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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 301 308
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing OpenShift 140 60 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.45% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.68% 1.03% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 43 63
10th Percentile £420 £402 £413
25th Percentile £503 £488 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £644
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -14.60% -11.17%
75th Percentile £733 £706 £810
90th Percentile £830 £950 £825
England median daily rate £565 £525 £570
% change year-on-year +7.62% -7.89% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £10.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.58%

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 8,334 5,843 6,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.93% 43.35% 40.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,734 3,979 4,600
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 96 44
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.75 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.12 £24.06
Median hourly rate £28.55 £29.04 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -5.72% -18.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £65.33
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.58 £34.47
% change year-on-year +32.90% -25.79% +4.44%

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 September 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 September 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 -12 20 £625 +21.95% 11
South London - 5 £800 - 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 15 (10.71%) Confluence
2 7 (5.00%) Camunda
3 4 (2.86%) Apache
3 4 (2.86%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.71%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 54 (38.57%) AWS
2 44 (31.43%) Azure
3 28 (20.00%) GCP
4 14 (10.00%) GitHub
5 11 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (3.57%) PaaS
8 4 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.86%) IaaS
9 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.43%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.71%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.71%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.71%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.14%) DNS
2 7 (5.00%) Firewall
3 5 (3.57%) DHCP
3 5 (3.57%) VPN
4 3 (2.14%) SMTP
5 2 (1.43%) BGP
5 2 (1.43%) Internet
5 2 (1.43%) Multicast
5 2 (1.43%) OSPF
5 2 (1.43%) VLAN
5 2 (1.43%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.71%) 5G
6 1 (0.71%) DAB
6 1 (0.71%) Network Security
6 1 (0.71%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.71%) SSL
6 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.43%) Oracle Database
2 7 (5.00%) Big Data
2 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.14%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.43%) Parquet
7 2 (1.43%) Power BI
7 2 (1.43%) Trino
8 1 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.71%) Flink
8 1 (0.71%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.71%) Metadata
8 1 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
8 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.43%) GitLab
3 17 (12.14%) JIRA
4 14 (10.00%) Git
5 13 (9.29%) Gradle
6 10 (7.14%) Selenium
7 8 (5.71%) REST Assured
8 7 (5.00%) HP UFT
9 6 (4.29%) Bitbucket
9 6 (4.29%) JUnit
9 6 (4.29%) Mockito
9 6 (4.29%) SonarQube
10 5 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (3.57%) Cucumber
10 5 (3.57%) Maven
10 5 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (2.14%) Robot Framework
11 3 (2.14%) TestRail
12 1 (0.71%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 58 (41.43%) Finance
2 29 (20.71%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.57%) Banking
4 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Back Office
8 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Front Office
8 1 (0.71%) Games
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (26.43%) Senior
2 27 (19.29%) Developer
3 22 (15.71%) Lead
4 20 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 19 (13.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.71%) Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (6.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Senior Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Splunk Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (4.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (3.57%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (32.14%) Terraform
2 34 (24.29%) Kafka
3 23 (16.43%) Spring
4 21 (15.00%) Spring Boot
5 19 (13.57%) React
6 14 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 14 (10.00%) Redux
7 11 (7.86%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (7.86%) REST
8 6 (4.29%) Jakarta EE
8 6 (4.29%) JMS
8 6 (4.29%) JPA
9 5 (3.57%) CSS
9 5 (3.57%) HTML
9 5 (3.57%) JDBC
10 4 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.86%) FastAPI
10 4 (2.86%) Playwright
10 4 (2.86%) PySpark
10 4 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.71%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 10 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.29%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.57%) PKI
5 5 (3.57%) Spread Betting
6 4 (2.86%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.86%) Clustering
6 4 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.14%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (27.14%) Linux
2 10 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (7.14%) Windows
3 7 (5.00%) Unix
4 6 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.71%) AIX
5 1 (0.71%) Android
5 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.71%) VMS
5 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (49.29%) CI/CD
2 63 (45.00%) DevOps
3 51 (36.43%) Agile
4 43 (30.71%) Containerisation
5 38 (27.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (25.71%) Observability
7 33 (23.57%) Microservices
8 27 (19.29%) Mentoring
9 24 (17.14%) Roadmaps
10 22 (15.71%) Migration
11 21 (15.00%) AI
11 21 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (13.57%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (13.57%) Test Automation
14 17 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (12.14%) Incident Management
15 16 (11.43%) Configuration Management
16 15 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (30.71%) Java
2 33 (23.57%) SQL
3 27 (19.29%) Python
4 17 (12.14%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.29%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.29%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.57%) C#
7 5 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.86%) Bash
8 4 (2.86%) Scala
9 2 (1.43%) Go
9 2 (1.43%) Korn
10 1 (0.71%) COBOL
10 1 (0.71%) PromQL
10 1 (0.71%) Rust
10 1 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 40 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.14%) Degree
4 14 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.29%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.14%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.43%) ISEB
10 2 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.71%) CCIE
11 1 (0.71%) CCNP
11 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.71%) OCP
11 1 (0.71%) RHCE
11 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) QA
2 5 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) GRC
4 1 (0.71%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.71%) PSD2
4 1 (0.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 36 (25.71%) Docker
2 10 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.86%) vSphere
5 3 (2.14%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.14%) Terminal Services
5 3 (2.14%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.71%) etcd
7 1 (0.71%) oVirt
7 1 (0.71%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 90 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 45 (32.14%) Ansible
3 20 (14.29%) Grafana
4 17 (12.14%) Prometheus
5 14 (10.00%) Control-M
6 6 (4.29%) Argo
7 4 (2.86%) Data Guard
7 4 (2.86%) Nagios
7 4 (2.86%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (2.14%) Puppet
8 3 (2.14%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.14%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.14%) vMotion
9 2 (1.43%) Kibana
9 2 (1.43%) systemd
10 1 (0.71%) Fluentd
10 1 (0.71%) Istio
10 1 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (22.86%) Splunk
2 23 (16.43%) Oracle
3 21 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 16 (11.43%) Microsoft
5 13 (9.29%) Google
6 12 (8.57%) VMware
7 7 (5.00%) HP
7 7 (5.00%) IBM
7 7 (5.00%) xMatters
8 5 (3.57%) Veracode
9 3 (2.14%) Arista
9 3 (2.14%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (2.14%) Cisco
9 3 (2.14%) Citrix
9 3 (2.14%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.14%) Symantec
10 2 (1.43%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.43%) Temenos