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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 313 314
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 125 60 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 1.03% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 43 63
10th Percentile £403 £417 £413
25th Percentile £479 £513 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -4.00% -14.38%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £793
90th Percentile £818 £950 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -16.35%

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 8,354 5,813 6,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.27% 43.17% 41.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,712 3,981 4,762
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 91 51
10th Percentile £19.15 £23.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £23.16 £25.08 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -36.84%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.13 £43.50
90th Percentile £76.42 £72.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £34.18 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.95% -12.33% -9.09%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -8 18 £625 - 5
South London - 5 £800 - 2
East London +1 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 14 (11.20%) Confluence
2 6 (4.80%) Camunda
3 4 (3.20%) Apache
3 4 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 51 (40.80%) AWS
2 34 (27.20%) Azure
3 25 (20.00%) GCP
4 17 (13.60%) GitHub
5 11 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.20%) IaaS
8 4 (3.20%) PaaS
8 4 (3.20%) Serverless
9 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.60%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (0.80%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.00%) DNS
2 7 (5.60%) Firewall
3 5 (4.00%) DHCP
3 5 (4.00%) VPN
4 3 (2.40%) SMTP
5 2 (1.60%) BGP
5 2 (1.60%) Multicast
5 2 (1.60%) OSPF
5 2 (1.60%) VLAN
5 2 (1.60%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.80%) 5G
6 1 (0.80%) DAB
6 1 (0.80%) Network Security
6 1 (0.80%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.80%) SSL
6 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) Oracle Database
2 6 (4.80%) Big Data
2 6 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.40%) Power BI
6 2 (1.60%) Metadata
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.80%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.80%) Flink
7 1 (0.80%) Hazelcast
7 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.80%) Redis
7 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (32.80%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.60%) GitLab
3 16 (12.80%) JIRA
4 14 (11.20%) Git
5 12 (9.60%) Gradle
6 7 (5.60%) REST Assured
7 6 (4.80%) Bitbucket
8 5 (4.00%) JUnit
8 5 (4.00%) Mockito
8 5 (4.00%) Selenium
8 5 (4.00%) SonarQube
8 5 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.20%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (3.20%) Maven
10 3 (2.40%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.60%) Robot Framework
11 2 (1.60%) TestRail
12 1 (0.80%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.80%) SpecFlow
General
1 48 (38.40%) Finance
2 28 (22.40%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.80%) Banking
4 13 (10.40%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.20%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.20%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.80%) Back Office
7 1 (0.80%) Front Office
7 1 (0.80%) Games
7 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.80%) Military
7 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (26.40%) Senior
2 25 (20.00%) Developer
3 19 (15.20%) Java Developer
4 18 (14.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (13.60%) Lead
6 11 (8.80%) Architect
7 9 (7.20%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (7.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Splunk Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Test Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (29.60%) Terraform
2 28 (22.40%) Kafka
3 21 (16.80%) Spring
4 19 (15.20%) Spring Boot
5 16 (12.80%) React
6 13 (10.40%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (10.40%) Hibernate
6 13 (10.40%) Redux
7 11 (8.80%) REST
8 6 (4.80%) Jakarta EE
8 6 (4.80%) JMS
9 5 (4.00%) JDBC
9 5 (4.00%) JPA
9 5 (4.00%) PySpark
10 4 (3.20%) CSS
10 4 (3.20%) HTML
10 4 (3.20%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (3.20%) YAML
11 3 (2.40%) .NET
11 3 (2.40%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.00%) PKI
5 5 (4.00%) Spread Betting
6 4 (3.20%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.20%) Clustering
6 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.20%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.80%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.60%) Linux
2 12 (9.60%) Windows
3 10 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.80%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.00%) Unix
6 1 (0.80%) AIX
6 1 (0.80%) Android
6 1 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (46.40%) CI/CD
2 55 (44.00%) DevOps
3 47 (37.60%) Agile
4 38 (30.40%) Containerisation
5 35 (28.00%) Observability
6 32 (25.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (21.60%) Mentoring
8 25 (20.00%) Microservices
9 20 (16.00%) Roadmaps
10 19 (15.20%) AI
10 19 (15.20%) Migration
11 18 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (14.40%) Incident Management
12 17 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (13.60%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (12.00%) Configuration Management
14 14 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (10.40%) Computer Science
15 13 (10.40%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (9.60%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.60%) Java
2 29 (23.20%) SQL
3 28 (22.40%) Python
4 17 (13.60%) PL/SQL
5 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.60%) Bash
7 5 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.20%) Scala
8 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.40%) C#
9 3 (2.40%) Go
9 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.60%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.80%) Bicep
11 1 (0.80%) COBOL
11 1 (0.80%) Korn
11 1 (0.80%) PromQL
11 1 (0.80%) Ruby
11 1 (0.80%) Rust
11 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (32.80%) Security Cleared
2 37 (29.60%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.80%) Degree
4 13 (10.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.20%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (2.40%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.60%) ISEB
8 2 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.80%) CCIE
9 1 (0.80%) CCNP
9 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.80%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.00%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.40%) NIST
3 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.80%) GRC
4 1 (0.80%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 33 (26.40%) Docker
2 8 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.40%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.40%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.60%) vSphere
5 1 (0.80%) etcd
5 1 (0.80%) oVirt
5 1 (0.80%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 80 (64.00%) Kubernetes
2 36 (28.80%) Ansible
3 19 (15.20%) Grafana
3 19 (15.20%) Prometheus
4 14 (11.20%) Control-M
5 5 (4.00%) Argo
6 4 (3.20%) Data Guard
6 4 (3.20%) Nagios
6 4 (3.20%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (3.20%) Puppet
7 3 (2.40%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.40%) vMotion
8 2 (1.60%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.60%) Istio
8 2 (1.60%) Kibana
8 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.80%) linkerd
9 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (23.20%) Splunk
2 23 (18.40%) Oracle
3 17 (13.60%) Microsoft
3 17 (13.60%) Red Hat
4 8 (6.40%) Google
4 8 (6.40%) VMware
5 7 (5.60%) xMatters
6 6 (4.80%) IBM
7 4 (3.20%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.20%) Veracode
8 3 (2.40%) Arista
8 3 (2.40%) Cisco
8 3 (2.40%) Citrix
8 3 (2.40%) HP
8 3 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.40%) Symantec
9 2 (1.60%) F5
9 2 (1.60%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.60%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.80%) Solace