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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 252 297
Rank change year-on-year -42 +45 +9
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 95 106 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.78% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 1.87% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 92 91
10th Percentile £350 £551 £413
25th Percentile £435 £616 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £740 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.30% +13.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £688 £838 £775
90th Percentile £900 - £810
England median daily rate £492 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -24.31% +13.04% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.67 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £85.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -29.41% +8.97% +35.65%

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 6,597 5,677 6,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.25% 41.60% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,520 3,769 5,155
10th Percentile £350 £354 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 48 78
10th Percentile £18.09 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.23 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £32.75 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +8.77% +7.54%
75th Percentile £54.88 £56.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £69.38 £60.75
England median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.85% +22.22% -10.00%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +1 15 £525 -16.00% 3
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 4 (4.21%) Camunda
2 3 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.79%) AWS
2 22 (23.16%) GitHub
3 21 (22.11%) Azure
4 18 (18.95%) GCP
5 9 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.16%) IaaS
7 2 (2.11%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.11%) PaaS
7 2 (2.11%) SaaS
8 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.05%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) DNS
2 2 (2.11%) Calico
2 2 (2.11%) VSAN
3 1 (1.05%) Firewall
3 1 (1.05%) HTTP
3 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.05%) Network Security
3 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.05%) VLAN
3 1 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.21%) Redis
2 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.16%) Hazelcast
3 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.16%) MySQL
4 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.05%) Big Data
5 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.05%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (32.63%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.58%) Git
3 10 (10.53%) GitLab
4 9 (9.47%) Cucumber
5 6 (6.32%) JUnit
6 5 (5.26%) JMeter
7 4 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.16%) Gradle
8 3 (3.16%) Maven
9 2 (2.11%) Ant
9 2 (2.11%) Gatling
9 2 (2.11%) Mockito
10 1 (1.05%) CircleCI
10 1 (1.05%) git-flow
10 1 (1.05%) JIRA
10 1 (1.05%) Postman
10 1 (1.05%) Selenium
General
1 39 (41.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (33.68%) Finance
3 14 (14.74%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (13.68%) Influencing Skills
4 13 (13.68%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.26%) Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Back Office
8 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (30.53%) Architect
2 23 (24.21%) Developer
3 13 (13.68%) CyberArk Architect
4 9 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (9.47%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Senior
6 5 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.21%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.21%) Lead
7 4 (4.21%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.11%) Analyst
9 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (2.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.11%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (2.11%) Network Architect
9 2 (2.11%) PMO Analyst
9 2 (2.11%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.16%) Spring
2 16 (16.84%) OpenID
2 16 (16.84%) SAML
3 14 (14.74%) React
4 13 (13.68%) LDAP
4 13 (13.68%) Spring Boot
5 12 (12.63%) AngularJS
5 12 (12.63%) Kafka
6 9 (9.47%) CSS
6 9 (9.47%) HTML
6 9 (9.47%) Node.js
7 8 (8.42%) Vue
8 7 (7.37%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (6.32%) REST
10 5 (5.26%) OAuth
11 4 (4.21%) Hibernate
11 4 (4.21%) JSON
11 4 (4.21%) Loki
11 4 (4.21%) Ruby on Rails
12 3 (3.16%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 32 (33.68%) Cloud Native
2 22 (23.16%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.21%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Derivative
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.05%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.16%) Linux
2 9 (9.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.21%) Windows
4 1 (1.05%) CentOS
4 1 (1.05%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.05%) CI/CD
2 42 (44.21%) DevOps
3 36 (37.89%) Containerisation
4 34 (35.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (24.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (23.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (20.00%) Agile
8 19 (20.00%) Microservices
9 18 (18.95%) ITSM
10 16 (16.84%) Design Patterns
10 16 (16.84%) Observability
11 15 (15.79%) Architectural Design
11 15 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
11 15 (15.79%) Migration
11 15 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
11 15 (15.79%) Secrets Management
12 14 (14.74%) Software Engineering
12 14 (14.74%) Threat Modelling
13 13 (13.68%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.37%) Java
2 23 (24.21%) Python
3 13 (13.68%) Bash
4 11 (11.58%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.37%) Go
6 7 (7.37%) SQL
7 5 (5.26%) Ruby
8 3 (3.16%) C#
8 3 (3.16%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.11%) Bicep
9 2 (2.11%) R
10 1 (1.05%) Perl
10 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (43.16%) Security Cleared
2 31 (32.63%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Degree
4 5 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.21%) PMI Certification
5 4 (4.21%) PMP
6 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.05%) CISM
6 1 (1.05%) CISSP
6 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.05%) MBA
6 1 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.05%) OCP
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 16 (16.84%) NCSC
2 14 (14.74%) NIST
3 7 (7.37%) QA
4 5 (5.26%) SLA
5 3 (3.16%) PMO
6 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.11%) GDPR
6 2 (2.11%) ISO 20022
6 2 (2.11%) ISO 8583
6 2 (2.11%) PSD2
6 2 (2.11%) SEPA
6 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (25.26%) Docker
2 6 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.32%) VMware NSX
2 6 (6.32%) vSphere
3 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.05%) Ceph
4 1 (1.05%) KVM
Systems Management
1 64 (67.37%) Kubernetes
2 28 (29.47%) Ansible
3 23 (24.21%) Terraform
4 21 (22.11%) Argo
5 12 (12.63%) Grafana
6 11 (11.58%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.21%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.21%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.11%) Istio
8 2 (2.11%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.11%) Podman
8 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.05%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 30 (31.58%) Red Hat
2 24 (25.26%) Splunk
3 13 (13.68%) CyberArk
4 11 (11.58%) VMware
5 5 (5.26%) Google
5 5 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.21%) Pure Storage
7 3 (3.16%) Oracle
8 2 (2.11%) Arista
8 2 (2.11%) Cisco
8 2 (2.11%) Confluent
8 2 (2.11%) IBM
8 2 (2.11%) Planview
8 2 (2.11%) Wind River
9 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.05%) Avaloq
9 1 (1.05%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.05%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.05%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.05%) Solace