OpenShift Contract Job Trends in London

Red Hat OpenShift
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring OpenShift skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 313 267 336
Rank change year-on-year -46 +69 -20
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 115 92 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.70% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.63% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 71 56
10th Percentile £402 £513 £413
25th Percentile £463 £584 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £675 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +20.00% -21.05%
75th Percentile £694 £831 £725
90th Percentile £900 £838 £775
England median daily rate £513 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -10.87% +9.52% -22.22%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,085 5,630 7,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.85% 42.97% 39.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,562 3,813 5,163
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 77 66
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.80 £18.89
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.15 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +12.70% +16.80% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.33 £22.00
% change year-on-year +60.04% +15.11% -31.89%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

OpenShift job vacancy trend in London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in London

OpenShift
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenShift.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing OpenShift

OpenShift
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Central London -5 17 £625 -3.85% 8
East London -2 1 £432 -
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.35%) Camunda
1 5 (4.35%) Confluence
2 4 (3.48%) Apache
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.91%) AWS
2 19 (16.52%) Azure
3 15 (13.04%) GCP
4 10 (8.70%) GitHub
5 8 (6.96%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.48%) IaaS
7 4 (3.48%) PaaS
7 4 (3.48%) Serverless
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (2.61%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.74%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (1.74%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.74%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.09%) DNS
2 4 (3.48%) Firewall
3 3 (2.61%) DHCP
3 3 (2.61%) SMTP
3 3 (2.61%) VPN
4 1 (0.87%) 5G
4 1 (0.87%) DAB
4 1 (0.87%) Network Security
4 1 (0.87%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) Big Data
1 6 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.48%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.61%) Power BI
4 2 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.74%) Metadata
4 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.87%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.87%) Flink
5 1 (0.87%) Hazelcast
5 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Redis
5 1 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (29.57%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.91%) GitLab
3 6 (5.22%) Git
3 6 (5.22%) Gradle
3 6 (5.22%) JIRA
4 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.74%) JUnit
4 2 (1.74%) Mockito
4 2 (1.74%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.74%) Selenium
4 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (0.87%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.87%) JMeter
5 1 (0.87%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.87%) Postman
5 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 41 (35.65%) Finance
2 32 (27.83%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.78%) Documentation Skills
4 16 (13.91%) Public Sector
5 15 (13.04%) Banking
6 12 (10.43%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Back Office
10 1 (0.87%) Front Office
10 1 (0.87%) Games
10 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (24.35%) Architect
2 19 (16.52%) Senior
3 18 (15.65%) Developer
4 12 (10.43%) CyberArk Architect
5 11 (9.57%) Java Developer
6 10 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.70%) Lead
7 7 (6.09%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.65%) Kafka
2 15 (13.04%) Spring
2 15 (13.04%) Spring Boot
3 14 (12.17%) OpenID
4 13 (11.30%) SAML
5 12 (10.43%) LDAP
6 10 (8.70%) React
7 9 (7.83%) REST
8 7 (6.09%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (6.09%) Hibernate
8 7 (6.09%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (6.09%) Redux
9 5 (4.35%) PySpark
10 4 (3.48%) YAML
11 3 (2.61%) .NET
11 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.61%) FastAPI
11 3 (2.61%) Node.js
11 3 (2.61%) OAuth
11 3 (2.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 21 (18.26%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.35%) PKI
5 5 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.61%) Clustering
7 3 (2.61%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.87%) CMDB
9 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.87%) FPGA
9 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.87%) NHS
9 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (20.00%) Linux
2 10 (8.70%) Windows
3 8 (6.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.61%) Unix
6 1 (0.87%) AIX
6 1 (0.87%) Android
6 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.43%) CI/CD
2 56 (48.70%) DevOps
3 44 (38.26%) Containerisation
4 32 (27.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (21.74%) Agile
6 23 (20.00%) Observability
7 22 (19.13%) Migration
8 20 (17.39%) Architectural Patterns
8 20 (17.39%) Microservices
9 19 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (15.65%) ITSM
11 16 (13.91%) Incident Management
11 16 (13.91%) Regulatory Compliance
12 15 (13.04%) Design Patterns
12 15 (13.04%) Mentoring
13 14 (12.17%) Architectural Design
13 14 (12.17%) Configuration Management
14 13 (11.30%) AI
14 13 (11.30%) Roadmaps
14 13 (11.30%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.48%) Python
2 26 (22.61%) Java
3 16 (13.91%) SQL
4 9 (7.83%) PL/SQL
5 7 (6.09%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.35%) Bash
7 4 (3.48%) Scala
7 4 (3.48%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.61%) Go
8 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.74%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.87%) Bicep
10 1 (0.87%) C#
10 1 (0.87%) COBOL
10 1 (0.87%) PromQL
10 1 (0.87%) R
10 1 (0.87%) Ruby
10 1 (0.87%) Rust
10 1 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (36.52%) Security Cleared
2 33 (28.70%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.70%) Degree
4 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.87%) OCP
7 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.87%) PMP
7 1 (0.87%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) NCSC
2 12 (10.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (10.43%) NIST
3 2 (1.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.74%) QA
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.61%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.61%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.61%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.74%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.74%) vSphere
5 1 (0.87%) etcd
Systems Management
1 77 (66.96%) Kubernetes
2 27 (23.48%) Ansible
3 25 (21.74%) Terraform
4 13 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.43%) Grafana
6 7 (6.09%) Control-M
7 5 (4.35%) Argo
7 5 (4.35%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.48%) Data Guard
8 4 (3.48%) Nagios
8 4 (3.48%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (3.48%) Puppet
9 3 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.61%) vMotion
10 2 (1.74%) Fluentd
10 2 (1.74%) Kibana
11 1 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.87%) linkerd
11 1 (0.87%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (26.96%) Splunk
2 17 (14.78%) Red Hat
3 14 (12.17%) Oracle
4 12 (10.43%) CyberArk
4 12 (10.43%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.09%) VMware
6 4 (3.48%) Google
7 3 (2.61%) Citrix
7 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.61%) HP
7 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.61%) Symantec
8 2 (1.74%) IBM
8 2 (1.74%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.74%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.74%) xMatters
9 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.87%) New Relic
9 1 (0.87%) Pega
9 1 (0.87%) Wind River