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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 310 323
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 -21
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 60 81 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.50% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 1.21% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 63 118
10th Percentile £402 £413 £481
25th Percentile £488 £504 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £644 £725
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -11.17% +11.54%
75th Percentile £706 £810 £819
90th Percentile £950 £825 £875
England median daily rate £525 £560 £675
% change year-on-year -6.25% -17.04% +8.78%

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 5,843 6,716 8,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.42% 41.20% 39.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 4,681 6,484
10th Percentile £343 £350 £358
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.29%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 44 63
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.30 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -25.20% +15.71%
75th Percentile £51.00 £50.00 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.33 £89.31
England median hourly rate £26.00 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.21% - +53.49%

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
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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -4 5 £513 -18.00% 10
East London - 3 - -
West London -1 2 £415 -5.14%
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 5 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) Apache
3 3 (5.00%) Confluence
3 3 (5.00%) JBoss
4 2 (3.33%) OpenStack
4 2 (3.33%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Endur
2 2 (3.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.33%) AWS
2 14 (23.33%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) GCP
3 13 (21.67%) GitHub
4 8 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (13.33%) IaaS
5 6 (10.00%) PaaS
5 6 (10.00%) SaaS
6 5 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (6.67%) Serverless
8 3 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (1.67%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) DNS
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
1 2 (3.33%) Kerberos
1 2 (3.33%) VSAN
2 1 (1.67%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.67%) Anycast
2 1 (1.67%) BGP
2 1 (1.67%) DHCP
2 1 (1.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.67%) SMTP
2 1 (1.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.67%) SSL
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
2 1 (1.67%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 4 (6.67%) Big Data
4 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.00%) Redis
4 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.33%) NonStop SQL
5 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) AlloyDB
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.67%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.67%) Cucumber
3 6 (10.00%) Git
4 5 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (6.67%) JIRA
5 4 (6.67%) Maven
6 3 (5.00%) Artifactory
6 3 (5.00%) CircleCI
6 3 (5.00%) git-flow
6 3 (5.00%) Gradle
6 3 (5.00%) JMeter
6 3 (5.00%) JUnit
7 2 (3.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.33%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.33%) GitLab
7 2 (3.33%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.67%) Ant
8 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.67%) Log4j
General
1 21 (35.00%) Finance
2 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (18.33%) Banking
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.00%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.00%) Automotive
7 3 (5.00%) Back Office
8 2 (3.33%) Front Office
8 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Architect
2 9 (15.00%) Developer
2 9 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) Senior
4 6 (10.00%) Senior Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.67%) Consultant
6 4 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Endur Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Java Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Lead
7 3 (5.00%) OpenLink Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.00%) Kafka
2 11 (18.33%) Spring
3 6 (10.00%) Loki
3 6 (10.00%) React
3 6 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (6.67%) JSON
5 4 (6.67%) Keycloak
5 4 (6.67%) YAML
6 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.00%) RESTful
6 3 (5.00%) Swagger
6 3 (5.00%) Web Services
7 2 (3.33%) .NET
7 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.33%) JavaFX
7 2 (3.33%) OpenID
7 2 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (3.33%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.00%) Grid Computing
4 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.33%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (3.33%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) Clustering
6 1 (1.67%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.67%) PKI
6 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 25 (41.67%) Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Unix
3 2 (3.33%) Windows
4 1 (1.67%) CentOS
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.33%) Containerisation
3 21 (35.00%) DevOps
4 17 (28.33%) Agile
5 16 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (18.33%) Microservices
6 11 (18.33%) Observability
7 10 (16.67%) Migration
8 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (13.33%) Software Engineering
10 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (8.33%) Computer Science
12 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (8.33%) Test Automation
13 4 (6.67%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.33%) Java
2 19 (31.67%) Python
3 11 (18.33%) Bash
4 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.67%) C#
6 6 (10.00%) SQL
7 5 (8.33%) C++
7 5 (8.33%) Go
7 5 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.67%) Bicep
9 3 (5.00%) Ruby
9 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.33%) COBOL
10 2 (3.33%) Groovy
10 2 (3.33%) Perl
10 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.67%) C
11 1 (1.67%) CodeQL
11 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) Degree
4 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) OCA
5 2 (3.33%) OCP
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CCIE
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.67%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) GDPR
1 4 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (6.67%) SOC 2
2 2 (3.33%) ISO 15022
2 2 (3.33%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 24 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.33%) vSphere
5 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.67%) BitLocker
5 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.67%) KVM
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.67%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 44 (73.33%) Kubernetes
2 21 (35.00%) Ansible
3 18 (30.00%) Terraform
4 11 (18.33%) Prometheus
5 9 (15.00%) Grafana
6 4 (6.67%) Argo
7 3 (5.00%) Podman
7 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.33%) Kustomize
8 2 (3.33%) Puppet
8 2 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (3.33%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.67%) Istio
9 1 (1.67%) Nagios
9 1 (1.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Oracle
1 11 (18.33%) Red Hat
2 10 (16.67%) Google
2 10 (16.67%) Splunk
3 7 (11.67%) VMware
4 5 (8.33%) IBM
5 3 (5.00%) Hitachi
6 2 (3.33%) HP
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.33%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.33%) Wind River
7 1 (1.67%) Arista
7 1 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.67%) Citrix
7 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.67%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.67%) Okta
7 1 (1.67%) Symantec
7 1 (1.67%) TIBCO