OpenShift Contracts in London

Red Hat OpenShift
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 336 316
Rank change year-on-year +68 -20 -22
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 92 71 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.70% 0.40% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.01% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 56 143
10th Percentile £513 £413 £500
25th Percentile £584 £417 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £563 £713
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -21.05% +14.00%
75th Percentile £831 £725 £823
90th Percentile £838 £775 £850
England median daily rate £575 £525 £675
% change year-on-year +9.52% -22.22% +8.87%

All Cloud 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 5,627 7,027 10,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.93% 39.87% 39.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,810 5,163 7,376
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 63 74
10th Percentile £22.80 £18.22 £19.25
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.04 £25.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £26.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.15% -53.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

OpenShift
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing OpenShift as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for OpenShift in London

OpenShift
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenShift in London.

Daily rate trend for OpenShift in London

OpenShift
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenShift in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in London

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 2025. 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 +11 11 £650 +2.97% 8
West London +2 2 £415 -7.78% 5
East London - 2 - - 1
South London - 1 - - 4
OpenShift
England

OpenShift
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 20 (21.74%) Apache Spark
2 19 (20.65%) Apache
3 17 (18.48%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (4.35%) JBoss
5 3 (3.26%) Confluence
5 3 (3.26%) WebSphere
6 2 (2.17%) Jupyter
6 2 (2.17%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 54 (58.70%) AWS
2 26 (28.26%) Azure
3 25 (27.17%) Serverless
4 22 (23.91%) GCP
5 21 (22.83%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (18.48%) Amazon ECS
7 15 (16.30%) dbt
8 13 (14.13%) GitHub
9 10 (10.87%) Amazon S3
10 7 (7.61%) IaaS
11 6 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (4.35%) PaaS
13 4 (4.35%) SaaS
14 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (3.26%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) Firewall
1 4 (4.35%) VSAN
2 2 (2.17%) DNS
2 2 (2.17%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.09%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.09%) Anycast
3 1 (1.09%) BGP
3 1 (1.09%) DHCP
3 1 (1.09%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.09%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.09%) SMTP
3 1 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.09%) SSL
3 1 (1.09%) VPN
3 1 (1.09%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) Amazon Athena
1 15 (16.30%) Apache Arrow
1 15 (16.30%) Apache Iceberg
1 15 (16.30%) Apache Ignite
1 15 (16.30%) Dremio
2 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (7.61%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.52%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.26%) Couchbase
7 3 (3.26%) Hazelcast
7 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.26%) Redis
8 2 (2.17%) Big Data
8 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.17%) NonStop SQL
8 2 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 24 (26.09%) Artifactory
3 20 (21.74%) Git
4 8 (8.70%) JIRA
5 7 (7.61%) Cucumber
5 7 (7.61%) Maven
5 7 (7.61%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.43%) Bitbucket
7 4 (4.35%) git-flow
7 4 (4.35%) GitLab
7 4 (4.35%) Gradle
8 3 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (3.26%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.17%) Ant
9 2 (2.17%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.17%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.09%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.09%) Log4j
General
1 46 (50.00%) Finance
2 24 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.48%) Banking
3 17 (18.48%) Front Office
4 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.52%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.26%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.17%) Automotive
8 2 (2.17%) Back Office
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (22.83%) Developer
3 19 (20.65%) AWS DevOps
3 19 (20.65%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (19.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 17 (18.48%) Senior
6 15 (16.30%) Data Engineer
6 15 (16.30%) Python Engineer
7 12 (13.04%) Architect
8 10 (10.87%) Lead
9 8 (8.70%) Senior Developer
10 7 (7.61%) Java Developer
10 7 (7.61%) Technical Leader
11 4 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (4.35%) React Developer
11 4 (4.35%) Senior Architect
12 3 (3.26%) DevOps Specialist
12 3 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.26%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (32.61%) Kafka
2 19 (20.65%) J2EE
3 17 (18.48%) Spring
4 15 (16.30%) PySpark
5 11 (11.96%) React
6 9 (9.78%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (7.61%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.43%) Web Services
9 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.35%) Node.js
9 4 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.35%) RESTful
10 3 (3.26%) .NET
10 3 (3.26%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (3.26%) JSON
10 3 (3.26%) Material-UI
10 3 (3.26%) Middleware
10 3 (3.26%) REST
11 2 (2.17%) Hibernate
11 2 (2.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.96%) Public Cloud
2 9 (9.78%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.17%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.17%) Grid Computing
5 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.09%) Clustering
6 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.65%) Linux
2 6 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.26%) VMS
4 2 (2.17%) Unix
4 2 (2.17%) Windows
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (60.87%) DevOps
2 44 (47.83%) CI/CD
3 34 (36.96%) Agile
4 32 (34.78%) Software Engineering
5 28 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (26.09%) Open Source
7 20 (21.74%) Containerisation
8 19 (20.65%) Microservices
9 18 (19.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (17.39%) Data Engineering
12 15 (16.30%) Asset Management
12 15 (16.30%) Configuration Management
12 15 (16.30%) Migration
13 10 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (10.87%) TDD
14 9 (9.78%) BDD
15 8 (8.70%) Mentoring
15 8 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
15 8 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (58.70%) Python
2 46 (50.00%) Java
3 28 (30.43%) Go
4 11 (11.96%) Bash
5 10 (10.87%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.78%) C#
6 9 (9.78%) SQL
7 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.26%) C++
8 3 (3.26%) Groovy
8 3 (3.26%) Perl
9 2 (2.17%) Bicep
9 2 (2.17%) C
9 2 (2.17%) COBOL
10 1 (1.09%) CodeQL
10 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.09%) Scala
10 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.87%) DV Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) Degree
3 9 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.26%) OCP
4 3 (3.26%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.17%) OCA
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) CCIE
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.09%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.09%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.43%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.26%) GDPR
3 2 (2.17%) ISO 15022
3 2 (2.17%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.09%) QA
4 1 (1.09%) SEPA
System Software
1 47 (51.09%) Docker
2 6 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.35%) vSphere
4 3 (3.26%) Lustre
4 3 (3.26%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.09%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.09%) KVM
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (1.09%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 76 (82.61%) Kubernetes
2 40 (43.48%) Terraform
3 34 (36.96%) Ansible
4 9 (9.78%) Grafana
5 7 (7.61%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.52%) Podman
6 6 (6.52%) Puppet
7 4 (4.35%) Istio
8 3 (3.26%) Control-M
8 3 (3.26%) Karpenter
8 3 (3.26%) Kibana
8 3 (3.26%) logstash
8 3 (3.26%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.26%) Rundeck
9 2 (2.17%) Argo
9 2 (2.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (2.17%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.17%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.09%) vMotion
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Red Hat
2 15 (16.30%) Oracle
3 11 (11.96%) Splunk
4 8 (8.70%) Google
4 8 (8.70%) VMware
5 3 (3.26%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.26%) IBM
5 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.26%) OpenLink
6 2 (2.17%) Hitachi
6 2 (2.17%) HP
6 2 (2.17%) Wind River
7 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.09%) Cisco
7 1 (1.09%) Citrix
7 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.09%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.09%) Nokia
7 1 (1.09%) Symantec
7 1 (1.09%) TIBCO