OpenShift Contract Job Trends in East London

Red Hat OpenShift
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.84% 0.91% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 1.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.87% - -
London median daily rate £550 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -17.24%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 51 53 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 42.86% 48.18% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 43 59
10th Percentile £327 £257 £320
25th Percentile £416 £495 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £630 £586 £597
90th Percentile £679 £638 £754
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £25.05 -
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.65 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £26.63 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.24% - -
75th Percentile £19.56 £27.62 -
90th Percentile - £28.21 -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -28.77%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenShift relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

OpenShift job vacancy trend in East London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing OpenShift.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenShift within the East London region over the 6 months to 23 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets - 1 £432 -
OpenShift
London

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SaltStack