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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 259 332
Rank change year-on-year -48 +73 -32
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 105 99 59
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.79% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.87% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 85 47
10th Percentile £393 £513 £398
25th Percentile £463 £606 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +31.82% -24.14%
75th Percentile £675 £838 £688
90th Percentile £900 - £775
England median daily rate £500 £625 £523
% change year-on-year -20.00% +19.62% -19.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £76.67 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -46.36%

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 7,542 5,295 6,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.48% 42.42% 38.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,206 3,671 4,992
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £438 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £19.56 £22.58 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +20.56% -48.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.47% +21.43% -36.84%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -9 16 £525 -16.00% 5
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 6 (5.71%) Camunda
2 4 (3.81%) Apache
2 4 (3.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.81%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.90%) Confluence
3 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (36.19%) AWS
2 20 (19.05%) Azure
3 13 (12.38%) GCP
4 11 (10.48%) GitHub
5 7 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.81%) Serverless
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.90%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (1.90%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.90%) Datadog
9 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.95%) npm
9 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.95%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) DNS
2 2 (1.90%) Calico
2 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.90%) VSAN
3 1 (0.95%) Firewall
3 1 (0.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.95%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.95%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.81%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.86%) Big Data
3 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.86%) Redis
4 2 (1.90%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.90%) MySQL
4 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.95%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.95%) Flink
5 1 (0.95%) Metadata
5 1 (0.95%) Power BI
5 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.19%) GitLab
3 7 (6.67%) Git
4 6 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.86%) JUnit
5 3 (2.86%) Mockito
6 2 (1.90%) Ant
6 2 (1.90%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.90%) Gatling
6 2 (1.90%) Gradle
6 2 (1.90%) JIRA
6 2 (1.90%) Maven
6 2 (1.90%) Selenium
7 1 (0.95%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.95%) Postman
7 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.95%) webpack
General
1 39 (37.14%) Finance
2 27 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 17 (16.19%) Public Sector
4 14 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (12.38%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (7.62%) Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Games
Job Titles
1 29 (27.62%) Architect
2 16 (15.24%) Developer
2 16 (15.24%) Senior
3 13 (12.38%) CyberArk Architect
4 9 (8.57%) Software Engineer
5 7 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.71%) Data Engineer
6 6 (5.71%) Lead
6 6 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (4.76%) Technical Architect
8 4 (3.81%) Database Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Oracle Database Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) OpenID
1 16 (15.24%) SAML
1 16 (15.24%) Spring
2 15 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 14 (13.33%) Kafka
4 13 (12.38%) LDAP
5 9 (8.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 9 (8.57%) REST
6 6 (5.71%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.71%) OAuth
7 5 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (4.76%) PySpark
7 5 (4.76%) React
8 4 (3.81%) Apache Avro
8 4 (3.81%) RESTful
8 4 (3.81%) YAML
9 3 (2.86%) .NET
9 3 (2.86%) CSS
9 3 (2.86%) Node.js
9 3 (2.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 30 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 28 (26.67%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.81%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.95%) CMDB
8 1 (0.95%) Derivative
8 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.95%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.95%) NHS
8 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.14%) Linux
2 9 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.67%) Windows
4 2 (1.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.95%) AIX
5 1 (0.95%) Android
5 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.95%) VMS
5 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 47 (44.76%) DevOps
3 45 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 32 (30.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (20.00%) ITSM
7 20 (19.05%) Agile
8 19 (18.10%) Architectural Patterns
8 19 (18.10%) Migration
8 19 (18.10%) Observability
9 18 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (17.14%) Microservices
10 16 (15.24%) Regulatory Compliance
10 16 (15.24%) Secrets Management
11 15 (14.29%) Architectural Design
11 15 (14.29%) Design Patterns
12 13 (12.38%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (12.38%) Runbook
12 13 (12.38%) SIEM
12 13 (12.38%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.76%) Python
2 22 (20.95%) Java
3 13 (12.38%) SQL
4 6 (5.71%) Bash
5 5 (4.76%) Go
6 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.81%) Scala
6 4 (3.81%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.86%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.86%) R
8 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.90%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.95%) Bicep
9 1 (0.95%) C#
9 1 (0.95%) COBOL
9 1 (0.95%) PromQL
9 1 (0.95%) Ruby
9 1 (0.95%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.71%) Degree
4 5 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.90%) PMP
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.95%) OCP
6 1 (0.95%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.24%) NCSC
2 13 (12.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (12.38%) NIST
3 7 (6.67%) QA
4 5 (4.76%) SLA
5 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.90%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.90%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.90%) PMO
6 2 (1.90%) PSD2
6 2 (1.90%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (22.86%) Docker
2 4 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.81%) VMware NSX
2 4 (3.81%) vSphere
3 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.95%) Ceph
4 1 (0.95%) etcd
4 1 (0.95%) KVM
Systems Management
1 69 (65.71%) Kubernetes
2 26 (24.76%) Ansible
3 23 (21.90%) Terraform
4 13 (12.38%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.48%) Grafana
6 6 (5.71%) Argo
7 4 (3.81%) Data Guard
7 4 (3.81%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (2.86%) Istio
8 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.90%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.90%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.95%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.95%) linkerd
10 1 (0.95%) Nagios
10 1 (0.95%) Podman
10 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.95%) Puppet
10 1 (0.95%) SCCM
10 1 (0.95%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (25.71%) Splunk
2 21 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 13 (12.38%) CyberArk
4 7 (6.67%) Oracle
4 7 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.76%) VMware
7 3 (2.86%) IBM
8 2 (1.90%) Arista
8 2 (1.90%) Cisco
8 2 (1.90%) Confluent
8 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.90%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.90%) Planview
8 2 (1.90%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.90%) Wind River
9 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.95%) Solace
9 1 (0.95%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.95%) UiPath