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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 239 294
Rank change year-on-year -61 +55 0
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 92 120 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.89% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 2.14% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 103 85
10th Percentile £350 £553 £413
25th Percentile £450 £615 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £740 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.30% +18.40% -11.60%
75th Percentile £675 £838 £738
90th Percentile £900 - £810
England median daily rate £494 £650 £558
% change year-on-year -24.04% +16.59% -14.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.67 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -29.41% - -

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 6,807 5,612 6,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.73% 41.56% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,669 3,779 5,073
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
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 97 52 79
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.75 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +7.38% -10.29%
75th Percentile £52.16 £56.50 £53.38
90th Percentile £71.00 £73.13 £62.75
England median hourly rate £38.54 £27.63 £21.50
% change year-on-year +39.49% +28.51% -14.00%

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 22 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 22 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 -3 12 £525 -16.67% 2
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 (4.35%) Camunda
2 3 (3.26%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.96%) AWS
2 21 (22.83%) GitHub
3 19 (20.65%) Azure
4 16 (17.39%) GCP
5 8 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.17%) IaaS
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.09%) npm
7 1 (1.09%) OCI
7 1 (1.09%) PaaS
7 1 (1.09%) SaaS
7 1 (1.09%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (2.17%) Calico
2 2 (2.17%) VSAN
3 1 (1.09%) Firewall
3 1 (1.09%) HTTP
3 1 (1.09%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.09%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.09%) VLAN
3 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.35%) Redis
2 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.26%) Hazelcast
3 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.26%) MySQL
4 2 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.09%) Big Data
5 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 30 (32.61%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.87%) Git
3 9 (9.78%) Cucumber
3 9 (9.78%) GitLab
4 6 (6.52%) JUnit
5 5 (5.43%) JMeter
6 4 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.26%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.17%) Ant
8 2 (2.17%) Gatling
8 2 (2.17%) Gradle
8 2 (2.17%) Maven
8 2 (2.17%) Mockito
9 1 (1.09%) JIRA
9 1 (1.09%) Postman
9 1 (1.09%) Selenium
9 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 38 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 32 (34.78%) Finance
3 14 (15.22%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.13%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Banking
6 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.09%) Back Office
7 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (30.43%) Architect
2 25 (27.17%) Developer
3 13 (14.13%) CyberArk Architect
4 9 (9.78%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.43%) Infrastructure Manager
7 5 (5.43%) Senior
8 3 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Lead
8 3 (3.26%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.17%) Analyst
9 2 (2.17%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.17%) Platform Architect
9 2 (2.17%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
9 2 (2.17%) Site Engineer
9 2 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.91%) Spring
2 16 (17.39%) OpenID
2 16 (17.39%) SAML
3 15 (16.30%) React
4 13 (14.13%) Kafka
4 13 (14.13%) LDAP
5 12 (13.04%) AngularJS
5 12 (13.04%) Spring Boot
6 10 (10.87%) CSS
7 9 (9.78%) HTML
7 9 (9.78%) Node.js
8 8 (8.70%) Vue
9 7 (7.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (6.52%) REST
11 5 (5.43%) OAuth
12 4 (4.35%) Hibernate
12 4 (4.35%) JSON
12 4 (4.35%) Ruby on Rails
13 3 (3.26%) Apache Avro
13 3 (3.26%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 31 (33.70%) Cloud Native
2 20 (21.74%) Onboarding
3 10 (10.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.17%) Derivative
6 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.09%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.65%) Linux
2 7 (7.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.35%) Windows
4 1 (1.09%) CentOS
4 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (61.96%) CI/CD
2 43 (46.74%) DevOps
3 34 (36.96%) Containerisation
4 31 (33.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (22.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (20.65%) Agile
7 19 (20.65%) Microservices
8 18 (19.57%) ITSM
9 16 (17.39%) Design Patterns
10 15 (16.30%) Architectural Design
10 15 (16.30%) Architectural Patterns
10 15 (16.30%) Migration
10 15 (16.30%) Observability
10 15 (16.30%) Regulatory Compliance
10 15 (16.30%) Secrets Management
11 14 (15.22%) Threat Modelling
12 13 (14.13%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (14.13%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.17%) Java
2 22 (23.91%) Python
3 11 (11.96%) Bash
3 11 (11.96%) TypeScript
4 10 (10.87%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.61%) Go
6 6 (6.52%) SQL
7 4 (4.35%) Ruby
8 3 (3.26%) C#
9 2 (2.17%) R
10 1 (1.09%) Bicep
10 1 (1.09%) Perl
10 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.43%) Degree
4 5 (5.43%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.43%) PMP
5 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) CISM
6 1 (1.09%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.09%) MBA
6 1 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.09%) OCP
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.39%) NCSC
2 15 (16.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (15.22%) NIST
4 7 (7.61%) QA
5 5 (5.43%) SLA
6 3 (3.26%) PMO
7 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.17%) ISO 20022
7 2 (2.17%) ISO 8583
7 2 (2.17%) PSD2
7 2 (2.17%) SEPA
8 1 (1.09%) GDPR
8 1 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.52%) VMware NSX
2 6 (6.52%) vSphere
3 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.09%) Ceph
4 1 (1.09%) KVM
Systems Management
1 58 (63.04%) Kubernetes
2 28 (30.43%) Ansible
3 23 (25.00%) Terraform
4 19 (20.65%) Argo
5 10 (10.87%) Grafana
6 9 (9.78%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 4 (4.35%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.17%) Istio
8 2 (2.17%) Podman
8 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.09%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 28 (30.43%) Red Hat
2 21 (22.83%) Splunk
3 13 (14.13%) CyberArk
4 11 (11.96%) VMware
5 5 (5.43%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.35%) Pure Storage
7 3 (3.26%) Google
8 2 (2.17%) Arista
8 2 (2.17%) Cisco
8 2 (2.17%) Confluent
8 2 (2.17%) IBM
8 2 (2.17%) Oracle
8 2 (2.17%) Planview
8 2 (2.17%) Wind River
9 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.09%) Avaloq
9 1 (1.09%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.09%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.09%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.09%) Solace