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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 302 310
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 125 60 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.04% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 43 61
10th Percentile £408 £417 £413
25th Percentile £488 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £775
90th Percentile £820 £950 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -15.38%

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 8,295 5,785 6,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.26% 43.22% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,669 3,961 4,763
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 48
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.05 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.54 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.50% +4.55% -43.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £76.06 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £34.38 £26.30 £28.00
% change year-on-year +30.70% -6.07% -15.15%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -10 19 £625 - 9
South London - 5 £800 - 3
East London +1 1 £432 - 1
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 13 (10.40%) Confluence
2 5 (4.00%) Camunda
3 4 (3.20%) Apache
3 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 52 (41.60%) AWS
2 35 (28.00%) Azure
3 26 (20.80%) GCP
4 16 (12.80%) GitHub
5 11 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.20%) IaaS
8 4 (3.20%) PaaS
8 4 (3.20%) Serverless
9 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.40%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.60%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (1.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) DNS
2 7 (5.60%) Firewall
3 5 (4.00%) DHCP
3 5 (4.00%) VPN
4 3 (2.40%) SMTP
5 2 (1.60%) BGP
5 2 (1.60%) Multicast
5 2 (1.60%) OSPF
5 2 (1.60%) VLAN
5 2 (1.60%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.80%) 5G
6 1 (0.80%) DAB
6 1 (0.80%) Network Security
6 1 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.80%) SSL
6 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) Oracle Database
2 6 (4.80%) Big Data
3 5 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.40%) Power BI
6 2 (1.60%) Metadata
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.80%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.80%) Flink
7 1 (0.80%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.80%) Redis
7 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (31.20%) Jenkins
2 21 (16.80%) GitLab
3 16 (12.80%) Git
4 15 (12.00%) JIRA
5 10 (8.00%) Gradle
6 6 (4.80%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.80%) REST Assured
7 5 (4.00%) Selenium
8 4 (3.20%) JUnit
8 4 (3.20%) Mockito
8 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (2.40%) HP UFT
9 3 (2.40%) Maven
10 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.60%) Robot Framework
10 2 (1.60%) TestRail
11 1 (0.80%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.80%) SpecFlow
General
1 47 (37.60%) Finance
2 28 (22.40%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.00%) Banking
4 14 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.60%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.20%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.80%) Back Office
7 1 (0.80%) Front Office
7 1 (0.80%) Games
7 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.80%) Military
7 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (26.40%) Senior
2 25 (20.00%) Developer
3 18 (14.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (14.40%) Java Developer
4 17 (13.60%) Lead
5 11 (8.80%) Architect
6 9 (7.20%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (7.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (5.60%) Splunk Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (30.40%) Terraform
2 25 (20.00%) Kafka
3 20 (16.00%) Spring
4 17 (13.60%) Spring Boot
5 14 (11.20%) React
6 13 (10.40%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (10.40%) REST
7 11 (8.80%) Hibernate
7 11 (8.80%) Redux
8 6 (4.80%) Jakarta EE
8 6 (4.80%) JMS
8 6 (4.80%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (4.00%) .NET
9 5 (4.00%) JDBC
9 5 (4.00%) PySpark
10 4 (3.20%) JPA
10 4 (3.20%) Node.js
10 4 (3.20%) YAML
11 3 (2.40%) CSS
11 3 (2.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.20%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.60%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.00%) PKI
4 5 (4.00%) Spread Betting
5 4 (3.20%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.20%) Clustering
5 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.80%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 31 (24.80%) Linux
2 12 (9.60%) Windows
3 10 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.80%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.00%) Unix
6 1 (0.80%) AIX
6 1 (0.80%) Android
6 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (46.40%) CI/CD
2 57 (45.60%) DevOps
3 46 (36.80%) Agile
4 41 (32.80%) Containerisation
5 36 (28.80%) Observability
6 31 (24.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (21.60%) Mentoring
8 26 (20.80%) Microservices
9 20 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (16.00%) Incident Management
9 20 (16.00%) Roadmaps
10 19 (15.20%) AI
10 19 (15.20%) Migration
11 17 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (13.60%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (12.00%) Configuration Management
12 15 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (10.40%) ITSM
14 13 (10.40%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.60%) Java
2 29 (23.20%) Python
3 27 (21.60%) SQL
4 16 (12.80%) PL/SQL
5 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.80%) Bash
7 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.20%) Scala
7 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.40%) C#
8 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.60%) Go
9 2 (1.60%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.80%) Bicep
10 1 (0.80%) COBOL
10 1 (0.80%) Korn
10 1 (0.80%) PromQL
10 1 (0.80%) Ruby
10 1 (0.80%) Rust
10 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.00%) Degree
4 12 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.20%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.40%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.60%) ISEB
8 2 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.80%) CCIE
9 1 (0.80%) CCNP
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.80%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.00%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.40%) NIST
3 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.80%) GRC
4 1 (0.80%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 32 (25.60%) Docker
2 8 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.40%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.60%) vSphere
5 1 (0.80%) etcd
5 1 (0.80%) oVirt
5 1 (0.80%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 81 (64.80%) Kubernetes
2 36 (28.80%) Ansible
3 18 (14.40%) Grafana
3 18 (14.40%) Prometheus
4 14 (11.20%) Control-M
5 4 (3.20%) Argo
5 4 (3.20%) Data Guard
5 4 (3.20%) Nagios
5 4 (3.20%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (3.20%) Puppet
6 3 (2.40%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.40%) vMotion
7 2 (1.60%) Fluentd
7 2 (1.60%) Istio
7 2 (1.60%) Kibana
7 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.80%) linkerd
8 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (23.20%) Splunk
2 22 (17.60%) Oracle
3 18 (14.40%) Red Hat
4 17 (13.60%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.40%) Google
5 8 (6.40%) VMware
6 7 (5.60%) xMatters
7 5 (4.00%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.00%) IBM
7 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.40%) Arista
8 3 (2.40%) Cisco
8 3 (2.40%) Citrix
8 3 (2.40%) HP
8 3 (2.40%) Symantec
8 3 (2.40%) Veracode
9 2 (1.60%) F5
9 2 (1.60%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.60%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.60%) Palo Alto