12 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.13% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 11
10th Percentile £350 £544 £450
25th Percentile £400 £563 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £624 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +8.48% -23.33%
75th Percentile £588 £661 £713
90th Percentile £688 £720 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £624 £575
% change year-on-year -15.83% +8.48% -23.33%

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 763 794 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.51% 39.19% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 508 715
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £422 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +309.64% +3.75%
75th Percentile £41.94 £92.50 £40.69
90th Percentile £45.28 - £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%

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 30 December 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Hazelcast
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Gatling
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) SIAM Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Maximo Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Loki
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Avro
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Micronaut
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) OpenID
2 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (8.33%) Quarkus
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) ITSM
3 4 (33.33%) Runbook
3 4 (33.33%) SIAM
3 4 (33.33%) Supplier Management
3 4 (33.33%) Trend Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
6 1 (8.33%) Observability
6 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 20022
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 8583
2 1 (8.33%) PSD2
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 3 (25.00%) Argo
3 3 (25.00%) Grafana
3 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (25.00%) Terraform
4 2 (16.67%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Confluent
4 1 (8.33%) ForgeRock
4 1 (8.33%) Ping Identity