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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 259 289
Rank change year-on-year -48 +30 +29
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 77 114 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.76% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.85% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 96 98
10th Percentile £363 £500 £413
25th Percentile £420 £586 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £740 £675
Median % change year-on-year -29.05% +9.63% -3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £810
90th Percentile £750 - £825
England median daily rate £492 £650 £586
% change year-on-year -24.31% +10.87% -9.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.67 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -35.29% +8.97% -

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 6,356 6,170 7,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.13% 41.13% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,345 4,173 5,193
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £424 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 43 62
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.09
25th Percentile £24.00 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -16.56% +23.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.09 £65.00 £73.63
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +16.00% +11.11%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 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 -5 10 £525 -16.00% 13
East London +6 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 (5.19%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Endur
2 2 (2.60%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 32 (41.56%) AWS
2 20 (25.97%) GitHub
3 19 (24.68%) Azure
4 18 (23.38%) GCP
5 9 (11.69%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.19%) IaaS
7 3 (3.90%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (3.90%) PaaS
7 3 (3.90%) SaaS
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) Calico
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) VSAN
3 1 (1.30%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.30%) Anycast
3 1 (1.30%) BGP
3 1 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.30%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.30%) VLAN
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.30%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.90%) Redis
4 2 (2.60%) Big Data
4 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.30%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.69%) Git
3 7 (9.09%) GitLab
4 6 (7.79%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.19%) JMeter
5 4 (5.19%) JUnit
5 4 (5.19%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.90%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.30%) git-flow
8 1 (1.30%) Gradle
8 1 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Back Office
5 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.90%) Automotive
6 3 (3.90%) Banking
6 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Architect
2 18 (23.38%) Developer
3 9 (11.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Endur Architect
5 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (5.19%) Lead
5 4 (5.19%) OpenLink Architect
5 4 (5.19%) Senior
5 4 (5.19%) Technical Architect
6 3 (3.90%) Consultant
6 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Java Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Monitoring Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Network Architect
6 3 (3.90%) Senior Architect
7 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (2.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) Spring
2 15 (19.48%) React
3 11 (14.29%) Kafka
4 9 (11.69%) AngularJS
4 9 (11.69%) Node.js
5 7 (9.09%) CSS
5 7 (9.09%) HTML
5 7 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.79%) Loki
6 6 (7.79%) Vue
7 4 (5.19%) Hibernate
7 4 (5.19%) JSON
7 4 (5.19%) Keycloak
7 4 (5.19%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (5.19%) REST
7 4 (5.19%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (5.19%) Swagger
8 3 (3.90%) YAML
9 2 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.60%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.99%) Onboarding
3 7 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.49%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.19%) Grid Computing
6 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.90%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.60%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.30%) Derivative
8 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.97%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.30%) CentOS
3 1 (1.30%) VMS
3 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (50.65%) CI/CD
2 31 (40.26%) Containerisation
2 31 (40.26%) DevOps
3 21 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (25.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (24.68%) Agile
5 19 (24.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (24.68%) Microservices
6 13 (16.88%) Migration
6 13 (16.88%) Observability
6 13 (16.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
8 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (9.09%) Project Management
11 6 (7.79%) Computer Science
11 6 (7.79%) ITSM
11 6 (7.79%) Portfolio Management
11 6 (7.79%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.96%) Java
2 21 (27.27%) Python
3 13 (16.88%) Bash
3 13 (16.88%) JavaScript
4 11 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 7 (9.09%) C#
5 7 (9.09%) Ruby
6 4 (5.19%) Go
6 4 (5.19%) SQL
7 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.60%) Bicep
8 2 (2.60%) C++
8 2 (2.60%) Perl
9 1 (1.30%) C
Qualifications
1 25 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.97%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.69%) Degree
4 6 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.19%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.19%) PMI Certification
5 4 (5.19%) PMP
6 2 (2.60%) CISSP
7 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.30%) CCIE
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.30%) CISM
7 1 (1.30%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.30%) MBA
7 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) SLA
2 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.19%) QA
3 3 (3.90%) PMO
4 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.60%) GDPR
4 2 (2.60%) NIST
4 2 (2.60%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.19%) VMware NSX
3 4 (5.19%) vSphere
4 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.30%) Ceph
5 1 (1.30%) KVM
Systems Management
1 49 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 25 (32.47%) Ansible
3 21 (27.27%) Terraform
4 16 (20.78%) Argo
5 8 (10.39%) Grafana
6 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
7 4 (5.19%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.60%) Istio
8 2 (2.60%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.60%) Podman
8 2 (2.60%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.30%) Fluentd
9 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 10 (12.99%) Splunk
3 9 (11.69%) VMware
4 7 (9.09%) Google
5 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.19%) IBM
7 3 (3.90%) Arista
7 3 (3.90%) Cisco
7 3 (3.90%) Hitachi
7 3 (3.90%) Oracle
7 3 (3.90%) Wind River
8 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.60%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.60%) Planview
8 2 (2.60%) Pure Storage
9 1 (1.30%) Avaloq
9 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.30%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.30%) Qualys