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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 231 311
Rank change year-on-year -74 +80 -8
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 96 125 82
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.58% 0.98% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 2.33% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 108 67
10th Percentile £350 £543 £410
25th Percentile £463 £611 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +26.09% -18.58%
75th Percentile £674 £838 £713
90th Percentile £900 - £789
England median daily rate £500 £650 £540
% change year-on-year -23.08% +20.37% -16.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.67 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £85.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.53% +142.86% -39.13%

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 7,208 5,374 6,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.84% 42.05% 37.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,941 3,723 4,961
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 44 78
10th Percentile £18.18 £22.27 £17.55
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.09 £21.44
Median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% +3.90% -20.06%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £49.96
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -14 14 £525 -17.32% 7
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 (4.17%) Camunda
2 3 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.08%) Confluence
3 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 39 (40.63%) AWS
2 24 (25.00%) Azure
3 20 (20.83%) GCP
3 20 (20.83%) GitHub
4 8 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.13%) Serverless
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.08%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.08%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.08%) Datadog
6 2 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.04%) dbt
7 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.04%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) DNS
2 2 (2.08%) Calico
2 2 (2.08%) VSAN
3 1 (1.04%) Firewall
3 1 (1.04%) HTTP
3 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.04%) Network Security
3 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.04%) VLAN
3 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.13%) Hazelcast
3 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.13%) MySQL
3 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.13%) Redis
4 2 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.04%) Big Data
5 1 (1.04%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.04%) Metadata
5 1 (1.04%) Power BI
5 1 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (32.29%) Jenkins
2 13 (13.54%) Git
3 11 (11.46%) GitLab
4 7 (7.29%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.17%) JUnit
6 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.13%) JMeter
6 3 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.08%) Ant
7 2 (2.08%) Gatling
7 2 (2.08%) Gradle
7 2 (2.08%) JIRA
7 2 (2.08%) Maven
7 2 (2.08%) Mockito
8 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.04%) Postman
8 1 (1.04%) Selenium
8 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 39 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 32 (33.33%) Finance
3 16 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 14 (14.58%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (13.54%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.25%) Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Back Office
9 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) Architect
2 24 (25.00%) Developer
3 13 (13.54%) CyberArk Architect
4 9 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Senior
6 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Manager
6 5 (5.21%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.17%) Lead
7 4 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 3 (3.13%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.08%) Analyst
9 2 (2.08%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (2.08%) Network Architect
9 2 (2.08%) PMO Analyst
9 2 (2.08%) Principal Architect
9 2 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.83%) Spring
2 16 (16.67%) SAML
3 15 (15.63%) OpenID
4 14 (14.58%) React
5 13 (13.54%) LDAP
6 12 (12.50%) AngularJS
6 12 (12.50%) Node.js
6 12 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 10 (10.42%) CSS
7 10 (10.42%) Kafka
8 9 (9.38%) HTML
8 9 (9.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (9.38%) REST
9 8 (8.33%) Vue
10 5 (5.21%) OAuth
11 4 (4.17%) .NET
11 4 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (4.17%) JSON
11 4 (4.17%) Ruby on Rails
12 3 (3.13%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 36 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 21 (21.88%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.08%) Derivative
6 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.04%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.58%) Linux
2 5 (5.21%) Windows
3 4 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 48 (50.00%) DevOps
3 36 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 32 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (23.96%) Agile
5 23 (23.96%) Microservices
5 23 (23.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 20 (20.83%) ITSM
8 18 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
8 18 (18.75%) Migration
9 17 (17.71%) Design Patterns
9 17 (17.71%) Observability
10 16 (16.67%) Architectural Design
10 16 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (16.67%) Secrets Management
11 15 (15.63%) Regulatory Compliance
11 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
12 14 (14.58%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.13%) Python
2 25 (26.04%) Java
3 12 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 10 (10.42%) Bash
5 9 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.33%) SQL
7 6 (6.25%) Go
8 4 (4.17%) Ruby
9 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.13%) R
10 2 (2.08%) C#
11 1 (1.04%) Bicep
11 1 (1.04%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) PMI Certification
3 5 (5.21%) PMP
4 4 (4.17%) Degree
5 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.04%) CISM
6 1 (1.04%) CISSP
6 1 (1.04%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.04%) OCP
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.67%) NCSC
2 14 (14.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (14.58%) NIST
3 7 (7.29%) QA
4 5 (5.21%) SLA
5 3 (3.13%) PMO
6 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
6 2 (2.08%) ISO 8583
6 2 (2.08%) PSD2
6 2 (2.08%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) VMware NSX
2 6 (6.25%) vSphere
3 5 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.04%) Ceph
5 1 (1.04%) KVM
Systems Management
1 61 (63.54%) Kubernetes
2 25 (26.04%) Terraform
3 23 (23.96%) Ansible
4 17 (17.71%) Argo
5 10 (10.42%) Grafana
6 8 (8.33%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.17%) vCenter Server
8 3 (3.13%) Istio
9 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (1.04%) Fluentd
10 1 (1.04%) linkerd
10 1 (1.04%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (30.21%) Red Hat
2 22 (22.92%) Splunk
3 13 (13.54%) CyberArk
4 8 (8.33%) VMware
5 7 (7.29%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.17%) Pure Storage
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.08%) Arista
8 2 (2.08%) Cisco
8 2 (2.08%) Confluent
8 2 (2.08%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.08%) Google
8 2 (2.08%) IBM
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle
8 2 (2.08%) PagerDuty
8 2 (2.08%) Planview
8 2 (2.08%) Wind River
9 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.04%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.04%) Solace