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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 274 306
Rank change year-on-year -25 +32 +42
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 70 105 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.67% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 1.66% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 87 99
10th Percentile £363 £500 £419
25th Percentile £420 £572 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £740 £675
Median % change year-on-year -19.59% +9.63% -3.57%
75th Percentile £638 £825 £810
90th Percentile £950 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £635 £613
% change year-on-year -21.26% +3.67% -3.92%

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 6,222 6,343 7,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.99% 40.77% 38.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,229 4,324 5,550
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 37 66
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.55 £18.47
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +21.77%
75th Percentile £46.56 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.40 £74.38
England median hourly rate £26.00 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.00% +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 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OpenShift in London

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 2 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 -4 6 £625 +1.01% 7
East London +5 3 - -
West London -12 2 £415 -5.14%
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 3 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.86%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.43%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Endur
2 2 (2.86%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) AWS
2 23 (32.86%) Azure
3 22 (31.43%) GitHub
4 21 (30.00%) GCP
5 10 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.14%) IaaS
7 4 (5.71%) PaaS
7 4 (5.71%) SaaS
8 3 (4.29%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.43%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (1.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (1.43%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.43%) Anycast
3 1 (1.43%) BGP
3 1 (1.43%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.43%) Network Security
3 1 (1.43%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.43%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.43%) SSL
3 1 (1.43%) VPN
3 1 (1.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.29%) Big Data
3 3 (4.29%) Hadoop
3 3 (4.29%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.29%) Redis
4 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.43%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (18.57%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.29%) Git
3 5 (7.14%) GitLab
4 4 (5.71%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.71%) JMeter
4 4 (5.71%) JUnit
4 4 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (4.29%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.86%) JIRA
7 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.43%) git-flow
7 1 (1.43%) Gradle
7 1 (1.43%) Log4j
7 1 (1.43%) Maven
General
1 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Finance
3 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Banking
5 5 (7.14%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.71%) Back Office
6 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.29%) Automotive
8 2 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Developer
2 16 (22.86%) Architect
3 9 (12.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Senior
6 5 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Senior Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Consultant
7 4 (5.71%) Endur Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Lead
7 4 (5.71%) OpenLink Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.29%) Monitoring Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Enterprise Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.43%) React
2 14 (20.00%) Spring
3 13 (18.57%) Kafka
4 9 (12.86%) Node.js
5 7 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 7 (10.00%) CSS
5 7 (10.00%) HTML
6 6 (8.57%) Loki
6 6 (8.57%) Vue
7 5 (7.14%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.71%) Hibernate
8 4 (5.71%) JSON
8 4 (5.71%) Keycloak
8 4 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (5.71%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (5.71%) Swagger
9 3 (4.29%) YAML
10 2 (2.86%) Django
10 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (27.14%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.71%) Grid Computing
5 3 (4.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.86%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.43%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.43%) Derivative
7 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (31.43%) Linux
2 7 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.86%) Unix
4 1 (1.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (55.71%) CI/CD
2 32 (45.71%) Containerisation
3 30 (42.86%) DevOps
4 23 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (25.71%) Agile
6 18 (25.71%) Microservices
7 17 (24.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (17.14%) Observability
9 11 (15.71%) Migration
10 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (8.57%) Computer Science
14 5 (7.14%) Data Migration
14 5 (7.14%) Data Modelling
14 5 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
14 5 (7.14%) Risk Management
14 5 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 5 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (40.00%) Java
2 24 (34.29%) Python
3 13 (18.57%) JavaScript
4 12 (17.14%) Bash
5 11 (15.71%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.00%) C#
6 7 (10.00%) Ruby
7 6 (8.57%) Go
8 4 (5.71%) C++
8 4 (5.71%) SQL
9 3 (4.29%) Bicep
9 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.86%) Perl
11 1 (1.43%) C
11 1 (1.43%) CodeQL
11 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 17 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.86%) Degree
4 6 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 3 (4.29%) PMI Certification
6 3 (4.29%) PMP
7 2 (2.86%) CISSP
7 2 (2.86%) OCA
7 2 (2.86%) OCP
7 2 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.43%) CCIE
8 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.43%) CISM
8 1 (1.43%) IBM Certification
8 1 (1.43%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.43%) MBA
8 1 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.29%) GDPR
2 3 (4.29%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.86%) QA
4 1 (1.43%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (35.71%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (74.29%) Kubernetes
2 25 (35.71%) Ansible
3 22 (31.43%) Terraform
4 16 (22.86%) Argo
5 10 (14.29%) Grafana
5 10 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.71%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.86%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.86%) Podman
7 2 (2.86%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.43%) Fluentd
8 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 12 (17.14%) Splunk
3 9 (12.86%) Google
4 7 (10.00%) VMware
5 5 (7.14%) Oracle
6 3 (4.29%) Hitachi
6 3 (4.29%) IBM
7 2 (2.86%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.86%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.86%) Pure Storage
8 1 (1.43%) Arista
8 1 (1.43%) Avaloq
8 1 (1.43%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.43%) Cisco
8 1 (1.43%) Cribl.io
8 1 (1.43%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.43%) Okta
8 1 (1.43%) Qualys
8 1 (1.43%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.43%) Wind River