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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 265 344
Rank change year-on-year -49 +79 -45
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 112 90 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.72% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.67% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 70 48
10th Percentile £402 £513 £410
25th Percentile £463 £594 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £681 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.60% +13.54% -14.29%
75th Percentile £684 £838 £725
90th Percentile £900 - £775
England median daily rate £510 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% -19.23%

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 8,033 5,394 6,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 42.86% 39.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,529 3,657 5,096
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £433 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £780 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 70 70
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.50 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -48.32%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £68.13 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%

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 June 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 24 June 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 16 £600 -7.69%
East London - 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 7 (6.25%) Camunda
2 4 (3.57%) Apache
2 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.68%) Confluence
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.71%) AWS
2 22 (19.64%) Azure
3 16 (14.29%) GCP
4 10 (8.93%) GitHub
5 7 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.57%) IaaS
6 4 (3.57%) PaaS
6 4 (3.57%) Serverless
7 3 (2.68%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.79%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (1.79%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.79%) Datadog
9 1 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (3.57%) Firewall
3 3 (2.68%) DHCP
3 3 (2.68%) SMTP
3 3 (2.68%) VPN
4 1 (0.89%) 5G
4 1 (0.89%) DAB
4 1 (0.89%) HTTP
4 1 (0.89%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.89%) Network Security
4 1 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.36%) Big Data
3 4 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.57%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.68%) Hazelcast
4 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.68%) Redis
5 2 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.79%) Metadata
5 2 (1.79%) MySQL
5 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.89%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.89%) Flink
6 1 (0.89%) Power BI
6 1 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (29.46%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.29%) GitLab
3 7 (6.25%) Git
3 7 (6.25%) Gradle
4 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
4 4 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (3.57%) JUnit
4 4 (3.57%) Mockito
5 3 (2.68%) Maven
6 2 (1.79%) Ant
6 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.79%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.79%) Gatling
6 2 (1.79%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.79%) Selenium
6 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.89%) Postman
7 1 (0.89%) webpack
General
1 39 (34.82%) Finance
2 28 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 16 (14.29%) Banking
5 13 (11.61%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (10.71%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Back Office
9 1 (0.89%) Front Office
9 1 (0.89%) Games
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (23.21%) Architect
2 21 (18.75%) Senior
3 20 (17.86%) Developer
4 12 (10.71%) CyberArk Architect
4 12 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 11 (9.82%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Lead
7 6 (5.36%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.96%) Kafka
2 18 (16.07%) Spring
2 18 (16.07%) Spring Boot
3 16 (14.29%) OpenID
4 14 (12.50%) SAML
5 12 (10.71%) LDAP
6 11 (9.82%) React
7 9 (8.04%) OpenTelemetry
8 8 (7.14%) REST
9 6 (5.36%) Hibernate
9 6 (5.36%) OAuth
9 6 (5.36%) Redux
10 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
10 5 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (4.46%) PySpark
11 4 (3.57%) Apache Avro
11 4 (3.57%) CSS
11 4 (3.57%) YAML
12 3 (2.68%) .NET
12 3 (2.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 21 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.46%) PKI
6 4 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.68%) Clustering
7 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.89%) CMDB
9 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.89%) Derivative
9 1 (0.89%) FPGA
9 1 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.89%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.75%) Linux
2 10 (8.93%) Windows
3 7 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.79%) Unix
6 1 (0.89%) AIX
6 1 (0.89%) Android
6 1 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (54.46%) CI/CD
2 56 (50.00%) DevOps
3 50 (44.64%) Containerisation
4 32 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (21.43%) Agile
6 21 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
7 20 (17.86%) Observability
8 18 (16.07%) Microservices
8 18 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (14.29%) Design Patterns
9 16 (14.29%) ITSM
9 16 (14.29%) Migration
9 16 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
10 15 (13.39%) Architectural Design
10 15 (13.39%) Secrets Management
10 15 (13.39%) Software Engineering
11 14 (12.50%) Configuration Management
11 14 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (12.50%) Incident Management
12 13 (11.61%) AI
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.79%) Python
2 28 (25.00%) Java
3 19 (16.96%) SQL
4 8 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 7 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.36%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.46%) Bash
7 5 (4.46%) Go
8 4 (3.57%) Scala
8 4 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.68%) R
10 2 (1.79%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.89%) Bicep
11 1 (0.89%) C#
11 1 (0.89%) COBOL
11 1 (0.89%) Korn
11 1 (0.89%) Ruby
11 1 (0.89%) Rust
11 1 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 39 (34.82%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.79%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.93%) Degree
4 7 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.46%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.46%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.89%) OCP
7 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.89%) PMP
7 1 (0.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.39%) NCSC
2 12 (10.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (10.71%) NIST
3 4 (3.57%) QA
4 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.79%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.79%) PSD2
4 2 (1.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (27.68%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.68%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.68%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.68%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.79%) vSphere
5 1 (0.89%) etcd
Systems Management
1 81 (72.32%) Kubernetes
2 29 (25.89%) Ansible
3 24 (21.43%) Terraform
4 13 (11.61%) Prometheus
5 12 (10.71%) Grafana
6 7 (6.25%) Argo
7 5 (4.46%) vCenter Server
8 4 (3.57%) Control-M
8 4 (3.57%) Data Guard
8 4 (3.57%) Nagios
8 4 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
8 4 (3.57%) Puppet
9 3 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.68%) vMotion
10 2 (1.79%) Fluentd
10 2 (1.79%) Kibana
11 1 (0.89%) Istio
11 1 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.89%) linkerd
11 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (24.11%) Splunk
2 20 (17.86%) Red Hat
3 13 (11.61%) Oracle
4 12 (10.71%) CyberArk
4 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.25%) VMware
6 4 (3.57%) Google
7 3 (2.68%) Citrix
7 3 (2.68%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.68%) HP
7 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.68%) Symantec
8 2 (1.79%) Confluent
8 2 (1.79%) IBM
8 2 (1.79%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.79%) Pure Storage
9 1 (0.89%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.89%) Cisco
9 1 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.89%) Temenos